Privacy Notice

Vipin Kaushik decides how your information is handled. In the language of Indian data-protection law, that makes him the Data Fiduciary — the person responsible for your information, and answerable for how it’s used.

The terms of the consultation itself — booking, fees, cancellation — are in the Terms of Service.

Vipin Kaushik keeps no card, UPI, or bank account details. Payment is arranged directly with you and is not stored here.

The written account is sent by whichever channel you choose — email or WhatsApp.If you choose WhatsApp, it passes through Meta’s systems; if you choose email, through our email provider. It is your reading, so the choice is yours.

Jyotish is rarely about one person alone.A mother brings her son’s chart. Two families bring two charts for a match. A parent asks about a child. The birth details you give for another person are that person’s information, not yours — and this section is how they are treated.

A child. Where a consultation concerns a child — a naming, a birth timing, a reading for a son or daughter — the details you provide are the child’spersonal information. You may provide them only if you are the child’s parent or lawful guardian, and you will be asked to confirm this when you book. That confirmation is recorded.

A child’s details are used for that consultation and nothing else. Never for advertising, never to build a profile, never shared. To have them erased, write to grievances@vipinkaushik.com.

Another adult — including a prospective match. Where a consultation concerns another adult, please provide their birth details only where that person knows, and does not object.

Whatever you provide:

• is used only for the matter you brought it for — never kept as a profile, never reused in a later consultation, never shared;
• is held and erased on the same terms as your own (§6);
• belongs to them — they have the same rights over it that you have over yours (§7), including the right to ask what is held and to have it erased.

In a marriage matching, the written account speaks to the match — not to the person.What you receive is Vipin’s reading of how two charts sit together. It is not a report on the other person, and it is not written to be shown to anyone as though it were.

Your consultation is between you and Vipin. His notes are kept encrypted, and they are never shared, sold, or published. Nothing about your reading appears anywhere else.

Sessions are held on Google Meet. Vipin does not record them, and no automatic transcription or AI note-taking is used — nothing about the conversation is transcribed.

For the practice to run, a small number of services handle information on his behalf. They act only on instruction, and may not use your information for their own purposes:

• Vercel — serves the website and receives your booking request. Runs in Mumbai.
• MongoDB — where your details are stored, encrypted, in India.
• astroacharya — Vipin’s own chart-calculation service, which casts your chart from your birth details. It runs in India.
• Google Places — when you type your birth city into the booking form, the city name is looked up through Google’s places service so the location is accurate.
• Upstash — a security service that briefly sees your device’s network address to keep the city search from being misused. It holds no birth details and no consultation content.
• Cloudflare Turnstile — an invisible bot-detection check that runs only on the booking form. Cloudflare receives your network address and some browser characteristics so it can decide whether to challenge a suspected bot. Nothing you typed into the form is sent. The check is silent for real visitors; bots are blocked from submitting.
• WhatsApp (Meta) — how appointments are arranged, and how your written account reaches you if you choose WhatsApp. Messages on WhatsApp pass through Meta’s systems, not ours, and are subject to WhatsApp’s own terms. Please send your birth details through the booking form rather than over chat.
• Google Meet — where the consultation is held. Not recorded, not transcribed.
• Our email provider — for grievances@ and legal@, and for your written account if you choose email.
• Google Analytics and Hotjar — to understand how the site is used. These do not run unless you agree to them, and the details you type into the booking form are hidden from them.

Your birth details, your chart, and your consultation notes stay in India. The website, the database, and the service that casts your chart all run in Indian data centres.

Some of the surrounding services process limited information outside India — the platform your consultation is held on, WhatsApp (if you use it), our email provider, and analytics (if you allow them). Indian law permits this. It applies to messages, email and site usage — not to your chart or your consultation notes.

• Birth details and consultation notes — 3 years after your last consultation, so that if you return, the reading has continuity. Then erased.
• The written account we send you — our copy follows the same 3-year period. The copy you receive is yours, to keep or delete as you wish.
• Birth details of another person, provided by you — the same periods, on the same terms.
• A booking request that never became a session — erased after 90 days.
• WhatsApp messages — Meta keeps its own copies under its own terms. That part is outside our control, and we tell you so plainly.
• Anything, on request — erased whenever you ask.

You may ask, at any time, to:

• see what information is held about you
• correct anything that is wrong
• erase your information
• withdraw your consent — as easy as giving it was: one message, and it is done
• stop article notifications, without affecting anything else
• nominate someone to exercise these rights for you if you are unable to

These rights belong to anyone whose details are held here — including a person whose chart was brought by someone else.

Write to grievances@vipinkaushik.com. Requests are acknowledged within 48 hours.

So that no one can see or erase someone else’s information, we first confirm the request comes from you — usually through the phone number or email on your booking. We ask only what is needed to be sure it is you.

Withdrawing consent does not undo a consultation that has already happened, but it stops any further use of your information.

The site uses cookies for analytics — to understand which pages are read, and how people arrive.

These are off until you say yes. You can decline, and the site works exactly the same. Essential cookies needed to make the site function are always on; they carry no personal information.

Cookies set:

• _ga, _gid— Google Analytics. Distinguish visitors and sessions.
• _hjSession*, _hjSessionUser*— Hotjar. Session recording and heatmaps.
• cf_clearance, __cf_bm— Cloudflare. Set by the Turnstile bot check on the booking form. Expire when the browser closes (__cf_bm) and after 30 minutes (cf_clearance).

Browser local storage:

• theme — your light/dark preference.
• lang — your language preference.

Your details are stored encrypted. Access is limited to Vipin, through a private administrative area protected by authentication, and records of access are kept.

If something goes wrong and your information is exposed, you will be told — and the Data Protection Board of India is informed within 72 hours, as the law requires.

If you are unhappy with how your information has been handled, write to our Grievance Officer:

Complaints are acknowledged within 48 hours and resolved within 30 days. If you are still not satisfied, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

This notice may change. Material changes will be noted on the site; the effective date and version above are authoritative.