Privacy Policy

Maha MangalGath · Last updated 10 October 2026

Maha MangalGath is a matrimonial service for families in India. This policy explains what we collect, why, who can see it, and how you remove it. It applies to the Android app and to this website.

The short version. Your profile is visible to other members of the opposite gender, and to visitors browsing the app before they sign up. Your phone number and email are not — they are released only to a member who pays to unlock your contact, or when you share them yourself. You can delete your account and your data from inside the app at any time.

1. Who we are

Maha MangalGath ("we", "the app") is operated from Maharashtra, India. For questions about this policy or your data, write to support@mahamangalgath.in.

2. What we collect, and why

Data	Why
Name, gender, date of birth, height, weight, marital status, photographs	Your profile — the thing other members, and visitors browsing before they sign up, search and read
Religion, community/caste, mother tongue	Matching. Under India's DPDP Act these are sensitive; we collect them only because matrimonial matching in India is built on them, and only with your consent
City, district, state, education, profession, income band, family details, horoscope details	Matching and search filters
Mobile number, email address, alternate number, surname	Signing in, and contact exchange — held separately from your profile and released only as described in section 4
A success story you choose to share: a photograph of you and your spouse, and your words	Shown to members once we have reviewed and published it, as described in section 4
Payment records (order id, amount, status)	Contact purchases, receipts, and the tax records Indian law requires us to keep
Device notification token	Sending you a notification when someone expresses interest
Blocks, reports, shortlists, interests, last-active day	Safety, and keeping lists in step across your devices
Crash reports and app performance data (device model, Android version, what the app was doing when a fault occurred)	Finding and fixing faults in the app

Location, for Nearby only. When you tap Nearby, the app asks for your phone's location — precise or approximate, as you choose. It is used on your phone to work out which towns lie within 50 km of you, and only the names of those towns go with the search. Your position itself is never sent to us and is not stored. Nearby is optional; the rest of the app works without it.

We do not collect your contacts, your call logs, your messages, or your browsing outside this app. The camera and photo permissions are used only when you choose to add a photo to your own profile or to a success story you share.

3. The legal basis

We process your data with your consent, given when you create an account and accept these terms (Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023). You may withdraw consent at any time by deleting your account — see section 8. Some records are kept after deletion where a law requires it (section 7).

4. Who can see what

Other members of the opposite gender see your profile: name, photographs, age, height, city, district, education, profession, income band, community, family details and what you have written about yourself.
Visitors who have not signed up can browse profiles in the app through Check All Available Profiles on the sign-up page. They see the same profile details and photographs as members, of brides or grooms as they choose, but never your mobile number, email or surname. They cannot send you an interest or contact you until they register.
Sharing a profile. Members, and visitors browsing before they sign up, can share a profile on WhatsApp. The message carries what the profile shows and its first photograph — never your mobile number, email or surname.
Your mobile number, email and surname are never shown on your profile and are never returned by search. They are released to a member only when that member spends a paid contact unlock on your profile, and to nobody else.
A success story you share — the photograph of you and your spouse, and your words — is shown to every member, of either gender, once we have reviewed and published it. Until then only you can see it. You can remove it at any time from My Profile → Success Stories, which deletes the photograph.
Members of your own gender cannot see your profile at all.
A member you have blocked cannot see your profile, cannot contact you, and cannot cause a notification to reach you.
We see your data for support, moderation and safety.

5. Photographs and moderation

Photographs are scanned automatically for adult and violent content before they are published, and may be reviewed by a person following a report. A success story is read by a person before it is published. A photograph you mark protected is not served by a public link. Removing a photo in the app removes the stored file.

6. Who we share data with

We do not sell your data and we do not share it for advertising. We use these processors:

Google Firebase / Google Cloud (authentication, database, file storage, push notifications, crash and performance reporting). Your data is stored in Google's asia-south1 region, in India.
Google Play for payments made through Google Play. Your payment details stay with Google; we receive only the order id, the pack bought and whether it was paid.
Razorpay for payments you choose to make through Razorpay (UPI, cards, net banking, wallets). Card and UPI details are entered on Razorpay's own screens and never reach our servers; we receive only the order id, amount and status. When you reach Razorpay through Google Play's payment choice screen, Google Play requires us to tell it the order id and the amount — nothing about you.

We may disclose data where an Indian law, court, or law-enforcement request requires it.

7. How long we keep it

Your profile and photographs: until you delete your account.
A success story: until you remove it or delete your account.
Payment and tax records: up to 8 years after the transaction, as Indian tax law requires, even after you delete your account.
Safety records of reports and blocks: kept so a removed member cannot simply return.
Backups: to protect members against losing their data, we keep backup copies of the database (each for up to 8 weeks) and of sign-in accounts (each for up to 85 days), stored by Google Cloud in India and readable only by us. After you delete your account, your data leaves these backups as they expire — at the latest within 90 days. If we ever have to restore from a backup, accounts deleted since it was made are deleted again.
Everything else is deleted or anonymised when you delete your account, and leaves our backups as described above.

8. Your rights, and deleting your account

You can see and correct every field of your profile inside the app. You can delete your account and its data from My Profile → Delete My Profile, and the profile leaves search immediately. If you cannot open the app, use the account deletion page.

Under the DPDP Act you may also ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or complain to us about how it was handled. Write to the Grievance Officer below; we reply within 15 days.

9. Grievance Officer

As required by the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021:

Grievance Officer, Maha MangalGath
Email: support@mahamangalgath.in
Maharashtra, India
Complaints are acknowledged within 24 hours and resolved within 15 days.

10. Children

This service is for adults of legal marriageable age in India — 21 for men, 18 for women. We do not knowingly hold data about anyone younger, and an account found to belong to a minor is removed. Child sexual abuse and exploitation is never tolerated; our Child Safety Standards explain how to report a concern and what we do.

11. Changes

If this policy changes materially we will say so in the app before the change takes effect. The date at the top always reflects the current version.