गोपनीयता नीति।
Ritual एक ही अभ्यास के इर्द-गिर्द बना है। उसकी गोपनीयता-दृष्टि भी इसी सिद्धांत का अनुसरण करती है: यथासंभव कम संग्रहित करना, जो संग्रहित किया जाए उसे प्रकट करना, और तुम्हारा डेटा कभी न बेचना।
हम क्या एकत्र करते हैं
Ritual को खाते की आवश्यकता नहीं है और इसे स्थानीय रूप से उपयोग किया जा सकता है। अभ्यास तुम्हारे ब्राउज़र में होता है; एकमात्र वैकल्पिक साझाकरण इस नीति में वर्णित 6away Engine Contribution है, जिसे तुम कभी भी बंद कर सकते हो।
- अभ्यास डेटा (श्रृंखला, अवधि, संकल्प, अंतिम सत्र) तुम्हारे ब्राउज़र में स्थानीय रूप से संग्रहित होता है, और यदि तुम साइन इन करते हो तो तुम्हारे खाते से समन्वयित होता है। इसे अन्यथा साझा नहीं किया जाता — सिवाय नीचे वर्णित वैकल्पिक 6away Engine Contribution के।
- स्थानीय क्षेत्र के नमूने तुम्हारे ब्राउज़र में crypto.getRandomValues() से गणित होते हैं। कच्चे नमूने कभी प्रसारित नहीं होते।
- सर्वर लॉग। हमारा होस्टिंग प्रदाता सुरक्षा और विश्वसनीयता के लिए मानक अनुरोध मेटाडेटा (IP, उपयोगकर्ता एजेंट, टाइमस्टैम्प) रिकॉर्ड कर सकता है। हम इस डेटा का उपयोग ट्रैकिंग के लिए नहीं करते।
6away Engine Contribution
Ritual तुम्हारे पूर्ण किए गए सत्रों से गुमनाम, संरचित अवलोकन योगदान कर सकता है ताकि 6away Engine को बेहतर बनाने में मदद मिले। यह वैकल्पिक है और डिफ़ॉल्ट रूप से बंद रहता है; तुम इसे सेटिंग्स में कभी भी चालू कर सकते हो, और Ritual दोनों ही स्थितियों में पूरी तरह काम करता है।
- केवल संरचित सत्र-सारांश भेजे जाते हैं — अवधि, संकल्प, सत्र की गहराई और स्थिरता, व्यवधान, और (जब Body Signal चालू हो) हृदय-गति तथा HRV के व्युत्पन्न सारांश आँकड़े।
- कभी कोई जर्नल, चिंतन, प्रतिलेख या मुक्त-रूप पाठ नहीं — Ritual उनके लिए नहीं पूछता, और कोई नहीं भेजा जाता।
- कभी कच्चा सेंसर डेटा नहीं: कैमरा वीडियो और कच्चे हृदयस्पंदन (RR) अंतराल तुम्हारे डिवाइस पर ही रहते हैं; केवल व्युत्पन्न सारांश उसे छोड़ते हैं।
- कोई क्रॉस-वर्कस्पेस या क्रॉस-अकाउंट डेटा साझा नहीं किया जाता।
- योगदान बंद होने पर, तुम्हारे सत्रों से कुछ नहीं भेजा जाता — Ritual पूरी तरह स्थानीय-मात्र रहता है।
हम क्या एकत्र नहीं करते
- तुम्हारे व्यक्तिगत अभ्यास का कोई विश्लेषण नहीं।
- तृतीय-पक्ष विज्ञापन ट्रैकर नहीं।
- माइक्रोफ़ोन तक कोई पहुँच नहीं। कैमरा और Bluetooth हृदय-सेंसर वैकल्पिक हैं और डिफ़ॉल्ट रूप से बंद रहते हैं।
- कोई चिकित्सीय या नैदानिक दावे नहीं। Body Signal केवल अवलोकनात्मक है, और स्थानीय क्षेत्र तुम्हारा मापन नहीं है।
कुकीज़
Ritual ट्रैकिंग कुकीज़ सेट नहीं करता। तुम्हारे ब्राउज़र में कार्यात्मक संग्रहण (जैसे localStorage) तुम्हारे अगले सत्र के लिए वरीयताएँ याद रखने हेतु उपयोग किया जा सकता है।
साझाकरण
हम तुम्हारी जानकारी न बेचते हैं, न किराए पर देते हैं। हम केवल एक ही चीज़ साझा करते हैं — इस नीति में वर्णित वैकल्पिक, गुमनाम 6away Engine Contribution — और वह भी केवल तब तक जब तक तुमने उसे चालू रखा हो। यदि कानून-प्रवर्तन वैध अनुरोध करता है, तो हम कानून के अनुसार उत्तर देंगे और जहाँ अनुमेय हो प्रभावित उपयोगकर्ताओं को सूचित करेंगे।
बच्चे
Ritual 13 वर्ष से कम आयु के बच्चों के लिए नहीं है।
परिवर्तन
हम समय-समय पर इस नीति को अद्यतन कर सकते हैं। महत्वपूर्ण परिवर्तन ऊपर «अंतिम अद्यतन» की तिथि में परिलक्षित होंगे।
संपर्क
गोपनीयता संबंधी प्रश्न hello@ritual.guru पर भेजे जा सकते हैं।
Continuity
These sections are shown in English until they are translated. They add to the sections above: Continuity is part of your private ritual data; if you join Challenges, the information described below is shown to other eligible Challenges participants — separately from the optional 6away Engine Contribution, which joining never turns on; and the last section explains privacy requests, account deletion, and where your data is processed.
