Privacy Policy

Information processed on your device

Prayers, journal entries, imported audio, transcripts, summaries, downloaded Bible resources, app-blocking selections, and Selah Memory are stored and processed locally by default. Supported devices can use local Gemma models, Parakeet transcription, Kokoro voice, and Apple language frameworks without sending that content to Seek First servers.

Journal audio is stored in the app's protected Application Support directory and excluded from device backups. Deleting a prayer or journal entry in Seek First also removes its associated local audio.

Accounts, private sync, and Community

Seek First uses Supabase for account authentication. You may sign in with Google or supported email methods. Supabase receives the account identifiers and profile information needed to create and maintain your session, such as your email address, display name, and provider identifier. Seek First does not receive your Google password.

If private sync is enabled for your account, encrypted connections to Supabase store account-owned copies of supported prayers, journals, journal audio, highlights, notes, bookmarks, Selah conversations and memories, reading history, streaks, plan drafts, saved plans, plan progress, and portable settings. Database row-level security restricts these private records to the signed-in account.

Community participation is optional. Features you choose to use may store and display your Community profile, username, bio, avatar, favorite verse, follows, friendships, posts, reactions, comments, published or saved plans, reading groups, discussions, invitations, progress shared with a group, blocks, and reports according to the audience and feature settings you select. Reports may be reviewed for safety and moderation.

Local entries can be deleted in the app. To request deletion of your account or server records, email calebjfeliciano@gmail.com with the subject “Seek First data deletion.” We may ask for enough information to locate and authenticate the relevant account.

Purchases and paywalls

Apple processes App Store purchases. RevenueCat helps verify Pro entitlement and may process anonymous purchase history and technical identifiers needed to manage access. Superwall presents and measures paywall experiences. Seek First does not receive your full payment card details.

Advertising and consent

The Free plan may show contextual Google AdMob ads outside prayer, Bible reading, AI, voice, note editing, onboarding, paywalls, and Profile. Google's User Messaging Platform handles consent where required. Seek First requests non-personalized ads and does not request App Tracking Transparency permission in this release.

Google's SDK may process coarse location, device identifiers, advertising data, product interaction, crash data, performance data, and diagnostics as described in Google's privacy documentation.

AI and external services

Seek First focuses on local AI. Local Voice remains the default and runs with supported on-device models. Pro users may explicitly choose Enhanced Voice for a foreground conversation. When selected, live microphone audio and the resulting conversation are processed by OpenAI's Realtime service through a Seek First Cloudflare broker. The OpenAI API key is never stored in the app.

The broker verifies the app installation and Pro entitlement, applies session and monthly limits, and stores only security identifiers, session timing, and aggregate usage needed to prevent abuse. Seek First does not store Enhanced Voice audio or conversation transcripts on that broker. Leaving the app ends the Enhanced Voice session and returns voice mode to the local path.

Automatic public web search is enabled by default and can be turned off in Profile under Privacy & Memory. When Selah determines that a question needs current or outside evidence, Seek First may send only a minimized public search query and device-verification metadata through its Cloudflare broker to the single configured search provider, currently TinyFish. Conversation history, prayers, journal entries, Selah Memory, Bible notes, highlights, and account-synced content are not attached. Personal or sensitive queries are blocked from web search and stay on the device. The search provider may retain or use submitted queries according to its own privacy terms, and Seek First displays the sources returned with the answer.

Screen Time permissions

Seek First uses Apple Family Controls, Managed Settings, and Device Activity frameworks to enforce app-blocking choices. Apple provides the system authorization and app-selection interfaces. Seek First does not receive a readable list of your entire installed app library.

Screen Time insights are rendered through Apple's privacy-preserving Device Activity report extension. The app can show aggregate duration and estimated time reclaimed without uploading Screen Time reports to Seek First servers.

Optional location-based Focus Rhythms

If you create a location-based Focus Rhythm, the place and radius you choose are stored on your device and used with Apple's low-power region monitoring to activate or end blocking. Seek First does not upload those saved places to its servers. You can remove a place or revoke location permission at any time.

Retention and security

Local information remains until you delete it, reset the app, or remove the app, subject to iOS storage behavior. Account and Community records remain in Supabase until deleted or an account-data deletion request is completed, subject to security, moderation, and legal retention needs. Enhanced Voice security and aggregate-usage records are retained only as needed to enforce access, prevent abuse, and reconcile session limits. Public search queries and returned evidence may be processed by the broker and search provider long enough to answer the request, enforce quotas, secure the service, and follow the provider's stated retention practices. We use Apple platform protections and limit data processing to the services needed for the feature you choose, but no storage system can be guaranteed perfectly secure.

Your choices

• Use core prayer, Bible, journal, and local-AI features without posting to Community.
• Choose which journal summaries can enter Selah Memory.
• Use Local Voice by default or explicitly select Enhanced Voice.
• Turn automatic public web search off in Privacy & Memory.
• Delete saved Focus Rhythm locations or revoke location permission.
• Delete local prayer and journal records inside the app.
• Change ad privacy choices when Google's privacy options are available.
• Request assistance with account or server-record deletion by email.

Contact and policy updates

Privacy questions can be sent to calebjfeliciano@gmail.com or by phone at (254) 466-0997. Material changes will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. This policy should be reviewed alongside Apple, Google, OpenAI, Supabase, TinyFish, RevenueCat, and Superwall policies for their respective services.