Privacy policy
samaya is an employee attendance, leave and payroll app provided by tech evendri. Your employer creates and manages your account and determines which workplace features are available.
Send private questions and requests about your workplace records to your employer's HR or company administrator. For technical app support, use the samaya support page. Do not post personal or workplace information publicly.
Information used by the app
- Account and employee information: name, email, account and employee identifiers, company, department, shift, designation and other profile details your employer supplies, including a profile photo if provided.
- Workplace records: check-in and check-out times, attendance history, leave requests and balances, and payroll or payslip information supplied by your employer.
- Attendance location: when you grant location permission, the app can obtain your device's precise location for check-in or check-out and send those coordinates with the attendance record. The app does not request background location permission.
- Face verification: with camera permission, the app captures an image and processes it on the device to detect a face and calculate a numerical face template. It sends the template to the employer's backend to enroll or compare your face for attendance. The face-verification flow does not upload the captured camera image; the Android processing flow removes its temporary image after processing. An employer-supplied profile photo is separate from this flow.
- Device biometrics: supported fingerprint or device biometric authentication uses the operating system. samaya receives the authentication result and does not receive the operating system's fingerprint templates.
- Technical information: authentication tokens enable your session. Service operation can involve request and error logs. The Google ML Kit face detection SDK can collect device, application, installation and SDK diagnostic information, including performance and error events, as described in Google's ML Kit data disclosure.
Why information is processed
Information is used to authenticate your account, verify and record attendance, display your workplace records, process leave requests, provide payslips, support users and diagnose service problems. The employee app does not contain advertising. Camera and location access can be managed in Android settings; disabling them can prevent the related verification or attendance features from working.
Who can access information
Your employer's authorized administrators can access company information according to their roles. Information is processed by the backend and the infrastructure used to operate the service. Google processes SDK diagnostic information under its applicable policies. A payslip you choose to download or share may also be provided to the destination you select. This policy does not authorize use of workplace records for advertising.
Security
The Android release app communicates with the configured backend over HTTPS and disables cleartext network traffic. The backend hashes account passwords and uses authenticated, company-scoped access. No system can guarantee absolute security. Your employer and service administrator are responsible for configuring and securing their deployment and administrator access.
Retention and deletion
Workplace records are retained according to your employer's operational needs and applicable recordkeeping obligations. There is no single retention period configured for all companies in samaya. Ask your employer for the retention schedule that applies to your records.
You can remove your enrolled face template using Profile → Face ID → Remove. This clears the current server-side face template and enrollment date. It does not erase attendance or payroll records, and any separately retained backups are subject to the deployment's retention process.
Signing out, uninstalling the app, deactivating an account or archiving an employee does not delete all associated workplace records. In particular, archived employees' historical attendance is retained. To request account or other data deletion, use the data-deletion request instructions. Records that must be retained for legal or employment purposes may remain; the employer or service administrator should explain the applicable reason and retention period.
Accounts and audience
samaya is intended for employees with employer-provided accounts. The employee app does not offer public account registration and is not designed for children.
Changes and contact
This page will be updated when the described app practices change. The effective date appears above. Privacy requests: your employer's HR or company administrator. Technical app support: samaya support page. Developer: tech evendri; app: samaya.