BabaYo for Android

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 25, 2026

This policy explains how the BabaYo app for Android ("BabaYo", "we") handles your information. It covers the app as distributed on Google Play.

What BabaYo stores

You provide this information directly in the app:

• Your name
• Your date and time of birth
• Your place of birth (place name, coordinates and time zone)
• Sex assigned at birth (used for accurate Vedic interpretation)
• Calibration entries, reflections and life events you choose to log
• Your settings, such as reminder time and biometric lock

Where your data lives

All of this is stored only on your device, in app-private storage protected by Android's file-based encryption. We do not run servers, and we do not transmit, sync, sell or share this data with anyone, including advertisers. BabaYo opts out of Android's cloud backup, so your data is not copied to your Google account either.

BabaYo works offline. Your chart and daily readings are computed on your phone, and the city search uses a list built into the app.

No advertising, no tracking

BabaYo contains no advertising, analytics, attribution or behavioral tracking SDKs. It does not use an advertising ID, does not fingerprint your device and does not track you across other apps or websites.

Crash reports (optional, off by default)

If you turn on crash reports in Settings, BabaYo sends anonymous crash diagnostics to Sentry, a crash reporting service, to help us fix problems. A report contains the error and its stack trace, technical details about your phone and its software (such as the phone model, Android version, language setting, memory and screen size) and the app version.

Reports never include your birth details, calibration entries, reflections, life events or any identifier. Before a report is sent, BabaYo removes the user and install IDs that the crash reporting library would add, and it does not ask Sentry to record your IP address. Reports travel over an encrypted connection, and because they carry no identifier, they cannot be linked back to you. You can turn crash reports off at any time.

Information from Google Play

If you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics data with Google on your phone, Google may show us anonymous crash and performance statistics for BabaYo in Google Play Console. Google handles that data under the Google Privacy Policy.

Permissions

• Internet: used only to send crash reports, if you turn them on.
• Notifications: for the optional daily reminder, which is scheduled on your phone. There is no push server.
• Biometric: for the optional app lock. Android verifies your fingerprint or face on the device; BabaYo never sees, stores or transmits biometric data.

BabaYo does not ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or files. Exporting your data uses Android's share sheet, so no storage permission is needed.

Your data, your control

• Export: Settings, then Export / back up my data (JSON), saves everything as a file you control.
• Restore: Settings, then Restore from a backup file.
• Delete: Settings, then Delete all my data (under Danger zone), erases all app data. Uninstalling BabaYo also removes everything stored on your phone.

Since we never receive your personal data, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete on our side. Step by step: babayo.ai/delete-data.

Age

BabaYo is for people 17 and older, and the app asks you to confirm your age before you start. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we change how BabaYo handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]. Anything else: [email protected].

BabaYo is for personal reflection and cultural exploration. It is not medical, legal, financial, mental-health or relationship advice.