🐚 CowrieOS

Privacy Policy

Plain-English version first; the principle throughout: your financial data is yours

What we collect

What you type: household members, incomes, assets, liabilities, insurance policies, goals, and planning assumptions. What we derive: plan calculations, recommendations, and net-worth snapshots. In the personal (self-hosted) edition, all of it lives in a local database on your own machine and never reaches our servers.

What leaves your machine

Three things, each only when you use the feature: (1) fund-name searches and NAV lookups sent to public mutual-fund data services (scheme names only — never amounts); (2) AI advisor questions, sent with a summary of your plan to Anthropic’s Claude API to generate the answer, subject to Anthropic’s data-use commitments; (3) nothing else. CAS statements are parsed locally and are never uploaded.

Your rights (DPDP-aligned)

Access and portability: export every table as JSON from Settings at any time. Correction: edit anything in the app. Erasure: delete the database (personal edition) — there is no copy; the hosted edition will provide one-click account deletion. We will never sell, rent, or share your financial data with advertisers, lenders, insurers, or distributors — the subscription is the business model, and that is a product commitment, not just a policy.

How your data is protected

Encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest. On top of that, the most sensitive free-text fields — the Continuity Kit’s notes on where your will, documents and passwords are kept — are encrypted at the application layer with AES-256-GCM, so even a database dump shows only ciphertext for those fields. We hold the key, so this is “strong-pragmatic,” not zero-knowledge: it defends against breaches and stray access, but we are not claiming we technically cannot read your data. (A true operator-blind “Vault” mode, where computation moves to your device and we hold only ciphertext, is on the roadmap.) We never log or store financial amounts in analytics.

Hosted edition

Accounts use passwordless sign-in (email magic-link or Google). Your data is stored in managed Postgres in the Mumbai (ap-south-1) regionfor India data residency, isolated per household at both the application layer and the database layer (row-level security), so one family’s data is never reachable from another’s session. Payments are processed by Razorpay; we never see or store your card details. A designated grievance officer, breach notification per the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and versioned policy changes with notice before any payment apply.

Cookies & analytics

We use only session cookies for login (set by our authentication provider) — no third-party ad trackers, ever. Any product analytics are privacy-respecting and aggregate, and never record financial amounts.