Privacy Policy
DantaVeda exists to make dentists and dental students healthier and more conscious clinicians. We collect the minimum data needed to do that, we never sell it, and the Ergonomics Coach is designed so that your camera feed never leaves your device.
1. Who we are
DantaVeda (“we”, “us”) is an educational platform operated by Prof. Dr. M V S Sudhir, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This policy is written to comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the Information Technology Act, 2000, as applicable in India. Where you access the platform from outside India, we apply the same standards.
2. What we collect, and why
| Data | When | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Name, email, password (encrypted) | When you create an account | To run your account and keep your progress |
| Role (student / dentist / college), college name, specialty | At sign-up | To show you the right content and tier |
| State Dental Council registration number and council name | Dentist sign-up only | To verify that practitioner-tier access goes to registered practitioners. Verified manually by our admin; not published anywhere. |
| Reading progress (which chapters you have marked read) | While you use the Interactive Edition | To show your progress on your dashboard |
| Purchase and access status | When you request or buy access | To unlock paid content. Card details are handled by our payment partner (Razorpay) and never stored by us. |
| Name, email, audience and interest | When you request the free toolkit or join a waitlist | To send you what you asked for and, if you consent, updates about DantaVeda |
| Basic technical logs (IP address, browser, pages viewed) | Automatically, by our hosting provider | Security and keeping the service running |
3. The Ergonomics Coach — camera and posture data
The Ergonomics Coach uses your device camera to analyse your working posture. We designed it around four commitments:
- On-device analysis. The video from your camera is processed in your browser, on your own device. The video feed is not uploaded, streamed, recorded or stored by DantaVeda.
- Only posture measurements leave the device, and only if you choose. What may be saved to your account is a small set of numbers — joint angles, a posture score, the procedure you selected and the time — so you can see your trend and get a personalised routine. You can use the coach without saving anything.
- Never a patient. The coach is for the clinician only. You must not place a patient, or any other person, in frame. If a second person is detected, the session pauses.
- Your consent, every time. The camera starts only after you press “Start”, the browser asks your permission, and a visible indicator shows while it is on. You can stop at any moment, and delete saved sessions from your dashboard.
Voice guidance in the coach is provided by Vaak Vaidya, a separate voice technology company. Spoken prompts are generated from text; the microphone is not used unless a feature explicitly asks and you allow it.
4. What we do not do
- We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data.
- We do not share your registration number, posture data or progress with your college, employer, council or anyone else — unless you ask us to (for example, an institutional licence where your college enrols you, in which case the college sees only completion status, never posture data).
- We do not use your data to train artificial-intelligence models.
- We do not show third-party advertising.
5. Who processes data on our behalf
We use reputable service providers who process data only on our instructions: Supabase (database and login, hosted in Mumbai, India), Vercel (website hosting), Google Workspace (email), Razorpay (payments; RBI-regulated), and Anthropic (AI explanations — only the text you type into an AI feature is sent, never your camera feed or identity). Each is bound by its own privacy and security commitments.
6. Your rights
Under the DPDP Act you may ask us to show you the personal data we hold about you, correct it, erase it, or withdraw consent for optional uses such as updates. You may also nominate a person to exercise these rights for you. Write to drsudhir.omfs@dantaveda.com — we respond within 30 days. You can delete your account from the dashboard; this erases your profile, progress and posture sessions, keeping only the records we must retain for tax and legal reasons (purchase invoices).
7. Children
DantaVeda is for dental students and professionals. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.
8. Security
Connections are encrypted (HTTPS). Passwords are stored only as salted hashes. Access to the database is restricted by row-level security so that each user can read only their own data. We will notify you and the Data Protection Board of India of any personal-data breach as the DPDP Act requires.
9. Cookies
We use only the cookies necessary to keep you logged in. No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies are set.
10. Grievance Officer
Prof. Dr. M V S Sudhir (Grievance Officer)
Email: drsudhir.omfs@dantaveda.com
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may approach the Data Protection Board of India.
11. Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell registered users by email and update the date at the top of this page.