Terms and conditions

For the Vargani app (formerly GaneshUtsav) (com.ragnar.GaneshUtsav on Android, com.ragnar.ganeshUtsav on iOS). Last updated 14 October 2026.

1. Accepting these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and the individual developer who builds and runs Vargani. By installing the app, signing in or using it, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the app.

The app is not a company product. It is not affiliated with any mandal, trust, government body, bank or payment provider. The privacy policy forms part of these terms and describes what the app stores and why.

The rules of the store you installed the app from, Google Play or the Apple App Store, apply to you as well, alongside these terms.

2. What the app is

Vargani is a record keeping app for a mandal, for whatever it collects for: Ganeshotsav, Navratri, Diwali, a jayanti, the village yatra, an annual vargani or anything else. The app names no utsav of its own; the mandal writes the name. Used as intended, it lets a mandal:

• keep separate books per utsav, each with its own receipt numbers from 1, its own expenses, dues and reports, under the same members, posts, join code and logo;
• record vargani, and dengi under its own head, and issue a numbered pavti as a PDF, with the words and picture at its head chosen by the mandal;
• acknowledge something given in kind with a poch pavti, outside the accounts;
• record a vargani that was promised but not yet paid;
• record expenses under a category, with a photograph of the bill;
• keep a list of karyakartas and the post each one holds;
• see the jama, the kharch and the balance, and export six reports as CSV;
• keep notes and notices for the mandal, and a history of who changed what;
• put a pin where the mandal is and, if the mandal chooses, show it on the shared map of mandals. For this the app asks for the phone's location only on the two map screens, only while they are open, and never in the background; you may decline and place the pin by hand, and nothing but the pin an officer saves is stored (privacy policy, sections 2.2 and 2.7);
• with Vargani Pro (section 10): send a pavti to the donor's WhatsApp by itself, and export the reports as PDF;
• work with no network, the entries syncing once there is signal again.

3. What the app is not

The app is also not any of the following.

• An accountant or an auditor. It adds up what is entered into it. It cannot know whether an entry is right, and it does not check your figures against anything.
• A legal filing. If your mandal is registered, its obligations to the Charity Commissioner, to the registrar or to anyone else are unchanged. A report exported from the app is a working document, not a filing, and not a certified statement.
• A receipt authorised by any authority. The pavti carries whatever your mandal put into the app. Whether it satisfies a donor, an auditor or a tax rule is your mandal's judgment, not ours.
• A backup service. See section 11.

4. Your account

You sign in either with a Google account or with an email address and a password that you set. You are responsible for keeping that sign in to yourself. Anything done through your account counts as done by you.

The app is meant for adults who run a mandal's accounts. Do not use it if you are under 13, and do not enter a child's personal details into it.

One person may belong to more than one mandal. Each mandal's records stay separate from every other mandal's.

5. Your mandal and the join code

The person who registers a mandal in the app is its founder for these purposes. They set its name, its details and its posts, and they are the only person who can ask for the whole mandal to be deleted.

6. Posts and permissions

What a member can do is decided by the post they hold, and it is enforced on the server, not only by the buttons on screen.

• Only the adhyaksh, upadhyaksh and khajindar can add a donation or correct a receipt.
• Only the adhyaksh, upadhyaksh, sachiv and khajindar can record an expense.
• Every member of a mandal can read that mandal's records. That is deliberate: a mandal's accounts are meant to be visible to the mandal.

Only the adhyaksh and the khajindar sign a pavti, so only their uploaded signatures are printed on one.

7. Receipts and serial numbers

Every pavti takes the next serial number in the mandal's own series. The details on a receipt can be corrected afterwards by someone holding a signing post, but the serial number cannot be changed and a receipt cannot be removed on request, because that number has already been handed to a donor and the mandal's accounts are counted on it.

When a receipt is filed with no network, the app gives it a temporary number and marks it as temporary on screen. The final number is assigned once the phone reaches the server. Tell the donor this if you hand over a receipt in that state.

Once you share or print a pavti it leaves the app. What happens to it after that is outside our control.

8. What is your responsibility

Most of what this app holds is not about you. It is about donors and karyakartas, entered by you or by another member of your mandal. Your mandal decides what goes in and answers for it.

• Accuracy. Amounts, names, dates and categories are as correct as the person who typed them. Check the figures before you read them out at a meeting.
• Other people's details. Enter a donor's phone number only if the donor is willing to give it. The app never requires one, and a pavti is issued perfectly well without it. Do not enter anything a donor would not expect their mandal to write in its receipt book.
• Images you upload. A logo, a signature or a bill photograph must be yours to upload, or your mandal's.
• Requests from a donor. If a donor asks for their details to be removed, a signing officer can correct the receipt in the app, or you can write to us. The route is on the data deletion page.
• Your own obligations. Any registration, reporting, audit or tax duty your mandal has is yours, and using this app neither removes nor satisfies it.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to do any of the following.

• Use the app for anything unlawful, or to collect money by deception.
• Enter a mandal you have no connection with, or use a join code you were not given.
• Issue a pavti for money that was not received, or alter a record to misstate what a mandal collected or spent.
• Upload anything obscene, hateful, or belonging to someone else without their permission.
• Attempt to reach another mandal's records, get around the access controls, take the app apart, or drive it with an automated tool.
• Put so much load on the service that it degrades for other mandals.

