Effective date: September 26, 2026 App: Pause for Scripture: Bible Operator: Burrito Studio Privacy contact: support@burritostudio.net
Burrito Studio ("we," "us," or "our") operates Pause for Scripture: Bible and its public content service (together, the "Service"). This policy explains how information is handled when you use the Service.
The short version
Your reflections, saved items, Scripture habit, and Screen Time choices stay on your device. Pause does not create user accounts and does not include third-party advertising, analytics, or crash-reporting SDKs. Apple and RevenueCat process purchase and Premium-entitlement information. The app may contact our content service for a daily session and download selected audio; those requests include ordinary network information needed to deliver the service.
Information kept on your device
The following information is stored locally on your device. It is not sent to our public content API:
- app preferences, including your selected Bible translation, accessibility preferences, and onboarding state;
- saved Scripture references and saved Today’s Moments;
- local daily-session cache and completion state;
- any reflection you enter while it is displayed in the app; it is handled only on your device and is not sent to us;
- Screen Time authorization state, local blocking state, bypass timing, and emergency/fail-open state; and
- opaque Family Controls selection tokens used by iOS to apply a shield.
Family Controls does not give us a readable list of the apps you choose. The opaque selection tokens are kept locally in the app’s App Group so the app and its Screen Time extensions can coordinate the selected shield. We do not transmit those tokens, application names, categories, or your bypass state to our servers.
Persisted local information remains on your device until you remove it in the app where that option exists, reset the applicable system/app setting, or delete the app. Deleting the app normally removes its local data, subject to any device backup you have independently enabled with Apple.
Information processed to provide the Service
Public daily-session content
When the app requests a daily session, it sends the local Scripture-day date needed to select the correct public content. The request necessarily travels through internet infrastructure and may include normal connection information, such as an IP address and device/browser request headers, processed by the hosting provider to deliver, secure, and troubleshoot the service. The public content API is not designed to receive accounts, reflection text, Screen Time selections, bypass information, or share-card payloads.
Production content requests use HTTPS. A local HTTP address used during internal development is not part of the released Service.
Content and audio delivery
The app may request a daily-session date from our content service and download pre-generated Scripture audio from our media host. These requests can be processed with normal connection details, such as an IP address, request headers, and the requested content/audio object, by our hosting and storage providers to deliver, secure, and troubleshoot the service. The app does not send your private reflections, saved Scripture, Screen Time selections, selected/blocked apps, blocking state, or bypass state with these requests. Audio is generated in advance from application-controlled Scripture content; the app does not send your activity or personal text to a live text-to-speech request.
Purchases and Premium access
Purchases are made through Apple’s in-app purchase system. Apple processes your payment method and Apple Account information; we do not receive your payment-card number.
We use RevenueCat to obtain and maintain Premium entitlement status. RevenueCat may process an anonymous app-user identifier, purchase/product identifiers, subscription status, transaction-related information, and technical connection/device information needed to provide subscription management and fraud/security operations. We use that information only to determine whether Premium access is active and to support purchase restoration. RevenueCat acts as a service provider for us; its handling is also subject to the RevenueCat Privacy Policy.
Sharing
The app uses the iOS share sheet only after you choose to share. The app’s share payload contains either Scripture with its reference and translation, or a clearly labeled Today’s Moment. It does not include your private reflection, selected/blocked apps, Screen Time status, bypass information, or account data.
After you send a share card or text to another app or service, that recipient and service control their own handling of it under their own terms and privacy policies.
What we do not do
We do not:
- sell or rent personal information;
- use third-party advertising SDKs or targeted advertising;
- create a profile from your Scripture reading, reflection, or Screen Time selections;
- transmit your reflection, saved Scripture, selected apps, blocking status, or bypass state to the public content API; or
- use the Service to make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.
Apple may independently collect diagnostic or usage information if you have opted into Apple’s analytics programs. That processing is governed by Apple’s policies, not ours.
Service providers and future changes
We use Apple for system features and in-app purchases, RevenueCat for subscription-entitlement management, and hosting/storage providers to deliver public content and pre-generated audio. Audio-generation requests are made by us in advance using application-controlled Scripture content, not by sending an individual user's app activity or private text. Each provider handles the connection and service data it receives under its own terms and privacy policy. We will update this policy before enabling a service that materially changes these data flows.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures appropriate to the Service. No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Children and minors
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children. If you have a privacy concern, contact us at support@burritostudio.net.
Your privacy choices and rights
You can decline Screen Time authorization, turn off blocking, choose not to purchase Premium, and avoid sharing. Where applicable law gives you rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability for information we control, contact support@burritostudio.net. Because devotional and Screen Time information stays locally on your device, we cannot identify or retrieve that local app data for you. Requests concerning App Store payments may need to be made to Apple; requests concerning RevenueCat-held entitlement data may require us to coordinate with RevenueCat.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the Service or applicable law changes. We will post the updated version with a new effective date and, where required, provide additional notice.
Contact
For privacy questions or requests, contact:
Burrito Studio support@burritostudio.net