Privacy Policy

Effective July 24, 2026

Tithe is built on a simple principle: your data is yours. We collect only what the app needs to work, we do not sell it, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. This policy explains what we collect, why, and how it is handled.

Who we are

Tithe is operated by Take Your Tithe LLC, a New York limited liability company ("we," "us," "our"). Questions about this policy: support@takeyourtithe.com.

What we collect

Account

• Your name and email address as provided by Sign in with Apple. If you choose Apple's private relay address, that is what we receive, we never see your real address.
• A Tithe account identifier used to associate your sessions and settings with you.

Session and app activity

• Focus session records: start and end times, duration, whether the session was completed or ended early, and the consequence method you chose.
• The apps and categories you selected to block. These selections stay on your device. Apple's Screen Time framework gives us opaque tokens, not app identities, so we cannot see which specific apps you chose, and that information is never transmitted to us.
• Goals, session intentions, and schedules you create.
• Your answers to the in-app Algorithm Audit, stored to generate your results and commitments.

Health data (only if you choose the fitness consequence)

• Step count, active minutes, or active energy, read from Apple Health solely to determine whether you have met a goal you set.
• Health data is read on your device and is never transmitted to our servers, never stored by us, and never shared with anyone. You can revoke this access at any time in the Health app.

Calendar (optional)

• If you enable calendar features, we read event titles and times from your device calendar through Apple's EventKit framework to offer to start sessions around your commitments. This reading happens on your device.
• If you connect Google Calendar, Tithe requests a limited scope that lets it create and manage only the calendar events Tithe itself creates. Tithe does not read your existing Google Calendar events through this connection. Google user data obtained through Google APIs is used only to provide these features, is not transferred to others except as required by law, is not used for advertising, and is not used to train generalized artificial intelligence models. Tithe's use of information from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. You can disconnect at any time in the app.

Charity selection (only if you choose the charity consequence)

• The cause you select, and a record of donations initiated. Donations are completed on Every.org's own checkout, so your payment details go to Every.org, never to Tithe.

Community

• The Community tab shows editorial pieces written and published by Tithe. It contains no user-generated content: no posting, comments, likes, profiles, or messaging.
• We compute one anonymous aggregate number, how many members practiced in the past week, from session records. It contains no names and no individual information, and no member's activity is visible to any other member.

Subscription

• Your subscription status, provided by Apple. All payments are processed by Apple. Tithe never receives your payment card or Apple ID credentials.

Diagnostics

• Crash reports and basic error diagnostics, used to find and fix defects. These reports are associated with your Tithe account identifier so we can tell whether one person hit the same defect repeatedly. They do not contain the contents of your sessions, your goals, or your health or financial information.

What we do not collect

• No Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or government identification. Tithe does not perform identity verification and does not ask for these.
• No bank login credentials, and no full account or routing numbers.
• No advertising identifiers, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, and no data brokers. We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone, for any purpose.
• No contact list access. Tithe never reads your contacts.
• No visibility into which apps you block, as described above.

Health and wellness information

Some laws, including Washington's My Health My Data Act and Nevada's SB 370, treat information about a person's health or fitness as a special category. We want to be exact about ours.

• If you choose the fitness consequence, Tithe reads step count, active minutes, or active energy from Apple Health on your device, for the single purpose of checking a goal you set for yourself.
• This information is never transmitted to our servers, never stored by us, never sold, and never shared with anyone. It does not leave your phone. Because we never receive it, there is nothing on our side to disclose, retain, or delete.
• We do not collect, and have no technical means to collect, medical records, diagnoses, treatment or prescription information, biometric identifiers, precise location, reproductive or sexual health information, or any other health information beyond the activity totals described above.
• You can withdraw Health access at any time in Apple's Health app. Doing so stops all reading immediately and does not affect the rest of the app. Activity data held locally is removed when you delete Tithe.

If you are a Washington or Nevada resident, or live anywhere with similar protections, and want written confirmation of any of the above, email us and we will provide it.

Bank connections and the savings consequence

The savings consequence is not enabled in the current release. While it is disabled, Tithe does not link bank accounts and does not collect any banking information.

When the savings consequence becomes available, it will work as follows, and we will update this policy with any additional detail before it does:

• You link your own accounts through Plaid, which handles the bank connection. Plaid provides Tithe with the institution name, account type, a masked account number, and account balance and transaction information used solely to confirm a transfer you made. Tithe never receives your bank login credentials. Plaid's privacy policy: plaid.com/legal.
• You move the money yourself, between your own accounts, using your own bank. Tithe does not initiate, transmit, hold, or control any transfer, and takes no fee of any kind.
• Tithe reads the linked-account data you consented to share, for the limited purpose of confirming that the transfer you reported actually occurred, and records the outcome in your in-app ledger.

