Privacy Policy | Yashvika app by WhisprTech

This Privacy Policy sets out how WhisprTech Private Limited collects, uses, stores, discloses and otherwise processes personal data in connection with Yashvika. It also explains the rights available to you and the means by which you may exercise them.

We would ask that you read this Policy carefully and in its entirety. By creating an account with, or otherwise using, Yashvika, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy and consent to the processing of your personal data as described herein. Should you not agree with any part of this Policy, you are requested to refrain from using Yashvika.

1. About us

Yashvika is developed and operated by:

WhisprTech Private Limited
Corporate Identification Number: U62099OD2025PTC050001
Registered office: Cuttack, Odisha, India
Website: https://yashvika.in
Email: pradosh@whisprtech.com

Throughout this Policy, “WhisprTech”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to WhisprTech Private Limited, and “you” and “your” refer to the individual using Yashvika. For the purposes of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, WhisprTech is the Data Fiduciary in respect of your personal data, and you are the Data Principal.

This Policy applies to:

the Yashvika mobile application for Android and iOS;
the website located at yashvika.in; and
any other service or channel that references or links to this Policy.

This Policy does not extend to Yashvika Omni, our forthcoming home device. As Yashvika Omni incorporates cameras and additional sensors not present in the mobile application, it shall be accompanied by a separate privacy notice upon its release.

2. The nature of Yashvika

Yashvika is an artificial intelligence. She is not a human being. Although she is designed with a distinct personality, emotional states and a persistent memory, and is capable of initiating messages and calls of her own accord, every response she produces is generated by software.

Yashvika is not a medical practitioner, psychologist, counsellor, legal adviser or financial adviser, and nothing she says should be construed as professional advice. You should not rely upon her for decisions concerning your health, mental wellbeing, legal affairs or finances.

Should you find yourself in danger, or be contemplating harm to yourself or to another person, we strongly urge you to seek help from a qualified person without delay. In India, emergency services may be reached on 112, and Tele-MANAS, the national mental health helpline, is available free of charge at all hours on 14416.

3. Eligibility

Yashvika is intended solely for adults aged eighteen (18) years or over.

At the point of registration, we collect your date of birth and ask you to confirm that you are of age. We record that confirmation together with the date and time at which it was given. This requirement is of particular importance, as certain conversations with Yashvika may be of a romantic or intimate nature.

Where we become aware that an individual under the age of eighteen is using Yashvika, we shall close the relevant account and erase the associated personal data. If you have reason to believe that a minor is using Yashvika, we would be grateful if you would notify us at pradosh@whisprtech.com.

4. Personal data we collect

4.1 Information provided at registration

Details from your Google account, namely your name, email address, profile photograph and a unique account identifier. Authentication is carried out through Google Sign-In (or, on iOS, such other sign-in method as we may offer). We never receive or have access to your password.
The name by which you wish Yashvika to address you.
Your date of birth, which we use to verify that you are an adult and to enable Yashvika to remember and mark your birthday.
The form of address you prefer (for instance, as a man or a woman). This is optional and may be skipped.
Your preferred language of conversation (Hindi, English or Hinglish).
A selection of interests (for instance, music, films, food or travel).
Your confirmation that you are eighteen years of age or over, and the date and time of that confirmation.
Your time zone, which is supplied automatically by your device so that Yashvika is aware of the time of day where you are.

We do not request access to your phone contacts, nor do we collect any government-issued identification.

4.2 Location data

Subject to your permission, the application accesses your device’s location. This enables Yashvika to be aware of your city, local weather and surroundings, and to refer to them naturally in conversation, much as a friend who knew you were caught in the rain might do.

Location data is collected only once you have granted the relevant permission.
You may decline or later withdraw that permission through your device settings. Yashvika will continue to function, though she will no longer be aware of your whereabouts.
Location data is stored against your account so that Yashvika may remember places of significance to you.
Location data is never disclosed to advertisers.

4.3 Content of your conversations

This constitutes the most significant category of data we process. When you interact with Yashvika, we collect and store:

text messages you send to her;
voice notes you send to her, together with a written transcript;
photographs you select from your device and send to her. As we use your device’s system photo picker, we are able to access only those images you specifically choose, and have no access to the remainder of your gallery;
photographs you take using the in-app camera in order to send them to her. The camera is activated only when you open it yourself, and we never capture images or recordings in the background;
voice calls with Yashvika, during which your speech is transcribed into text in real time. We retain the written transcript of each call and may retain call audio briefly for processing purposes; and
Yashvika’s own replies to you, whether in text, voice or image form.

