Privacy Policy

Vishwamohini is an online platform for Indian classical music learners, teachers, artists, composers, institutions, and music lovers. The Website may allow users to create, save, publish, share, play, embed, and access Indian music notation, tabla compositions, melodies, lyrics, educational material, and related content.

For privacy-related questions, you may contact us at:

Privacy Contact: dhatitdha@gmail.com

Website: www.vishwamohini.com

We collect only the information reasonably required to provide, protect, improve, and operate Vishwamohini.

2.1 Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information you provide when you:

1. Create an account.
2. Update your profile.
3. Create, save, upload, publish, or share compositions.
4. Contact us for support.
5. Subscribe to updates or newsletters.
6. Report copyright issues, abuse, security issues, or violations.
7. Participate in surveys, feedback, comments, or community features.

This information may include:

1. Name.
2. Email address.
3. Username or display name.
4. Password or authentication information.
5. Profile details.
6. Phone number, if provided.
7. Organization, institute, teacher, artist, or professional details, if provided.
8. Location or address, if voluntarily provided.
9. Communication messages sent to us.
10. Uploaded or published content, including notations, compositions, metadata, descriptions, lyrics, tags, comments, images, audio, video links, or other materials.

2.2 Account and Login Information

When you create or use an account, we may collect:

1. Login date and time.
2. Account status.
3. Password reset information.
4. Email verification status.
5. Session information.
6. Security logs related to account access.

Passwords are stored in encrypted or hashed form where technically applicable. We do not store your plain-text password.

2.3 Content and Publishing Information

When you create or publish content on Vishwamohini, we may collect and store:

1. Composition title.
2. Notation or music content.
3. Tags and categories.
4. Language, tempo, scale, instrument, taal, raga, or other metadata.
5. Draft, private, published, or archived status.
6. Creator or contributor information.
7. Revision history, where enabled.
8. Views, usage statistics, and last accessed information.
9. Public URLs or embed links.

If you publish content publicly, that content and related profile information may be visible to other users and visitors.

2.4 Automatically Collected Information

When you use the Website, we may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

1. IP address.
2. Browser type and version.
3. Device type.
4. Operating system.
5. Referring page.
6. Pages visited.
7. Date and time of visit.
8. Clickstream data.
9. Session duration.
10. Error logs.
11. Performance logs.
12. Approximate location derived from IP address.
13. Cookie and similar technology data.

This information helps us operate the Website, improve performance, prevent abuse, detect security issues, and understand how the Website is used.

2.5 Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

1. Keep you logged in.
2. Remember your preferences.
3. Improve security.
4. Understand Website usage.
5. Improve Website performance.
6. Prevent spam and abuse.
7. Provide analytics.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect login, saving, playback, personalization, or other Website functions.

2.6 Information from Third Parties

We may receive limited information from third-party services when you interact with them through Vishwamohini, such as:

1. Login/authentication providers, if enabled.
2. Analytics providers.
3. Hosting and security providers.
4. Email delivery providers.
5. Embedded media or external links.

Third-party services are governed by their own privacy policies.

We may use your information for the following purposes:

1. To create and manage your account.
2. To provide the notation editor, music library, playback tools, publishing tools, and related services.
3. To save, display, publish, organize, and manage your compositions and content.
4. To authenticate users and protect accounts.
5. To communicate with you about your account, service updates, support requests, copyright complaints, policy changes, or security issues.
6. To send newsletters or promotional updates, only where permitted and subject to your opt-out choices.
7. To improve Website design, features, reliability, and performance.
8. To detect, prevent, and respond to spam, abuse, fraud, copyright violations, security threats, or unlawful activity.
9. To enforce our Terms and Conditions, Copyright Policy, and other rules.
10. To comply with applicable law, legal process, court orders, government requests, or regulatory obligations.
11. To maintain backups, logs, and records required for security, legal, or operational purposes.
12. To generate aggregated or non-identifying statistics about Website usage.

We do not sell your personal information.

Where consent is required, we will use your personal information based on your consent.

In other cases, we may process information because it is necessary to provide the Website, perform our obligations, protect the Website, prevent misuse, comply with law, or respond to your requests.

You may withdraw consent where applicable by contacting us or using available account settings. Withdrawal of consent may affect your ability to use some features.

Some parts of Vishwamohini may be public.

If you publish a composition, profile, comment, description, notation, audio/video link, or other content publicly, it may be visible to anyone, including search engines, visitors, other users, and external websites.

Please do not publish personal information that you do not want to make public.

Even if you later delete public content, copies may remain in search engines, browser caches, embeds, backups, archives, screenshots, or places outside our control.

