Privacy policy

Updated 7 Nov 2026

In short

This is the policy for Vāṅmaya's first test, for two or three invited families in Australia. Without a family account, what you do in the app stays on your phone. With one, we keep only what the account needs, on a server in Sydney, and delete it all when the test ends.

Every few hours, the app asks our server in Sydney for new and corrected texts, and fetches them. This sends nothing about you. Like any website, the server sees your phone's internet address, which Supabase keeps in its records for a day.

Otherwise, something leaves your phone only if you choose to send it: an email to us, a verse you share, a progress file you save or a link you open.

There are no ads, no tracking and no analytics companies, and we never sell or share information about anyone.

Who we are

Vāṅmaya is published by Adviti Holdings Pty Ltd (ACN 686 723 151), a company in Australia.

What stays on your phone

Each person on the phone has a profile: a nickname you choose (it needn't be a real name), one of the app's own pictures, and whether they are a grown-up or a child. We never ask anyone's age. The grown-up who makes a family account confirms they're 18 or over.

Each person's choices, My bookshelf and their reading and learning progress are kept in the app's own storage on this phone, and, if you make a family account, with the account too (below). The phone's city, calendar choices, reminders and widget stay on the phone either way.

A PIN, if you set one, is kept only as a scrambled code in the phone's secure storage. It never leaves the phone.

We can't see any of this. Your phone may copy it into your own iCloud backup, which belongs to you, not to us.

A family account, if you make one

A family account is optional. Before you make one, the app shows the test's consent note, and you agree to it.

It keeps your email address, the date you confirmed you're 18 or over, and the country your family lives in. For each person: the nickname and built-in picture you chose, their settings (language, script, text size, look, simple mode, meaning under each verse, tradition reading and translation, My bookshelf, daily verses) and their reading progress. For each child, a record that you agreed, by email, to their profile being kept. If you turn on notifications, your phone's address for them.

It is kept in Adviti Holdings' account with Supabase, a US company, on its servers in Sydney, Australia. Supabase's sign-in service also notes the internet address and kind of phone each time someone signs in.

Sign-in codes and other account emails are sent through Amazon's email service in Sydney. Notifications, which only a signed-in grown-up can turn on, go through Expo and Apple. When a new text arrives, we send one to say so.

We use it only to keep your family's phones in step and to run the test. We never analyse it, share it or sell it, and the test app sends no usage figures.

Your location

Use my location, on the city screen, asks your phone for your location once, when you tap it, picks the nearest city from the app's own list, and forgets the location. It is never stored or sent. It isn't offered in a child's profile. You can choose a city from the list instead.

What leaves your phone only if you choose

Report a problem and Send a correction open your own email app with a message to us. It is shown to you before you send it, and you can change it. It includes the app's version and your phone's model, to help us find the problem. Please don't include your name. We use your email only to deal with the problem, and delete it 90 days after the problem is resolved. Report a problem isn't offered in a child's profile.

Share opens your phone's share sheet with the verse you chose. You choose where it goes.

Save a progress file makes a small file of your progress and My bookshelf, and opens your phone's share sheet. We never see it.

Listen elsewhere opens a recording on another website, in your phone's browser. That website has its own privacy policy, and what you do there is between you and it. These links appear only in a grown-up's profile.

Apple and TestFlight

You get this test through Apple's TestFlight. Apple shows us the name and email address we invited you with, and when the app was installed, how often it was opened and any crashes. If you send feedback through TestFlight, we see that too. We use these only to run the test. Apple's own privacy policy covers what Apple does.

Our website

Our website, vanmaya.app, is hosted by Netlify. It has no scripts, no cookies and no analytics. Like any website host, Netlify sees your device's network address while it sends you the page.

Children

Families use Vāṅmaya together, and children may use it on a family member's phone. Everyone gets the same protection: no tracking, no profiling and no ads. A child's profile stays on the phone unless the grown-up who holds the family account agrees, by email, to it being kept with the account. A child's profile never gets notifications, and it tells them: "Your family can see your progress."

Deleting

You can delete a person's progress in Settings › Your progress, and a person's profile in Settings › Family on this phone. Removing the app removes everything it keeps on this phone.

You can delete your family account in Settings › Family account at any time. It is erased after 14 days, so a mistake can be undone. When the test ends, we delete every account and everything in it.

To ask us to remove your name and email address from the test, or an email you sent us, write to us at the address below.

When this changes

Before any later version sends anything more to us, this policy will say exactly what is sent, to whom, why, and how to turn it off.

Contact

Write to support@vanmaya.app with any question or complaint about privacy. If you're not happy with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.