Privacy Policy for Khora
Effective Date: September 13, 2026Last Updated: September 14, 2026
Khora (“we”, “our”, or “the App”) is committed to protecting your personal sanctuary and psychological reflections. This Privacy Policy details how we handle your data, our strict zero-persistence voice principles, and how you retain complete sovereign control over your information.
1. Core Privacy Principles
- Zero Audio Persistence: Voice dream reflections recorded in the App are converted into text transcripts strictly in-memory or in temporary device cache, sent over encrypted TLS connections for transcription, and immediately deleted from your device. We do not retain, store, or train on your voice recordings.
- Local SQLite Vault: Your recorded dilemmas, card layouts, dream interpretations, and Socratic dialogues are stored locally on your device in a private SQLite database (
khora_vault.db). We do not upload your personal journal to any remote database. - No Third-Party Tracking or Ads: Khora does not use ad networks, data brokers, or behavioral tracking SDKs.
2. Information We Process
A. Information Stored Locally on Your Device
- Personal Vault: Inquiries, dilemmas, detected tarot spreads, dream journal logs, and archetypal dialogues.
- Preferences: App language selection, custom Google Gemini API keys (stored securely in iOS Keychain / Android Keystore via
expo-secure-store).
B. Information Processed for Machine Vision & AI Synthesis
- Card Images: When you photograph your physical tarot cards, the image is compressed on-device and transmitted over an encrypted HTTPS connection to Google Gemini models (or our secure Cloudflare Worker transit gateway) strictly to identify the card names and spatial orientations. The images are not used for user profiling or advertising.
- Dialogue & Dream Narrative: Text prompts and dream narratives are sent over encrypted HTTPS connections to Google Gemini models to generate archetypal reflections. When routed through our Cloudflare Worker transit gateway, the gateway acts strictly as an in-flight transit conduit: it verifies cryptographic request signatures and maintains ephemeral, in-memory rate-limiting counters to prevent abuse. It never stores, logs, or persists your prompts, dream narratives, or card images to any database or disk.
C. In-App Purchases & Subscriptions
- Subscriptions and purchases are processed securely through Apple App Store In-App Purchases (StoreKit) and RevenueCat. We do not collect or have access to your payment card numbers, bank information, or billing address.
D. Pseudonymized Installation Identifier (X-Khora-Device-Id)
- To enforce daily free reading quotas, sliding-window rate limits, and mitigate denial-of-service abuse on our Cloudflare Worker proxy, requests include an anonymous, randomly generated installation UUID (
X-Khora-Device-Id). - This identifier is generated locally upon initial installation, stored in your device’s secure storage, and is strictly technical. It is never linked to your personal identity, name, email address, physical location, or advertising IDs, and is never sold or shared with data brokers.
3. Data Deletion and Your Rights (GDPR & CCPA Compliance)
Under Apple App Store Guideline 5.1.1(v) and global privacy regulations, you have full sovereign authority over your data:
- Purge All Vault Data: You can permanently delete all archived readings, dreams, and dialogue history at any time directly within the App by navigating to Sanctuary Settings → Privacy & Data Vault → Purge Personal Vault Data. This immediately wipes all records from your device’s local database.
- Remove API Keys: You can delete any saved Google Gemini API key at any time from Settings, clearing it from the iOS Keychain.
4. Third-Party Service Providers
We integrate solely with trusted infrastructure providers necessary to operate the App:
- Google Cloud / Gemini API: For depth-psychology dialogue generation and card vision recognition.
- Sanctuary Gateway Routing: Requests routed through Khora’s proxy gateway communicate directly with Google Gemini API endpoints. Because requests are proxied through our gateway, device IP addresses and hardware identifiers are stripped in transit and never forwarded to Google. Upstream data handling is governed by the applicable Google API terms:
- Commercial / Billed Services: Where commercial API tiers or billed Google Cloud accounts are utilized (including Pro subscriber routes), requests are governed by Google’s Paid Services commitments: your prompts, dream transcripts, and card photographs are never used to train Google foundation models, are not logged for human review, and are processed solely to return your immediate interpretation.
- Free / Evaluation Tier: Where free API tiers are utilized, Google may process submitted prompts and content in accordance with its Developer Terms of Service to provide and improve Google products. Because our gateway strips all user, device, and network identifiers prior to forwarding, this data cannot be tied back to you, your personal identity, or your specific device.
- Personal API Keys (BYOK): If you choose to connect your personal Google Gemini API key, data transmission and processing are governed directly by your own Google Cloud agreement and whether your personal account has commercial billing enabled.
- Cloudflare Workers: For cryptographic request verification, in-flight transit routing, and ephemeral rate limiting.
- RevenueCat & Apple StoreKit: For subscription entitlement management and receipt validation.
