Privacy Policy

Information You Provide

Depending on the features you use, you may provide:

• Your email address and account credentials.
• Journal entries, prayers, moods, feelings, titles, and saved reflections.
• Weekly stories, monthly Life Chapters, yearly books, and other generated summaries that you choose to create.
• Text extracted from scanned handwritten journal pages and any original scan image that you choose to keep in the app.
• Voice-journal transcripts created when you choose to use speech-to-text.
• Details from an Apple Journaling Suggestion only after you choose a suggestion and add it to Miktam.
• Your preferred reflection tone and Bible familiarity setting.
• Support-request information, including your email address, subject, category, and message.

Journal entries may contain sensitive personal, spiritual, emotional, health-related, financial, relationship, or other information that you choose to write. Miktam does not require you to include any particular type of personal information in your journal.

Journal Encryption

Miktam encrypts supported journal entries, saved reflections, weekly stories, Life Chapters, and yearly books on your device before they are stored in Firebase. The cloud-stored content is intended to be unreadable without the encryption information held by your device or unlocked using your recovery password.

Miktam may store limited non-content metadata separately from the encrypted content so the app can organize and operate these features. This may include the content type, date range, number of source entries, creation and update dates, format version, encryption version, and temporary generation-status information. This metadata is not intended to contain the text of your journal, reflection, story, chapter, prayer, or yearly book.

Miktam does not store your recovery password as readable text. Your recovery password is used to unlock the encryption information needed to access your private content on a new or restored device.

If you lose your recovery password and no trusted device still has access to your journal encryption key, your older encrypted journal entries, reflections, weekly stories, Life Chapters, and yearly books may be permanently unrecoverable. Resetting your normal account password does not unlock encrypted journal content.

Automated Reflections, Stories, Chapters, Books, and Scanned-Text Cleanup

Miktam only sends journal or scanned text for automated processing when you intentionally request a feature that requires it.

An individual reflection or scanned-text cleanup generally uses the journal or scanned text you selected. A weekly story, monthly Life Chapter, yearly book, or other multi-entry summary may use multiple journal entries, saved reflections, or previously generated stories from the relevant date range.

Miktam does not automatically send or process your older journal entries merely because a week, month, or year has ended or because you have an active subscription. You must intentionally request the generation feature after unlocking your private journal.

To complete your request, the necessary text is decrypted on your device and transmitted through Miktam's secured cloud function to OpenAI. OpenAI processes the text and returns the requested reflection, cleaned text, weekly story, Life Chapter, yearly book, or other generated result.

While the request is being processed, the submitted text is not protected by your journal's end-to-end encryption because the processing service must be able to read it to generate a response.

When Miktam saves a generated reflection, weekly story, Life Chapter, or yearly book, the generated content is encrypted on your device before it is stored in Firebase. Cleaned scanned text remains available for you to review before you choose whether to save it as an encrypted journal entry.

OpenAI states that inputs and outputs submitted through its API are not used to train or improve its models by default unless the API customer affirmatively opts in. OpenAI may create abuse-monitoring logs and, under standard API settings, retain those logs for up to 30 days unless longer retention is legally required.

Miktam does not intentionally include your email address, account password, recovery password, or encryption key in an automated processing request. However, information you personally write inside a journal entry may be included in the text submitted for processing.

Voice Journaling, Journaling Suggestions, Search, and Device Features

Voice journaling uses your device's microphone and Apple's speech-recognition technology to create a live text transcript. Depending on your device, language, iOS version, and Apple's available recognition mode, speech may be processed on your device or transmitted to Apple for recognition. Miktam receives the resulting transcript so you can review and edit it before saving it as journal text.

Miktam does not use microphone access unless you choose the voice journaling feature. A voice transcript is treated like other journal text after you save it. Miktam does not intentionally send microphone audio to OpenAI merely to produce the transcript.

Apple Journaling Suggestions are presented through Apple's system picker. Miktam cannot view the details of your available suggestions before you choose one. After you select a suggestion, Apple shares only the chosen suggestion and the details or assets you approved with Miktam. Information you add from a suggestion is handled as part of your journal draft or saved entry.

Miktam's private journal search is designed to help you find information within your saved entries without sending journal text to OpenAI solely to perform the search. Search queries and results may be processed locally within the app using journal content that your device has unlocked.

When you enable Face ID protection, Apple performs the biometric authentication. Miktam receives only the authentication result and does not receive or store your Face ID template or biometric data.

Lock Screen widgets, system controls, App Intents, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight may display limited non-journal information or open a requested part of Miktam. Apple may process requests to these system features according to Apple's privacy policies. Miktam does not intentionally place the text of your private journal entries in Lock Screen widgets or system-control previews.

Support Requests

When you contact Miktam Support from inside the app, Miktam stores information needed to review and respond to your request. This may include:

• Your account email address.
• The subject, category, and message you submit.
• The status and date of the support request.
• Your Miktam version, build number, iOS version, and general device model.

Support requests are not protected by your journal encryption. They are readable by the Miktam administrator so the request can be reviewed and answered.

Do not include your recovery password, encryption key, full journal entries, payment-card information, or other highly sensitive information in a support request.

Account Information

Miktam uses Firebase Authentication to manage account registration, sign-in, password recovery, and account identity. Account information may include your email address, Firebase user identifier, account creation date, and authentication-related information.

