Your privacy on YoMind

• Your Gift Finder choices (recipient type, occasion, budget, interests, style), so we can improve the tool.
• Which suggestions were shown and which retailer links were clicked.
• A coarse device type (mobile, tablet or desktop).
• Shortlists you choose to save, so the share link works.
• Messages you send through the contact form, with the name and email you give us.

• Your name, email, phone number or address from the Gift Finder, guides or shared lists. Those tools don't ask for them. The contact form is the only place that asks for a name and email.
• Your IP address or full browser details.
• The free-text “anything else?” box. We read it to adjust suggestions, keep only the general preference we understood (for example “no gadgets”), and discard the text.

When you write to us, we store your name, your email address, the topic you chose and your message, so we can read it and reply to you. We use them for nothing else: no newsletter, no marketing, and we don't pass them on to anyone.

When a message arrives we get a short notice by email or Telegram that says only its topic, never your name, email address or message. Messages are deleted 180 days after they arrive.

To slow down spam, the form counts how many messages come from the same connection in a short time. It does this with a scrambled (hashed) form of your address, held only in the server's memory and never saved with your message.

If you choose “Allow”, we keep a random identifier in your browser to count returning visitors, and load Google Analytics. If you decline, neither happens and the tools work the same. Change your choice any time with “Privacy choices” in the footer.

Guides and some information pages can show Google ads (AdSense), marked “Advertisement”. The Gift Finder, product lists and your shortlists never show ads. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google may use cookies or similar identifiers in your browser.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on those visits. You can opt out of personalised advertising in My Ad Center (below), or opt out of some other vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.

Unless you choose “Allow” in “Privacy choices”, we ask Google for non-personalised ads only. Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services and change your Google ad settings at My Ad Center.

The photos that set the mood around the site come from Pexels and are credited to their photographers. They don't show the products we suggest. We serve them from our own server, so viewing them doesn't connect you to Pexels.

Product details and product images come from Amazon.in and Flipkart. We don't keep copies of the images: they load directly from Amazon.in's and Flipkart's own image servers, so when you see one, your browser connects to those servers, which can see your IP address the way any website can.

Gift Finder usage records

Deleted after about 13 months

Shared shortlists

Expire after 6 months

Contact form messages

Deleted 180 days after they arrive

Encrypted database backups

Kept for up to 90 days, so deleted records can remain in a backup for that long

When you click a retailer link, you leave YoMind. The retailer's own privacy policy applies there.