DevBoomi
Privacy policy
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DevBoomi is an app for Hindu temples, festivals, the Telugu Panchangam, live darshan and meditation, made by JARVEX in Hyderabad, India. This policy explains what the DevBoomi app and the devboomi.com website collect, why, and the choices you have. In short: most of the app works without an account, much of what you do stays on your phone, and we never sell your data.
Who we are
DevBoomi is developed and run by JARVEX, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. For anything about your data, write to [email protected].
Using the app without an account
You can browse temples, festivals, the Panchangam, live darshan, news, the Yatra planner and meditation as a guest, without giving us any personal information. The app has no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
Anonymous usage counts
To know how many people use DevBoomi, the app sends our server one short note per phone per day: a random install number created on your phone (it is not linked to your name, email, account, location or any device identifier), the app version, the language you chose, and whether someone is signed in. We use it only to count active phones, versions and languages. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data creates a new random number.
What stays on your phone
These are stored only on your device and are never sent to us:
- your language, theme and reminder settings;
- your preferences (deities, state, interests);
- saved temples, recently viewed temples and Yatra passport stamps;
- yatras you plan and their checklists;
- meditation sessions, streaks and japa counts;
- your birth date and time if you use "My nakshatra & rashi" (it stays on your phone and is never sent to our server);
- your location (see below).
Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes them.
Location
If you allow it, the app uses your phone's location to show temples near you, distances and travel estimates, and to work out the Panchangam and Rahu kalam for where you are. The location is used on your phone and is not sent to our server. When you write a community post and tap “Use my current location”, your phone’s built-in place lookup (on Android, Google’s geocoding service) turns the position into a place name such as “Banjara Hills, Hyderabad”; only that name, which you can edit or remove, is saved with the post, never your exact position. You can turn location off at any time in your phone's settings; the app then uses Hyderabad for the Panchangam and hides distances.
Notifications
Reminders (Panchangam, festivals, the evening before a yatra, the meditation bell) are scheduled on your phone. News alerts and updates to your saved temples are checked by the app in the background; no notification service stores your data.
If you create an account
An account is needed only to post in the community, join groups, and suggest changes to temple pages. When you sign up, we store on our server:
- your email address and a securely hashed password, or, if you use Google sign-in, your Google account's email, name and profile picture;
- the name and city you give, an optional short bio, and when you accepted the community guidelines;
- if you choose to give it, your age range (for example 25–34), never your date of birth. It is never shown to other users; the DevBoomi team sees it in its dashboard and uses it, mostly as totals, to understand who uses the app. You can change it or choose “Prefer not to say” at any time in your profile;
- what you post: posts with their photos or a video (videos are made smaller on your phone before they are uploaded) and place, comments and replies, likes, group memberships and your role in a group, people you block, reports you make, and temple contributions (text, sources, photos and map links);
- the posts you save to your Saved posts list. Only you can see this list.
Your name, photo, posts, comments and approved contributions are visible to other users. Posts in a private group, with their photos and videos, are visible only to that group's members. Your email address is not shown to other users.
We use this information only to run these features: to sign you in, show your posts and groups, moderate content, review contributions, and send you account emails (email verification and password reset). We do not send marketing emails from the app.
Content we check
Temple contributions are reviewed by DevBoomi reviewers before they appear. Reported posts and comments are reviewed by our administrators, who may hide them or take action under our Terms of use.
Where your data is kept
Account data, posts, photos and videos are kept with our hosting providers and reached only over secure HTTPS connections. Videos, and photos shared in private groups, are opened only through short-lived private links that the app gets for people allowed to see them. Nightly backups are kept for 7 days. Account emails are sent from [email protected] through Hostinger's mail service. Our servers keep short-lived request logs (such as IP address and device type) for security and to fix problems.
Other services the app opens
- Live darshan plays the temples' official YouTube channels in YouTube's own embedded player. YouTube's terms and Google's privacy policy apply to what you watch there.
- Google sign-in is handled by Google; we receive only your email, name and profile picture.
- Directions open Google Maps, and Book online, temple websites and news stories open the official sites in your browser. Their own policies apply there.
- News headlines are fetched from the publishers' public feeds, and some recitations are streamed from Wikimedia Commons; these sites see a normal web request from your phone.
The devboomi.com website
The website uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages and buttons are used. It sets Google Analytics cookies. If you fill in the early-access form, your name, email and the optional phone, city, language and interests are emailed to [email protected] so we can contact you about early access; they are not sent to Google Analytics and are not stored in a database. Because early access is limited to 100 people, the website keeps only a count and a one-way fingerprint of each email address (which cannot be turned back into the address), so the same person is not counted twice. After a new request, the website sends you one welcome email from [email protected] with the download link; to do that it keeps your email address and first name in a private file on the website's server only until the email has been handed to the mail server (or, if that keeps failing, after the last of five attempts over about three hours), then deletes them. You are not added to any newsletter or marketing list. The page shows only the number of places taken. The website also counts, per day, how many early-access requests arrive and how many times the app file is requested (and which version); these are plain numbers with no names, addresses or device details, seen only by the DevBoomi team. The website also counts visits on its own server: which page was opened, what kind of site the visit came from (for example a search engine, WhatsApp or a direct link) and when someone starts filling in the form. To count each visitor once a day, it makes a one-way code from your network address and browser with a key that changes every day; the codes are deleted the next day, so you cannot be followed from one day to another, and your address itself is never stored. No cookies are used for this, and robots are not counted.
We never sell your data
We do not sell, rent or share your personal information for advertising. We share it only with the service providers named above, to run DevBoomi, or if the law requires it.
How long we keep it
We keep your account data for as long as you have an account. When you delete your account, it is removed from our servers straight away, with your posts, photos, videos and saved posts, and from backups within 7 days. Temple contributions that were already approved, and groups you created, stay in the app because other people rely on them, but your name is removed from them.
Your choices and rights
- See and correct: edit your name, city, bio and photo in the app (Profile → Edit profile).
- Delete: delete your account in the app (Profile → Delete account) or as explained on devboomi.com/delete-account.
- Ask us: email [email protected] to ask what we hold about you, to correct or erase it, or with any complaint. We reply within 30 days.
We handle personal data in line with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Children
DevBoomi is meant for people aged 12 and over, and everyone can use it as a guest without giving us any personal information. Community accounts are for people aged 18 or over; when creating an account, people confirm they are 18 or older. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18. If you believe a person under 18 has created an account, write to us and we will delete it.
Security
All connections use HTTPS. Passwords are stored only as secure hashes. Access to the server and the review tools is limited to the DevBoomi team.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date above, and tell you in the app if the change is significant.
Contact
JARVEX, Hyderabad, Telangana, India · [email protected]