AI Purohit Privacy Policy

AI Purohit ("the app") is a Bengali/Hindu Panjika (Panchang) and AI-purohit app published by Surajit Roy. This policy explains what the app does — and does not — do with your information.

The short version: signing in is optional. The app never needs your name. If you sign in, you can choose to save your name and birth details (date, time and place of birth) so your birth sign follows you to a new phone. Your email address is used only to confirm the sign-in and is not stored. The app never asks for your phone number or any government or financial ID, and it does not build a profile of you. The Panjika, calendar, festivals, muhurat timings, reminders and home-screen widget all run entirely on your device and work with no network at all. What does talk to a server: the AI chat, the Mudra balance that meters it, the ads shown through Google AdMob, and purchases made through Google Play Billing — each described in its own section below.

What Stays On Your Device

Your chosen city and calculation settings, your saved dates, your reminder preferences, your rashi (if you pick one), and every Panchang value the app computes. None of this is transmitted anywhere. The astronomical engine runs locally, so the app is fully usable offline.

The Anonymous Device ID

The first time you open the app it generates a random identifier (a UUID). It is not derived from your hardware, phone number, advertising ID, or any personal detail, and it is not linked to your identity. It is sent to the server for one purpose: to hold your Mudra balance — the in-app credit that meters AI questions — and to apply fair-use limits that prevent abuse. If you clear the app's data, a new ID is generated and the previous balance cannot be recovered.

Signing In With Google (Optional)

If you sign in, the server stores your Google account ID to link your purchases and saved details to you. It keeps a separate one-way hash of that ID only to make sure the one-time sign-in bonus is paid once.

Location

With your permission, the app uses your device location to compute an accurate Panchang for where you are — sunrise, sunset, tithi and the timings that depend on them — entirely on your device. It also sends an approximate location, rounded to about 3 km, to open-meteo to fetch the temperature and air-quality readings shown on the home screen; if you have not granted location permission, this is the default city (Kolkata), not your own position. Your exact GPS coordinates are never sent anywhere, and no location is ever sent to or stored on our own server. You can deny or revoke the location permission at any time in your device settings.

AI Chat Messages

When you ask the AI purohit a question, the app sends your typed question and the computed almanac context for that day — the date, timezone and Panchang values for your selected place — to the server, which forwards it to Google's Gemini API to generate a reply. This happens only to answer your question. Please do not include personal or sensitive information in chat messages. Google's handling of that request is governed by Google's own terms and privacy policy. Our server does not keep the question or the reply. If you report a reply, that reply text is kept for review. A general question asked by several different people may be kept with its AI answer for up to 180 days, so it can be answered again without the AI; it is never linked to who asked.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The app shows ads through Google AdMob: rewarded ads you choose to watch to earn Mudra, and occasional interstitial ads, capped to a small number per day. Ads are never shown to Pro subscribers. AdMob may collect your advertising ID, how you interact with ads, diagnostic information, and an approximate location estimated from your internet address, to show and measure ads and to prevent fraud — this is collected and processed by Google, not by the app, and the app itself never sees or stores it. Where required (for example in the EEA and UK), the app asks for your consent before requesting an ad, per Google's own consent requirements; you can change that choice later from Settings → Ad privacy options. When you complete a rewarded ad, Google sends a signed confirmation to the server that includes your anonymous device ID, so the correct wallet is credited — no other information about you is involved. See Google's Privacy Policy for details on how Google handles this data.

Purchases

Optional Pro subscriptions and Mudra packs are sold entirely through Google Play Billing. When you buy Pro or a Mudra pack, Google Play sends us a purchase receipt; our server checks it against Google's Play Developer API and stores the result — which product was purchased, and your resulting entitlement — against your anonymous wallet id, so your purchase stays attached to you. The app never sees your card, bank, or payment details. You can manage or cancel a subscription any time from your Google Play account settings.

What This App Does Not Do

There are no analytics or tracking SDKs in the app. The app does not sell your data for advertising, and does not build an advertising profile of you — whether the ads you see are personalized is determined by your consent choice and by Google, not by the app.

Data Sharing

Google, via the Gemini API, receives AI-chat requests as described above in order to generate replies. Google AdMob serves the ads described above and receives your device's advertising identifiers, subject to your consent choice. Google Play Billing and the Play Developer API process purchases and confirm them to the server. open-meteo receives an approximate location to return the weather and air-quality data shown on the home screen — it requires no account, and the app sends it nothing else. Google Play Services is also involved as required for app distribution.

Deleting Your Data

In the app: Settings → Delete my data. It takes effect immediately. If you no longer have the app: reinstall it, sign in with the same Google account, then use Settings → Delete my data. (We do not store your email address, so we cannot find your data from an email alone.) Questions: support@surajitroy.com

What Is Deleted

Your Mudra balance and its history, your chat request records, any AI replies you reported, your ad-reward records, your saved name and birth details, and the link between this device and your Google account.

What Is Kept, and Why

Purchase records (which pack or plan, when, and its Google Play purchase token) are kept for accounting and to handle refunds. A one-way hash of your Google account ID is kept only so the one-time sign-in bonus cannot be claimed twice; it cannot be turned back into your ID. Daily request counts per internet address are kept only to stop abuse; they are not linked to your account or your name. Server backups: deleted data can remain in backups for up to 14 days, until those backups are replaced.

Astrological and Traditional Content

AI Purohit presents Panchang calculations, muhurat timings, রাশিফল and festival information drawn from traditional almanac sources. Where a timing follows a traditional convention rather than a purely astronomical calculation, the app labels it as such. This content is offered for cultural and traditional guidance. It is not professional medical, legal or financial advice, and decisions you make remain your own.

Children

AI Purohit is a general-audience almanac. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Security

All traffic to the server uses HTTPS. Server configuration and API keys are held outside the public web root and are never shipped in the app. Personal details are stored only for readers who sign in: their Google account ID, and their name and birth details if they choose to save them. Settings → Delete my data removes them.

Changes

This policy will be updated as the app evolves, and the date shown above will be revised when that happens.

Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent to support@surajitroy.com or via the contact page.