Privacy policy

Effective date: 6 November 2026.

Summary

• There are no devotee accounts. The app works without one.
• Your journey, check-ins and saved items stay on your phone.
• If you share an Annadanam or Padi Pooja on this website, we keep your name and mobile number to phone you, and nothing is published until we have checked it.
• The app fetches shared devotional content and listings from our server. That server can see your IP address in its routine logs.
• Songs played through YouTube, and the pictures shown beside them, are handled by YouTube and Google.
• The weather for the week is fetched only if you tap “Get weather”. Then a place, rounded to about a kilometre, goes to Open-Meteo.com.
• We do not currently use analytics or crash reporting in the app or on this website.

Who is responsible

Fynarc Techworks Pvt Ltd is responsible for the data described here.

What stays on your phone

These are stored on your device and are not uploaded by the app on its own: your Deeksha start date, number of days and time zone, daily check-ins, checklist items and their completion, favourites, bookmarks, Pradakshana walks, your Saranam counts, your Sabarimala trip plan and checklists, language and text-size settings, reminder settings, the place you chose (rounded to about a kilometre), offers you saved, the picture you put in the menu, and recording files and their details if recording is available in your version. The Puja Vidhanam guide, the Saranam texts and the Swami names are inside the app.

What reaches our servers

• Shared content. The app downloads reviewed devotional text, song details, listings, announcements, shop offers and the answer to “is there a newer version of the app?”. Like any server, ours sees your IP address and basic request details in routine logs when the app does this. Whether an offer is near you is worked out on your phone, so the place you chose is not sent.
• Staff accounts. The people who manage content sign in to a separate admin portal. That is not part of the devotee app. Apart from listings that people share through this website (see Sharing a listing), it holds no devotee data.
• Nothing else on its own. The app does not upload your journey, check-ins or recordings unless you choose to export or upload them.

Sharing a listing

The Share a listing page lets anyone tell us about an Annadanam or a Padi Pooja. It is the one place on this website where we collect personal details.

• What we collect. Your name and mobile number, and the listing itself: its name, address, dates, times, meals, an optional Google Maps link and any note you add. We do not collect your location from your phone.
• Why. To phone you and check that the details are true. You tick a box to agree before you can send the form.
• Who sees it. Only administrators of the admin portal. Your name and number are never shown in the app or on this website.
• Nothing is public until it is checked. A listing appears in the app only after we have phoned you and found the details to be true. The listing is then public. Your name and number are not part of it. A listing we cannot confirm is not published.
• How long we keep it. Once a submission is closed, because it was published or marked as wrong details, it is deleted once it is more than 30 days old. The clean-up runs each time a new submission arrives. A submission that is still open is kept until it is closed.
• Limits. To stop misuse, a mobile number can send only a few submissions a day.
• No messages. We contact you only by phone call, for this check. We do not send text messages, WhatsApp messages or email about it.

To ask us to delete a submission sooner, use the Support page and choose “Privacy request”.

Location, notifications and microphone

• Location is used only when you ask: once, to sort listings by distance, to work out sunrise and sunset for your reminders, and to show distances. It is never sent to us. A place rounded to about a kilometre is kept on your phone. You can browse listings without it, by choosing a city. The one place it can go is Open-Meteo.com, only if you tap “Get weather” (see Third-party services).
• Camera and pictures. The camera is used only when you choose “Take a photo”, for your menu picture or a Share card. The phone’s own picker gives the app only the picture you choose, with no access to the rest of your gallery. A picture stays on your phone, and a card you share goes only to the app you pick.
• Notifications are optional reminders scheduled on your phone, including the trip reminders for a trip date you set. This version of the app does not use remote push notifications, and it sends no push address or area to us.
• Nearby alerts are not switched on in this version. The app contains the code for them, so we say what they would send: if a later version offers them, they stay off until you turn them on, after a screen that explains this first. They would then send our server a push address for your phone and an area rounded to about 5 km, never your exact location, and turning them off removes both from our server.
• Audio playback. While audio that its rights holder has cleared is playing, your phone shows a media notification so you can pause it. YouTube is never played in the background.
• Microphone is used only while you record, in versions where recording is available. Recordings stay on your phone unless you choose to share or upload one.

Third-party services

• YouTube. When the YouTube list shows its pictures, and when a YouTube player loads, your phone asks YouTube’s servers (Google) for them, which sends your IP address and device details to Google. What Google does with them is set by Google’s own terms and privacy policy.
• Open-Meteo.com. Only when you tap “Get weather”, a place rounded to about a kilometre is sent to Open-Meteo.com, which returns the weather. No account and no device number is sent, and the app asks again for nothing: “Turn off weather” stops it. What Open-Meteo.com does with a request is set by its own terms.
• Google Drive. In a version where Google Drive backup is switched on, and only after you connect your own Google account, a copy of your Deeksha data is kept in a folder in your own Drive. Nothing goes to our servers, and Irumudi never sees your Google password. This option is off in the current version.
• Maps. Directions open in the maps app or site you choose, under its own terms.
• Stores. Google Play and the App Store handle downloads and keep their own records.

Backups

Android cloud backup is turned off for the app. On iPhone, if iCloud Backup is on, your phone may include data from Irumudi in that backup. Uninstalling the app can delete your data on the phone, so export it first if you want to keep it.

Analytics and crash reports

The app and this website do not currently include analytics, an advertising network or crash-reporting services. The app can show announcements and shop offers that the Irumudi team publishes itself. They come from our own server like any other shared content, and they do not track you. If any of this ever changes, this policy will say so first and ask for consent where the law requires it.

This website

• It sets no cookies and loads no analytics, advertising or social-media scripts.
• Fonts are served from this site, not from a font service.
• It has no sign-up list. The one form on it, Share a listing, collects a name and a mobile number, as described under Sharing a listing. Nothing else on the site collects personal details.
• This website is hosted by Vercel Inc. Our server, which holds shared content and listings shared through the form, is run on Supabase in its Mumbai (India) region. Each keeps ordinary server logs, such as IP address and pages requested, under its own retention policy.

Your choices, export and deletion

Open the menu and, under Manage, choose Your data. Export my data saves your journeys, check-ins, checklist, favourites, bookmarks, Pradakshana walks, Saranam counts and trip plan to a file, and Import from a file brings them back. Recordings and saved offers are not in that file. Because your data is on your phone and not in an account with us, you delete it by removing the app or its data on your phone. For a privacy question or request, use the Support page.

Children

Irumudi is intended for people aged 13 and over. The app needs no account and does not ask for your name, age or contact details.

The app does not collect personal information from the people who use it: apart from the routine server logs described under What reaches our servers, nothing you enter or do in the app is sent to us. The one place we collect personal details is the Share a listing form on this website, which asks for a name and a mobile number.

If you think a child under 13 has sent us personal details through that form, email info@fynarctechworks.com and ask us to delete them.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy, we update this page and its effective date before the change applies.

Questions or requests about this policy: info@fynarctechworks.com.