Terms and conditions

Terms, privacy, and the conditions of signing

In force from 16 September 2026, first published on 2 September 2026 and amended three times since; every amendment is listed in clause 17.3. These terms govern the use of this site and the giving of a signature to the demand published on it. They are written to be read by the people who sign, and not merely to be pointed at. Where a clause could be written either in plain words or in legal ones, it has been written in plain words.

1. The publisher

1.1 This site is published by Centros de Bhakti Yoga, a registered non-profit association under Spanish law, tax identification number G76660679, of Calle Salvia 7, Puerta B, La Camella, 38627 Tenerife, Spain (“we”, “us”), which operates the domain vedicvault.org and its subdomains, and which is responsible for the content of this site and for the personal data described in these terms.

1.2 All correspondence, including any request made under these terms, should be addressed to info@vedicvault.org — written here in plain characters so that it can be read without scripts: info [at] vedicvault [dot] org. Correspondence is read and answered by a person, not by an automated system.

1.3 We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, its Governing Body Commission, or any other body. Nothing on this site should be read as a communication from any of them.

2. Definitions

2.1 “The demand” means the document titled Restore the Original Editions, addressed to the directors of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, whose canonical text is the English text published at /letter/letter-en.txt and whose SHA-256 hash is published on the home page.

2.2 “Signing” means submitting the form on this site and subsequently confirming that submission by opening the link sent to the email address given. Both steps are required. A submission that is not confirmed is not a signature.

2.3 “The register of signatures” means the list of confirmed signatures. Two parts of it are public: the number of signatures in each group, and the names of those who sign as disciples initiated by Śrīla Prabhupāda, each with the year and place of initiation. That group is published to everyone because its publication is what makes it checkable: a stated year and place can be contradicted by anyone who was there, and most of those people have not signed. The remaining names are shown only to those who have signed. A person who does not take part has no claim on the names of those who did, and someone who signs from inside a temple should not be identifiable to any passer-by. The register is shown to you in full once you have signed, and it is included in full in the document delivered to the directors, which is what it is for.

2.4 “The record” means the table published on this site recording the persons to whom the demand has been delivered, together with the dates, the replies received, and the evidence of delivery. That table is public.

2.4 bis Those invited to sign. From 8 September 2026, an invitation to sign carries notice that the invitation, and a refusal of it, may be published. Part of what this demand establishes is who was told and what they did about it. Invitations sent before that date were given an express assurance that nothing would be recorded about a person who declines, and that assurance is kept: no one invited before 8 September 2026 is named on account of declining. A reason given for declining is published only with the writer's consent, and then in full and in the words they used.

2.3 bis How the register is checked. Withholding the remaining names from passers-by does not put them beyond scrutiny. Entries claiming initiation by Śrīla Prabhupāda are reviewed by hand, under clause 2.3 ter. And the complete list — every name, every stated connection to the mission and, among the initiated disciples, the year and place of initiation — is delivered to the directors of the corporation on 6 October 2026 by certified courier with acknowledgement of receipt. They hold the records of the movement and are the party able to confirm what it contains.

Those who sign are shown the whole register, because it is the document they have put their name to. Nothing is asked of them beyond their signature: verifying the register is not their responsibility, and no duty of any kind arises from being on it.

What is withheld is the display of the names to someone who has not taken part. Not the possibility of verifying them.

2.3 ter Entries among the initiated disciples are reviewed by hand, against the published record of Śrīla Prabhupāda's initiated disciples. The review follows publication rather than preceding it: an entry appears in the group the person chose as soon as they confirm, and an entry that cannot be reconciled is moved to another group or removed. Every entry there carries the year and place of initiation, so a reader can check it as readily as we can.

2.5 “Delivery” means the sending of the demand, with the signatures then held, to a named recipient, and the retention of evidence of that sending.

3. The text of the demand, and its immutability

3.1 The text of the demand was fixed and published before any signature was collected. Its SHA-256 hash has been anchored using OpenTimestamps, which records the hash in the Bitcoin blockchain, and the resulting receipt is published alongside the text.

3.2 We undertake not to alter the text of the demand. If circumstances ever require a different demand to be made, it will be published as a separate document, with its own date and its own seal, and the present text will remain published and accessible in the form in which it was signed.

3.3 The Spanish text published on this site is a reference translation provided for convenience. In the event of any discrepancy, the English text governs, and it is the English text that a signatory signs.

3.4 The register of signatures is deliberately not anchored in any permanent or immutable record. Permanence is applied to the text and withheld from the list of persons, because permanence must protect a text and must never trap a person.

4. What signing means, and what it does not mean

4.1 By signing, you state that you have read the demand and that you support the request it makes. You state nothing else. In particular, signing does not express any view about any person, any office, any institution, any litigation, or any matter beyond the words of the demand itself.

4.2 Signing creates no legal relationship between you and us, imposes no obligation on you, entitles you to nothing, and costs nothing. It is not a contract, a donation, a subscription, or a membership.

4.3 Signing is a personal act. You may sign only on your own behalf, only once, and only in your own name. You may not sign in the name of another person, living or departed, nor on behalf of an organisation.

4.4 You must be at least sixteen years of age to sign. We do not knowingly hold personal data of anyone below that age, and will delete any such record on becoming aware of it.

4.5 A signature that we have reason to believe is false, duplicated, automated, or given in the name of another person may be removed from the register without notice. Where we can, we will write to the address concerned first.

5. Confirmation

5.1 On submission of the form, a message containing a single-use link is sent to the email address given. The signature takes effect only when that link is opened.

5.2 This requirement exists to ensure that no name can be added without the knowledge of the person named, and that the register cannot be inflated with addresses that do not exist. It protects the signatories and the credibility of the register in equal measure.

5.3 An unconfirmed submission is never counted, never displayed, and is deleted thirty days after it is made.

6. What is published

6.1 The following are published on this site and included in every delivery of the demand: the name you give; your stated connection to the mission; and, if you chose to provide them, your city and country. They are shown on this site to those who have signed, and are included in full in the document delivered to the directors, whether or not the reader of this page has signed.

6.2 Where you sign as a disciple initiated by Śrīla Prabhupāda, the initiated name and the year and place of initiation that you give are also published beside your name. This is done so that the list may be checked by those who were present, and it is the reason that group carries evidential weight.

6.3 Your email address is never published, never disclosed to the recipients of the demand, never shared with any third party for that party's own purposes, and never sold, rented or exchanged, under any circumstances.

6.4 Anonymous signing is not offered. The reason is stated openly on the home page: a count of unnamed supporters cannot be verified, can be dismissed as invented, and would give the recipients a reason not to answer. If you are not willing to have your name published, please do not sign; no offence is taken and none is implied.

6.5 A published signature is a public act. It is intended to be read, quoted, archived, screenshotted and cited by other people, including by people who disagree with it. Once published, it may be copied by parties over whom we have no control. We can remove your entry from this site; we cannot retrieve copies that others have already taken.

7. Review of entries

7.1 Entries in the group of disciples initiated by Śrīla Prabhupāda are reviewed by a person. The entry appears in that group from the moment the signature is confirmed, and the review follows. Where an entry cannot be reconciled we write to the signatory, and the entry is moved to the group that fits or removed.

7.2 Review consists only of a reasonable check that the details given are consistent and plausible. It is not an adjudication of anyone's spiritual status, and we claim no competence to make such a judgement.

7.3 If we are unable to satisfy ourselves, the signature remains in the general group and we will say so to the signatory. Nothing is deleted on this ground.

8. The record of invitation and notification

8.1 The record identifies the persons invited to sign the demand and the persons to whom it has been delivered, with the dates, the replies received in their own words and in their own language, and the evidence of delivery.

8.2 An invitation to sign may be sent to any disciple initiated by Śrīla Prabhupāda, and to any devotee who distributes or defends his books. Being invited implies nothing about a person beyond that they were asked.

8.2 bis No one is named for their silence. A person who is invited and does not reply is not named anywhere on this site, in any table, or in the document delivered. Not that person and not anyone: silence is not published. Only those who answer appear — by signing, or by declining in their own words, which are published in full under clause 8.4. About everyone else nothing is published at all — not a name and not a number. A total would let anyone subtract the signatures and publish the refusals as a statistic, which is the same thing by other means.

8.3 Any person who has so campaigned may ask to be added to the list of invitees. Any person listed may ask for their entry to be removed, and that request will be complied with and itself recorded.

8.3 bis Lawful basis for the record. Every individual named in the record has answered, and the answer is what is published. Whoever signs consents to it, in the terms of clause 10. Whoever declines has chosen to reply and their reply is published as they wrote it, in reliance on the legitimate interest of this association and of the public in a documented account of what was asked and what was answered — Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation — and, where the answer reveals religious belief, because that person has manifestly made it public by giving it for publication, Article 9(2)(e). Only what is necessary is published: name, the fact and date of the invitation, and the reply. No address, no private communication and no characterisation. Any person may object under Article 21 and have their entry removed under clause 8.3, without giving a reason.

