Legal documents for the AstroVidya Android app
Last updated: 28 August 2026
AstroVidya (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is an offline-first Vedic astrology app. This policy explains what the app does with your information. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past.
The short version: we do not run a server, we do not have accounts, and we do not collect your personal data. Everything you enter — your name, your birth details, your charts — stays on your phone and is never sent anywhere. The one thing that does leave your device is an advertising request to Google, described in section 4. It carries no astrology data and nothing you typed into the app.
AstroVidya is published by the developer identified on its Google Play listing. Questions about this policy can be sent to astrovidya.support@gmail.com or to the contact address on that listing.
To draw a birth chart the app asks for a name, date of birth, time of birth and place of birth. To match two charts it asks for the same details for both people.
This information is stored only in the app’s private storage on your device. It is not uploaded to us, because there is nothing to upload it to: we operate no server and no account system, and the astrology engine runs entirely on your phone.
The birth place you pick is matched against a list of cities that ships inside the app. Choosing a city does not look anything up over the network and does not reveal where you are — the app never requests your device’s location, and holds no location permission.
Every feature — Kundli, Panchang, Muhurta, Matchmaking, Horoscope and Career Guidance — is computed on your phone from the data you entered. Your name, birth date, birth time, birth place, charts, matches and horoscopes are never transmitted anywhere. There is no cloud sync, no backend, no third-party content service and no AI service. Earlier versions included an optional AI chatbot that could send messages to a third-party provider — that feature has been removed, and with it the only path by which anything you typed could leave the device.
The app’s only outbound network traffic is the advertising request described next.
This version of the app shows banner ads. They are supplied by Google AdMob and are shown to users who do not have Premium.
To fill an ad slot, the Google Mobile Ads library sends a request to Google that includes your device’s advertising ID, your IP address, general device information (such as model, operating system version and screen size), which app is asking, and whether you interacted with the ad. That is standard for mobile advertising, and it is the only information about you that leaves this app.
No astrology data is ever included in an ad request. Your name, birth date, birth time, birth place, charts and horoscopes are not sent to Google, are not used to target ads, and are not shared with anyone.
Google’s handling of that data is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and by “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).
Asking you first. Before the app makes its first ad request it checks, through Google’s User Messaging Platform, whether the law where you are requires that you be given a choice about personalised advertising. Where it does, a form appears and no ad is requested until you answer it. You may decline: ads still appear, they are simply not personalised. Where no such requirement applies, no form is shown and nothing interrupts you. If you were shown that form, Settings → Ad privacy settings inside the app lets you change or withdraw your answer at any time; that entry stays hidden where it would do nothing.
Where the app is available. AstroVidya is not offered on Google Play in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom.
You can limit this yourself. In Android Settings → Privacy → Ads you can reset your advertising ID, or delete it entirely. Deleting it stops the app from receiving a usable identifier — ads still appear, but they are not personalised.
Ads appear only on the main content screens. There are none during onboarding, none on the birth-details form, none in Settings, and none on this document.
The app offers Premium, and the only thing it does is remove the ads described in section 4. No astrology feature is locked behind it — Kundli, Panchang, Muhurta, matchmaking, horoscopes, career guidance and PDF export are free for everyone.
Premium is sold as an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. It renews until you cancel it, and you can cancel at any time in Google Play → Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; your access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for.
Payment, renewal and cancellation are handled entirely by Google Play. We never see, receive or store your card details, and we run no payment system of our own. What stays on your device is a single flag recording that a subscription is currently active — no payment data and no billing history. “Restore Purchases” on the Premium screen asks Google Play whether your account holds a subscription, which is what recovers it after a reinstall or on a new device.
We run no analytics. There is no crash-reporting library in the app, no third-party tracker, and no profile of you is built by us. We receive no report of any kind about how you use the app, because there is nowhere for such a report to go.
To be exact about what is inside the app package rather than only about what runs: the advertising library described in section 4 ships with Google’s app-measurement components. The app explicitly switches them off — analytics collection is disabled, advertising-ID collection by the measurement component is disabled, and measurement initialisation is deferred. What remains is the ad request itself, and that is fully described in section 4.
This is the complete list. Some of these are not asked for by the app itself but are merged in by the Google libraries it includes; they are listed here anyway, because a list that leaves things out is not a list.
There is also one internal permission that Android generates for the app’s own components to talk to each other. It cannot be held by any other app and grants nothing.
The app requests no location permission, no contacts, no camera and no microphone.
The app is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children. As the app stores nothing on our side, there is nothing for us to delete; a parent or guardian can remove all locally stored data by using the option in section 9, by uninstalling the app, or by clearing its storage.
Because the data you enter never leaves your device, you exercise your rights directly, inside the app:
Uninstalling the app, or using Android’s own “Clear storage” option, also removes everything.
For the advertising identifier described in section 4, which is held by Android rather than by us, use Android Settings → Privacy → Ads to reset or delete it.
If you are in a jurisdiction with statutory data rights, such as the GDPR or India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, this is how those rights are met.
If this policy changes, the updated version will ship with an app update and the date at the top will change. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.
AstroVidya provides astrological information for personal interest and cultural study. It is not advice, and it is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, financial or psychological guidance. See the Terms of Service for the full disclaimer.