Journnah ("we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This page records what we collect when you use the app, how we keep it, and the choices that remain yours. The short version: your entries belong to you, and we have no business reading them.
Account information. When you sign in, we collect your name and email address through Clerk, our authentication provider. If you use Apple or Google sign-in, we receive whatever those services share with us (typically just your name and email).
Journal content. The entries, titles, tags, mood markings, and verse references you write in the app. This is your personal content — it belongs to you, in every sense.
Location. If you grant location permission, we read your device's coordinates only to calculate local prayer times. Location is used in the moment and never stored, transmitted, or shared.
Diagnostics. When the app breaks, it sends a crash report to Sentry so we can find the fault and fix it. A report carries the error, the code path that led to it, and the device and app version — never your journal entries, never your location. We have deliberately switched off Sentry's session replay, which would otherwise record the screen you were writing on, and we do not send it your IP address or any other identifier it offers to attach by default. A small sample of reports also carries basic performance timings.
Usage. We collect no behavioural or marketing analytics. We do not track what you read, how long you dwell, or when you open the app.
On your device. Entries live in a database in the app's private storage, which only Journnah can read, and which your phone's own encryption protects while the device is locked — Data Protection on iOS, file-based encryption on Android. If you use the app without signing in, your data never leaves the device.
Cloud sync. If you sign in and enable sync, your entries and tags are stored in Supabase — isolated by your account, protected by row-level security. Sync can be turned off in Settings at any time.
Authentication. Credentials are managed by Clerk. We do not store passwords ourselves.
We do not use your journal content to train models, to serve advertising, or for any purpose other than providing the app to you.
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing. We share data only with the service providers necessary to operate the app:
We may disclose information if required by law, or to protect the safety and rights of our users.
Delete your entries. Individually, or all at once, from within the app.
Disable cloud sync. Use the app offline by not signing in, or by signing out at any time.
Turn off notifications. Reminder notifications can be disabled in Settings or your device's notification preferences.
Revoke location access. At any time, in your device's settings. Prayer time calculation will be unavailable without it.
Delete your account. Write to journnahapp@journnah.ca. We will process the request within thirty days.
Journnah is not directed at children under the age of thirteen. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen. If you believe a child has provided us with such information, please write to us and we will delete it promptly.
We retain your data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we will delete your data from our systems within thirty days, except where retention is required by law.
Journal data is stored locally with SQLite and, when synced, transmitted over HTTPS to Supabase. Access to cloud data is protected by row-level security — only you can read or write your own entries. We take reasonable care, but no method of transmission or storage is ever entirely without risk.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be noted by updating the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the app after a revision constitutes acceptance of the new policy.
If you have questions or concerns about this policy or your data, please contact us at journnahapp@journnah.ca.
Journnah is operated from Canada. This policy is governed by the laws of Canada.