VERSION 2026-10-25.1

Privacy notice

We collect a parent's email (and the exam they're interested in, if they join a beta), a child's nickname, grade and course (the exam they prepare for), their practice results, and the tests they sit. Nothing else. No ads, no trackers, and we never sell or share your data.

Who we are

Vigyaniq is an exam practice app for school students, run by Naveen Shahi (vigyaniq.com). We decide how your data is used, so we are responsible for it under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Parents create accounts, not children

Only a parent or guardian aged 18 or over can create an account and add a child; someone they invite as a sponsor (below) must also be 18 or over. A child joins only with a one-time code from their parent. When you add a child, you give your consent, as their parent or guardian, for us to keep the information below. You can take it back at any time by deleting the child or your account.

The parent who creates the family (its primary account) can invite up to 19 sponsors, anyone who cares about the children, such as the other parent, a grandparent, a relative or a family friend, each with a one-time link. A sponsor creates their own account, confirms they are 18 or over, agrees to this notice, and says whether they are the children's parent or another sponsor. Everyone in a family sees each other's email address and all the family's children, their progress, results and earnings. Only the primary account adds or deletes a child, sets up the children's devices, and invites or removes sponsors; a sponsor can leave the family at any time. Removing or leaving takes away only that person's access to the children, not their account.

