What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Gaana does with your data
Gaana's policy lists biometric information among data it may collect at signup, profiles user demographics and interests for display advertising, lets ad companies track you across other websites, shares within its group companies, and keeps residual copies after deletion.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Gaana’s own policy says “The Company proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf.”
Our summary shares information within its group companies and their officers and employees, with third-party advertising companies and ad-servers, and with third-party social websites to populate a social wall.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Gaana’s own policy says “Google Analytics specifically has been enabled to support display advertising to help us gain an understanding of our users' Demographics and Interests.”
Our summary enables analytics for display advertising to understand users' demographics and interests, and references other sources of demographic information to provide more targeted communications and promotions.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
Gaana’s own policy says “We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number or other personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.”
Our summary third-party advertising companies use information about the user's visits to this and other websites to serve interest-based ads; the site also uses cookies and clear GIFs / web beacons to track usage patterns and email opens.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
Gaana’s own policy says “Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you delete your information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems.”
Our summary residual copies of deleted information may remain on active servers and in backup systems, and data may be retained for legal claims, disputes and record keeping of the pre-deletion use period.
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Processes your face or other biometrics
Face matching, liveness checks or similar.
What this costs you. You can change a leaked password in a minute. You cannot change your face. A biometric breach is permanent in a way nothing else is.
Show me where they say that
Gaana’s own policy says “To avail certain services on the Gaana Services, users are required to provide certain personally identifiable information for the registration process which may include:- a) your name, b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) PIN code , f) credit card or debit card details g) medical records and history h) sexual orientation, i) biometric information, j) password (k) your occupation, interests, and the like etc., and / or your occupation, interests, and the like.”
Our summary lists biometric information among the personally identifiable information users may be required to provide during registration.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Gaana’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Trains AI models on your content
Gaana is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Gaana do with my personal data?
According to Gaana's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 5 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term, processes your face or other biometrics.
Can I withdraw my consent from Gaana?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Gaana track me for advertising?
Yes — Gaana's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Gaana declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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