Privacy policy
Rentiva is a rent ledger for landlords. It stores properties, tenants, rent, electricity and other charges, payments, expenses, bills, receipts and reports. This policy says what information the app handles, where it lives, what it is used for, and how you delete it.
Your records stay on your phone, or in your browser if you use the web app. Rentiva has no server that receives those records. Noblewave cannot see, read, recover or sell them. There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking. On the Android app, if you turn on Google Drive backup and sign in, a copy is sent to a folder in your own Google Drive. Nothing else leaves your device.
Information you enter
You type this yourself. Rentiva does not read your contacts, location, SMS, call log or other apps.
- Properties and units: names, addresses, type, floors, rooms and beds, rent settings, electricity meter and rate settings, other recurring charges, and GST details.
- Tenants and occupants: names, phone numbers, permanent addresses, business names, GSTIN, TDS details, move-in and move-out dates, rent, deposits, notice periods and notes.
- Identity documents (optional): photos or PDFs of an ID, front and back, that you take with the camera or pick from your files. Rentiva does not ask you to type a government ID number.
- Financial records: bills and bill cycles, meter readings, payments (amount, date, mode such as UPI, cash or bank, and TDS), balances carried forward, deposits, refunds, expenses, and the PDF bills and receipts made from them.
- Payment note: the UPI ID or bank details you choose to print at the foot of your bills.
- Settings: language, theme and reminder preference.
Rentiva does not collect your location, contact list, advertising ID, browsing history, microphone audio, health information, messages, or crash logs.
Google account and Google Drive backup
Drive backup is available in the Android app only. It is off until you turn it on in Settings and sign in with Google. It is not available in the web app. Rentiva does not create a Rentiva account; sign-in uses your existing Google account so the app can write a backup into your Drive.
When you sign in, the app receives your Google account email address and keeps it on the device so Settings can show which account holds the backup. Rentiva does not receive your Google password. To talk to Drive, the app asks Google for a short-lived access token each time it needs one; it does not keep it.
The only Drive permission requested is drive.file (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file). That lets Rentiva create, read and update files the app itself created. It cannot list, open or change any other file in your Drive.
The backup in a folder named Rentiva in your Drive contains:
- A data file with your properties, units, tenants and occupants, bills, payments and expenses.
- Your app settings inside that data file: language, theme, reminder preference, the payment note, the Google account email, and sync timestamps.
- ID photos and files you attached.
- PDF bills and receipts you generated.
- Record-book CSV files of tenants, payment history and properties.
- A device id (the Android ID of your phone), so two phones do not overwrite each other's backup.
The copy goes over HTTPS directly between your phone and Google. It does not pass through a Noblewave server. Rentiva's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Information from Google APIs is used only to provide backup and restore. It is not transferred to anyone else, not used for advertising, and not read by humans.
You can disconnect backup in Settings, delete the Rentiva folder in Drive, and remove Rentiva's access at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Wiping the app or uninstalling it does not delete the copy already in your Drive.
Where data is stored
| Place | What is there | Who controls it |
|---|---|---|
| Your Android phone | The database, ID documents and PDFs, in the app's private storage. | You |
| Your browser (web app) | The same records, in that browser's storage for this site. They are not sent to the website's host. | You |
| Your Google Drive | A backup folder, only if you turn backup on in the Android app. | You, under your Google account |
| Noblewave servers | None of your records. | — |
Android's own system backup can copy an app's data to the Google account on your phone if you have that feature turned on in your phone's settings. That is handled by Android and Google under your phone settings, not by Rentiva.
Permissions
Rentiva asks only for what a feature needs, and only when you use it. You can refuse or revoke any of these in your phone settings; the rest of the app keeps working.
- Camera: to photograph a tenant's ID document.
- Photos and files: to attach an image or PDF as an ID document, or to choose a folder to save PDFs into.
- Notifications: to show rent-due and monthly-bill reminders. They are scheduled on the device. No push server is used.
- Internet: to back up to and restore from Google Drive, and to load the web app.
- Phone dialer: when you tap a tenant's number, the app opens your dialer. The call is made by your phone.
How the information is used
Only to run the features you ask for:
- Calculating rent, electricity, other charges, GST and TDS.
- Posting bill cycles and recording payments.
- Making PDF bills, receipts and reports.
- Showing who has paid and who has not.
- Scheduling reminders on the device.
- Backing up to, and restoring from, your own Google Drive when you enable it.
Rentiva does not use this information for advertising, profiling, analytics, or training machine-learning models. Rentiva does not sell, rent or trade your data.
Sharing
If you enable backup, the data listed above is transferred to Google, under your Google account and Google's privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). When you tap share, a bill or report goes through your phone's share sheet to an app you choose, such as WhatsApp or email, or, in the web app, to your browser's print or save dialog. That transfer is your choice, and the receiving app or person handles it under their own policies.
Noblewave holds none of your ledger records, so it has nothing to hand over if asked by a court. Emails you send to us are kept only as long as needed to answer you.
Deletion
- In the app, open Settings, then Privacy, and tap Wipe all data. This deletes every record, ID document, PDF and setting on this device or browser and disconnects Google Drive.
- If you used Drive backup, delete the Rentiva folder from your Google Drive.
- Revoke Rentiva's access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
- Uninstall the app. If you used the web app, you can also clear this site's data in your browser.
Because Noblewave holds no copy, a lost phone with no Drive backup cannot be restored by us.
Security
Records on the phone are in the app's private storage, protected by your screen lock and Android's app sandbox. Drive backup travels over HTTPS and is protected by your Google account, including 2-step verification if you turn that on. The backup is not end-to-end encrypted by Rentiva beyond what Google provides. No system is perfectly secure, so keep your phone and Google account locked and up to date.
Children
Rentiva is for adults who manage property. It is not directed at children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Tenants' information
Details you enter about tenants are personal data about other people. You are responsible for having a lawful reason to hold them, for telling the tenant where the law requires it, and for correcting or deleting their record when they ask. You can delete a tenant, an ID document, or all data inside the app.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change. A material change, such as a new place your data could go, will be described here before it takes effect.
Contact
Noblewave, for the Rentiva app.
Email: [email protected]
This page is the public privacy policy for Rentiva. Inside the app, Settings → Privacy shows the same policy, what is stored on this device, and lets you wipe it.