Privacy Policy for DawaCheck

Last updated: September 29, 2026

DawaCheck ("the app") helps you compare medicine prices in India and find cheaper, government-verified alternatives. This page explains what data the app handles and why.

Signing in is required

You sign in with your Google account before the app can be used — this keeps the daily free allowance of checks fair for everyone and prevents automated abuse. Google confirms your identity to our server, which verifies it independently and never trusts the app's own claim. Accounts created earlier with a verified phone number continue to work.

What we collect

• Google account info: your Google account ID, name, email address, and profile photo, received from Google when you sign in.
• Check count: how many checks you have used, to enforce the free daily allowance and any paid check balance.
• Phone number (earlier accounts only): accounts created before Google sign-in keep the phone number they were verified with.
• Search queries: when you search for a medicine by name, that text is sent to our server to look up prices.
• Photos (camera/gallery scan): when you use the scan feature, the photo is sent securely (HTTPS) to our server, which forwards it to Google's Gemini AI to identify the medicine. The photo itself is not stored by DawaCheck after the request completes.
• Purchases (optional): if you buy the optional subscription or a check recharge, the purchase itself is handled entirely by Google Play. We receive only what is needed to confirm it — such as the order ID, product, and subscription status — never your payment details.

Anonymous location and demographic data

Before you sign in, the app asks for your age range, gender, and approximate location (detected using your device's location permission and resolved to a city/district/state/PIN code — not your precise coordinates). This information is stored in a record that contains no name, email address, phone number, or account identifier of any kind, and cannot be linked back to you or your account.

Each time you search for or scan a medicine, the medicine's name and salt composition is added to this same anonymous record, alongside the age range, gender, and location bucket above and the season in which the search happened. We use this anonymized information to understand regional and seasonal medicine-access and pricing patterns — for research, product improvement, aggregate reporting, and other lawful purposes permitted under applicable Indian law. Because these records are never linked to your identity, they are retained even after you delete your account.

My List

Medicines you add to My List are saved to your account on our server (so the list follows you if you switch phones), and cached on your device. It is not sold or shared with anyone.

Deleting your data

From Settings → Account → "Delete my account" in the app, you can permanently remove your account — your Google account info or phone number, your check count, subscription and recharge records, and your saved My List — from our server at any time. This also clears the local copy on your device. This action cannot be undone. The anonymous location/demographic and search-pattern records described above are not linked to your account in any way and are therefore not affected by this deletion. To delete your account without the app, see Delete your account.

Third-party services we use

• Google Sign-In — used to sign you in and verify your identity. See Google's privacy policy.
• Firebase (Google) — used to verify the phone number of accounts that sign in with a phone number. See Google's privacy policy.
• Google (Gemini AI) — processes photos you choose to scan and text you search for, in order to identify medicines and look up current prices (which may involve a Google Search). See Google's privacy policy.
• Google Play Billing — handles the optional subscription and recharge purchases. See Google's privacy policy.
• Google Maps — if you tap "Find a Kendra near me," the app opens Google Maps in your browser or Maps app. DawaCheck does not share any of your data with Google to do this beyond following a link.

Current practices

As of the date of this policy: DawaCheck does not use advertising or analytics SDKs, does not sell your personal data to third parties, and does not track you across other apps or websites. If any of this changes, we'll update this policy first (see "Changes to this policy" below) and notify users before the change takes effect.

Children's privacy

DawaCheck is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date at the top will be revised.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email support@dawacheck.in.