Eremos is built against surveillance, not on it. It reads nothing you do in other apps and records nothing about your browsing. This page explains, plainly, what little information the app and this website handle, and what we will never do with it.
The short version
- Eremos never reads your content, takes screenshots, or logs the sites and apps you open.
- There are no analytics companies, no advertising pixels, and no third-party trackers, in the app or on this website.
- We do not sell your information, and we do not share it to be marketed to.
- What you do store is kept small, and it is encrypted in transit and at rest.
What Eremos does not collect
Eremos uses Apple's Screen Time framework to shield the apps you chose, and Apple's system-level adult content filter. Because of how that works, Eremos does not see, receive, or store the content of what you browse or the apps you use. It does not screenshot your screen, and it does not send a report of your activity to anyone. The Screen Time permission you grant stays on your device, between you and Apple.
Eremos does not collect your location. The living wilderness scene changes with the hours by reading your device clock only, never your position or your network.
What you give us, and why
The app holds only what it needs to do its work:
- Your phone number. Used to sign in and to keep your account yours.
- Your streak. The day count and the date you began, so the app can show where you stand.
- Your letters. The short notes you write to your future self, kept so they can return to you when you need them.
- Your accountability partners. The phone numbers you choose to add, kept so the people you trust can be near your walk.
- Your protection settings. How you sorted your apps into tiers. This is used to enforce the guard through Screen Time. It is not a record of what you opened.
Your covenant, if you sign one, is stored only on your device. It is not uploaded, and it is not shown to anyone but you.
Accountability partners
Eremos is a covenant with witnesses, not a warden. When you add an accountability partner, you are telling us a phone number so a person you trust can be one tap away in a hard moment. Please add only people who have agreed to walk with you.
Any message to a partner is sent from your own device, through your own Messages app, by your own hand. The app writes an honest note for you and opens Messages; you decide whether to send it. Eremos does not read your partner's replies, and your partner does not need the app or an account to receive what you send.
How your information is kept
What Eremos stores is encrypted in transit and at rest. We keep the amount of information small on purpose, because the safest data is the data that was never collected. We use reasonable measures to protect what you entrust to us, though no method of storage or transmission can be promised to be perfectly secure.
Third parties
Eremos relies on Apple to run on your device and to provide the Screen Time and content-filter systems the guard is built on. Apple's handling of that information is governed by Apple's own privacy terms. Beyond the infrastructure needed to sign you in and keep your account working, we do not hand your information to advertisers, data brokers, or analytics firms, because there are none in this product.
This website
This page you are reading sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads no third-party trackers. The fonts and images are served from this site. The living sky behind the words is drawn on your device from your clock alone. Nothing about your visit is measured or sold.
Keeping and deleting your information
We keep your information only as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the app. Deleting the app removes the information stored on your device. To ask that account information kept off your device be deleted, or to ask what is held, write to ibranam@horizonorphans.com and we will help.
Children
Eremos is made for adults and is not directed to children under 17. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, please write to us and we will remove it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of the page and post the new version here. Meaningful changes will be made plain.
Contact
Questions about privacy are welcome. Write to ibranam@horizonorphans.com.