Privacy

The short version

You tell the app what's going on in your life. It keeps your words, sends them to an AI language model to choose a passage of Scripture and write a short line under it, and sends that back to your phone. That's the whole purpose.

Your words are kept in London, encrypted. The one place they go outside our own account is an AI language model provider in the EU, with retention and training refused. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing is sold.

You can read and delete everything in the app. Deleting is complete within 30 days.

Who we are

Push From God is run by Lola Squared LTD, a company registered in England, number 15911333, at 483 Green Lanes, London, England, N13 4BS. Lola Squared LTD is the data controller under UK GDPR. Write to us at contact@lolasquared.com. Our representative in the EU is to be appointed.

What the app keeps

What you write, and when, used only to choose your passage and write its line.

What comes back: the passage and the short lines written from what you said, which we treat as yours, and whether the app stepped aside because you seemed to be in crisis.

Other people you mention. What you write may mention other people. It's kept, protected and deleted exactly as your own words are. Nothing pulls names out of it or builds anything about anyone.

Your account: an anonymous one, made when you first open the app, and an email address if you add one. Our sign-in provider holds the address. We keep a shortened hint of it, and the full address only as long as needed to sign you in.

Your phone's notification token, time zone (not a location) and app version. Never an advertising identifier.

How you use it: when you write and when you open what arrives, to decide when to send you something.

Your settings and agreement, and, from Apple, which subscription you have and when it renews or ends. Never your Apple ID or your card.

Operational logs, which keep the service working and secure, and never hold your words.

No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising.

You don't have to give us anything, but a passage can only be chosen from what you write, and writing needs a membership. An email address is optional. Without one, losing your phone loses your record.

Where your words go

They're stored in our own cloud account in London, encrypted. To choose your passage and write its line, your recent words go to an AI language model provider in the EU, without your account, your email address or anything about your phone. We send them with retention and training refused, so they aren't kept there or used for training. That's the only place they go outside our own account.

Who else handles something

• Apple sells the membership as the merchant, under its own privacy policy, and its push service carries notifications to your iPhone.
• Our cloud provider, in London, holds our stores and sends the sign-in code email.
• A sign-in provider holds your account identity and any email address you add.
• Notification services carry notifications to your phone.
• An app-update service sees the app's version, an anonymous install identifier and your internet address when the app checks for updates.
• Our website host and its email service run this website.

Where processing happens

What you write goes to the EU only for the language model, under the UK's adequacy regulations for the EEA.

Some of our providers, including those for sign-in and notifications, are in the United States or could reach data from there. For those, we rely on the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, or the ICO's International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum.

Notifications

A notification shows only the passage. The personal line stays inside the app.

Nothing arrives if you haven't agreed or have taken it back, if you've muted, or if your membership has ended. Mute stops passages being chosen and sent, not just the sound.

Nothing arrives at night on your own clock, unless you've just written, when a reply may come within about an hour and a half. Passages come more often when you write, and gently less when you're quiet.

Why we're allowed to hold it

• What you write, and what comes back from it: your explicit consent (UK GDPR Articles 6(1)(a) and 9(2)(a)), because it's often about your faith and your health. You can take it back at any time.
• What's needed to run the service you asked for (your account, your phone's details, your settings, how you use it and your membership): our contract with you (Article 6(1)(b)).
• Operational logs, and the minimal record that keeps a deletion deleted: our legitimate interests in running the service securely (Article 6(1)(f)).
• The record of what you agreed to: our legal duty to show we have your consent (Article 6(1)(c)).
• Emails you send us: our legitimate interest in helping you.
• The website's sign-up form: your consent, given by submitting it.

Taking back your agreement

You can take your agreement back in Settings at any time. That stops any further use of your words: nothing new is chosen or sent. Then you choose: keep your record so you can still read it, which is then all we do with it, or delete everything.

Taking it back doesn't undo what was done while you'd agreed, and it doesn't cancel your Apple subscription.

How long we keep things

• Your words, and what came back from them: until you delete them.
• Your account, settings, agreement and membership details: while your account exists.
• When you write and open things: only as long as needed to decide when to send.
• Your full email address: only as long as needed to sign you in.
• Operational logs: a short period, 14 days today.
• After you delete everything: only a minimal record that the account existed and was deleted, with none of your words.

Deleting

One message: delete it from your record, and the line written from it goes too. The passage stays.

Everything: "Delete what it knows about you", in Settings, deletes your account and everything in it, and wipes everything from this phone.

Either way, within 30 days it's gone from our systems and our providers' live systems. A provider's own backups may take longer to clear. We can't recall what has already reached your phone, notifications already delivered, or an export you've saved.

Deleting doesn't cancel your Apple subscription. Cancel it in iPhone Settings: tap your name, then Subscriptions. If you come back while it's still running, Restore in the app brings it to your new account, without anything of the old one.

Your rights, and how to use them

You can read, delete, mute and take back your agreement in the app. There's no edit: a message can be deleted and written again.

By email to contact@lolasquared.com you can ask for a copy of what we hold, in a portable form if you like. You can ask us to correct, delete or restrict it, object to how we use it, or withdraw your consent. We'll answer within one month.

If you live outside the UK, including in the EU or a US state with its own privacy law, such as California or Washington, you have rights under your own law too. We honour them the same way, through contact@lolasquared.com. We don't sell your personal information or share it for advertising.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, complain to us at contact@lolasquared.com. We'll acknowledge it within 30 days, look into it without delay and tell you the outcome. You can also complain at any time to the UK Information Commissioner's Office, which regulates us, at ico.org.uk, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Passages are chosen automatically

An AI language model chooses your passage and writes its line, and when it arrives and whether to step aside are decided automatically too. Nobody at Lola Squared chooses. None of this has a legal or similarly significant effect on you.

If a passage didn't feel right, tap "This didn't feel right" on it, or email us. If the app wrongly treated you as in crisis, tell us and it's cleared. You don't need to send what you wrote.

Not a crisis service

Push From God isn't a crisis service. If you're in danger or need to talk to someone now, contact your local emergency services or a crisis line. You can find one for your country at findahelpline.com.

If what you write suggests you may be in crisis, the app is built to step aside: it holds back the passage and points you to real help instead. It may not always notice, and it doesn't contact anyone.

If you contact us

If you contact us, we use what you send only to help you, and delete it once your question is resolved. You don't need to include what you've written in the app. Email is handled by service providers, including AI tools that help us reply, some outside the UK, under safeguards the law requires.

Security

Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. Nobody here reads your words to do a job, but authorised staff at Lola Squared could reach them in principle. We'd rather say so than imply otherwise.

Children

Push From God isn't for anyone under 18. We ask you to confirm you're 18 or over when you agree, but we don't check. If you tell us someone under 18 has been using it, we'll delete what's there.

The website

The launch sign-up form sends us the address you leave and the page you left it on. We use it only for one email at launch, and keep it until a short while after, or until you ask us to remove it.

The page counter sends only which page was viewed. There are no cookies, ads or tracking on this site, and the fonts are served from here too.

Changes

If this changes, the date at the top changes with it. If what the app does with your words ever grows beyond choosing a passage and writing the line under it, the app asks you to agree again before anything more is sent.