nirvaana

Privacy

Last updated 23 September 2026

This is a pre-launch draft. It is an honest description of what the software does today, written by the person building it. It is not legal advice and it has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Before Nirvaana opens to the public, an attorney-reviewed policy will replace this page.

Who is behind this

Nirvaana is a small, early product built and run by Benicio Padilla. There is no company privacy department to route you through; questions come to beniciopadilla8@gmail.com and are answered by a person.

What we collect

We do not ask for, and you should not send, payment card numbers, government identifiers or anyone else’s sensitive records.

Who else processes it

Running the service means handing parts of it to a few companies. These are all of them:

What stays private to you

This is the promise the rest of the product is built around. Your principles, your private facts and your conversations are yours. They are never shown to another person, never proposed to a group, never repeated to another user.

A world you share with other people is separate from your private one, and nothing crosses from private into shared without you saying yes to that specific thing first. The agent is not permitted to publish on your behalf, and the database enforces the same boundary underneath, so a mistake in one layer does not open the other.

What we do not do

Cookies

Few, and all of them first-party. The sign-in system sets a session cookie, which is what keeps you signed in — it may arrive split across more than one cookie, because it is larger than a cookie is allowed to be. A second cookie holds whether you chose the light or the dark theme, so the page is already correct before it paints. One cookie remembers whether you have seen the welcome page and which version, so the front door sends you straight to sign-in after the first time, until a month passes or the page changes. It holds a version number and a day and no identifier, so everyone who saw the same version on the same day carries the same value. Signed in, the version and when you saw it are kept on your profile, so another browser does not show you the page again. While a sign-in is in flight, a short-lived cookie records which provider you picked, so a failure can be reported as “Google failed” rather than nothing at all; it expires within the hour. Analytics sets one of its own on signed-in pages, to tell one visit from the next.

No advertising cookies, no cross-site trackers, and nothing that follows you off this site.

Seeing, exporting and deleting your data

Write to beniciopadilla8@gmail.com from the address on your account and ask for a copy of what is stored about you, a correction, or deletion. We aim to answer within thirty days.

Deletion means removing your sign-in record — your email address and the identity your provider handed us — and everything hanging from it: your profile, your conversations, your private facts, and anything sent to your agent’s door. We take your address off the invite list at the same time, so no part of it sits waiting for you to come back.

Some things outlast that, and we would rather say so now than surprise you later. What you deliberately put into a world you share — a fact you promoted, a rule you wrote, a lesson the world recorded — stays with that world, because it belongs to it now; ask before you go and we will tell you which those are. And the ledgers of what was spent and what the agent did keep their rows, because they are built so that nothing can quietly rewrite them. As your account goes, the column that pointed at you is set to nothing: the rows are cut loose from you, and what remains is amounts, timestamps and hashes — never the text of anything you wrote, in those or in the counters we use to slow down abuse.

Self-service export and deletion are not built yet. Until they are, the email above is the way, and it is a real one.

Where it is held

Data is stored and processed in the United States by the providers named above. If you are writing from elsewhere, your information travels there.

Changes

When this changes, the date at the top changes. The attorney-reviewed version will replace this one before Nirvaana is open to the public, and anyone with an account will be told when that happens.

Contact

beniciopadilla8@gmail.com. Say what you need plainly; you will get a plain answer.