This Privacy Policy describes how the Dharmagya mobile application and website (dharmagya.app) (“Dharmagya”, “the app”, “we”, “us”) collect, use, and protect information when you use the app or the website. By installing the app or using the website, you agree to the practices described below.

Dharmagya is a Hindu Panchang (almanac) app that provides daily tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, muhurta, festival reminders, and related Vedic astronomical information.

We collect only what is needed for the app to function:

• Location data. With your permission, we access your device’s approximate or precise location so panchang timings (sunrise, sunset, tithi end time, muhurtas, etc.) are accurate for where you are. You can deny or revoke this permission at any time from your device settings. If denied, you can still use the app by entering a city manually. On the website, allowing your browser’s location prompt (shown once automatically, and again any time you use “use my location”) sends your coordinates to OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service to resolve a city name; typing a place in the birth-details form sends your search text to Open-Meteo’s geocoding service. See “Third-party services” below.
• Notifications. If you enable reminders (festivals, muhurta alerts, daily panchang), they are scheduled and delivered by your device’s own local notification system. No reminder content, device token, or push identifier is sent to us or to any third party.
• Advertising identifiers. The app displays ads via Google AdMob. AdMob may collect your device’s advertising ID, IP address, and basic device information to serve and measure ads. Where the law requires consent — for example the EEA, UK, and Switzerland — Android ads follow the choice you make; elsewhere on Android, ads may be personalized by default. On iOS, only non-personalized ads are shown and you are not tracked. See “Advertising” below.
• On-device preferences. Your chosen language, location, ayanamsa, theme, and other settings are stored locally on your device. They are not transmitted to us.

We do not collect your name, email, phone number, contacts, photos, microphone input, SMS, or call logs, and Dharmagya itself integrates no crash-reporting or analytics service. (Google’s Mobile Ads SDK, used only to show ads, may separately collect crash, performance, and ad-interaction diagnostics about its own operation — see “Advertising” below.) The app has no user accounts or sign-in.

• To compute and display panchang data for your location.
• To send festival, muhurta, and panchang reminders you opt into.
• To show and measure advertisements that help keep the app free.

We do not sell your personal information.

Dharmagya uses Google AdMob to display advertisements in the mobile app. AdMob is a Google service and its data handling is governed by Google’s privacy policy. AdMob and its partners may use advertising identifiers and related data to serve ads and measure performance. As part of running its own SDK, Google may also collect crash, performance, and other diagnostic data about the ads it serves, as described in Google’s own disclosures.

In the mobile app, where the law requires it — for example, for visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland — we show a Google-certified consent message (Google’s User Messaging Platform) before any ads are requested, on both Android and iOS. You can grant, refuse, or later change that choice from the Ad Privacy Options row in the app’s Settings screen, which appears whenever that consent message says your choice can be revisited. Outside the regions where this consent message is shown, ads may be requested without this consent step; you can still limit ad personalization from your device’s own ad settings below.

On Android, whether ads are personalized follows the choice you make in that consent message (or, outside the regions where it is shown, ads may be personalized by default). On iOS, ads are always non-personalized regardless of your consent choice, and the app does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites for advertising purposes. Because the app does not track you on iOS, it does not show Apple’s App Tracking Transparency permission prompt.

The Dharmagya website (dharmagya.app) shows ads through Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, including ads personalized to your prior visits to this and other websites. Third-party vendors, including Google, may set cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) for this purpose.

For visitors in regions where the law requires it — such as the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland — the website shows a Google-certified consent message before personalized ads are shown. You can grant, refuse, or later withdraw consent through that message.

To control ad personalization on the web, visit Google Ad Settings or opt out of third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu.

You can also limit your device’s advertising identifier from your device settings. On Android, reset it or opt out of personalized ads from Settings › Google › Ads (labelled Settings › Privacy › Ads on some devices). On iOS, Apple does not allow the identifier to be reset, but you can stop apps — including Dharmagya — from using it to track you from Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking (“Allow Apps to Request to Track”). The separate Settings › Privacy & Security › Apple Advertising toggle only controls Apple’s own advertising and has no effect on AdMob. Exact menu names vary by device and OS version.

Learn more: Google Ads and Privacy.

The app and website rely on the following third-party services:

• Google AdMob — advertising in the mobile app, including the Google-certified consent flow shown where required by law.
• Google AdSense — advertising on the website.
• OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) — on the website, turns your browser location into a readable city name when you use or allow the “use my location” feature.
• Open-Meteo geocoding — on the website, looks up matching places as you type in the birth-details place search.

Reminders and notifications are scheduled by your device’s own operating system and never pass through a third-party notification service. In the mobile app, matching a readable city name happens entirely on your device against a city list bundled with the app — no coordinates are sent to a geocoding service. On the website, your browser location or place-search text is sent to the geocoding services listed above to resolve a city name; see “Information we collect” for when this happens. Dharmagya itself does not integrate a crash-reporting or analytics service, beyond the diagnostics Google’s Mobile Ads SDK collects about its own ad delivery (see “Advertising” above).

Each third-party provider listed above processes limited data under its own privacy policy. We do not share data with them beyond what is required to provide the feature.

Advertising data handled by Google AdMob and AdSense is retained only as long as needed for the purposes described above, under Google’s own retention practices. Location is used in real time to compute panchang and is not stored on our servers. Preferences you set remain on your device until you clear app data or uninstall the app.

Dharmagya is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information, please contact us and we will delete it.

• Revoke location permission at any time — on Android, from your device Settings; on iOS, from Settings › Apps › Dharmagya (Settings › Dharmagya on iOS 17 and earlier).
• Disable notifications at any time — on Android, from your device Settings; on iOS, from Settings › Apps › Dharmagya (Settings › Dharmagya on iOS 17 and earlier).
• Reset or limit your device’s advertising identifier (see “Advertising” above for the exact steps on Android and iOS), and change your consent choice at any time from the app’s Ad Privacy Options row in Settings, where shown (for example in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland) — on Android this decides whether ads may be personalized, while iOS ads stay non-personalized regardless.
• Uninstall the app to remove all locally stored data.
• Contact us with any privacy question or request.

Depending on your region (EU/UK, California, India DPDP, etc.), you may have additional rights such as access, correction, deletion, or objection. Reach out using the contact details below and we will respond within a reasonable period.

We use industry-standard measures to protect data transmitted between the app and third-party services (e.g., HTTPS/TLS). However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Effective date” at the top. Continued use of the app after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

For any questions, concerns, or privacy requests, contact us at ishank1995dev@gmail.com.