Vidyame is building a digital home for Indic civilization knowledge — including texts, translations, commentaries, audio, video, practices, learning pathways, communities, and creator-led content.
Our mission depends on trust.
When users join Vidyame, they may share information about their learning interests, language preferences, family settings, cultural interests, spiritual practices, community participation, subscriptions, and creator activity. We recognize that this information can be personal and meaningful.
This policy statement explains how Vidyame approaches privacy, security, data use, age-appropriate experiences, community participation, creator responsibility, and user control.
Our goal is simple:
Users should understand what information Vidyame may collect, why it is used, how it supports their experience, when it may be shared, and what choices they have.
1. Scope of This Policy
This policy applies to the Vidyame website, mobile app, creator tools, community features, subscription features, learning experiences, and related services.
Vidyame may offer different products, features, or services over time. Some features may have additional terms, conditions, or privacy notices. For example, creator monetization, children’s accounts, community administration, payment services, or publisher programs may require additional policies.
When additional terms apply, Vidyame will aim to make those terms clear before users use the relevant feature.
2. Information Vidyame May Collect
Vidyame may collect information in three broad ways:
- Information users provide directly
- Information collected when users use Vidyame
- Information received from third parties or connected services, where permitted
We aim to collect information only where it helps us operate the platform, improve learning, support safety, protect accounts, process payments, respect user preferences, or comply with law.
3. Information Users Provide
Users may provide information when they create an account, build a profile, join communities, subscribe, follow creators, publish content, contact support, or use platform features.
This may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Username or display name
- Password or authentication method
- Preferred language
- Text size and accessibility settings
- Learning interests
- Selected topics or traditions
- Age or date of birth, where needed
- Parent or caregiver information for young users, where applicable
- Subscription or membership selections
- Payment and billing information, where applicable
- Creator, author, curator, or publisher profile information
- Institutional affiliation, where applicable
- Content ownership, copyright, licensing, or attribution details
- Support requests, feedback, and communications with Vidyame
Users may choose how much profile information to make visible, depending on available privacy settings.
4. Information Collected Through Use of Vidyame
When users use Vidyame, we may collect information about their activity and interaction with the platform.
This may include:
- Content viewed, read, listened to, or watched
- Texts, audio, video, practices, or learning paths completed
- Searches and discovery activity
- Saved items, favorites, likes, bookmarks, playlists, and notes
- Learning history and progress
- Communities followed, joined, or subscribed to
- Comments, posts, responses, or other community activity
- Creator or author follows
- Subscription activity
- Notifications opened or acted upon
- Device, browser, app, and operating system information
- IP address and approximate location
- Log data, error reports, and performance information
- Security signals used to detect fraud, abuse, spam, or unauthorized access
This information helps Vidyame provide a reliable, personalized, and secure learning experience.
5. Information From Third Parties and Connected Services
Vidyame may receive information from third parties when users choose to connect accounts, use social sign-in, make payments, interact with integrations, or participate through partner services.
This may include:
- Login information from Google, Apple, or other sign-in providers
- Payment confirmation from payment processors
- Subscription or billing status
- Information from connected community, content, or learning services
- Information from service providers that help Vidyame detect fraud, abuse, security risks, or technical issues
- Information required for age assurance, identity verification, or legal compliance where applicable
Vidyame will aim to make connected-service permissions clear before users authorize them.
6. How Vidyame Uses Information
Vidyame may use information to provide, operate, personalize, protect, and improve the platform.
This may include:
- Creating and managing user accounts
- Keeping users signed in
- Remembering preferences
- Continuing learning from where users left off
- Recommending relevant content, creators, communities, practices, and learning paths
- Supporting search, library, playlists, favorites, and notes
- Managing subscriptions, memberships, donations, or payments
- Supporting creator, author, curator, publisher, and community administrator tools
- Helping parents and caregivers guide young learners
- Providing age-appropriate experiences
- Reviewing content for quality, policy, copyright, and safety
- Detecting spam, fraud, abuse, or unauthorized activity
- Improving platform performance, reliability, and usability
- Communicating about service updates, policy changes, account notices, and support matters
- Conducting research, surveys, testing, and troubleshooting to improve the platform
- Complying with legal obligations
Vidyame’s use of information should support learning, safety, trust, and civilizational preservation.
