Credits, terms and privacy

Credits, terms and privacy

Who made what you see and hear here, the few rules of the temple, and what we do (and never do) with your information.

An independent, non profit project

Online Hindu Temple is a free, personal, non profit project made by Chetas Mehta. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or speaking for any temple, temple trust, devaswom, math, sampradaya or organisation. Names of real places and traditions (such as Siddhivinayak, Guruvayur, Kalighat, Varanasi, Hampi or ISKCON) are used only to describe the traditions that inspired each virtual temple. The temples, murtis, people and objects here are original 3D art made for this site; the murtis are artistic representations, not consecrated images.

Ritual details, stories and translations are simplified and are offered with respect, not as religious authority. Customs differ between regions and families; please follow your own tradition and a priest’s guidance where you have it.

Credits

The temple architecture, murtis, avatars, textures, aarti melody, writing and code are original work for this site, © 2026 Chetas Mehta. Scripture verses quoted are from ancient public domain texts; their English meanings were written for this site.

Recordings are used under open licences (Creative Commons CC0, CC BY, or public domain). Files were converted for the web; some are excerpts, and some were levelled or looped. Licences are linked beside each one.

Music and meditation

Temple sounds

Fonts and software

Fonts: Cormorant Garamond (the Cormorant Project Authors), Mukta (Girish Dalvi, Ek Type) and Noto Sans Devanagari, Gujarati and Tamil (the Noto Project Authors), under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from this site with their licences. The site is built with open source software including React, three.js, React Three Fiber, drei, zustand and zod; their licences and notices are listed in licenses.txt.

Links to bhajans and aartis open YouTube Music, where they are played by their publishers; nothing from YouTube is copied or hosted here, and listing a recording does not mean its artist or publisher endorses this site.

Terms of use

  • The temple is free to visit, for personal and devotional use.
  • Please be respectful to the Divine and to every devotee. Abusive or offensive names are refused, and anyone who disturbs others may be removed from a hall.
  • The site is offered as it is, without guarantees; we may change or pause it at any time.
  • Links to other websites are provided for convenience; we are not responsible for their content.
  • Please do not copy the site’s art, code or writing for other uses without asking.

Privacy

  • No account, no ads, no tracking cookies, and nothing is ever sold or shared for marketing.
  • The name and appearance you choose are shown to others in your hall while you are there, and are not stored by the server. Your choice of name, look and settings, and the secrets you have found, are kept only in your own browser.
  • To count visits we keep anonymous daily totals (visitors, the temples visited, rituals done and the flags people chose to show). A visitor is recognised within a day by a hash of a random token with a secret that changes daily and is never stored, so no one can be followed from day to day. No addresses or locations are recorded.
  • Cloudflare hosts the site and provides privacy friendly, cookieless page view statistics. Everything else, fonts included, is served from this site itself; no other service receives your visit.
  • The site is meant for everyone, and children should visit with a parent; we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone.

Concerns, corrections and copyright

If you believe anything here uses your work without permission, misrepresents a tradition, or should be corrected, please write to the creator on LinkedIn or X. We will look into it promptly and remove or correct anything in question.

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