Privacy Policy

The short version

Sinq collects no data. None.

There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party data SDKs of any kind. Nothing you read, write or mark ever leaves your device.

The app does reach the network for two things, and only these two. It checks the GitHub releases page once a day so a new version can be announced, which you can switch off in ቅንብሮች; the request carries nothing about you. And when you tap Catena on a verse, it opens that verse’s page on catenabible.com, which is a website and sees what any website sees — your address, and which page you asked for. Neither happens unless you let it.

What stays on your device

Everything you do in Sinq is stored locally, on your device only:

• Your settings: language, theme, reading preferences, reminder times.
• Your ጉዞ record: which hours you marked as prayed, and your habits.
• Your bookmarks, highlights, prayer list and custom prayer hours.
• Your ማስታወሻ journal entries, and their passphrase if you set one.
• Your አስራት ledger and ስዕለት vows, including any amounts you enter.

None of this leaves your device. Android's automatic cloud backup is deliberately disabled for this app, so your prayer records are not uploaded to Google either.

The journal, and ንስሐ notes

Journal entries can be locked behind a passphrase you choose. While the journal is open it is excluded from screenshots and from the app switcher preview, so it does not appear in a thumbnail someone else might see.

Notes written to prepare for ንስሐ are built to be destroyed. They never enter a backup file, and marking the confession as made deletes the note rather than filing it away.

The passphrase protects the journal from someone holding your unlocked phone. It is not full-disk encryption of the underlying database, and it does not defend against an attacker with physical access and technical means.

Backups you create yourself

Sinq can export your data as a file when you ask it to (Settings → Data). Export is a checklist: you choose what goes in, the journal is excluded by default, and including it requires your passphrase.

The exported file is plain text, written to the location you choose. The app never transmits it anywhere, but once it exists, what happens to it is yours to look after. Restoring reads a file you pick.

Permissions the app asks for, and why

• Notifications: to show the prayer reminders and alarms you set. Asked only when you enable a reminder.
• Exact alarms: so a prayer alarm rings at the exact time you chose.
• Run at startup: to re-arm your reminders after the phone restarts.
• Vibration: for the alarm's vibration pattern.
• Internet: used solely for optional update checks and external Catena scripture commentary. No personal data or identifiers are ever collected or sent.

There is no location, camera, microphone, contacts, or storage-scanning permission.

The website’s feedback form

This policy covers the app. The website has one page that is different: the feedback form, which exists so that a correction can be sent by someone without a GitHub account.

It sends only when you press the button, and only what you typed: your message, the kind you chose, the screen you named, the app version, and your email if you chose to give one. No cookie is set, your address is not recorded, and no analytics run on any page of this site. Messages reach the maintainer and are not shared.

The app itself is unaffected by this form. Its own two network uses are the once-a-day version check and the Catena page, both described above, and neither sends anything about you.

Children

Sinq is suitable for all ages. Since the app collects no data from anyone, it collects no data from children.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Sinq ever changes any of the above, this page will be updated first, and the change will be described in the app's release notes. The effective date at the top always reflects the latest revision.

Contact

Questions about privacy in Sinq: open an issue at github.com/natinael96/sinq/issues.