Privacy Policy

Account information. When you create an account, we collect your first name, last name, and email address. If you sign up via Google OAuth, we receive only the profile information your Google account shares with us — name and email.

Journal entries. The text you write in Selah is stored in our database and transmitted to Anthropic's Claude API to generate your scripture response. Voice transcriptions, where used, are converted to text and handled identically. Entries are encrypted in transit and at rest.

AI conversation history. Follow-up exchanges within a journaling session are retained to provide conversational continuity. Over time, your journal history informs more personalized scripture and reflection — this is the core value Selah is built to deliver.

Onboarding preferences. Your denomination, AI tone preference, Bible translation, language setting, and spiritual goals are stored in your profile and used to shape your experience from day one.

Behavioral signals (with your consent). If you opt in during onboarding or in Settings, we may collect anonymized behavioral data — journaling frequency, emotional theme categories detected by AI, tone and translation preferences, and session patterns. These signals are never linked to your name or email in any model training or analytics pipeline. See Section 5 for full details.

Payment information. If you subscribe to Selah Faith Builder, payment is processed by Stripe. We do not store your card number or payment details. Stripe shares only your subscription status with us so we can manage your access tier.

Technical and device data. We collect standard technical data — device type, operating system, browser, IP address, and session identifiers — for security and service maintenance. This data is never used for advertising.

We use the information we collect to:

• ✦Deliver and personalize your journaling and scripture experience
• ✦Generate AI responses through the Anthropic Claude API
• ✦Retrieve Bible passages through the API.Bible service
• ✦Manage your account, authentication, and subscription
• ✦Send transactional emails — account confirmation, password reset, subscription receipts
• ✦Build your semantic profile over time, with your consent, to make Selah more relevant the longer you use it
• ✦Improve Selah's AI response quality and product experience using anonymized data, with your consent
• ✦Comply with applicable laws and protect against fraud or abuse

Selah is designed to become more meaningful the longer you use it. To do that honestly, we ask for your consent to two distinct uses of your data — separately, with separate controls you can change at any time.

Both settings default to on during onboarding, with clear explanation of each. We record which version of this policy you consented to so we can notify you if material changes affect your choices.

Selah's core value is that it grows with you. Your journal archive — past entries, scripture received, and conversation history — is retained and used to generate more relevant, personal responses over time. This is not incidental; it is the product.

At the technical level, Selah uses two memory mechanisms:

• ✦Recent context: Your most recent entries are included in each AI session to provide conversational continuity.
• ✦Semantic profile (with consent): A structured summary of your emotional patterns and themes across your full journal history — no raw entry text, just extracted signals — passed to the AI as background context.

Your data is not ephemeral. It accumulates as your journaling archive. You may export or permanently delete it at any time (see Section 8).

All data transmitted between your device and Selah's servers is encrypted in transit using TLS. Data stored in our database is encrypted at rest using AES-256. Your Supabase records are protected by row-level security — only your authenticated session can query your own data.

Your semantic profile is stored in a separate table from your raw journal entries and cannot be used to reconstruct what you wrote.

No one at Selah reviews the content of your journal entries. Database access is restricted to essential engineering personnel and only for maintenance or security purposes — never to read user content.

While we employ industry-standard security measures, no system is completely immune to breach. We will notify affected users promptly in the event of a data security incident.

You have the right to:

• ✦Access the personal data we hold about you
• ✦Correct inaccurate information in your profile
• ✦Export your complete journal archive at any time from Settings → Export
• ✦Turn off personalization and opt out of model improvement at any time from Settings → Privacy & Data
• ✦Request permanent deletion of your account and all associated data — entries, profile, semantic data — within 30 days
• ✦Opt out of non-essential communications

To exercise any of these rights, email support@meetselah.com. We will respond within 30 days.

We retain your account data and journal entries for as long as your account is active. If you request account deletion, all of your data — entries, profile, semantic profile, and conversation history — will be permanently deleted within 30 days.

Free tier accounts inactive for more than 18 months may have their data scheduled for deletion, with a 30-day notice email sent to your registered address before any deletion occurs.

Some aggregated, anonymized, non-personally-identifiable analytics data may be retained after account deletion for product improvement purposes. This data cannot be linked back to you.