Feastward
Last updated: 2026-09-15. What changed on this date is described in section 12.
The short version
Feastward stores your learning progress so it is there tomorrow and on your other devices. That is the whole reason it collects anything.
- No advertising. No ad networks. No data brokers. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising, ever.
- No third-party analytics SDK is present in this app, and nothing reports on you. Not Google Analytics, not Firebase, not PostHog, not Meta, not TikTok. There is no tracking pixel and no advertising identifier. A crash-reporting library (Sentry) is bundled but switched off: it is not configured with a destination, so it never loads and never sends anything. If that ever changes, this policy and §7 change with it, before the release ships.
- Your written reflections never leave your device. They are not uploaded, not synced, and not readable by us. See "Reflections" below.
- Feastward is an independent study app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and no data goes to them.
1. Who we are
Feastward ("we", "us") is an independent scripture-study app. Contact us about anything in this policy at hello@feastward.org.
2. You can use Feastward without an account
Feastward opens to a lesson. You are not asked to sign up to start, and nothing about the study experience is gated behind an account.
If you never create an account, your progress is stored only on your device and no personal information is transmitted to our servers at all.
3. What we collect, and only when you create an account
Creating an account is what turns on the server side of Feastward. Here is everything stored, by table, as it exists in the database schema:
Account and identity
| Data | Why | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | To sign you in and to send password resets. It is the only way to reach your account | You provide it |
| Password | Stored only as a salted hash by our authentication provider. We never see or store your actual password | You provide it |
| Handle and display name | So friends and circle members can find and recognise you | You provide them |
| Avatar selection | A reference to one of our built-in illustrations. Not a photo, and not an upload | You choose it |
| Time zone | So a "day" and your streak roll over at your local midnight, not ours | Chosen by you |
| Leaderboard opt-in flag | Off by default. Records whether you chose to appear in league standings | You choose it |
Learning activity
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Lessons completed, with accuracy, XP earned and how long the lesson took | To draw your path and your tree, and to know what to show you next |
| Per-item review state — how many times you have seen a passage, when it is next due, lapses | This is the spaced-repetition schedule. It is the thing that makes review work |
| A review log — item, format, result, elapsed milliseconds, timestamp | To schedule future reviews and diagnose scheduling bugs |
| Streak, longest streak, rest days and freezes held | To run the streak and the weekly rest day |
| XP events — amount, source, and the lesson it came from | To total your Light and run leagues |
Social, only if you use it
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Friendships and their pending/accepted status | To show friends and friend streaks |
| Friend streak counters | To run the shared streak |
| Circles you own or joined, and their join codes | To run circles |
| League season membership, XP within a season, rank | Only if you turn leaderboards on. They are opt-in and default off |
We do not collect your name (beyond a display name you choose), phone number, postal address, precise or coarse location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone input, biometrics, health data, financial or payment information, browsing history, or any advertising identifier. The app requests no location, contacts, camera, microphone, or notification-adjacent permission for tracking purposes.
4. Reflections stay on your device
Some lessons end with a reflection or prayer prompt. What you write there is stored in a private store on your device only. It is never transmitted to our servers, never included in sync, and never visible to us, to friends, or to circle members. There is no table for it in our database, because there is nothing to put in one.
Reflections are also never scored — there is no right answer and no XP difference. That is a product rule (docs/05 §5), and it is also why there is nothing about them worth uploading.
Deleting the app deletes your reflections. We cannot recover them, because we never had them.
5. What is stored on your device
Independent of any account, Feastward keeps local stores on your device so it works offline and starts instantly:
- Your learning progress and tree state.
- Your reflections (see above).
- Your session token, if you are signed in, so you are not asked to sign in every launch.
These are removed when you uninstall the app. On the web, they live in your browser's storage for that site and are removed when you clear site data.
6. How we use it
Only to run the app:
- Show you your progress, streak, tree, and what to study next.
- Schedule spaced review of the passages you are learning.
- Sync your progress between your devices.
- Run the social features you explicitly opt into.
- Keep the service working and secure, and fix bugs.
We do not profile you, build an advertising audience, train models on your content, score your spirituality, or make automated decisions about you.
7. Who else touches your data
We use a small number of service providers. They process data on our instructions and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
| Provider | What it does | What it sees |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Our database and authentication | Everything in section 3 |
| Vercel | Hosts the Feastward website and web app | Standard web server request logs, including IP address, for security and abuse prevention |
| Our donation processor | Receives voluntary donations, if you choose to send one | Only what you type on their own pages. The donate link takes you off Feastward entirely, and their privacy policy — not this one — governs what happens there. We never see or store your card details, and a donation is not linked to your Feastward account |
| Apple App Store / Google Play | Will distribute the mobile apps when they ship. Feastward is a website today and is not yet in either store | Whatever their own policies collect about downloads. Feastward is free, so there is nothing to purchase; we would receive only aggregate, non-identifying install reporting |
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have never done so and have no plan to.
We will disclose data only where legally required, and only after satisfying ourselves the request is valid.
8. Where your data lives, and how long
Data is stored on Supabase infrastructure. Account data is retained while your account exists.
- Learning history is kept as long as your account exists — deleting it would erase your streak and your review schedule, which is the opposite of what the app is for.
- Web server logs are retained on our hosting provider's standard schedule and are not joined to your account.
- When you delete your account, everything tied to it is deleted (section 10).
9. Security
Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit (TLS). Passwords are hashed, never stored in readable form. Access to the database is constrained by row-level security policies enforced by the database itself, so one account cannot read another account's rows even if the app asked it to.
No system is perfectly secure. If we ever discover a breach affecting your data, we will tell affected users and any regulator we are required to notify.
10. Your choices and your rights
Access and export. Ask at hello@feastward.org and we will send you a copy of the data tied to your account.
Correction. Handle, display name, avatar, time zone and rest day are editable in the app. For anything else, write to us.
Deletion. You can delete your account yourself, from inside the app: open Profile,
and under Account choose Delete account. The screen lists exactly what will go and
asks you to type DELETE to confirm, and the deletion happens immediately — there is no
waiting period and nothing to cancel afterwards. If you would rather not do it yourself, or
you cannot sign in, email hello@feastward.org from the address on the account and we will
delete it for you.
Either route deletes the same thing. Deletion is permanent and cascades to progress, review state, streaks, XP, friendships, circle memberships and league entries. See Delete your account for the full list of what is removed and the short list of what is not.
Leaderboards. Opt-in, off by default, and you can turn them off again at any time.
Regional rights. If you are in the EEA or UK, our lawful bases are: performance of a contract (running the app you asked for) and legitimate interests (security and abuse prevention). You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, and the right to complain to your data protection authority. If you are in California, you have rights of access, deletion, correction and portability, and the right not to be discriminated against for using them; we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA.
11. Children
Feastward is written for teenagers and adults, and part of its intended audience is 14 and up.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and accounts are not intended for them. Under-13 users should use Feastward without an account, which transmits nothing. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, write to hello@feastward.org and we will delete it.
We do not use Feastward to build advertising profiles of anyone, of any age.
12. Changes to this policy
If we change this materially — particularly if we ever switch on analytics or crash reporting, neither of which reports anything today — we will update the date at the top, describe the change on this page, and notify account holders in the app before it takes effect.
2026-09-15. We corrected section 10. It said Feastward did not yet offer account deletion
from inside the app and that email was the only route. That stopped being true on
2026-08-31, when the in-app delete screen shipped at /account/delete, and the note stood
for two weeks after it. Section 10 now describes the in-app route first and email as the
alternative for anyone who would rather write to us or cannot sign in. Nothing about what
deletion removes changed — only our description of how you reach it.
2026-09-03. We corrected the summary at the top of this policy. It previously listed Sentry among the tools not present in the app. A crash-reporting library from Sentry is now included in the app, but it is switched off: no destination is configured for it, so it never starts and never sends anything anywhere. Nothing about the information Feastward collects changed on this date — only our description of what the app contains. Section 7 lists no crash-reporting provider because none receives any data; if we ever switch this on, section 7 will list it and we will tell you here first.
13. Contact
hello@feastward.org
Feastward is an independent study app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.