Vaidik Apps

Privacy Policy – V Notes

Last updated: 13 November 2026

V Notes ("the App") lets you write and format notes, make checklists and tables, add pictures, scanned documents and voice recordings, organise notes in folders and labels, share them as text, PDF, Word or image files, and optionally keep them in your own Google Drive. 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. Your notes stay on your phone

• Everything you create — notes, formatting, pictures, scans, recordings, folder and label names — is saved only in the App’s storage on your device.
• We do not have access to your notes. Deleting a note, or uninstalling the App, removes it from your phone.

3. Google Drive sync (only if you turn it on)

• Sync is off until you connect a Google account. When you connect, your notes are uploaded to a folder named “V Notes” in your own Google Drive, so that you can open them on your other phones, tablets and the web with the same account.
• The App asks only for the drive.file permission: it can see and manage only the files it created itself. It cannot see any other file in your Drive.
• The App receives your Google account’s email address and name only to show which account is connected. It is not sent to us.
• You can turn sync off at any time, or delete the files from your Drive yourself.
• V Notes’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

4. App lock

App lock uses your phone’s own screen lock — fingerprint, face or PIN — through the operating system. The App never receives your fingerprint, face or PIN.

5. No advertising, no tracking

The App contains no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking SDK (only our own anonymous usage count, described below). It does not collect your location, contacts or any file you have not chosen yourself.

6. App text and update information

The App downloads some of its own text (such as the About and Help pages, and the list of our other apps) from our server (vaidikapps.com), and checks whether a new version is available. These requests carry no personal information.

7. 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.

8. Permissions

• Camera — to take a picture or scan a document into a note.
• Microphone / speech recognition — only when you record a voice note or speak to type.
• Photos / files — only the pictures or files you pick yourself, and a picture you choose to attach in the Help & Contact chat.
• Biometrics (fingerprint / Face ID) — only for app lock and locked notes, if you use them.
• Notifications — to tell you when we reply in Help & Contact.
• Internet — for Google Drive sync, the chat, app text and update information.

9. Data security

All communication with our server and with Google 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 estimate an approximate location (country, state, city). The IP address itself is not stored. We see only totals (for example “Jaipur — 23 users”), never who a person is. This data is not sold or shared with anyone and is not used for advertising. Your notes are never part of this signal.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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/