Privacy

We want to know whether The Yogic Guide is useful, without keeping anything that could identify you. Here is everything we measure and everything we store.

Visits and clicks

We count page views, which styles and areas are searched, which schools and courses are looked at, how often the compare tool is used, and which courses people click through to the school about. Search text you type is never stored. We keep only which known styles and areas it matched.

• No cookies. Nothing about our analytics is stored on your device.
• Your IP address is never stored. From it we keep your country and region, not your city, and your device type (phone, tablet or computer). To stop abuse (someone flooding the site, or guessing passwords) we keep a one-way hash of it that changes every day, for at most a day.
• A visitor code that changes every day. It is a one-way hash of your address, browser and the date, so it cannot follow you from one day to the next. We can count unique visitors per day; we cannot tell that today’s visitor is yesterday’s.
• Where you came from: only the name of the referring website, such as google.com.
• Your signal is respected. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, we record nothing.
• Individual events are deleted after 90 days. After that only daily totals are kept, with no visitor codes in them, for 395 days (about 13 months).

Course interest and Buy now

When you choose “Check availability” on a course, we note that someone was interested in that course at that school, with the date, country and device type, and then send you on to the school’s own website. We do not sell courses yet. This shows us which courses people want, so we know what is worth building. Choosing Buy now on a course is counted the same way: buying through us isn’t open yet, and it shows how many people would like to. Nothing about you is taken; you simply see “Coming soon”.

Feedback

We occasionally ask how we are doing, never more than once a visit, and not again for weeks after you answer or skip. Your answer is stored with the page, your country and device type. The comment box is optional. Please don’t put personal details in it. Feedback is kept for 24 months. To remember that you answered or skipped, we save one date on your device, only after you do so.

What stays on your device

Only things you choose: schools you save or add to compare, your currency and text-size preferences, and the date you last answered a feedback prompt. None of it is sent to us.

Claiming a listing

If you claim a school we store your name, email address, your relationship to the school and any message, to confirm you can speak for it. We email you a single-use link through our email provider (Resend). We keep the claim while the listing is active; a claim that expires or is turned down has its name, email and message erased after 180 days. Verification links are stored only as one-way hashes and expire after 48 hours. Price reports and claims also carry a one-way hash of the sender’s address, erased after a day, which is all the rate limit needs.

The coffee button

On a few pages (Support the project, About, the FAQ, the Journal and its articles, the price-gap page, the course-price page, the school-count page and the neighbourhoods page) a small coffee button lets you support the project through Buy Me a Coffee. When it loads, your browser fetches it from buymeacoffee.com, so they see your IP address and browser details, as any site you load something from does. It sets no cookie on this site. It is not loaded on any other page, and it is not loaded at all if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. If you choose to give, you do it on their site, under their privacy policy: we never see your card or your details.

Who else handles data

Vercel hosts the site, Neon stores its database, Resend sends verification emails, and Buy Me a Coffee provides the coffee button (above). The map on a school page loads from OpenStreetMap only if you ask for it. Links to schools, Google Maps and other sites are governed by their own policies.

Your choices

Turn on Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control in your browser and we record nothing about your visit, and the coffee button does not load. To see, correct or delete anything linked to you (a claim or a feedback comment), email contact@yogicguide.com. Visit data cannot be matched back to a person, so there is nothing to look up.