Veer is a simple companion app designed for older Punjabi-speaking adults, to help with medicines, doctors, appointments, family contacts, prayer (Gurbani), news and everyday tasks. We built Veer to be private by default. This policy explains, in plain terms, what Veer handles, where it goes, and the choices you have. It applies to the app on both Apple and Android devices; where the two platforms differ, that is spelled out.
Veer has no user accounts, no sign-in and no servers that store your information. Everything you enter stays in the app's private storage on your phone. We, the developer, cannot see it, cannot retrieve it and cannot restore it. Uninstalling the app permanently removes this data from your device.
The following is saved locally on your phone. Veer never uploads any of it to us, and none of it is ever sent to an AI company as stored data:
Veer does not read your device's own contact list, call history, text messages, photos library or files. Contacts inside Veer are only the ones you type in yourself.
Veer asks for a permission only at the moment the feature needs it, and every one of them is optional — the app works without them.
| Permission | Used for | If you decline |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Showing today's weather for where you are | No weather is shown. Everything else in Veer works exactly the same. See section 4. |
| Microphone | Speaking to "Ask Veer" instead of typing | You can still type your question. |
| Speech recognition (iPhone and iPad) | Turning what you say into text. Your device may send the recording to Apple to do this. | You can still type your question — "Ask Veer" has a text box. |
| Camera | Photographing a medicine label to fill in a form | You can type the details in yourself. |
| Photos | Choosing an existing picture of a label instead of taking one | You can type the details in yourself. |
| Notifications | Reminding you about medicines and appointments | Reminders will not appear. Your medicine list still works. |
| Phone (Android only) | Placing the emergency call the moment you tap the button | Veer opens your dialler with the number filled in, and you press call. |
On Android only, the "My apps" screen shows the other apps installed on your phone so you can open them with a large, clear button. Veer reads only the list of apps that have a launcher icon, together with their names and icons, and this list never leaves your device — it is cached privately so the screen opens quickly. Apple does not permit an app to see what else is installed, so this feature does not exist on iPhone or iPad.
Some features need the internet. In each case only the minimum needed for that feature is sent, always over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, and never your stored personal or health information.
About every company named in this section. Before sending anything to a third party we read that company's published privacy terms and satisfy ourselves that they provide protection equivalent to what this policy describes: they receive only what the feature needs, they act on the request rather than building a profile of you, and they apply security measures to data in transit and at rest. One provider does not meet that bar on one of its tiers — Google's free Gemini tier — and rather than drop the disclosure into this page alone, Veer states the difference on the permission screen before you choose it. The per-provider detail is under "Optional AI assistance" below. We do not sell your personal information to anyone, and none of these companies is an advertising network or a data broker. Some are public bodies (the US Census Bureau) or non-profit and open-data projects (OpenStreetMap, Open-Meteo, the Internet Archive), and some are the makers of your phone's own operating system (Apple, Google), acting under the privacy commitments they publish for those platform services. We link to those policies where the feature that uses them is described, so you can read what each commits to.
If you allow location access, Veer sends your coordinates to
Open-Meteo (api.open-meteo.com)
to fetch the forecast, and to BigDataCloud
(api.bigdatacloud.net) to turn those coordinates into a place name to show you.
If you allow location but the phone cannot get a satellite fix — location
services switched off system-wide, or indoors where the fix times out — Veer falls back to
estimating your rough area from your internet connection, using ipapi.co or
ipwho.is, which receive your device's IP address.
If you decline location access, Veer shows no weather at all. It does not fall back to your internet connection in that case, because you have said no and estimating your town anyway would go against that. Veer will ask again the next time you open it. Your location is used only for weather, is not kept as a history, and is never used for advertising or tracking.
When you use the "Ask Veer" voice feature, your speech is turned into text by your phone's own speech recogniser. Veer itself never records, stores or uploads your audio — only the resulting text is used, and that text goes to an AI company only if you have added your own key, turned the option on, and agreed on the permission screen (see below). Otherwise it never leaves your phone.
Please note that the recogniser belongs to your phone, not to Veer, and it may perform the transcription on its own servers: on iPhone and iPad, Apple may send the audio to Apple to transcribe it, and on Android, Google may do the same. That step is handled under Apple's and Google's own privacy policies. You can avoid it entirely by typing your question instead of speaking it.
When you photograph a medicine label or prescription to fill in a form, the text is read on your device using offline recognition, and the photo stays on your phone. The temporary image file is deleted as soon as it has been read.
