Privacy Policy — Agravansh

Last updated: 8 August 2026 Effective from: 8 August 2026

1. Who we are

Agravansh ("Agravansh", "we", "us", "our") is a community application for the Agrawal community of India. It is operated as an independent project by Kanak Jindal, an individual based in India, contactable at 1, Jindal Sales, Nahargarh, Baran, Rajasthan, India.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data the Agravansh mobile application ("App") collects, why we collect it, who it is shared with, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it.

By creating an account you confirm that you have read and understood this policy. If you do not agree with it, please do not use the App.

Contact for privacy questions: agrawalsamajnahargarh@gmail.com

2. Who can use Agravansh, and the age rules

Agravansh is a community app, and most of it — community groups, events, the photo gallery, learning, the business directory and blood donation support — is useful to members of every age. So the App is open to members aged 13 and above.

The matrimony service (Agravansh Vivah) is strictly for members aged 18 and above. It is locked for anyone younger and unlocks automatically on their 18th birthday.

2.1 How we enforce this

We ask for your date of birth when you create your account. It can be set once and cannot be edited afterwards — this stops anyone from changing their age later to unlock matrimony. The age check is applied on our servers, not only in the app, so it cannot be bypassed by modifying the app.

2.2 Members under 18 — parent or guardian consent

If you are under 18, Indian law (the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023) requires the consent of a parent or lawful guardian before we may process your personal data.

When someone under 18 registers, we therefore ask for:

• The name of a parent or guardian

• The phone number of that parent or guardian

• A confirmation that the parent or guardian has read this Privacy Policy and agrees to their child using Agravansh

We record that this consent was given, and when.

For members under 18 we additionally:

• Keep the matrimony service completely locked

• Do not use their data for any behavioural tracking or profiling

• Do not show them advertising of any kind (the App has no advertising at all, for any user)

If a parent or guardian wants to withdraw consent, or wants their child's account and data deleted, they can write to us at agrawalsamajnahargarh@gmail.com and we will act on it.

2.3 Under 13

Agravansh is not intended for children under 13 and they should not create an account. If we learn that a child under 13 has registered, we will delete that account and its data. If you believe a child under 13 is using the App, please write to agrawalsamajnahargarh@gmail.com.

3. What data we collect

We only collect what the features you use actually need. The App does not have a single "collect everything" step — most of the data below is gathered only if you choose to use the relevant feature.

3.1 Data you must provide to have an account

             Data                                                                                                   Why

Mobile phone number                                This is how you sign in. We verify it with a one-time password (OTP). It is also your account identity.

Full name                                                   Shown to other members in communities and on your profile.

City / native place                                       Used to connect you to your local community and events.

Gotra                                                          Used for community identity and, in matrimony, to apply gotra rules.

Date of birth                                               To apply the age rules in Section 2. Set once, and not editable afterwards.

Parent/guardian name and phone             Only for members under 18, as consent under the DPDP Act, 2023.

3.2 Matrimony profile ("Agravansh Vivah") — only if you use it

If you create a matrimony profile, we collect the details you enter, which may include:

• Identity and basics: whose profile it is (yourself, son, daughter, brother, sister, relative), name, gender, date of birth, marital status, height, photographs

• Community details: religion, community (Agrawal), sub-community, gotra, maternal gotra, mother tongue, Manglik status

• Education and career: highest education, occupation, annual income bracket

• Location: city, state, country, native place

• Family details: father's and mother's name and occupation, family type, family business, number of siblings, family status

• Lifestyle: diet, smoking, drinking, religious practices, hobbies

• Free text: "about me" and "about my family"

• Partner preferences: the age, height, diet, Manglik, marital status, education and location ranges you are looking for

Please note this is sensitive information. Details such as your religion, community, gotra and Manglik status reveal religious and community affiliation. You provide these voluntarily and specifically so that we can suggest suitable matches. Do not enter anything you are not comfortable sharing with other members of the App.

3.3 Your private contact number (handled separately and carefully)

Your phone number is never displayed on your matrimony profile. It is stored separately from your public profile.

