Privacy Policy

Overview

Lotus Chant is designed with your privacy in mind. We believe your spiritual practice is personal, and your data should be treated with care. This policy covers the Lotus Chant iOS and Android apps and the website at lotuschant.app. Lotus Chant requires no account, does not sell your information, and does not use advertising networks or data brokers. Optional online, purchase, analytics, and support features use limited data as described below.

Data we collect

We collect or process only limited data needed to run, protect, support, and improve Lotus Chant. The app does not require an account. The data we process may include local app settings and practice history, optional website contact form messages, limited product analytics and diagnostics, subscription and entitlement information for Lotus+, and data needed to deliver premium audio downloads. We do not intentionally collect the content of your prayers, audio, or private spiritual reflections.

Data stored on your device

The app stores the following data locally on your device. Some limited usage events, such as completed sessions or settings changes, may also be reflected in analytics as described below, but the app does not upload your full practice history or private spiritual reflections:

• Your preferences, such as theme, language, keep-awake, haptics, bell sound, gong sound, chant mode, playback speed, and related app settings
• Notification settings (whether reminders are enabled and at what time)
• Practice history, including session dates, durations, mode, and optional Daimoku count
• First-practice state and store-review prompt counters
• Onboarding, welcome, tour, and hint status
• Cached premium audio files, generated share images, and temporary files used for downloads or sharing
• Temporary screenshots used only for in-app visual transitions

Most of this data stays on your device unless a feature described below sends related information to our servers or a third-party service. Your operating system or device backup service may also back up local app data depending on your device settings.

Website storage

The website stores your selected theme and language in browser local storage. It also stores a locale cookie for up to one year so the server can show the right language on future visits. When analytics is configured, the website stores anonymous PostHog identifiers and first-touch and latest attributed-touch information in browser local storage and first-party cookies so events remain connected across pages and visits. Attribution can include the initial or attributed path, referrer, UTM parameters, and advertising click identifiers such as fbclid and gclid.

Network requests

Lotus Chant makes the following types of network requests:

• Daily phrase content — The app and website fetch the "Thought for the Moment" quote fromlotuschant.app/api/tmf, our own server. The request includes your selected language. Our server fetches the public source content from SGI-USA and, for non-English languages, sends the public quote and attribution text to MyMemory for translation. Hosting providers may process standard technical request data needed to deliver the response.
• Daily phrase images — When you view or share a daily phrase image, the app or website requestslotuschant.app/api/tmf-image with language and view parameters. Shared images may be cached locally before being passed to your operating system share sheet.
• Subscriptions and purchases — If you use Lotus+ or restore purchases, the app communicates with Apple App Store, Google Play, and RevenueCat to process purchases and validate subscription or lifetime access. We do not receive your full payment card details.
• Premium audio packs — If you download a premium gong sound, the app sends your RevenueCat app user ID and the selected sound ID to lotuschant.app/api/audio-packs/gongs.json. Our server checks your Lotus+ entitlement with RevenueCat and returns a short-lived Cloudflare R2 download URL when access is valid.
• App updates — The app checks for and downloads over-the-air updates through Expo/EAS Updates.
• Analytics — Lotus Chant and lotuschant.app may send limited usage and technical information to PostHog, our product analytics provider, as described below.
• Contact form — If you choose to contact us through the website, your name, email address, message, and the page URL are sent to our server so we can deliver the message by email using Resend.
• External links and store redirects — The website may use your user agent to redirect you to the App Store, Google Play, or the homepage. The app may open external study resources, store review prompts, or website pages in your browser.

All network communication is encrypted via HTTPS. The app functions offline for core chanting; an internet connection is only needed for features such as loading the daily phrase, purchase validation, premium audio downloads, checking for updates, sharing generated images, opening external links, contacting support, and sending analytics when analytics is configured for the app or website. Hosting providers and third-party services may process standard technical data such as IP address, user agent, timestamps, and request metadata to operate and protect these services.

Subscriptions and premium audio

Lotus+ subscriptions and purchases are handled by RevenueCat together with Apple App Store or Google Play. RevenueCat may process an anonymous app user ID, product identifiers, entitlement status, subscription state, renewal or expiration dates, purchase and restore results, and related device or store metadata. Payment card details are handled by Apple or Google and are not provided to us.

If you download a premium gong sound, the app sends your RevenueCat app user ID and the selected sound ID to our audio-packs endpoint. Our server rate-limits the request by app user ID, checks your Lotus+ entitlement with RevenueCat, and returns a short-lived Cloudflare R2 signed download URL. These signed URLs expire quickly, and downloaded audio may be cached locally on your device. Our server may keep operational logs related to entitlement checks, app user IDs, sound IDs, and request outcomes to diagnose issues and protect premium content.

