Last updated: 29 October 2026 · Applies to the Hymnphony mobile applications and this website.

1. Who we are

Hymnphony (“Hymnphony”, “we”, “us”) is made by cannykaystudios, which provides the Hymnphony mobile application and this website. cannykaystudios is based in Takoradi, Ghana, and this policy is governed by Ghanaian law. If you have questions about this policy or about how your information is handled, write to hymnphonyapp@gmail.com.

2. What this policy covers

This policy explains what information the Hymnphony app and website collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it and what rights you have over it. It applies to everyone who installs the app or visits this site.

3. Information you choose to give us

• Account details. If you create an account, which is optional, we store your email address, an account identifier, and a display name and avatar colour that people you share a Songbook with can see. If you sign in with your email address, we send a one time code to it so you can sign in without a password, and your display name is the part before the @. You may also sign in with Google or Apple, in which case we receive your email address and a sign in identifier from them, and Google also passes on the name and profile picture of your Google account.
• Learn accounts. Hymnphony Learn, the reading course at hymnphony.com/learn, works without an account. If you choose to sign in there, with Google or with a one time code sent to your email address, we store your email address, your first name if Google shares it, and your progress in the course: which sessions you finished and your best score in each. This account is kept on our website and is separate from your account in the app.
• Your Songbooks. The hymn lists you build are saved to your account so they follow you to a new device. They stay private to you unless you share one by link. Anyone who opens that link can then see that Songbook. We never publish or share them ourselves.
• Music cards. If you share a hymn with its music, the picture or video is made on our server and kept there, so the same card can be shared again quickly. To keep this fair, we count how many you share each week against your account identifier.
• Favorites and history. If you are signed in, your favorite hymns and the hymns you opened recently are saved to your account as well, so they follow you to a new device. Signed out, they stay on your device.
• Questions to Ask. When you use Ask, what you type, with the hymns already suggested in that conversation, passes through our server to Anthropic, whose Claude model suggests hymns from the hymn book you are using. We do not store your questions or link them to your account. Our server sees your device’s IP address only to stop too many questions arriving at once.
• Hymn of the week. If you allow notifications, we store the push token your device is given, the hymn books it follows and whether it runs iOS or Android, so we can send you the hymn of the week. If you are signed in, the token may be linked to your account identifier. Turning the hymn of the week off in the app stops the notifications.
• Support correspondence. If you contact us, we keep your message and our reply so we can help you and follow up.
• Requests and feedback. Hymn book requests and feature suggestions, including any church or choir name you volunteer.

4. Information collected automatically

• Mistake reports you send. If you tap the report button on a hymn, we receive the hymn book, number, what was on screen and what you tell us is wrong, along with whether your device runs iOS or Android, so we can correct it.
• Your year in hymns. So that Hymnphony Wrapped can show you your year, the app keeps a daily record of how you use it: the hymns you open, from which hymn book, and how long you read them, in which view and language; the hymns you play, with the tune, voice parts, instrument and how long you listened; the hours of the day you use the app; and how many times you add a favorite, share a card, make or fill a Songbook, lead a service, search, ask a question, open the hymn of the week, save a hymn for offline use or sing a hymn to another tune. It holds hymn numbers, times and counts, never the words you type. If you are not signed in, it stays on your device. If you are signed in, it is also saved to your account, one small summary for each day and device, so your year comes with you to a new phone. When you sign out, it is removed from the device and stays with your account. When you delete your account, it is erased.
• Usage counts. The first time the app opens, and when you answer or skip the question about which church you attend, we add one to a plain monthly tally. Each day you open the app, it also sends our server a random number it made for this purpose, whether the device runs iOS or Android, the app version and update, the hymn book in use, when the app was installed and the country the connection comes from, and it does the same once when you create an account. This lets us count how many people use Hymnphony, on which phones, where, and how many come back. That number is never joined to your name or email address, and our server keeps it only in scrambled form.
• How the app is used and how well it runs. Once a day, the app sends the totals of the day before: how many hymns were opened and played and for how long, in which views, languages, instruments and voice parts, how often features such as favorites, sharing, songbooks, search and Ask were used, the hours of the day it was used, which hymn numbers were opened or played, how many errors it met and how fast it started. They are numbers only, never anything you type. Our server adds them to the totals for everyone on that day and does not keep them for your device or your account.
• Staff notation. When you open the staff view, the app loads the code that draws the music from cdn.jsdelivr.net or unpkg.com, two public code servers. As with any web request, they can see the IP address of your device.
• Nothing else. There is no analytics or advertising package in Hymnphony. Your searches are kept on your device alone and are not sent to us. Your favorites, history and year in hymns stay there too, unless you sign in to carry them to your other devices.

