Japa collects nothing about you.

01What the app keeps on your device

• Your practicesEach mantra's name and text, including any you write yourself, with its round length, daily target and colour.
• Where you are on each malaThe bead you reached, so a practice picks up where you left it.
• Your practice historyHow many beads and rounds you counted on each day, and when each sitting started and ended. This is what the streak, the year calendar, the totals and the time spent chanting are worked out from.
• Your settingsPalette and theme, vibration strength, sounds, volume-key counting, what the japa screen shows, and whether you have finished the welcome and the first-mala tour.

02The two ways anything can leave your phone

Both are yours to start, and neither sends anything to us.

Saving a backup. Settings lets you save your practices and history to a file. You choose where it goes through Android's own file picker, and from that moment it is your file: its privacy is whatever the place you put it provides.

Android Backup. If you have Android Backup switched on, Android copies Japa's practice history and settings into the backup held for your Google account, so that a new phone can restore them instead of starting empty. That is Android doing it, covered by Google's privacy policy, not Japa asking for it. We have no access to that backup, receive no copy of it, and are not told it exists. You can turn it off in your phone's settings, usually under Settings → Google → Backup.

03Permissions, and what each is for

Japa requests one Android permission. There are no others.

• VIBRATE

  The light tap on your fingertips for every bead, and the stronger one when the mala turns.

• INTERNETNot requested

  This is the permission an app would need to send anything anywhere, and its absence is what makes everything above verifiable rather than merely promised.

• Storage, notifications, location, contactsNot requested

  Saving or restoring a backup goes through Android's file picker, which gives the app the one file you pick and nothing else, without any permission at all.

04Your rights over your data

Privacy law gives you the right to see the personal data an app holds about you, to correct it, to take a copy of it elsewhere, and to have it erased. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show you, correct, export, or delete, and no request for you to make.

The data on your own device is yours to manage: you can save a copy from Settings at any time, and uninstalling Japa deletes all of it. If you also want to remove the Android backup described above, that is done from your Google account's backup settings.

05Children

Japa is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone, children included. There is nothing in the app that a child could disclose to us, because there is no route by which anything reaches us.

06Changes to this policy

If the app ever begins handling data differently, this page will be updated and the effective date changed before that version is released. Because the app has no network access, any such change would require a new version from the Play Store, which you would choose to install.

07Contact