Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Datta Vani is a child-focused devotional, spiritual, and educational learning app operated by Yoga Sangeeta, Inc. The app is designed to help children learn from selected teachings, books, stories, lessons, quizzes and related devotional and educational content associated with Tataji. The app may include an AI chatbot or AI interaction feature called Ask Tataji.

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, store, disclose and protect information when parents, legal guardians and children use Datta Vani, including the Ask Tataji AI feature, and related services. Since Datta Vani is intended for use by children, a parent or legal guardian must create and manage the parent’s account, provide the required consent, and create the child’s profile before the child accesses and uses the app.

2. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected and processed by us when you access and use our Datta Vani websites, services, software, the Datta Vani app, and related features, including the Ask Tataji AI feature (“Datta Vani” or “app”).

3. Operator and Contact Details

Datta Vani is operated by Yoga Sangeeta, Inc. Parents and legal guardians may use these contact details for privacy requests, child data requests, consent withdrawal requests, deletion requests, safety concerns, misuse reports, accessibility requests, and other questions about this Privacy Policy:

Postal Address:
Yoga Sangeeta, Inc.,
1, Bunting Ct, Cranbury, NJ 08512

Email:

Privacy Contact Email: dattavani@yogasangeeta.org
General Contact Emails:
mail@yogasangeeta.org , info@yogasangeeta.org , service@yogasangeeta.org

4. Children’s Privacy Standard and Integrated Parental Consent

Unless we implement a separate jurisdiction-specific age flow, we treat child profiles as relating to children under 18.

For child profiles, we rely on verifiable parent/legal guardian consent, based on the legally defined age of the child under applicable law.

In the United States, this is intended to support parental consent requirements under Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and Rule (COPPA) for children under 13. In India, this is intended to support verifiable parent/legal guardian consent requirements for children under 18. In other jurisdictions, this is intended to support applicable parental authorisation requirements.

Datta Vani provides an integrated child-facing app experience. This means that the parent/legal guardian consent covers the processing reasonably necessary to create and manage the child’s profile and provide the Datta Vani child-facing app experience, including Ask Tataji AI-generated responses, lessons, quizzes, progress tracking, scores, coins, points, XP, streaks, rewards, leaderboards, safety filters, caching, analytics, diagnostics, observability, service-provider processing, purchases/subscriptions where applicable, and related app functionality.

Datta Vani does not currently offer separate consent choices for each child-facing feature unless required by applicable law or made available within the app. If a parent/legal guardian does not provide required consent, or later withdraws consent, the child may lose access to the child-facing app experience, including gamification, leaderboards, progress, scores, rewards, chatbot history, audio/video features, and other related features. The child profile may be disabled or deleted as described in this Privacy Policy.

5. Important Summary for Parents

We collect parent account information and child profile, usage, chatbot, AI-service, purchase, subscription and technical information to operate Datta Vani, provide the learning and devotional experience, generate Ask Tataji AI responses, manage paid tiers, subscriptions or credits where available, track progress, provide scores and leaderboards, operate rewards and gamification, troubleshoot the app, maintain safety and security, and improve the app and AI service.

We do not sell children’s personal information. We do not share children’s personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not use children’s personal information for third-party advertising, behavioural advertising, or targeted advertising directed at children. We do not show third-party behavioural advertising in the app.

Parents should choose child profile names carefully. Profile names, avatars, scores, rankings and city/state/country leaderboard categories may be visible to other users in leaderboard features. Since leaderboard participation is part of the child-facing app experience and cannot currently be opted out separately, parents should avoid using a child’s full legal name or other identifying details as a profile name.

Children should not submit private or sensitive information into the chatbot, such as full names, addresses, school names, phone numbers, passwords, family secrets, health information, emergency information, or information about immediate danger.

If a child appears to ask about self-harm, abuse, violence, bullying, fear, depression, loneliness, family problems, sexual content, or another serious safety concern, the Ask Tataji AI feature is intended to provide a serious-safety response that directs the child to speak with a parent, guardian, teacher, trusted adult, or emergency services where urgent help is needed.

