Privacy & cookies

The short version: this site has no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. The apps keep their settings and progress in the visitor's own browser and send nothing home. The only cookie is set when someone chooses to sign in with Patreon, and it is deleted again by signing out. There is no cookie banner because nothing here needs one.

Who is responsible

The site is run by Ram, trading as Ramapani, in the United Kingdom, and this notice is written under the UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Questions about it, and any request about personal data, can be sent through the contact form at the foot of every page. A postal address is given on request.

What the site keeps, and why

What	Where it goes	Why, and for how long
Server logs: the connection's IP address, the page asked for, the time, and the browser's description of itself	The web server's log files, at the hosting company (InMotion Hosting, United States)	Security, and counting visits with the server's own log reports (Webalizer and AWStats). Legitimate interest. The logs are rotated by the hosting company after a short time and are read only in aggregate.
The Patreon sign-in: Patreon user id, first name, membership level, time of the last check, and an encrypted key for the daily re-check	One signed cookie, `rp_patreon`, on the device that signed in. Nothing is written to the server.	To open the member features that the membership pays for. Performance of the membership. Thirty days from the last check; deleted at once by signing out. Full details on the Patreon sign-in notice.
The mailing list: first name and email address	SendFox (United States), who send the emails for Ramapani	Consent, given by filling in and sending the form, withdrawn by the unsubscribe link in any email, after which the address is removed. The form is SendFox's own and appears only when "Open the signup form" is pressed; until then SendFox hear nothing about the visit.
The contact form, and Send feedback in Ramapani Retreats: name, email address and the message (feedback adds the build number, where in the retreat the sender was, the screen size and the browser's description of itself)	By email to Ram. Nothing is stored on the website.	To answer. Legitimate interest. Kept as long as the conversation lasts, then deleted.
The shared counters: the online gong, the world's candles, the World Karma Game, mandala likes, the Uni-Verse poem, Zener scores, polls and page likes	Small files on the server	Totals only. Where a daily limit per device is needed, the server keeps for one day a code made from the connection with a secret that is thrown away at midnight, so no IP address is stored and the code cannot be traced back afterwards. The gong and the World Karma Game use a random code made by the browser, which names no one.
Everything the apps remember: settings, favourite presets, streaks, kudos, retreat progress, a lit candle, saved journeys, a name typed into Ramapani Retreats	The visitor's own browser (localStorage), on that device only	So an app opens the way it was left. Needed for the thing the visitor asked for, and never sent anywhere. Kept until cleared, by the app's own button, by the button below, or by clearing the browser's site data.

Cookies and the like

Two cookies exist, both first-party and both only for the Patreon sign-in: rp_oauth, which lives for fifteen minutes while the sign-in is in progress, and rp_patreon, described above. A visitor who never presses Sign in with Patreon receives no cookie at all.

The apps use the browser's localStorage, which is the modern cousin of a cookie that stays on the device and is never sent with requests. The names in use are beats., breathe., drift., trance., hermitage., hermitageTimer., hermitageMedia., ramapani.candle.v1, ramapani.innerlight, ramapaniHeartMsg:, iching-usage, iching-streaks, it.v2, wkg-token, wkg-selections-, gongUserId, uniVerseLastSubmit, completedPresets, seenNews, ramaweb-, hopper.best., poopscoop.custom and vc2.. All of it is for the app's own working, none of it leaves the device, and the law allows storage of this kind without a banner provided it is explained and can be refused, which is what this page and the button below are for.

There are no analytics cookies, no advertising cookies, no social-media pixels and no fingerprinting.

Forgets every app's settings and progress on this device, and the Patreon sign-in. Nothing on the server changes, because nothing about a visitor is there.

Other people's services

Pages on this site do not load scripts, fonts or images from third parties as they open. Where another service appears, it appears only after a deliberate press:

YouTube. A video is shown as a plain box with a play button. Pressing play loads the player from youtube-nocookie.com, and from that moment Google sees the visit and applies its own privacy policy.
Payhip, the Ramapani shop. Products appear on this site as pictures and links drawn by this site; nothing comes from Payhip until a link is followed. Buying anything happens on Payhip under Payhip's privacy policy; Ramapani receives the order and the email address needed to deliver it.
Patreon. Membership, payments and the sign-in itself happen on patreon.com under Patreon's privacy policy. What comes back to this site is described above.
SendFox. The mailing-list form is drawn by SendFox once "Open the signup form" is pressed; from that press SendFox sees the visit, and on sending, the name and address.
Buy Me a Coffee, Spreadshop, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, X, WhatsApp are reached by ordinary links and buttons that do nothing until pressed. The Tumblr page on this site shows the latest posts by having this server read the feed, so the visitor's browser never talks to Tumblr unless a post is opened.

Where data is held

The site is hosted by InMotion Hosting in the United States, which handles the server logs and anything passing through the server, under a contract that includes the UK's required safeguards for transfers abroad. SendFox and Patreon are also in the United States, each under their own terms. The amount of personal data that ever reaches the server is small by design, and most of what the site remembers never leaves the visitor's device.

Rights

Everyone has the right to ask what personal data is held about them, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its use, to take a copy, and to withdraw consent where consent is the basis. On this site most of that is self-service: signing out deletes the Patreon cookie, the unsubscribe link ends the mailing list, and the button above clears everything the apps keep. For anything else, write through the contact form; a reply comes within a month. Anyone unhappy with how their data has been handled can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Children

The site is written for adults and has no accounts of its own. The Patreon sign-in needs a Patreon account, which Patreon limits to adults, and the mailing list asks no one under eighteen to join.

Changes

This notice was written on 2 November 2026 and applies from that date. When something on the site changes what is kept, this page is changed the same day and the date here moves.