Miktam does not receive or store your Apple Account password.

Subscriptions and Purchases

Miktam Plus purchases are processed through Apple's App Store and StoreKit. Apple processes your payment information.

Miktam may receive and store limited subscription information needed to provide paid features, such as the product identifier, subscription status, entitlement status, and expiration information. Paid features may include additional reflections, scanned-journal tools, weekly stories, Life Chapters, and yearly books. Miktam does not receive your complete payment-card number from Apple.

App Usage and Technical Information

Miktam may collect limited usage and technical information needed to operate, secure, understand, and improve the app. This may include:

• App launches and interactions with certain app features.
• App version, build number, operating-system version, and general device information.
• Crash reports, error messages, performance information, and diagnostic data.
• Notification tokens used to deliver notifications you enable.
• A temporary online-presence record indicating whether a signed-in app session is connected and when that connection last changed.
• Technical metadata that service providers may process, such as IP address, application identifiers, timestamps, and request information.

Miktam uses Firebase services such as Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Realtime Database, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging, Analytics, and Crashlytics to provide these functions.

Website, Blog, and Email Updates

The Miktam website may collect limited first-party usage information, such as pages viewed, referral information, timestamps, and technical request information, to understand site performance and improve the website. If you choose to join the blog email list, we collect your email address and a record of that request so we can send the updates you requested. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time.

How Miktam Uses Information

Miktam may use information to:

• Create, secure, and maintain your account.
• Save and synchronize encrypted journal content across supported devices.
• Generate reflections, weekly stories, monthly Life Chapters, yearly books, and other multi-entry summaries, and clean scanned journal text when requested.
• Provide subscription features and enforce usage limits.
• Deliver reminders and other notifications you enable.
• Provide voice transcription, selected Apple Journaling Suggestions, private journal search, Face ID protection, widgets, shortcuts, and other device integrations you choose to use.
• Respond to support requests.
• Detect errors, prevent misuse, secure the service, and improve app reliability.
• Comply with applicable legal obligations.

Data Sharing

Miktam does not sell your journal entries, reflections, weekly stories, Life Chapters, yearly books, support requests, or personal information.

Information may be processed by service providers only as needed to operate Miktam. These providers may include:

• Google Firebase for authentication, database storage, cloud functions, notifications, analytics, and crash reporting.
• OpenAI for automated reflections, weekly stories, Life Chapters, yearly books, other multi-entry summaries, and scanned-text cleanup that you request.
• Apple for App Store distribution, subscription purchases, payment processing, StoreKit, speech recognition when required, Journaling Suggestions, notifications, Face ID authentication, widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, and related system services.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, enforce applicable agreements, investigate fraud or misuse, protect users, or protect the rights and security of Miktam and others.

Data Security

Miktam uses safeguards intended to protect information, including encryption of supported journal entries and generated content, authenticated access, database security rules, secured cloud functions, and encrypted network connections.

No application, storage provider, encryption method, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for protecting your account password, recovery password, device passcode, and access to your devices.

Data Retention

Account information, encrypted journal entries, saved reflections, weekly stories, Life Chapters, yearly books, and related metadata may be retained while your account remains active and until you delete the content or request account deletion.

Ending a Miktam Plus subscription does not by itself delete journals, reflections, stories, chapters, or books that were previously saved. Access to generating new paid content may end, but previously saved encrypted content may remain available until you delete it or delete your account.

Support correspondence, security records, diagnostic information, provider logs, temporary generation records, and backup copies may be retained for a reasonable period when needed to provide support, prevent misuse, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or maintain system integrity.

Third-party providers may retain information according to their own terms, policies, and the settings configured for Miktam's accounts with those providers.

Deleting Your Account

You may request account deletion from inside Miktam. Account deletion is intended to remove your Firebase Authentication account, primary user record, encrypted journal entries, saved reflections, weekly stories, Life Chapters, yearly books, notification tokens, journal-encryption metadata, and related generation metadata associated with your account.

Deletion may not immediately remove information from provider logs, security records, backups, or systems where temporary retention is required for legal, fraud-prevention, safety, support, or technical reasons.

Support requests may be retained after account deletion when reasonably necessary to complete or document the support request. You may contact Miktam Support to request deletion of support correspondence associated with your email address.

Account deletion cannot restore journal content that became inaccessible because the recovery password or encryption key was lost.

Your Choices

You may choose whether to write journal entries, request automated reflections, create weekly stories, generate Life Chapters or yearly books when those features are available, scan journal pages, submit support requests, use voice transcription, select an Apple Journaling Suggestion, enable Face ID protection, or enable notifications and system integrations.

Miktam does not automatically process past journal entries for stories, chapters, or books without your intentional request.

You may update certain account and reflection preferences inside the app. You may also delete individual journal entries and generated content or request deletion of your account.

Children's Privacy

Miktam is not directed to children under 13, and Miktam does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through Miktam, please contact us so the information can be reviewed and removed when appropriate.

International Processing

Miktam and its service providers may process information in the United States and other locations where their systems, employees, or service providers operate. Privacy protections may differ between jurisdictions.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated as Miktam's features, service providers, or legal obligations change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Contact

For privacy questions, account-deletion questions, or requests concerning your information, contact: