Permanent version
Data safety, exactly as published effective 5 November 2026. This text never changes, so a record of acceptance can point here. It is also the version currently in force, at /legal/data-safety.
Data safety
Effective 5 November 2026. For com.shivankit.varta.
This page states the same facts as the app's Google Play Data safety section, in full sentences rather than checkboxes. Where the two could ever disagree, treat this page and the Privacy Policy as the fuller account.
Data is encrypted in transit between the app and our servers. You can delete your account and its data, or delete some of it and keep the account.
Services you connect yourself. If you connect another service to your assistant, for example by adding its address, what that service returns becomes part of your conversation and is handled as the messages below. That service's own terms and privacy policy apply to what it holds.
Location
Approximate location
CollectedSharedOptionalOnly when you allow it, to answer something that depends on where you are, such as the weather or places near you. If you set a home location, it is stored to about a kilometre. Shared with the language model, and with the search, maps or weather service that answers it.
Precise location
CollectedSharedOptionalOnly when you allow precise location, for the same answers, and during a trip you start, to guide you. Shared with the language model, and with the search, maps or weather service that answers it. During a trip, it goes only to our own routing service, and only if you leave the route.
Personal info
Name
CollectedSharedRequiredEvery account has one: you give it when you sign up with a phone number, and an account made with an email address starts with the part before the @. It names your workspace and lets your assistant address you, so it goes to language model providers.
Email address
CollectedNot sharedOptionalIf you sign up or sign in with one, or add one to your profile. Used for your account and to write to you about it.
User IDs
CollectedNot sharedRequiredThe identifiers of your account and your workspace, which everything you keep with us is stored under.
Phone number
CollectedSharedOptionalIf you sign in with one, or give the number your assistant answers. Shared with telephony carriers to route calls.
Messages
Other in-app messages
CollectedSharedRequiredYour chats and call transcripts, and your assistant's replies. Shared with language model providers to generate the response. Some of these providers may also use what they receive to improve their own services, under their own terms. Unless your organisation turns model improvement off, also used to train our own language models.
Photos and videos
Photos
CollectedSharedOptionalOnly the ones you choose to share with your assistant, in a chat or during a call. Shared with language model providers so your assistant can see them.
Audio
Voice or sound recordings
CollectedSharedOptionalYour voice on calls, and the calls' recordings. Shared with speech recognition and voice providers to carry the conversation. Unless your organisation turns model improvement off, call recordings are also used to train our own speech recognition. You can type to your assistant instead of calling it.
Files and docs
Files and docs
CollectedSharedOptionalOnly the documents you choose to attach in a chat, such as a PDF, a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, text, code or a zip file. Their text goes to language model providers so your assistant can read them. A file you attach but never send is deleted after 24 hours.
Contacts
Contacts
CollectedSharedOptionalOnly when you allow it, so your assistant knows who you mean when you name someone. Shared with language model providers when your assistant uses them, and, as hints, with the speech recognition provider on your calls.
App activity
App interactions
CollectedNot sharedRequiredDiagnosing failures and measuring latency; and the thumbs up or down you give a reply, which, unless your organisation turns model improvement off, may be used to improve our models.
In-app search history
CollectedSharedOptionalWhat your assistant searches for on your behalf. Shared with the search service that answers it. Some of these providers may also use what they receive to improve their own services, under their own terms. Unless your organisation turns model improvement off, we may keep it to improve our models.
Other user-generated content
CollectedSharedOptionalYour reminders and call-backs, and what your assistants remember about you, shared with language model providers when your assistant uses them; and reports you send about a reply, which people on our staff read.
App info and performance
Crash logs
CollectedNot sharedRequiredReported to our own servers to fix crashes. No third-party crash SDK.
Diagnostics
CollectedNot sharedRequiredPerformance and connectivity troubleshooting.
Device or other IDs
Push token (FCM)
CollectedSharedRequiredDelivering notifications. Shared with Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, which is the transport.
Not collected
- SMS or call logs from the device
- Calendar events from the device
- Health or fitness data from the device or its sensors
- Payment card or bank details
- Advertising or marketing identifiers
- Web browsing history
- The list of apps installed on the device
Security practices
- Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted with TLS.
- Your session is stored in Android's encrypted storage, not in plain preferences.
Deletion
Uninstalling the app removes the local copy but not the account — your data lives on the platform. Delete your account to remove it, delete some of it and keep the account, or email hello@shivankit.com.