Privacy Policy — Paramanu Seniors Notices

Last updated: 3 October 2026

This policy describes how the Android app Paramanu Seniors Notices (org.paramanuseniorshealth.notices) handles information. The app is published on behalf of Paramanu Seniors Health, which is responsible for the notices it delivers.

In short

The app does not ask you for your name, telephone number, email address, postal address, date of birth, or any health information. It has no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking.

Activation codes are given only to CHSS beneficiaries registered under Vashi Dispensary. Before giving you a code, the HelpDesk or a registered volunteer may check your name, CHSS number and telephone number. These details are written down only if you ask for them to be kept, as described under Details recorded at the counter.

What the app stores on your phone

The notices you have received, so you can read them again whenever you want. They stay until you delete them.
Pictures and circulars that came with the notices. To save space, the oldest of these may be cleared from your phone; the notice itself stays, and the picture or circular can be downloaded again with a tap.
Your activation code.

This information stays on your phone and is not uploaded. Uninstalling the app removes all of it.

What the app sends over the internet

An anonymous account identifier. When you enter your activation code, the app creates an anonymous account with Google Firebase. This is a random identifier. It is not connected to your name, your telephone number, your email address, or any account you may have with Google. It is stored alongside your activation code so that the organisation can confirm the code has been used, and can stop notices to a particular phone if asked.

Your activation code, for the same purpose.

A message registration for your app installation. Google Firebase Cloud Messaging assigns an identifier to this installation of the app so notices can be delivered to it. The app itself does not read or store this identifier. Google’s handling of it is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

Ordinary connection information. As with any app or website, your device’s internet address is visible to the servers it connects to: Google Firebase, and the website a picture or circular is downloaded from, usually paramanuseniorshealth.org.

Nothing else is sent. In particular, the app does not send your location, your contacts, your photographs, an advertising identifier, or any record of what you read.

Details recorded at the counter

This part is optional, and happens only if you ask for it.

If you ask, the HelpDesk can record your name, CHSS number and telephone number against your activation code. This lets the HelpDesk find your code again if you lose your slip, change your phone, or call for help.

These details are entered by the HelpDesk, not by the app. They are never sent to any phone, including yours.
Only HelpDesk staff and volunteers named by Paramanu Seniors Health can see them.
They are held in the same Firebase database as the activation record.
You can ask for them to be corrected or removed at any time. Once removed, they are erased permanently within 60 days.

What the app does not do

No advertising, and no advertising identifier. The app does not request the Android advertising ID permission.
No analytics or usage tracking of individuals.
No sale or sharing of information with anyone for marketing.
No medical advice, diagnosis, prescriptions, or appointment booking. The app delivers announcements only, and is not a substitute for contacting the dispensary or your doctor.

Who processes this information

Google, through the Firebase service, on behalf of Paramanu Seniors Health. Messages are delivered by Firebase Cloud Messaging; the activation record, and any details recorded at the counter, are held in a Firebase database. Google’s practices are described in the Google Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy and Firebase’s data handling at https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy.

How long it is kept

Notices on your phone are kept until you delete them or uninstall the app.

The record connecting your activation code to its anonymous identifier is kept while the code is in use. Uninstalling the app does not remove it. If you ask the organisation to release your code, or the code is withdrawn, that record is removed.

Details recorded at the counter are kept until you ask for them to be removed, or until you are removed from the notices list. They are then erased permanently within 60 days.

Your choices

Check that notifications work. Settings has a button that sends a test notification. It appears only on your phone.
Delete notices. Press and hold a notice to select it, then delete it.
Stop notices. Turn off notifications for the app in your phone’s settings, or uninstall it.
Remove your information. Uninstalling deletes everything the app stored on your phone. To have your activation record, and any details recorded at the counter, removed as well, contact the HelpDesk using the details below.

Children

Paramanu Seniors Notices is intended for adults. It is not directed at children and is not designed to appeal to them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address and the date at the top will be updated.