There is one exception, and Veer always asks first. If you have added your own AI key and switched on "smarter understanding", Veer can offer to send that one photo to the AI provider you chose, which reads labels far more accurately. Veer asks your permission every single time, names the provider in the question, and reads the photo on your phone instead if you say no. No image ever leaves your device without you agreeing to it on that occasion.
Veer can optionally use a third-party AI company to understand your questions more flexibly. It is off until you do three things: add your own API key in Settings, turn on "Send my questions to an AI company", and then read a full-screen permission notice and tap Yes. Until all three have happened, Veer sends nothing to any AI company, and it answers every question from what is saved on your phone.
What is sent. The words of your question — what you speak, or what you type. That is the whole of it, with one important addition: if you add a medicine, doctor, appointment or family member by voice, the sentence you speak is sent as well, because that is how Veer fills in the form for you. So if you say "add my son Manpreet, five five five one two three four", that name and that phone number are in what is sent. The permission screen says this in those words before you agree.
What is never sent. The medicines, doctors, appointments, family contacts and notes already saved in Veer. Your name, your age, your allergies and conditions. Your location. None of that is included in an AI request, ever.
Who it is sent to — determined by the key you enter, and named on screen before anything is sent:
api.openai.com — privacy policygenerativelanguage.googleapis.com — privacy policyapi.anthropic.com — privacy policyProtection by these companies. Before supporting a provider we read its published privacy and API terms, and we tell you what we found rather than assuring you in general terms. As of this policy's date:
We still support Google keys, because many people already have one and the choice of provider is yours to make. What we do about the difference is disclose it where the decision is actually taken: when your key is a Google one, Veer says this on the permission screen, in the same words, before you tap Yes. If we ever add a provider whose terms are weaker than this policy describes, we will tell you the same way — at the point of choosing, not only here.
Stopping it. Open Settings and either turn off "Send my questions to an AI company" or tap "Turn off AI help and delete my key". Either one stops every AI request immediately; the second also erases the key from your phone. You can re-read the whole permission notice at any time, without a key, from Settings or from the "Ask Veer" screen.
AI answers are generated by a machine and can be wrong. Veer is instructed to decline medical questions and refer you to your doctor, but you should never rely on an AI answer for a health decision. Every AI answer in the app is labelled with the company that helped produce it, and carries a "Report this answer" link that emails it to us.
When you type a place into an appointment or a doctor's address, what you type is sent to open
address-lookup services so they can suggest matching addresses:
Photon / OpenStreetMap
(photon.komoot.io, operated by komoot GmbH) and, for United States addresses, the
US Census Bureau geocoder
(geocoding.geo.census.gov). Only the text of the address is sent — your location is
not, and nothing else about you is included.
Please note that these address fields require you to pick one of the suggestions before the address can be saved, so this lookup is part of saving an address rather than something you can skip. The app says so underneath the field. Photon is a free service run by komoot GmbH under their privacy policy; the US Census geocoder is a United States federal government service. Neither receives anything that identifies you, and neither is sent your saved lists.
Tapping "Directions" on an appointment or a doctor hands the address you saved to Google Maps in your browser or maps app, so it can route you there. Only that one address is passed across. From that point you are in Google Maps rather than in Veer, under Google's privacy policy — we link it here so you know before you tap.
When Veer starts, it downloads a small public file
(kernelkrafttech-hue.github.io) listing the web addresses of the radio and prayer
streams the app offers. This lets us replace a station that has gone off the air without making you
wait for an app update. Nothing about you is sent with that request — no name, no
settings, no identifier; it is the same file for everyone. As with any web request, it reveals your
device's IP address to GitHub, which hosts the file. The file can only substitute audio addresses:
it cannot change any of your settings, turn a feature on or off, or add anything to the app.
The News, Gurbani and live radio features fetch publicly available content from third parties,
including Google News, BBC Punjabi (feeds.bbci.co.uk), the Internet Archive
(archive.org), SikhNet (radio.sikhnet.com), SGPC
(live.sgpc.net) and All India Radio. These are ordinary content requests — no personal
information is attached to them. One thing is worth saying plainly, because it is not obvious:
like any request to a website, connecting to one of these streams reveals your device's IP address
to whoever runs it. For a prayer or religious broadcast that discloses something about you to that
broadcaster, even though Veer attaches nothing. Veer does not save this audio to your phone. Opening a news article or
a TV channel hands you over to your browser or to YouTube, which have their own privacy policies.
