ALCYONE SECURE / PRIVACY·v2.1 · EFFECTIVE 5 OCTOBER 2026·Read the notice in हिन्दी · ಕನ್ನಡ

We built it so we
couldn’t read it.

Most privacy policies ask you to trust a promise. This one describes an architecture. Your activity log is encrypted on your device with a key that never leaves it. Switch cloud backup on and that stays true: what reaches us is ciphertext, and we hold nothing that opens it.

THE BOUNDARYWHERE YOUR DATA IS READABLE, AND WHERE IT STOPS BEING

This is the part that is easiest to misread, so it is the first thing on the page. “Nothing is sent unless you enable cloud backup” is true, but it is only half the guarantee. The other half is that enabling backup does not hand us your data either. Encryption happens on your machine, before anything crosses the line.

ZONE 1READABLE · BY YOU

Your device

  • ›The activity log, decrypted in the app with your PIN
  • ›Your encryption keys, which never leave it
  • ›Reports you generate and export

Keys are derived here and never leave. This is the only place anything is readable.

ZONE 2CIPHERTEXT ONLY

The wire

  • ›Encrypted before it leaves your machine
  • ›TLS on top of that, in transit
  • ›No plaintext log content, ever

Nothing crosses this line unless you switch cloud backup on. When it does, it is already sealed.

ZONE 3UNREADABLE TO US

Our servers

  • ›Encrypted blobs we hold no key for
  • ›Account email and billing status
  • ›No log content we can open

If our infrastructure were breached tomorrow, there would be nothing in it anyone could read.

The consequence, stated plainly: we cannot read your logs, we cannot be compelled to decrypt them, and we could not sell them if we wanted to: because we do not hold the key and there is no mechanism by which we could obtain one. That is not a policy we could quietly change next year. It is how the software is built.

§ 01, THE REGISTEREVERY CATEGORY OF DATA, ON ONE PAGE

What we hold, where it lives,
who can read it, how long it stays.

GENERATED BY THE SOFTWARE
Activity log: file access, process execution with command lines, USB device arrivals and removals, logins, PowerShell script blocks (during a Repair or Handover session), changes to important Windows settings, browser window titles, system configuration changes

BASIS · YOUR INSTRUCTION: YOU INSTALLED AND CONFIGURED THE RECORDER

WHERE · Your device. Encrypted at rest.
WHO CAN READ · You only. Alcyone cannot read it.
HOW LONG · Free: about 7 days, then trimmed. Personal: 2 years. Deletable by you at any time.
Location, once it arrives with Personal and only if you switch it on. Rashnova records no location today.

BASIS · CONSENT: A PAID FEATURE, AND OFF UNLESS YOU ENABLE IT

WHERE · Your device, inside the same encrypted log.
WHO CAN READ · You only.
HOW LONG · Same as the activity log.
Encrypted backup copies, once cloud backup arrives with Personal and only if you enable it. Not in Rashnova yet.

BASIS · CONSENT, OFF BY DEFAULT

WHERE · Our infrastructure, hosted in Singapore.
WHO CAN READ · Nobody. We hold no key.
HOW LONG · Until you delete them or close your account, then removed within 30 days.
COLLECTED BY US
Account details: email address, display name, and the country, organisation and use case fields if you fill them in

BASIS · CONTRACT, NEEDED TO GIVE YOU AN ACCOUNT

WHERE · Our database.
WHO CAN READ · Us, and our hosting processor.
HOW LONG · While your account exists; deleted within 30 days of closure.
A record of each Rashnova download: your account, the version and file, and the time. Downloading needs a free account because the app sends us nothing, so this is the only way we know how many people use it

BASIS · CONSENT, GIVEN WHEN YOU SIGN IN TO DOWNLOAD

WHERE · Our database.
WHO CAN READ · Us, and our hosting processor.
HOW LONG · While your account exists; deleted with it.
Billing status and payment records

BASIS · CONTRACT AND LEGAL OBLIGATION

WHERE · Our payment processor. We never see or store full card numbers.
WHO CAN READ · Us (status only) and the processor.
HOW LONG · As long as tax and accounting law requires, typically 7 years.
Support correspondence, and diagnostics you choose to send

BASIS · LEGITIMATE INTEREST IN ANSWERING YOU

WHERE · Our email and support systems.
WHO CAN READ · Us.
HOW LONG · 24 months from the last message.
Security and abuse logs: IP address, timestamps, failed attempts to sign in

BASIS · LEGAL OBLIGATION, AND KEEPING ACCOUNTS SECURE

WHERE · Our infrastructure.
WHO CAN READ · Us.
HOW LONG · One year, as India's DPDP Rules require for logs used to detect unauthorised access, then deleted.
§ 02, NEVER CAPTURED

It records metadata about activity,
not the content of your life.

Keystrokes

Rashnova never records what you type. There is no keylogger in it.

Clipboard content

Never read, never stored.

Screen pixels

No screenshots, no screen recording.

File contents

It logs that a file was opened. Not a byte of what is inside it.

Full URLs

Browser window titles only, never URLs or page content. Private browsing is logged as ‘private browsing occurred’, with no title.

Command and script output

The command line or script block is logged. What it returned is not.

