SAMAnvaYAM Privacy Policy

Effective date: March 23, 2026
Last updated: October 21, 2026

SAMAnvaYAM ("we", "our", "us") provides digital app and related services (the "Services"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, store, and protect personal data when you use the Services.

1. Who Controls Your Data

The Services are operated by Kameswara Raviteja Vadrevu.

• Contact email: ayonijaas@gmail.com
• Support email: ayonijaas@gmail.com
• Address: 13-6-5/1, Sivalayam street, Ramachandrapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, 533255

2. Data We Collect

We collect data needed to provide, secure, and improve the Services.

2.1 Data you provide

• account and contact details;
• profile information;
• preferences, settings, and user-submitted content;
• support requests and communications.

2.2 Data collected from app/device use

• device and app metadata (such as app version, OS, and device model);
• usage and interaction events;
• identifiers needed for authentication, notifications, and service integrity;
• diagnostic, crash, and performance data;
• location or timezone data if relevant permissions are granted.

2.5 Family trees you share

The family-tree feature lets you add relatives (names, dates, stars, places) and, if you choose, share a tree with family members who join through an invitation link. Please read this before you share:

• What a shared tree holds. Each person on it has a name, an optional call-name, gender, picture colour, birth date, birth time and birth place (and the lunar day it falls on), birth star, where they live, whether they have passed away and the date, and wedding date. Everyone in a shared family can see these details for everyone on that tree, including children, because the tree is a family's own record; a person who leaves, or a parent or guardian, can ask for an entry to be removed.
• Who sees it. Every member of that tree sees the whole tree, from their own point of view. Members are the people who joined with a link made by the tree's admin or a moderator. One member is the admin (removes members, changes roles); moderators approve other people's requests and make links. Changes by other members wait for the admin's or a moderator's approval.
• People who are not users. The people you add are often relatives who have not installed the app and have not agreed to anything. Add only what you are comfortable sharing with the family members you invite, and do not add a child's details without a parent's or guardian's agreement. Anyone can ask the admin to remove a person from a shared tree.
• Passed-away family members. A person marked as passed away cannot be claimed by an account; marking someone passed away needs the admin's or a moderator's approval.
• Your own page. You can see and correct the details of the person you are on the tree. When you leave a tree or delete your account, the person you are on it is removed straight away (if other people hang from them on the tree, their details are cleared and the place is kept under the name “Former member”). If the admin removes you from a tree, you lose access but your person stays on it unless the admin removes them.
• Invitation links expire after 14 days and can be switched off by the admin or a moderator. Someone removed from a tree cannot rejoin with a link made before they were removed.

2.3 Sensitive or special-category data (if introduced)

If we introduce features that process sensitive personal data (including health-related data), we will provide separate notice and obtain explicit consent where required by law.

3. How We Use Data

• provide and operate the Services;
• authenticate users and protect accounts;
• personalize and improve user experience;
• send service-related communications and notifications;
• support analytics, debugging, reliability, and security;
• comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.

We do not sell personal data.

4. Legal Bases (Where Applicable)

Depending on your jurisdiction, legal bases may include contract performance, consent, legitimate interests, and legal obligations. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent at any time.

5. How We Share Data

We may share data with service providers, infrastructure partners, analytics/support/security providers, legal authorities, and parties involved in corporate transactions.

The specific service providers we currently use are:

• Firebase (Google) — authentication (phone/OTP sign-in) and push notifications.
• RevenueCat — subscription and in-app purchase management.
• Sentry — crash reporting and error diagnostics.
• Mixpanel — product usage analytics.
• Turso — database hosting for your account, alarm, and journal data.
• Koyeb — backend API hosting.

6. International Transfers

Your data may be processed in countries other than your own. Where required, we apply appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as needed for the purposes in this Policy, unless longer retention is required by law. Typical retention periods are:

• Account and profile data (name, phone number, birth details, preferences): retained while your account is active, and deleted within 30 days of a verified account-deletion request, except where we must retain limited data longer for legal, tax, security, or fraud-prevention reasons.
• OTP/phone verification codes: retained only for the short verification window (up to 24 hours), then deleted.
• Alarm and journal data: retained while your account is active; deleted along with your account upon a verified deletion request.
• Crash, performance, and analytics data (via Sentry and Mixpanel): retained for up to 90 days for debugging and product-improvement purposes.
• Shared family trees: a person removed from a shared tree (by you leaving or deleting your account, or by the admin) has their details erased from our database; only the fact that the entry was removed is kept so other members' phones can update. Decided change requests and the change log are kept for 7 days. A shared tree with no members left is deleted entirely.
• Encrypted backups: may persist for up to 30 days after deletion before being purged.

When no longer required, data is deleted, de-identified, or anonymized.

8. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, withdrawal of consent, or lodge a complaint with a regulator.

To make a request, contact: ayonijaas@gmail.com.

9. Account and Data Deletion

Where account creation is available, users can request account deletion via in-app settings and/or a web path listed by SAMAnvaYAM. When you delete your account, the person you are on any shared family tree is removed straight away (see section 2.5). We may retain limited data when required for legal, security, or fraud-prevention reasons.

10. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data. No system is completely secure.

11. Children

The Services are not intended for children below the legal age in applicable jurisdictions unless required parental or guardian consent is obtained. Family trees may include children as people on the tree (see section 2.5); their details are visible to the members of that family (and only to them), and a child's details should be added only with a parent's or guardian's agreement. A parent or guardian can ask us (ayonijaas@gmail.com) or the tree's admin to remove a child's entry.

12. Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the "Last updated" date and provide notice when required.

13. Contact

• ayonijaas@gmail.com
• ayonijaas@gmail.com
• 13-6-5/1, Sivalayam street, Ramachandrapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, 533255