Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Daily Saint Reflections iOS app and this website. It is written in plain language rather than legal boilerplate, and it is versioned: older releases of the app behaved differently, and those releases are still installed on some devices. Both are described below.

Version 2.0 and later

No analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind. The app contains no third-party software development kits. There is no advertising identifier (IDFA), no advertising network, no analytics service, and no App Tracking Transparency prompt, because there is nothing to ask permission for.

No account and no sign-in. The app never asks for your name, your email address, or any other personal detail. There is nothing to register and nothing to log in to.

Your journal never leaves your device. Reflection entries and reading history are stored in a private container belonging to the app on your own device. They are not uploaded anywhere, they are not backed up to any server run by the developer, and the developer has no way to read them. Nobody but you can see what you write.

Reminders are scheduled on your device. If you turn on the daily reminder, your iPhone schedules the notification locally at the time you choose. No push server is involved and no reminder setting is transmitted anywhere.

The saint content is already in the app. Every saint, biography, and reflection prompt ships inside the app itself. Reading the day’s saint makes no network request and works with no internet connection at all.

The only time the app connects to the internet is when you tap a link that opens a web page — this privacy policy, the terms, or the App Store. Those are ordinary web requests, described under This website below.

Versions 1.11 and earlier

Earlier releases of the app did include advertising and analytics software. If you have not updated, this section describes the version you are running.

Those versions contained:

• Google AdMob, which displayed banner advertisements, together with Google’s User Messaging Platform, which presented the advertising consent form to users in the European Economic Area.
• Google Firebase Analytics, which recorded how the app was used — how many times it had been opened, which onboarding screens were viewed, and when the subscription screen was shown.
• Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt, which asked permission to track you across other companies’ apps and websites for advertising purposes.
• Ad attribution through Apple’s SKAdNetwork, which reports app installs to advertising networks in aggregate.

Between them, these collected device and advertising identifiers and app usage data, along with the standard technical information analytics services gather automatically, such as device model, operating system version, language, and country.

Two clarifications, because the App Store privacy label for those versions was broader than what the app actually did:

• Location was never collected. The app has never requested location permission and has never contained any location-gathering code. Advertising networks can estimate an approximate region from an internet address, as any web server can, but no location was ever read from the device.
• Journal entries were never collected. Even in those versions, reflection entries were stored only on the device and were never uploaded.

All of this was removed in version 2.0. No advertising or analytics data is collected from version 2.0 onward. Data gathered by those services under earlier versions was held by Google under Google’s own policies; it was never sold, and the developer’s access to it ended when the services were removed.

Updating to version 2.0 or later stops all of it.

This website

This policy is a web page, and the app opens it in a built-in browser window when you tap “Privacy Policy” in Settings. Like every website, the server that delivers it briefly sees the internet address and browser identification of the device requesting it. That is how the web works and it cannot be switched off.

This site is deliberately plain: it has no analytics, no cookies, no advertising, no embedded fonts, and no third-party scripts of any kind. Nothing is loaded from another company’s server, so no other company learns that you read this page. Requests are logged only in aggregate by the hosting provider for operational purposes and are not used to build any profile of you.

Purchases

Premium subscriptions are sold and processed entirely by Apple through the App Store.

• The developer never sees your payment details. Card numbers, billing addresses, and Apple Account information go to Apple, not to this app.
• Sales reporting is anonymous and aggregated. App Store Connect provides totals — units sold, revenue by country — with no information identifying who purchased anything.
• Family Sharing shares only the purchase. If you share your subscription with your family, it grants them access to Premium features. It does not share your journal entries, your reading history, or any other app data. Their writing stays on their device, and yours stays on yours.

Children

The app is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. It collects no data from anyone, children included, so there is no children’s data to disclose, protect, or delete. It shows no advertising, contains no chat or social features, and has no links to user-generated content.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted on this page with a new effective date at the top. Material changes — particularly any change to where journal entries are stored — will be described plainly rather than buried.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about privacy in the app generally:

Jeffrey Edwards, J.S. Edwards Studio
support@dailysaintreflections.com

An earlier copy of this policy remains available at its original address for people using older versions of the app that link to it. This page is the canonical version; if the two ever disagree, this one is correct.