8.4 The record carries no commentary, no characterisation and no adjectives. It states who was written to, when, and what came back. Where a person declines, their reason is published in full, unedited, in the words and language in which it was given.

8.5 Anyone may sign at any time, whether or not they were ever invited and whether or not they answered before. The record is a record of what was said, not a list of who failed to say it.

8.6 Each recipient is contacted no more than three times in total — the demand, one reminder, and one notice that the response period has closed — and is told so in the first message. Thereafter no further contact is made.

9. Evidence of delivery

9.1 Each delivery is made individually, addressed to a single named recipient. No bulk mailing and no blind copy list is used at any stage.

9.2 For principal recipients, delivery is additionally processed by an independent certification service which issues a signed certificate attesting to the content, the recipient and the date. For other recipients, the original message file is retained with the sending provider's DKIM signature intact, which any person may validate against that provider's published public key.

9.3 We state what this evidence establishes and what it does not. It establishes that a document in a specific form existed on a specific date, that it was addressed to a named person through a channel that person uses, and whether a reply was received within the stated period. It does not establish, and cannot establish, that any recipient read it, and we make no such claim.

9.4 Where a recipient's address is already published by the organisation itself, the full message file may be published so that its signature can be validated. Where it is not, the address is masked and the message file is supplied on request instead.

10. Personal data

10.1 Controller. Centros de Bhakti Yoga, tax identification number G76660679, of Calle Salvia 7, Puerta B, La Camella, 38627 Tenerife, Spain, is the controller of the personal data described in these terms, contactable at info@vedicvault.org (info [at] vedicvault [dot] org).

10.2 Data collected. The name given; the stated connection to the mission; the email address; optionally the city and country; and, for initiated disciples, the initiated name and the year and place of initiation. In addition, our hosting provider processes technical connection data, including IP addresses, for the purposes of delivering the site and preventing abuse.

10.3 Lawful basis. Consent, given by submitting the form and confirmed by opening the link sent by email. Consent may be withdrawn at any time under clause 16, and withdrawal is as easy as giving it.

10.4 Purposes. To publish the register of signatures; to include the signatures in the demand as delivered; to confirm that a signature is genuinely that of the person named; and to inform signatories of the delivery of the demand and of the replies received. For no other purpose whatsoever.

10.5 Special categories. A stated connection to a religious mission may reveal religious belief, which is a special category of personal data under Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation. It is processed on the basis of your explicit consent, and because you have manifestly made it public by choosing to sign a public declaration. It is provided by you, at your option, and you may sign giving the most general connection offered.

10.6 Recipients. The published data is, by design, available to the public and is delivered to the named recipients of the demand. The email address is disclosed to no one, other than the email provider that transmits the confirmation message on our instruction.

10.7 Processors and international transfers. The site is hosted and its database operated by Cloudflare, Inc., whose Turnstile also screens the signing form; confirmation messages are transmitted by an email service provider. Typefaces are served from this site itself and involve no one else. Both of the above process data outside the European Economic Area, under the transfer mechanisms provided for in Chapter V of the General Data Protection Regulation. None of them is permitted to use your data for any purpose of its own.

10.8 Retention. Confirmed signatures are retained for as long as the demand remains open. Unconfirmed submissions are deleted after thirty days. Revoked signatures are deleted, subject only to clauses 16.6 and 16.7.

10.9 Your rights. You have the right of access to your data, and the rights of rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, portability and objection, and the right to withdraw consent at any time. All are exercised by a single email and none requires a reason. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos. We extend these rights, as a matter of policy, to every signatory wherever they reside.

10.10 Security. Data is held on infrastructure operated by the providers named above, protected by access controls and transport encryption. No system is perfectly secure; the only sensitive datum we hold is an email address, and we hold nothing else that could harm a signatory if disclosed.

11. Cookies and tracking

11.1 This site sets one cookie, and only after you have signed. It is called signed, it holds the identifier of your own signature and nothing else, and it exists so that the register of names can be shown to you. It is HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite=Lax, it is read by no one but this site, and it expires after one year. If you block it, everything works except that the names stay hidden.

11.2 There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixel, no fingerprinting and no social media embed on any page.

