Epilore privacy policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Epilore is an Android app of short, sourced moments from the Mahabharata, told as choices. It has no accounts and no login. The only things you type into it are a first name and, if you use Ask, your questions. This page explains exactly what the app records, why, and who handles it.

Who we are

Epilore is made by an independent developer in India. Contact: epilore345@gmail.com.

What we collect

• A random ID. The first time you open the app, it creates a random code on your phone. It is not your name, email or phone number, and we cannot link it to you. Uninstalling the app deletes it from your phone.
• A reader code. A short code made from your random ID, shown to you on the Welcome screen and in Settings. It is recorded with your random ID, so a code can be checked against real installs.
• What you do in the app. Which stories you open and finish, the screens you see, the choices you make, and which buttons you tap (for example "Go deeper" cards or "Notify me").
• How you found Epilore. When you install the app from Google Play, Play tells the app which link led to the install (for example, a link under one of our videos) and when the install began. We record that once, with your random ID, to learn which posts bring readers.
• Device and app details. Your phone model, Android version, app version, language, screen size and connection type (Wi-Fi or mobile data).
• Approximate location. Worked out from your internet connection, never from GPS. We keep only your country and state, never your city or postcode. The internet address (IP) itself is not stored by our analytics.
• Server logs. When the app talks to our server, the hosting service (Google Cloud) keeps standard request logs, which include your internet address and device type, for up to 30 days.
• Your questions, only if you use Ask. After a story you can ask a question about the Mahabharata. The question goes to our server, which removes anything that looks like an email address or phone number. We keep it for 90 days with its answer, whether you marked the answer helpful or reported it, and a code made from your random ID that cannot be turned back into it (so we can count your questions for the day). After 90 days it is deleted automatically.
• Notifications, only if you ask. If you tap "Notify me" and allow notifications, Google Firebase gives your phone a delivery token so it can receive "a new story is out" messages. That token stays with Google; we never read or store it.

What we never collect

Your name, email, phone number, contacts, photos, precise (GPS) location, or anything else you type. There are no ads and no screen recordings.

The first name you give the app stays on your phone so the app can greet you. It is never sent to us. Your phone's own backup may include it in your Google account, which we cannot see.

If you turn on the lock screen line, the photo you pick stays on your phone: the app uses it there to draw your lock screen picture and never uploads it.

Why

To learn which stories and features people actually use, so we can make Epilore better, and to send new-story notifications to people who asked for them. We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.

Who handles it

• PostHog (analytics, servers in the European Union): the random ID, your reader code, what you do in the app, the link you installed from, device details and approximate location.
• Supabase (our database, servers in Mumbai, India): the random ID and a record of each story you play (when you started and finished, and your choices), and, if you use Ask, your questions and answers for 90 days.
• Anthropic (Claude, the AI that writes Ask's answers): only your question, with emails and phone numbers removed, and passages from the Mahabharata. It never gets your random ID. Under its commercial terms Anthropic does not train its models on them, and it deletes them within 30 days, unless its own usage rules require keeping them longer.
• Google Cloud (our server, Mumbai, India): the request logs described above.
• Google Firebase (notifications): the delivery token, only if you turned notifications on.

All data travels encrypted (HTTPS).

Keeping and deleting data

We keep this data only as long as we need it to improve Epilore; questions asked with Ask are deleted after 90 days. The app has no accounts, so we cannot find your data by your name or email, but we can find it by your reader code. To have your data deleted, write to epilore345@gmail.com with your reader code (on the Welcome screen and in Settings), and we will delete it from our database and our analytics. You can stop all collection at any time by uninstalling the app, which also deletes the random ID from your phone.

Age

Epilore is meant for readers aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. If you are under 18, please use Epilore with a parent's or guardian's knowledge.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and its date.