Privacy policy

Signing in with Google

Reading and phone alerts need no account. You sign in to react 🙏❤️👏, comment, report or post on the village wall. When you sign in with Google, Google gives us only:

• your name
• your email address
• your profile photo
• an ID number, so we recognise you next time

What we never get

• Your Google password — you type it on Google's own page, never on our site.
• Your Gmail, contacts, Google Photos, Drive, phone number or location.
• Permission to post, send email or do anything as you.

What you choose to give

• “Where do you live?” — only if you fill it in.
• Photos, captions, the year of a photo and comments you post.
• The Send news form (needs sign-in): your name, place, phone number (optional), message and photos. Only the village admins see these.

Raising an issue

• You sign in to raise an issue (this keeps out fake and spam reports). Issues are seen only by that village's admins — never published.
• If you tick “Send anonymously”, your name, email, phone and account are not saved with the issue at all. Admins only see “Anonymous”.
• Photos are redrawn on your phone before sending, which removes hidden details such as location and phone model.
• To stop spam, we count how many issues each person raises per day, using a scrambled code that is never linked to the issue and is deleted the next day.
• Your tracking code shows the issue's status and the admins' reply — it never shows who sent it. Admins may delete issues once they are dealt with.
• Like any website, our hosting company keeps normal technical logs for a short time. We do not use them to find out who raised an issue.

Your username and notifications

• You get a username made from your name (like @ravi.kumar) so others can tag you. You can change it from your account menu.
• When someone comments on your post or tags you, you see it under Notifications — and as a phone alert if you turned alerts on while signed in on that phone.
• Reactions count once per person, so they show how many people really reacted.

Who can see what

• Everyone: your name, photo and username next to your posts and comments, and the posts themselves.
• Only the main village admins: your email address and when you joined and last signed in.
• Nobody outside the admins ever gets your email or phone number from us.

Without signing in

• Phone alerts: your browser gives us an address to send alerts to. It contains no name or phone number. Turn alerts off any time.
• Your language choice and a few settings (like “don't show the app tip again”) are kept on your own phone.

Where it is kept

Everything is stored with Supabase on servers in Mumbai, India, and the website runs on Vercel. Google handles sign-in. We use no analytics or advertising services.

Your choices

• Delete any of your own posts yourself, from the ⋯ menu on the post.
• To delete your account and everything you posted, email ramannapeta.manavillage@gmail.com from the same Google email. We do it within 7 days.
• Disconnect the site from your Google account any time: Google Account → Security → Third-party apps & services.

Children

Please ask parents before posting photos of children, and do not post photos that show where a child can be found alone.

Contact

Questions or requests: ramannapeta.manavillage@gmail.com. If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top.