Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

Vedic Tithi ("we," "our," or "us") provides the Vedic Tithi mobile app for iOS and Android (the "App") and the website vedictithi.com (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through the App and the Website, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have.

Where the App and the Website work differently, this policy says so. Please also read our Terms of Service.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

• Birth details: Name, date, time and place of birth that you enter to create a Kundali, match Kundalis, or use Kundali chat. See Section 3.
• Kundali chat questions: The questions you ask and the answers you receive.
• Optional account: Email address, name and password, only if you choose to create an account. Passwords are handled by Firebase Authentication and are never visible to us.
• Feedback and collaboration requests: Your name, email address, message and, in the App, basic device information (such as platform and app version).
• Email reminders (Website): Your email address and the reminders you choose, if you subscribe.
• Preferences: Language, region, saved locations, reminders, My Tithi dates and japa progress. In the App these are stored on your device.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

Analytics and crash data are linked to a random app or browser identifier, not to your name or email address. This data is pseudonymous, not anonymous.

2.3 App Permissions

• Location (optional): For timings at your current location. You can enter a city manually instead.
• Notifications (optional): For festival, tithi and other reminders you turn on.
• Advertising ID (Android): Used by Google AdMob. See Section 5.

3. Birth Details, Kundali and Kundali Chat

Kundali chat answers are generated by artificial intelligence. Please do not include health, financial or other sensitive information in your questions that you do not want processed.

4. How We Use Your Information

• Providing the service: Panchang, tithi, muhurat, festival, Kundali and chat features, and the reminders you turn on
• Personalization: Showing timings and content for your location, language and region
• Improving the service: Understanding feature usage, fixing crashes, and improving calculation accuracy and performance
• Advertising: Showing ads that fund the free service (see Section 5)
• Support: Responding to your feedback, questions and collaboration requests
• Security and legal: Preventing abuse, enforcing usage limits, complying with the law, and enforcing our Terms of Service

5. Advertising

The App shows ads from Google AdMob, and the Website shows ads from Google AdSense. Google may use device identifiers (such as the Android advertising ID), cookies, IP address and information about your use of the App or Website to show and measure ads. Google's use of this data is described at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

• EEA, UK and Switzerland: The App asks for your consent through Google's consent form before personalised ads are shown or ad storage is used. You can change your choice at any time in Preferences → Manage privacy choices.
• Android: You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Settings → Google → Ads).
• iOS: The App does not ask for permission to track you, so your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) is not available to us or to Google's ad services.
• Everywhere: You can turn off personalised ads from Google at Google Ad Settings.

Your birth details, Kundalis and chat conversations are never used for advertising.

6. Analytics, Cookies and Consent

6.1 In the App

• EEA, UK and Switzerland: Analytics runs only if you allow it in Google's consent form.
• Other regions: Analytics is on by default. You can turn it off at any time in Preferences → Usage Analytics. Your choice is remembered.

6.2 On the Website

The Website uses cookies and similar technologies:

• Essential storage: Remembers your settings, such as language and your cookie choice
• Analytics cookies: Google Analytics, to understand how the Website is used
• Advertising cookies: Google AdSense, to show and measure ads

You can accept or decline non-essential cookies in the cookie banner, and control or delete cookies in your browser settings.

7. Service Providers and Sharing

7.1 Service Providers We Use

These providers process data on our behalf to run the App and Website:

7.2 Other Sharing

• Legal requirements: When required by law, court order or a valid government request
• Safety: To protect the rights, property or safety of our users or others
• Business transfer: If Vedic Tithi is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, we will notify you before your information becomes subject to a different privacy policy

8. How Long We Keep Data

9. Data Security

• Encryption in transit: All data sent between the App or Website and our servers uses TLS encryption
• Data on your device: Saved Kundalis and preferences are protected by your device's own security, such as its passcode and storage encryption
• Access controls: Access to server data is limited to people who need it to run the service
• Automatic deletion: Kundali chat conversations are deleted after 7 days

10. Your Rights and Choices

10.1 Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete your information, including your account
• Receive your information in a portable format
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing before you withdrew it

To exercise these rights, email privacy@vedictithi.com. We will respond within 30 days. We may ask you to confirm your identity first.

10.2 Choices in the App and on Your Device

• Usage analytics: Preferences → Usage Analytics
• Ads and analytics consent (EEA, UK, Switzerland): Preferences → Manage privacy choices
• Location: iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Vedic Tithi, or Android Settings → Apps → Vedic Tithi → Permissions
• Notifications: In the App's settings or your device's notification settings
• Data on your device: Delete saved Kundalis in the App, or uninstall the App to remove all of its data from your device

11. Children

The App's content is suitable for all ages, which is why the app stores rate it for everyone. However, the App and Website are general-audience services that show ads, and they are not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Accounts and Kundali chat are not intended for children.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has given us personal information, contact privacy@vedictithi.com and we will delete it.

12. Region-Specific Information

12.1 India (Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023)

We process your personal data for the purposes described in this policy, based on your consent or for legitimate uses permitted by law. You may access a summary of your personal data, ask us to correct or erase it, withdraw your consent, nominate another person to exercise your rights, and raise a grievance with us. Contact our grievance officer at privacy@vedictithi.com. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

12.2 EEA, UK and Switzerland (GDPR)

We rely on these legal bases:

• Consent: Analytics, personalised ads and ad storage (through Google's consent form), location access and notifications
• Contract: Providing the features you ask for, such as charts, Kundali chat, accounts and reminders
• Legitimate interests: Security, preventing abuse, crash reporting and responding to feedback
• Legal obligation: When the law requires it

You may complain to your local data protection authority.

12.3 United States (including California)

We do not sell personal information. Personalised ads shown by Google may count as "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising under California law. You can opt out by turning off personalised ads in Google Ad Settings, deleting your advertising ID on Android, or emailing privacy@vedictithi.com. You have the right to know, delete and correct your personal information, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

12.4 Canada and Brazil

Residents of Canada (PIPEDA) and Brazil (LGPD) have rights to access, correct and delete their personal information, and may contact us at privacy@vedictithi.com.

13. International Data Transfers

Our service providers may process your information in countries other than your own, including the United States. Where required, transfers are protected by safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses used by our providers.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy when our App, Website or the law changes. We will update the "Last Updated" date above, and for material changes we will notify you in the App or on the Website. Continuing to use the App or Website after a change means you accept the updated policy.

15. Contact Us and Grievances