Sri Ankalamma Temple
Privacy & disclaimer
What this site collects
Nothing. This website has no accounts, no sign-in, no forms, no payments and no analytics or advertising trackers. It does not build a profile of you, it sets no cookies, and it keeps no database.
Lighting a deepam
When you light a deepam, nothing is sent to the site. Your browser keeps a small marker on your own device saying that today’s lamp is lit, so the lamp is still burning when you come back that day. No one else can see it, and the site does not count lamps.
What is kept on your own device
- The lamp marker described above.
- A marker, for the length of one visit, that the sanctum doors have already opened, so they open quickly the second time.
- Offline copies. After your first visit your browser keeps copies of the pages and temple photographs, so the site still opens with a weak or missing connection.
Clearing your browser’s site data removes all three.
Other services the site touches
- Hosting. The site is served by Vercel, which keeps short-lived server logs, including IP addresses, to run and protect the service. This is the hosting provider’s processing, not the temple’s.
- Fonts. Typefaces are requested from Google Fonts, so loading a page tells Google your IP address and browser. No font request carries a cookie.
- Maps. The map and directions links open Google Maps in a new tab. Anything you do there is covered by Google’s privacy policy, not this one.
How to read the history on this site
The temple separates documented evidence, village oral history and traditional belief, and labels which is which. Devotional accounts are presented as living belief, not as verified historical fact. Dates, festival details and visitor information are published only once temple custodians have confirmed them. Where a section says material is still being verified, that is literally true — it has not been established yet.
Accuracy and corrections
If anything here is wrong, incomplete, or misattributed, please tell the temple directly. This site has no contact address of its own yet.
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