The short version
- Nitya works without an account. An anonymous account is made on your phone at first launch so your practice can be backed up.
- Your city is the one you choose. Nitya never reads your phone's location.
- There are no ads and no advertising or tracking code. Nothing about you is sold to anyone.
- You can delete your account and everything in it, from the app or on the deletion page.
What Nitya holds, and why
| What | Why | Optional |
|---|---|---|
| An account id and a device id (random ids made on the phone) | Your account, backup and sync, purchases, usage statistics | No: made at first launch |
| Your email address | Shown to you in Settings, to say which account is linked; never shown to anyone else | Yes: only when you sign in with Google and Google shares it |
| A display name and an initial | Shown to the members of your family | Yes: only in a family |
| The city you chose | Your city's timings; your family sees your city | You type it; never from the phone's location |
| Your tradition settings (how you keep Ekadashi, your calendar) | Which rules your calendar follows | Yes |
| Your practice: japa sessions and counts, completed practices, saved verses, temple dates you pinned | Your own history, backed up; your family sees "done today" and the week's count | The app works without an account; records sync only with one |
| Your plan: the product, the store, the dates and whether it renews | Nitya Plus, the family plan, and the reminder before a trial ends | Only after a purchase |
| Push tokens | One quiet reminder, and the trial reminder | Yes: only with the notification permission |
| Screen views and app opens | To see which screens are used. No IP address, no city, no content | Yes: switch off "Send usage statistics" in Settings |
| Crash reports | To fix crashes. IP storage is off; no content is included | No |
Your tradition settings and practice records describe your religious practice. Nitya treats them as sensitive: they are used only to run the app for you and your family, and never for anything else.
Not collected: precise location, contacts, photos, health data, browsing or search history, messages, audio recordings, and card or bank details (the App Store and Google Play take payment; Nitya never sees a card).
Early access on this website
The early-access form stores your email address, your phone type (iPhone or Android), the city you chose, the cities you added for your family, and your WhatsApp number if you gave one. With them it stores the tags of the link that brought you, your country as our host reports it, and your browser's name. We use them only to send your invite and to see which links bring people, and we delete them when you ask.
This website sets no advertising or tracking cookies. If we turn on usage statistics for it, they are kept in the page's memory for the visit only, with no cookie and no IP address.
Who processes it for us
These companies process data on Nitya's behalf, under contract, and not for their own use:
- Cloudflare: the server, the database, file storage and this website.
- Expo: delivers push notifications (the push token and the reminder's text).
- RevenueCat: purchases and subscriptions, with the store receipt.
- Superwall: shows the plan screen when you open it.
- PostHog: usage statistics, in the United States, only while the Settings switch is on.
- Sentry: crash reports, in the United States.
- Google and Apple: sign-in, when you choose it. Nitya checks the sign-in token and keeps the account id and, for Google, the email.
How long we keep it
Until you delete your account. Server backups are kept for a fixed period and are never restored for a deleted account. Server logs keep counts and ids only, for a few days.
How to delete it
In the app, go to Settings, then Account, then Delete account. Or use the deletion page, or write to support@getnitya.app. Deleting removes every record above from our servers and the copy on your phone.
Children
Nitya is not directed at children. Its store rating is for everyone because it holds nothing objectionable, not because it is made for children.
Questions
Write to support@getnitya.app. We reply within two days.
Draft prepared from Nitya's data inventory. The final text, its effective date and the name of the company responsible are added before it comes into force.