Privacy

Last updated 15 November 2026

Who we are

Amen Alarm is published by Ville Pitkänen, Finland. In this policy “we” means the publisher, and “the app” means Amen Alarm for iPhone. You can reach us at hello@amen-alarm.com.

What the app keeps on your phone

• your alarm time, the level you chose and the alarm sound;
• your streak of mornings, your best streak, the date you last finished the verse, and how many times you pressed Snooze that morning;
• which of the anonymous counts below have been sent.

All of this is stored in the app on your iPhone and nowhere else. To erase it, delete the app. If you back up your iPhone, the app’s data is part of your own backup, as it is for most apps.

Your alarm is scheduled with your iPhone’s own alarm system (AlarmKit). No server sends it.

The microphone and speech recognition

To turn the alarm off, you read a Bible verse out loud. While the verse screen is open, and only then, the app listens through your iPhone’s microphone and uses Apple’s speech recognition to check which words of the verse it heard, and on the Joshua level how loudly. Where your iPhone supports it, recognition happens on the phone itself. Where it does not, Apple’s speech service processes the audio under Apple’s own privacy policy. The app does not record your voice, does not keep what was heard after the screen closes, and sends none of it to us. If you prefer, you can type the verse instead.

What the app sends, and to whom

• To Apple, for purchases. Subscriptions are bought and managed through the App Store. Apple handles the payment. We are not given your name, your Apple Account, your address or your payment details.
• To RevenueCat, to keep our subscription figures and learn which ads work. RevenueCat, a company in the United States, keeps our subscription figures on our behalf. The app runs RevenueCat’s software, which makes a random number for this installation of the app (not your name, your Apple Account or your phone’s advertising identifier) and tells RevenueCat about the purchases you make in the app: the plan, the dates, the price and the country of the App Store. It also passes on a token from Apple that says whether you came to the app from an ad in the App Store, and if so which campaign and which search led you. We use this only to see which of our ads lead to subscriptions. It does not start with “Anonymous counts” turned off in the app.
• To our own server, anonymous counts. To learn where new users stop, the app tells our server, once each, when you pass certain steps: opening the app for the first time; moving the level slider; pressing “Test it now”; allowing or not allowing alarms; the level you saved (Samuel, Thomas, Jonah, Joshua or Lazarus); saving your first alarm; seeing the subscription offer, pressing its button, which plan, and what became of it (bought, closed, waiting for approval, or not gone through); closing the offer; restoring a purchase; answering the alarm; your first Snooze, and a third Snooze in one morning; opening the verse screen; allowing or not allowing the microphone; typing instead of reading; finishing your first morning; streaks of three and seven mornings; and opening the app again a day later and a week later.

  Each count is a single request that names the step, the app’s version, and a letter, a or b, that the app draws at random when it is first opened, so that we can compare two ways of doing something. A count carries no identifier of you or your phone and nothing you say, and each is sent once and never again. Our server keeps only the date and those few words; it does not keep your internet address. To stop the counts, turn off “Anonymous counts” in the app, and nothing more is sent.

Age

We do not ask your age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. If you are a parent and believe your child has written to us, tell us and we will delete the message.

If you write to us

When you send us an email we receive your address and whatever you write. We use them to answer you and to put right what you tell us about. We keep the correspondence for up to two years and then delete it, and sooner if you ask. Our email is carried by a forwarding service and by our mailbox provider, which handle it on our behalf and may process it in the United States and other countries.

This website

This site sets no cookies and uses no analytics, no advertising and nothing loaded from another company. Our server is shown your internet address when it sends you a page, as every website’s is, and is set not to keep a record of it.

What Apple shares with developers

If you have agreed on your iPhone to share analytics with app developers, Apple gives us figures such as how many people downloaded the app and how often it crashed. They are counts. They do not identify you and we do not combine them with anything else.

What we do not do

• We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.
• We do not record your voice.
• We do not build profiles of the people who use the app, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.

Your choices and your rights

What the app keeps stays on your phone, so it is already in your hands. The counts and RevenueCat’s random number are not linked to you, so there is nothing in them we could find, show you or delete for you. For anything you have sent us by email, you can ask us what we hold, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it or ask us to delete it. Write to hello@amen-alarm.com and we will answer within 30 days. Depending on where you live, the law may give you these rights by name, for example in California, in other US states, in the European Economic Area and in the United Kingdom. If you believe we have handled your information wrongly, you may also complain to the data protection authority where you live.

Changes to this policy

If the app or this site begins to handle information differently, we will change this page first and put the new date at the top. If a change is a significant one, we will also say so in the app’s update notes.

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