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Last updated 12 November 2026

Privacy Policy

What personal data Vyam collects, why, who it is shared with, how long it is kept, and the rights you have over it.

In short

  • We collect only what Vyam needs to work: your account, the projects, plans, files and notes you put in, and a little technical data.
  • We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for advertising. Vyam has no advertising or analytics trackers.
  • Some of your data is handled by companies that run parts of Vyam for us (for example our database host) and, when you use the AI planner, by Google. They are listed below.
  • You can export your data yourself, in Settings, and ask us to delete your account by writing to us.

1. Who we are

Vyam is a project-planning workspace run by Nikhil (“we”, “us”). We decide why and how your personal data is used, so we are the “controller” (in India, the “data fiduciary”) of the data described here.

Our address is B4-2E, VGN Fairmont. You can reach us at knmnikhil05@gmail.com.

2. What we collect

WhatExamplesWhere it comes from
Account dataName, email address, a password (kept only as a one-way hash, by our sign-in provider), profile picture, time zone, notification choices, how much of Vyam you chose to see (your experience level), and, if you choose, what you do (your work role: developer, designer and so on, picked from a list; people on the same project as you can see it, nobody else can)You, or Google if you sign in with Google
Your projectsProject names, descriptions and notes, plans, phases, tasks and dates, the technology you chose, deadlines, comments on tasks (with the teammates they name, who get a notification) and activity historyYou and your teammates
Your teamEmail addresses and names of people you invite to a project, the access you give them, and whether they have acceptedYou (you must be allowed to share them)
Sprints and timeSprints (a name, a goal, dates and the tasks in them) and the hours people log on tasks, with the day, an optional note, and who logged themYou and your teammates
DraftsChats begun on the Ask AI page and not yet made into projects: the words you wrote, your answers and the files you added (a short copy of each in the chat, and the whole words and the original kept apart in your browser’s storage, so you can ask about a file later). Kept in your browser only, until you make the project, delete the draft or take the file out.You
Files and drawingsDocuments you upload to a project’s vault, and canvas drawingsYou and your teammates
Project logoA small picture a project owner chooses as the project’s logo (shrunk to a small square in your browser before it is saved with the project)You (the project owner)
Costs you recordWhat you pay for, how much, how often and since whenYou and your teammates
Milestones and checklistsThe reviews, stages and submission you set up for a project: their names, times, checklist items and, for a client stage, its price and whether it was paidYou and your teammates
ConnectionsThe GitHub repository you link; if you connect GitHub, the titles, branch names, sizes and times of its recent pull requests and commits and the GitHub usernames of who made them (never your code, and never names or emails from commits); and the names and one-way fingerprints of access tokens you create for coding agents (the token itself is shown once and not kept)You
Technical dataIP address and browser details in our servers’ ordinary logs, time of requests, error informationYour device, automatically

We do not ask for payment card details today. If paid plans are added, card details will be taken by a payment company and we will not see or store full card numbers.

We do not knowingly collect sensitive categories of data (such as health, religion or biometric data). Please do not put them in your projects.

3. How we use it, and our legal reasons

Why we use itLegal reason (EU, UK and similar laws)
To run your account and the workspace: sign you in, keep your projects, show them to your team, send notifications you asked forContract: it is needed to provide Vyam to you
To draft a plan, or to run Project check or Plan my week, when you ask for one (see “AI planner” below)Contract, and your request
To keep Vyam secure, prevent abuse and fix faultsLegitimate interests: keeping the service safe and working
To answer your messages and requestsContract, or legitimate interests
To meet legal duties, and to establish or defend legal claimsLegal obligation, or legitimate interests
To use optional features such as a Google sign-inYour consent, which you can withdraw at any time

We do not use your data to profile you, to make decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you, or to train any AI model, ours or anyone else’s. Nobody who runs Vyam, and no company we work with, may use what you create in Vyam to train a model.

4. Who else handles your data

We use the companies below to run parts of Vyam. They may only use your data to provide their service to us, under contracts that protect it. We do not sell personal data and we do not “share” it for cross-context advertising.

