Privacy Policy
Last updated: 19 August 2026
Sacred Kyoto does not collect your personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind. The app has no server of its own and sends nothing about you anywhere.
This policy explains that in full, including the two places where another company is unavoidably involved.
What the app stores on your phone
Sacred Kyoto remembers a very small amount so it can behave sensibly between visits. All of it lives on your device only, and none of it is ever transmitted:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Which guides you have listened to | So the app can offer a thank-you guide, and so it does not ask you to rate it more than once in a while. |
| The text size you chose for reading | So a guide you open tomorrow is as easy to read as the one you set up today. |
That is the complete list. It contains no name, no email address, no device identifier and nothing that could identify you. Deleting the app deletes it.
Location
If you tap the "locate me" button on the map, the app asks your phone for your position so it can show you where you are among the temples and tell you which one is nearest.
Your location is used on your device and immediately discarded. It is never sent to us, never stored, and never shared. You can refuse the permission and the entire app still works — you simply lose the blue dot and the "nearest to you" suggestion.
The audio and the artwork
Every guide, illustration and word of text is built into the app when you download it. Playing a guide requires no internet connection and generates no request to anyone. The app cannot tell what you listened to, or whether you opened it at all.
The map
This is the one part of the app that needs the internet. The map's background — the streets and the terrain — is drawn by Apple Maps on iPhone and Google Maps on Android, because building a map of Kyoto from scratch is not something a small app can do.
When the map is on screen, your phone requests those map tiles directly from Apple or Google, and that request is handled under their privacy policies rather than this one. We receive nothing from it and have no visibility into it.
The temple pins themselves are stored inside the app, so they appear with or without a signal.
The app stores
Sacred Kyoto is distributed through the App Store and Google Play. Those companies collect their own data about downloads — and give us anonymous, aggregated statistics such as how many people installed the app in a given country. We never see who you are, and this happens whether or not you ever open the app.
If you tap "Rate Sacred Kyoto" or "Share Sacred Kyoto", your phone opens the relevant store or share sheet. What happens after that belongs to Apple or Google.
Children
Sacred Kyoto is suitable for all ages and collects no personal data from anyone, children included.
Your rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR give you the right to see, correct or delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show or erase. The small amount of data on your own phone is removed by deleting the app.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of Sacred Kyoto changes how it handles data — for example by streaming audio from the internet instead of bundling it — this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Who is responsible
Sacred Kyoto is made and published by Margaux Tiberghien, France, who is the data controller for the purposes of the GDPR — though, as set out above, there is no personal data to control.
Questions about this policy, or about Sacred Kyoto in general: hello@sacredkyoto.app