What we keep

Your email
To let you sign in: we email you a code, or you sign in with Google. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your email address and nothing else from your Google account.
Your consent
When you agreed, and to which version of this notice.
Who invited you
When you join from another parent's invite, we keep which parent invited you, to understand how Vigyaniq spreads. It is removed when either of you deletes their account.
The exam you're interested in
If you join the beta of an exam that opens soon: the exam you're interested in, so we can open it for you. Nothing else is asked, and we send no emails about it.
Your child's nickname, grade and course
To greet them and show the right chapters for the exam they prepare for (the course). Please use a nickname, not their real name.
First looks
The first time you or your child opens an exam's screen, a short first look explains how it works. We keep which exam's first look each of you has closed, and when, so it shows only once. It is deleted with your account, or with your child.
Your child's practice results
For each answer: which question type, the option chosen, right or wrong, how many seconds it took, and when. We use these only to show progress to your child and to you.
Your family
Which parents and sponsors share which children, when each joined, and whether they said they are a parent or another sponsor.
Tests
For each test you or your child create: the question paper, who created it, when it was created, scheduled for, started and submitted, how long it took, and its marks question by question (what was written, the marks given and what was missing), how the answer sheets are presented (handwriting, steps and boxed answers, question numbers and layout, units; each with a one-line reason) and when your child reviewed where the marks went; these set the test's Bhiksha. We also keep how many of the questions that lost marks your child reviewed, and when. Your child photographs their own handwritten answer sheets to submit them. Photos of answer sheets are kept until 31 March after the board exams, so marks can always be checked against them; deleted with your child. They are kept privately; only your child, you and the family (never friends) can open one, in the app's answer book. To mark them, the photos and the paper are read by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, run for us inside Amazon Web Services (Amazon Bedrock); Amazon and Anthropic do not keep them or use them to train models. The marks are kept until you delete your child. If you or your child ask for a re-check of a question (at most 3 a test), it is marked again from what was read off every photo of it, and we keep the re-check with the test: who asked, when, the reason, the marks before and after, and a line on why. Marks never go down.
Payments you record
Vigyaniq children are always paid for their practice, into their own UPI account. So we keep your child's UPI ID, which you confirm is their own account when you add it; only you and the family's sponsors see the ID (your child's phone is told only that one is saved). For each payment you record, we keep the amount and when you recorded it, so you and your child see what is earned, paid and still owed. They are deleted with your child.
Guru-dakshina you record
For each month you pay Vigyaniq its guru-dakshina, we keep the month, the amount and when you recorded it, so you see what is paid. You pay through Razorpay (UPI, card or net banking): Razorpay processes your payment under its own privacy policy (razorpay.com/privacy), the Razorpay page is loaded from checkout.razorpay.com only when you tap Pay, and we never see, hold or move your money and never see your bank, card or UPI details. Your child's phone never shows it. It is deleted with your child.
Challenges a sponsor sets
Any sponsor can set a child a challenge: a chapter to master, or a test her progress has unlocked (open for a day; each one sponsored by one sponsor at a time). For each sponsor and child we keep what the child calls them (for example "Dada"), which they give when they join or on Your family. For each challenge we keep the chapter or test, that name, which sponsor set it, and when it was set, done or ends. Your child sees the challenge and that name; the family's sponsors see the challenges too. A sponsored test pays like any test (up to ₹100 for each hour of the paper), shown in Earnings as sponsored by that sponsor; there is no separate bonus, and we never move any money. They are deleted with your child, and the name with the sponsor's link to the child.
Cheers
The family's parents, family and friends can cheer your child's journey in Charita: a reaction (clap, heart, fire, or fingers crossed for a test ahead) or a reply of up to 100 characters; your child can reply too. Parents and family can also send love of ₹11, ₹51 or ₹101 with an optional note. Love is paid through Razorpay (UPI, card or net banking) and Vigyaniq receives it: Razorpay processes the payment under its own privacy policy (razorpay.com/privacy), its page is loaded from checkout.razorpay.com only when you send love, and we never see your bank, card or UPI details. The love shows, and is added to your child's Bhiksha, only once it is paid; to know what to mark paid, the Razorpay order carries your child's and your account numbers in our app, the event and the amount. For each cheer we keep the event it is on, who sent it, when, and the reply, amount or note, and for love the Razorpay order and whether it is paid. Your child and everyone in the family see the cheers and who sent them, by what your child calls them; friends never see love or any amount. They are deleted with your child, and a member's own cheers when they leave the family or delete their account.
Upcoming exams
A parent or your child can add an upcoming school, tuition or coaching exam, so the app plans papers and retests up to it. To add one, you can take a photo of its notice or paste its text: it is read once by an AI model run for us inside Amazon Web Services (Amazon Bedrock), to find the subjects, dates and syllabus, and then it is not kept, by us or by Amazon. You check what was read before anything is saved. We keep the exam's name as you give it (we ask for it without the school's name), its subjects, dates and chapters, who added it and when; after the exam, the marks, the total, the class rank if you give it and the chapters where marks were lost, with who entered them and when. The family (never friends) sees it; only your child's parents and your child can add, change or remove it. We keep at most 20 exams; each stays until you remove it or delete your child.
Study groups
