Holdfast Privacy Policy
Holdfast is an iPhone app that records sermons you choose to record, makes a transcript, finds Bible verses and offers daily reflection questions.
Who we are
Holdfast is published by Siarhei Siamashka, a sole trader in Poland, who is the data controller. Contact: holdfast@dabzzapp.com.
Your recordings and notes
Recordings, transcripts, notes, marks and your answers are stored on your iPhone. We have no account system and no server that receives them, and we cannot see them.
Speech recognition and summaries
Transcripts are made by Apple's speech recognition. On iPhones that support it this runs on the device. On others, audio may be processed by Apple, as the iOS permission prompt explains; Apple's privacy policy applies. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the study sheet is worded by Apple's on-device model. Your content isn't sent to any other AI service.
Usage analytics
To learn which screens work, the app uses Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Remote Config. They receive:
- app events such as "onboarding completed", "recording finished" or "trial started", your multiple-choice onboarding answers, and which paywall version you saw;
- a random app-instance identifier, device model, iOS version, app version, language, and approximate country or region derived from your IP address.
They do not receive your recordings, transcripts, notes or reflection answers. The app does not use the advertising identifier and does not track you across other companies' apps.
Legal basis (for users in the EU/UK): our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and improving it, using the minimum data needed.
Crash reports
From version 1.0.1, if the app crashes or a recording can't be processed, Google Firebase Crashlytics receives a crash report: where in the app's code it happened, the names of the last few app events, whether you have Holdfast Pro, plus the same device, iOS and app details and random identifier as above. Crash reports never contain your recordings, transcripts, notes or reflection answers, and are not used for advertising or tracking.
Purchases
Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple. We never see your name, card or payment details. Apple tells the app only whether a subscription is active.
Notifications
Daily questions are local notifications scheduled on your iPhone. Nothing is sent through a server.
Your rights
You can delete sermons in the app, or everything under Settings, Delete all sermons. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or US state laws), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object. Since we hold no account data, contact us about analytics data and we will help as far as Firebase allows. You may complain to your data protection authority.
Children
Holdfast is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.