6. Categories of personal information we collect

• Parent account information: name, email address, phone number, parent location where provided, login method, Google or Apple login identifiers where used, OTP/authentication status, parent PIN/credential information, consent status, consent timestamp, policy acceptance timestamp, parent dashboard settings, purchase records, subscription records, payment-related records processed by the app or app-store/payment providers, and support or communication records where applicable.
• Child profile information: profile name selected by the parent, age, city/state/country location selected by the parent, avatar or companion selection, language/app settings, parent-linked child profile ID, and related profile settings.
• Child usage information: lesson starts and completions, quiz attempts, correct and incorrect answers, scores, streaks, coins, points, XP, rewards, bonus quests, super bonus quests, leaderboard activity, chatbot usage, audio/video usage, daily usage limits, parent-set limits, paid-tier usage, subscription entitlement status, credit usage where applicable, app usage events, and progress.
• Chatbot and AI-service information: child questions, rewritten questions, relevant knowledge-base chunks, re-ranked content, AI-generated responses, internal alphanumeric IDs, chat IDs, session IDs, conversation history, response-quality data, safety/guardrail flags, positive/negative prompt flags, topic/category signals where used, cached question/answer pairs, generated audio, generated video if enabled, and AI-service observability data.
• Analytics, diagnostics and observability information: app events, performance metrics, crash logs, error reports, notification status, session information, pseudonymous identifiers, child profile IDs, parent account IDs or device identifiers where used for uniqueness or troubleshooting, and AI-service traces where needed to operate, secure, troubleshoot and improve the app. We treat analytics, diagnostics and observability data as children’s personal information where it is linked or reasonably linkable to a child profile.
• Purchase and subscription information: product purchased, parent-linked paid tier, subscription status, entitlement status, renewal status, cancellation status, billing-period end date, transaction identifiers, receipts, credit balance where applicable, purchase history, expiry dates, refund status, payment-provider status, and related app-store/payment records.
• Safety reports, accessibility requests, support requests and product feedback: reports, requests, feedback, communications, screenshots, technical details, device or app information, accessibility-related information, and other information submitted by parents, legal guardians, users, service providers, or others in connection with child-safety concerns, misuse reports, accessibility requests, privacy requests, support inquiries, or product feedback.

7. AI service and internal identifiers

The Ask Tataji AI feature uses artificial intelligence to generate chatbot responses and may use AI to generate related audio or avatar/video responses. AI-generated responses are not human responses and may be incomplete, inaccurate, delayed, unavailable, or inappropriate for a particular situation.

The AI service may identify chat sessions, question history, cache entries and app usage using internal alphanumeric IDs, chat IDs, child profile IDs, session IDs or similar pseudonymous identifiers. The AI service does not require the child’s legal name, parent account details, payment information, phone number, precise location or parent contact details to generate responses. However, if a child types personal information into a question, that information may be processed as part of the question unless blocked, redacted or deleted through an applicable process.

Datta Vani and the Ask Tataji AI feature are intended for devotional, spiritual, educational and inspirational learning. They are not a substitute for parental guidance, professional advice, therapy, counselling, medical advice, legal advice, emergency support, or child protection services.

8. AI vendors and AI-generated content

The Ask Tataji AI feature may use AI and technology service providers to provide AI text responses, embeddings, retrieval, re-ranking, text-to-speech, avatar/video generation, AI observability, analytics, diagnostics, hosting, storage, authentication, notifications and other app functionality. Current or expected providers may include Gemini API / Vertex AI, Gemini Embedding API, ElevenLabs TTS, HeyGen Interactive Avatar API, Langfuse or similar tools, Mixpanel, Firebase services, DigitalOcean, Supabase, Cloudflare, Twilio, Apple, Google, Stripe, RevenueCat and other service providers.

