Last updated November 8, 2026

Privacy policy

Agōn is a set of tools and an accountability program for Christian men: the website agon1230.com, the Agōn app (on iPhone, Android, and the web), and our cohorts and their Slack workspace. Agōn is operated by Agon 1230 LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company (“Agōn,” “we,” “us”). Agōn was created by Mark Sentell. This policy explains what we collect, why, who can see it, and the choices you have. Questions: support@agon1230.com.

The short version

Private by default. What you keep in the app is yours. Nothing is shared with your cohort or anyone else unless you choose to share it, apart from the daily account a cohort member gives his partners.
Your journal is end-to-end encrypted. It's locked on your device before it syncs. We can't read it, and neither can anyone else.
No ads, no selling, no tracking. We don't sell your information, use it for advertising, or track you across other apps and websites.
You're in control. Export your data or delete your account from inside the app at any time.

Your account and signing in
What you keep in the app
The journal
Health and fitness data
Still (putting away apps)
Your phone's permissions
Notifications
Your accountability partner
Agōn Premium purchases
Cohort membership
How we use it
Who can see it
Service providers
Site visits
Text messages
How long we keep it
Your choices
Age
Security

Your account and signing in

Email code: your email address, and your first name if you give it. We email you a six-digit code; there's no password.
Sign in with Apple: Apple gives us a user ID for you and, if you choose to share it, your name and email (or a private relay address Apple creates). We keep a token from Apple only so we can revoke it with Apple when you delete your account.
Sign in with Google: Google gives us your Google account ID, name, and email address. We don't get access to your Gmail, contacts, or anything else in your Google account.
Sign in with Slack: Slack gives us your Slack user ID, name, and email so we can match you to your membership. We don't get access to your messages.
Your profile: your time zone (so your day closes at the right time), the tools you chose, and a profile photo if you add one.
Sign-in records: when you sign in, and from which device type, IP address, and browser, to keep your account safe. You can also sign in with Apple, a passkey, or Slack instead of a code.

What you keep in the app

These are stored on our server so they're on every device you sign in on. They're private to you: the database itself enforces that only your account can read them (row-level security), and our staff don't look at them unless you ask us to help with something or the law requires it.

Your 12:30+1: your commitments, the days you kept or missed them, how hard each was to keep, your streaks, your Sabbath, and grace days.
Prayer: your prayer lists, requests, updates, answered prayers, the times you prayed through them, and any photo you add to a list. Prayer calendars you follow from a ministry.
Scripture and Mind: the reading plans you follow and the days you read, takeaways you write, your memory verses and practice, and your Reading Log (books, pages, and notes).
Routines: the routines you build or add, their steps, and when you run them.
People and Eight Doors: the names and notes you keep for the people you mean to reach out to and the households and coworkers around you, your reminders, and the connections you log. If you link one to a card in your phone's contacts, we store only that card's ID and name; phone numbers and email addresses stay on your phone.
What you choose to share: anything you share with your cohort or a partner, such as a prayer request, a Scripture or reading takeaway, a journal entry, or an SOS. Shared items stay with the cohort or partner you shared them with, and you can stop sharing.
Cohort news, if you ask for it: if you say yes in the app to hearing about Agōn cohorts, we keep that choice, when and where you made it, and the words you agreed to. We use your email only to tell you about cohorts. It's off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it off in the app (Me → Cohort news) or unsubscribe from any email.
Reports and blocks: if you report something or block someone, we keep the report and the block so we can act on it.

Scripture reading opens in the Bible app you choose. We don't learn what you do in that app.

