Privacy Policy

InSpiritInTruth is built and operated by For The Rest Of Us, a solutions studio based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this policy "we", "us" and "our" mean For The Rest Of Us, and "the app" means the InSpiritInTruth mobile app together with this website at inspiritintruth.net.

We are the responsible party (under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act) and the data controller (under the UK and EU GDPR) for the information described here. For anything in this policy, write to legal@fortherestofus.app.

We collect the following kinds of information, and only what we actually need. Most of it comes from using the app; the last one only applies if you give on our website.

Two categories of what we hold are treated as special or sensitive personal information by law: information revealing your religious beliefs, and anything about your health — including mental and emotional health. Using a devotional app reveals the first. Writing “I am anxious about my marriage” or “I am grieving” reveals the second.

We handle this on the basis of your explicit consent, which you give by choosing to write it and asking for a devotional. You are never required to share anything to use the app: the weekly devotionals, the Bible reader, daily verses, bookmarks and notes all work without you telling us a single personal thing.

So we do not store it. Your words are used to write your devotional and are then discarded — they are not saved to your account, and there is no copy on our servers for anyone here to open, no copy to leak in a breach, and no copy we could be compelled to hand over. That is not a policy we promise to follow; it is the way the app is built. What we do keep about the request is deliberately shapeless: which feeling you tapped, how long you asked for, and how many characters you typed. None of it can reconstruct a word of what you said.

It is never published, never shown to another reader, never shared with any church or organisation, never sold, and never used to target you with anything.

The devotional that comes back is a different matter, because it is yours to keep: it is saved to your library so you can read it again, and it stays until you delete it. It is private to your account. Deleting it from the app removes it from our systems.

One honest limit: to write your devotional at all, your words have to reach the model that writes it. That journey is described in the next section.

Tailored devotionals are generated using Claude, a large language model provided by Anthropic. When you ask for one, the text you wrote is sent to Anthropic's API together with our instructions and the scripture references involved, and the devotional comes back to us and then to you.

Anthropic processes that text on our behalf as our service provider. Under our commercial terms with them, your text is not used to train their models. We do not use it to train any model either, and we do not sell or share it. Once the devotional comes back, we keep the devotional and discard what you wrote.

AI gets things wrong. Every devotional follows a fixed template and goes through an automated check — every verse is re-fetched from the Bible text, so scripture is never quoted from the model, and named claims and quote attributions are fact-checked. But no one here reads a tailored devotional before you do, and Scripture is always the first and governing source. If something reads as off, unbiblical, or simply wrong, please tell us at hello@fortherestofus.app — reports from readers are how this stays trustworthy.

A devotional is spiritual encouragement. It is not counselling, therapy, medical advice, or a substitute for a pastor, doctor or qualified mental-health professional. If you are in crisis or at risk of harm, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line.

We keep this list short on purpose. Each of these is a service provider acting on our instructions, under contract, and none of them may use your information for their own purposes.

Your information is stored on servers operated by our providers, which are located outside South Africa — principally in the United States and the European Union. Our service providers are bound by contract to protect it to a standard consistent with POPIA and the GDPR, including standard contractual clauses where those apply.

Information is encrypted in transit and at rest. No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise, but we limit who can access what, and we will notify you and the relevant regulator without undue delay if a breach affects your information.

We keep your account information and your practice in the app for as long as your account exists. Delete your account and we remove your personal information from our live systems within 30 days, and from routine backups within 90 days.

Two exceptions: records of subscription payments are kept for as long as tax and financial law requires, and anonymised statistics that can no longer identify you may be retained. Gifts are not stored by us at all — those records live with Paystack.

You can delete your account from within the app. If you cannot reach it, email legal@fortherestofus.app from your account address and we will do it for you.

You need to be 18 or over to create an InSpiritInTruth account.

It is worth saying why we set it there, because a devotional app is not an obvious place to find an age limit. South African law requires a competent person's consent before anyone may process the personal information of a person under 18, and the most personal thing this app does is invite you to write about what you are actually going through so a devotional can be shaped around it. Accepting that from a child on the strength of a tick-box claiming a parent agreed would not be real consent. We would rather not collect it at all than pretend otherwise.

We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has given us information, contact legal@fortherestofus.app and we will delete it promptly.

None of this stops a young person reading scripture. A verse or a devotional that someone shares with them by link opens without an account, and we ask nothing of them to read it.

Wherever you live, you can exercise all of the following with us. We do not charge for it and we will respond within 30 days.

When we change this policy we update the date at the top. If a change materially affects how we handle your information, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and where the law requires it we will ask for your consent again.

Questions, requests, or concerns about privacy: legal@fortherestofus.app. Anything else: hello@fortherestofus.app. A real person reads both.

For The Rest Of Us, Johannesburg, South Africa.