Privacy
What stays on your phone, and what the site counts.
The short version
No account, no sign-up, no cookies, no advertising, no analytics, and nothing that says who you are. Suṣumṇā does not know your name or your email, and it never asks for either.
On your phone
The app remembers a few small things in your browser's own storage, so that it opens the way you left it:
- the steps of the Soul's Journey you have breathed, so that the panels they unlock stay unlocked;
- whether the sound is on;
- the day the dove of peace last came to this phone, so that it comes once a day;
- the day the sparks of joy last came to this phone, so that they come once a day;
- in the Seven Strings, the lesson of Days 5 to 7, the steps you have finished and the one you are on;
- in the Hero's Journey and the Group Pilgrimage, where you moved the breath of life circle, and which of the twenty-one practices of Universal Energies you walked last, so that the next one chosen for you is a different one.
None of this leaves your phone. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes all of it.
What the site counts
Nothing is counted, and nobody has a count of their own. The walks of today's path are not counted, and the sparks of joy are not counted any more (below). Nothing about your practice is sent: Today's Gift, the Soul's Journey, the Hero's Journey and the Group Pilgrimage count nothing and send nothing.
Today's Gift, the door on the main screen, sends nothing when you walk its path: opening the door shows a short welcome first, and then the day begins, and nobody is counted. On a phone, the small calendar at one end of the door shows a short message, “Make time for a loved one, your day is always open for them.”, with a calendar in it to touch if you wish; it opens your own calendar and leaves the rest to you: an iPhone or iPad opens its Calendar, and any other phone a new event in Google Calendar (on Android, in its own app); nothing is written in for you, and your calendar and your contacts are never read. The small message at the other end shows its own words first, “Share A Moment of Joy With A Friend”, with a message in them to touch if you wish; it opens your phone's own way of sharing (or, where it has none, your messages), with the words “Let's have some fun today.” written in and nothing else, no link, for you to send to a friend, by whichever app you choose, or not. Nothing passes through this site.
The sparks of joy rest at 121. They began at 108, the beads of a mala, for the sparks of joy of the making of Suṣumṇā, the thank-you notes and gifts its makers sent one another, and the hearts touched in the app brought them to 121, the gods and goddesses all playing for the same team. They are not counted any more, and the number is not shown. The heart on the main screen, between the Gift Shop and the love letter, still gives its sparks when you touch it, and sends nothing.
The sparks' 121 is kept in a small database (Upstash, connected to this site through Vercel). The walks were counted there until 16 October 2026; the scrambled numbers kept for that are forgotten within forty days of each walk, and the totals are never shown.
On a phone, that invitation on the door shares the day. In the Gift Shop, Share The Experience opens a card with Suṣumṇā's address: Send opens your phone's own way of sharing it, or copies it for you to paste where you wish. Nothing passes through this site, and nothing about you is kept.
The Gift Shop, beside the swans on the main screen, shows the books that are coming soon, a first look inside three of them, and three addresses to write to Hariom. Each address appears only when you touch Show the address. If you write, your own mail app sends the message, and nothing passes through this site. The Gift Shop sells nothing.
The love letter beside the heart, on the main screen, opens a note from all of us, with one simple ask in it. It sends nothing.
The radio beside Play, on the main screen, plays the songs of this site one after another, in an order of its own. So that no song comes again before every one has played, that order is kept in this tab while it is open, and forgotten when it closes. It sends nothing.
The flower shop beside the heart, on the main screen, has a shelf of buds that open when you touch them, each with a soft bell when the sound is on. It keeps nothing and sends nothing. Beneath them, where the Art School begins, From Seed to Fruit draws one circle on each breath, from the Seed of Life to the Fruit of Life. It keeps nothing, so each visit begins with a point of light, and sends nothing.
Loving Kindness, in the Prayer Hall, joins the Fruit of Life into Metatron’s Cube with twelve wishes, one on each breath, and the five Platonic solids carry them out into the world. It keeps nothing, so each visit begins with the Fruit of Life, and sends nothing.
Typefaces and code
Everything is served from this site: the typefaces, the app, the Hero's Journey with the three.js library it draws with, the pages of Agentic Gods, the songs (Thank You for Your Thank You, which welcomes you into Today's Gift after your first touch there, and the one you walk Today's Gift with, each only with the sound on; and The Path of Joy, which the swans dance to on the main screen whenever you touch Play beside them, which turns the sound on if it was off; and the peacocks' own, The Peacocks’ Rain Dance, which the peacocks and the swans dance to when you touch the heart, with the sound on; and the Ode To Joy, which the dove sings when you touch it as it rests on the arch; each of these turning the sound on if it was off, and Play beside the swans stopping whichever is playing; on the main screen, none of the songs begins on its own; and all of these, with Dance Of Joy and The Path of Joy on the flute, one after another on the radio beside Play when you touch it, which turns the sound on if it was off), the Gift Shop's covers and pages, the Seven Strings, the lesson of Days 5 and 6, and Ode To Joy Music Hall, its three instruments each on a card of its own, the Fingertip Dance first, the hand that dances with the flute when you touch Begin, then Dance Of Joy, which its drums dance to when you touch play, and the Ode to Joy, which plays only when you choose it, and the seven strings with their drone, flute, Listen and Learn it; their veena, drums and bells sounding in your browser, nothing kept of which card you were on, and nothing of your playing sent anywhere. Learn it keeps your place in the tune only while the page is open. So is From Seed to Fruit, its drawing made in your browser, with the soft note of each circle as it closes when the sound is on; and so is Loving Kindness, in the Prayer Hall, with the soft note of each circle as its light goes out, when the sound is on. So is the Prayer Hall, with its pictures and the hum it plays while you gaze, with its sound on; the two Names it shows each day and the order of its Universal centres are the same for everyone that day, worked out in your browser, and nothing of what you choose there is kept or sent. The Hero's Journey's walks make their sounds in your browser too, a note for each feeling you meet and love notes for each name, with the walk's sound on. While one of the songs plays, your phone may show its name on its lock screen, as it does for any music; nothing about it is sent anywhere. Nothing is fetched from Google, or from anyone else.
Offline
The app keeps a copy of itself on your phone, so that it opens without a network.