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 and is never transmitted off the device:
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 | Veer shows the time of day instead of weather. Nothing else changes. |
| 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 | You can still type your question. |
| 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.
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 decline location access, Veer can instead estimate your rough area from your internet
connection using ipapi.co or ipwho.is, which receive your device's IP address.
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 it is passed on to an AI service only if you have switched that option on (see below).
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 service to understand your questions more flexibly. This is switched off unless you add your own API key in Settings and turn on "smarter understanding". When it is on, what is sent is the text of your question — and, only with your per-photo agreement described above, a photo you scanned. It goes to whichever provider your key belongs to:
Your saved medicines, doctors, appointments, family contacts and notes are never included in these requests. Your API key is stored only on your device, and you can delete it in Settings at any time to stop all AI requests immediately. Because you are using your own key, your use of that provider is governed by your agreement with them and by their privacy policy, not ours.
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 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 — and, if available,
your approximate coordinates — is sent to open address-lookup services to suggest matching addresses:
Photon / OpenStreetMap
(photon.komoot.io) and, for United States addresses, the US Census Bureau geocoder
(geocoding.geo.census.gov). Nothing else about you is included.
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, and what happens next is governed by Google's privacy policy.
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. 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 third-party analytics 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 | Open-Meteo, BigDataCloud |
| Coarse location | As a weather fallback if you declined location; and when searching an address | ipapi.co or ipwho.is; Photon, US Census geocoder |
| Photos | Only a label you scanned, and only after you agree to that specific photo | The AI provider whose key you added |
| Other user content | The question you ask "Ask Veer", when smarter understanding is on | The AI provider whose key you added |
| Health information | Only if a label you scanned, or a question you asked, happens to contain it | The AI provider whose key you added |
Nothing else is collected. In particular Veer collects no contact information, no identifiers, no purchase history, no browsing or search history, no usage statistics, and no crash or diagnostic reports.
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.
Note that if your phone is backed up to iCloud or to Google, your Veer data may be included in that backup, under Apple's or Google's own terms. You can exclude Veer from backups in your device settings.
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.