Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 July 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Yuktikara ("we", "us") collects, uses, and protects your information when you use the GroupAlarm mobile app and website (together, the "Service"). By using GroupAlarm you agree to the practices described here.

1. Information we collect

Information you provide

• Account details — your email address, display name, and chosen avatar. If you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive your email address and name from that provider.
• Group ("circle") content — the circles you create or join, alarm schedules, chat messages, polls, reactions, and any voice notes or custom ringtones an admin uploads.
• Status updates — whether you are asleep, snoozing, or awake for a given alarm, which is shared with the other members of that circle.

Information collected automatically

• Push notification token — a device token from Firebase Cloud Messaging so we can deliver alarms and notifications.
• Device information — device model and manufacturer, app version, and OS version, used to keep alarms reliable across different phones.
• Diagnostics & usage — crash reports and anonymous, aggregated analytics events (e.g. an alarm was scheduled) via Google Firebase Crashlytics and Analytics. These are tied to a random identifier, not to your name.

Location — only for the optional "meeting point" feature

If a circle admin sets a meeting point and you use that feature, the app checks your device's location to determine whether you have arrived. Location is used only while the feature is active and is not tracked in the background and not stored on our servers beyond the "at meeting point" status flag. If you never use meeting points, no location data is collected.

2. How we use your information

• To provide the core service: syncing alarms, showing who is awake, delivering chat and nudges.
• To send you notifications you have opted into (alarms, nudges, join requests, chat messages).
• To keep alarms reliable and to diagnose and fix crashes.
• To protect the Service from abuse (e.g. rate-limiting and blocking).

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

3. How your information is shared

• With your circle — your display name, avatar, alarm RSVPs, status, chat messages, and reactions are visible to the other members of circles you join.
• Service providers — we use Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Realtime Database, Cloud Storage, Cloud Messaging, Crashlytics, and Analytics) to run the Service. Your data is processed on Google's infrastructure under Google's security and privacy terms.
• Legal — we may disclose information if required by law or to protect the rights, safety, or property of our users or us.

4. Data retention

5. Your rights and choices

• Delete your account — in the app, go to Profile → Delete Account. This permanently removes your account, profile, circle memberships, and associated personal data. See our account deletion page for details.
• Access & correction — you can edit your display name and avatar in the app, or contact us to request a copy of your data.
• Notifications — you can turn off notifications in your device settings at any time.
• Location — you can decline or revoke the location permission in your device settings; only the meeting-point feature is affected.

6. Security

Access to your data is controlled by server-side security rules and authentication. Transport is encrypted (HTTPS/TLS). No method of storage or transmission is 100% secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your information.

7. Age requirement

GroupAlarm is intended for adults aged 18 and over, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, in-app notice.

9. Contact