AnudinaPrivacy and your data
What Anudina keeps, why, where it is kept, and how to delete it.
For the Anudina app on Android and on the web at anudina.dixith.com. Last updated 27 September 2026.
- The panchanga is worked out on your own phone. Your place and your day never leave it.
- You can use the Today, Calendar and Times screens without an account.
- If you sign in, we keep your email address, your name, your plan and the people you save, so they appear on your other devices.
- One sign-in, your Dixith account, works in Anudina, Abhyasa, Achala and Ayojana.
- No advertising. No tracking across apps or websites. Nothing is sold or shared.
- You can delete your account, and everything kept with it, from inside the app or by writing to us.
Anudina is published by Dr Shashikiran Umakanth at dixith.com. It is a personal project, not a company. For anything on this page, write to us through the contact page.
What stays on your phone
- Your place. The place you choose, or your location if you tap "Use my location", is used on the phone to work out sunrise and the day's times. It is not sent to us. Android asks your permission before the app can read your location, and you can say no and pick a place from the list instead.
- Your settings. Language, theme, tradition, reckoning and the rest are kept on the phone.
- Saved people, when you are not signed in. Names, birth details and shraddha dates you enter stay on the phone unless you sign in or turn on sync.
What we keep if you sign in
Signing in is optional. It is needed for the Charts tab and for saved people to follow you between devices.
| Your email address | To sign you in with your password or a six-figure code, and to recognise your account. |
|---|---|
| Your name | To greet you and to show whose account it is. |
| A password, if you set one | Kept with your Dixith account (below), only as a one-way hash, which cannot be turned back into the password. The same password works in all four Dixith apps. A password is optional; an email code always works. |
| Your plan | Free, Silver or Gold, and until when. |
| Your signed-in devices | A short description such as "Android phone" and the date you signed in on it, so you can see them and sign one out. Not a device identifier. |
| The people you save | Their names, birth dates, times and places, and the dates you keep for them (such as a shraddha tithi). Stored locked (AES-256 encryption), with the key kept apart from the stored data. Our service holds that key, so it could open them. It never does, and never shares or sells them. |
Many of the people you save will be family members, living or departed, who have not agreed to anything themselves. We treat these records with that in mind: they are used only to show you their dates, and they are erased when you delete them or your account.
One sign-in for the Dixith apps
Anudina, Abhyasa, Achala and Ayojana share one sign-in, your Dixith account: your email address and, if you choose to set one, a password. The password is kept only as a one-way hash, which cannot be turned back into the password, and it is the same in all four apps. An emailed six-figure code always works too, for a first sign-in and whenever the password is forgotten.
When you sign in, our server also gives your browser a small cookie named dixith_account, for dixith.com and the apps' addresses under it. It holds a random key, of which our server keeps only a scrambled form. Page scripts cannot read it, and it is used for one thing only: so that another Dixith app on the same device can offer "Continue as" and sign you in with one tap, and so that "Sign out of all Dixith apps on this device" reaches all of them. It is not used for advertising or tracking. A device left unused for a year is forgotten. (On an iPhone, each app added to the Home Screen keeps to itself, so there you sign in to each app once.)
The Dixith account keeps your email address, the password hash if you set one, the days it was made and last used, and for each device signed in, its kind (such as "Android") and dates. What each app keeps stays with that app: your saved people are not shown in the other apps.
Sync by code, without an account
If you use the older "sync code" to carry saved people between devices, the phone locks the data with a key made from your code before sending it. We receive only a random-looking label and data we cannot read. If you lose the code and the phone, nobody can recover it, including us. Data under a code that has not been used for 550 days is removed.
The anonymous daily count
Once a day the app sends one short message so we know roughly how many people use it: the language shown, the time zone, whether it was added to the home screen, the tradition and reckoning chosen, and how many times it was opened since the last message. There is no account, address or identifier in it. The time zone is turned into a country and then thrown away. Nothing is sent on the very first open.
You can turn this off in More, Advanced settings, and then nothing is sent at all.
What we do not do
- No advertising, and no advertising ID.
- No Google Analytics or other third-party analytics inside the app.
- No IP addresses stored. Sign-in attempts are rate-limited using a scrambled (hashed) form of the network address, which cannot be turned back into it.
- Nothing is sold, rented or shared with anyone for their own use.
Who handles the data for us
- Hostinger hosts dixith.com and the database, in the course of running the site for us.
- Google Workspace carries the sign-in code emails, from a dixith.com address.
- Google Play delivers the Android app. Google's own terms and privacy policy cover what the Play Store itself collects.
All traffic between the app and our service is encrypted (HTTPS).
Deleting your account and data
From the app: open More, tap your name to open Account. At the very end are two choices. Delete my Anudina data erases your name, your plan, the people saved with your account and every Anudina sign-in; your Dixith account and the other Dixith apps are not touched. Tick the box to confirm, then delete. Delete my whole Dixith account also erases your email address and password, and everything Abhyasa, Achala and Ayojana keep for you; type your email address to confirm.
Without the app: use the contact page, choose "Delete my account", and give the email address you signed in with. Say whether you mean only this app's data or your whole Dixith account. We reply to that address to confirm, then delete the account in full within 7 days and tell you when it is done.
Deleting the whole Dixith account erases your email address, your name, your password hash, your plan, the people saved with your account, and every sign-in. Nothing is kept afterwards. People saved on a phone stay on that phone until you remove them there or uninstall the app.
To delete only your saved people, remove them in the app while signed in; the deletion reaches your other devices.
How long things are kept
- Account data: until you delete the account.
- A sign-in on a device: until you sign out, or after 12 months without use.
- The Dixith account: until you delete it. Its cookie on a device: until you sign out of all Dixith apps there, or after 12 months without use.
- Sign-in codes: 15 minutes.
- Sync-code data: removed after 550 days without use.
- The anonymous count: kept as daily totals, which contain nothing about any one person.
Children
Anudina is meant for adults. Accounts are for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly keep data about a child's account; if you believe a child has signed up, write to us and we will delete it.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by writing to us through the contact page. This applies under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and under similar laws where you live.
When you write to us
The contact page sends your name (if you give one), your email address and your message to us once, by email, so we can reply. They are not stored on the website. To keep out automated spam, the page solves a small puzzle in your browser and the server counts messages per hour against a scrambled form of the network address; no outside service is involved.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change that affects what we keep will also be mentioned in the app.