Privacy Policy
werkLife is built on a simple idea: your life with God is between you and Him. What you write in the app stays with you.
werkLife is an iPhone app for daily time with God: the day’s verse, a few small practices, sermon notes and reading. It’s developed by werkLife, part of werkey.tech (“we”, “us”), and you can reach us at privacy@werkey.tech. This policy explains, in plain language, what the app does with what you enter. werkLife is in testing now, and this policy describes that pre-release.
Short version: What you write in werkLife stays on your iPhone. There’s no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and the app doesn’t send your notes, prayers or reflections anywhere. We never see them.
1. What werkLife keeps, and where
This version of werkLife is a pre-release. The part of the app that saves your entries from one launch to the next hasn’t been built yet. For now, what you write (sermon notes, reading notes, the moments you tap and your evening look back) is held by the app on your iPhone while it’s open. It isn’t uploaded, synced or sent anywhere. Until saving is built, entries don’t last past the app being quit, so save a copy of anything you want to keep (section 2).
The app also keeps a few of its own settings in its private storage on your iPhone, such as whether you’ve already seen a one-time hint.
When a later version saves your entries, they’ll be stored on your iPhone, in the app’s own storage. If that ever changes, for example to add sync between devices, this policy will be updated first. Anything werkLife keeps on your iPhone is covered by the encryption iOS gives app data when your device has a passcode. Deleting werkLife removes everything it keeps.
2. Saving and sharing a copy
When you tap Done on a sermon note, werkLife writes the note as a plain-text (Markdown) file in the app’s temporary folder on your iPhone and opens the iOS share sheet. From there, you choose where it goes: Files, AirDrop, Mail or another app. A sermon note can also be shared as text from its page.
Your note never leaves your iPhone unless you pick a destination. Once you send a copy somewhere, that copy is handled by wherever you sent it (for example, iCloud Drive or your email provider).
3. No account, no sign-in
werkLife has no account system. There’s nothing to register for and no username or password. We don’t see your name, your email address, your Apple ID or any identifier tied to you.
4. No analytics, tracking or ads
werkLife contains no analytics, advertising, attribution or crash-reporting code, and no third-party code of any kind: it’s built only from Apple’s own frameworks. It doesn’t track you across apps or websites, doesn’t use the advertising identifier, and doesn’t fingerprint your device. Its privacy manifest, the file each app gives Apple to describe its data practices, declares no tracking and no data collected. We don’t sell, rent or share data, because we don’t have any.
5. Internet, notifications and iCloud
werkLife uses the internet for one thing only: fetching Scripture text from API.Bible (section 6). It doesn’t schedule notifications, and it doesn’t use iCloud. If a later version adds reminders or anything else that changes this, it will be described here before that version ships.
6. Scripture from API.Bible
werkLife shows Scripture in the NIV by fetching it from API.Bible, a service run by the American Bible Society, when your iPhone is online. It’s the only thing werkLife uses the internet for.
- Each request asks for one chapter of the Bible (such as Psalm 23) in the NIV. It carries werkLife’s API key, which is the same for everyone who uses the app and identifies the app, not you. It names the app only as “werkLife”, not your iPhone’s model or iOS version. Like any request over the internet, it reaches API.Bible from your device’s IP address.
- Requests never include your notes, your name, your Apple ID, an identifier for your device or anything else you’ve written. They’re made without cookies or stored sign-ins, and werkLife sends API.Bible no reports about what you read.
- werkLife asks for a chapter when you open it, and for the chapter of today’s reading when you open Today. For each reading plan you’re in, it also fetches the coming days’ chapters in the background, at most once a day: the next day you haven’t read and the 10 days after it, or 7 if you’re in more than five plans. That way you can keep reading without a connection.
- Because of this, API.Bible can see which chapters are being read or are coming up, and when, from your IP address. It can’t see who you are or anything you write.
- Chapters are kept on your iPhone for up to 30 days, so they open instantly and work without a connection. After that they’re fetched again or removed, as API.Bible’s terms require.
- When you’re offline, werkLife shows the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), a public-domain translation built into the app. Reading it makes no requests at all.
API.Bible’s handling of these requests is covered by its own terms and privacy policy.
7. Apple and TestFlight
werkLife is being tested through Apple’s TestFlight, and will be distributed through the App Store. Apple collects some information on its own, such as downloads and, if you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers, crash reports and usage figures. Apple makes this available to us in a form that doesn’t identify you.
If you test werkLife through TestFlight, we can also see what TestFlight shows developers about their testers, such as the name and email address you were invited with, and any feedback, screenshots or crash reports you choose to send. All of this is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.
8. If you email us
If you write to privacy@werkey.tech, we’ll see your email address, your message and anything you attach. We use it only to reply, keep it only as long as it’s useful for that, and never add you to a mailing list.
9. Children
werkLife isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information about anyone, children included. The app doesn’t ask anyone’s age.
10. Your choices
- Access: what you write is on your iPhone, in your hands.
- Keep a copy: Done on a sermon note saves it as a plain-text file you can keep anywhere.
- Delete: deleting the app removes everything it keeps. Copies you’ve saved elsewhere stay where you put them.
11. Changes to this policy
If what the app does with your data changes (for example, when saving between launches arrives), we’ll update this policy and the “Last updated” date above before that version ships, and note material changes in the release notes. Past versions of this policy are in the public history of this site’s repository.
12. Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Email privacy@werkey.tech.