Last updated: 26 July 2026
Sha'ar has no accounts and no sign-up. Everything you do in the app — your progress, your best score, the words you have discovered, the Hebrew name you may write in the Codex — is stored on your iPhone and nowhere else. We operate no server and we receive nothing about you.
The one exception is buying the full version. That purchase goes through Apple alone: you pay Apple, with the payment method already on your Apple Account, and neither the payment details nor your identity ever reaches us.
There is no advertising in Sha'ar, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party code of any kind.
The controller of the personal data described here — the party legally responsible for it under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, "GDPR") — is the publisher of Sha'ar:
SmartZonesIndicators
Contact: support@smart-zones-indicators.com
The publisher is established in France. French and European data protection law applies, and the French supervisory authority (the CNIL) is competent.
The organisation identifier used in the app's bundle is com.smartzonesindicators. That is a technical identifier chosen for the App Store, not a statement of who the legal entity is; the legal name is the one given above.
Sha'ar saves the state of your learning locally, using the standard iOS storage for app preferences (UserDefaults). This includes:
None of this is sent anywhere. It is not uploaded to us, not synchronised to iCloud by the app, and not shared with any third party. It exists only in the app's own storage on your device.
The Hebrew name in particular — which you type yourself, and which the app never guesses from anywhere — is a piece of text held on your device. We never see it.
Deleting Sha'ar from your iPhone deletes all of it, permanently and immediately. That is also the simplest way to exercise your right to erasure over this data: it is in your hands, not ours.
Storing this information on your device is strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for — an app that remembers where you are in it. Under Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, storage of this kind does not require your prior consent.
Only one thing does: buying and restoring the full version of the app. Everything else — the lessons, the 126 recorded pronunciations, the whole corpus of words — is contained in the app itself and needs no network at all.
The purchase itself is handled entirely by Apple, through the App Store and its In-App Purchase system. You pay Apple, using the payment method already on your Apple Account.
We never see your card number, your name, your billing address, or your Apple Account. Apple does not pass them to us. What we later receive from Apple is aggregated sales reporting, which does not identify individual buyers.
Apple's own handling of your data is governed by Apple's privacy policy, which we do not control.
There is no consent to collect and none to withdraw, because there is nothing here that would require it: no advertising, no analytics, no profiling, no marketing e-mail, no newsletter.
We transfer nothing, because we receive nothing. The app talks to no server of ours, and nobody processes anything on our behalf. Buying goes through Apple alone, and Apple's own transfers are governed by Apple's policy, which we do not control.
Your progress, your name in Hebrew, and everything else in the app are transferred nowhere, because they never leave your iPhone.
Under the GDPR you have the right of access to your personal data, and the rights to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and to object to processing based on legitimate interest.
For everything held on your device — that is, almost everything — you already have complete control. You can change your settings and your Hebrew name in the app at any time, and deleting the app erases the whole record. We hold no copy.
We answer requests within one month, as the GDPR requires.
If you believe your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the French supervisory authority:
Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)
3 place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 Paris Cedex 07, France
www.cnil.fr
If you live in another EU or EEA country, you may also complain to your own national authority.
Sha'ar is rated 4+ on the App Store. It contains nothing unsuitable for children, no advertising, no external links, no chat, and no way for one user to contact another.
The app collects no personal data that identifies anyone, whatever their age. There is no account to create, no name or e-mail to give, no address book to read. The Hebrew name a child might write in the Codex stays on the device and is never transmitted. Because nothing identifying is collected, the question of parental consent for the processing of a child's data does not arise.
Buying the full version happens through the App Store, under whatever Family Sharing and Ask to Buy rules the parent has configured on the Apple Account.
Sha'ar is available in several countries, and the protections described here are applied to everyone who uses it, not only to users in the European Union. Depending on where you live, your national law may give you further rights — for example under Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados or under Israeli privacy law. If you wish to exercise a right that is not listed above, write to us and say which law you are relying on.
If the app changes in a way that affects what happens to your data, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it. Significant changes will also be announced in the app's App Store release notes.
Questions about this policy, or a request concerning your data:
support@smart-zones-indicators.com
SmartZonesIndicators