After each ritual you complete, Ritual shows you a private Continuity score out of 100. It reflects how continuously you remained in the ritual: the share of it you stayed in, less a little each time you left (switching apps or tabs, locking the screen, or the window losing focus). It does not measure attention, mental state, physiological coherence, or consciousness, and it never uses heart rate, HRV, camera, or other Body Signal data, or the Local Field.
To calculate it, Ritual counts how many times you left and how many seconds you were away. It records that you left and for how long — never where you went or what you did. These counts and the score, with its version, stay on your device: they are stored only in your browser, with that ritual, among the 500 most recent rituals it keeps. They are never sent to our servers or saved to your account, are not synced between your devices, and are removed when you clear this site's data in your browser. Continuity is never shown to anyone else, never sent with the 6away Engine Contribution, and never used in Challenges rankings.
Legal basis. If you sign in, we keep your practice history in your account to provide the sync you signed in for. Our legal basis is the performance of our agreement with you (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)). Continuity is not part of this: it is calculated and kept only on your device.
Challenges
Challenges are optional weekly leaderboards with their own opt-in, separate from your private ritual data and from the 6away Engine Contribution. Joining Challenges never turns on the Engine Contribution.
Participants earn one point for each UTC day on which they complete a ritual of 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes, with a separate board for each length. You can take part if you are at least 18 years old: you sign in with your 6away account, choose a display name, tick one box confirming that you are at least 18 years old, and tick a second box agreeing that your display name, points, and ranking may be visible to other eligible Challenges participants. Live rankings may not always be open; while they are closed, no one can join, no ritual starts or points are recorded, and every board you see is a demonstration.
Who can take part, and where. Challenges are for adults aged 18 or older, in every country. You confirm your age yourself when you join: we don't ask for your date of birth, an identity document, or your address, and we don't estimate your age. If the law ever requires us to close Challenges in a particular country, our server would go by the country that our hosting provider derives from your connection's IP address; our app never reads your IP address, and we don't store your country. For now, the Challenges terms you agree to are in English, whatever language the app is in. In this policy, “eligible Challenges participants” means participants who are signed in and have agreed to the current version of the Challenges terms. If you have joined, you keep your participation and points wherever you are, and you can always change your display name, withdraw, and open the Challenges terms you agreed to, whatever language the app is in.