7. Recommendations and Personalization
Vidyame may use learning activity and preferences to recommend content that is relevant to each user.
Recommendations may include:
- Texts
- Translations
- Commentaries
- Audio recitations
- Bhajans and kirtans
- Videos
- Short learning series
- Guided practices
- Festival learning
- Children’s content
- Language learning
- Creators and authors
- Communities
- Learning pathways
Recommendations may be shaped by user interests, learning history, saved content, followed communities, language preferences, age settings, and content quality signals.
Vidyame’s goal is not endless scrolling. Recommendations should help users find the next meaningful step in their learning journey.
Users may be given controls to adjust recommendations, pause or clear certain history, remove items from recommendations, or update learning interests.
8. AI and Machine Learning
Vidyame may use AI and machine learning to improve search, recommendations, translation support, pronunciation tools, content organization, accessibility, safety, and learning features.
Where AI tools are used, Vidyame will aim to use them responsibly and in ways that support the learning experience.
Vidyame may use user interactions, content metadata, publicly available content, platform activity, and submitted content to improve platform features, safety systems, recommendations, and learning tools, subject to user settings, creator terms, and applicable law.
Creator-owned, publisher-owned, private, restricted, or paid content should be handled according to applicable creator agreements, licensing terms, and platform settings.
Vidyame should be transparent about AI-powered features where appropriate, especially when AI is used to summarize, recommend, translate, generate, moderate, or organize content.
9. Public and Private Activity
Some Vidyame activity may be private, while other activity may be visible to creators, communities, administrators, or the public.
Depending on settings and features:
- Public creator profiles may be visible to users
- Published content may be visible to followers, subscribers, communities, or the public
- Community posts or comments may be visible within that community
- Follows, subscriptions, likes, or saved content may be private or visible depending on settings
- Creator attribution may be publicly displayed
- Community administrator activity may be visible to community members
- Reviews, comments, and discussions may be visible according to community settings
Users should review settings before posting, publishing, commenting, or sharing personal information.
10. Children, Teens, and Age Assurance
Vidyame is designed to support families and young learners with care.
Because children and teens need special protections, Vidyame may collect or use age-related information to provide age-appropriate experiences, comply with legal requirements, and protect young users.
This may include:
- Asking for age or date of birth
- Providing parent or caregiver controls
- Restricting certain content for younger users
- Limiting public profiles
- Limiting comments, posting, messaging, or community participation
- Restricting personalized recommendations or advertising for young users
- Limiting access to sensitive topics
- Reviewing youth-focused content more carefully
- Using age assurance methods where legally required
If Vidyame becomes aware that a child has provided personal information in a way not permitted by law or without required parental consent, Vidyame may take steps to delete the information, restrict the account, or obtain appropriate consent.
Parents and caregivers should help guide children’s use of Vidyame and select settings appropriate for the child’s age, maturity, family values, and learning goals.
11. Community Privacy and Safety
Vidyame communities may be organized around creators, authors, teachers, temples, publishers, study groups, regional traditions, cultural organizations, practices, or shared learning interests.
Community participation may involve:
- Joining or following a community
- Posting or commenting
- Participating in events
- Joining study or practice groups
- Subscribing to community content
- Receiving community notifications
- Interacting with community leaders or administrators
Community leaders and administrators may have access to certain information needed to manage the community, moderate content, support members, and operate community features.
Community leaders are expected to respect member privacy and use community information responsibly.
12. Creator, Author, Curator, and Publisher Information
Creators, authors, curators, and publishers may provide additional information to publish content, receive attribution, manage communities, verify rights, or participate in future monetization features.