It is disclosed to another member only when both of you have agreed: one member expresses interest, and the other accepts it. At the moment of acceptance — and only then — each of you can see the other's number so you can speak directly. If an interest is declined or left pending, no number is shared.

3.4 Interactions inside matrimony

• Interests you send and receive, and their status

• Profiles you shortlist, and profiles that shortlist you

• Members you block

• Reports you make about other members

• Whether your profile is hidden from search

3.5 Community verification — only if you apply

If you apply for a verified badge, we collect the name and phone number of a community reference you nominate, and any notes you add. We may telephone that person to confirm your community membership.

Please make sure you have your reference's permission before giving us their number. Their details are visible only to the Agravansh review team and are never shown to other members.

3.6 Community, events and other features

• Community groups: messages, photos, videos, voice notes, polls and documents you send; which groups you belong to

• Events and Agrasen Jayanti: registrations, votes on programme items, city requests, referral records

• Photo gallery: photos you upload or submit for approval

• Business directory: business listings, enquiries and reviews you post

• Jobs: job posts you create and applications you make

• Blood donation: blood requests you raise or respond to, and donation camp registrations. This is community coordination only — we do not maintain medical records.

• Learning: courses you view and your progress

• Games: Housie tickets and claims, chess and puzzle activity

3.7 Technical and usage data

• Device notification token, so we can send you notifications

• App usage events (which screens and features are used), through Google Firebase Analytics, to understand what is useful and what is broken

• Approximate technical data such as IP address and device type, processed by our infrastructure provider as part of delivering the service

• Last login and last active time

We have deliberately removed the Advertising ID permission from the App. Agravansh does not show advertisements, does not track you for advertising, and does not build advertising profiles.

3.8 Location — optional

If you allow it, the App uses your device location to show nearby businesses, blood donors and community services. We ask for your permission first and explain why, and you can refuse. Refusing only disables those location-based conveniences; the rest of the App works normally. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your device settings.

3.9 Contacts — read on your device, never uploaded

Some features let you find or invite people you already know. If you allow it, the App reads your contact list on your device only, to match phone numbers locally.

We do not upload, store, transmit or sell your contacts. Nothing from your contact list ever reaches our servers. We show you a clear explanation before asking for this permission, and you may decline.

3.10 Subscription data

If you subscribe to Agravansh Elite, Google Play processes the payment. We never see or store your card, UPI or bank details. We receive and store only the purchase token, product purchased, subscription status and expiry date, which we need in order to give you the features you paid for.

4. Why we use your data

          Purpose                                                                                        What it covers

To run your account                        Sign-in, identifying you, keeping your profile

To provide matchmaking                Showing you suitable profiles and showing yours to others; applying gotra rules and your stated preferences

To enable consented contact         Revealing phone numbers only after mutual acceptance

To run community features            Group chat, events, gallery, directory, jobs, blood requests, learning, games

Safety and moderation                   Reviewing reports, acting on abuse, removing fake profiles, verifying community membership

To send notifications                       Interests received or accepted, community messages, event and emergency alerts

To provide paid features                 Confirming your Elite subscription is genuine and active

To improve the App                         Understanding aggregate usage and fixing problems

To meet legal obligations                Responding to lawful requests and keeping records we are required to keep

Our legal basis is your consent, given when you create an account and when you choose to use each feature, together with the necessity of processing to provide the service you have asked for.

5. Who your data is shared with

5.1 Other members of Agravansh

• Your matrimony profile is visible to other members who have themselves created a matrimony profile. It is not public and is not visible to people who have not joined.

• Photo visibility is your choice. For each photo you can choose: visible to everyone on the App, visible only to verified members, or visible only to members whose interest you have accepted.

• Your phone number is shared only on mutual acceptance, as described in Section 3.3.

• Messages and media you post in a community group are visible to the members of that group.

• You can hide your profile at any time so it stops appearing in search and recommendations.

