Privacy Policy — Pastures

Pastures helps you grow in Word-centered faith by turning what’s on your heart (your “focus”) into a daily Scripture devotional you can save, journal against, and revisit. Because a focus and a note are often deeply personal — health, marriage, finances, grief — we treat them as your most sensitive data and have designed the app to protect them.

This policy is written to be accurate. We tell you plainly what we do, what we don’t, and the one thing we are careful not to over-promise.

What we collect

Account: your email address (and the sign-in method you choose — email/password, Google, or Apple). If you use Apple’s “Hide My Email,” we only ever see the relay address Apple provides.
Your focus text: what you type or speak when you set a focus. (Sensitive.)
Your notes: the personal reflections you write on a devotional. (Most sensitive.)
Your devotionals: the daily Scripture devotionals generated for you, and which ones you save.
Preferences: delivery time, timezone, translation, and notification setting.
A device push token (only if you enable notifications), so we can deliver your daily devotional.

We do not collect contacts, location, advertising identifiers, or analytics about the content of your focus or notes.

How your focus and notes are protected

Encrypted in transit and at rest. All traffic uses TLS, and data is encrypted at rest by our database provider, including backups.
Visible only to your account. Per-user access rules are enforced at the database layer, so no other user can ever see your focus, devotionals, or notes.
Never logged. Your focus text, note bodies, and any voice audio are never written to our application logs or analytics.
Voice is not stored. If you record a voice focus, the audio is transcribed and then discarded — we don’t keep the recording.
Sharing never includes your private data. When you share a devotional, only the devotional content (verse, reflection, attribution) is shared — never your notes or your focus text.

How we use AI (and what the providers do with your words)

To turn your focus into a devotional, your focus text is sent securely to our AI providers (Anthropic and OpenAI) to classify a theme and write the devotional, and through a content-safety check. Under these providers’ API terms, your data is not used to train their models, and is retained by them only briefly for abuse monitoring.

Your notes are different: notes are personal journaling and are never sent to any AI provider. They are stored for you and shown only to you.

We do not sell your data, and we do not use it to train AI.

What we are careful not to claim

We do not offer end-to-end encryption, and we will not tell you that “no one can ever read this.” To create your devotional, your focus must be readable by the app and by our AI providers — that’s how the product works. And to operate and support the service, our team can, in principle, access stored data.

What we can honestly promise: your focus and notes are private to your account, encrypted, never shared or sold, never used to train AI, and never visible to other users. In the app you’ll see this stated simply: “Private to your account, processed securely to create your devotional.”

Your choices and controls

Edit or delete a note at any time.
Set a focus aside, resume it, or delete it — deleting a focus removes its devotionals but keeps anything you saved or wrote a note on.
Turn notifications on or off.
Delete your account. This permanently erases your focus history, saved devotionals, notes, push tokens, preferences, and your sign-in account. This cannot be undone.

Data retention

We keep your data until you delete it (per item) or delete your account (everything). Deleted data is removed from our active systems; encrypted backups age out on the provider’s normal schedule.

Children

Pastures is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your region), and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

We’ll update this policy as the app evolves and revise the date above. Material changes will be surfaced in the app.

Contact

Questions or requests (including data deletion): privacy@pastures.ai