Privacy Policy

For Nirogyam version 2.3 · Last updated: September 17, 2026

Overview

Nirogyam is a personal rhythm companion grounded in Ayurvedic sources. This policy explains what the app stores, which optional Apple services it uses, and the choices available to you. Nirogyam provides educational wellness guidance and is not a medical service.

Data Stored on Your Device

Depending on the features you use, Nirogyam stores the following locally:

• profiles you create, including a name, adult or child profile type, authored order, and dosha assessment;
• practice completions, Routine Builder choices and progress, Garden state, reminder preferences, and app preferences;
• journal entries you choose to write;
• optional adult energy and calmness check-ins, including their date and daily or practice context; saved playback positions and appearance preferences;
• manual sleep entries and local identifiers used to avoid suggesting the same Health walk again;
• a local Product Research summary, described below; and
• a locally cached, cryptographically verified Routine Builder entitlement used for offline access; and
• temporary state needed for widgets, shortcuts, and app operation.

Nirogyam does not require a Nirogyam account. Local app data is removed when you delete the app, subject to iOS behavior. A private iCloud backup, if present, is separate and may remain until you turn that feature off in the app.

Private iCloud Backup

Nirogyam can back up profiles and practice history to your private iCloud database using Apple CloudKit. The backup is associated with the iCloud account signed in on your device and counts against that account's iCloud storage quota.

• The backup contains profiles and practice-completion history.
• It does not contain journal entries, AI conversations, raw HealthKit samples, check-ins, manual sleep times, playback positions, Health walk identifiers, reminder settings, widget snapshots, or the Product Research summary.
• The backup payload is stored as an asset that CloudKit encrypts automatically in the private database.
• Anagh Tech cannot inspect your private database or use its contents for analytics, advertising, or profiling.

You can turn private backup off in Settings. Nirogyam then asks CloudKit to delete its backup without deleting local data. If iCloud is temporarily unavailable, the deletion remains pending and is retried when the app can reach iCloud again.

Apple Health and Manual Activity

For the adult profile belonging to the device owner, Nirogyam may ask separately to read sleep information to help adapt a routine and walking workouts to suggest completed walks. Permission is optional. Core features and manual practice logging work without Health access.

• Sleep samples are reduced on-device to a coarse current-day signal. Walking workouts are checked when you return to the app; you confirm whether a suggested walk counts.
• Raw Health samples are processed in memory. Local workout identifiers prevent repeated suggestions. Manual sleep times and these identifiers are stored in a protected file excluded from device backup and private iCloud backup. Manual sleep is included in an explicit full JSON export, and in a PDF or CSV personal summary only when you select it. Health walk identifiers are not exported.
• Manual sleep is optional for adult profiles. You can replace or delete entries in Today → Log activity or sleep. Manual sleep for today takes priority over Health sleep and is not counted as a Garden practice.
• Manually logged practices and confirmed Health walks become ordinary practice-completion history. They can appear in your user-controlled export or private iCloud practice backup, without workout identifiers, source details, or sleep times.
• Health details, manual sleep, and these logging actions are not sent to PostHog. Child profiles do not use the device owner's HealthKit data.
• Nirogyam does not write data to HealthKit. Disconnecting in the app stops future reads; you can also change read permissions in Apple Health or iOS Settings.

On-Device AI

On compatible Apple devices, Nirogyam uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models framework for supported AI features. Prompts and generated responses are processed on the device and are not sent to Anagh Tech or a third-party AI provider. When on-device AI is unavailable, the app uses bundled, grounded fallback guidance.

Data Export

You can create a human-readable JSON export from Settings. The full JSON export contains profiles, practice history, structured journal entries, any retained program progress, and local wellbeing records including check-ins and manual sleep. It is an archive for your own use; the app does not offer JSON import. It is generated on your device and passed to the iOS share or file interface. Nirogyam does not upload it. You control where the exported file is saved or shared. The Product Research summary is a separate export and is not included in this data export.

Personal Summaries and Check-ins

Adult profiles can optionally record energy and calmness for a day or a completed practice. Check-ins are private observations, not clinical measurements, and do not change recommendations or Garden growth. They remain on the device, are excluded from device and private iCloud backup, and are not sent to analytics. You can edit or delete an entry. Child profiles do not offer check-ins.

You can preview a PDF or CSV summary of your recorded practice history for the selected profile and period. Check-ins and manual sleep are included only when you choose them. Files are generated locally and shared only through your action. Exported copies can contain personal information and remain wherever you save or send them; app deletion cannot remove those copies.

Local Product Research Summary

Starting in version 2.2, Nirogyam automatically keeps a small product-research summary on your device to help evaluate the daily experience. No separate research account is required. The summary contains:

• counts of app events, such as launches, onboarding completion, practice actions, plan changes, Later and Skip choices, opening recommendation explanations, and reminder interactions;
• practice identifiers and counts of completion actions for each practice;
• dates on which the app was used, the first and most recent recorded activity times, and the times of onboarding completion and the first practice completion, when available; and
• derived measures such as the number of active days and whether the app was used again one or seven days after first use.