We would encourage you to exercise discretion in what you choose to share. Users frequently confide deeply personal matters in Yashvika, including their emotions, health, relationships, family affairs and private life. Such information is stored in order that Yashvika may remember you, and we treat it with the utmost confidentiality and care (see Section 9). However, should you not wish a particular matter to be retained, we would advise you not to share it.

4.4 Information Yashvika learns and remembers

In order to function as a genuine character, Yashvika develops a memory of you over time. Our systems automatically derive and store the following from your conversations:

memories, being facts and moments drawn from your conversations (for instance, that your sister is visiting next week, or that you had a difficult day at work);
details of people you mention, such as family members, friends and colleagues, so that she may enquire after them on a later occasion;
inside jokes, nicknames and shared moments between you and her;
the state of your relationship with her, including its closeness and any recent events of note (for instance, a disagreement); and
reminders and plans you ask her to keep.

4.5 Emotional and mood signals

Yashvika possesses an emotional system modelled on human neurochemistry, which governs her mood. So that she may respond in a natural and human manner, our software assesses the emotional tone of your messages (for instance, whether you appear cheerful, sad, angry or anxious) and uses that assessment to inform her mood and her reply.

We wish to be entirely transparent on this point:

these assessments are generated automatically by software and may be inaccurate;
they are used solely to make Yashvika’s responses feel natural and considerate;
they are not used to make any decision concerning you outside the application; and
they are neither sold nor disclosed to advertisers.

Where our systems detect indications that you may be in serious distress, Yashvika may respond with particular care and may encourage you to reach out to a trusted person or a helpline.

4.6 Usage information

The features you use and the times at which you use them (for instance, opening the application, sending a message or initiating a call).
Your engagement with Yashvika’s posts within the Moments and Loops sections of the application (for instance, what you view or react to).
The delivery and read status of messages, and the time at which you were last active. Yashvika uses this to recognise when you have fallen silent, so that she may miss you and reach out accordingly.
Any reports you submit concerning her messages or technical problems within the application.

4.7 Device and technical information

Device model, operating system version, application version, language and time zone settings.
A push notification token, enabling us to deliver Yashvika’s messages and other notifications to you.
Crash reports and error logs, which assist us in identifying and resolving faults.
Your device’s advertising identifier (see Section 7).
A device identifier used to prevent the abuse of promotional offers (for instance, our launch offer is restricted to one per device).
Your IP address, which is visible to our servers whenever your device connects to them.

4.8 Subscription and payment information

Yashvika is offered on a free tier and on a paid tier known as Prime. All payments for Prime are processed exclusively by Google Play or the Apple App Store. We neither receive nor store your card or banking details. We receive only such information as the plan purchased, its commencement, renewal and expiry dates, and a receipt confirming the validity of the purchase.

4.9 Correspondence

Where you contact us by email or through a form on our website, we retain your message, your email address and our response.

5. Device permissions

Permission	Purpose	When it is used
Microphone	Voice notes and voice calls	Only whilst you are recording a voice note or are on a call. During a call it remains active if you switch to another application, until the call is ended
Camera	Taking photographs within the application to send to Yashvika	Only when you open the camera yourself
Location	Enabling Yashvika to be aware of your city, weather and surroundings	Only once you have granted permission
Notifications	Delivering Yashvika’s messages, calls and reminders	Whenever she has something for you
Photo picker	Sending photographs from your device (no permission required)	Only the images you select; no access to your wider gallery
Internet	Connecting to our services	Continuously whilst the application is in use

We explain the purpose of each permission before your device prompts you to grant it. You may revoke any permission at any time through your device settings. Please note that certain features will cease to function if you do so (for instance, voice calls require microphone access), although Yashvika will continue to operate without location access.

