Privacy Policy

Sikhi Daily is built to respect your privacy. There are no accounts, no ads, no third-party trackers, and no analytics. Almost everything you do stays on your device. This policy explains the few cases where information leaves your device, and why.

Information stored only on your device

Your daily streak, saved and liked shabads, chosen “vibes,” reminders, your Saathi chat history, and the written reflections you save in the Learn lessons are stored locally on your device (in storage shared by the app and its home-screen widget). This information is never transmitted to us, and we cannot see it.

Asking Saathi (AI companion)

Saathi is powered by AI. Before your first message, the app shows an in-app disclosure and asks for your consent. Nothing is sent to the AI service until you agree.

When you send a message to Saathi, the text of your question and the text of the day’s shabad (Gurmukhi, translation, and reference) are sent over a secure connection to our server and then to Anthropic, the provider of the AI model that generates Saathi’s reply.

• We do not attach your name, email, or any account identifier to these messages, since the app has no account.
• Our server may log technical information such as your IP address for security and abuse prevention (for example, rate limiting).
• Anthropic processes your message to generate a response under its own privacy policy and commercial terms, which provide comparable data protections. Anthropic does not sell your messages, and by default it does not use API inputs to train its models.

Please don’t share sensitive personal information in messages to Saathi.

If you tap Report on one of Saathi’s replies, the text of that reply (only) is sent to our server so we can review it and improve safety. Reports carry no name or account identifier.

Voice (Premium)

If you talk to Saathi by voice, the app uses your phone’s built-in speech recognition to turn your speech into text: Apple’s on iPhone, and your device’s speech service (usually Google’s) on Android. Depending on your device, Apple or Google may process audio to provide this feature, subject to their privacy policies. Audio is used only to create your message and is not stored by us.

When Saathi speaks a reply aloud, the text of that reply (not your voice, and not your question) is sent through our server to OpenAI, which turns it into audio. OpenAI processes it under its own privacy policy and, by default, does not use API data to train its models.

Purchases and subscriptions

Subscriptions (“Patron”) are processed by Apple on iPhone and by Google Play on Android. We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status. Apple or Google, and RevenueCat, receive purchase-related information (such as the product purchased and a receipt), and RevenueCat assigns a random, anonymous identifier to your app installation. We never receive your payment details. Those are handled entirely by Apple or Google.

Contacting us through the website

If you send us a message with the form on sikhidaily.com, we receive what you choose to give us: your message, your email address, and your name and device details if you add them. The form delivers them to our inbox through Cloudflare so we can reply. We use them only to answer you and to improve Sikhi Daily; the website doesn’t keep a copy, and we never add you to a mailing list. To keep out spam, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a person, not a bot, is sending it. To have a message deleted, email us. The app itself still doesn’t collect your name or email.

Information we do not collect

We do not collect or have access to: your name, email, or contacts; your location; your photos or health data; advertising identifiers (such as Apple’s IDFA or Google’s Advertising ID); or any third-party advertising or analytics data. Sikhi Daily contains no ads and no third-party trackers.

Third-party services

• Apple: App Store, in-app purchases, ratings, speech recognition (iPhone)
• Google: Google Play, in-app purchases, ratings, speech recognition (Android)
• RevenueCat: subscription management
• Anthropic: the AI model that powers Saathi
• OpenAI: the voice Saathi uses to read replies aloud
• Cloudflare: our server infrastructure, this website, and its contact form (including Turnstile spam protection)

Children’s privacy

Sikhi Daily is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Data retention and your choices

Because your app data lives on your device, you can delete all of it at any time by deleting the app. Server-side logs (such as IP addresses) are kept only as long as needed for security and are then removed. You can cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID settings on iPhone, or in Google Play under Payments & subscriptions on Android.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. Material changes will be posted here with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about your privacy? Contact us at jask@wellspringstudios.co.