Analytics and tracking

We use PostHog, a product analytics service, to understand how Lotus Chant is used and how we can improve reliability, usability, and features. Website analytics may include page views, page leaves, web vital measurements, download redirects, link clicks, blog and section views, scroll depth, and theme changes.

App analytics may include events such as app opened, onboarding activity, practice started, completed, or cancelled, practice durations, selected timer duration, bell enabled state, reminder creation and reminder times, notification opens, paywall views, purchase outcomes, premium feature usage, settings changes, and app errors. Common properties can include product surface, platform, app version, selected language, theme, and effective theme. We do not use a Lotus Chant account identifier, and mobile session replay is disabled.

PostHog may process limited technical identifiers, such as anonymous user or session identifiers, IP address, and device or browser information, as part of providing analytics. On the website, these anonymous identifiers and attribution data persist in browser local storage and first-party cookies so page and download events can be associated across navigation. Automatic autocapture is disabled, and no account or identify call is required.

We use analytics to improve Lotus Chant, fix issues, and make product decisions. We do not use PostHog to sell personal information, serve ads, or intentionally collect the content of your chanting practice, prayers, audio, or private spiritual reflections.

Contact form

If you submit the website contact form, we collect the name, email address, message, and page URL you provide. The form includes a hidden honeypot field to reduce spam, and our server uses your IP address together with your email address for short-term rate limiting. We send contact messages through Resend so we can receive and reply to them by email.

Notifications

Lotus Chant offers optional practice reminders and daily phrase notifications. These are scheduled locally on your device using the native operating system scheduler. The daily phrase notification may fetch the latest daily phrase before scheduling. No push notification backend is used, and no notification tokens are collected or sent to our server. If analytics is enabled, opening a reminder notification may be tracked as a product analytics event. You can enable, disable, or change reminder times from app settings.

Permissions

The app may request the following device permissions:

• Notifications — Required only if you enable daily reminders. No notification token is sent to our server.
• Internet — Used to fetch daily phrase content, validate purchases, download premium audio, check for app updates, open external resources, and send analytics when analytics is configured for the app.
• Audio settings — Used to play and manage gong, Gongyo, and Daimoku sounds. No audio is recorded.
• Vibration — Used for haptic feedback, which you can disable in settings.
• Storage on older Android versions — May be used by the operating system for cached files, downloads, or sharing workflows.

The app does not access your microphone, camera, contacts, precise location, health data, or calendar, and it does not record audio.

Widgets and Live Activities

Lotus Chant provides optional home-screen widgets, quick actions, and iOS Live Activities. A Live Activity may display chanting status, duration, remaining time, formatted time, and progress on the lock screen or Dynamic Island. These features run on your device and do not communicate with an external server, but their content may be visible to anyone who can see your screen or lock screen.

Sharing

If you choose to share a daily phrase image, the app downloads the generated image to a temporary local cache and passes it to your operating system share sheet. What happens after you choose a destination is controlled by the app or service you share with.

Third-party services

Lotus Chant uses third-party services to operate the app and website: PostHog for analytics, Resend for contact email delivery, RevenueCat for subscription and entitlement management, Apple App Store and Google Play for purchases and reviews, Cloudflare R2 for premium audio file storage, Expo/EAS for app updates, Vercel and related hosting infrastructure for the website and API routes, SGI-USA as the public source for daily phrase content, MyMemory for server-side translation of public daily phrase text, and Google Fonts for server-side image generation. We do not use advertising networks, social media SDKs, or data brokers.

Children's privacy

Lotus Chant is designed as a general-audience practice companion and does not require an account. If a child is not old enough to consent to app use, purchases, or data processing in their jurisdiction, they should use Lotus Chant only with permission from a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for advertising, and analytics is not used to build advertising profiles.

Data retention and deletion

Local app data remains on your device until you delete it, clear app data, or uninstall the app, subject to any operating system backups or restores you have enabled. Website local storage, including analytics attribution when configured, remains until you clear it. Website cookies persist until they expire or you clear them; the locale cookie expires after up to one year. Contact form messages are retained only as long as needed to respond and maintain support records. Premium audio signed URLs expire quickly, while cached audio files remain on your device until cleared by the app or operating system. Analytics, purchase, email, hosting, and update providers retain data according to their own retention practices and our account settings. If you have questions or want to request deletion of data associated with you, contact us using the address below.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we will post the changes on this page and update the date above. We recommend checking back periodically.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, reach out atme@reinierhernandez.com.