The summary does not contain profile names or identifiers, raw HealthKit samples, journal entries, or AI conversations. It is not included in Nirogyam's private CloudKit backup. Dates, times, and practice counts can reveal usage patterns, so the file should not be treated as anonymous.

Nirogyam does not send this summary to Anagh Tech automatically. Developer builds may expose a separate research export for local testing; this control is hidden in the customer release.

Anagh Tech does not collect Product Research export files automatically. Personal PDF and CSV summaries are separate from this internal research record. Deleting the app does not delete copies you have saved or shared elsewhere.

Internet and Apple Services

The core routine, Garden, curated library, on-device guidance and previously verified Routine Builder access work without an internet connection. Network access is used for Routine Builder purchase and restore requests through Apple StoreKit, when private iCloud backup or restore communicates directly with Apple CloudKit, and for PostHog events if you enable optional usage sharing in an analytics-enabled build. Apple services are governed by Apple's own terms and privacy policy.

Routine Builder Purchase

Routine Builder Sessions 2–21 can be unlocked through a non-consumable, one-time in-app purchase. Apple processes the transaction and provides Nirogyam with a signed entitlement result. Anagh Tech does not receive your payment-card number or Apple Account password. Nirogyam stores the verified entitlement locally so purchased sessions can remain available offline, and rechecks it with StoreKit when network access is available. You can restore the purchase from the purchase sheet or Settings.

Optional PostHog Usage Analytics

Version 2.3 offers an optional “Help improve Nirogyam” switch during adult setup and in Settings → Data & privacy. It is off by default. Declining does not limit app features.

With your choice enabled and an adult profile active, Nirogyam sends basic events to PostHog to help Anagh Tech understand setup completion, feature use, and return visits. Events cover plan setup, main tab selection, practice-screen and guided-session actions, saved completion or Undo, Later/Skip, plan changes, explanation opens, reminder opens, and app activity. They include an event time, app version/build, and a randomly generated device-level analytics identifier. Multiple adult profiles on a device share this identifier. These events are pseudonymous, not fully anonymous.

Events do not include your name, local profile identifiers or type, practice identifiers, assessment results or answers, HealthKit data, check-in values, sleep-derived signals, journals, AI text, notification contents, or advertising identifiers. Nirogyam does not record screens, touches, or sessions automatically. Child-profile and pre-consent activity is excluded and is not saved for later upload.

The app requests that PostHog skip person-profile creation and IP-based location enrichment and sends an empty event IP property. PostHog necessarily receives the network source IP while servicing HTTPS requests. Its cloud infrastructure and processing are also described in PostHog’s privacy policy.

Switching to a child profile pauses collection and cancels pending requests. Turning usage sharing off stops future collection, cancels pending requests, and removes the local analytics identifier; opting in again creates a new one. Events already received by PostHog are not deleted by this switch. Requests are best effort, with no saved offline event queue. Contact Anagh Tech below for questions about previously collected events or deletion; without identifying information we may be unable to associate an event with a particular person.

Analytics, Advertising, and Tracking

Nirogyam does not include third-party analytics or advertising SDKs, does not display ads, does not track you across apps or websites, and does not sell or broker personal data. Optional PostHog collection uses the service’s HTTPS API, as described above, independently of the local Product Research summary. The app also uses local system logging and Apple's operating-system diagnostics for development and reliability; Nirogyam does not send profile, journal, HealthKit, or AI content through those logs.

Children's Privacy

Nirogyam supports child profiles created and managed on the device. It does not create online accounts for children or request a child's email address, phone number, or precise location. AI entry points are suppressed for child profiles, and the device owner's HealthKit data is not applied to them. A parent or guardian should supervise a child's use of the app and the device's iCloud account.

Your Choices and Deletion

• You can decline optional PostHog usage sharing, or turn it off in Settings → Data & privacy. Previously received events are separate from local deletion.
• You can decline or revoke HealthKit access in iOS Settings.
• You can turn reminders off in Nirogyam or iOS Settings.
• You can export your data or a personal PDF/CSV summary from Nirogyam Settings. No export is shared automatically.
• You can turn private iCloud backup off and request deletion of the cloud copy without deleting local data.
• In You → Data & privacy, you can delete a single profile or erase all Nirogyam data. Profile deletion keeps other profiles and the shared journal. Full erasure removes local personal records, check-ins, manual sleep, reminders and widget data, stops optional analytics and returns the app to setup. The corresponding private iCloud backup data is also removed. If cloud deletion cannot finish, the app reports the problem and lets you retry; backup and restore remain paused while deletion is unfinished.
• Deletion does not erase Apple Health records, files already exported, copies on other devices, or analytics already received by PostHog.

Changes to This Policy

If Nirogyam's data practices change, we will update this page and its last-updated date. Material changes will be reflected in the policy associated with the relevant app release.

Contact Us

For privacy questions or support, contact:

Email: anagh.techn@gmail.com