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Privacy policy

Last updated 26 October 2026

सीधी बातयह साइट आपसे आपका नाम, ईमेल या फ़ोन नंबर नहीं माँगती, और यहाँ कोई विज्ञापन नहीं है। कौन से पन्ने पढ़े जाते हैं, यह गिनने के लिए Google Analytics लगा है। इसकी कुकी तभी रखी जाती है जब आप हाँ कहें, और आप ना कहें तो यह चलता ही नहीं। आपने कौन सा हिस्सा चुना और खेल कहाँ तक खेला, यह बस आपके अपने फ़ोन या कंप्यूटर में रहता है, हमारे पास नहीं आता। साइट Vercel पर चलती है और घर वाला नक्शा OpenStreetMap से आता है। ये दोनों आपका IP पता देखते हैं, जैसे हर वेबसाइट के साथ होता है।

This site does not ask who you are. It has no accounts, no sign-ups, no newsletter and no advertising. It counts visits with Google Analytics, and Google's cookies are set only if you allow them. The only times anything about you passes through are when you choose to buy chapters of a book, to turn on a library code, to review a book, or to invite Manu Vishranti for a workshop, and each is explained below. This page explains the little that does happen when you visit, and what you can ask for.

Who is responsible

manuvishranti.com belongs to Manav Sharma, who writes as Manu Vishranti. He decides how this site works and is the person responsible for it under data protection law (the "controller"). Write to Manav Sharma at manuvishranti@gmail.com, by post to 557, B/5, Garhi Cantonment, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248003, India, or send a message on Instagram to @themanavsharma.

When you open a page

The pages are served by Vercel, the hosting company. Like every web server, Vercel's servers receive your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, and what your browser says about itself, because a page cannot be sent to you without them. Vercel uses this to deliver the site and to keep it safe from attacks, and keeps it for a short time under its own rules. It is not used by this site to find out who you are, and it is never combined with anything else. Vercel is based in the United States and protects international transfers under the safeguards described in Vercel's privacy policy.

Everything else a page needs, its fonts, pictures and code, is served from manuvishranti.com itself. No page loads anything from a font service, from an advertising network or from any social network. Only two outside services load code: Google Analytics, explained next, and Razorpay's payment window, which loads only after you press a price on a chapter of one of the books.

Counting visits with Google Analytics

To learn which pages are read, which books people come for and how they find the site, it uses Google Analytics, run by Google (Google Ireland Limited for visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, and Google LLC everywhere else). On your first visit a small bar at the bottom of the page asks whether you allow it.

Only the address of the page is sent, never what comes after a ? in it (except a campaign tag such as utm_source), so payment IDs, library codes and anything you type stay out of it. Google signals and advertising features are switched off, and nothing is used to show you ads, here or anywhere else. Manav Sharma sees totals and trends, never a named person. The pages made for children, the comic सपनों वाला जंगल and the game लंका की खोज itself, carry no Google Analytics at all. Google handles the data under Google's privacy policy and its data processing terms, and may process it in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. You can change your answer at any time on the cookies and storage page.

When you buy chapters of the books

The books can be read on the site (the six of The Five Wounds, the five volumes of नेति नेति and the comic सपनों वाला जंगल): the opening chapters are free and the rest can be bought. Paying is handled by Razorpay (Razorpay Software Private Limited, Bengaluru), a payment company regulated in India. When you press a price, Razorpay's window opens; you give it your phone number (and an email, if you like) and pay from your UPI app. Razorpay handles those details under Razorpay's privacy policy and keeps payment records for as long as Indian law requires.

The site's own server sees only the order and payment numbers, which chapters or which membership pass were bought and the amount (and, with a Year pass, which book you chose to keep). It never sees your UPI ID or bank details, and it keeps no list of buyers. Manav Sharma sees each payment in his Razorpay account, with the details Razorpay shows a seller (such as the phone number and email you gave), and uses them only to deliver what you bought, to answer you, to give refunds and to keep the accounts the law asks for. They are never used for marketing and never shared beyond Razorpay and the tax authorities.

Your library and the library code

There are no accounts. Your library (what you bought, your bookmarks, the place you stopped in each book and your reading settings) is kept in your own browser. If you want the same library on your other phones and laptops, you can turn on a library code: sixteen letters and numbers made by your browser, with no email, no name and no password. The site then keeps, under a one-way code made from it, your payment IDs, your bookmarks, your places and your settings, so that every device with the code shows the same library. They are stored with Upstash, the database service the site's host connects to, and are never shared, sold or used for advertising. Anyone who has your code can open your library, so keep it to yourself.

You can stop using the code on a device, or delete the library from the server, at any time from your library. Records of payments stay with Razorpay, as the law requires.

