Effective date: 12 November 2026
Publisher: Mario Krajačić, an individual based in Croatia. Support and privacy contact: info@mariokrajacic.dev.
Confession Helper is a personal notebook for preparing for confession. It is and will remain free and non-commercial, with no advertising, purchases, subscriptions, donations or other fundraising.
Data in the app
Your note and its formatting, last-confession date, and welcome and access-protection preferences are stored on your iPhone. The app does not send this data to me or to a server I operate. I have no remote access to your notebook and cannot read or restore it.
The app has no user accounts, backend, cloud synchronisation, analytics, advertising or app-operated crash-reporting service. It does not ask for your name, email address or payment information to use the notebook. It does not track your location or usage for marketing, and I do not sell data.
Optional access protection uses Apple's device authentication. The app receives the result, not your passcode, facial image or fingerprint. The notebook file uses iOS file protection.
Storage and deletion
Local data has no automatic expiry. You can change or delete it on your device:
- Deleting the notebook/preparation removes the saved text; the date and preferences remain.
- “Ispovijed završena” (Confession completed) removes the text and sets the last-confession date to today.
- Deleting the app using “Delete App” in iOS removes the app and its local data. “Offload App” keeps documents and data. Removing the icon from the Home Screen alone also does not delete the app.
The app provides no backup or recovery service. Notebook files are marked for exclusion from system backups; the date and preferences are stored separately. I cannot guarantee the behaviour of every system backup or device transfer, or deletion of existing copies. Copies you make yourself, such as screenshots, must be removed separately.
Keyboards, dictation and other system services you enable may process data under their own policies. This policy describes the app and the data I receive; it does not replace those providers' policies.
If you contact me
If you contact support, I receive your email address, any name supplied, your message, and any details or attachments you choose to send. I use these to reply, resolve the reported issue and maintain app security. I am the controller for this processing. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in providing the technical assistance you request and maintaining security, under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. I do not use these details for marketing or to infer your religious beliefs.
Sending a message is not required to use the app. Without contact details, I may be unable to reply. Please do not send notebook content, information about other people, or screenshots of private entries. Use a fictional example to describe a bug. If I notice unnecessary private content, I will remove it from my copies and retain only the necessary technical description.
I delete messages and my own working copies no later than 90 days after the enquiry is closed. If part of the correspondence is needed for a specific legal obligation or legal claim, I retain only that part for as long as that reason applies. A technical task may be retained without information identifying you.
I have access to support messages, and the email provider processes them to operate the mail service. I may disclose information to competent authorities where required by law.
Email for this address is provided by Infomaniak Network SA, Switzerland, through Mail Starter, for sending, receiving and storing messages. Infomaniak states that data is hosted in Switzerland; transfers to Switzerland are covered by the European Commission's adequacy decision. I access the service through Apple Mail, which may keep local copies of messages and attachments on my devices. I do not share the mailbox with other users or make additional backups of messages.
Deleting my own copies includes messages and attachments in Apple Mail and the mailbox, sent messages and trash. The provider's technical copies are subject to its rules, so deleting a message from the mailbox is not a promise of immediate removal of all provider copies. Infomaniak's guide states that user-accessible backup restoration is not available with Mail Starter. Details: mail service terms, message restoration guide, privacy policy and data processing agreement information. You can contact me at the address above for information about applicable safeguards.
TestFlight and the website
TestFlight separately makes testing information and feedback available to the developer through Apple's platform. This is separate from the app's local notebook operation. Data types, purposes and retention are described in the tester notice.
Visiting the public website is separate from using the local app. Hosting and technical logs are explained in the website privacy notice. Apple also processes data for its own services under its policies.
Children
The app is intended for a general audience and does not collect a child's age or contact details to use the local notebook. You can also ask a parent or guardian to help with a support enquiry. Support does not need your date of birth, real entries or religious information.
Your rights and contact
For personal data I actually process, such as a support message, you can contact info@mariokrajacic.dev to request access, correction, deletion or restriction, or object to processing based on legitimate interests. Rights apply subject to GDPR conditions; data portability also applies where its conditions are met. There is no automated decision-making or profiling.
I normally respond within one month and will notify you within that period of any permitted extension and its reasons. You may complain to AZOP, the Croatian supervisory authority, or another competent data protection authority. I cannot export, read or remotely delete your local notebook; you manage it on your iPhone as explained above.
Policy changes will be published here with an updated date. I will update the description of actual processing and store information if those practices change.
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