Hesed & Emet (“we”) makes Bible reading apps and this website. This policy says what we collect, why, and what you can turn off.
1. What we collect
Without an account. You can read without signing in. Your settings, bookmarks, notes and reading progress stay on your device and never reach us.
If you sign in (optional, to carry your reading between your devices). Google or Apple gives us your account identifier, and our sign-in service holds your name and email address under it. Filed under that same identifier are your bookmarks, notes, reading progress, and the display name and colour you chose. Your profile picture stays on your device only. With Sign in with Apple you may hide your address, and then we never see it. We never use your name or email address for the usage statistics below — those are kept apart, under a separate random identifier.
Usage statistics — pseudonymous, tied to a random identifier created at install and never linked to your account, name or email: screens opened, features used, session length, errors, app version, device model, OS version, screen size and refresh rate, memory band, languages, and country. We do not collect your notes, your searches, your IP address, any advertising identifier, or your location. You can turn this off in Settings; in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it is off until you turn it on.
Photos. Saving a verse card writes an image to your photo library. The app asks only for permission to add, never to read, and the image is never sent to us.
Website and email. No advertising or analytics cookies. Our host processes standard request data for security. If you write to us, we receive your message.
2. How we use it
Only to run and improve our apps and website, to keep your reading in step across your devices, and to answer your enquiries. We do not sell personal information, do not use it for advertising profiling, and use no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs.
3. Who we share it with, and where it goes
Only the providers who host or deliver our services, and where Korean law requires. Transfers outside the Republic of Korea, in full:
Recipient
Country
What is transferred
Purpose
Retained for
Google (Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore)
Republic of Korea (Seoul, asia-northeast3)
Account identifier, name and email address; bookmarks, notes, reading progress, display name and colour
Sign-in; carrying your reading across your devices
While your account exists
Cloudflare
Global network
Installation identifier, usage events, country code
Usage statistics; delivery of translations, fonts and audio
Raw records 400 days; aggregates 25 months
Apple, Google Play
United States and others
Sign in with Apple; email relay; purchase records
Sign-in, distribution, payments
5 years (Korean commerce and tax law)
Purchase records arise only where an app offers payment; this app currently does not.
4. How long we keep it
Data on your device goes when you uninstall. Data on our servers is deleted immediately when you delete your account; encrypted host backups may hold a copy for up to 30 days, after which they expire. Usage statistics follow their own schedule, because they are not linked to your account: raw records 400 days, aggregates 25 months. Purchase records are kept 5 years, as Korean tax law requires. Email is kept only as long as needed.
5. Your choices and rights
Stop syncing — Settings › turn off synchronisation. Your reading then stays on your device; what is already on our servers remains until you delete your account.
Delete your account — from inside the app, at any time, without writing to us. See Delete Your Account.
Stop usage statistics — Settings › turn it off. This also deletes the random identifier from your device, which breaks the link to everything recorded before.
Access, correction, deletion — under the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea, write to contact@hesedemet.com and we will respond without undue delay. Usage records are pseudonymous and we hold no key that would connect them to you, so we cannot look them up by name.
6. Children
Our apps are for general audiences, including children reading with a guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
7. Contact
Hesed & Emet — Privacy enquiries
Personal information protection officer: Park Seolhee
Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Business Registration No. 846-03-03608 contact@hesedemet.com