5. What we deliberately do not collect

• We do not build a profile of your devotional life to use or sell. Your year in hymns exists only to be shown back to you, and it is never sold, shared with advertisers or used to target you. Your searches stay on your device alone.
• We do not require your name, address, phone number or date of birth to use the app.
• We do not access your contacts, microphone or precise location. We use a photo only when you pick one of your own as a lyrics wallpaper, and it stays on your device.
• We do not sell, rent or trade personal information to anyone, for any purpose.

6. Why we use your information

• To provide the app and keep your Songbooks, favorites, history and year in hymns available to you on any device you sign in on.
• To show you your year in hymns in Hymnphony Wrapped, and to suggest hymns when you use Ask.
• To count how many people use Hymnphony, on which phones and in which countries.
• To see how Hymnphony is used and how well it runs, so we can make it better.
• To send you the hymn of the week, if you allow notifications.
• To answer your support messages and hymn book requests.
• To correct mistakes you report, fix defects and improve performance and legibility.
• To tell you about a release you specifically asked to be told about, such as a launch waiting list.

7. Legal bases for processing

Where data protection law such as the UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies, we rely on: performance of a contract, for providing the app and any account you create; legitimate interests, for security, fault diagnosis and product improvement; consent, for notifications and for any email you ask to receive; and legal obligation, where the law requires us to retain or disclose information.

8. Advertising

Hymnphony carries no advertising. There is no advertising network in the app, no advertising identifier is read, and nothing you read, search for or save is shared with any advertiser.

9. Service providers

We use a small number of trusted providers to operate the service: Google Firebase, for accounts and what you save to them, for the mistake reports you send, for delivering the hymn books and for making and storing shared music cards; Cloudflare, which hosts this website, keeps Hymnphony Learn accounts and progress, and runs the servers that count usage and pass questions to Ask; Anthropic, whose Claude model answers the questions you put to Ask; Resend, which emails the sign in codes to your email address, in the app and on Hymnphony Learn; Expo, whose push service delivers notifications if you allow them; and the app stores through which the app is distributed. They act on our instructions and may only use the information to provide their service to us.

10. Data retention

Account information is kept while your account is active. When you delete your account, we erase it with everything saved to it: your email address, display name, Songbooks, favorites, history and year in hymns, and any Songbook links you shared stop working. Support correspondence is retained for a reasonable period so we can follow up on recurring issues. Mistake reports, the monthly tally, usage counts and the daily totals are kept only as long as they remain useful. When information is no longer needed, it is deleted.

A Hymnphony Learn account and its progress are kept until you ask us to delete them by writing to the address below. A sign in code is deleted as soon as it is used, and stops working after ten minutes in any case.

11. Security

Information is transmitted over encrypted connections and access to systems holding personal data is restricted to those who need it. No system is perfectly secure, but we take our responsibility seriously and will notify affected users and regulators where the law requires.

12. Your rights

• Ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct information that is wrong or incomplete.
• Ask us to delete your account and associated personal data.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, and withdraw consent for notifications or email.
• Complain to your local data protection authority if you believe we have handled your information improperly.

To exercise any of these rights, write to hymnphonyapp@gmail.com. You can also delete your account yourself in the app, from the Profile tab, as our delete account page explains.

13. Children

Hymnphony is suitable for family and school use, and the app can be used without providing any personal information at all. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below the age at which consent is required in their country. If you believe a child has provided such information, contact us and we will remove it.

14. International transfers

Our service providers may process information in countries other than your own. Where that happens, we take steps to ensure an appropriate level of protection, using recognized safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

15. Cookies on this website

This website uses only what is necessary to serve the pages and keep them secure. We do not use analytics, advertising cookies or tracking across other sites. When you follow one of our app links, such as hymnphony.com/get, we count the visit: the time, which link, whether the phone runs iOS or Android and the country, with nothing that identifies you.

If you sign in to Hymnphony Learn, we set one cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 180 days. It holds a random code and nothing else, and it is removed when you sign out. Learn also keeps your progress and settings in your own browser’s storage, so the course works without an account; clearing your browser’s data removes them.

16. Changes to this policy

If we make a material change we will update the date at the top of this page and, where the change significantly affects you, tell you inside the app.

17. Contact

Questions, requests and complaints: hymnphonyapp@gmail.com. We aim to respond within two working days.