Spasht privacy notice
Herpenza Technologies Pvt Ltd ("Herpenza", "we") operates Spasht. Reading stories needs no account, and we never sell personal data or publish a reader's political viewpoint.
Data we process
- Account: Firebase user ID, email address and sign-in provider (Google or Apple). We do not ask for a phone number.
- Participation: fairness votes and their reasons, an optional privately declared broad viewpoint, comments, usefulness ratings and correction reports.
- Ask and forward checks: the question or forwarded text you submit and the story it refers to.
- Operations: app version, device push token (only if you allow notifications) and security logs such as IP address and request time.
Why we use it
To sign you in, count fairness votes, rank discussion by usefulness across viewpoints, answer questions from cited stories, send alerts you opted into, act on correction reports, prevent abuse and meet legal obligations. A declared viewpoint is used only inside aggregated cross-view measures and is never shown with your name.
Who processes it
- Google Firebase: sign-in.
- Amazon Web Services, Mumbai region (ap-south-1): application database, logs and hosting.
- Expo, Apple Push Notification service and Firebase Cloud Messaging: delivering notifications you allow.
Comments you post are public. We share data with authorities only when Indian law requires it.
Retention
Account, vote, comment and rating data is kept while your account exists and deleted when you delete the account. Security logs are kept for up to 180 days. Published stories and their correction history are kept as a public record and contain no reader data.
Your choices and rights
You can read without an account, keep your viewpoint undisclosed, turn off notifications, and delete your account at any time in the app (Account, then Delete account) or as described on the account deletion page. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 you may ask us for access, correction or erasure, and nominate another person to exercise these rights.
Children
Spasht accounts are for adults. We do not knowingly create accounts for, or process personal data of, anyone under 18.
Contact and grievance officer
Grievance officer: Komal Chandra (alternate: Pragya Nagpal Chandra), Herpenza Technologies Pvt Ltd, 19, Shankar Vihar Vistar, Charan Nadi 2, Murlipura, Jaipur - 302039, India. Email komal@herpenzatechnologies.in. We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within 15 days.