Privacy Policy
This policy explains how the Horeb iPhone app ("Horeb", "the app", "we", "us") handles your information. The short version: Horeb has no account, and we, the developer, do not collect or store your personal data. What you choose in the app stays on your device.
1. No account, no personal data collected by us
You do not sign up or sign in to use Horeb. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number, location, contacts or photos. The only server we run delivers narrated audio to subscribers (section 4); it does not receive your settings, saved verses or anything you type, and we cannot see how you use the app.
2. Information stored only on your device
To work, the app saves the following on your iPhone:
- the feeling you chose (for example, Anxious or Grateful);
- your daily reminder time, or that reminders are off;
- the verses you saved;
- your preferred translation (WEB or KJV);
- where you last read in the Bible, whether you finished the welcome screens, and small display preferences (for example, a dismissed tip).
This information is not sent to us or to anyone else. It is removed when you delete the app. Depending on your iPhone settings, it may be included in your own device backups (such as iCloud Backup), which Apple handles under its own privacy policy.
The Bible texts are built into the app, so reading and search work offline and do not send your searches anywhere.
3. Notifications
If you allow notifications, Horeb schedules a daily verse on your device using iOS local notifications. If you start a free trial, the app may also schedule one local reminder before the trial ends. We do not use push notification servers, and no notification content or schedule is sent to us. You can change the time, turn reminders off in the app, or turn off notifications in iOS Settings at any time.
4. Listening, narrated audio and sharing
Narrated chapters. Listening is part of Premium. Chapter narration (Bible chapters read in an AI-generated voice that we produced in advance) is not stored in the app. A few short verse recordings are built into the app and play without a connection. When you play a narrated chapter, the app downloads that chapter's audio file and its verse timings from our audio server at bible.klarruf.de. Whether Premium is active is checked by Apple on your iPhone (section 5), so the app sends no account, user ID or purchase information to the audio server. Like any web request, each download carries the standard technical information your iPhone sends: your IP address, a user agent that describes the app and the iOS version, and the address of the chapter you asked for (translation, book and chapter). No name, email address, setting or saved verse is sent.
The audio server keeps no access logs, and we do not use these requests to identify, profile or track anyone. To keep the service working and stop abuse, the server counts requests per IP address in memory for about a minute. The server software can also write technical error messages (which may include an IP address); we look at these only to fix problems with the server and use them for nothing else. There are no analytics, cookies or tracking on the audio server. If the server can't be reached, the app reads the chapter with your iPhone's built-in speech voice instead, on the device, without sending anything.
Sharing. When you share a verse, iOS's share sheet sends it only to the app or person you choose.
5. Subscriptions and purchases
Horeb offers optional auto-renewing Premium subscriptions (monthly or yearly). Payments are processed by Apple through your Apple ID. We never receive your name, email, card or payment details.
Whether Premium is active, and restoring purchases, is checked by Apple's StoreKit directly on your iPhone. The app does not use a third-party subscription service, and no purchase information is sent to us or to anyone other than Apple. Apple handles your purchase and receipt information under its own privacy policy; we receive only the aggregate sales and subscription reports that App Store Connect provides to developers. See Apple's Privacy Policy.
6. Crash reports; no analytics, ads or tracking
Horeb contains no advertising, no analytics and no tracking SDKs. We do not use the advertising identifier (IDFA), we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and we do not sell or share personal information.
Crash reports. If the app crashes or runs into an error, it sends a technical crash report to Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.), the service we use to find and fix bugs. A report contains the error and where in the app’s code it happened, the app version, and the device model and iOS version. It contains no name, email address, saved verses, settings or anything you typed, and no screenshots; we have set Sentry not to store IP addresses. Reports are used only to fix problems and are deleted automatically after Sentry’s retention period (at most 90 days). See Sentry’s Privacy Policy.
Apple may provide us with aggregate, anonymized App Store statistics (such as downloads and crash reports from users who opted in to share them with developers). These are handled under Apple's privacy policy and settings.
7. Links that open outside the app
Links such as this policy, the Terms of Use, Apple's subscription settings, the 988 Lifeline (which opens your Phone or Messages app) or Find A Helpline are handled by those services under their own policies.
8. Children
Horeb is suitable for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
9. Your choices and rights
Because your data is stored on your device, you control it directly: change or clear it in the app, or delete the app to remove it. Because we do not keep personal data about you (the audio server keeps no access logs), there is usually nothing for us to access, correct or delete. Your subscription and its purchase history are managed by Apple in your Apple ID settings. To make a privacy request under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA, contact us and we will help.
10. Changes to this policy
If the app's data practices change, we will update this page and the date above before the change takes effect.
11. Contact
Omar Babaverdiyev, developer of Horeb
babaverdiyevbusiness@gmail.com