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Kayda Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 7, 2026  •  Effective Date: November 7, 2026

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 or use the App.

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, the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and other civil Acts on trusts, family law, co-operative societies, food and health, intellectual property and human rights.

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. An Account Is Required

Kayda needs a Google sign-in before you can use it. After signing in you are asked once, on each device, to accept the in-app disclaimer, which links to this policy and the Terms of Service.

3. Information We Collect

When you sign in and use Kayda, 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), your preferred language, the Acts you chose to see, and whether the daily study reminder is on.
  • 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 and mock test 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.
  • Device and Notification Data: For each phone you sign in on, a notification token issued by Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google’s push service), the platform (Android or iOS) and the phone’s model name (for example “Google Pixel 8”). We use these only to send you app notifications (see Section 7).
  • Notification Inbox: A copy of each notification we send you, and whether and when you read it (see Section 7).
  • Dates: When your account was created and when you were last active.
  • Usage Data: The screens you open and what you do in the App (for example a quiz or mock test finished and its score, or a section opened or shared), collected through Google Analytics for Firebase (see Section 3.3).

3.1 Information We Do NOT Collect

  • Your precise (GPS) location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or files.
  • Payment or financial details (Kayda has no payments).
  • Your phone number, or government ids such as Aadhaar.
  • Your name, email, notes, highlights or search words, for analytics or ads. What these do collect is described in Sections 3.3 and 9; ads are never targeted using your account details or anything you write in Kayda.

3.2 Data Kept Only on Your Device

Some data never leaves your phone: your theme, text size, read-aloud speed and language choice; an app update you chose to skip; 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.

3.3 Usage Analytics

Kayda uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the App is used, so that we can improve it: for example how many people use it each day, how often they come back, which screens they open, which Acts they read and how quizzes go. It starts only after you sign in and accept the disclaimer.

It collects from your phone: an app-instance id created by Firebase and the phone’s advertising id (not your name, email or Google account), the phone’s model, operating system, app version, language and approximate location (country or city, from your IP address), the screens you open, and events such as a quiz or mock test finished with its score, or a section opened or shared with its Act. It never receives your name, email, notes, highlights, anything you write or the words you search for. We do not use analytics data to personalise ads. Google processes this data for us under its own terms and keeps it for at most 14 months.

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 tell you when a new version of Kayda is available, and to ask you to update when an older version can no longer work properly.
  • To keep the service secure, prevent abuse, fix errors and understand whether it is working.
  • To disable accounts that misuse the service or break the Terms of Service.
  • To respond to your messages and complaints.
  • To meet our legal obligations.
  • To show ads that help keep Kayda free (see Section 9).

We do not use your account details, library or notes to target ads, 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

Daily study reminder: If you turn it on, Kayda sends you the section of the day, from the Acts you chose, every day at 9 am India time, as a push notification through Firebase Cloud Messaging and in your notification inbox. Whether it is on is kept in your account. You can turn it off in the App’s Settings or on the Study screen.

App updates: After you sign in, Kayda asks for permission to show notifications and registers your phone with Firebase Cloud Messaging, Google’s push service, so that we can tell you when a new version is available. We send only notices about the App itself and the study reminder if you turned it on, never advertising. Google’s privacy policy applies to how Firebase delivers them. Your phone’s token is removed from our servers when you sign out on that phone or delete your account.

Notification inbox: Each notification we send is also kept in your account, so you can read it later under the bell on the Home screen, even if your phone did not show it. A notification you have read is deleted the next day, and one you have not read is deleted after 30 days.

You can turn Kayda’s notifications off in your phone’s settings. Even then, Kayda checks each time it starts whether your version is still supported, and may ask you to update before you continue.

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. Advertising

Kayda is free and is supported by ads. It shows banner ads from Google AdMob at the bottom of the main tabs and the search screen, and sometimes a full-screen ad when you leave the results of a quiz or mock test (never on your first quizzes, and at most one every few minutes). There are no ads over the text of a law you are reading, or while you answer a quiz or mock test or study flashcards.

To show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in the App collects from your phone: its advertising id, your IP address (from which an approximate location can be worked out), information about the phone and the App (such as model, operating system, app version and language), and how you interact with the ads (for example, whether an ad was shown or tapped). Google may use this to show you personalised ads based on your interests. Google’s privacy policy applies to this data, and Google keeps it under its own rules. Learn how Google uses data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

We do not give Google or any advertiser your name, email, profile, library, notes, study data or what you read.

Your choices: On Android you can delete or reset your advertising id (Settings > Google > Ads, or Settings > Privacy > Ads), which stops personalised ads linked to it. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, Kayda asks for your consent before showing ads, and you can change your choice at any time in the App under Settings > Ad privacy choices.

Ads come from third parties. We do not endorse what they offer, and an ad is never legal advice. Kayda administrators can turn ads off for an account.

10. 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.

11. 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, Google for sign-in, Google Firebase Cloud Messaging for delivering notifications, and Google Analytics for Firebase for usage statistics. They may process data only for us and under confidentiality and security obligations.
  • Google, Through the Ads in the App: The data described in Section 9 goes from your phone straight to Google, which uses it under its own privacy policy.
  • 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.
  • Kayda administrators can see your account details (name, email, photo, profession, language, chosen Acts, account dates and status, and whether ads are turned off for you) and how many saved items, devices and sessions you have, but not the content of your notes, highlights or library.

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.

14. 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.
  • Notification tokens: until you sign out on that phone or delete your account, or until Google reports that the token no longer works.
  • Notifications in your inbox: a read one for one day after you read it, an unread one for at most 30 days, and none after you delete your account.
  • Data the ads collect: kept by Google under its own policy, not by Kayda.
  • We may keep limited data for longer if the law requires, or to settle a dispute.

15. 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 23). Step-by-step instructions are on the Delete your Kayda account page.
  • 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Permissions

The App requests the following device permissions:

  • Internet: Required to communicate with our servers.
  • Notifications: To show app update notices and, if you turn it on, the daily study reminder (see Section 7).
  • Advertising ID: Lets our ad provider show and measure ads (see Section 9). You can reset it or opt out of personalised ads in your phone’s settings.
  • 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Governing Law

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

23. Contact and Grievances

For any question, request or complaint about your personal data, write to us. Please include the email address of your Kayda account. We will acknowledge your message and aim to reply within 7 days, and resolve the matter within 30 days.

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