5.2 Service providers who process data for us

          Provider                                                                                                     What they handle

Google Firebase (Google LLC / Google India)                 Authentication, database, file storage, notifications, analytics, and backend functions

Google Play Billing / Google Play Developer API            Subscription payment and verification

Cloudinary                                                                        Hosting of certain community gallery and review images

Lichess                                                                             Optional community chess tournaments

YouTube (Google)                                                            Playback of learning course videos

These providers process data on our instructions in order to deliver the App. Data may be stored on servers located outside India, under the terms of these providers' own security and privacy commitments.

5.3 We do not sell your data

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data to anyone, for any purpose. We do not share it with advertisers or data brokers.

5.4 Legal disclosure

We may disclose data where we are legally required to — for example in response to a valid order from a court or a competent authority, or to protect the safety of our members or the public.

6. How long we keep your data

• While your account is active: we keep your data so the App works.

• When you delete your account: we delete your profile, matrimony profile and photos, partner preferences, interests, shortlists, blocks, your memberships in community groups, your uploaded files and your notification tokens.

6.1 One deliberate exception — abuse reports

If another member has reported you, or you have reported someone, those reports are kept even after account deletion.

We are transparent about this because it is a real trade-off. If deleting an account also erased the reports made about it, anyone could escape the consequences of harassment by simply deleting and re-registering. Keeping these records is necessary to protect other members. Reports contain the account identifiers involved and the reason given.

6.2 Records we must keep

We may retain limited transaction and legal records where law requires it, for the period required.

7. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time, from inside the App:

Profile → Delete Account

For your protection, we ask you to type DELETE and then re-verify your phone number by OTP, because deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.

If you have already uninstalled the App, you can request deletion here: https://sites.google.com/view/delete-your-agravansh-acc/home . 

Deletion removes the data described in Section 6, subject to the exception in Section 6.1.

8. Your rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you

• Correct anything inaccurate — most of it you can edit directly in the App

• Delete your account and data (Section 7)

• Withdraw consent — for example by turning off location or contacts permission in your device settings, or by deleting your account

• Hide your profile without deleting your account

• Complain to us, and to the appropriate authority, if you believe we have mishandled your data

To exercise any of these, write to agrawalsamajnahargarh@gmail.com or contact the Grievance Officer in Section 13. We will respond within the timelines required by law.

9. How we protect your data

We take security seriously and have designed the App accordingly:

• All communication with our servers is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS)

• Database access rules enforce who can read what. A matrimony profile can only be read by someone who has themselves joined matrimony — this prevents bulk scraping of member details.

• Your private contact number is stored separately from your public profile, in a location only you can read.

• Sensitive flags cannot be self-granted. Verification status and paid subscription status can only be set by our backend, never by an app on a phone.

• Subscriptions are verified server-side against Google Play.

• Google Play Integrity (App Check) is used to reject requests that do not come from a genuine installation of our App.

• Account deletion requires fresh OTP re-verification.

No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and to correct problems promptly when we find them.

10. Notifications

We send notifications for things like interests received or accepted, community messages, event updates and emergency blood requests. You can turn notifications off at any time in your device settings, and this does not prevent you from using the rest of the App.

11. What we ask of you

Please do not post other people's personal information without their consent, and do not misuse contact details shared with you through mutual acceptance. Contact details are shared so that two families can speak about a possible marriage — not for marketing, forwarding or any other purpose.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the "Last updated" date above and, for significant changes, notify you in the App. Continuing to use Agravansh after a change means you accept the updated policy.

13. Grievance Officer

In accordance with the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the contact details of our Grievance Officer are:

Name: Kanak Jindal Designation: Grievance Officer, Agravansh Email: agrawalsamajnahargarh@gmail.com Address: 1, Jindal Sales, Nahargarh, Baran, Rajasthan, India Phone: +91 73398 55539

We will acknowledge your complaint within 24 hours and aim to resolve it within 15 days of receipt, as required.

Agravansh is a community platform. We help members find and connect with each other; we are not a party to any relationship, marriage, transaction or arrangement that results.