Privacy

The short version: the almanac runs on your device, so most of what you do here never reaches us in the first place. Below is the long version, written so you can check it rather than take it on trust.

What never leaves your device

• Your details, and your family'sDate, time and place of birth, entered on your profile, for family members, or on the calculator pages; your gender and your gothram; and the details of loved ones you choose to remember for a shraddha. Encrypted on your device (AES-256, with a key created on the device that cannot be read out of it) and used by the calculation running in front of you. There is no code path that sends them anywhere. In the iPhone app they sit inside the app's own storage, which iOS also encrypts and deletes when the app is deleted.
• The place you calculate forThe city name and its coordinates, so the app opens on the right sunrise. Kept in ordinary device storage.
• Every calculationTithi, nakshatra, Rahu Kaal, choghadiya, eclipses — all of it is worked out on your device. Nothing about what you looked up, or when, is sent anywhere, because no server is involved in producing it.

What does leave, and why

Four things, all of them optional except the first line of the first one — and that only if you choose to have an account at all. The almanac itself works signed out.

• Your email addressOnly if you choose to sign in. We email you a six-digit code; there is no password.Goes to: Our sign-in service, and the email service that delivers the code.
• A place name you search forWhen you type a place — for your location, a birth place, or where a loved one passed away — the text is looked up to find its coordinates and time zone.Goes to: Our own server, which asks a place-name service on your behalf. The service sees our server, not you: your IP address and device are never passed on, and we keep no record of the search.
• Your approximate location, onceOnly when you tap “Use my current location”, and only to show you a city name. The times themselves are computed on your device from your exact position, which stays on it.Goes to: Our own server, which rounds the position to about a kilometre before asking a place-name service for the city. The service never sees your IP address or your exact position, and nothing is logged.
• Your nameIf you fill it in, it is stored with your account, so a person answering your email knows who they are writing to. It is the only thing about you that is. Your gender, gothram, birth date, time, place, rasi and nakshatra are NOT — they stay on your device, encrypted. A profile saved before this change is cleared of them the next time it is saved.Goes to: Our own backend.
• Whether you have purchasedSo the app knows to unlock other dates. A true/false flag, the platform it was bought on, and the date.Goes to: Our own backend. The payment itself is handled by the app store you bought through — we never see a card number, and we are never told one.

How it is protected

• There is no passwordSigning in emails you a six-digit code that expires in ten minutes. A password is the thing most often stolen and most often reused across sites; this app does not have one to lose.
• The code is never storedWhat travels back with the challenge is a SHA-256 hash of your address and the code, inside a short-lived signed token — never the code itself. The comparison is constant-time, so a wrong code cannot be narrowed down by how long the answer takes.
• In transit: HTTPS, alwaysEvery request the app makes is over TLS. There is no plaintext endpoint to fall back to.
• On the device: not in plain storageYour session is held in session storage, which the operating system clears when the app closes, and mirrored into encrypted storage so a return visit does not mean signing in again. Nothing readable is left in plain local storage.
• Face ID and Touch ID stay on the deviceIf you turn on biometric unlock, the credential is created by the platform authenticator and never leaves the device. We receive a handle, never your face or your fingerprint.

What we do not claim. The name and choices saved with your account are stored in a form our service can read. Your birth details are not stored by us at all, which also means they do not follow you to a new device: set one up and you enter them again. The encryption on your device protects the stored copy; it is not a guard against someone who can already use your unlocked device.

What this app does not do

• No analyticsThere is no analytics SDK in the app. We do not know which pages you open or how long you stay.
• No advertising, no trackersNo ad network, no tracking pixel, no third-party cookie. Even the fonts are served from our own origin rather than fetched from an outside service, so loading a page contacts nobody else. The site tells your browser to refuse any other server outright, so a tracker could not be added by accident without the browser blocking it.
• Nothing is sold or sharedWe do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising or for anyone else's analytics.
• No profilingYour birth details are used to compute a chart position and nothing else. They are not used to build an advertising profile, and they are not combined with anything from anywhere else.

How the almanac may be relied on, and what we are and are not responsible for, is set out in the Terms of Use — including how to keep a backup, since we hold no copy of your birth details.

Getting rid of it

• Birth details on the device“Forget” beside any person — you, a family member, a loved one remembered — removes them from the device immediately. Deleting the app removes everything it stored.
• Your account and profileEmail support@panchangamdaily.com from the address on the account and we will delete the row and confirm when it is gone.

Children

This app is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from a child. It asks for nothing beyond an email address unless you choose to fill in a profile.

Changes, and how to ask

If what the app does changes, this page changes in the same release — it describes the code rather than summarising an intention. Questions, corrections or a deletion request: support@panchangamdaily.com.

The other half of the story is how the numbers are produced. How accurate is this almanac? has the method and the comparison figures.