This may include:
- Creator or author name
- Public profile
- Biography
- Website or social links
- Organization or publisher affiliation
- Content submissions
- Drafts
- Source and attribution information
- Copyright or licensing documentation
- Revenue, subscription, payout, or tax-related information, where applicable
- Communication with Vidyame about content review, rights, policy, or support
Certain creator information may be publicly displayed to support attribution, trust, and discovery.
Vidyame may require creators to confirm that they own, license, or have permission to publish submitted content.
13. Payments, Subscriptions, and Monetization
Vidyame may offer subscriptions, memberships, donations, creator monetization, paid learning experiences, or premium content.
When users make payments or creators receive payouts, Vidyame or its payment providers may collect information needed to process transactions.
This may include:
- Billing information
- Payment method details
- Transaction history
- Subscription status
- Renewal and cancellation information
- Tax or payout information for creators, where applicable
Vidyame may rely on trusted payment processors to handle sensitive payment details. Transaction records may be retained as required by law, accounting rules, fraud prevention needs, and business operations.
14. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Vidyame may use cookies, local storage, pixels, software development kits, or similar technologies to operate and improve the platform.
These technologies may help with:
- Login and authentication
- Security and fraud prevention
- Remembering preferences
- Performance and analytics
- Error detection
- Content recommendations
- Subscription features
- User experience improvements
- Measuring platform usage
- Advertising or promotional features, if introduced
Where required, Vidyame may provide choices for non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
15. Advertising, Promotions, and Sponsored Content
If Vidyame offers advertising, sponsorships, promoted content, or partner recommendations in the future, we will aim to identify those experiences clearly.
Vidyame may use limited information to measure and improve promotional experiences, subject to user settings and applicable law.
For children and teens, Vidyame may restrict or limit personalized advertising and promotional targeting.
Vidyame’s mission is education and civilizational preservation. Advertising or sponsorship should not compromise user trust or the dignity of the learning experience.
16. When Vidyame May Share Information
Vidyame does not sell users’ personal information.
Vidyame may share limited information in the following circumstances:
With user direction or consent. When users choose to publish content, join communities, connect accounts, make payments, submit creator information, or use integrations, Vidyame may share information as needed to provide those features.
With service providers. Vidyame may work with service providers for hosting, infrastructure, authentication, payment processing, email delivery, analytics, performance monitoring, customer support, security, fraud prevention, age assurance, and content delivery. Service providers should use information only as needed to provide services to Vidyame.
With creators, communities, or administrators. Where users follow, subscribe, join, comment, or participate, certain information may be visible to creators, community leaders, or administrators according to the feature and settings.
For legal, safety, or security reasons. Vidyame may preserve, use, disclose, or share information if reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to legal process, protect users, prevent harm, investigate abuse, enforce policies, address fraud, protect platform integrity, or defend rights and property.
In business transfers. If Vidyame is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable protections.
17. Data Retention
Vidyame may retain different types of information for different periods depending on the purpose.
For example:
- Account information may be retained while the account remains active
- Learning history may be retained until deleted by the user or no longer needed
- Public content may remain available until removed by the user or Vidyame
- Creator attribution and rights records may be retained for copyright, licensing, and platform integrity reasons
- Payment and transaction records may be retained as required by law
- Support communications may be retained for service, safety, and legal reasons
- Security records may be retained to prevent abuse, fraud, or repeat violations
- Deleted content may remain in backups or logs for a limited time before deletion is complete
Vidyame may retain information longer when required for legal compliance, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, safety, security, copyright protection, or enforcement of platform policies.
Public or shared content may continue to exist outside Vidyame if copied, downloaded, indexed, shared, or saved by others.
18. User Controls and Rights
Vidyame aims to provide meaningful controls over personal information and platform experience.