11.3 One external resource is loaded, on two pages only. The two pages that carry the signing form load Cloudflare's Turnstile, which keeps automated signatures out; it sees your IP address and may set a cookie of its own while it runs. Every other page loads nothing from anywhere but this site — the typefaces included, which are served from here and not from Google.

12. Communications

12.1 If you sign, you will receive: one message asking you to confirm; one message when the demand is delivered; and one message reporting the replies received. That is the whole of it.

12.2 There is no newsletter, no mailing list, no campaign updates, and no request for money at any point. We will never ask you for a donation, and there is nothing on this site to buy.

13. Quotation and intellectual property

13.1 Passages from published editions of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books are reproduced on this site in short extract, for the purpose of criticism, review and comparison, as permitted by law. The copyright in those works belongs to their respective proprietors, and nothing on this site asserts otherwise.

13.2 If the proprietor of any quoted work considers that any extract exceeds what is permitted, we ask them to write to us. We will consider the objection promptly and, where it is well founded, act on it; and we will publish the objection and our response in full.

13.3 The text of the demand itself may be reproduced freely and in full by anyone, provided it is reproduced without alteration.

14. Accuracy, correction and complaint

14.1 If anything published on this site is inaccurate, write to us and say what it is. We will check it, and where it is wrong we will correct it and say plainly that we have done so.

14.2 This applies with particular force to the record. It exists to be accurate or not to exist at all.

15. Availability, and the absence of warranties

15.1 This site is provided as it is, without charge. We do not warrant that it will be available without interruption or free from error, and we accept no liability for loss arising from its unavailability.

15.2 Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

16. Revocation of a signature

16.1 A signature may be revoked at any time, by anyone, without giving a reason, and without any consequence. This right is absolute, is not subject to any condition, and does not expire.

16.2 Revocation is effected by writing to info@vedicvault.org, preferably from the address used to sign. If you no longer have access to that address, tell us and we will find another way to be satisfied that the request is yours.

16.3 You may ask for either of the following, and we will do whichever you ask:

(a) Complete withdrawal of the signature. The name and the signature are both removed and the record is deleted, save as provided in clause 16.6. There is no partial option: a signature that continued to be counted while the name was hidden would be an anonymous signature, and this demand does not accept those at any stage, before or after signing.

(b) Correction of any detail — the spelling of a name, a city, a stated connection, a year — at any time and as often as needed.

16.4 We will not ask why. We will not attempt to dissuade you. We will not write to you about it afterwards, and your address will not be used for any further communication about this demand unless you ask us to continue writing.

16.5 Requests are acted upon within seven days of receipt, and on the same day wherever that is possible. We will confirm to you in writing when it has been done.

16.6 One limitation applies, and it is stated plainly because it cannot be avoided. Where the demand has already been delivered to a recipient with your signature included, that delivered copy is a record of what was sent on a given date, held by a person who is not us. We cannot alter it, and neither can anyone else. On revocation your entry is removed from this site, from the register, from the totals, and from every subsequent delivery; the copy already delivered stands as the historical record of what was sent. Signing before a delivery date therefore has a consequence that signing after it does not, and it is right that you should know this before you sign.

16.7 After a complete revocation we retain nothing except an irreversible record that the address in question has withdrawn, held solely so that the address is not written to again and cannot be re-added in error. That record contains no name and is not published.

17. Changes to these terms

17.1 These terms may be amended. The date in force appears at the head of this page, and superseded versions are retained and made available on request.

17.2 No amendment will ever reduce the right to revoke a signature under clause 16, or introduce any condition upon it. That clause is fixed for the life of this demand.

17.3 Where an amendment materially affects signatories, we will say so in the next message we send.

17.4 What has been amended, and when. Kept here so that this page is held to the standard the demand itself asks for: a text that changes should say that it changed, when, and to what. The version in force on 4 September 2026 is also held in an independent certified record, made that day by a qualified trust service provider and including the page source, so the wording of that day can be checked against this list by someone who does not take our word for it.

18. Governing law

18.1 These terms are governed by Spanish law. The courts of the signatory's place of residence retain any jurisdiction conferred on them by consumer or data protection law, and nothing here purports to remove it.

19. Contact

19.1 Every matter arising under these terms — a revocation, a correction, an objection, a complaint, a question — goes to the same address and is answered by the same person: info@vedicvault.org.

In force from . First published ; amendments in clause 17.3. Return to the demand.