Privacy policy
Your practice stays on your phone.
The short version. Faith Alarm has no accounts and no servers of its own. Your name, alarm times, journal entries, streaks, and favorites are stored in a database on your device and are not sent anywhere. The app contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking services. The only third party that receives any data is RevenueCat, which processes subscriptions, and it only receives what it needs to confirm whether your subscription is active.
This policy explains what Faith Alarm (“the app”, “we”, “us”) does with your information. It applies to the Faith Alarm mobile app for iOS and Android, published by Eureka Software Factory.
1. There is no account
Faith Alarm does not ask you to register, sign in, or provide an email address, phone number, or password. There is no login screen and no user database on any server we operate.
When you finish onboarding, the app generates a random identifier on your device to label your own records in the local database. That identifier is not derived from you, your device, or any advertising ID, and it is not reported to us.
2. What is stored on your device
Everything you create in Faith Alarm is written to a local SQLite database inside the app's private storage on your phone. It is not backed up to a server we control and it is not synchronized between devices.
| What | Why it is stored |
|---|---|
| The name you enter during onboarding | To greet you on the home screen. A first name is enough; nothing verifies it. |
| The practices you select, and your optional style preference (for example “Catholic” or “Non-denominational”) | To shape the devotional content the app shows you. |
| Your morning and night alarm times, whether each is on, and the identifier of the notification each one scheduled | To schedule, cancel, and re-schedule your alarms. |
| Your device's current time zone, read from the operating system | To keep alarms at the correct local time when you travel. |
| Each practice you start, skip, or complete — its date, times, and which passage it used | To fill in your journal and calculate streaks. |
| Anything you write in the journal step | To show it back to you in the Journal tab. Journal text is never transmitted. |
| Which library entries you favorite or save for offline reading | To power the Favorites and Downloads filters. |
| Your streaks, grace days used, and unlocked milestones | To display your rhythm. |
| Your subscription status, plan name, and expiry date | To unlock premium content, including when the phone is offline. Mirrored from RevenueCat — see section 4. |
The app also stores a single yes/no flag in the operating system's secure storage (iOS Keychain / Android Keystore) recording whether your premium subscription was active the last time it was checked. This lets premium content open immediately at launch without a network round trip. It contains no personal information.
The devotional content itself — passages, reflections, and prayers — ships inside the app. Faith Alarm does not download content, so browsing and reading the library produce no network requests and no server-side record of what you read.
3. Notifications and alarms
Faith Alarm asks for permission to send notifications. If you grant it, the app schedules repeating daily notifications on your device using the operating system's own scheduler. We do not operate a push server, we do not register a push token, and no alarm you set is reported to us or to anyone else.
If you decline the permission, the rest of the app still works — you can open a practice at any time — but the alarms will not fire. You can change the permission at any time in your device's system settings.
4. Subscriptions and purchases
Faith Alarm Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription. Two things happen when you subscribe:
- Apple or Google takes the payment. The App Store or Google Play handles the transaction end to end. We never see or receive your payment card, billing address, or store account details.
- RevenueCat confirms the entitlement. Faith Alarm uses RevenueCat to check whether your subscription is active and to run the purchase, restore, and manage-subscription screens. The app sends RevenueCat the random identifier described in section 1. RevenueCat also collects purchase and receipt information and standard device and app details in order to validate the purchase, as described in its own privacy policy at revenuecat.com/privacy.
This is the only feature in Faith Alarm that sends data off your device. If you never open the paywall, the manage-subscription screen, or restore purchases, the app still initializes RevenueCat at startup so it can confirm your entitlement status.
RevenueCat acts as our processor for subscription management. We use the information it returns only to decide whether to unlock premium content.
5. Analytics, advertising, and tracking
Faith Alarm does not transmit analytics. The app contains an internal event tracker used during development — it writes event names such as “practice completed” to the developer console on a developer's own machine when running a development build. In the version distributed through the App Store and Google Play, that tracker does nothing and sends nothing. No analytics, attribution, or crash-reporting service is bundled in the app.
Faith Alarm contains no advertising, no advertising identifiers, no third-party trackers, no cookies, and no social media SDKs. It does not track you across other apps or websites, and it does not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
If this changes. Should a future version add an analytics provider, this policy and the app's store privacy labels will be updated before that version ships.
6. What we do not collect
Faith Alarm does not request, access, or collect:
- Your location, at any precision
- Your contacts, calendar, photos, camera, or microphone
- Your email address, phone number, or name from any system account
- Health, fitness, or biometric data
- Your device's advertising identifier
- Your browsing activity in other apps or on the web
The only permission the app asks for is notifications.
7. Who your data is shared with
We do not sell your data, rent it, or share it for advertising. The only recipients of any data are:
- RevenueCat, Inc. — subscription management, as described in section 4.
- Apple and Google — payment processing and app distribution, under their own terms and privacy policies.
We may disclose information if required to do so by law, but because we do not hold your journal, alarms, or practice history on any server, there is very little for us to disclose.
8. Retention and deletion
Your local data stays on your device for as long as the app is installed. Deleting the Faith Alarm app from your phone deletes the local database and everything in it, including your journal. This cannot be undone, and because nothing is backed up to us, we cannot restore it for you.
Data held by RevenueCat is retained under RevenueCat's own retention policy. If you want records associated with your app's RevenueCat identifier deleted, contact us at support@faithalarm.io and we will make the request on your behalf. Note that deleting subscription records may prevent you from restoring a purchase later.
To cancel a subscription, use your App Store or Google Play account settings — cancelling in the app's Manage subscription screen opens those same settings. Cancelling stops future billing; it does not delete data.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete personal information a company holds about you, including under the EU/UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act.
For Faith Alarm, most of those rights are satisfied directly on your device: the data is already in your possession, you can edit it in the app, and uninstalling deletes it. For anything held by RevenueCat, write to support@faithalarm.io and we will respond within the period required by applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
Where we process personal information under the GDPR, our lawful basis is the performance of our contract with you — providing the app and the subscription you purchased — and our legitimate interest in preventing fraudulent purchases.
10. Children
Faith Alarm is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Because the app has no accounts and stores everything locally, it does not gather information from any user that would identify them to us. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact support@faithalarm.io.
11. Security
Your data is protected by your device: the app's database lives in app-private storage that other apps cannot read, and your subscription flag is kept in the system keychain or keystore. Using a device passcode, biometric lock, and current operating system updates is the most effective protection for your journal.
If your device backs up app data — for example through iCloud Backup or Android Backup — a copy of the Faith Alarm database may be included in that backup, under Apple's or Google's terms rather than ours. You can control this in your device's backup settings.
No system is perfectly secure, but because Faith Alarm holds no central store of user journals, there is no server-side database of your practice to breach.
12. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the “last updated” date above and post the new version at this address. Material changes — for example, adding a service that transmits data off your device — will be described in the app before they take effect.
13. Contact
Questions about this policy, or requests about your data, go to support@faithalarm.io.
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