Last updated: 8 November 2026

Herald is a ministry tracking app provided by its developer. It helps you keep track of hours, visits, studies, reading and goals. This policy explains what happens to that information. For privacy questions or requests, contact [email protected].

Developer and privacy contact

This privacy policy applies specifically to Herald. The developer can be contacted about privacy questions, requests or complaints at [email protected].

The short version

• Your records live on your phone first.
• Without an account, nothing you enter is sent to us.
• With an account, your records are backed up so you can restore them. They are encrypted on your phone first, with a recovery key only you have, so we can’t read them.
• There are no ads and no analytics, and we don’t sell your information.
• Records you delete on your phone are removed from your backup. See “How long we keep things”.

Using Herald without an account

Your name and records are saved on your phone only, and we never receive them. If the phone is lost or the app is removed, they are gone, because no copy exists anywhere else.

What we keep if you have an account

• Your name and email address.
• Your password, if you set one. It is stored in scrambled form, so nobody can read it.
• If you sign in with Google or Apple, the name and email address they share with us. Apple lets you hide your email address.
• Your settings: service role, hour goal, month start, reminder choices and appearance. These aren’t encrypted, because the app needs them when you sign in, before your recovery key is entered.
• Your records: hours, contacts and visits, reading, studies, notes and goals. These are encrypted, so we can’t read them.
• Your profile photo, if you add one. This is encrypted too.

Details about other people