Users may be able to:
- Access account information
- Update profile details
- Manage privacy settings
- Manage language and accessibility preferences
- Review or clear certain learning history
- Update recommendation preferences
- Manage saved content, favorites, playlists, and notes
- Leave communities
- Manage subscriptions and notifications
- Download certain account information where available
- Request correction of personal information
- Request deletion of an account
- Object to or restrict certain uses of information where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing depends on consent
Before fulfilling certain requests, Vidyame may need to verify identity to protect user privacy and account security.
Some requests may be limited by legal, safety, copyright, accounting, fraud prevention, or platform integrity requirements.
19. Security Practices
Vidyame works to protect user information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
Security practices may include:
- Secure login and authentication
- Email or phone verification
- Encrypted connections
- Access controls
- Monitoring for suspicious activity
- Abuse and fraud detection
- Secure hosting and infrastructure
- Backup and recovery processes
- Review of security incidents
- Limiting access to personal information based on role and need
No online platform can guarantee perfect security. Users should protect their login information, use strong passwords, keep devices secure, and report suspicious activity.
20. International Data Transfers
Vidyame may use cloud providers, service providers, or infrastructure located in different regions.
Where information is transferred across borders, Vidyame will aim to use appropriate safeguards required by applicable law.
Users in different countries or regions may have different privacy rights based on local laws.
21. Legal Bases and Regional Rights
Depending on where a user lives, Vidyame may process personal information based on one or more legal grounds, such as:
- Providing the service requested by the user
- User consent
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Legitimate interests such as safety, security, fraud prevention, platform improvement, and content protection
- Protection of vital interests where necessary
- Performance of contracts with creators, publishers, or subscribers
Users may have additional rights under privacy laws in their region. These may include access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, appeal, or the right to opt out of certain data uses.
Vidyame will aim to honor applicable rights according to the laws that apply.
22. Content Responsibility and Platform Use
Users, creators, authors, curators, publishers, and community administrators are responsible for the content they create, upload, publish, comment on, share, or submit.
This includes responsibility for:
- Accuracy
- Attribution
- Copyright and licensing
- Respectful use of traditional knowledge
- Compliance with Vidyame policies
- Compliance with applicable law
- Avoiding unauthorized, harmful, misleading, or abusive content
Vidyame may remove, restrict, label, moderate, or make content unavailable where required by law, platform policy, copyright requirements, safety needs, or regional legal obligations.
Where local law requires content to be restricted in a specific country or region, Vidyame may limit access only in that required area when technically and legally feasible.
23. Policy Updates
Vidyame may update this policy from time to time as the platform grows, laws change, or new features are introduced.
If changes are material, Vidyame will aim to provide notice before the updated policy takes effect.
Continued use of Vidyame after an updated policy becomes effective may mean the user accepts the updated policy, where permitted by law.
The most current version of the policy will govern Vidyame’s handling of personal information.
24. Contact and Questions
Users should be able to contact Vidyame with privacy, security, account, content, or data-use questions.
Vidyame may provide a dedicated contact method for:
- Privacy inquiries
- Data access requests
- Account deletion requests
- Children’s privacy concerns
- Copyright or rights concerns
- Security reports
- Community safety issues
- Creator or publisher support
Contact Vidyame at:
- Privacy Contact: info@vidyame.com
- Security Contact: info@vidyame.com
- Copyright Contact: info@vidyame.com
- Company Location: Rochester, Michigan, United States
25. Vidyame’s Privacy Promise
Vidyame exists to preserve and share Indic civilization knowledge for present and future generations.
That mission requires trust.
We are committed to:
- Being clear about how information is collected and used
- Protecting account, learning, family, community, and creator information
- Giving users meaningful privacy controls
- Protecting children and teens
- Supporting safe communities
- Respecting creator and publisher rights
- Limiting unnecessary data sharing
- Using personalization responsibly
- Handling AI and recommendations with care
- Complying with applicable law
- Improving security and transparency as Vidyame grows
Vidyame is a platform for knowledge, learning, practice, and civilizational memory.
We will work to protect the people, families, creators, communities, and traditions that make this mission possible.