Privacy Policy

This policy sets out how Castle handles data. Castle is a regional-first entertainment directory for audiences across India, built to put the cinema of India's own languages at the front of the experience, and the same respect extends to privacy: Castle runs on the least personal information such a service reasonably needs. The policy is prepared under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the Information Technology Act, 2000, and it applies on Android phones, Android TVs, and Fire TV Stick.

Free to watch, with no account

Castle is free, and it requires no account. There is no registration step, no email or phone number to provide, and no user profile created in the background. Every viewer uses the app as a guest and begins 1080p playback without identifying themselves. Because no identity is gathered at any point, none can later be disclosed, sold, or exposed. For an app whose purpose is simply to help people find the films of their own language, that restraint is deliberate.

Information Castle never requests

Several categories sit permanently outside the app's design:

  1. Government identity numbers such as Aadhaar or PAN, which are never requested.
  2. Banking apps, UPI wallets, and payment card details, which no app permission can reach.
  3. The camera, microphone, SMS, contacts, biometrics, and photo gallery, which are left untouched.

Any app that asks for these under the Castle name should be treated as a counterfeit, removed, and reported through our online support portal.

Language preferences, held on the device

Because Castle is organised around India's linguistic diversity, it lets you set a preference across Hindi, English, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada. That preference is written only to the local cache on your own device, never compiled into a central profile of viewing or linguistic habits. On the device it shapes the home-screen rows, aligns the regional audio a title offers, and selects matching subtitles in the player, and none of it reaches an outside advertising network.

The technical data the app reads

So that playback holds steady across the many Android devices and network conditions in India, Castle reads a small set of non-identifying details: the device model, the Android version, the screen resolution, and available memory. These describe the device rather than the viewer, and they let the player match stream quality to the hardware. The data contains no personal identifiers and cannot be used to recognise an individual.

Advertising

Castle is free, and advertising supplied by established third-party networks such as Google AdMob keeps it running. These networks may use the anonymous Android Advertising ID to manage advertising frequency; the identifier holds no name, address, or contact detail, and its handling follows each network's own privacy policy. You can reset or disable it at any time in your Android privacy settings. Castle itself compiles no advertising profile and shares no viewing or language data for ad targeting.

Desktop use, data rights, and the Grievance Officer

Castle is compiled natively and only for Android; run on a desktop through a third-party Android emulator such as BlueStacks or LDPlayer, it stays inside that emulator's sandbox and cannot reach the host computer's files or system. Because the data Castle stores sits on your device, clearing the app's cache or storage from the Android settings removes your history, tokens, and language preferences at once, and uninstalling removes the rest. In adherence to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, Castle has appointed a Grievance Officer; a request sent through our online support portal is acknowledged within 24 hours and reviewed within the statutory 15-day window.