Privacy, in plain words.

What this notice covers

This notice covers the Vihar catalogue at https://vihar.online. It describes the website as currently implemented. Games open on separate addresses and can have their own technical behaviour and privacy information. Questions about this notice can be sent to contact@vihar.online.

When you visit

You can browse games and play Bap Ka Rasta without registering. Opening community games or download pages, publishing listings and posting reviews require sign-in. Vihar ID is an optional account. We do not collect payment details and have not added behavioural analytics, social-media embeds, or third-party font requests. Advertising status is described below.

The website is prepared for hosting on Vercel. Serving and protecting a website involves processing technical request information, such as an IP address, requested URL, browser information, and request time. The hosting provider may process operational and security logs under its own retention rules. See Vercel’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab).

Your Vihar ID and profile

Google Firebase Authentication handles Google or email/password sign-in, account email, verification and password recovery. Passwords are handled by Firebase Authentication and are never written to player profiles or game databases. We use Cloud Firestore to store your player profile, saved games and friend connections.

Your chosen avatar, display name, unique username, bio and membership date are public through your profile link. Future game stats published by connected games are public on that profile too. Your sign-in email, saved games, friend list and pending requests are not public. We do not use your Google profile photograph; you choose one of Vihar’s six included avatars.

Necessary browser storage keeps you signed in on this browser. Sign out on a shared device. The same account can be used by future connected Vihar games; each website manages its own browser sign-in session. Current game apps have not yet been connected to Vihar ID.

Sending a friend request reveals your public profile to the recipient. A connection is created only when the recipient accepts. Either player can remove it, and you can cancel or decline pending requests. There is no private messaging feature.

Community games and reviews

Published game listings and player reviews are public. When a signed-in player opens a community game or download page, Firestore stores one launch receipt containing the account ID and first launch time. The receipt is readable only by that player and the game creator; the creator dashboard shows the total unique players. This does not track live gameplay or completed downloads. You can edit or delete your own reviews and unpublish your listings. Contact support to request deletion of launch records. External game hosts handle their own downloads, accounts and privacy practices.

Advertising, cookies and browser storage

This site supports an AdSense account verification tag and an ads.txt publisher declaration for Google's site review. These do not themselves load advertising scripts, set advertising cookies, or display ads. The advertising loader is currently disabled.

When advertising is enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies enable it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. They may also use web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, browser information, and ad interactions to deliver and measure ads and prevent fraud.

Personalized advertising is subject to consent where required. A consent message on pages with advertising identifies the participating partners and applicable choices. You can opt out of Google’s personalized advertising through Google My Ad Center. For other participating vendors, visit AboutAds choices. These controls do not replace the site’s consent choices or mean that all cookies or ads are disabled.

Learn how Google uses information from partner sites and read Google’s privacy policy. No advertising consent message is needed to browse this catalogue while advertising is disabled.

The catalogue itself does not store search or filter choices; they reset on reload. Your browser may cache files. Hosting security features may use technical cookies. Advertising is never required to browse the catalogue or open a game. Declining optional advertising consent must not prevent access to the guide or the game.

When you contact us

Email links open your own email service. The catalogue has no contact-form database. If you send a message, we receive the address, name, content, and any attachments you choose to include through our email provider.

We use that information to answer you, investigate the issue you describe, and maintain necessary correspondence. We keep it only as long as needed for those purposes and applicable obligations. Please avoid sending passwords, payment information, or other sensitive details. We do not sell your support messages or use them to build advertising profiles.

Opening a game or another site

Selecting Play now opens a separate game website in a new tab. That website receives your request and runs its own code. The catalogue does not load a game engine, game audio, or game models before you launch it.

Bap Ka Rasta currently runs as a browser game with no account or saved-progress system. This may change as games develop, so check their own information for current details. Links to GitHub, Vercel, or other external services are subject to those services’ policies.

Your questions and choices

You can update your avatar, display name and bio, remove friends and saved games, and download your account data in Account settings. Usernames are fixed to keep profile links and identity consistent. We retain account data while your account is active. To request deletion of your account, public profile and associated records, email contact@vihar.online from your account address. We will verify the request and remove the records, subject to any applicable legal retention requirements. Account deletion is currently handled through support.

You can also ask what support correspondence we hold, request a correction or deletion, or raise a privacy concern at that address. Rights and any exceptions depend on applicable law. If you are a parent or guardian concerned about information a child has submitted, contact us. Please do not put sensitive personal details in a public profile.

Updates to this notice

We will update this page when how the catalogue handles information changes, and revise the date above. You can always find it in the footer. For help with a game, visit Help & support.