The Emergency screen can dial your country's emergency-services number, or a different number you set yourself in Settings, and can call a family contact you have saved. Veer places the call through your phone's own dialler and keeps no record of it. We receive nothing when you use this feature.
Veer is not an emergency service. It only dials a number for you. It does not contact emergency services on your behalf, does not monitor you, and cannot summon help by itself. On iPhone and iPad your phone will always ask you to confirm before the call is placed.
Notifications are created and scheduled entirely on your device, by the app itself. They are used only to remind you about the medicines, appointments and tasks that you entered. Veer sends no push notifications from any server — there is no server — and nothing about your reminders is transmitted anywhere.
Veer contains no advertising, no advertising trackers, no analytics product of ours, and no tracking software. Veer does not use an advertising identifier, does not track you across other apps or websites, and does not build a profile of you. We do not sell or share your personal information, and we never have.
Both Apple and Google require a summary of data handling on the app's store page. For completeness, this is what Veer declares. In every case the data is used only to make the feature work, is not linked to your identity, and is not used to track you.
| Data type | When it is sent | Who receives it |
|---|---|---|
| Precise location | Only while showing the weather, if you allowed location. It is not sent anywhere else — address search does not receive it. | Open-Meteo, BigDataCloud |
| Coarse location | Weather only, and only when you allowed location but no satellite fix was available — your IP address is used to estimate your town | ipapi.co or ipwho.is |
| Contact info | An address you type into a doctor or appointment, so real places can be suggested. Required to save the address. | Photon (komoot GmbH), US Census Bureau geocoder |
| Audio | What you say into "Ask Veer", so your device can turn it into text | Apple (iPhone/iPad) or Google (Android), under their own policies |
| Photos | Only a label you scanned, and only after you agree to that specific photo | OpenAI (only an OpenAI key can read photos) |
| Other user content | The words of a question you ask "Ask Veer" — and, when you add an item by voice, the sentence you speak, which can contain a name or a phone number. Only after you have agreed on the AI permission screen. | OpenAI, Google or Anthropic — whichever your key belongs to |
| Health information | Only if a label you scanned, or a question you asked, happens to contain it | The AI company whose key you added |
We collect nothing else ourselves — no purchase history, no browsing or search history, and we operate no analytics or crash-reporting product of our own. There is one thing we do not control and will not pretend away: reading a label on the phone uses Google's ML Kit, a component built into the app, and that component reports its own usage to Google. What it sends is technical — which of its functions were called and how often, its own version, the app's identifier and build, the device model, country, operating system and language, and an identifier for this installation. It does not send the photograph, and it does not send the text it read. We cannot switch this off, so we declare it in the App Store privacy labels as Identifiers, Product Interaction and Diagnostics rather than leave it undeclared.
The entry above labelled "Contact info" covers two narrow things: the text of an address you are typing into a doctor or appointment, sent so real addresses can be suggested back to you, and — if you use the microphone to add someone — the sentence you speak, which may contain the person's name and phone number. It is never your device's own contact list, and Veer does not read that list.
Veer is designed for adults, particularly older adults, and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has provided information through this app, please contact us and we will help you remove it — though in practice, all such information is on the device itself and can be deleted there.
Data on your device is protected by your phone's standard app sandboxing, which prevents other apps from reading it, and by your device passcode. Everything sent to the outside services described above travels over encrypted HTTPS connections. Because your personal data lives only on your device, we retain none of it; it is kept until you delete it in the app or uninstall Veer.
Veer's data is excluded from your phone's cloud backup. On Android the app
declares allowBackup="false", and also refuses device-to-device transfer. On iOS the data
file is marked NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey. So your medicines, doctors, appointments,
family contacts, notes, health profile, your AI key and your recorded answer to the permission screen
are not copied to iCloud or to Google Drive.
This has a cost, and we would rather you knew it now than found out later: if you replace, lose or erase your phone, this information cannot be restored — a new phone starts empty and you will need to enter it again. We chose that because the file holds health information, family phone numbers and an API key in plain text, and we would rather it never left your device at all. Veer says the same thing in Settings, under "Your information".
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, California or another region with data protection rights — such as the right to access, correct, delete or export your personal data, or to object to its processing — those rights apply to personal data a company holds about you. Because Logicstack LLC holds none of your personal data on any server, there is nothing for us to retrieve, correct or erase: you already hold and control all of it on your own device, and deleting it there is final. If you have a question about this, please write to us at the address below and we will help.
If this policy changes, we will update this page and revise the effective date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Questions about this policy, or about your privacy in Veer? Email kernelkrafttech@gmail.com.