5. Age Requirement & Children’s Privacy
Khora is intended for individuals aged 13 and older (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) for creative, reflective, and philosophical contemplation. The App is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children under 13.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions, feedback, or privacy inquiries regarding Khora, please contact us at:
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Terms of Service
Effective Date: September 12, 2026Last Updated: September 14, 2026
Welcome to Khora. By downloading, installing, or using the Khora mobile application (“the App”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”) and applicable platform terms.
1. Contemplative & Archetypal Purpose (Disclaimer)
Khora provides structured archetypal reflection and dialogue inspired by Jungian depth psychology, Tarot de Marseille, and active imagination traditions.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Khora is strictly an intuitive, creative, and philosophical reflection tool. It does NOT provide medical, psychological, psychiatric, financial, or legal advice. If you are experiencing distress, mental health crises, or medical concerns, please consult a licensed healthcare professional.
2. In-App Purchases & Subscriptions
- Auto-Renewable Subscriptions: Khora Pro is available via weekly, monthly, and annual auto-renewable subscription tiers.
- Payment: Payment is charged to your Apple ID / Google Play account at confirmation of purchase.
- Automatic Renewal: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period.
- Account Settings & Cancellation: You can manage, modify, or cancel your subscription at any time through your Apple ID / Google Play Account Settings on your device.
- Refunds: All purchases are processed by Apple or Google; refund requests must be submitted directly through Apple Support or Google Play.
- Extended Access & Fair Use Policy: Khora Pro provides extended conversational dialogue, multi-card spread inquiries, and oneiric decryptions for personal contemplative use. To ensure system stability, fair resource availability, and service continuity across all practitioners, usage is subject to reasonable fair-use limits. Access does not constitute an unbounded or automated programmatic throughput.
- Computational Architecture & Service Evolution: Contemplative dialogue and image recognition features rely on third-party computational language models and cloud processing infrastructure. While we endeavor to provide uninterrupted, high-availability access, computational allocations, token quotas, and underlying model architectures may be calibrated, updated, or adjusted over time to reflect operational costs and technological developments.
3. Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code or API keys from the application bundle.
- Use automated bots, scrapers, or excessive programmatic traffic to flood or abuse the backend gateway.
- Utilize the App to generate illegal, hateful, abusive, or harmful material.
- Exploit conversational features for high-frequency automated data harvesting or non-contemplative commercial automation.
4. Intellectual Property
All visual archetypal designs, soundscapes, code, user interface designs, and brand marks belonging to Khora are the exclusive property of Khora and its licensors. All rights reserved.
5. Termination & Changes
We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Continued use of the App following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
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End User License Agreement (EULA)
Effective Date: September 12, 2026Last Updated: September 14, 2026
This End User License Agreement (“Agreement” or “EULA”) is a binding legal contract between you (“End User” or “you”) and Khora (“Licensor”, “we”, “us”). This Agreement governs your acquisition and use of our Khora application (“Application”, “Software”) directly from Apple Inc. (“Apple”) via the App Store or Google LLC (“Google”) via Google Play.
By downloading, installing, or using the Application, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, do not download, install, or use the Application.
1. Acknowledgement
You and Licensor acknowledge that this Agreement is concluded between you and Licensor only, and not with Apple or Google. Licensor, not Apple or Google, is solely responsible for the Application and the content thereof. To the extent this Agreement provides for usage rules for the Application that are less restrictive than, or otherwise in conflict with, the Apple App Store Terms of Service or Google Play Terms of Service, the more restrictive platform terms apply.
2. Scope of License
Licensor grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable license to use the Application on any Apple-branded or Android-compatible device that you own or control, and as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the platform terms. You may not distribute or make the Application available over a network where it could be used by multiple devices at the same time.
3. Restrictions
You shall not:
- Decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the Application.
- Make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from the Application.
- Violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of the Application.
- Remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice (including copyright or trademark notices) of Licensor.
- Use the Application for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial purpose for which it is not designed.
4. Maintenance and Support
Licensor is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the Application as specified in this Agreement or required under applicable law. You and Licensor acknowledge that Apple and Google have no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the Application.
5. Warranty & Disclaimers
The Application is provided to you “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, Licensor expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.
Without limiting the foregoing, Licensor provides no warranty that the Application will meet your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible with any other software, or operate without interruption.
Reflective Purpose Notice: The Application is designed exclusively for contemplative and archetypal self-reflection. It is NOT a clinical, medical, psychiatric, or psychological counseling system.
6. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Licensor or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss of data or other information, for business interruption, or personal injury) arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the Application.
7. Legal Compliance
You represent and warrant that:
- You are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country.
- You are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
8. Third-Party Beneficiary (Apple & Google)
You and Licensor acknowledge and agree that Apple, Apple’s subsidiaries, and Google are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement, and that, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Apple and Google will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce this Agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
9. Contact Information
For any questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the Application, please direct communications to:
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