CompanyWhat it does for VyamWhat it receives
Our database and sign-in providerDatabase, sign-in, file storage and the functions that run our server codeEverything you store in Vyam
Google (Gemini)Drafts a plan when you use the AI planner, and answers your questions in Ask AIThe project name, description (including anything you typed or said in your own words, and the opening words of any PDF, Word, Markdown or text file you added to your idea), notes, dates, team size and the technology you chose. Not your team’s email addresses. When you ask Ask AI a question that it cannot answer by itself, your recent messages in that chat and a short summary of your projects (names, progress, dates, team size and next tasks) are sent too. For the one project you ask about, the summary also holds the names and access of its people (never email addresses), its phases, its latest changes, and, if GitHub is connected, the titles, branch names and times of its recent pull requests and commits and the GitHub usernames of who made them. Files are read in your browser, with one exception: a picture (PNG or JPG), and a PDF that has pictures in it or is a scan, is sent to Gemini so the words inside it can be read (OCR). The words that come back are then used to answer your questions about your files. When you ask Ask AI something that needs facts from outside Vyam (such as prices or news), the question is also searched on the web by Google through Gemini (Google Search); Google may keep that search as it does others. The passages of your files that fit a question are sent with it, so the answer can quote them.
Google (sign-in)Lets you sign in with your Google account, if you choose toYour name, email address and picture, sent to us by Google
Your browser’s speech serviceTurns what you say into text, only if you press the microphone buttonYour voice, while the button is on. Which company runs this depends on your browser (in Chrome it is Google). Vyam receives only the text, never the recording.
Our email providerSends you emails about invitations and, if you allow them, reminders and the weekly summaryYour email address and name, and the text of the update (such as “Nikhil invited you to Lab Booker”)
Slack, only if a project owner connects itPosts a project’s news (people joining, deadlines, the weekly summary) to the channel the owner pickedThe project name and the text of the update, which names the people and tasks it is about. Invitations are never posted.
GitHubPublic repository details when you link a repository; and, if you press “Connect GitHub”, Vyam’s GitHub App, which can only read, tells us about pushes and pull requests of the repositories you gave itRequests from your browser to GitHub’s public interface (your IP address, and the repository name). If you connect GitHub, GitHub sends our server the titles, branch names, sizes and times of pull requests and commits, and the GitHub usernames of who made them, and our server asks GitHub for the repository’s recent activity. You can remove the app on GitHub at any time.
Google (site icons)Shows the small icon of a website beside the web pages Ask AI used as sources, and beside each site in the MarketplaceRequests from your browser to Google’s icon service: the website’s address (such as reddit.com or a site in the Marketplace), your IP address and browser details. Nothing about you or your chat. If it cannot be reached, a coloured letter is shown instead.
MET Norway, OpenStreetMap and Photon (weather)Find a place by its name and give its forecast, when you ask Ask AI for the weather somewhereThe name of the place you asked about, from our server (not your browser), so they do not see your address or who you are. Free services: weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0), places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), or from Photon (also built on OpenStreetMap data) when OpenStreetMap’s own service does not answer.
Our hosting providerServes the websiteYour IP address and browser details, as any website host sees

When you invite someone to a project, they are shown your name and email address and the project’s name, kind, deadline and description, so they can decide whether to join. Until they accept they cannot open the project, and if they decline they are taken off the team. You are told when they answer.

We may also disclose data when the law requires it, to protect people’s safety or our rights, or to a buyer if the business is sold (you would be told, and this policy would continue to protect your data).

5. The AI planner and Ask AI

When you ask Vyam to draft a plan, the description and choices you entered are sent to Google’s Gemini service, which writes the draft. When you make a document (a project report, a proposal, a PRD, a pitch deck and the like, from the Vault or by asking in Ask AI), the project’s name, description, constraints, dates, phases, task titles and the first names of its people (never email addresses), and the answers you typed to the template’s questions (for a cost analysis report also the names, kinds, amounts in rupees and how often of the costs on the project’s Costs page, the hours of its tasks, and the hourly rate and budget you typed), are sent to the same service, which writes the words for the template’s fixed sections; the Word, PowerPoint or PDF file is then made in your browser and is only kept if you save it to the Vault. When you select words in an open document and ask Vyam to improve, shorten, explain or change them (or type your own instruction), those selected words (at most 1,200 characters; for bullet points, a paragraph or a diagram, the words of that part of the document), your instruction, the document’s title and the name of the part they are in are sent to the same service, which writes the new words; nothing else from the document is sent, and the new words are only kept if you press Keep. When you press “Draft with AI” on a checklist item, the project’s name, description, constraints, dates, phases, task titles and the first names of its people (never email addresses) are sent to the same service, which writes a document that is saved in the Vault; it is a starting point, not legal advice. If you describe your project in your own words (typed or spoken), the same service first reads those words to work out the details, and the details it finds are shown to you to check. Please do not put passwords, secrets, or personal data about other people in that description. When you press the button of a helper (Project check on a project, or Plan my week on My work), Vyam first works out its results in your browser, and then sends those results (the project’s name and deadline, task titles, project names, dates and hours, never your email address or anyone else’s) to the same service so it can put them in order and write a short summary. These helpers are also run when you ask for them in Ask AI (“check this project”, “plan my week”). Nothing is sent unless you ask, and nothing in a project is changed by them.

Your data is not used to train AI models. Vyam sends it to Google’s Gemini API only under Google’s paid-services terms for developers, under which Google does not use the prompts or answers to improve or train its models. We use no free or consumer tier for this. Google may keep requests for a limited time to detect abuse and meet legal duties. A question that needs the web is also searched with Google Search, which Google handles under its own terms.