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share personal information only in the following cases:

6.1 With Service Providers

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate the Website, such as:

1. Hosting providers.
2. Database providers.
3. Email delivery providers.
4. Analytics providers.
5. Security and anti-abuse providers.
6. Backup and storage providers.
7. Technical maintenance providers.

These service providers may process information only for the purposes of providing services to Vishwamohini.

6.2 For Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:

1. Comply with applicable law.
2. Respond to court orders, legal notices, or government requests.
3. Enforce our Terms and Conditions.
4. Investigate copyright complaints, abuse, fraud, or security incidents.
5. Protect the rights, safety, property, or security of Vishwamohini, users, or the public.

6.3 Business Transfer

If Vishwamohini is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, transfer of ownership, asset sale, or similar event, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Privacy Policy or a policy with similar protections.

6.4 With Your Consent

We may share information with third parties when you direct us to do so or give consent.

Vishwamohini may contain links, embeds, or references to third-party websites or services, including video platforms, audio platforms, analytics tools, payment services, educational resources, or external artist/institution pages.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites or services.

Before using a third-party service, please review its privacy policy and terms.

Vishwamohini may be useful for students and music learners. However, users under 18 should use the Website only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.

Users under 18 should not create an account, publish content, submit personal information, or contact other users without parent or guardian consent.

Parents or guardians may contact us to request review, correction, or deletion of personal information related to a minor.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in a way that is not permitted by applicable law.

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

These safeguards may include:

1. Password hashing.
2. Access controls.
3. Secure hosting practices.
4. Encryption where appropriate.
5. Backups.
6. Security monitoring.
7. Log review.
8. Restricted administrative access.

However, no website, server, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. You use the Website at your own risk.

You are responsible for keeping your account password confidential.

If you believe your account or data has been compromised, contact us immediately at: dhatitdha@gmail.com.

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:

1. Providing the Website.
2. Maintaining your account.
3. Keeping published content available.
4. Resolving disputes.
5. Enforcing our Terms.
6. Preventing abuse.
7. Maintaining backups.
8. Complying with legal obligations.

If you delete your account or request deletion, we will make reasonable efforts to delete or anonymize personal information that is no longer required.

Some information may be retained for legal, security, backup, fraud-prevention, audit, or legitimate operational reasons.

Published content may continue to remain visible if it was shared, embedded, cached, copied, or archived by others before deletion.

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

1. Access personal information we hold about you.
2. Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
3. Update your profile or account details.
4. Delete your account or certain personal information.
5. Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
6. Opt out of newsletters or promotional emails.
7. Raise a grievance or complaint.
8. Request information about how your personal data is processed.

You can exercise these rights by using account settings, unsubscribe links, or contacting us at: dhatitdha@gmail.com.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.

We may refuse or limit a request where permitted by law, such as when retention is required for legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or legitimate operational reasons.

We may send you emails related to:

1. Account registration.
2. Password reset.
3. Email verification.
4. Service updates.
5. Security alerts.
6. Support responses.
7. Copyright or policy notices.
8. Important changes to Terms or Privacy Policy.
9. Optional newsletters or promotional updates.

You can unsubscribe from optional promotional emails. However, you may still receive important service, legal, or security emails.

We may use analytics tools to understand how users interact with Vishwamohini.

Analytics information may include pages visited, device type, browser type, approximate location, session duration, and usage patterns.

We may create aggregated, anonymized, or non-identifying information for research, reporting, improvement, and public statistics. Such information does not identify you personally.

Our hosting providers, service providers, or technical systems may store or process information in India or other countries.

Where personal information is transferred outside India, we will take reasonable steps required by applicable law to protect such information.

If you believe that content on Vishwamohini violates copyright, lacks required attribution, or wrongly uses your work, please contact:

Copyright Contact: dhatitdha@gmail.com

Please include:

1. Your name and contact details.
2. The URL or location of the content.
3. Details of the original work.
4. Proof of ownership or authority, if available.
5. A clear explanation of the issue.

Copyright complaints are handled under our Copyright Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Users are responsible for the content they upload, publish, or share.

Please do not upload content containing personal information of another person unless you have permission or a lawful basis to do so.

If your content includes names, photos, recordings, videos, contact details, student information, teacher details, performer credits, or contributor information, you are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary permission to publish it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date. For important changes, we may provide additional notice through the Website or email.

Your continued use of Vishwamohini after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with the updated Privacy Policy, you should stop using the Website.

For privacy questions, data requests, complaints, copyright concerns, or security issues, contact us at:

Vishwamohini

Website: www.vishwamohini.com

Email: dhatitdha@gmail.com

We will try to respond to genuine requests within a reasonable time, subject to identity verification, applicable law, and operational limitations.