Legal

Privacy

Who runs Pagoda

Pagoda is run by its owner, who decides how the data below is used (the data controller). This service has no contact channel, so everything you may want to do with your data you can do yourself in the app, as described under “Your rights”.

What we process

The display name and avatar you choose, the seat or place in the queue you take, your position while you walk the grounds, and your gestures (bow, greet, bead, bell). Your network address is used only in memory to count open connections. Your browser’s time zone may be sent to pick a coarse weather area; it is not logged or stored. We never ask for your real name, email, phone number or precise location, and there are no accounts.

Why, and on what basis

To run the temple: show you to other visitors under the name you chose, keep your seat and place in the queue, and keep the service secure and available. The basis is our legitimate interest in running a safe service and, for the name itself, your own choice to enter it. What your browser remembers is strictly necessary to keep your choices, so no cookie banner is needed. Visit statistics (Umami, Cloudflare Web Analytics) use no cookies and no personal data. Pagoda sets no cookies.

How long it is kept

On the server, your name, seat, queue place and position live in memory only, with no database. They are removed when you leave, and at most 25 seconds after your connection drops. A cushion held for you is kept for 30 seconds. Anonymous running totals (such as how many bows were made) hold no personal data. In your browser, your name, avatar, settings and a random resume code stay in local storage until you clear them; your seat and pass in session storage end when the tab closes. The application’s request log keeps only the method, route, status and timing, never your address, name or token. Cloudflare and the web servers in front of it may keep their own standard technical logs for security and troubleshooting.

Who else handles data

Cloudflare delivers the site and sits between you and our server, so it handles your network address and request details to deliver pages and block abuse, under its own privacy policy. Our host operates the servers as our processor. Umami counts page views without cookies or personal data. Open-Meteo supplies weather to our server for a coarse area, never your address or name. Cloudflare, Inc. also provides privacy-first, cookieless Web Analytics (aggregate page views and performance) as part of its role as our CDN and processor; by its own description it uses no cookies or local storage and no fingerprinting. Umami is self-hosted on our own infrastructure and cookieless; it stores no personal data or IP address, and counts page views and a few anonymous in-app events (entering the grounds, choosing a hall, sitting down, sharing).

International transfers

Cloudflare runs a global network, so your request may be handled in a data centre outside your country, including outside the EU/EEA or the UK, under the safeguards Cloudflare applies to such transfers. Apart from that, nothing about you leaves our server; weather requests contain no personal data.

Children

Pagoda is open to everyone but is not directed at children under 13 (16 in some countries). We collect no personal data on purpose; a child should visit only with a parent’s or guardian’s agreement and should not enter a real name.

Your rights, without contacting us

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR or CCPA/CPRA) you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the use of your data, and to complain to your data protection authority. Pagoda keeps almost nothing and has no accounts, so you can do this yourself: change your name and avatar in the app; leave the temple and the server forgets you within 25 seconds; clear this site’s data in your browser to erase what it stored; reset your choices in Settings. We do not sell or share personal data and do not profile you or take automated decisions about you.

Security

Data travels over an encrypted HTTPS connection, is held in memory only, and open connections are limited per network address to reduce abuse. No system is perfectly secure, but there is very little to protect: no accounts, no passwords, no message history.

Changes and effective date

This policy takes effect on 2026-11-04. If it changes, we will update this page and its date.

Terms of use

Using the temple

By entering Pagoda you agree to these terms. There are no accounts: you only choose a name for your visit. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

Acceptable use

Keep the temple quiet and kind. No harassment or abuse. Do not use a name that is offensive, hateful, sexual, misleading, an advertisement or someone else’s identity. We may remove a name or end a visit without notice.

No automated abuse

No bots, scripts or automated clients, no flooding of gestures or connections, no attempts to bypass limits or probe the servers, and no scraping or other activity that harms the service.

As is, and availability

Pagoda is provided “as is” and “as available”, free of charge and without warranties of any kind. It may change, pause, close or be unavailable at any time. It is not a real temple, a religious authority or a health service, and it gives no religious, medical or psychological advice.

Content and licences

The temple, its art, sounds and text belong to the owner or are used under licence; you may use them for personal, non-commercial visits. Open-source components keep their own licences, listed in the Licences section below.

Offerings

Offering rice is optional, takes place on a separate page and changes nothing about what you can do in the temple. It is a voluntary gift, not a purchase.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, the owner is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, or for any loss from using or being unable to use Pagoda. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your mandatory consumer rights.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law that applies where the owner of the service is established, without removing the mandatory protections of the country where you live.

Changes and effective date

These terms take effect on 2026-11-04. We may update them; the date shows the latest version, and using the service after a change means you accept it.

Open-source licences

Pagoda is built with these third-party packages and fonts. Each is used under its own licence, shown below.

