Privacy policy
In short
- Telugu Panchangam’s own code never sends your location, your town or your reminders anywhere. We have no server, and we never receive them.
- There is no account and no login.
- The one ad comes from Google AdMob, which collects and shares some device data with Google for advertising. Where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent before the ad loads.
- The one-time purchase is handled by Google Play. We never see your payment details.
Who we are
Telugu Panchangam is published by Sangachadwam. This policy covers the Telugu Panchangam Android app and this website.
What the app stores, and where
The app stores your settings (language, town, method and display choices), your reminders (the name you give, the date or tithi, the rule and the alerts), the towns you add yourself, and a cache of calculated days. All of this stays in the app’s own storage on your phone.
Reminders can hold names of family members and the tithi of a death anniversary. We do not receive, see, sell or share them.
Every time, tithi and festival date is calculated on the phone. The app does not download them.
Location
Telugu Panchangam can find your town using your approximate location (not your precise location). It asks only when you tap to find your town, only while the app is open on your screen, and it reads the location once. It never uses location in the background.
Your location is used on the phone to choose the nearest town and to calculate the times for it. It stays on your phone, so the app does not collect it.
You can skip location completely and choose your town from the list stored in the app.
Reminders and notifications
Reminders are set on your phone and shown as notifications by Android. Nothing about them is sent anywhere.
Ads (Google AdMob)
The app shows one banner ad, at the end of the Today page. It never shows ads on first start, on the calendar, festivals or reminders, in notifications or widgets, or next to devotional text, and it never shows video or full-screen ads.
Google AdMob serves the ad. The Google Mobile Ads SDK collects and shares the advertising ID, app interactions, diagnostic data, and your IP address with the approximate location it reveals. Google uses this data for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention.
For users in the UK and the European Economic Area, the app shows Google’s consent form when the banner would first load, and loads ads only if you allow it. We block ads for loans, credit and lending, gambling and betting, alcohol, dating, get-rich-quick offers and sexual and reproductive health, and we limit ads to the “T” (teen) content rating.
Ads need the internet. Your location, your town and your reminders are never sent with an ad request.
The one-time purchase (Google Play)
Removing the ad costs ₹149, paid once through Google Play. Google handles the payment under its own terms and privacy policy. We never see your card, UPI or bank details. The app checks your purchase on the phone, and it can restore it on a new phone from your Google account.
Permissions the app asks for
These are all the Android permissions in the app, and why each one is there:
- Approximate location: to find your town once, only while the app is open. Optional.
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION - Notifications: to show your tithi reminders.
POST_NOTIFICATIONS - Run at startup: to set your reminders and the widget again after the phone restarts.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - Alarms and reminders: optional, so that reminders and the widget change to the minute. Without it, Android may show a reminder up to about an hour late.
SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM - Internet: only for the ad and the purchase. The times are calculated without it.
INTERNET - Advertising ID: used by Google AdMob for the ad.
AD_ID - Google Play billing: for the one-time purchase.
BILLING
The app does not ask for your precise location, contacts, photos, files or phone number.
Backups
Backup file: when you save a backup, Android asks you where to save it. The file is plain JSON and is not protected by a password. It holds your settings, your reminders and the towns you added. Keep it somewhere safe, and share it only with people you trust.
Android backup: if backup is turned on in your phone’s settings, Android may copy the app’s data (not the calculated-day cache) to your Google account. Google stores this backup in encrypted form. You control it in your phone’s settings.
This website
This website uses no cookies, no analytics and no trackers. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes basic request data, such as your IP address, to deliver the pages and to protect the site from attacks.
Children
Telugu Panchangam is not directed at children.
Deleting your data
Your data is on your phone, so you can delete it at any time. To remove everything at once, uninstall the app or clear its storage in Android settings. Backup files are deleted where you saved them, and Android’s backup is deleted from your Google account. You can reset your advertising ID in Android settings.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Write to us:
support@sangachadwam.in