Ruko Privacy Policy
Ruko. Daam girega. (Wait. The price will drop.)
In short: Ruko has no account, no analytics, no ads and no server of its own. The developer does not
collect any data about you. Everything Ruko knows stays on your phone. The only personal data that can leave it is
your approximate location, and only if you choose to let Ruko set quick-commerce delivery areas with it.
What Ruko does
Ruko is a price tracker. You share or paste a product link, and Ruko checks that product's price and availability
on shopping sites from your own phone, then notifies you when the price drops or the item comes back in stock.
Data stored on your phone
- The products you track: links, titles, images, prices and price history.
- Your settings: check schedule, alert thresholds and similar preferences.
- If you use "Use my location": the name of your area (locality, city, PIN code), never coordinates.
This data never leaves your phone except as described below. The developer has no copy of it and no way to see it.
Network connections Ruko makes
- Shopping sites. Ruko fetches the product pages you track (for example Amazon.in or Flipkart),
and the sites' own search pages when you compare prices, directly from your phone, the same way your browser would. Those sites see a normal request from your phone and
handle it under their own privacy policies.
- Quick-commerce delivery location (optional). Sites like Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart,
JioMart and Flipkart Minutes show prices for a delivery location. You can set it in two ways:
- By hand: pick it on the site's own page inside Ruko's in-app browser. That site's cookies
stay on your phone and are sent back only to that site.
- From your approximate location (from version 0.4, only if you choose it): with your
permission, Ruko reads your phone's approximate location (Android's coarse location, about 1 km),
only while you are using that screen and never in the background. It turns it into an area name
(locality, city, PIN code) on your phone, then writes it into each of those sites' own location settings on
your phone. Your approximate location is therefore sent to those shopping sites, the same
way it would be if you picked it in their own location picker. It is not sent to the developer. Ruko keeps
only the area name on your phone, to show you which area is set.
- From a PIN code (from version 0.7, only if you choose it): you type your PIN code, and Ruko
looks it up on OpenStreetMap (its Nominatim service) to find the
area. Only the PIN code is sent to OpenStreetMap, with no other data. The area is then set on
the shopping sites as above.
Android's reverse geocoder may use Google Play services to turn coordinates into an area name. You can clear a
site's location in Settings → Quick-commerce locations, and turn the permission off in Android settings at any
time.
For sale reminders, Ruko downloads a public list of sale dates from this website (sales.json). Nothing
about you is sent with it.
There are no other network connections: no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting services. Alerts
are notifications on your phone only.
Versions up to 0.3 also offered an optional "ntfy" setting that sent alert text (item name, price, site) to an ntfy
server you chose. It was removed in version 0.4.
Permissions
- Internet and network state: to load the shopping sites' pages.
- Notifications: to alert you about price drops and items back in stock.
- Run at startup, keep awake, background work: so scheduled price checks can run in the background.
- Vibrate: for alert notifications.
- Approximate location (optional, from version 0.4): only if you choose "Use my location" for
quick-commerce delivery areas. Ruko never asks for precise or background location.
Sharing and selling
The developer does not collect, share or sell any personal data. There is nothing to share: Ruko does not send your
data to the developer. The only personal data that leaves your phone is your approximate location, and only if you
use "Use my location" or set your area by PIN code: it goes to the quick-commerce sites listed above, so they can
show prices for your area. A PIN code you type also goes to OpenStreetMap, to find the area.
Deleting your data
Delete any item inside the app to remove it and its history. Clear a shop's delivery location in Settings →
Quick-commerce locations. Uninstalling Ruko removes all of its data from your phone.
Children
Ruko is intended for adults (18+) and is not directed at children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: open an issue at
github.com/harsh-m-10/ruko-site/issues.
Effective 9 October 2026 · App: Ruko (com.harshm.ruko)