The data sent to AI providers may include the child’s question, rewritten question, relevant knowledge-base chunks, generated response text, transcript text for audio/video generation, technical metadata and observability data. Raw child questions may contain personal information if the child typed it into the question. We aim not to send child profile name, age, city/state/country location, parent account information, payment information or direct contact details to AI providers unless necessary for the service and disclosed.

We seek to use contractual terms, data processing agreements, product settings, opt-outs or enterprise controls to restrict AI providers from using child-related prompts, outputs, audio, video or metadata for model training where available. We do not intentionally send parent account data, payment information, child profile name, age or precise location to AI model providers unless needed for the service and disclosed.

9. Raw questions, caching and embedded personal information

We may store child chatbot questions in raw, rewritten, normalised, redacted and/or cached form with internal identifiers. We may also store generated responses, response-quality scores, positive/negative prompt flags, and cached question/answer pairs.

We use this information to provide conversation history, improve speed, reduce API costs, support multi-turn chat, identify common questions, improve answer quality, improve safety filters, recommend relevant topics, operate analytics and observability, and develop current and future features.

Cached question/answer pairs may be shared or synchronised between India and the United States to improve performance and resilience. A question asked by a user in one region may contribute to a cache used for users in another region, subject to the app’s technical design and applicable law.

We do not describe raw or cached questions as anonymous unless they have been irreversibly anonymised. Where cache entries are de-linked from a child profile or associated only with an internal alphanumeric ID, we describe them as de-linked or pseudonymous, not anonymous.

If a question includes personal information, such as a name, school, phone number, address, health detail, emergency detail, family issue or other private detail, that information may be stored or processed unless blocked, redacted, deleted, de-linked or handled through an applicable safety or deletion process. We are working to minimise unnecessary personal information in chatbot processing and caching.

10. Sensitive questions and child Safety

The Ask Tataji AI feature is not an emergency service, crisis service, counselling service, therapy service, medical service, legal service, or child protection reporting service. Parents should not rely on Datta Vani or the Ask Tataji AI feature to monitor, detect, escalate, notify, or respond to every serious safety issue.

For prompts identified by the app as serious safety prompts, the Ask Tataji AI feature is intended to provide a serious-safety response. The serious-safety response will tell the child that Ask Tataji is only an AI learning helper, cannot help with emergencies or serious personal problems, and that the child should speak with a parent, guardian, teacher, trusted adult, or emergency services where urgent help is needed.

11. Analytics, diagnostics, observability and notifications

We use or may use analytics, diagnostics, crash reporting, notification, observability and monitoring tools to operate, secure, troubleshoot, test and improve Datta Vani and the Ask Tataji AI feature. These may include Mixpanel, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase App Distribution, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Langfuse and similar tools.

These tools may process app events, usage metrics, crash reports, device/app information, session data, pseudonymous identifiers, child profile IDs, parent account IDs, AI traces, prompts, responses, quality flags or technical metadata where necessary for operation, debugging, security, safety, performance and product improvement.

We do not use analytics, diagnostics or observability for third-party advertising, behavioural advertising, targeted advertising directed at children, or sale/share of children’s personal information. We aim to minimise identifiers and avoid sending profile names to analytics tools where they are not needed.

12. Service Providers

We use service providers to help operate, host, store, secure, analyse, monitor, authenticate, notify, bill, support and improve Datta Vani. These may include cloud hosting and compute providers, database and authentication providers, storage and content-delivery providers, notification providers, crash reporting and testing tools, analytics providers, AI providers, AI observability providers, SMS/OTP providers, email providers, app store and payment providers, subscription-management providers, parental consent or age assurance providers if used, privacy/consent management providers if used, and customer support providers if used.

These providers may process information only as needed to provide services to us, support the app, maintain security, troubleshoot issues, comply with law, or as otherwise described in this Policy and applicable service terms. Before allowing service providers to process children’s personal information on our behalf, we take reasonable steps to assess their ability to protect the information and seek appropriate contractual or written assurances.

