Privacy Policy
Last updated: 8 November 2026
This policy explains what Tika Group Pty Ltd (Reg. no. 136585, PAN 603506611) (“Bhayo”) collects, why, and your choices. We follow the privacy laws that apply to us and to you — including the Nepal’s Individual Privacy Act, 2075 (2018) and, where they apply to you, India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, the EU / UK GDPR and the privacy laws of your country. We don’t sell your personal information and we don’t show third-party ads.
What we collect
- Account: your name, sign-in email, Bhayo ID, and (if you verify it) your mobile number.
- What you create: profile and CV, business details, website content, photos, posts, stories, articles, comments, reviews, forms, job ads and job applications, job preferences (“Open to work”).
- Messages: chats, website chats, emails in Bhayo Mail, website messages and form responses sent to you or by you.
- Other mailboxes you connect (Gmail, Zoho, Yahoo…): the address, server names and the password or app password you give us — stored encrypted and used only to show and send that mailbox’s mail. Messages are fetched live from your provider and not copied to Bhayo. Remove the mailbox any time to delete these details.
- Verification (only if you ask for the ✓ badge): ID or business documents and phone — kept privately and deleted after the review.
- Technical: country (from your internet connection), device type, app version, push-notification token. We use only the cookies needed to sign you in on the web.
- Security log: when you sign up or sign in we record the IP address, approximate location (city / region / country from your internet connection, not GPS), internet provider and device, to stop fake accounts and fraud. Kept 12 months, seen only by the Bhayo team.
- Visit statistics: we count page views per page and country. No cookies and nothing that identifies you — unique visitors are counted with a code that changes every day.
Why we use it
- To run the Service you asked for (your website, email, chat, forms, jobs, Community).
- To keep it safe: stop spam, fraud and abuse, review reports, and verify accounts.
- To send sign-in codes, important notices and the notifications you turned on.
- To show prices and content for your country, and to improve Bhayo.
Who can see what
- Public only when you choose: your published website, public profile, published forms and jobs, and posts visible in the Community.
- Businesses you contact or apply to see what you send them (for a job application: your profile and CV).
- When you turn on Open to work, businesses on Bhayo can see your profile, CV and job preferences (your expected pay only if you choose).
- Our service providers, only to run Bhayo: Cloudflare (hosting, database, file storage, security), our mail servers, SMS and WhatsApp providers for verification codes (for example Mobile Message in Australia, Twilio), Expo / Apple / Google for push notifications, and app stores. They may process data in other countries; we use providers with strong security.
- The law: if required by a valid legal request, or to protect people from harm.
How long we keep it
- While your account is open. When you delete your account, we delete your account data within 30 days, except what we must keep by law or to handle fraud and abuse (kept only as long as needed). Backups are overwritten within 35 days.
- Verification documents: deleted right after the review.
Your choices and rights
- See and change your information in the app; turn off “Visible in the Bhayo app”, Google search, chat requests, Open to work and notifications at any time.
- Ask for a copy, a correction or deletion: privacy@bhayo.com. Delete your account in the app or see Delete your account.
- Complaints: contact us first at privacy@ — we reply within 30 days. You can also contact the privacy or data-protection authority in your country.
Children
Bhayo is not for children under 16. If you think a child has an account, tell us and we’ll remove it.
Security
Sign-in by one-time codes (no passwords to leak), encrypted connections, private storage for documents, and limited staff access with logs.
Contact
Tika Group Pty Ltd (Reg. no. 136585, PAN 603506611), Street 16, Gharipatan, Pokhara-17, Kaski, Gandaki Province, Nepal · privacy@bhayo.com