Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Divino (the “App”), operated by Alberto Huerdo Alvarado (“we,” “us,” or “our”), handles information when you use the iPhone and iPad app and the divinorezo.com website (the “Website”).

1. Information stored on your device

Divino stores the information needed for its features locally:

• Your progress through novenas, prayers, and saints’ lives: completed days, sessions, and readings, including the date, whether you read or listened, time spent, language, and device model (for example, “iPhone17,1,” not your device’s name).
• Intentions you enter when starting a novena, if you choose to enter any.
• Your progress through catechism lessons and activities.
• Reader preferences, such as text size, font, and appearance, and settings such as sound for the Nativity scene.
• Prayer reminders you set and their scheduled times.
• Altars you save, including names, dedications, and photos you choose to add, and your progress in games.
• A copy of downloaded content (text and images) so it can be displayed offline.
• Narration audio files generated on your device using the system voice.

This information is stored on your device using Apple technologies. It is not synced with our servers, and we cannot access it.

2. Information we do not collect

Divino does not request or collect:

• Identity or contact information to create an account: you do not need a Divino account to use the App.
• Your location, contacts, calendars, or camera content. Photos and names you choose to add to an altar are stored locally, as explained in sections 1 and 5.
• Financial or payment information.
• Advertising identifiers.
• Usage data, analytics, tracking, or advertising data.
• Crash reports or diagnostics sent to the developer.

Divino does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

3. Downloaded content

Some novenas, saints’ lives, and lessons are downloaded from Apple’s public CloudKit database. The App only reads that content: it does not write to CloudKit or send information about you, your readings, or your intentions. To deliver the content, Apple processes the technical data associated with connections to its servers under its privacy policy. We do not receive that data.

4. Divino+ subscription

Divino offers an optional subscription, Divino+, purchased and managed through the App Store using your Apple Account. Apple processes the payment; we do not receive your name, email address, card details, or other payment information.

To determine whether your subscription is active, the App checks with Apple from your device using StoreKit. We do not keep purchase records on our own servers. Apple provides us with aggregate sales reports that do not identify you.

5. Permissions and system services

Divino does not request access to your microphone, camera, location, or contacts. You can choose photos for an altar using the system picker; the App receives only the images you select, not general access to your photo library. The images stay on your device and are not sent to the developer. If you save an image to Photos, the system may request permission to add it. Narration is generated on your device using the operating system’s text-to-speech voice. Background playback and Lock Screen controls use native iOS features. The developer does not receive the narrated text or information about its playback.

If you enable reminders, the App requests permission to display notifications and schedules them locally. You can change or disable these alerts in the App or in system settings.

Divino adds a list of its own content, such as novenas, prayers, and lessons, to system search (Spotlight) so you can find it from your iPhone or iPad. That index contains only App content, not your progress or intentions, and stays on your device.

If you choose to share a prayer, a saint’s story, a reflection, or an altar, the system share sheet opens and you choose whom to share it with. Divino does not send anything on its own.

Apple’s processing through its systems and services is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

6. Third-party services

Divino does not integrate third-party analytics, advertising, tracking, or crash-reporting SDKs. To download content, manage the subscription, and provide the features described above, the App uses Apple frameworks and services: CloudKit for content downloads, StoreKit and the App Store for the subscription, and the system features described above.

7. Privacy manifest

As required by Apple, Divino includes a privacy manifest declaring:

• That the App does not track users or connect to tracking domains.
• That the App does not collect any data types.
• That the App uses system preferences (UserDefaults) only to store settings and progress that the App itself reads on your device.

This is why Divino’s App Store listing states “Data Not Collected.”

8. Retention and deletion

App data is kept locally while Divino remains installed. You can delete it by uninstalling the App. Downloaded content is excluded from backups because it can be downloaded again. Other device backups, if enabled, are managed by Apple according to your settings and its policies. We do not keep copies on our own servers.

Uninstalling the App does not cancel Divino+. The subscription is linked to your Apple Account and can be canceled in your account settings.

9. Children’s privacy

Divino does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. In-app purchases may require an adult’s approval through Ask to Buy or other Apple parental controls. If you believe there is a privacy concern, contact us at the address at the end of this policy.

10. Security

Local information is protected by the security, encryption, and app isolation mechanisms provided by iOS and iPadOS. No system is completely infallible, but Divino reduces risk by keeping the App’s progress, intentions, and photos on your device.

11. International users

Divino is operated from Mexico. The progress, intentions, and photos you save in the App are not transmitted to the developer. Website providers may process technical visit data in other countries under their policies, as explained in section 13.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to the App or legal requirements. We will publish the updated date on this page. If a change materially affects how data is handled, we will communicate it appropriately.

13. Website and web reader

The Website provides information about Divino and a reader for free content. It does not require a Divino account. The reader saves your progress and last reading in your browser’s local storage; your language choice may also be saved there. The browser may keep Website files for offline use. That progress is not synced with the App or sent to our content API.

The Website uses Cloudflare to host and deliver its pages and API. When you visit, Cloudflare processes technical connection data, such as your IP address, the requested URL, and browser information, to deliver and protect the service. The API retrieves public content from Apple CloudKit; it does not receive your intentions, photos, or prayer history. Hosting services may generate technical and error logs to operate and protect the Website. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

You can delete the web reader’s progress and preferences by clearing divinorezo.com site data in your browser. This does not delete App data or cancel Divino+. The App Store statement “Data Not Collected” describes the iPhone and iPad App; it does not mean that a Website visit involves no technical connection data.