13. No sale, no targeted advertising, no behavioural advertising

We do not sell children’s personal information. We do not share children’s personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not show third-party behavioural advertising in the app. We do not use children’s personal information for targeted advertising directed at children. We do not allow service providers to use children’s personal information for their own advertising purposes.

14. Hosting, storage and international transfers

Information may be processed and stored in the United States, India and other countries where our service providers operate. Our infrastructure may include U.S. and India hosting regions, and certain data may be replicated or synchronised between regions for resilience, performance, backup and operational purposes.

Traffic may be routed between India and the United States where needed for server availability, maintenance, resilience or failover.

Where required, we use appropriate contractual, technical and organisational safeguards for international transfers.

15. Leaderboards and visible profile information

Datta Vani includes or may include leaderboards. Leaderboards may show the child’s parent-selected profile name, avatar, score, ranking, XP, coins/points and location-based grouping such as country, state or city.

Leaderboard participation is currently part of the child-facing app experience and cannot be separately opted out of or deferred for a child profile. Parents should therefore choose a profile name carefully and should avoid using a child’s full legal name, school name, exact location, phone number, handle, or other identifying details as the profile name.

If we later provide separate leaderboard controls, we will update the app experience and related notices as appropriate.

16. Purchases, packs, subscriptions and credits

Datta Vani may offer paid features, paid tiers, subscriptions, packs, credits, audio responses, video responses or other paid functionality. Text responses may also be subject to a paid tier or usage limit depending on the product configuration. Purchases are intended to be made by parents or legal guardians through the parent dashboard, app-store payment systems, Stripe, RevenueCat, or other approved payment flows. Children should not make purchases directly.

We may collect and process purchase-related information such as product selected, transaction IDs, receipts, subscription status, entitlement status, renewal status, cancellation status, billing-period end date, credit balances where applicable, purchase history, expiry dates, refund status, payment-provider status and related support records. Payment processing may be handled by Apple, Google, Stripe, RevenueCat or another payment or subscription-management provider. Those providers may process payment, subscription and refund information according to their own terms and privacy policies.

Where subscriptions are offered, cancellation, renewal, access continuation until the end of the then-current billing period, refund requests, payment-provider status and related support communications may be recorded and processed to administer paid access, prevent fraud, maintain accounting and tax records, resolve disputes, comply with app-store or payment-provider requirements, and support users. Credits, packs or similar separately purchased usage allowances may be introduced later. Any expiry, refund or retention treatment for such credits or packs will be described in the applicable product or purchase terms when that feature is made available.

17. Parent rights and choices

Parents and legal guardians may request to access categories of personal information collected about their child, review personal information collected from the child where technically available and after verification, correct child profile information, delete the child profile and associated profile-linked data, refuse further use or future collection of the child’s personal information, withdraw consent, lodge a privacy complaint or grievance, and ask questions about processing.

Requests may be made by contacting dattavani@yogasangeeta.org or through the parent dashboard where the relevant control is available. We will verify the requestor’s authority as parent or legal guardian before providing access to or deleting child information.

18. Consent withdrawal

Parents may withdraw consent (also called Consent Revocation) by contacting us at dattavani@yogasangeeta.org. If a dashboard withdrawal control is later made available, parents may also use that control.

Since Datta Vani uses an integrated child-facing app experience and requires the covered processing to provide that experience, withdrawal of consent may result in the child profile being disabled and the child losing access to Datta Vani features, including gamification, leaderboards, progress, scores, rewards, chatbot history, generated audio/video, credits linked to app functionality, and related features. Withdrawal of consent does not necessarily delete the child profile or all profile-linked data immediately. If consent is later provided again, a previously disabled child profile may be reactivated where technically available and permitted by applicable law and Datta Vani’s operations.

Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before the withdrawal request was received and processed. Despite the withdrawal of consent, some information may be retained where required or permitted for legal, security, accounting, dispute-resolution, fraud-prevention, audit, backup, de-identified, de-linked or operational purposes.

19. Data retention and deletion

We retain children’s personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the specific purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required or permitted for legal, security, dispute resolution, accounting, tax, backup, deletion-compliance, fraud-prevention, audit or legitimate operational purposes.