Legal basis. We show your display name and weekly points to other eligible Challenges participants only with your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw your consent at any time, with immediate effect, by withdrawing from Challenges; this doesn't affect what was shown before you withdrew.
If you join, we store:
- the display name you choose, and a simplified form of it used only to keep names unique;
- a record of your consent — the version of the consent wording you agreed to (which also shows that you confirmed being at least 18 years old), the language and version of the legal text, and when you agreed (never your country, IP address, date of birth, or address) — and when you last changed your name;
- for each ritual you begin at a Challenges length while taking part, the time it started (by our server's clock) and its length; once that ritual is completed and timed by our server, also when it ended and which ritual in your practice history it belongs to;
- for each point you earn: the ritual's length, the day and week it counts toward, the version of the points rules, when the ritual was completed, and how long it ran as measured by our server. No Continuity score or other session detail is stored with it.
These records are linked to your account so they can be counted and deleted, but your account details are never shown with them. We keep your participant record and your points until you withdraw, and a ritual start only for as long as the point it earned; boards show only the current week.
Every other ritual start is deleted — one never completed, or one whose ritual earned no point (for example, a second ritual of the same length on the same UTC day). Your own are deleted when you next begin a ritual, and all of them when you withdraw. Any such start more than 3 hours old is also deleted by a cleanup that runs about once an hour, and whenever a participant begins a ritual. This usually happens within a few hours of a start becoming unusable, but the hourly cleanup is best-effort and a run can occasionally be missed, so we can't promise an exact deadline.
What others see. Only other eligible Challenges participants can see the real weekly boards; everyone else sees only a demonstration board. For each participant with a point that week, a board shows only their display name, how many days they practised at that length that week, and their rank. Choose a display name you're comfortable with others seeing.
Never shown to anyone else: your email address, your 6away name or profile, your Continuity, your heart rate, HRV, or camera data, which days or at what times you practised, or any other detail of your sessions.
Changes to the Challenges terms. If they change in substance, you'll be asked to agree again. Until you do, you don't appear on the boards and new rituals don't earn points.
Leaving. You can change your display name or withdraw at any time from the Challenges screen. Withdrawing immediately deletes your participation (including your consent record), your points, and your ritual starts, so you leave every board. Your practice history stays in your account, and Continuity stays on your device. Deleted Challenges data can remain in our database provider's point-in-time-restore history for up to 6 hours before it is gone for good.
Demonstration boards are labelled as such and show fictional participants — not real people and not 6away users. They contain no one's data. Any placement of yours shown against one is a preview, calculated in the app from your own rituals and visible only to you.
Your requests and where your data is stored
Requests. To ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or the deletion of your Ritual data, or with any privacy question, email hello@ritual.guru. We reply only to the email address on your account and act once you confirm from that address. We never ask for an identity document, your date of birth, your address, a password, or a one-time code. To leave Challenges, you can also use Withdraw in the app at any time.
Deleting your account. Ritual has no automatic or in-app account deletion; we delete accounts by hand when you ask. Deleting your account removes your Ritual account record, your synced practice history, and all your Challenges data. It doesn't delete your 6away sign-in account or anything already sent through the optional 6away Engine Contribution — if your request covers those, we pass it to whoever operates them — or what is stored in your browser, including Continuity, which you can remove by signing out and clearing this site's data. Deleted data can remain in our database provider's point-in-time-restore history for up to 6 hours, and in any copy of the database made before the deletion until that copy is deleted.
Where your data is processed. Ritual's app servers run in the United States (Vercel, Washington, D.C. region), and the database that holds your account, synced practice history, and Challenges data is in Singapore (Neon, on Amazon Web Services). If you use Ritual with an account, your data is therefore transferred to and processed in those countries, which may be outside the country where you live.