MedRise Gurbani Listener privacy

Last updated November 13, 2026

Short version: The listener uses the microphone only after you tap it. Your browser's speech-recognition service turns what it hears into text, and only that text is used to search the Gurbani database. We never receive or store audio.

Who runs Gurbani Listener

MedRise Gurbani Listener is a MedRise app, operated by ViaAI LLC ("MedRise", "we"). Questions about this notice: [email protected]. The rest of med-rise.com is covered by the MedRise privacy policy.

What happens to the sound

Only while you have tapped the microphone, the page passes live audio to your browser's speech-recognition service so the words being sung can be turned into text. In Chrome that service is Google's, and in Safari it is Apple's; they may process the audio on their own servers under their privacy terms. The listener does not record, store or upload audio itself, and we never receive it. Browsers without speech recognition, such as Firefox, can still search by typing.

What is sent over the internet

Search text. The recognized words (converted to the first letter of each word), or what you type, are sent to the BaniDB Gurbani database (api.banidb.com, run by Khalis Foundation) to find matching lines and shabads.
Nothing else from the app. No account, name, email, location or contacts are collected, and there are no ads.

What stays on your device

Your language and search-mode choices, your answer to the microphone notice and your last eight searches are stored only in this browser. Clearing this site's data in your browser settings deletes them.

Children

The listener collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

What reaches our servers

Hosting. med-rise.com is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, it processes basic technical data, such as IP address, browser type and the page requested, to deliver the site and protect it from abuse.
Visit counts. We keep our own daily count of how many times each page is viewed, whether a view was engaged, and a general source label (for example "google" or "direct"). It uses no cookies and stores no IP address, browser details or anything you enter in the app. Cloudflare Web Analytics also counts visits without cookies or local storage.
No Google Analytics, ads or cookies run on this app or this page. Fonts and icons are hosted on med-rise.com.

Changes

We will post any changes here with a new date at the top.