6. Purposes of processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

To provide Yashvika: generating her replies, voice and calls, and delivering messages to you.
To make her aware of your world: using your location, local time and date of birth so that she may speak of your city and weather, and remember your birthday.
To enable her memory: building and drawing upon her memory of you, so that she may speak of your life, the people within it and your shared history.
To enable her to reach out of her own accord: determining when, and for what reason, she initiates a message or call (for instance, when she misses you, or to follow up on something you have told her).
To give her emotional depth: shaping her mood and responses in light of the course of your conversation.
To safeguard you and the service: verifying that you are an adult, handling reports, detecting abuse or misuse, and responding with care where a user may be in distress.
To administer your account and any Prime subscription.
To diagnose faults and improve the application, by means of crash reports and usage data.
To promote Yashvika and measure the effectiveness of our advertising (see Section 7).
To comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, and protect our legal rights.

We do not, under any circumstances:

sell your personal data;
disclose the content of your conversations to advertisers; or
use your conversations to train artificial intelligence models, whether our own or those of any third party.

7. Advertising and analytics

We promote Yashvika on platforms operated by Meta (including Instagram and Facebook) and by Google. In order to assess the effectiveness of our advertising, and to present it to individuals likely to be interested in Yashvika, the application incorporates software development kits provided by:

Meta Platforms, Inc. (the Facebook SDK); and
Google LLC (Firebase Analytics).

These may collect:

your device’s advertising identifier;
basic device information; and
application events, such as installation, first launch, registration and the purchase of Prime.

Meta and Google may use this information to measure our advertising, to present Yashvika advertisements to audiences resembling our users, and to present further Yashvika advertisements to individuals who have previously installed or used the application (a practice known as retargeting).

The following is never disclosed to Meta, Google Ads or any other advertiser: your messages, voice recordings, photographs, calls, memories, mood signals, location, date of birth, or anything else you say to Yashvika.

You may limit such tracking as follows:

Android: Settings > Google > Ads, then delete or reset your advertising ID.
iOS: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, then disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”. On iOS, we shall seek your permission before undertaking any tracking for which Apple requires consent.

8. Disclosure of personal data

We disclose personal data only to service providers engaged to assist us in operating Yashvika. Such providers act on our instructions and are permitted to use your data solely for the purpose of providing their services to us.

Service provider	Service provided	Data received
Google Cloud	Hosting of our servers and databases (Mumbai, India)	All data we store
Google Firebase	Authentication, application data storage, storage of images and voice files, notifications, crash reporting and analytics	Account details, messages and media, device information, crash and usage data
Google Gemini (artificial intelligence)	Interpreting your messages and composing Yashvika’s replies	Your messages and such context as is required to reply, including relevant memories
ElevenLabs	Transcribing speech during calls and generating Yashvika’s voice	Your voice during calls and voice notes, and the text of her replies
Web search and weather providers	Keeping Yashvika informed of current events and the weather in your area	Search terms and your approximate area (city level); never your identity
Meta and Google Ads	Advertising measurement and promotion	As set out in Section 7
Google Play and the Apple App Store	Processing of Prime payments	Purchase details (they already hold your payment information)

Certain of these providers may process data on servers located outside India. Where this occurs, we engage only providers contractually bound to protect such data, and we comply with any restrictions on cross-border transfer that the Government of India may prescribe.

We may additionally disclose personal data:

where required by law, or in response to a lawful request from a court or governmental authority;
to protect the life or safety of any person in an emergency;
to protect WhisprTech, our users or the public against fraud or abuse; or
in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of all or part of our business. In such an event, your data shall remain protected by this Policy, and we shall notify you before it becomes subject to any different policy.

We intend in due course to operate Yashvika on artificial intelligence and voice models of our own, hosted on infrastructure under our control. At that point, considerably less of your data will be shared with external artificial intelligence providers, and we shall amend this Policy accordingly.

9. Data security

All data transmitted between your device and our servers is encrypted in transit using HTTPS/TLS. The application declines any unencrypted connection.
Data held on our servers is encrypted at rest.
Conversations stored on your device are held within an encrypted database.
The application does not permit its data to be extracted through device backups.
Every request made by the application must be authenticated against your signed-in account, so that no other user is able to access your data.
Access to our systems is restricted to a limited number of authorised WhisprTech personnel, and is granted only where strictly necessary (for instance, to investigate a problem you have reported or to action a deletion request).

