Sonavra Private: Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 13, 2026

The short version

Sonavra Private keeps everything you record on your iPhone. We never receive it, so we cannot read it, share it, sell it or lose it.

Who we are

Sonavra Private is made by Sonavra Technologies Inc., a company in Alberta, Canada, founded and built by Mackenzie Bullock. "We" and "us" on this page mean Sonavra Technologies Inc. This is the privacy policy for the Sonavra Private iPhone app. Sonavra, the website and apps at sonavra.ca, works differently and has its own privacy policy.

What we collect

Nothing. The app has no account and no sign-in, and it does not send what you record over the internet. We do not receive your name, your email address, your writing, your health information, your photos or your recordings. We do not count how the app is used, and the app contains no advertising or tracking.

What is kept on your iPhone

What you add to the app is saved in the app's own storage on your iPhone: journal writing, ratings, habits, goals, meals, sleep, medications, check-up scores, worksheets, programs, photos you attach, and your settings. Much of this is health information. It stays on the iPhone so the app can show it back to you and work out your patterns, which is also done on the iPhone.

Apple Health

If you allow it, the app reads the Apple Health types you choose, such as steps, sleep and heart rate, and can save mindful minutes to Apple Health. That information is kept on your iPhone with the rest of your records. It is never sold, never used for advertising, and never sent to us or anyone else.

AI features

AI features are optional and use the model built into your iPhone. What you write, say or photograph is worked on by the iPhone itself and is not sent to us, to Apple's servers, or to any AI company. On an iPhone without that model, the AI features are off. You can turn each one off in Settings.

Voice notes

A recording is written out as text by your iPhone's own speech recognition. The app only uses recognition that runs on the iPhone. If your language cannot be written out on the iPhone itself, the recording is not written out, and it is never sent away to be.

Photos

A photo you add to a life event is saved again as a smaller picture, with its location, date and camera details removed. It stays on your iPhone.

Backups

Your records are included when your iPhone backs up, to iCloud or to a computer, so that a new or restored iPhone has them. Those backups are made by Apple's software under your Apple account and your settings, not by us, and Apple's privacy policy applies to them. If you turn backups off, the only copy is on your iPhone.

A copy of your data

In Settings, Download my data saves one file with every record and your settings. Photos and recordings are not in it. The file is not locked, so anyone who has it can read it. Keep it somewhere safe. Once you send the file to another app or person, what happens to it there is up to them.

Deleting

You can delete any record in the app. In Settings, Delete everything on this iPhone removes every record and starts the app fresh. Deleting the app from your iPhone removes its records too. Copies inside an earlier iPhone backup stay until that backup is replaced or deleted.

Keeping it private

Because your records are on your iPhone, anyone who can unlock your iPhone can open them. Use a passcode. Your iPhone encrypts its storage, and the passcode is what protects it.

Lock down

If you are worried about someone looking through your iPhone, Lock down in Settings seals every record with a passphrase you choose. Until that passphrase is entered, the records cannot be read on the iPhone or from a backup made while it is locked. Face ID does not open it. We never have the passphrase, so if it is forgotten the records cannot be recovered by you or by us. A backup made before locking down still holds the records, and locking down does not hide that the app is installed.

What Apple may share with us

If you get the app from the App Store, Apple tells us totals such as how many times it was downloaded. If you have chosen in your iPhone's settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send us crash reports. These do not contain what you recorded.

If you write to us

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write, and we use it only to answer you. Please leave out anything private from your journal.

Your choices

You can see, correct, download and delete your records yourself, on your iPhone, at any time. We hold nothing about you to give back or delete. If something isn't right, write to us first. You can also complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.

Age

Sonavra Private is for adults: you must be 18 or older, and at least the age of majority where you live.

Changes to this page

When this page changes we will update the date and note it in What's new in the app. If a future version could send anything off your iPhone, it will be off until you turn it on, and it will say exactly what it sends first.

Questions

The company's privacy officer is Mackenzie Bullock, Director. For a privacy question, email support@sonavra.ca.