Privacy policy

This website

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The Sabha app

Sabha is used by housing societies to manage maintenance funds. Each society’s data is separate and visible only to that society’s members and committee.

The app stores:

• Your name, email address and phone number, so the society can identify and contact you
• Your flat number and the society you belong to
• Your maintenance charges, payments and receipts
• Sign-in credentials, stored as a one-way hash — passwords are never stored in readable form

Residents see their own flat and ledger. The committee and treasurer see the society’s records, which is what running the fund requires. Nobody outside your society sees any of it.

The ODD Flow app

ODD Flow records journeys, so it collects where you went. That is the whole function of the app, and it is the most revealing thing on this page — a route log shows where you live, where you work and when you are away from both. It is treated accordingly.

While a recording is running, the app collects:

• Precise location — latitude, longitude, altitude, speed and the accuracy of each fix, several times a minute
• Location while the app is in the background, because a ride does not stop when the screen does. Recording only happens after you press Start, and a notification stays visible the whole time it runs
• Steps, from the phone’s motion sensor, used to measure distance where the satellite signal is poor
• Air pressure, used to measure climb, which GPS altitude is too noisy to do

Your account holds an email address, a username, and a phone number and name if you give them. Passwords are stored as a one-way hash and never in readable form. Each signed-in device is listed with the name it reports and when it signed in, so you can spot one you do not recognise and end it.

Trips stay on your phone whether or not you have an account. An account is what copies them to the server, so a lost phone is not a lost history.

Nobody else can see your trips. There is no feed, no leaderboard, no sharing with other users, and no public profile.

Maps

Drawing a map means asking a map server for the tiles covering where you are. Those requests reach OpenStreetMap for the flat maps and Mapbox for the 3D replay, and they reveal your approximate location and your IP address to whichever one served the tile. Your identity and your saved trips are not sent — a tile request carries no account and no name. Neither is used for advertising, and no route is stored with either of them.

What is never done

• Your data is not sold, rented or shared with advertisers
• No third-party advertising or tracking SDKs are used in either app
• Location, contacts, photos and files are not collected by Sabha
• ODD Flow does not read your contacts, photos, files, microphone or camera
• Your location is never collected when you are not recording a trip

Where it is stored

On a server under my control, transmitted over HTTPS and stored in an access-controlled database. Sabha records are kept while your society uses it, since a maintenance ledger is a financial record the society may need to refer back to. ODD Flow trips are kept until you delete them or close your account, because a history you cannot look back at is not worth recording.

Your choices

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask for corrections, or ask for your account to be removed. Deleting your ODD Flow account deletes the trips stored on the server with it, including every route. Financial records a society is required to keep may be retained after a Sabha account is closed. Write to [email protected] and I will respond within 30 days. Deleting your account sets out what goes and what is kept.

You can also withdraw permission at any time from your phone’s settings. Turning off location stops new trips being recorded; turning off motion access stops steps and climb being measured. Neither deletes what is already saved.

Children

Both apps are intended for adults and neither is directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes will be notified in the app.

Contact

Odedara Labs — [email protected]
India