Privacy Policy

Effective date: 17 October 2026

Who We Are

This policy covers the DUGIYAN app and website. The data controller is the app's individual developer, Serhat Aslan (Türkiye). Contact: serhataslanai@gmail.com

The Turkish version of this policy also serves as the information notice under Turkish data protection law (KVKK).

Who the App Is For

DUGIYAN is designed for expectant parents and caregivers aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Data We Collect

Account: email address and sign-in details (email, Sign in with Apple or Google). Passwords are handled by Firebase Authentication; we cannot see them.

Profile: parent type (mother/father/other), language, the name or nickname you give your baby, last period date or due date, and the baby character you chose. Pregnancy dates are health data.

Chat: the messages you write in the baby chat and the replies are stored with your account. If you report a reply, the report is kept.

Community: posts and comments in the birth-month club are stored with the nickname you choose; reports and moderation records are kept.

Partner link: if you invite your partner, the invite code and the link between the two accounts; your votes in the name poll.

Expert application: only if you apply as an expert, your name, specialty, city, country, licence number, phone and email.

Notifications: your device's push token, so we can send notifications.

Purchases: Premium is bought through Apple or Google; we never see your payment details. Subscription status is matched to your account ID through RevenueCat.

Usage statistics: your account's pseudonymous ID and the days you were active, used to count daily active users. No message text, location or profile details. Bond points and reward redemptions are kept with your account.

What Stays on Your Phone

Ultrasound album photos, letters to your baby, voice recordings, the kick counter and contraction records are stored on your device. They are not uploaded to our servers and are excluded from device backups. Deleting the app or the phone deletes them.

How We Use Data and Legal Bases

We use your data only to run the app: to create your account, show daily notes and weekly content for your pregnancy week, reply in the baby chat, send notifications, keep the community safe, recognise your subscription and improve the service with aggregate counts.

Legal bases: performance of our contract with you, legal obligations and legitimate interests. We process health data such as pregnancy dates, and transfer data abroad (see below), on the basis of your explicit consent. You can withdraw consent at any time; as the app cannot work without a pregnancy date, this may mean deleting your account.

We do not sell your personal data, share it with ad networks or track you across apps. Sponsor cards are measured only as total views and taps; your identity is not recorded.

AI Chat

When you use the baby chat, your message is sent to our AI provider, OpenAI, together with limited context such as your pregnancy week, character type, language, parent type, the name you gave your baby and the last 6 messages in the chat, so a reply can be generated. That day's baby note is sent as context too. If you turn it on in Settings, the last 3 captions you wrote under album photos are also sent; the photos themselves never leave your phone.

Under OpenAI's API terms this data is not used to train their models; it may be kept for a limited time for abuse monitoring. Emergency symptoms are detected with fixed rules, without AI.

Who We Share Data With, and Transfers Abroad

We work with these service providers to run the app:
• Google (Firebase): accounts, database, server functions, notifications
• OpenAI: baby chat replies
• RevenueCat: subscription status
• Apple and Google: sign-in and in-app purchases

Their servers may be outside Türkiye (in the European Union and the United States), so your data is transferred abroad, based on your explicit consent and the providers' data protection commitments. We may disclose data to authorities where the law requires it.

Retention and Deletion

We keep your data while your account is open. You can delete your account at any time in Settings > Delete my account. This permanently removes your profile, chat history, usage statistics, partner link and invites, and your sign-in account.

Community posts and comments, reports and expert applications are not deleted automatically when you delete your account; you can ask us to delete them at serhataslanai@gmail.com. If you cannot access the app, you can send a deletion request to the same address from the email registered to your account.

Your Rights

You have the right to know whether we process your data, to access it, to learn why and with whom it is processed, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to decisions made solely by automated means and to seek compensation for damage. If you live in the European Union, your GDPR rights of access, portability and objection also apply.

Send requests to serhataslanai@gmail.com; we reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your data protection authority (in Türkiye, the Personal Data Protection Authority).

Security

Data is encrypted in transit, and database rules ensure that only you can see your profile and chat. No system can guarantee complete security; if a breach occurs, we will notify those affected and the authorities as the law requires.

Changes

We may update this policy. We will announce significant changes in the app; the effective date is always shown at the top of this page.

Contact

For questions and requests: serhataslanai@gmail.com

Data controller and developer: Serhat Aslan (individual developer), Türkiye.