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Privacy policy

Effective date: 8 September 2026. This policy is for the Pocket Astro Android application published by Pocket Astro, and for this website.

Pocket Astro is a Vedic astrology (Jyotish) app. We access, collect, use, and share personal data only to run the product: sign-in, storing your birth profiles, computing charts, and writing the in-app summaries you ask for. We do not sell personal data. We do not show ads.

Who we are

The organisation responsible for this app and this policy is Pocket Astro, which is also the name that appears (or will appear) on the Google Play store listing. Privacy questions and deletion requests: privacy@pocketastro.app.

Personal data we collect

Collection here means data that leaves the device (for example to our servers or to a service we use). We collect:

Account and phone number. Sign-in uses Firebase Authentication with SMS. We store your Firebase user id and the phone number associated with the account so we can recognise you and show the number in the app.
Birth profiles you enter. Date of birth, birth time, timezone, place name, latitude, longitude, how confident you are about the time, and labels such as self, partner, or family. You may also store a display name.
Approximate location for today's panchang. The app sends latitude, longitude, and timezone so the almanac can roll over at local sunrise. This is used to compute today's tithi and related fields, not to advertise.
App language preference stored on the device (SharedPreferences). That preference stays on device unless you later sync settings through the account.
Questions, consult messages, and remedies if you use those features: the text you type, status of a question, and progress you mark.
Computed chart snapshots we keep so the app can show the same lagna, dasha, and dosha results without recomputing every time. These are derived from the birth data you supplied.
Technical logs that hosting may record (IP address, timestamps, request paths) for security, abuse prevention, and keeping the service up.

We do not require contacts, photos, microphone, or the Android Advertising ID. We do not use your data to build advertising profiles.

If you enter birth details for someone else (a partner or relative), that is still personal data. Only enter it if you are allowed to.

How we use data

Create and maintain your account.
Compute Kundali, Navamsa, dasha, doshas, matching, and daily panchang.
Generate the in-app prose summaries (“Today for you” and life-area readings) from chart facts.
Remember language and session on the device.
Secure the service, debug faults, and meet legal duties.

Astrology output is interpretive software. It is not medical, legal, financial, or professional advice.

We do not sell personal data. We share data with processors that work on our instructions:

Google Firebase Authentication — phone sign-in, SMS delivery, and ID tokens. Google processes this as our identity provider. See Firebase privacy.
Our API and database hosts (currently cloud Postgres and the application host we deploy to) — account rows, birth profiles, snapshots, and messages.
OpenAI — when the app asks for a written summary, we send chart facts and the selected language so a model can draft the prose you see. That is app functionality, not advertising. See OpenAI’s privacy policy.

We may disclose data if required by law, to protect users or the service, or as part of a merger with notice to you.

Security

Traffic between the app and our servers uses HTTPS (TLS). We do not store SMS one-time codes or passwords: Firebase issues tokens, and the app refreshes them. Access to production data is limited to operating the service. No method of transmission is perfectly secure.

Retention and deletion

We keep account and birth-profile data until you delete the account, or until we close the service. Chart snapshots can be recomputed; we may drop stale snapshots when our calculation conventions change. Security logs are kept only as long as needed to investigate abuse, typically under 90 days unless a dispute requires longer.

There are two web pathways, and neither needs the app installed or an active session:

Delete your data removes your birth profiles, chart snapshots, questions, predictions, consult messages, and remedies, and keeps the account so you can sign back in to an empty one.
Delete your account removes all of that plus the account itself, including the Firebase user and the phone number on it.

Account deletion is also available in the app (when that setting ships). Deletion means deletion: freezing or deactivating an account is not a substitute. If a law requires us to keep a record (for example a fraud investigation), we will say so in our reply and keep only what that duty requires.

Children

Pocket Astro is not directed at children and is intended for people 18 years or older. We do not knowingly create accounts for children. The in-app “Children” life area is a reading topic for an adult user, not an invitation for a child to sign in.

Your choices

You can decline to create an account; the app will not work without sign-in.
You can edit or remove birth profiles you added.
You can request access, correction, or deletion by emailing privacy@pocketastro.app.
Depending on where you live (including the EEA, UK, and similar regimes), you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Google Play Data safety

The Data safety section on the Play store listing must match this policy. In summary for that form: we collect personal info (name if provided, phone), location (approximate, for panchang), and other user content (birth data, questions). Data is encrypted in transit. Users can request deletion of their data, or of the whole account. We do not sell data. We share data with the processors listed above, including Google (Firebase) and OpenAI for summaries.

Changes

If we change how we handle data, we will update this page and the effective date. Material changes will also be reflected in Play Console.

This page is labelled Privacy policy so it can be linked from Play Console (App content → Privacy policy) and from inside the app. It is a public HTML page, not a PDF.