Veer is a simple assistant designed for older Punjabi-speaking adults to manage health reminders, family contacts, prayer (Gurbani), news, and everyday tasks. We built Veer to be private by default. This policy explains, in plain terms, what data Veer handles, where it goes, and the choices you have.
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. 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 contact list, call logs, messages, or files. Contacts in Veer are only the ones you type in yourself.
Some features need the internet. In those cases, only the minimum data needed for the feature is sent, and never your stored personal or health information.
If you grant location permission, Veer uses your phone's location (or, as a fallback, your approximate location from your internet connection) to show the local weather. Your coordinates are sent to the weather provider Open-Meteo and a reverse-geocoding service to look up your city name. Location is used only for weather, is not stored as a history, and is not used for advertising or tracking. The weather feature is optional — Veer works without granting location.
When you use the "Ask Veer" voice feature, your speech is converted to text by your phone's own built-in speech recognizer. Veer does not record, store, or upload raw audio. Only the resulting text question may be sent to an AI service, and only if you have enabled that option (see below).
When you photograph a label or prescription to auto-fill a form, the text is read on your device using offline recognition. The photo stays on your phone. An optional cloud option exists only if you choose to enable it with your own AI key (see below); otherwise no image leaves your device. Temporary photo files used for scanning are deleted immediately after processing.
Veer can optionally connect to a third-party AI provider to better understand your questions. This is off unless you add your own API key in Settings. If enabled, only the text of your question (and, for cloud scan-to-text, the photo you chose) is sent to the provider you selected:
Your stored personal and health data is never included in these requests. Use of the provider is governed by that provider's own privacy policy. Your API key is stored only on your device.
The News, Gurbani prayer audio, and live radio/kirtan features fetch publicly available content from third-party sources (such as Google News, BBC Punjabi, the Internet Archive, SikhNet, and All India Radio). These are simple content requests; no personal information is sent. Following a link or video may open another app (for example YouTube), which has its own privacy policy.
When typing a location into an appointment, what you type is sent to an open mapping search service (Photon / OpenStreetMap) to suggest addresses. No other data is included.
The emergency (SOS) feature can place a phone call to a number you have set, when you tap it. Veer does not collect call data. Notifications are used only to remind you about medicines, appointments, and tasks you created.
Veer contains no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no tracking SDKs. Veer does not use an advertising identifier and does not build a profile of you.
Veer is designed for adults and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Data on your device is protected by your phone's standard app sandboxing. Information sent to the outside services described above is transmitted over encrypted (HTTPS) connections. Because your personal data lives only on your device, it is retained until you delete it in the app or uninstall Veer.
If this policy changes, we will update this page and revise the effective date above.
Questions about this policy? Email kernelkrafttech@gmail.com.