Effective 1 September 2026 · Applies to the Niyam Android app and www.myniyam.com
Niyam asks you to sign in with Google so your practice can sync across your devices. We store your email and your practice — your mantras, journeys, intention and favourites — on our secure servers (Supabase), tied to your account. We never see your payment details, and we never read or collect your activity in any other app. You can delete your account and everything we hold, any time, from inside the app.
When you sign in with Google, we receive your email address and a Google account identifier. We use them only to create your Niyam account and to attach your synced practice to it. We store your current mantra, sadhana progress, completed mantras, chosen intention, display language and favourites so they follow you to a new phone. This data is hosted on our behalf by Supabase and protected so that only your signed-in account can read it. We do not sell it, share it for advertising, or use it to track you across other apps or services.
Niyam uses Android's Accessibility Service for exactly one purpose: to detect the moment you open an app you chose to block (such as Instagram, Facebook or YouTube), so your mantra can appear first. It does not read, record, or transmit any content from your screen, your messages, or any other app. Detection happens entirely on your device.
Uninstalling removes everything stored on your device. Your account and synced practice remain on our servers until you delete them — use Settings → Delete account in the app to erase your account and all synced data immediately, or write to our grievance contact below.
Deleting your account from the app permanently removes your profile, synced practice, favourites and entitlement records from our servers. This cannot be undone. We keep your synced data only while your account exists.
Niyam is currently free and offers no in-app purchases or subscriptions, so we process no payment data at all. If paid features are introduced in the future, payments would be handled by Google Play — we would never see or store your payment details — and this policy will be updated first.
Niyam shows no advertising — no banners, nothing sponsored, and the mantra screen will never carry an ad.
To keep Niyam reliable and understand how it is used, the app sends: a small, fixed set of anonymous usage events (for example, that onboarding was completed or a mantra was switched) to PostHog; crash reports to Google Firebase Crashlytics; and install and app-open signals — including your device's advertising identifier — to Meta, to measure the effectiveness of campaigns we may run for Niyam. None of these ever include your activity in other apps: data from the accessibility service never reaches any analytics service. We never sell your data. You can reset or delete your advertising identifier in Android settings at any time.
We rely on Supabase (your account, database and hosting), Google (sign-in and Firebase crash reporting), PostHog (usage analytics) and Meta (install attribution) to operate Niyam. Each processes data only to provide its service.
If you join the waitlist, your email address is delivered to us by a form service and used only to tell you when Niyam launches. No analytics or tracking cookies run on this site.
Niyam is a general-audience devotional app intended for users aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has created an account, write to our grievance contact below and we will delete it.
We operate under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and its Rules. For the personal data we hold — your account email and synced practice, plus any waitlist or grievance email — you have the right to access it, correct it, have it erased, and to complain. You can erase your account and all synced data yourself at any time via Settings → Delete account in the app. You may also write to our grievance contact at netipranavaditya@gmail.com; we aim to acknowledge within 7 days and resolve within 90 days. If unsatisfied, you may approach India's Data Protection Board. In the unlikely event of a data breach affecting you, we will notify you and the Board as the Rules require.
In line with Google Play's policy on the AccessibilityService API, the app presents a prominent in-app disclosure and asks for your explicit consent before the service is enabled. The service is used solely to detect launches of apps you chose to block; it does not collect, store, or transmit screen content or personal data.
If this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new effective date. Questions and grievances: netipranavaditya@gmail.com. See also our Terms & Conditions.