Sundays
Privacy Policy
Sundays is a weekly voice journal. Once a week you have a short call with an AI companion that listens; between calls, you can record voice notes or write quick text notes. This page explains what Sundays collects, where it goes, and what we do and don't do with it.
If you have a question that this page doesn't answer, email hello@getsundaysapp.com.
What Sundays collects
- Your content — what you put into Sundays: voice notes (the audio and its transcript), text notes, and the transcript of your weekly call. The call itself is never recorded — your voice streams to the agent in real time and is gone when the call ends; only the words remain.
- AI-derived content — summaries, themes, pull-quotes, and — so you can search your past notes by meaning — a mathematical fingerprint of each transcript (it can't be read back as words). Generated automatically from your content.
- Your account — your Sign in with Apple identifier and, if you share them, your display name and an email address (Apple may give us a private relay address instead of your real one). We never see your Apple ID password. Plus your onboarding choices (goals, weekly call slot, time zone).
- Names you mention — extracted from your transcripts as tags so you can see who comes up across your weeks. Just a string of letters; no link to that person's contacts or profile.
- Calendar event titles (optional) — only if you enable "Capture moments after events" in Settings. The event's title and how long it ran, used once to decide whether to offer a reflection prompt; never attendees, location, or notes.
- Device tokens — the Apple push tokens (including the one that rings your weekly call) that let us reach your phone for the call and reminders. We store them on our backend so we can ring you at your set time, and clear dead ones automatically. They identify your device, not you.
- Subscription status — whether your subscription is active, from Apple. We never see your payment details.
- Referrals (optional) — if you redeem an invite code, we record which account invited you so we can credit them, and we show that person's first name on your invite screen. Nothing else about either of you is shared.
- Operational logs — short-lived backend records of whether your weekly call fired and why (your account ID and a dispatch status — never your content), kept up to 30 days so we can fix delivery problems.
What Sundays does not collect
- No analytics or third-party telemetry.
- No advertising identifiers (no IDFA).
- No location data.
- No contact list access.
- We do not sell or share your data with anyone outside the processors listed in the next section.
What stays on your phone
- Voice-note transcription happens on your device when it can. Modern iPhones carry Apple's on-device speech model, so most voice notes are read into text right on the phone, without the audio leaving it. If on-device transcription isn't available or captures only part of a note, we fall back to Apple's speech service to finish transcribing it.
Hiding a note behind Face ID
Any voice or text note can be locked from its menu. A locked note still syncs and still gets its summary, but it's held out of your themes, search, the arc chart, and the widget, and its title and body sit behind Face ID in your timeline. It's for something you want to keep in your archive but out of your patterns. Locking controls who can open a note on your phone — it doesn't withhold the note from the processors below. If you want something we never hold at all, delete it.
Where your data goes
Sundays uses a small set of third-party services to operate:
- Cloud hosting for your account, transcripts, and the voice-note audio you keep. Files live in private, per-user storage — encrypted at rest, readable only by your signed-in account — so your notes come back when you sign in on a new phone. If you'd rather not keep audio at all, turn off Keep audio recordings in Settings.
- A voice AI service that powers your weekly call. Your voice streams to it in real time; nothing is retained after the call ends — we keep conversation-log retention switched off in our agent settings.
- An AI service for summaries, themes, chat answers, reading imported journal pages into text, and deciding which calendar events merit a prompt. Your transcripts — or, when you import journal pages, the photos you choose — are sent only when one of these features runs.
- A semantic-search service that turns your notes and your search questions into the mathematical fingerprints used to find notes by meaning.
- Apple, for subscription billing through the App Store. Apple does not share your real name or email with us.
We don't share your data with anyone outside these services, and only for the specific purposes above.
Other times we might disclose data
Beyond the processors above, we would disclose data only:
- To comply with the law — a valid subpoena, court order, or equivalent legal process. Where the law allows, we'll tell you before we comply.
- To protect safety — if disclosure is necessary to prevent serious, imminent harm to someone.
- In a business transfer — if Sundays Media LLC is ever acquired or merges, your data may transfer with the company. This policy would continue to apply, and we'd notify you in-app before any new policy takes effect.
We have never sold personal data and never will. We do not "sell" or "share" personal information as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Where your data is processed
Sundays is operated from the United States, and the providers above process data on US-based infrastructure. If you use Sundays from outside the US, your data is transferred to and processed here. Because a journal can hold personal things, we ask your okay to store and process it in the US when you set up — and you can take it all back anytime by deleting your account.
How long we keep your data
Your transcripts, themes, summaries, and voice-note audio are kept for as long as you have an account. Operational logs (call-dispatch records) are deleted after 30 days. When you delete content or your account, it's removed from our live systems immediately; residual copies clear from routine encrypted backups within 30 days.
You can delete everything at any time:
- Settings → Delete account — wipes your transcripts, themes, summaries, audio files, voice notes, and account record from our backend. The action is irreversible.
- Settings → Keep audio recordings — turn it off and future voice notes keep only the transcript; the audio is discarded once it's read into text.
If you signed in with Apple, you can also cut the link entirely from your phone: Settings → your name → Sign in with Apple → Sundays → Stop using Apple ID.
Want a copy of everything first? Email hello@getsundaysapp.com and we'll send you your transcripts as plain text.
If you uninstall the app without deleting your account, the local cache on your device goes away but the cloud-stored data stays. To wipe the cloud copy, use Delete account before uninstalling, or email us with a deletion request.
Security
Data in transit between your phone and our servers is encrypted using HTTPS. Audio files are encrypted at rest by our storage provider, and access is scoped to your account so no other user can read them. On-device audio is protected by iOS, so files are only readable while your phone is unlocked.
Authorized Sundays personnel may access stored content as needed to operate the service, respond to a support request you initiate, comply with a valid legal request, or investigate a security issue. We do not review user content for any other purpose.
Children's privacy
Sundays is intended for users 13 and older. The app shows a one-time consent screen on first launch. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has used Sundays, email us and we'll delete the account.
Crisis content
If you describe being in crisis during a call or note, the post-call summary may flag the entry so the app can show you helpline information (988 / 741741 in the US, 116 123 in the UK, 112 in the EU). The flag is stored with that entry, in your private account data. It is not reported to anyone, sent anywhere, or used for any purpose other than surfacing the helpline card to you.
Sundays is not a crisis service or a substitute for professional mental-health care.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have specific rights under privacy laws (GDPR in the EU/UK, CCPA in California, similar laws elsewhere):
- Access — Settings → Export your data gives you every transcript; everything else Sundays holds (themes, summaries, your schedule) is visible in the app itself.
- Deletion — delete everything (Settings → Delete account).
- Correction — correct anything that's wrong (rename voice notes, edit name spellings, etc., directly in the app).
- Portability — email us and we'll send your words as plain text, readable anywhere, yours to take wherever.
- Withdraw consent — at any time, by deleting your account; processing stops and the data is wiped.
- Object to processing — stop using Sundays at any time; data deletion is in your control.
- Complain — if you're in the EU or UK, you can lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. We'd appreciate the chance to address it first.
We will never treat you differently for exercising any of these rights. To exercise a right not covered by an in-app action — say, a deletion request after you've already uninstalled the app — email hello@getsundaysapp.com and we'll handle it within 30 days.
This website + the newsletter
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Changes to this policy
If this policy changes meaningfully, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top and surface a notice in-app the next time you open Sundays. Material changes (new processors, expanded data collection) will require your opt-in before taking effect on your account.
Contact
Sundays is built and operated by Sundays Media LLC. For privacy questions, deletion requests, or anything else legal-related: