Privacy Policy

Effective: November 11, 2026

Meinate (“we,” “us”) is a DBA of Lunar Web Studio, LLC. This policy explains what we collect through the meinate.com website and the Meinate app for iPhone and Android, and how we use it. We keep it short and plain, and we collect only what the app needs to work.

The short version

• There are no ads in Meinate, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
• We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not share it with advertisers.
• The app has no third-party analytics or advertising tools.
• Your journal is yours. We do not read it.

The website and waitlist

When you join the waitlist on meinate.com, we collect your email address and the option you choose (viewer, creator or church/ministry). We use it to send early-access invitations, launch news and occasional updates, and to contact creators and churches who express interest in partnering with us. Our hosting provider may also record standard technical information such as your IP address and browser type to operate and secure the site. The website’s typefaces load from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address and browser type when you visit. (The app has its typefaces built in.)

The app: what we collect

An account. So you never have to sign in just to read, the app quietly creates a guest account the first time it opens. It is identified by a random ID, not by your name or email. If you choose to sign in, you can use:

• Sign in with Apple. We ask Apple only for your email address. If you choose “Hide My Email,” Apple gives us a private relay address instead of your real one.
• Email. We collect the email address you enter and send it a 6-digit sign-in code.

Signing in upgrades your guest account, so your progress follows you to your other devices.

Your reading. The days you have read or listened to, the reading plan you are following, the cards you save to your Abide List and your settings (such as autoplay) are kept on your phone. If you sign in with Apple or email, they are also synced to your account, so they are there on every device. A guest account’s reading stays on the phone.

Your journal. Journal entries are stored on your phone. If you are a supporter and signed in, they are also synced to your account so they reach all your devices. For everyone else, they stay on the phone and are not sent to us. Synced entries are stored in our database behind access rules (row-level security) that let only your account read or change them. We do not read your journal, and we never share it.

Support. If you become a supporter, the purchase is handled by Apple through the App Store on iPhone, or by Google through Google Play on Android. We use RevenueCat to confirm whether your account is a supporter; it knows your account’s random ID and your purchase history from Apple or Google. We never see your name, card or payment details. Our server keeps a note of whether your account is a supporter, and when that was last checked, so narration plays without delay.

Dedications. Lifetime supporters can dedicate a book with a short line, such as “In memory of Ruth Ellis”. We keep the words you choose, the book, which account wrote it and the store’s transaction ID for your lifetime purchase (so each purchase gives one dedication), so you can see or change it in the app, and we may email the address on your account if we have a question about it. When you send one, its words, the book, and your account’s email address and ID are emailed to our own mailbox (hello@meinate.com) so we can read it and reply. We read each one before it appears. Once approved, the line is shown to everyone in the app (on that book’s page and at the start of its first day) and on meinate.com, with nothing that says who wrote it. Deleting your account removes it from our database; write to us if you would like that email deleted too.

Narration. Audio is streamed from storage we keep with Cloudflare, using short-lived links our server creates for your account. To decide which recording to send, the server checks that you are signed in to the app (a guest account counts) and whether you are a supporter. Supporters can download days to listen offline; those files are saved only on the phone.

Technical information. Like any online service, our providers may record standard technical details such as your IP address, device type and the time of a request, to operate and secure the service.

The app does not ask for your location, contacts, microphone or camera, and it never looks at your photo library. If you choose to save a verse picture on iPhone, it asks once whether Meinate may add it to your Photos.

How we use it

• To run your account, sync your progress, Abide List and (for supporters) your journal across devices.
• To confirm your support and give supporters the full narration.
• To send sign-in codes, and to answer you when you write to us.
• To keep Meinate secure and working.

Service providers

We use a few trusted companies to run Meinate. They may process your information only on our behalf:

• Supabase hosts the app’s accounts and database.
• Spaceship (Spacemail) hosts our email at meinate.com and sends sign-in codes, and our emails to the waitlist, on our behalf.
• Apple handles Sign in with Apple and App Store purchases.
• Google handles Google Play purchases in the Android app.
• RevenueCat keeps track of who is a supporter.
• Cloudflare stores and delivers the narration audio.
• Netlify hosts this website and stores waitlist submissions.
• Google Fonts serves the website’s typefaces.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

Your choices

• Delete your account. In the app, open the You tab and tap Delete account. This removes your account and the progress, Abide List, journal, dedication and supporter records stored with it from our servers (a dedication’s review email stays in our mailbox until you ask us to delete it; see Dedications), deletes your record at RevenueCat, asks Apple to disconnect Meinate from your Apple ID if you signed in with Apple, and clears your progress, journal and downloads from that phone. You can also disconnect Meinate from your Apple ID yourself on your iPhone, in Settings › your name › Sign-In & Security › Sign in with Apple. If you are a supporter, cancel your support in the App Store or Google Play too, since Apple or Google manages it. Without the app, you can ask for the same deletion by writing to hello@meinate.com from the email address on your account; we delete it within 30 days and reply when it’s done.
• Guest accounts. If you never signed in, your progress and journal stay on that phone and are not sent to us; deleting the app removes them. Our servers keep the guest account’s random ID, when it was created and last signed in, and, once narration has played, whether it is a supporter and when that was last checked. Write to us and we will remove it.
• Export your journal. You can share or save a copy of your journal as text from the app.
• Email. Every waitlist email includes an unsubscribe link.
• You can also ask us to access, correct or delete your information at any time by writing to hello@meinate.com.

How long we keep it

We keep your account information for as long as you have an account, and waitlist emails until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. When you delete your account, its data is removed from our database right away, though copies may remain for a short time in our providers’ routine backups. Apple and Google keep their own purchase records under their own policies.

Children

Meinate is intended for people 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes

If we update this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date.

Contact

Lunar Web Studio, LLC, dba Meinate
hello@meinate.com