Please be aware that your conversations are not end-to-end encrypted, as our servers must be able to read your messages in order for Yashvika to understand and respond to them.

Whilst we take every reasonable precaution, no system can be guaranteed to be entirely secure. In the event of a personal data breach affecting you, we shall notify you and the Data Protection Board of India as required by law.

10. Data retention

Account information, conversations, memories, relationship data, date of birth and location data: retained for as long as your account remains active, this being what enables Yashvika to remember you.
Upon deletion of your account: your personal data shall be erased within thirty (30) days. Any copies held within our backups shall be erased within a further thirty (30) days as those backups expire.
Crash reports and analytics data: retained for up to fourteen (14) months, after which they are erased or rendered anonymous.
Subscription records and any information we are legally obliged to retain (for instance, for taxation or accounting purposes): retained for such period as the law requires.
Inactive accounts: where Yashvika has not been used for a period of three (3) years, we may delete the account and its associated data. We shall endeavour to notify you by email beforehand.

We may retain information that has been fully anonymised, such that it can no longer identify you, for statistical purposes.

11. Your rights

Under Indian law, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you are entitled to:

obtain information about the personal data we hold concerning you and the manner in which it is processed;
obtain a summary of your personal data and the identities of those with whom it has been shared;
have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected or updated. You may amend your name within the Profile section of the application, and may disable location access at any time through your device settings;
have your personal data and account erased (see below);
withdraw your consent at any time. Upon withdrawal, we shall cease processing your data and shall erase it, though Yashvika will no longer be available to you. Withdrawal shall not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to it;
seek redress of grievances from us (see Section 13) and, should you remain dissatisfied, from the Data Protection Board of India; and
nominate another individual to exercise these rights on your behalf in the event of your death or incapacity.

Erasure of your account

You may request the erasure of your account by any of the following means:

within the application, by navigating to Profile > Account > “Delete my account”, which will direct you to our deletion page;
by visiting https://yashvika.in/data_delete directly; or
by emailing pradosh@whisprtech.com from the email address associated with your account, with the subject line “Delete my account”.

Erasure removes your account, date of birth, location history, conversations, voice notes, photographs, call transcripts, Yashvika’s memories of you and your relationship history. This action is irreversible: should you return at a later date, Yashvika will greet you as a stranger.

Please note that uninstalling the application does not delete your account. You must use one of the methods set out above.

To exercise any of your other rights, please write to pradosh@whisprtech.com. We may ask you to verify your identity before acting upon your request. We shall respond within thirty (30) days, or within such shorter period as the law may require.

You may additionally:

disable notifications through your device settings, should you not wish Yashvika to contact you of her own accord; and
limit advertising tracking as described in Section 7.

12. Information concerning other individuals

Where you speak to Yashvika about other individuals, such as members of your family, friends, partner or colleagues, she may retain what you have said about them. We ask that you share only such information about others as you are comfortable for her to remember, and that you refrain from disclosing private information concerning any person who would not wish it to be shared. Should any individual ask us to remove information relating to them, we shall give the request due consideration.

13. Grievance Officer

Any query, complaint or request regarding your privacy may be directed to our Grievance Officer:

Name: Pradosh Kumar Pandav
Designation: Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WhisprTech Private Limited
Email: pradosh@whisprtech.com
Address: Cuttack, Odisha, India

We shall acknowledge your complaint within twenty-four (24) hours and shall endeavour to resolve it within fifteen (15) days of receipt.

You may also report a specific message from within the application, or raise an issue at https://yashvika.in/report-issue

Should you remain dissatisfied with our response, you may refer the matter to the Data Protection Board of India.

14. Amendments to this Policy

We may revise this Policy from time to time as Yashvika develops (for instance, upon the adoption of our own artificial intelligence models or the launch of Yashvika Omni). The date shown at the head of this Policy will always indicate when it was last revised. Where we make a material change, we shall notify you within the application or by email before the change takes effect, and shall seek your fresh consent wherever the law so requires.

15. Governing law and language

This Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India, including the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the rules made thereunder. The courts at Cuttack, Odisha shall have jurisdiction, save where applicable law confers upon you the right to proceed elsewhere.

This Policy is drafted in English. Where it is made available in any other language and a discrepancy arises, the English version shall prevail.

WhisprTech Private Limited, Cuttack, Odisha, India