Privacy policy
संक्षेप में: हम सिर्फ़ वही पूछते हैं जो आपको मौसम का जोखिम और सलाह बताने के लिए ज़रूरी है। आपकी जानकारी कभी बेची नहीं जाती, किसी बैंक, बीमा कंपनी या सरकार को नहीं दी जाती, और app में विज्ञापन नहीं हैं। आप app में ही अपना सारा डेटा कभी भी हमेशा के लिए हटा सकते हैं।
Pehle Socho (“we”) is a free app that turns the local weather forecast into an estimate of how it could affect your work and income, and suggests what to do. It is run from Jaipur, India by Karan Bindal (Bindal Infotech). This policy explains what we collect, why, who processes it for us, and your rights under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
What we collect and why
| Information | Why we need it |
|---|---|
| Mobile number or email address | To log you in with a one-time code or password and keep your profile safe on any phone. We do not send marketing messages. |
| Name or nickname | To greet you in the app. A nickname is fine. |
| Type of work, city or area, indoor or outdoor work, working hours | To find the weather risk that matters to your work and the hours you work. |
| Approximate daily income, daily stock, savings, fixed costs, whether you have a loan (all optional ranges you choose) | To express the effect of weather in rupees, as ranges. These are never shared with lenders or anyone else. |
| Location (only if you allow it) | To get the forecast for where you are. Your phone uses the exact location to fetch the forecast; our server only stores it rounded to about 10 km. |
| What you mark on suggested actions, and what you report happened afterwards (sales, stock loss, hours) | To show your progress and to improve future estimates. |
| Questions you ask in “Ask” | To answer you. See “Ask and AI” below. |
| Voice | When you tap the microphone, speech is turned into text by your phone's own speech service (Google on Android, Apple on iPhone, or your browser). We receive only the text, never audio recordings. |
| App usage events (for example “risk card viewed”, “action marked done”), crash reports, notification token | To keep the app working, measure whether it helps, and send the morning brief if you turn it on. These do not include your name, number or income. |
Ask and AI
All risk levels and rupee figures are calculated by our own fixed rules from the forecast and your profile. When you ask a question, the question and a summary of today's forecast and your work profile (work type, area, income and stock ranges, but not your name, number or email) are sent to Anthropic's Claude language model only to phrase the answer in plain language. Anthropic processes this on our behalf and does not use it to train its models. If the AI's answer contains any number our rules did not produce, we discard it and show our own answer instead.
Who processes your data for us
- Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore database in Mumbai, India, Cloud Messaging for notifications, Crashlytics for crash reports).
- Vercel (hosting of the website and our server functions, run in Mumbai, India).
- Open-Meteo (weather forecasts; receives only approximate coordinates, never who you are).
- Anthropic (phrasing of answers in “Ask”, as described above).
- Apple or Google speech services on your phone (speech to text, under their own privacy terms).
We do not sell personal data. We do not share it with banks, lenders, insurers, employers or government bodies. We show no advertising and use no advertising trackers.
Institutions and anonymous statistics
If you separately choose “Share anonymous statistics” in Data & privacy, your work type, area and risk levels may be counted in group totals shown to programme partners. Groups smaller than 10 people are never shown, and no names, numbers or incomes are ever included. This is off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time.
How long we keep it
We keep your profile and records while your account exists. When you delete your account, your profile, estimates, actions, outcomes, usage events and your login are permanently erased from our database immediately. Anonymous usage counts that cannot identify you may be kept. Encrypted backups held by our providers roll over within 30 days.
Your rights and choices
- See and correct: everything you told us is in the app under “Me”, and every field can be edited.
- Withdraw consent: turn off location, anonymous statistics or notifications in Data & privacy or Notifications.
- Delete: Me → Settings → Data & privacy → Delete all data. This deletes your account and data immediately. You can also request deletion here.
- Grievances: contact our grievance officer, Karan Bindal, through the support page. We reply within 7 days. You may also approach the Data Protection Board of India.
Security
All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS). Logins use Firebase Authentication. Our database cannot be read directly from the app; only our server, after checking your login, can read or write your records. Access by our team is limited to what is needed to run the service.
Children
Pehle Socho is meant for adults who run a business or earn a livelihood. It is not directed at children under 18.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
Write to us through the support page.