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Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2026

1. Who We Are

Truwo AI is an AI agent that helps you buy and sell used cars in India. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have. We comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and treat your data as yours — not ours to resell.

2. What We Collect

When you use Truwo we collect your phone number, car details (make, model, variant, kilometres driven, city), your preferences as a buyer or seller, and the conversation history you have with our agent. If you list a car, we also collect photos and the RC (Registration Certificate) number so we can verify basic ownership and vehicle details against public vehicle databases.

3. Gmail Access (Sellers Only, Opt-In)

If you are selling a car, we offer an optional step to connect your Gmail account so we can build a verified service and insurance history for your car — which helps you sell faster and at a better price. This step is off by default; you must explicitly grant access.

We request the gmail.readonly scope. With your permission, Truwo reads only the following categories of emails:

  • Service invoices and service reminders from authorised car-brand dealers (Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra, Honda, Toyota, Kia, Nissan, Skoda, Volkswagen, Ford, MG, Renault).
  • Insurance policy renewals, claim intimations, and no-claim-bonus confirmations from insurers (Bajaj Allianz, ICICI Lombard, HDFC ERGO, Tata AIG, SBI General, Reliance General, New India, Oriental, United India, IFFCO Tokio, Cholamandalam, Digit, Acko, Navi).

We do not read, index, or store the rest of your inbox. We do not send emails, modify labels, or delete anything. From the emails we do read, we extract structured facts — service date, odometer reading, dealer, items replaced, claim ID, claim amount, NCB percent, policy number — and store those facts against your seller profile. The original email bodies are not stored.

Truwo's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We do not use Gmail data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not allow humans to read it except when required for security investigations, to comply with law, or with your explicit consent.

4. SMS Access (Sellers Only, Opt-In)

On Android, we offer a similar optional step to read dealer-service and insurer SMS from your device. We filter for messages from recognised dealer and insurer sender IDs only. The same extraction and storage rules apply: we keep the structured facts, not the message bodies. You can revoke SMS permission any time in your phone's settings.

5. Document Uploads

You may upload service booklets, invoices, or insurance policy PDFs directly. We run these through optical character recognition to extract the same structured facts described above. The original file is retained for the lifetime of your listing so that a buyer's agent can reference it during negotiation.

6. How We Use Your Data

  • To run the Truwo agent conversation and remember context across messages.
  • To match you with the right car (for buyers) or the right buyer (for sellers).
  • To build a verified service and insurance history that buyers can trust.
  • To benchmark prices against public listings on OLX, CarDekho, CarWale, Cars24, and similar marketplaces.
  • To improve our models using anonymised, aggregated patterns — never your individual data tied to your identity.

7. Data Retention

We retain your seller profile and the verified records attached to it for as long as your listing is active, plus 180 days after the car is sold or the listing is removed — so buyers who contacted you can still see what was shared with them. Gmail and SMS access tokens are deleted within 7 days of listing closure, or immediately when you revoke access.

8. Your Rights

Under the DPDP Act, you have the right to:

  • Know what personal data we hold about you.
  • Correct or update that data.
  • Withdraw consent for Gmail, SMS, or document processing at any time.
  • Delete your profile and all data attached to it.
  • Revoke Gmail access directly from your Google Account at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

To exercise any of these rights, message us on WhatsApp or email hello@truwo.ai. We respond within 7 business days.

9. Security

Data is stored on servers hosted in India. Gmail refresh tokens are stored encrypted at rest. Access to production systems is limited to a small set of engineers and logged. If we ever suffer a breach that affects your data, we will notify you and the Data Protection Board of India as required by law.

10. Third-Party Services

We use large-language-model providers (such as Anthropic and Google) to power the Truwo agent. When we process your messages, Gmail content, or uploaded documents through these providers, it is governed by their enterprise data-protection terms — inputs are not used to train their public models. We do not share your data with advertisers or marketing networks.

11. Children

Truwo is for adults. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has shared data with us, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes — especially to how we use Gmail or SMS data — we will notify active sellers on WhatsApp and update the date at the top of this page.

13. Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints? Email hello@truwo.ai or message us on WhatsApp. Our Data Protection contact is the same address.

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