The journal

End-to-end encrypted. Your entries, and the photos, videos, voice notes, and files you attach, are encrypted on your device with keys only your devices hold. Our server stores only the encrypted bytes. We can't read your journal, and we can't recover it if you lose every device and your recovery key.
Location: added to an entry only when you ask, and encrypted with the entry.
Face ID and PIN: checked by your phone. We never receive your face data or your PIN.
The Daily Examen: if you save an evening's Examen, it's saved to your encrypted journal.
Voice notes: transcription happens on your phone; the recording never leaves it to be transcribed. Members can also tap Summarize, which sends that transcript's text (and nothing else) to Anthropic to write a summary. We don't store or log the text or the summary, and Anthropic doesn't use it to train its models.
Sharing an entry: you can share a single entry with your cohort or a partner. It's sealed so only they can open it, and you can revoke it.
Adding entries through Claude (off unless you turn it on): if you let your Claude connector add to your journal (Me → Developer), what it sends, like entries imported from another journaling app, reaches our server over an encrypted connection and is sealed to your journal's key the moment it arrives, before it's stored. We keep only the sealed copy, until your phone or browser files it into your journal the next time you open it, and then we delete it. To avoid importing the same entry twice, we keep a receipt of each: where it came from and that app's id for it, the entry's date, and whether it's been filed. We never keep its text, title, tags, or journal name in a form we can read, and Claude can add to your journal but can't read it. Photos it adds are handled the same way: each is encrypted with its own key the moment it arrives, its key is sealed to your journal's key, and only the encrypted copy is stored, with your other journal photos. A photo it starts to send but never adds to an entry is deleted within a day.
What we can see: only the size and timing of what syncs (for storage limits), not what it says.

Health and fitness data

If you connect Apple Health (on iPhone) or Health Connect (on Android) in the Agōn app, the app reads your workouts and your daily step count on your phone, so a workout can keep the Strength commitment you choose. It asks for nothing else and never writes to Apple Health or Health Connect.

What leaves your phone: only a daily summary: the date, the minutes of your workouts, their kinds (for example, a run or a strength workout), your steps, and the names of the apps they came from. We never read or receive your heart rate, location, routes, or any other health data.
Who sees it: only you. Your cohort sees only that your commitment was kept, just as if you had marked it yourself. Our staff and captains don't see your workout summaries.
What we don't do: we never use health or fitness data for advertising or marketing, never sell it, never share it with anyone else, and never store it in iCloud.
Your control: you can stop at any time in the app (Tools → Workouts → Stop syncing) or in Apple Health or Health Connect settings. Your summaries are included in your data export, and they're deleted when you delete your account.

Still (putting away apps)

Still lets you put away apps you choose for a while, ended by tapping your own NFC tag. It restricts only your own phone, at your request; it isn't a parental control, and Agōn never watches how you use your phone.

The apps you choose stay on your phone. On iPhone they're kept as Apple's Screen Time tokens, which even Agōn can't read as app names. On Android, Agōn lists the apps on your phone so you can choose, and keeps your choice on your phone. Neither is ever sent to us.
On Android, usage access is read on your phone only. While Still is on, Agōn checks which app is in front so it can cover one you put away. It doesn't record what you use, and nothing about it leaves your phone.
What we keep: when Still started and ended and how (a tag, a button, a schedule, a Focus or Do Not Disturb, a routine step), your own rules (how many early ends you allow and who's told), your tags' names, your schedules' days and times, and, with Premium, how many times the Still screen was shown during each Still (a number, never which app). This is so your limit holds and your history can be shown to you.
Who's told: nobody, unless you choose. If you end Still early and chose to tell your partner, captain, or cohort, they're told, with your reason if you give one.
Filtering adult websites: on iPhone this is Safari's own filter. On Android, while Still is on with the filter chosen, a VPN on your phone sends the names of the websites your phone looks up to Cloudflare for Families, which doesn't give an address for adult sites. Only those lookups go through it; the rest of your traffic is untouched. The names never come to us, and Cloudflare handles them under its privacy policy.
NFC tags: the app reads and writes only the Agōn link on a tag you pair.
Your control: you can change your rules, remove tags and schedules, or stop using Still at any time, and turn off Screen Time, usage access, or the VPN in your phone's settings. Still's records are deleted when you delete your account.

Your phone's permissions

The app asks for each of these only when you use the feature that needs it, and works without any of them.

Camera, photos, and microphone: to add photos, videos, and voice notes to your journal, and photos to your prayer lists.
Speech recognition: to transcribe a voice note on your phone, when you ask.
Location: to add a place to a journal entry, when you ask.
Contacts: to show the phone number and email of someone you've linked, so you can call, text, or email them. Numbers and emails stay on your phone.
Face ID or fingerprint: to unlock your journal.
Apple Health or Health Connect: see above.
Screen Time (iPhone); usage access, display over other apps, and a VPN (Android); NFC: for Still, see above.