How we use what we collect

• To operate the app: run sessions, apply blocking, deliver the consequence you chose, and show your history.
• To surface your own patterns back to you inside the app. Tithe analyzes your own session history to show you observations about your practice, for example which hours have been hardest for you to hold. This analysis is shown only to you, is never shared, and is never used to make a decision about you. It does not affect your subscription, your price, your access, or anything else with a legal or similarly significant effect. It is a mirror, not a judgment.
• To compute the single anonymous community figure described above.
• To send the notifications you have enabled. You control these per category in the app and can disable them entirely in iOS Settings.
• To diagnose and fix problems.

We do not use your information to build advertising profiles, and we do not use it to train generalized artificial intelligence models.

Who your data reaches

• Apple for authentication (Sign in with Apple) and all subscription billing.
• Google Firebase (Google Cloud) for our application backend and database, storing your account record, sessions, settings, and ledger entries. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
• Every.org only if you choose the charity consequence, to complete a donation you initiate.
• Plaid only if and when you link a bank account for the savings consequence, which is not enabled in this release.
• Google Calendar only if you connect it, under the limited scope described above.

We do not share your personal information with anyone else, except where required by law or to protect against fraud or imminent harm.

Security

All communication between the app and our servers uses TLS encryption. Data at rest is encrypted. Access credentials for third-party services are held server-side and are never accessible from your device. No system is perfectly secure, but we limit what we collect precisely so there is less to protect.

If a security breach ever affects your personal information, we will notify you and the appropriate authorities as required by applicable law, without unreasonable delay, and we will tell you what happened, what information was involved, and what we are doing about it.

Your choices and controls

• Delete your account from within the app. This removes your account data from our servers, including sessions, settings, ledger entries, and any linked-account references. Data stored locally on your device is removed when you delete the app. Deleting your Tithe account does not cancel your App Store subscription, manage that in your Apple account settings.
• Revoke Screen Time access at any time in iOS Settings.
• Revoke Health access at any time in the Health app.
• Disconnect Google Calendar at any time in the app.
• Request a copy of your data, or ask questions about any of the above, by emailing us.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights, including to know, access, correct, delete, port, or limit the use of your personal information, and not to be treated differently for exercising them. California residents have these rights under the CCPA/CPRA; residents of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and other states have comparable rights under their own laws. We honor these requests regardless of where you live.

Categories of information, and how long we keep each

California law asks us to state the categories of personal information we collect, in its own vocabulary, along with how long we keep each. Here they are.

• Identifiers (name, email address, account identifier) are kept while your account is active and deleted when you delete your account.
• Commercial information (subscription status, charity selections, records of donations you initiated) is kept while your account is active and deleted when you delete your account. Records of a completed donation may persist with Every.org under their own policy.
• Internet or network activity (session records, goals, intentions, schedules, Algorithm Audit answers, crash diagnostics) is kept while your account is active so the app can show you your own history, and deleted when you delete your account.
• Financial information (institution name, account type, masked account number, and balance or transaction data used only to confirm a transfer you made) is not collected today, because the savings consequence is turned off. When it is available, this information is kept only as long as needed to confirm the transfer and maintain your ledger, and is deleted with your account.
• Health and fitness information is read on your device only, never received or retained by us, so there is no retention period. See the section above.
• Sensitive personal information is not collected: no Social Security numbers, government identification, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, union membership, genetic or biometric data, or contents of your messages. Account credentials are never collected; you sign in through Apple.

Limited copies may persist briefly in encrypted backups after deletion, before those backups are overwritten on their normal cycle. We keep nothing just in case.

Selling, sharing, and opt-out signals

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under California law. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose that would give you a right to limit it. Because we do not engage in either practice, there is nothing for you to opt out of. Under California's regulations, this statement is what we provide instead of an opt-out link. We honor Global Privacy Control and other recognized opt-out preference signals to the extent applicable law requires, and this representation applies regardless of whether such a signal is present.

Making a request, and appealing a decision

• How to ask. Email support@takeyourtithe.com with what you want: a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion. You can also delete your account yourself in the app at any time, which requires no request at all.
• How we verify you. We match your request against the email address on your account. If we cannot reasonably verify that the account is yours, we will tell you why rather than act on it, because acting on an unverified request is itself a privacy risk.
• Authorized agents. You may use an authorized agent. We will ask for written proof of their authority and may ask you to confirm it directly.
• How fast. We acknowledge requests within 10 business days and respond substantively within 45 days. If we need more time, we will tell you before that period ends and explain why.
• If we say no. You may appeal. Reply to our decision, or email us with the word appeal, and a different person will review it. We will respond in writing within 45 days with the outcome and our reasoning. If we deny your appeal, we will tell you how to contact your state attorney general to complain.

Children

Tithe is not directed to children and is not intended for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

Where we operate

Tithe is operated from the United States, and is built and intended for use in the United States. All information we hold is processed and stored in the United States. Our pricing is in US dollars, the app is offered in English, and we do not market Tithe outside the United States. If you use Tithe from another country, your information will be processed in the United States, which may have different data-protection rules than where you live.

Changes to this policy

If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect, and we will update the effective date above.

Contact

Questions or concerns about your privacy? Reach us at support@takeyourtithe.com.