• @fontsource-variable/inter 5.3.0 · OFL-1.1 · fontsource.org/fonts/inter

  Full licence text

  Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter) Inter-Italic[opsz,wght].ttf: Copyright 2016 The Inter Project Authors (https://github.com/rsms/inter)
  
  This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
  This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
  http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
  
  
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  
  PREAMBLE
  The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
  development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
  efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
  open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
  with others.
  
  The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
  redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
  fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
  redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
  names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
  however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
  requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
  to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
  
  DEFINITIONS
  "Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
  Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
  include source files, build scripts and documentation.
  
  "Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
  copyright statement(s).
  
  "Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
  distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
  
  "Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
  or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
  Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
  new environment.
  
  "Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
  writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
  
  PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
  redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
  Software, subject to the following conditions:
  
  1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
  in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
  
  2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
  redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
  contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
  included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
  in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
  binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
  
  3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
  Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
  Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
  presented to the users.
  
  4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
  Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
  Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
  Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
  permission.
  
  5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
  must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
  distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
  remain under this license does not apply to any document created
  using the Font Software.
  
  TERMINATION
  This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
  not met.
  
  DISCLAIMER
  THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
  OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
  INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
  DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
  FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
  OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

• @fontsource-variable/manrope 5.3.0 · OFL-1.1 · fontsource.org/fonts/manrope

  Full licence text

  Copyright 2019 The Manrope Project Authors (https://github.com/sharanda/manrope)
  
  This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
  This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
  http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
  
  
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  
  PREAMBLE
  The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
  development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
  efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
  open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
  with others.
  
  The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
  redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
  fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
  redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
  names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
  however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
  requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
  to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
  
  DEFINITIONS
  "Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
  Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
  include source files, build scripts and documentation.
  
  "Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
  copyright statement(s).
  
  "Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
  distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
  
  "Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
  or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
  Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
  new environment.
  
  "Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
  writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
  
  PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
  redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
  Software, subject to the following conditions:
  
  1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
  in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
  
  2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
  redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
  contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
  included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
  in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
  binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
  
  3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
  Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
  Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
  presented to the users.
  
  4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
  Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
  Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
  Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
  permission.
  
  5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
  must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
  distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
  remain under this license does not apply to any document created
  using the Font Software.
  
  TERMINATION
  This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
  not met.
  
  DISCLAIMER
  THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
  OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
  INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
  DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
  FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
  OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

• @fontsource-variable/space-grotesk 5.3.0 · OFL-1.1 · fontsource.org/fonts/space-grotesk

  Full licence text

  Copyright 2020 The Space Grotesk Project Authors (https://github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk)
  
  This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
  This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
  http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
  
  
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  
  PREAMBLE
  The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
  development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
  efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
  open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
  with others.
  
  The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
  redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
  fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
  redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
  names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
  however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
  requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
  to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
  
  DEFINITIONS
  "Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
  Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
  include source files, build scripts and documentation.
  
  "Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
  copyright statement(s).
  
  "Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
  distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
  
  "Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
  or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
  Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
  new environment.
  
  "Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
  writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
  
  PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
  redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
  Software, subject to the following conditions:
  
  1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
  in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
  
  2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
  redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
  contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
  included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
  in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
  binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
  
  3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
  Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
  Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
  presented to the users.
  
  4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
  Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
  Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
  Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
  permission.
  
  5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
  must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
  distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
  remain under this license does not apply to any document created
  using the Font Software.
  
  TERMINATION
  This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
  not met.
  
  DISCLAIMER
  THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
  OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
  INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
  DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
  FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
  OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

• @inlang/paraglide-js 2.29.1 · MIT · paraglidejs.com

  Full licence text

  MIT License
  
  Copyright (c) 2025 Opral US Inc.
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
  
  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
  copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  
  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
  SOFTWARE.

• solid-js 1.9.17 · MIT · solidjs.com

  Full licence text

  MIT License
  
  Copyright (c) 2016-2025 Ryan Carniato
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
  
  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
  copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  
  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
  SOFTWARE.

• suncalc 1.9.0 · BSD-2-Clause · github.com/mourner/suncalc

  Full licence text

  Copyright (c) 2014, Vladimir Agafonkin
  All rights reserved.
  
  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
  permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
  
     1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
        conditions and the following disclaimer.
  
     2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list
        of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
        provided with the distribution.
  
  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY
  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
  EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
  SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
  HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
  TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
  SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

• three 0.170.0 · MIT · threejs.org/

  Full licence text

  The MIT License
  
  Copyright © 2010-2024 three.js authors
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
  
  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  
  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
  THE SOFTWARE.

Accessibility

Pagoda aims to be usable by everyone: it works with a keyboard, with screen readers, and at larger text sizes, and it has a high-contrast and a reduced-motion setting.

You can change text size, contrast, motion and sound in Settings (the gear in the header). The temple is also available as a lighter 2D view.

We keep improving accessibility as the temple grows. If something is hard to use today, the options in Settings are the way to adapt it.