Privacy
Privacy
This site keeps no devotee accounts, does no tracking, and shows no advertising; browsing it sets no cookies. The only thing you give the temple is a ceremony or lamp registration you fill in and send yourself; this page says plainly where it goes, how long it stays, and how to reach it.
Ceremony Registration: Where It Goes
What you enter on the registration page — names, email, phone, the names on the tablets, your note, and the offering intent — together with the registration number and time of submission, is kept in the temple's registration ledger (a database hosted at Neon, which the office uses to place tablets and to reconcile offerings and receipts), sent by email to the office's inbox (office@wakentemple.org), and confirmed by one email to your own mailbox. The information serves only this ceremony: placing the tablets, dedicating the merit, reaching you, and mailing the receipt. It is not used for marketing and is not sold or lent, and it is disclosed to no third party beyond the processors named in the next section; the site keeps no copy outside the ledger. A lamp registration follows the same path: the lamp kind and its service or session, the name on the lamp, the number of weeks, and the offering intent, together with its registration number, enter the same ledger and leave on the same schedule.
Who Handles It
The site is hosted on Vercel; as any web host does, Vercel keeps technical request data (time, status, network address) briefly in its platform logs and firewall, for a period set by the Vercel plan and measured in days, never what you entered. The ledger lives at Neon; to resist abuse it also holds the site's own rate counters, keyed by a one-way hash of the network address or email under a key held by the temple — never the plain value — and cleared within two days at most. Email is sent through a mail service engaged by the temple. These three act only as the temple's processors and may not use the data otherwise. Online offerings are collected on Clover's secure payment page; no card number passes through this site or reaches the temple. Please never write a card number in any field, email, or text message — a field that looks like it carries one is refused outright, and should one slip through, the temple deletes it on discovery.
Retention and Deletion
A registration is kept for one year from the day of its ceremony — for reissuing receipts and checking dedications. On the night that year ends, the site's scheduled sweep deletes the registration and its office records from the ledger and leaves a deletion receipt holding only registration numbers; by that receipt the office clears the matching mail from the office inbox, number by number. Every change the office makes to a registration is recorded with who made it and the values before and after, and is deleted together with the registration. You may write to contact@wakentemple.org at any time to see, correct, or delete your own registration (please include the registration number or your name); the temple verifies, completes the request, and replies within thirty days, and a deletion clears the ledger, the office records and the mail alike. Where the payment stands settled at deletion — paid, refunded, or waived by the temple — one thing remains, whether the year ran out or you asked: the payment record alone, holding the registration number, the ceremony, the amount, the currency, the payment reference, the status and the dates, never a name, a contact, a tablet, or a note. It stays in the temple's financial ledger as tax recordkeeping requires; the personal data is cleared, the accounts stay whole.
The Office Door
The site has an office used only by temple staff. Staff sign in through a one-time link mailed to the temple's own mailbox; once signed in, the browser holds one sign-in cookie valid for fourteen days (it identifies that session and tracks nothing). This cookie appears only for staff who sign in; ordinary visitors and registrants receive no cookie at all.
Everything Else
The rooms of practice, the Dharma Hall, and the Scripture Pavilion record, store, and transmit nothing. Links to the canon at waken.org leave this site; following them is your own passage. The email link on the correspondence page only opens your own mail program; no letter passes through this site.