Privacy
Your privacy on Tamil Pamalai
Last updated 12 November 2026
Tamil Pamalai is made by a group of hymn lovers in Singapore. It is free, has no advertising, and does not sell or share anything about its visitors. You can use every page without an account.
Visitor counts
To know how many people use the hymnal and from which countries, the site counts visits without cookies and without keeping anyone's internet address:
- Each visitor is counted once a day by a scrambled code made from their internet address and browser, mixed with a random value that changes every day. The same person cannot be followed from one day to the next, and the codes are thrown away when the day ends.
- The country is looked up on our own server from the internet address, which is then forgotten.
- What is kept: daily totals of pages opened, recordings played, the website that linked to us, the country, and the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer).
Kept on your own device
Your language, light or dark mode, favourites, setlists, key and text-size settings, and anything you save for offline use are kept in your own browser. They are not sent to us. A shared setlist link carries the list inside the link itself.
Choir recordings you send
If you send a recording on the choir wall, we keep the recording, the hymn, your choir's name and place, your note, and your email address. The email address is never shown on the site; it is only used to contact you about the recording. Nothing is shown until we have listened to it, and you can ask us at any time to remove a recording and everything sent with it.
Corrections
Reporting a mistake opens an email to us. We use your email only to reply.
Other services the site uses
- Hosting: the site runs on Fly.io servers in Singapore, with recordings stored by Tigris. Like any web host, they keep short-lived technical logs that include internet addresses, to keep the service running and safe.
- Fonts: the Tamil and English typefaces load from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google to fetch them.
- YouTube: videos on the Videos page load from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) only when you press play. From then on, YouTube's own privacy policy applies to that video.
Signing in
Only the site's administrators sign in. When an administrator signs in with Google, the site receives only their email address, to check that it belongs to an administrator, and keeps a sign-in cookie on that administrator's browser. Visitors are never asked to sign in.
The Tamil Pamalai app
The 2016 Tamil Pamalai app gets its hymns from this site, and its requests are counted in the same way as website visits. Accounts in that app are no longer available. This page will be updated before a new app is released.
Children
The hymnal is for everyone. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children; recordings should be sent by an adult, such as the choir leader.
Questions or requests
To ask what we hold about you, or to have something removed, write to christianpamalai@gmail.com.