Privacy

What Ghatika keeps, why, where it is kept, and how to delete it.

Last updated 21 October 2026. Applies to the web app at ghatika.dixith.com and to the Ghatika app for Android.

Who runs Ghatika

Ghatika is made and run by Dixith Labs, India, as part of dixith.com. For any question about your data, write through the contact page.

Without an account

You can use every part of Ghatika without signing in. Your rounds, intentions, notes, ratings, tasks, subjects and settings are then kept only on your device. Nothing of them is sent to us.

In a browser they are kept in that browser's storage for ghatika.dixith.com; clearing the browser's data for the site removes them. In the Android app they are kept in the app's own storage on the phone; clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it removes them.

So keep a copy: Settings, Your data, Save a copy saves one file with your rounds, tasks, subjects and settings, which you can keep in Drive or email to yourself; Bring back from a copy, on another phone, puts them back with no account. The file holds what you entered and nothing of your sign-in.

With an account

Signing in is optional. When you sign in, this is what our server keeps:

A sign-in code is kept in scrambled form for 15 minutes, until it is used or expires. To stop anyone flooding a mailbox with codes, the server counts requests for an hour against scrambled values that cannot be turned back into an email or network address.

One sign-in for the Dixith apps

Anudina, Abhyasa, Achala, Ayojana, Soundarya Lahari, Bhagavad Gita and Ghatika share one sign-in, your Dixith account: your email address and, if you choose to set one, a password. The password is kept only as a one-way hash, which cannot be turned back into the password. An emailed six-figure code always works too.

When you sign in, our server gives your browser a small cookie named dixith_account, for dixith.com and the apps' addresses under it. It holds a random key, of which our server keeps only a scrambled form. Page scripts cannot read it, and it is used for one thing only: so that another Dixith app on the same device can offer "Continue as" and sign you in with one tap, and so that "Sign out of all Dixith apps on this device" reaches all of them. It is not used for advertising or tracking. What each app keeps stays with that app: your rounds are not shown in the other apps.

You may also sign in with Continue with Google (from version 1.0.3, 18 October 2026). Google then sends our server a signed note with the email address, name and picture of the Google account you choose, and its Google account number. Only the email address is kept; nothing else from Google is kept: not your name or picture, and never your Google password, which we never see. In a browser, the sign-in screen shows Google's own button, loaded from Google, so Google learns that the screen was opened, whether or not you use it. Inside the Ghatika app for Android, the choice of Google account is Android's own (Google Play services on the phone). It signs you in to the same Dixith account as an emailed code to that address. What the Dixith account itself keeps, for every app, is set out on one page: dixith.com/labs/privacy.

The Android app during a round

The Android app rings the bells itself, with the app closed and the screen locked, so while a round or a break runs it keeps on the phone its times, its bells, your sound choices and the words of its notification. The notification shows the time left and what the round is for, if you wrote it; on a locked screen the phone shows it as its own settings say. Nothing of this leaves the phone. If you choose Do Not Disturb during a round, the app asks for permission to change Do Not Disturb, turns it on as each round begins, and puts it back as it was when the round ends. Setting the brightness changes only Ghatika's own window, and the phone's own setting comes back when you leave it. The home-screen widget and the Quick Settings tile show only whether a round runs and its time left.

What Ghatika does not collect

• No location, contacts, photos, microphone or phone identifiers. Every sound is made on your device; nothing is recorded.
• No advertising, and no advertising code.
• Google Analytics is used for anonymous usage statistics. It counts which screens are opened, roughly where from and on what kind of device, and it sets two cookies so it can tell a returning visitor from a new one. It never receives your rounds, intentions, notes, tasks or email address. You can turn it off on a device in Settings, Your data, Anonymous usage statistics; it then sends nothing from that device.
• No IP address is written down by Ghatika. (Like any website, our hosting company's web server keeps standard access logs for a short time for security and fault-finding.)

Where it is kept, and who can see it

Your account and records are kept in a database on dixith.com's server, hosted by Hostinger. Everything travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Sign-in codes are sent by email through dixith.com's email provider.

Your data is never sold, rented or shared with anyone for their own use. The only people who can see it are you and the person who runs Ghatika, who uses an administrator view to keep the service working, for example to see how many people use it. That view shows when and how long each person focused, the lengths they chose and how their rounds ended; it never shows what a round was for, notes, ratings, task names or subject names. The database itself holds your words as you wrote them, and only the person who runs Ghatika can reach it.

How long it is kept

For as long as you have an account. A device that is not used for a year is signed out automatically. Deleting your account removes everything at once, as below.

Deleting your account and data

In the app: open Settings, Account and choose Delete my Ghatika data, then confirm. Every round, task, subject and Ghatika sign-in is removed from the server at once, and from that device. Your Dixith account and the other Dixith apps are not touched. This cannot be undone, so save a copy first if you may want one.

Everything at once: in the same place, Delete my whole Dixith account removes your email address, your password, and everything the Dixith apps keep for you. You type your email address to confirm.

Without the app: use the contact page, choose "Delete my account", and give the email address you signed in with. Say whether you mean only Ghatika's data or your whole Dixith account. We reply to that address to confirm, then delete within 7 days and tell you when it is done.

Not a medical service

Ghatika is a timer and a record of your work. It makes no claim about health or performance; the ratings are your own impressions, kept for you.

Children

Ghatika is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.

When you write to us

The contact page sends your name (if you give one), your email address and your message to us once, by email, so we can reply. They are not stored on the website. To keep out automated spam, the page solves a small puzzle in your browser and the server counts messages per hour against a scrambled form of the network address; no outside service is involved.

Inside the Ghatika app for Android, the contact page also offers a box, not ticked, to add the list of recent errors on that phone: what went wrong in the app, where and when, with web addresses, email addresses and long numbers taken out, and nothing about you, your rounds or your notes. It is kept only on the phone (the last 50, the oldest dropped first, never in a backup) and sent only if you tick the box, with your message.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top will change.

18 October 2026: Continue with Google, and the seven Dixith apps that share the sign-in, named.