SundaywardSundayward has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Almost everything you put into the app stays on your iPhone. This page explains the few exceptions, in plain words.
Sundayward is made by Translation Services USA LLC ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Sundayward iPhone app and this website, sundayward.com.
The short version
| Account | None. You never sign up or sign in. |
|---|---|
| Tracking | None. No analytics, advertising or tracking tools of any kind, in the app or on this website. |
| Your content | Prayers, notes, sermon recordings, your church and your reading progress are stored only on your iPhone. |
| Selling data | We do not sell or share personal information, and we never will. |
| Leaves the phone | Only what you send when you use an AI feature (see below), a church search through Apple Maps, and purchases through Apple. |
What stays on your iPhone
These are kept in the app's storage on your phone and nowhere else. We cannot see them.
- Your choices: language, church tradition, reminder times.
- Your prayer list, answered prayers and notes.
- Your church: the name, address and service times you pick or type.
- Sermon recordings, captions and summaries made on the phone.
- Your Bible reading progress and streak.
If your iPhone backs up to iCloud, Apple includes this storage in that backup under Apple's own privacy policy. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Microphone and speech
Live captions use your iPhone's own speech recognition, running on the phone. The audio is never sent to us or to anyone else. A recording is saved only if you choose to save it, and only on your phone. The app asks for microphone permission the first time, and you can turn it off at any time in the iPhone's Settings.
Location and church search
When you search for a church nearby, the app asks Apple Maps, using your approximate location if you allow it. That search goes from your phone to Apple and is covered by Apple's privacy policy. We do not receive your location. You can also add your church by hand without sharing a location at all.
AI features (Sundayward Plus)
Some features with Sundayward Plus use an AI model: asking a question about a passage, translating captions for a visitor, and sermon summaries on iPhones that cannot make them on the phone itself. When you use one of these, the app sends the text needed for that request (for example your question, or the transcript to summarize) to our own server.
- Our server passes the text to an AI model we run ourselves. If that model is unavailable, it goes to OpenAI as a backup, under OpenAI's business terms, which do not allow OpenAI to train its models on it.
- We do not store your questions, the answers, or any transcript. The text is used to answer the request and then discarded.
- To keep the free allowance fair, the server keeps a daily count per installation, under a random code that is not linked to you, your device name or your Apple ID. It holds a number, not your words.
- To stop misuse, the app proves to our server that it is the genuine Sundayward app using Apple's App Attest. This involves no personal information.
- Like every web server, ours records the internet address and time of each request in a security log. We keep these logs for no more than 14 days and use them only to keep the service safe.
Our server is located in the European Union (Finland). Summaries made on an iPhone with Apple Intelligence never leave the phone.
Purchases
Subscriptions and one-time purchases are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your name, card or Apple ID. To unlock Plus, the app checks the purchase record that Apple signs, and our server may check that same record when you use an AI feature. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your iPhone's Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions.
Notifications
Reminders are scheduled on your iPhone itself. We do not run a push notification service and we hold no device tokens.
This website
sundayward.com uses no cookies, analytics or third-party scripts, and the fonts are served from this site. The site is hosted by GitHub, which records visitors' internet addresses in its own server logs under the GitHub Privacy Statement. Our domain's address lookups are answered by Cloudflare.
Children
Sundayward is a general audience app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app has no way to collect it.
Your rights
Wherever you live, including California and the European Union, you have the right to know what personal information we hold about you and to have it deleted. Because we keep no account and store nothing that identifies you, there is normally nothing for us to return or delete: deleting the app removes everything. If you have a question or a request, write to us and we will answer within 30 days.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update this page and its effective date. If a change ever means more of your information would leave your phone, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
Translation Services USA LLC