  • Everyday questions in Ask AI go to a lighter Gemini model, and the final plan and harder questions go to a stronger one. Both only ever receive your messages and a short summary of your projects, so an answer can be about your work. A question that needs the internet is searched on the web by Google (Gemini’s Google Search); the pages it was read from are listed under the answer, and they open on their own sites, which are not run by Vyam and have their own privacy policies.
  • When an answer used one of your files, a small thumbnail of the file stands where it was quoted. Which file it was is worked out in your browser from a marker in the answer; nothing about it is stored anywhere but in your chat.
  • The draft is a suggestion. You review it and change it before anything is saved.
  • No decision about you is made by the AI alone. It does not decide anything about your account or access.
  • How long Google keeps prompts, and whether it may review them, depends on the terms of the Google service plan we use. See Google’s terms for the Gemini API.
  • If the AI service is switched off, Vyam reads your words itself and makes a plan from built-in templates instead, and nothing is sent to Google.
  • Speaking uses your browser’s own speech recognition (see section 4). You can always type instead.

6. Sending data to other countries

Our providers may process data in countries other than yours, including the United States and India. When personal data leaves the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we rely on an adequacy decision, the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where a provider is certified, or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK addendum). You can ask us for a copy of the safeguards that apply.

For Indian users, we transfer data outside India only to countries and providers that the government has not restricted.

7. How long we keep it

  • Account and project data: for as long as your account exists, so that Vyam can work.
  • When we delete your account at your request: your account and the projects only you work on are removed. Projects that other people still work on stay with them, and your name on their history may remain, so their records still make sense.
  • Backups: copies may remain in our provider’s backups for a limited time after deletion (normally no more than a few weeks), and then are overwritten.
  • Server logs: kept for a short time for security and fault-finding.
  • Legal duties: some records may be kept longer if the law requires it, such as billing records once paid plans exist.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask us to:

  • give you a copy of your personal data (in Settings, “Export my data”)
  • correct data that is wrong (you can edit your profile and projects yourself)
  • have your data deleted (write to us, and we will delete your account)
  • restrict, or object to, some uses of your data
  • move your data to another service (the export is a standard JSON file)
  • withdraw a consent you gave, such as Google sign-in, without affecting what was done before
  • not be subject to a decision made only by a machine that has legal or similar effects on you (we do not make any)

To use a right that Settings does not cover, write to knmnikhil05@gmail.com. We will reply within one month (or the shorter time your law requires), and we may need to check it is you. There is no charge unless a request is clearly unfounded or excessive.

You can also complain to your data protection authority, for example your national authority in the EU, the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK, the Data Protection Board of India, or your state attorney general in the US. We would appreciate the chance to put things right first.

9. Keeping it safe

  • Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest by our hosting providers.
  • Passwords are never stored by us in readable form; our sign-in provider keeps only a salted hash.
  • Every project’s data is protected by access rules in the database: only the people on a project can see it, and only owners and editors can change it.
  • Access tokens for coding agents are shown once and stored only as a one-way fingerprint.
  • No system is perfectly secure. If a breach puts your data at risk, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

10. Children

Vyam is not for children. You must be at least 16 to use it, and at least 18 if you live in India or another place where that is the age of majority for agreeing to this. If you are a parent and think a child has given us their data, contact us and we will delete it.

11. Cookies and similar storage

Vyam uses only the browser storage it needs to keep you signed in and to remember your own settings. It uses no advertising or analytics cookies. The details are in the Cookie Notice.

12. Notices for particular places

European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland. The rights in section 8 apply to you under the GDPR or UK GDPR. Our legal reasons are in section 3.

California, USA. In the last 12 months we collected the categories of personal information in section 2: identifiers (name, email, IP address), commercial information (the plan you choose, once plans exist), internet activity (technical logs), and content you provide. We collect them for the business purposes in section 3 and from the sources in section 2. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes beyond those the law allows. You have the right to know, delete, correct, and not be discriminated against for using these rights. You can use an authorised agent. We do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals because we do not track you across sites.

India. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, this policy is our notice of what we process and why. You may give or withdraw consent, access and correct your data, have it erased, nominate someone to exercise your rights if you die or cannot, and seek redress. Our grievance contact is at knmnikhil05@gmail.com. We reply to a grievance within 30 days. If we do not resolve a complaint, you can approach the Data Protection Board of India. If we ever want to use your data for a new purpose, we will tell you and ask you again first.

Brazil. Under the LGPD you have rights to confirmation, access, correction, anonymisation or deletion, portability, information about sharing, and to withdraw consent. Write to us, or to the ANPD.

Canada, Australia, and other places. You can ask to see and correct your personal information and to complain to us, and then to your privacy regulator. The rights above are open to everyone, wherever you live.

13. Changes to this policy

This policy took effect on 2026-11-12. When we change it in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app or by email before the change takes effect, and show the new date. Older versions can be requested from us.

DateWhat changed
2026-11-12This version. Written in plain words, with a short summary at the top.

14. Contact

Questions or requests about your data: knmnikhil05@gmail.com.

This policy describes what Vyam does today. If a new feature collects or shares new data, this text is updated before it is released.

Questions about this text? Write to knmnikhil05@gmail.com.