What the app stores on your device

This list is complete. Every one of these is kept on your device and nowhere else.

Settings you choose

• The city you have chosen, and whether you chose it or the app is still on its default.
• Whether you follow the Israel or Diaspora rite.
• Your language, color theme, text size and printing style.
• Which reminders you have turned on, and how far ahead candle-lighting reminders should fire.
• Your reading preferences — whether the Hebrew, the transliteration and the translation are shown, the reading size, the page background, and whether the screen stays awake while you read.

Things you enter

• Personal dates — birthdays, yahrzeits, a wedding, a baby’s Hebrew naming and the rest — with the names you attach to them.
• People you save under “Loved ones”: the name you type, the Hebrew name if you enter one, whether the person is living or is being remembered, and whether you have linked them to a date in the calendar.
• Your own notes on the blessings screen. These are free text — whatever you write is stored exactly as you wrote it.
• Your blessing favorites and your recent blessing searches.

Where you have got to

• Which psalms you have marked as read, your psalm favorites, the collections you have made, and which reading cycle you follow.
• Where you stopped reading — the psalm and verse. If you opened that reading for someone in particular, this also records who and why, so the app can offer to carry on. That means it can hold a person’s name together with the reason you were reading for them, such as recovery from illness.
• A kashrut wait, if one is running, and which custom you follow.

For the widgets

• A copy of the next sixteen days’ times and your theme, so the home-screen and lock-screen widgets can draw without opening the app.
• If you have saved personal dates, the name and the occasion of each one that falls inside those sixteen days — “Sarah’s yahrzeit” — because the home-screen widget shows it. One entry for each such day, and only in this container.

All of this lives in the app’s own storage on your device, and in a container the app shares with its widgets. It is included in your device backups if you have those switched on, because it is part of the app. It is never sent to us or to anyone else — the app has no server to send it to.

Saving a copy of your data

Settings has “Save a copy of my data.” It writes a file holding your personal dates, your loved ones and their Hebrew names, your notes, your collections, your favorites and your reading marks — and hands it to the iOS share sheet, so you choose where it goes: another app, iCloud Drive, a message, or nowhere at all.

This and the printed month sheet are the two ways anything you have entered can leave the phone, and each happens only when you ask for it — the sheet can carry your personal dates too. The app itself still sends nothing anywhere. Once the file has left, what happens to it is governed by wherever you sent it, not by this app or by this policy — so treat it as you would any document containing your family’s names.

“Add data from a file” reads such a file back. It only ever adds: nothing already on your device is changed or removed by it. Your settings are not in the file and are not affected.

Location

If you tap “Use my current location,” the app asks iOS for your coordinates and uses them for two things: working out candle-lighting, havdalah and zmanim for where you are, and pointing the compass toward Jerusalem. The coordinates are saved on your device as the city you are using, so the app still knows where you are the next time you open it.

They never leave your device. They are not transmitted, not stored on any server and not shared with anyone; the calculation runs on the phone. You can decline the permission and pick a city from the list instead, and the app works exactly the same way.

The internet

Luach Or works entirely offline. The calendar engine, the prayer texts, the psalms and the blessing tables are all bundled inside the app. It makes no network requests of any kind.

Analytics, advertising and tracking

There are none. No analytics framework, no advertising identifier, no third-party SDKs, and no tracking of any kind — across apps, websites or otherwise.

Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, including children.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes the data it keeps in its own storage on the device. Exported files you saved elsewhere and your device backups are governed by those apps and by iOS settings.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the app: biz-push.1j@icloud.com