You can change any of these in your phone's settings.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, we store a notification token for your device so we can send the reminders and alerts you chose: your evening account, prayer and reading reminders, your routines, an SOS from a partner, and, for captains, cohort updates. Notifications are delivered through Expo and then Apple or Google, so they handle the token and the message text. You can turn notifications off in the app or in your phone's settings. Deleting your account removes your tokens.

Your accountability partner

If you ask a man to be your accountability partner and he accepts (or you accept his invitation), each of you can see the other's name, current streak, and whether today's account has been given (with how many daily commitments are kept so far). The titles of your commitments are shown only if you choose to share them. Your partner also sees the prayer requests either of you add to your shared list, your weekly check-in (a rating and a line, if you write one), and the nudges and “pray for me now” requests you send. If you have Premium and your partner signed up for SOS texts, “pray for me now” also texts him your first name and the note you wrote. Either of you can end the partnership at any time; after that, neither sees the other's information, and what you added to your shared list is no longer shown to him.

Agōn Premium purchases

If you subscribe to Agōn Premium in the App Store or Google Play, Apple or Google handles the payment. We use RevenueCat to confirm purchases: the app identifies you to RevenueCat with an Agōn account number (never your name or email), and RevenueCat and the store tell us which plan you bought, whether it's a free trial, when it renews or ends, a store transaction number, and whether it was refunded. We never receive your payment details from Apple or Google. If you subscribe on agon1230.com, Stripe collects your card details directly; we keep your Stripe customer number, your plan, and its renewal and end dates. We use this only to give you Premium, to show you where to manage it, and to avoid charging a cohort member twice.

Cohort membership

If you join a cohort on agon1230.com, we also collect:

Your signup: your name, email, phone (if you give it), age, time zone, the commitments you agreed to, any note you write, and, if you're 17, a parent or guardian's name and email.
Your membership: your chosen call time, your commitments, the fines you set, and your signed covenant (the name you typed, the date, and the covenant version).
Your accounts: the commitments you report as kept or missed each day, grace-day requests, call attendance, mission nominations, and votes.
Payments: Stripe collects your bank account or card details directly. We never see or store your full account or card number. We keep a record of your invoices and fines.
Agent connectors and API tokens: if you connect an AI agent or another app to give account or manage your lists for you, we store only a scrambled (hashed) copy of each token and record when it's used. What your agent reads from your other apps stays with that agent and those apps; we receive only what it sends us. Your agent can also see your cohort's recent check-ins, limited to what the bot already posts in your cohort channel. You can revoke a connector or token at any time.

How we use it

To run the app for you: keep your tools in sync across your devices, send the reminders you chose, and keep your streaks.
To review your signup, place you in a cohort, and run it: evening prompts, tracking your commitments, streaks, and attendance, and calculating fines.
To bill your membership and fines, and to give the fines to your cohort's chosen mission cause.
To keep Agōn safe: act on reports and blocks, prevent abuse, and secure accounts.
To help you when you ask, and to see how the app is used overall: how many men use it, how many have Premium, and how many have an accountability partner. These are counts, never what you keep in the app.
To contact you about your account or membership, and, only if you asked for cohort news, about Agōn cohorts.

We don't sell your information, use it for advertising, or track you across other companies' apps and websites.

Who can see it

Only you can see your journal (no one else can), your workouts, and, unless you share them, your prayer lists, reading, routines, People, and Eight Doors. Free app users never see each other's content: there's no public feed, profile, or search.
Your accountability partner, if you have one, sees what's described in Your accountability partner.
Your cohort sees a daily summary of your account (for example, “4/5 daily, 12-day streak”), your streak and completion percentages on the cohort's board, and anything you choose to share with them. Individual missed commitments aren't posted.
The men in your cohort can see your email and phone (if you gave one) after your lock-in call, so you can encourage each other between calls. You can turn this off, or change your phone, any time.
Agōn's staff (not captains) can see the basics of your app account so they can help you: your name, email, time zone, how you sign in, when you joined and last used the app, which devices are signed in, your plan and any Premium purchase (its status and dates, never your payment details), who your accountability partner is, and how many journals, routines, and journal devices you have and how much journal storage you use. They can't see your journal, and the tools they use don't show your prayer lists, commitments, or anything else you keep in the app. Each time staff open your account, it's recorded.
Your captain and Agōn's staff see your membership record (your signup, commitments, daily accounts, attendance, and fines) so they can lead your cohort and care for you, plus anything you share with the cohort or report to us.
All Agōn members can see the weekly #leaderboard, which shows only top streaks (by name and cohort), each cohort's completion percentage, and jar totals.
Legal reasons: we may disclose information when the law requires it, or when someone's safety is at risk.

