About Privaciya
Privaciya is a privacy intelligence platform that helps you understand how apps collect, use, and share your data.
Privacy policies are often long and difficult to read. Privaciya simplifies them into clear insights, privacy scores, and summaries so you can make informed decisions before using any app.
Instead of guessing how your data is handled, you can see it clearly — backed by real policy evidence and historical data.
What Privaciya Does
Privaciya analyzes privacy policies and transforms them into structured, easy-to-understand insights.
- View a privacy score based on data practices
- Read a simplified privacy policy summary
- See key risks and positive privacy signals
- Compare apps based on privacy
- Explore historical changes in privacy policies
- Ask questions directly from the policy using AI
This allows you to compare apps not just by features, but by how they treat your data.
How Privacy Scoring Works
Privaciya assigns a privacy score (0–100) to each app based on how it handles user data.
The score is calculated using multiple privacy factors grouped into key areas:
- Data Collection (what data is collected)
- Data Storage (where and how data is stored)
- Data Processing (how data is used or shared)
- Data Deletion (how long data is retained and how easily it can be deleted)
- Privacy Features (encryption, self-hosting, privacy-by-default)
- Policy Transparency (clarity and history of policy changes)
Each factor is evaluated using structured questions (such as data sharing, tracking, AI training, and deletion policies).
We apply a weighted scoring model:
- High-risk behaviors (e.g. selling data, sharing with advertisers) reduce the score significantly
- Privacy-friendly features (e.g. end-to-end encryption, self-hosting) increase the score
- Missing or unclear information slightly reduces the score
The final score is normalized to a scale of 0 to 100 and is consistent across all apps for fair comparison.
How Privacy Policy Analysis Works
Privaciya analyzes privacy policies using a combination of structured rules and AI.
For each app:
- The privacy policy text is extracted and cleaned
- A set of predefined privacy questions is applied
- Each question is answered using the policy text
- Every answer is backed by evidence from the original document
We only mark a behavior as present if it is explicitly stated in the policy. If the information is unclear, it is marked as unknown rather than assumed. This approach ensures that results are grounded in actual policy content, not speculation.
How Privacy History Works
Privaciya tracks changes in privacy policies over time.
We collect snapshots using two sources:
- The latest privacy policy directly from the app's official website
- Historical snapshots from the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
The Wayback Machine provides archived versions of web pages across time. We use its API to retrieve older versions of privacy policies.
For each app, we typically compare:
- The latest version of the policy
- A previous version from the past (e.g. several months or years earlier)
This allows you to:
- See how policies evolve over time
- Identify new data practices or changes
- Detect potentially risky updates
By combining current and historical snapshots, Privaciya provides a clearer picture of how an app's privacy practices change over time.
Ask Questions About Privacy Policies
Privaciya allows you to ask direct questions about an app's privacy policy.
Instead of reading the entire document, you can ask:
- Does this app share data with advertisers?
- Is end-to-end encryption used?
- How long is my data stored?
The system retrieves answers directly from the policy text and provides supporting evidence, so you can verify the response yourself.
Transparency and Limitations
Privaciya is designed to improve transparency, but it relies on what companies disclose in their privacy policies.
- If a behavior is not mentioned, it is marked as unknown
- Policies may not fully reflect actual practices
- Some language in policies can be vague or ambiguous
Privaciya does not guarantee that an app is safe or unsafe. Instead, it helps you understand what is documented so you can make informed decisions.