Kayda Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal data the Kayda mobile application (the “App”) collects, why, how it is protected, and the choices you have. By using Kayda you agree to it and to the Kayda Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not sign in; you can still read the law without an account.

1. Who We Are

Kayda is an app for reading and comparing Indian criminal law: the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam that replaced them. It also includes the Constitution of India.

Kayda is run by TechGlobe Consultancy Services LLP (“we,” “our,” or “us”), which decides why and how your personal data is processed and is the Data Fiduciary under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”). You can reach us at admin@techglobe.in.

2. What You Can Do Without an Account

Reading laws (the Constitution and the criminal law Acts), searching, comparing old and new sections, and downloading laws for offline use do not need an account. We do not ask for your name or any other personal detail for these.

3. Information We Collect

When you sign in or use features that need an account, we collect:

• Google Account Details: Your name, email address, profile photo and Google’s unique account id. We receive these from Google when you choose “Sign in with Google”. We never see your Google password.
• Profile Choices: Your profession (advocate, student, police, citizen or other) and your preferred language.
• Your Library: Folders, favourite sections, notes, highlights and the text you highlighted. Notes are stored exactly as you write them.
• Study Data: Flashcard schedules, quiz scores, and which questions you answered right or wrong.
• Technical Data: Sign-in session tokens, app version, device type and operating system, IP address, and standard server logs (request time and errors). Search words you type may appear in these logs.
• Dates: When your account was created and when you were last active.

3.1 Information We Do NOT Collect

• Your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or files.
• Payment or financial details (Kayda has no payments).
• Your phone number, or government ids such as Aadhaar.
• Advertising ids. Kayda shows no ads and uses no advertising or third-party analytics tools.

3.2 Data Kept Only on Your Device

Some data never leaves your phone: your theme, text size, read-aloud speed, language choice and reminder time; downloaded laws and cached law text; and an offline copy of your library and any changes waiting to sync. Your library copy and sign-in tokens are stored encrypted. This data is removed when you uninstall the App or clear its storage.

4. How We Use Your Information

• To create and run your account and keep you signed in.
• To save your library and study progress and sync them across your devices.
• To show the App in your language and tailor it to your profession.
• To generate PDF exports of sections you ask for.
• To keep the service secure, prevent abuse, fix errors and understand whether it is working.
• To respond to your messages and complaints.
• To meet our legal obligations.

We do not use your data to advertise to you, build profiles to sell, or train AI models.

5. Why We May Process It (Consent and Legitimate Uses)

We process your personal data with your consent, which you give when you choose to sign in, and you can withdraw it at any time (see “Your Rights”). We may also process it for certain legitimate uses allowed by the DPDP Act, such as responding to a request you made, complying with law, or protecting the security of the service. Withdrawing consent means we can no longer provide features that need an account.

6. Sign in with Google

Sign-in is handled by Google. Google’s own privacy policy applies to what Google collects when you use it. You can see and remove Kayda’s access in your Google Account settings under security and third-party access.

7. Notifications

If you turn on the daily study reminder, Kayda asks for permission to show notifications and schedules a reminder on your device at the time you pick. It is a local reminder: it is not sent from our servers and uses no push service. You can turn it off in the App’s Settings or in your phone’s settings.

8. Read Aloud

Read aloud uses the text-to-speech engine on your phone. Depending on your phone, that engine (for example Google’s) may process text on your device or on its provider’s servers under its own policy. Kayda does not record your voice.

9. Sharing and PDF Export

When you share a section or export a PDF, you choose where it goes. Once you send it to another app or person, we cannot control what they do with it. To make a PDF, the section text is sent to our server, which builds the file and returns it to you.

10. Who We Share Data With

We do not sell or rent your personal data. We share it only with:

• Service Providers: Companies that help us run Kayda, such as cloud hosting and database providers, and Google for sign-in. They may process data only for us and under confidentiality and security obligations.
• Legal Requirements: Courts, police or government bodies, when the law requires it or when needed to protect rights, safety or the security of the service.
• Change of Ownership: A buyer or successor, if Kayda is transferred to another owner. We will tell you, and the same protections will continue.

11. Where Your Data Is Stored

Your data is stored on servers of our cloud providers, which may be located outside India. The DPDP Act allows transfers to other countries unless the Government of India restricts them. We choose providers with appropriate security.

12. How We Protect Your Data

• All communication between the App and our servers uses HTTPS (TLS encryption).
• Sign-in tokens are kept in your phone’s secure storage and are replaced on every refresh. Your offline library is encrypted on the device.
• Access to our systems is limited to people who need it.

No system is perfectly secure. Data Breach Notification: if a breach affects your personal data, we will tell you and the Data Protection Board of India as the DPDP Act requires.

13. How Long We Keep Your Data

• Account, library and study data: until you delete your account.
• When you delete your account, we delete this data from our live systems straight away. Copies in backups are removed when the backups expire.
• Server logs: kept for a limited time for security and troubleshooting, then deleted.
• We may keep limited data for longer if the law requires, or to settle a dispute.

14. Your Rights

Under the DPDP Act you may:

• Access: Ask for a summary of the personal data we hold about you and how we use it.
• Correction: Ask us to correct or update your data. You can edit your profession, language, notes and library in the App.
• Erasure: Ask us to erase your data. In the App, go to Settings > Delete account. This removes your account and everything saved in it, and cannot be undone. You can also ask by writing to us (see Section 22).
• Withdraw Consent: At any time, by deleting your account or writing to us.
• Nomination: Nominate another person to exercise these rights if you die or cannot do so.
• Grievance Redressal: Complain to us, and if you are not satisfied, to the Data Protection Board of India.

15. Children’s Privacy

Kayda is meant for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you are under 18, please do not sign in without a parent or guardian’s consent. If you think a child has given us data, write to us and we will delete it.

16. Please Be Careful With What You Write

Notes and highlights are private to your account, but they are stored on our servers. Do not enter confidential client information, case details or other people’s sensitive personal data in them.

17. Legal Information, Not Legal Advice

Kayda gives legal information, not legal advice. We do not review your notes or activity to give you advice, and nothing here creates a lawyer-client relationship.

18. Permissions

The App requests the following device permissions:

• Internet: Required to communicate with our servers.
• Notifications: Only if you turn on the daily study reminder.
• Boot Completed: To restore your scheduled study reminder after the device restarts.

The App does not request location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or storage permissions.

19. Links to Other Sites

Kayda may link to outside sites, such as official government sources. We do not control them and are not responsible for their privacy practices.

20. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The “Last Updated” date is at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the App before it takes effect. Using Kayda after a change means you accept the new policy.

21. Governing Law

This policy is governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction.

22. Contact and Grievances