When you invite him for a workshop

The request form on the workshops page sends what you type into it (your name and role, your organisation, email, phone if you give one, city, the format, theme, language, dates, audience and your message) to the site's server, which keeps it with Upstash, the same database service that holds reviews, so that Manav Sharma can reply. A copy may be sent to his inbox through Resend, an email service. Nothing from the form is ever shown on the site, used for marketing or shared with anyone else. Requests that do not lead to a workshop are deleted two years after they arrive. When a workshop is agreed, its record (the request, the dates, the fee, invoice and payment details, how it went, and short notes of the calls, emails and meetings about it) is kept as a business record for eight years after the workshop, the time Indian tax law can ask accounts to be kept, and then deleted. You can ask to see, correct or delete any of it sooner, except what the law requires to be kept: write to manuvishranti@gmail.com.

When you write a review

Readers who have bought at least one chapter of a book can review it. A review keeps the name you give, your stars, your words, what you had bought (a chapter or the whole book) and the date, and all of these are shown on the site. To check that you are a reader, the payment ID is sent once to the site's server, which asks Razorpay whether it was a paid order for that book; only a one-way code made from it is kept, so a second review from the same payment replaces the first. Reviews are stored with Upstash, a database service the site's host connects to. To have your review removed, write to manuvishranti@gmail.com.

The keys to the chapters you bought, and your payment ID, are kept in your own browser so the chapters stay open. When a payment ID is checked with Razorpay (on another device, or in your library), the site's server keeps what that payment opened against it, so it need not ask Razorpay again; nothing else about you is kept with it.

The map on the home page

The "Where the lamp is lit" map shows his home in Dehradun. When the map comes into view, its pictures (map tiles) are loaded from OpenStreetMap's tile servers, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation in the United Kingdom. Those servers receive your IP address and which part of the map is being shown, under the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy. Nothing else is sent.

If you press How far am I?, your browser asks you first whether to share your location. If you allow it, your location is used only inside your own browser, to draw a line and work out the distance. It is not sent to this site. The map may then load the tiles around your location from OpenStreetMap.

Some buttons open other services: Route and time and Open in Google Maps open Google Maps, his own name links to Instagram, and some pages link to the publisher, to Wikipedia and to libraries of old texts. Nothing is sent to them until you click. Once you are on their site, their own privacy policy applies, for example Google's and Instagram's.

What is kept on your own device

A few small settings are kept in your browser's local storage, only so the site remembers what you chose. They stay on your device, are never sent to this site or anyone else, and you can delete them at any time. The full list is on the cookies and storage page.

What this site never does

Children

The comic सपनों वाला जंगल and the game लंका की खोज are made for children too. Their pages carry no Google Analytics, and the site collects nothing about children: no names, no contact details, no accounts. A child's game progress stays on the family's own device. Buying chapters of the books is meant for adults.

Your rights, wherever you live

Depending on where you live, the law gives you the right to ask what information is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to its use, to limit or move it, and to complain. This includes the GDPR in the European Union and the European Economic Area, the UK GDPR, Switzerland's Federal Act on Data Protection, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, the privacy laws of California and other US states, Brazil's LGPD, Canada's PIPEDA, Australia's Privacy Act and similar laws elsewhere.

Unless you have bought chapters, this site holds nothing that identifies you, and most requests will be answered by confirming that. Google Analytics data sits with Google under the random ID in its cookie, which the site cannot link to you; saying no on the cookies page, or clearing the cookie, ends it. If you have, your payment details are held as described above, and you can ask to see them or have them corrected. The host's short-lived server records are handled by Vercel, and he will help you reach them if you need to. To make any request, write to Manav Sharma at manuvishranti@gmail.com, by post to 557, B/5, Garhi Cantonment, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248003, India, or send a message on Instagram to @themanavsharma. You will get a reply within 30 days. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live; in India, to the Data Protection Board of India.

Serving the pages and keeping them secure, and showing the map, rest on legitimate interests: a website cannot be shown without them, and they are kept to the minimum. Payment details are handled to deliver what you bought (a contract) and to keep the records tax law requires (a legal obligation). Google Analytics runs on your consent, given in the bar and withdrawn at any time on the cookies page; the count without cookies sent before you answer rests on legitimate interests, kept to the minimum. The settings kept on your device are stored because you asked for what they do (choosing an interest, playing the game, opening chapters you bought), which is allowed without a consent request.

Security

Every page is served over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). The site sends standard security headers and loads no outside code except Google Analytics (none at all if you say no) and Razorpay's payment window when you choose to pay. Chapters you have not bought are sent to your browser only in locked form.

Changes

If anything here changes, this page will say so and the date at the top will change.