Privacy Policy

Effective 4 October 2026

Nepali Kabita is a place to read and share Nepali poetry, at nepalikabita.com and in the Nepali Kabita apps for Android and iOS (together, “the service”). This policy explains what information the service collects, why, and the choices you have. We collect as little as we can.

In short: you can read poems without an account. If you create one, we keep your name, email and the poems you submit, so we can review and publish them. To keep the service free, the website and apps show ads from Google, which may use cookies or your device's advertising ID (see Advertising). We never sell your data or share your account details with advertisers.

Information we collect

Reading poems. No account is needed. Your saved poems, language and text-size preferences are stored only on your device (in your browser or in the app), not on our servers.

Your account. When you register, we store your name, email address and a secure one-way hash of your password (never the password itself).

Sign in with Google. If you choose “Continue with Google”, Google shares your name, email address and a Google account identifier with us. We use them only to create your account or sign you in. We don't receive your Google password, contacts or any other Google data, and we don't post anything to your Google account.

Poems you submit. We store the title, poem text, poet name and category you submit, along with its review status and any note from our editors. If a poem is approved, its title, text and poet name are published publicly. Your account name and email address are never shown publicly.

Sessions. When you sign in we create a login session. Your device keeps a session token and our server keeps only a hashed copy, with the time it was created and last used.

Technical data. Our server records basic request logs (time, page requested, result and IP address) to keep the service running, prevent abuse and enforce rate limits.

How we use it

to provide the service: sign you in, show your submissions and publish approved poems;
to review submitted poems, and to tell you their status through the service;
to protect the service from spam, abuse and attacks;
to answer you if you contact us.

We do not give your account details (name, email, password, poems) to advertisers, and we do not sell or rent them to anyone.

Advertising

The website shows ads through Google AdSense, and the Android and iOS apps through Google AdMob. Ads appear on the poem list and on poem pages, never on login, sign-up or submission pages.

What Google collects: to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies on the website, and the device's advertising ID in the apps, together with information such as your IP address, device and browser type, and the pages or screens you view. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Personalised ads: Google may show ads based on your interests, from your visits to this and other sites and apps. You can turn personalised ads off at My Ad Center; on Android you can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Settings → Privacy → Ads).
iPhone and iPad: the iOS app does not ask for permission to track you across other companies' apps, so its ads are not personalised using your activity elsewhere.
Consent (EEA, UK and Switzerland): if you're in these regions, we ask for your consent through Google's consent message before personalised ads or ad cookies are used. You can change your choice at any time: on the website through the privacy settings link that appears on the page, and in the app under Profile → Ad privacy settings.
We don't choose individual ads and aren't responsible for their content. If you see an inappropriate ad, let us know.

Services we rely on

Google: for “Continue with Google” sign-in, for the web fonts on the website, and for ads (AdSense on the website, AdMob in the apps). See Google's Privacy Policy.
Cloudflare: our network provider, which securely delivers the website and the app's data, and may provide basic, cookie-free visitor statistics. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.

Our server and database are run by us; your account data is not stored with any other third party. Google's ad services handle the advertising data described above under their own privacy policy.

How long we keep it

Account and submissions: until you delete your account (or ask us to).
Login sessions: until you log out, or after 90 days without use.
Backups: database backups are kept for up to 14 days, then deleted.
Request logs: kept for a short period for security and troubleshooting.

Your choices and rights

Delete your account yourself, any time: in the app under Profile → Delete account, or on the website at nepalikabita.com/#/delete-account (details). This immediately removes your account details and unpublished submissions; poems that were already published stay up under the poet name you gave, unless you ask us to remove them too.
Access or correct your information, or delete your account if you can't log in: email us at the address below. We'll respond within 30 days.
Google sign-in: you can remove Nepali Kabita's access at any time in your Google Account settings.
On your device: logging out removes your session token; clearing the website's data or uninstalling the app removes your saved poems and preferences.
Ads: see Advertising for turning off personalised ads and changing your consent.

Security

All connections use HTTPS. Passwords are stored only as salted, slow one-way hashes, and session tokens are stored only as hashes. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

Children

The service, including its ads, is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. Children under 13 can read poems without an account. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted on the website.

Contact

Questions or requests about your privacy: [email protected]

छोटकरीमा (नेपाली)

कविता पढ्न खाता आवश्यक छैन। खाता बनाउँदा हामी तपाईंको नाम, इमेल र तपाईंले पठाएका कविता राख्छौं, ताकि ती समीक्षा गरी प्रकाशित गर्न सकियोस्। Google बाट लगइन गर्दा Google ले तपाईंको नाम र इमेल मात्र दिन्छ। सेवा निःशुल्क राख्न वेबसाइट र एपमा Google का विज्ञापन देखिन्छन्; Google ले कुकी वा फोनको विज्ञापन ID प्रयोग गर्न सक्छ। व्यक्तिगत विज्ञापन My Ad Center मा बन्द गर्न सकिन्छ। हामी तपाईंको जानकारी बेच्दैनौं। खाता मेटाउन वा कुनै प्रश्न भए माथिको इमेलमा सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस्।