Privacy policy

What Avana is

Avana shows the people in your nest where you are, and tells them when you arrive at or leave places you have set up. It is a location-sharing app for families.

Avana is operated by Wrkflo Tech Private Limited, Pune, Maharashtra, India, which is responsible for the data described here.

What we collect

Your phone number or email address, whichever you sign in with. It is used to sign you in and to let your family find you when they invite you.

Your name. Whatever you type. We do not verify it, and you can use any name your nest will recognise.

Your location, while sharing is on: latitude and longitude, how accurate the reading was, whether you were moving, and your battery level. Roughly every four minutes, and only while you have turned sharing on.

Places that you or your nest set up, such as home or school.

Emergency contacts you add: a name, a phone number and, if you type one, how they are related to you.

A profile photo, if you choose to add one.

Which device you are using, as an identifier we generate. It is not your IMEI or your advertising ID, and it does not identify you outside Avana.

We do not collect your contacts, your messages, your browsing, your other apps or your microphone.

Who can see your location

Only the people in your nests. Nobody else: not other Avana users, not advertisers, and not anyone who buys data from us, because we do not sell it.

You can pause sharing at any time. When you do, your nest is told that you have paused. They see "sharing paused" and not a position that has quietly stopped being true.

How long we keep it

• Location history: 7 days. Then it is deleted automatically. It is not archived and not kept in an anonymised form.
• Events (arrivals, departures, SOS alerts): 90 days.
• Your account: until you delete it.

You can delete all of your location history at any time from Settings, and it is removed immediately.

Deleting your account

Go to Settings and choose Delete my account. Everything that says where you have been is deleted immediately. There is no grace period.

We keep a record that an account existed and what it consented to. That record does not contain your name, your phone number or any location. It is the evidence that your family's location sharing was consented to.

If you own a nest, it passes to another adult in it. If there is no other adult, the nest closes.

Notifications

When something happens, we send your phone a notification through Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging. That message contains no names, no places and no coordinates, only an identifier. Your phone then fetches the detail from us directly and writes the notification itself.

This means Google can see that something happened in your nest, but not what happened or to whom.

Who else is involved

We do not use advertising networks or analytics services.

Children

Avana is designed for families, and a child's location may be shared by a parent who sets up their phone. A parent or guardian is responsible for that decision. Anyone in a nest, including a teenager, can pause their own sharing and leave the nest, and their nest is told when they do.

Security

Sign-in uses a one-time code, so there is no password to steal. Each device holds its own credential, so one compromised phone cannot report locations for anyone else. Location history is withheld for 24 hours after signing in on a new device, so that someone who picks up your phone cannot immediately read where you have been.

We cannot promise that no system is ever breached. We can say what would be exposed if ours were: seven days of location, not years.

Your rights

You can see everything we hold about you in the app, delete your history, delete your account, and pause sharing at any time.

For anything else, write to hello@avana.wrkflo-tech.com.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect.