Privacy Policy

Salima is a small reminder app: it puts one person from your list in front of you each day and asks whether you'd like to reach out. This policy explains what we store to do that, where it lives, and how to get rid of it. Salima is run by Victor Bolivar ("we", "us").

The short version: we keep what the app needs to remind you, and we look at how you use it so we can make it better for you. We never contact the people on your list, we never show ads, we never sell your data, and deleting your account removes it.

What we store

Your account

• Email address. You sign in with a 6-digit code sent to your email, or on iPhone with Apple or Google. There is no password. Your email is your account identifier.
• Sign in with Apple or Google. If you use one, Apple or Google tells us the account's email and an ID for it, and we keep a record that it's linked. With Apple, you can hide your email; we then get an address that forwards to yours. Google also sends your name and profile photo, which our sign-in system keeps with your account; Salima doesn't show or use them. When you delete your account, we also ask Apple to remove Salima from your Apple Account's Sign in with Apple list.
• Name. The name you give during onboarding, shown inside the app.
• Profile photo, if you add one.
• Terms acceptance. The date and time you confirmed you're 18 or older and accepted the Terms of Service and this policy, and the date you finished onboarding.

Your preferences

The settings you choose in the app: whether reminders are on, at what time and on which days.

Your people

For each person you add, the details you enter:

• what you call them ("Mamá", "Leo")
• whether they're family or a friend
• their phone number
• what you're asking God for them, if you write it down (short lines like "Her knee to heal")
• up to three photos of them
• when you last reached them or prayed for them

Each time you tap Reach out or say you prayed, we also note who it was and how long it had been, so the You tab can show your month.

These are details about other people, entered by you. We store them solely so the app can remind you. We never contact the people on your list, never look them up elsewhere, and never share their details with anyone. You are responsible for having their details in the first place — for most people this is simply their own family and friends.

Photos

Photos of your people, and your profile photo, are resized on your phone and stored in private storage with your account. The app shows them through links that expire. A photo you remove from someone stays stored until you delete that person, so you can undo; deleting the person, or your account, deletes their photos.

AI messages (paused)

Salima used to offer AI messages, written by OpenAI from notes you typed or a WhatsApp chat you shared. That's paused: Salima sends nothing to OpenAI, and it no longer reads shared chats. In November 2026, when we paused it, we deleted the chat summaries, the notes typed for AI messages and every AI consent we had kept. If AI messages come back, Salima will ask again before anything is sent, and this policy will say so first.

How you use Salima

To find what's broken or confusing and make Salima better for you, we record how the app is used, with PostHog:

• What you do in the app: the screens you open and what you tap, including how far you get through signing up, the answers you pick there and whether the sign-in code worked; when you add someone, reach out (by WhatsApp or a call, and whether you used Salima's words) or say you prayed for them, but never what you prayed for; whether you allow reminders, and when you open one. These are counts and choices, not what you write.
• A count of what's in your Salima: how many people you've added, and how many have a number; whether reminders are on. The app still sends the counts it used for AI messages and Salima Plus (people with notes or an imported chat, whether AI is on, your plan), which are empty while they're paused. Never their names or what you wrote about them.
• Your answer, if you reply to Salima's question in the app about what would make it more useful. It's the one thing you type that we keep with your usage, and only because you sent it to us.
• Recordings of the screen while you use Salima. What you type is hidden in them, and so are what you've written down to pray for and your phone's own pickers (your contacts and your photo library). Everything else shows as you saw it, including the names and photos of your people.
• Your account's ID and email, so we can find your session when you write to us about a problem.

When something goes wrong, the app sends a report to Sentry: what failed and where in the code, a picture of the screen at that moment (which shows whatever was on it, including anything you wrote down to pray for, if that screen was open), your phone's model and system version, the app version, and your account's ID and email.

Like any server you connect to, both also see your IP address, and from it the rough area you're in (city and country).

Neither PostHog nor Sentry ever receives what you write to anyone. We use all of this only to fix and improve Salima: never for ads, and we never sell it.

What we don't store

• Calls and messages. When you tap Call, WhatsApp or Message, Salima hands the number to the phone, WhatsApp or messaging app on your device. Those conversations happen entirely outside Salima; we never see their content, or whether they happened.
• Your address book. When you choose someone from Contacts to fill in a number, your phone's own picker hands Salima that one person's number. Salima never sees the rest of your contacts.
• Payment details. Salima has nothing to buy. We never see your card, your Apple ID or your Google account.
• Anything for advertisers. The app has no ad network and no tracking pixel, and nothing you give Salima is shared for advertising or sold.
• Location. Not collected.

Where it lives

Supabase hosts our database and sign-in system, in the United States (Virginia) region. Every row is protected so that only the signed-in account that created it can read or change it.

Resend delivers the sign-in email from auth.salima.im. The app sends no other email. Now and then the person who makes Salima may write to you personally, from hello@salima.im, to ask how it's working for you, for example after you cancel or stop using it. Reply if you like, or just ignore it.

OpenAI and RevenueCat aren't used while AI messages and Salima Plus are paused. The app sends them nothing. RevenueCat still holds the record of any test purchase made before the pause, under an account ID only, never your email or your list.

PostHog keeps the record of how you use the app, in the United States. It knows you by your account's ID and your email. The app sends it through Cloudflare, which carries it to PostHog from servers in many countries.

Sentry keeps error and crash reports, in the United States, for 30 days.

Your device keeps a snapshot of your list so the app launches without waiting for the network, and copies of photos for reminder notifications. Signing out removes them.

Supabase, Resend, PostHog and Sentry act as processors on our behalf, under their own data-processing terms. Apple and Google are not: if you sign in with them, they handle that under their own privacy policies. We do not sell personal data and do not share it with anyone else.

How long we keep it

For as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your profile, settings, people, photos and the record of how you used the app are removed immediately and permanently. Backups held by our hosting provider expire on their normal schedule, typically within days.

Two things outlast the account, and neither holds anything you wrote: RevenueCat's record of any test purchase made before the pause (see above), and Sentry's error reports, which are deleted 30 days after they're sent.

Deleting your account

Open the You tab in the app and choose Delete account. This removes your sign-in and everything attached to it. It cannot be undone. If you can't get into the app, email us from the address you signed up with and we'll do it for you.

Your rights

Depending on where you live you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete the personal data we hold about you, or to object to how it's used. Almost all of this you can do directly in the app; for anything else, write to hello@salima.im. If you are in the EU/EEA or UK you also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

Age

Salima is for adults. You must be 18 or older to create an account, and you confirm it when you sign up. We do not knowingly keep data about anyone younger; if you believe we do, email us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the bottom of this page and, where the change is significant, tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@salima.im.

Last updated: 3 November 2026