Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to swayambhupurana.com and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to swayambhupurana.com include its www subdomain. The swayambhupurana.com website is an informational site publishing a complete translation of the Swayambhu Purana, a Sanskrit Buddhist account of the origin of the Kathmandu Valley. By using the swayambhupurana.com website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us.

The site has no accounts, no registration, no message boards, no comment sections and no forms. Nothing on it asks you for your name, your email address, your postal address or any payment detail, and no product or service is sold here. Reading the text requires you to identify yourself in no way at all.

If you choose to write to the project through Facebook or Messenger, the message you send is handled by that service under its own privacy policy, and is held by us only as a message we have received. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future, and this page will be updated before we do.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

swayambhupurana.com does not sell, rent or lease information about its readers to third parties, and maintains no customer, subscriber or mailing lists to sell.

We use service providers to deliver these pages to you, described under Content Delivery and Security below. Such providers are prohibited from using the information they receive except to provide that service, and are required to maintain its confidentiality.

swayambhupurana.com may disclose information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on swayambhupurana.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of swayambhupurana.com; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of swayambhupurana.com, or the public.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by swayambhupurana.com and the providers that deliver it. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses.

This information is used for the operation and security of the service and to maintain its quality. The project holds no analytics account, produces no reports about readers, and makes no attempt to identify you or to record what you read.

Content Delivery and Security

To keep the site fast, available and protected from attack, it is delivered through Cloudflare, Inc., which shields it from denial-of-service attempts and malicious bots and serves pages from a location near you.

In providing that service, Cloudflare processes technical metadata, including IP addresses and request headers, and sets strictly necessary first-party security cookies on your device, such as __cf_bm and cf_clearance, to tell legitimate visitors apart from automated traffic. Because these functions are strictly necessary for the safety and operation of the site, they are not used for targeted advertising, cross-site tracking or marketing profiles.

Legal basis: legitimate interest, and the exemptions for security: GDPR Article 6(1)(f), the ePrivacy Directive, and the equivalent US and international exemptions covering security, maintenance and fraud prevention.

For more information, see the Cloudflare Privacy Policy and the Cloudflare Cookie Policy .

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a text file placed on your device by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

swayambhupurana.com sets no cookies of its own. The only cookies you may receive here are the strictly necessary security cookies set by Cloudflare, described above.

These do not require a consent banner. Consent rules in the EU, the UK and elsewhere require your permission before cookies are set, with an exception for those that are strictly necessary to deliver the service you asked for. Security falls squarely within that exception. Nothing here is used for tracking, advertising or profiling, which is what consent banners exist to govern. If the project ever adds something that genuinely requires your consent, it will ask you first.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline them if you prefer. Declining cookies will not prevent you from reading anything on this site, though Cloudflare may ask you to complete a security check more often.

Security of Your Personal Information

swayambhupurana.com secures information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Information transmitted between your browser and this site is protected in transit through the use of encryption, by means of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

This site collects no personal information, so there is nothing held about you to delete and no request for you to make.

If the project ever begins collecting anything, this page will say so, and it will set out how to ask for it to be removed.

Links to Other Sites

This site links out to a Facebook page, to Messenger, and to a form hosted by Google for people who want to help with the project. Following any of those links takes you to a service operated by another company, under its own privacy policy and its own cookies. Nothing from those services loads while you are reading here. swayambhupurana.com is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any site it links to.

Children Under Thirteen

swayambhupurana.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Changes to This Statement

swayambhupurana.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on the site and by updating the privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

swayambhupurana.com welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that swayambhupurana.com has not adhered to this Statement, please write to the project through Messenger or on its Facebook page.

Effective as of September 22, 2026