General registry contents

Only a short list of security relevant Windows settings. Not your preferences, profiles or app settings.

Anything, to us

On the free tier nothing is transmitted at all. On Personal, only ciphertext we cannot open.

§ 03, YOUR RIGHTS

Rights you can actually use.

These apply wherever you are, not only where a law compels us. Write to privacy@alcyonesecure.com and we will respond within 30 days. We do not charge for any of them, and we will not ask you why.

  1. 01AccessAsk what we hold about you, and get a copy.
  2. 02CorrectionHave inaccurate or incomplete details corrected.
  3. 03ErasureHave your account data deleted. Your local logs are already yours to delete whenever you like.
  4. 04PortabilityReceive your account data in a machine readable format. Logs export from the app as JSON or CSV at any time.
  5. 05Withdraw consentTurn off anything you switched on: cloud backup, location, the Readout, marketing emails: as easily as you turned it on, and without losing the rest of the product.
  6. 06Object or restrictObject to processing based on legitimate interest, or ask us to pause it while a dispute is resolved.
  7. 07NominateUnder the DPDP Act, nominate someone to exercise your rights if you die or become incapacitated. Email us to record a nominee.
  8. 08No discriminationExercising any of these rights never degrades your service or changes your price.

IF WE GET IT WRONG

Complain to our Grievance Officer first, details at the foot of this page. If we do not resolve it, escalate: in India, to the Data Protection Board of India; in the EEA or UK, to your national supervisory authority; in California, under the CCPA. Escalating costs you nothing, and we will not retaliate in any way.

§ 04

Who we share data with

We do not sell personal data, and never have. We do not trade it, rent it, or share it for advertising. A small number of processors are necessary to run the service, and each is bound by contract to process only on our instructions:

  • Hosting and databaseSupabase, for authentication and account records.
  • PaymentsA payment processor, for subscriptions once Personal launches. We never receive full card details.
  • Email deliveryFor verification, password resets and service notices.

Beyond those, we disclose personal data only where valid legal process compels us, where it is necessary to prevent fraud or an imminent security threat, or where you have asked us to in writing. If we are ever compelled to hand over backup data, what we can hand over is ciphertext: we hold no key, so we cannot decrypt it for anyone, including a court.

§ 05

Cross-border transfers

Under Section 16 of India's DPDP Act, personal data may be processed outside India except in a country the Government restricts by notification; none of ours goes to such a country. We are an Indian business serving users worldwide, and our cloud infrastructure is hosted in Singapore. That was a deliberate choice: our users are global rather than only Indian, and Singapore gives the whole of that user base reliable latency. Data may therefore be processed outside your country. Singapore is not covered by an EU adequacy decision, so where personal data leaves the EEA or the UK, transfers rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses together with the safeguards our processors publish. Our handling is also aligned with Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act. Encrypted backup content is unaffected by where it sits: it is unreadable in every jurisdiction, which is rather the point.

§ 06

Children

Rashnova is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly create accounts for anyone under 18. Under the DPDP Act 2023, processing a child's personal data requires verifiable consent from a parent or lawful guardian, and behavioural tracking and targeted advertising directed at children are prohibited outright: we do neither, for anyone, at any age. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will delete it.

§ 07

Security, and what happens if we are breached

Encryption is the primary control, because architecture beats promises. Beyond it:

  • In transitTLS on every connection.
  • At restBackup content is encrypted on your device before upload, with standard, well established cryptography.
  • AccessLeast privilege internally; row-level security on every account record.
  • IntegrityEvery entry is sealed to the one before it, so alteration of a log is detectable.

If a personal data breach happens, we will tell affected users without delay, in plain language: what happened, when, what it means for you, what we are doing about it, and what you can do to protect yourself. We will inform the Data Protection Board of India without delay and send it a full report within 72 hours, as the DPDP Rules require; report the incident to CERT-In within 6 hours of noticing it, as its directions require; and meet the 72 hour deadline where GDPR applies. We will say all of this even when the honest answer is that the exposed material was unreadable.

§ 08

Cookies

The website uses only strictly necessary cookies: they keep you signed in and protect the sign in flow, and cannot be switched off without breaking it. There are no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies on this site, so there is nothing to accept or decline. If that ever changes, they will stay off until you choose to turn them on. The Rashnova application itself uses no cookies and no advertising identifiers of any kind.

§ 09

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The version and effective date sit at the top of this page, and material changes will be announced by email to account holders and by a notice on the site before they take effect. We will not make a change that retroactively reduces the protection applied to data already collected.

DATA FIDUCIARY · CONTACT · GRIEVANCE

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE

Alcyone Secure

a business registered in India under the MSME (Udyam) scheme.

We are the data fiduciary for your account data. For the activity logs the software creates, you are: they are yours, on your machine, and we cannot read them.

GRIEVANCE OFFICER

Sathvik R

Founder & Grievance Officer

grievance@alcyonesecure.com

Named under the DPDP Act 2023. Responds within 30 days.

Privacy questions and rights requestsprivacy@alcyonesecure.com
Security disclosures, see /securitycontact@alcyonesecure.com
Organisations and teamscontact@alcyonesecure.com

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