Vaidik Apps

Privacy Policy – Darshan Shastra

Last updated: 14 November 2026

Darshan Shastra ("the App") presents the sutras of the six Vedic darshanas (Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, Vedanta) with commentaries, search, listening (text-to-speech) and class videos. This Privacy Policy explains what information the App handles and how.

1. Owner & Contact Information

Owner: Abhay Arya (Vaidik Apps)

Email: support@vaidikapps.com

2. No account, no personal data collected

No account or login is needed to use the App. The App does not collect your name, email address, phone number, location, contacts or files on its own. It contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking SDK.

3. What is saved on your phone

Your highlights, notes, favourites, reading settings (theme, font, text size, language) and the last-read sutra are saved only on your device. They are not sent to us. Uninstalling the App removes them.

4. Book data and updates

The App downloads sutra and commentary data, and corrections to it, from our server (pustakam.co.in). These requests carry no personal information.

5. Class videos (YouTube)

Class videos are played with the embedded YouTube player. When you play a video, YouTube (Google) receives the request as it does for any YouTube video, under Google’s Privacy Policy. We do not receive any information from it.

6. Listening (text-to-speech)

Listening uses your device’s own text-to-speech engine. The text is not sent to us.

7. Translation and AI

Only when you select text and tap "Translate" or "Ask AI" is that selected passage passed to the translation service or the AI app you choose — nothing before that.

8. Help & Contact chat

The App has a Help & Contact chat (More → Help & Contact → Chat). Using it is optional. If you write to us there, the following is kept on our own server (vaidikapps.com, hosted on a Hostinger VPS in India) so that we can read and answer you:

• the name and messages you send, and any picture you attach;
• a push token of your phone (Firebase Cloud Messaging, a Google service), used only to notify you when we reply.

Pictures are deleted automatically after 90 days and messages after 2 years. We do not sell or share this information with any third party; it is used only to answer you. To have your chat data removed earlier, write to support@vaidikapps.com. If you write to us by email, we receive that email.

9. Permissions

• Notifications — only to tell you when we reply in Help & Contact, and to show the listening controls.
• Photos — only when you choose to attach a picture in the Help & Contact chat.
• Internet — to download book data, play class videos and use the chat.

10. Data security

All communication with our servers uses encrypted connections (HTTPS).

Anonymous usage count

To know how many people use the App, it sends a small anonymous signal to our own server (vaidikapps.com) when it is opened and every two minutes while it is open. The signal contains only: the app name, a random number created inside the App (not linked to your name, email, phone number, account or device identifiers), the platform (Android / iPhone / web), the app version and the phone language.

Our server uses the connection's IP address only at that moment to find the country only (no state or city). The IP address itself is not stored. We see only totals (for example “India — 230 users”), never who a person is. This data is not sold or shared with anyone and is not used for advertising.

11. Children’s privacy

The App does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. If you believe a child has sent us information through the chat, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this policy when the App’s features change. The updated policy will be posted at this address.

13. Terms of Use (EULA)

By using this app on iOS, you also agree to the Apple Standard End User License Agreement (EULA):

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/