Service providers

These companies handle data on our behalf, only to provide their service to us, each under its own privacy policy:

DigitalOcean: our servers, database, and file storage (including your encrypted journal files).
Apple and Google: signing in with them, notifications, and Apple Health or Health Connect on your phone.
Cloudflare: on Android, the website lookups Still's adult-site filter checks, sent from your phone to Cloudflare for Families (see Still).
Expo: delivering notifications to the app.
Anthropic: summaries of journal voice notes, only when you tap Summarize (a Premium feature). The text isn't stored.
Stripe: payments for cohort memberships and for Agōn Premium on the web. RevenueCat: confirming Agōn Premium purchases made in the App Store and Google Play. Slack: the cohort workspace and bot. Twilio: text messages.
Our email provider: sign-in codes and membership email. Google Fonts: the website's fonts.

Site visits

We count visits to agon1230.com on our own server: the page, the site that sent you there, and any campaign tags on the link. We don't use third-party analytics or advertising trackers, and we don't store your IP address; visits are grouped with a code that changes every day. One small cookie remembers the first site that sent you here (for 60 days), so we can tell which invitations bring men to the Agōn. The app has no third-party analytics or advertising code.

Text messages

If you opt in to Agon texts, we collect your mobile number, which kinds of texts you chose, and when you opted in or out. We use your number only to send the texts you asked for, and we deliver them through Twilio. If you're a member and you send an SOS asking your partners to call you, the text they receive includes your phone number. If you have Premium and ask your accountability partner to pray for you now, the text he receives includes your first name and your note. If a member invited you to receive his weekly report, we keep your name and number only to send it, and he can see that you're signed up. We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. Text STOP at any time to opt out. See the terms for how often each kind of text is sent.

What's said in cohort

Calls aren't recorded by Agōn. Every member agrees in the covenant to keep what his partners confess inside the cohort. The only exception is when someone's safety is at risk. We can't guarantee that every member will keep that promise, so share what you're comfortable sharing.

How long we keep it

Your app account is kept until you delete it. Deleting it (Me → Delete your account) removes your 12:30+1 and its history, your prayer lists, reading, verses, Reading Log, routines, People, Eight Doors, workout summaries, profile photo, notification tokens, and your encrypted journal, and ends your accountability partnership (what you added to its shared prayer list and check-ins is deleted). Things you shared with a cohort stay with that cohort's shared history. A Premium subscription on agon1230.com is cancelled; one in the App Store or Google Play must be cancelled there.
Membership and payment records, including records of Premium purchases, are kept while you're a member or subscriber, then for up to seven years for tax and accounting purposes. If you don't finish joining, or you're released before kickoff, we delete your signup within 12 months.
Backups of our database are kept for up to 30 days, so deleted information is gone from them within that time.

Your choices

Export: download a copy of your app data at any time (Me → Export my data). Your journal can be exported from the journal itself.
Delete: delete your account in the app (Me → Delete your account), or email us.
Correct or ask: email support@agon1230.com to see, correct, or delete anything we hold about you.
Turn things off: cohort news, notifications, phone permissions, Apple Health or Health Connect, texts (reply STOP), and sharing with your cohort.
Leave Slack at any time. Leaving doesn't end your membership or any amount you owe; see the terms.

Age

Agōn is for men 17 and older. A 17-year-old can join a cohort only with a parent or guardian's consent and co-signature, and the parent or guardian may ask to see or delete his information. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 17; if we learn we have, we delete it. See Age and suitability.

Security

All connections are encrypted over HTTPS, your journal is end-to-end encrypted, and the database limits each account to its own records. Access to member records is limited to Agōn's staff and cohort captains, and staff access is logged. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable care to protect what you share.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll post the new version here and tell members in the app or in Slack.

Contact

Agon 1230 LLC · support@agon1230.com · agon1230.com/support