Privacy Policy
This app lets you read the Constitution of India in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil. It is an independent educational app. It is not published by, or affiliated with, the Government of India or any government body.
The short version
- We do not ask you to create an account, and we do not ask for your name, email address, phone number or location.
- The app has no advertising and no analytics or tracking tools.
- Your bookmarks, highlights, notes and reading position stay on your phone.
- If you buy Premium, the app talks to our server to check your purchase and to unlock the paid content. What that involves is described below.
What stays on your device
Your bookmarks, highlights, notes, reading progress, language, text size, font and theme are stored only on your device. We cannot see them. If Android backup is turned on for your phone, Android may include these in your own Google account backup; that is controlled by Google and your phone settings, not by us.
Reading the free content
The free content is inside the app and works without the internet. Nothing about your reading is sent to us.
If you buy Premium
Premium is a subscription sold through Google Play. Google handles your payment and receives your payment details; we never see your card or bank details. The paid content (extra languages and the plain-language Explain layer) is not stored in the app itself. It is downloaded after you subscribe, and this is what happens:
- Purchase check. The app sends your Google Play purchase token (a code Google gives the app to identify your subscription) and a random installation code to our server. The installation code is generated by the app on your phone, is not linked to your identity, and is deleted when you uninstall the app.
- What our server stores. Only a shortened one-way hash of the purchase token (so the token itself is not kept) and a list of the random installation codes that have used that purchase, with the time each was last seen. We use this to limit one subscription to a small number of phones.
- Why. To confirm that your subscription is active, to give your phone the key that opens the downloaded content, and to stop the paid content being shared widely. The app repeats the check about once a week. If your subscription ends or is refunded, the content locks.
- Downloads. The content packs are downloaded from Google Cloud Storage. As with any internet request, the hosting service may briefly see your IP address in its technical logs.
Service providers
- Google Play (billing and app delivery) — Google Privacy Policy.
- Google Cloud (our server and file storage, in India) — the same policy applies.
We do not sell your data, share it for advertising, or combine it with anything else.
Permissions
The app uses the internet permission only to download Premium content and check your subscription, and the Google Play billing permission to sell it. It does not use your camera, microphone, contacts, photos or location.
Children
The app is a study aid for general audiences and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Keeping and deleting data
Everything on your phone is removed when you uninstall the app or clear its data. The subscription record on our server contains no name or contact details. To ask us to delete the record linked to your purchase, write to us at the address below with the date of your purchase.
About the content
This app is an educational reading aid. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for the official text of the Constitution as published by the Government of India, or for the advice of a qualified lawyer.
The explanations, summaries, meanings, memory aids and notes in the app present the author's own understanding, written to make the text easier to read. Provisions can be read in more than one way, and courts, scholars and readers may interpret them differently. Translations and amendment summaries are provided for convenience. Where any wording differs from the official published text, the official text governs. Please refer to the official sources for legal, academic or examination use.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: coi.app.help@gmail.com