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Privacy Policy

How we handle your family's data

Effective date: June 4, 2026  ·  Last updated: October 4, 2026

Ananda Family ("we", "our", or "the app") is built for parents who want to raise children rooted in Indian values and culture. This policy explains exactly what information the app uses, how it is stored, and what is never collected.

1. Information We Collect

We collect only what is necessary for the app to function. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with advertisers.

Account information
To sync your family's data across devices and co-parents, the app requires a free account, created with your email and password or via Sign in with Apple, Google, or Facebook. We store your display name, email address (via your sign-in provider), and a household identifier linking you to your co-parent, if any.

Child profile information
To personalise stories, mantras, and festival content, the app stores your child's name, date of birth, gender, and (optionally) a photo, family surname, and gotra. This is entered by you, the parent, never collected directly from your child. It is encrypted on your device and, if you've set up a household, synced to your private family cloud so a co-parent can see the same profile.

Photos you capture
When you use the Smriti memory feature, the app accesses your camera to capture moments from your child's spiritual journey (festivals, samskaras, daily practices). Photos are stored on your device and, to enable co-parent sync and the cloud backup that account-based storage provides, are uploaded to secure cloud storage (Supabase).

Voice reflections
The app can optionally transcribe spoken input into text — for hands-free journaling, and for typing a question to Jyotish, our Vedic astrology guide. Speech recognition uses your device's speech recognition (Apple's framework on iOS, Google's on Android), which may process your voice on their servers to produce the text; we do not receive or store your audio. For journaling and other reflections, the transcribed text stays on your device and is never transmitted to us or any third party. For a question you ask Jyotish, the transcribed text is sent, together with a summary of the relevant birth chart, to our AI provider (OpenAI, or Anthropic as a backup) to generate your answer.

Birth details for astrology
To prepare a birth chart for you or a family member, you enter a name, date of birth, optionally a time of birth, and a birth place. The chart is calculated on your device. These details and the resulting chart are saved with your account (in Supabase, like the rest of your household's data) so they carry over between devices, and are deleted with your account. Only the chart results, not the birth date, time or place, are used to write Jyotish answers (see below).

Jyotish conversations
When you ask Jyotish a question, your question, the answers, and any thumbs-up or thumbs-down you give a reply are stored with your account so you can come back to the conversation. The question, the earlier messages in that conversation, and a summary of the relevant birth chart (moon sign, nakshatra, ascendant, planet positions, planetary periods and similar chart results, plus the name you gave that person, which you enter yourself) are sent to our AI provider, OpenAI (with Anthropic as a backup), to write the answer. We ask OpenAI not to store these requests; Anthropic, if used, processes them under its API terms. We do not send your email address, account details or exact birth date, time or place. Anything you type into your question is sent as written, so please avoid including details you would not want shared, such as full names of others or contact information. Our team may read these conversations and ratings to check the quality of the answers and improve the service. We do not use them for advertising and we do not sell them. They are deleted with your account (see Section 6).

Notification preferences
If you grant notification permission, the app schedules local reminders (practice streaks, festival reminders, monthly memory dispatches). These notifications are generated entirely on your device — no notification server or push backend is involved.

Subscription and purchase data
In-app subscriptions are processed by Apple or Google through their standard payment systems. We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status. RevenueCat receives your anonymised purchase receipt; we never see your payment card details. See RevenueCat's Privacy Policy for details.

Product analytics and crash reporting
We use PostHog to understand how the app is used (e.g. which screens and features are opened) and Sentry to capture crash reports, so we can fix bugs. Both are tied to an anonymous device/user identifier, not your name or email, and neither is used for advertising or cross-app tracking. PostHog also receives a broad age range for your child (e.g. "3-6 years"), never their exact birthdate or name, used only to understand which age groups use which features.

App preferences and progress
Your streak data, mantra progress, samskara milestones, and app settings are stored locally on your device using your phone's secure storage, and synced to your account so they carry over if you reinstall the app or sign in on a new device.

2. What We Do Not Collect

✓  We do not collect your device's location. (Astrology uses only the birth place you choose to enter.)
✓  We do not use advertising SDKs or tracking pixels.
✓  We do not share data with third-party advertisers.
✓  Voice recordings never leave your device.
✓  Notifications are local — no push notification server is used.
✓  Analytics and crash reports are never linked to your name or email.

3. Cloud Storage

Smriti photos are stored in a private cloud storage bucket on Supabase (supabase.com), a GDPR-compliant infrastructure provider, scoped to your account so only you and any co-parent you've invited can access them. You can delete individual synced photos at any time from within the app, or delete everything at once by deleting your account (see Section 6).

4. Children's Privacy

Ananda Family is designed for use by parents. The app does not directly collect any information from children. Content related to your child (profile details, photos, milestone notes) is entered solely by you, the parent, and is stored on your device, encrypted, and synced to your private family cloud only if you set up a household with a co-parent (see Section 1).

We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

5. Third-Party Services

The app integrates with the following third-party services, each with their own privacy policies:

We do not integrate advertising networks, and none of the above are used to track you across other apps or websites.

6. Data Retention and Deletion

All local data (streaks, preferences, photos) is deleted when you uninstall the app.

Deleting your account
You can permanently delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account, with no need to contact us. If you are the only parent on your household, this immediately and permanently deletes your account along with your household's child profiles, memory records, Smriti photos, and all other content. If you share a household with a co-parent, only your own account is removed — your household's shared content remains for the co-parent.

If you unsubscribe without deleting your account, your household's content is kept for 90 days in case you resubscribe, after which it is automatically and permanently deleted.

You can also reach us at the address below for any data deletion or access request we haven't covered above.

7. Security

Sensitive preferences are stored using your device's secure encrypted storage. Cloud-stored photos use access controls that restrict them to your household's devices only. We do not store passwords or financial information.

8. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the effective date above and notify you within the app. Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

9. Contact Us

If you have questions, requests to delete your data, or any privacy concerns, please contact us:

Ananda Family
Email: support@anandaparenting.com
Website: anandaparenting.com