Privacy Policy for Bhakti Time

Effective date: May 5, 2026

Bhakti Time is a devotional and lifestyle app designed to help users with daily bhakti routines, devotional audio, rituals, muhurat guidance, festival preparation, reminders, share cards, and optional devotional guidance features.

1. Information We Collect

Bhakti Time does not require users to create an account and does not intentionally collect personal information such as name, phone number, address, contacts, photos, or precise location.

The app may store basic preferences locally on your device, such as selected language, theme choice, reminder settings, favorites, checklist progress, and premium status. This information is used only to make the app work correctly for you.

2. Local Device Storage

The app uses local storage on your device for settings and app preferences. This data stays on your device unless you choose to back up your device through Android or Google services. You can remove this local data by clearing app data or uninstalling the app.

3. Notifications and Reminders

Bhakti Time may ask permission to send notifications. Notifications are used for devotional reminders, festival reminders, muhurat reminders, and related app reminders. You can turn notifications off in the app settings or in your Android system settings.

4. Internet Access

The app may use internet access for optional online features, such as AI devotional guidance if enabled, ads if enabled, Google Play Billing, and normal Google Play services. Core devotional features may still work without some online services.

5. AI Devotional Guidance

Bhakti Time may include an optional AI devotional guidance feature. If this feature is connected to Google Gemini or another AI service, questions typed by the user may be sent to that service to generate a response. Users should avoid entering private, sensitive, medical, legal, financial, or personally identifying information into the AI guide.

AI responses are for general devotional and informational support only. They should not be treated as professional, medical, legal, financial, or guaranteed astrological advice.

6. Advertising

Bhakti Time may include advertising through Google AdMob if ads are enabled in the released version. AdMob may collect or use device identifiers, approximate information, app interaction data, and other data according to Google’s advertising policies. Ad behavior may depend on your device settings and Google account settings.

Premium users may have ads removed where the app supports premium access.

7. Purchases and Premium Features

Bhakti Time may offer optional premium features through Google Play Billing. Purchases are processed by Google Play. We do not receive or store your full payment card details. Purchase status may be used by the app to unlock premium features.

8. Sharing Features

The app may allow users to share devotional text or cards using Android’s share sheet. Sharing is controlled by the user. The app does not automatically post content to social media or messaging apps.

9. Third-Party Services

The app may use third-party services including Google Play services, Google AdMob, Google Play Billing, and Google Gemini API. These services may process data according to their own privacy policies.

10. Children’s Privacy

Bhakti Time is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, please contact us so appropriate action can be taken.

11. Data Security

We aim to use reasonable safeguards and rely on standard Android and Google Play platform protections. However, no app, device, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. Data Deletion

Because Bhakti Time does not require an account, most app data is stored locally on your device. You can delete local app data by clearing the app’s storage from Android settings or uninstalling the app.

13. Changes to This Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

14. Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact the developer through the contact details provided on the Bhakti Time Google Play Store listing.