If a mandal or an account is used this way, we may suspend or remove access to it. Where the use is clearly harmful we may do so without notice.

10. Cost and Vargani Pro

The app is free and shows no advertising. From version 1.6.0 (October 2026) it contains none at all; earlier versions, which showed Google AdMob advertisements, are no longer supported and ask to be updated. A pavti is the mandal's record and the donor's copy of it, and nothing is sold against it.

Vargani Pro

Everything in section 2 that is not marked Pro is free, and stays free. Vargani Pro is an optional season pass. What it is:

• What it adds. A pavti filed with the donor's phone number is sent to that number on WhatsApp by itself, from Vargani's WhatsApp number; and every report can be exported as A4 PDF pages on the mandal's letterhead. Nothing else changes, and the free app is complete without it.
• Who it covers. One purchase covers the whole mandal it was bought for: every member of that mandal has Pro, whoever paid. It is tied to that mandal and cannot be moved to another one. A member of two mandals who wants both to be Pro buys twice.
• How long. Three months from the moment the store confirms the purchase. It is a one-time purchase, not a recurring subscription: nothing renews and nothing is charged again when it ends. To have Pro the next season, buy it again. Buying again while a pass is still running extends it from the end of the running one.
• Price. Shown in the app before you buy, in your store's currency (in India, ₹499 as this page is written). The store may add tax as its rules require. We may change the price for future purchases; a pass already bought is not affected.
• Payment and refunds. The purchase is made through Google Play or the Apple App Store, using their payment systems and under their terms; the app never handles the payment. Refunds are requested from the store you bought from and decided under its refund policy, not by us. If a purchase is refunded, charged back or found to be fraudulent, the pass is withdrawn from the mandal.
• Fair use. The WhatsApp copy is for the mandal's own receipts: up to 2,000 receipts a season, and one receipt sent at most three times. Past those, the pavti is still made and can be shared by hand. WhatsApp delivery depends on Meta's service and on the donor's number being on WhatsApp, and is not guaranteed for any single receipt.
• Activation and restore. The pass turns on once the store confirms the purchase to us, usually within a minute. If it has not, use the app's "restore purchases". If it is still not on after a day, write to us with the store's receipt and we will put it right.

11. Backups and loss of data

Uninstalling the app removes the offline copy from your phone. It does not delete anything from the server, because the other members of your mandal still need those records.

12. Changes and availability

The app depends on services run by Google, and on your phone having a network at least some of the time. It may be unavailable, slow or partly broken, whether from a fault of ours, a fault at a provider, or maintenance. We do not promise any level of availability.

Features may be added, changed or removed. We may stop offering the app altogether. If that happens we will give notice on this site where we reasonably can, so a mandal has time to export its records.

13. No warranty

The app is provided as it is, and as it happens to be available. To the fullest extent the law allows, no warranty of any kind is given: not that it will be uninterrupted, not that it will be free of faults, not that it fits any particular purpose, and not that the figures it produces are correct for your mandal's purposes.

Nothing here takes away a right you have under consumer law that cannot be taken away.

14. Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss of donations, loss of records, loss of profits, loss of reputation, a dispute with a donor, an auditor or an authority, or any indirect or consequential loss arising out of your use of the app.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for Vargani Pro in the twelve months before the claim, and to nothing if you paid nothing.

This does not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

15. Ending your use

You can stop using the app at any time. Signing out or uninstalling does not delete anything. Closing your account is a separate and deliberate step, and it is in the app: the account menu on the home screen ends with खाते कायमचे बंद करा. What that removes and what stays in the mandal’s books is on the data deletion page.

We may end your access if you break section 9, or if we stop offering the app. Sections 8, 13, 14, 16 and 17 continue to apply afterwards.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

17. If you use the app on an Apple device

Apple requires the following of any app on the App Store with its own terms, and it applies to you if you installed the app from the App Store.

• Who the agreement is with. These terms are between you and the developer named in section 1, and not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Licence. You are given a non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple devices that you own or control, as the App Store's usage rules allow, including on other accounts through Family Sharing where those rules permit it.
• Maintenance and support. The developer alone is responsible for any maintenance and support of the app. Apple has no obligation to provide any.
• Warranty. The developer alone is responsible for any warranty on the app, to the extent one is not disclaimed in section 13. If the app fails to conform to a warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, and Apple will refund you the price paid for it, if any. Apple has no other warranty obligation; anything else arising from such a failure is the developer's responsibility.
• Claims. The developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app or your use of it, including product liability claims, a claim that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar law.
• Intellectual property. If a third party claims that the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, the developer, not Apple, is responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging the claim.
• Legal compliance. You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a United States government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Developer contact. Questions, complaints and claims about the app go to the address in section 19.
• Third-party terms. You must comply with any third-party terms that apply when you use the app, such as WhatsApp's terms when a receipt is sent there.
• Apple as beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and on your acceptance of them Apple has the right to enforce them against you.

18. If you use the app from Google Play

A Vargani Pro purchase made on Android is made through Google Play under the Google Play Terms of Service and Google Play's refund policy, and is billed by Google. Google is not a party to these terms and is not responsible for the app.

19. Contact and changes

Write to contact@notragnar.com for anything in these terms. We reply within 7 working days.

If these terms change, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.