Only a signed-in parent can create a study group (for a class, a coaching batch, a tuition or friends), invite families to it, add their own child to it, or take their child out. For each group we keep its name, its kind, its course, which children are in it, and which parent added each one, when, and to which version of this notice they agreed. Invite codes are 10 random characters; we keep only a scrambled copy of each, and a code stops working after 7 days or as soon as a parent cancels it. Finding a group needs its code: no one can search for a group or see that one exists. The group's families and children see each member child's nickname, practice days, streak, chapters mastered and the moments of their journey (for example a 3-day streak or a test completed), the emoji reactions on each moment and who sent them, and whether a child is practising, revising, in a test or online right now (only while it is happening, only where her family's live status is on, and never when she was last seen); never marks question by question, answer sheets or payments. A reaction keeps who sent it and when; each person has one per moment. The group's parents have a chat of their own, up to 300 characters a message; children never see it, and each message is deleted 90 days after it was sent, or sooner by the parent who wrote it. When a parent takes their child out, the group's families can no longer see the child at once and the family's reactions there are deleted; their chat messages stay, shown as "A former member", until their 90 days are up. When the last family leaves, the group and its invites are deleted. Deleting your child takes them out of every group.
Live status
The family's phones show, as it happens, what your child is doing in the app: in a test (and how many minutes are left), practising (and which chapter, with today's count), revising cards, reading results, or online; otherwise when she was last seen. While the app is on her screen, her phone tells us which part of the app is open once a minute, and when she closed it or switched away; with no word for 2 minutes she shows as last seen. For this we keep only the latest: which part was open and when, when she closed it, the time and chapter of her last answer, the time of her last card, and today's counts. Each one replaces the one before; no history is kept. Whether she is in a test is read from her tests. She can switch "last seen" off on her phone: then the family sees only that she is in a test, practising, revising or reading results right now, and today's count, never a time or "online". Cheers and test changes reach the family's open phones at once; what they carry is read from your family account, as the pages always do. It is deleted with your child.
Who is watching
Your child's phone shows which family members have her Charita or Tests open right now, by the name she calls them, until they leave it (or 2 minutes after their phone last said so). For this we keep only the latest for each family member: since when and until when they last had it open, and when they leave. Each family member's first view of each test result is kept (who, which result, when) and shown as "Seen by" to your child and the family. Friends are never recorded and never see it. It is deleted with your child.
Your child's devices
A scrambled copy of each device's key, its type (for example "Android phone") and when it was added and last used, so you can see and remove them.
Report a problem and feedback
When you report a problem, we keep your words and the screen you were on, with the type of device, screen size and app version, and, if you are signed in, a one-way code of your family, so you see your own reports here and our note when it is fixed. Only Vigyaniq's owner reads them, only to fix the problem; a report we turn into a GitHub issue carries no family, child or contact details. A report is kept for 180 days after it was sent.
When you tap the flag, the app takes a picture of the screen you reported from and adds it to the report; you see it before you send, and you can remove it or add up to 3 pictures in all from your phone. Typed boxes are left blank in the picture, and it is never of a test paper. The pictures are kept privately with the report, read only by Vigyaniq's owner to fix the problem, for 180 days after it was sent, and deleted with your account before that.
Before Report a problem, the app's guide answered questions. The questions it answers are not kept. The advice you give it, and the questions it can't answer, are kept with the page, the type of device, screen size and app version, with no name, email or account, for 180 days, so we can improve the app.
For families in our beta, a signed-in parent or family member, or your child on their own phone, chats with our beta helper. It only reads: it looks at your own family's children, tests and marks, practice, Yatra and Bhiksha to answer, never another family's and never a friend's view, and it never changes anything; to act, it points you to the screen. Your message and what it reads are sent to an AI model run for us inside Amazon Web Services in India (Amazon Bedrock: Amazon's Nova, or Claude made by Anthropic); neither Amazon nor Anthropic keeps them or uses them to train models. The chats are not kept. When something was hard, the helper keeps it as a pain point: the screen, what was tried, what got in the way, a short quote of your words with names, phone numbers and emails taken out, how serious it was, and a one-way code of your family and of the child it was about, so we can count how many families it affects and tell you "Fixed" on your next chat. Only Vigyaniq's owner sees pain points; a pain point we turn into a GitHub issue carries no family, child or contact details. A pain point is kept for 180 days after it was last raised. To keep costs fair, we count each family's messages (up to 30 messages a day and 300 a month) under the same one-way code, for a day or a month.
Technical logs
Error records from our servers, and a line for each request to them: when, which account or child's phone made it, what it did (for example "started a test") and which screen and button it came from. No IP address, and never what was typed, answered or photographed. Kept for up to 30 days to fix problems.

What we never collect

A child's email, phone number, real name, birth date, school, photo of them or location. (Photos of a test's answer sheets are of the paper only; a notice of an upcoming exam is read and not kept.) We show no ads and use no third-party trackers or analytics.

How we use it

Where it is kept

On Amazon Web Services servers in Mumbai, India. Amazon runs our servers and sends our sign-in emails and receives mail sent to support@vigyaniq.com, which we read and answer; it may use your data only to provide that service to us. A message you send us is kept for 7 days in Amazon storage while it is passed on, and for as long as we need to answer you in our own inbox.

How long we keep it

Until you delete it. Deleting a child or your account in the app removes the data at once (if another parent or sponsor shares your children, they stay with them); our backups keep copies for up to 14 days, after which they are gone too.

Your choices

Changes

If we change this notice, the version above changes and we ask you to agree again before you add a child.