Privacy and terms

DharmaBase has no accounts, no advertising and no analytics. It sets no cookies of its own. The only things it collects are the messages people choose to send through its two forms.

Third parties

A few services are involved in showing you a page, and each of them receives your IP address and browser details when it does:

• Vercel hosts the site and keeps standard request logs.
• Google Fonts serves the typefaces.
• YouTube serves video thumbnails, and plays videos through its privacy-enhanced (youtube-nocookie.com) player. YouTube may set cookies once you press play.
• Vimeo plays any Vimeo-hosted talks, under its own privacy policy.
• OpenFreeMap serves the map pieces, place names and fonts for the maps on place pages and the places list, which load when a map scrolls into view. It sets no cookies and, by its own privacy policy, does not keep IP addresses in its access logs. The map data comes from OpenStreetMap.

Series progress

When you play a talk, your browser remembers that you started it, so a series page can show which parts you have played and where to continue. This list stays in your browser's local storage on your device. It is never sent to us or anyone else, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.

Search

Search runs in your browser. The first time you search, the page fetches a file listing the site's contents from Vercel; what you type is never sent anywhere.

Forms and email

The contact and suggest-a-place forms do not save anything on this site. Each message is emailed to the editors through SendGrid, which delivers it and keeps its own delivery records. We use your message and address only to reply, and we do not add you to any list. If you ask to be credited for a correction or photo, we print the name you gave.

Content licence

Text written for DharmaBase is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Photographs, videos and quoted material belong to their owners and carry their own licences, credited where they appear.

No guidance or warranty

Entries are researched with care but may contain errors. Nothing here is personal spiritual, medical or psychological advice. Please tell us about mistakes through the contact form.

Last updated 18 October 2026.