Current intended retention approach: parent account data is retained while the account is active and for a reasonable period after closure for legal, security, accounting and dispute purposes; child profile data is retained while the child profile is active unless disabled or deleted by the parent or legal guardian; child usage/progress data is retained while the profile is active unless deleted by the parent or no longer needed; chatbot questions and responses are retained while the profile or internal chat ID remains active unless deleted, de-linked, anonymised or otherwise handled under our deletion process; generated audio/video may be retained while the relevant profile, history or purchase entitlement remains active; analytics, diagnostics and observability data are retained for a limited period necessary for app operation, troubleshooting, safety, performance, product improvement and deletion compliance; crash logs and technical logs are retained for a limited troubleshooting and security period; backups are currently expected to be retained for approximately 7 days; purchase and subscription records are retained as needed for accounting, tax, legal, refund, fraud prevention, dispute-resolution and app-store or payment-provider compliance purposes; and consent, withdrawal and deletion records may be retained as needed to document and honour parent/legal guardian choices.

Where a parent requests deletion of a child profile, we aim to make the child profile inactive promptly after the request is verified and processed, so that it is no longer accessible to the child or visible in the normal app experience. Profile-linked data may then be held in a deletion-pending state for up to 30 days to allow recovery in case of mistake or change of mind. After that period, we aim to delete or de-link profile-linked data from active systems, subject to verification and any longer backup, legal, security, accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, audit, payment, app-store or dispute-related retention. Cache entries that are no longer reasonably linked to a child profile may be retained for performance, safety and service-quality purposes. We maintain or will maintain a written children’s data retention schedule and review it periodically.

20. Security

We maintain an information security programme designed to protect children’s personal information. This includes reasonable technical, administrative and organisational safeguards, such as access controls, encryption where appropriate, role-based access, logging, vendor review, backup controls, and periodic risk assessment.

No system is completely secure. Parents should help children avoid submitting private or sensitive information into the app.

21. Accessibility Requests

We may process information submitted through accessibility requests in order to respond to the request, provide information in an alternative format, improve accessibility, troubleshoot access issues, and document our response.

Accessibility-related communications may include contact information, the nature of the access issue, the device, browser, platform, or assistive technology used, the content or feature affected, and any other information the user chooses to provide.

If you experience difficulty accessing any part of Datta Vani, the website, legal notices, onboarding materials, videos, learning content, or other digital content, or if you need information in an alternative format, you may contact us using the contact details listed in the “Operator and contact details” section.

22. California Privacy Notice

For California residents, we do not sell or share children’s personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of children under 16.

Depending on applicable law, California residents or their parents/legal guardians may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and opt out of sale/share. Since Datta Vani is designed for children, parent/legal guardian requests should be submitted through dattavani@yogasangeeta.org or the parent dashboard where available.

23. India Privacy and Grievance Contact

For users in India, a parent/legal guardian may contact us with questions, grievances, access requests, correction requests, deletion requests, consent withdrawal requests, or other privacy requests at dattavani@yogasangeeta.org and by other means and specific methods that we notify you of being available.

Datta Vani does not use children’s personal data for targeted advertising directed at children, behavioural advertising, or sale of children’s data. Datta Vani also aims not to process children’s personal data in a way that is likely to cause a detrimental effect on the well-being of a child.

Users may currently contact the Company by email to the Grievance Officer: dattavani@yogasangeeta.org .

24. Language

This Privacy Policy may be made available in multiple languages. We aim to provide translations to help users better understand our practices. In the event of any inconsistency or conflict between a translated version and the English version, the English version shall prevail.

25. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice to parents through the app, parent dashboard, the email address used for sign-up, or another appropriate method. Where required by applicable law, including children’s privacy laws, we will obtain renewed parental consent before applying material changes to the collection, use, or disclosure of a child’s personal information. The updated Privacy Policy will state the effective date. Questions about this Policy should be sent to dattavani@yogasangeeta.org.