Privacy Policy

Introduction

Reverent Lutheran ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website and services at reverentlutheran.com (the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:

• Create an account
• Submit a listing, event, or resource when those features are enabled
• Contact us
• Use reminder or notification features if and when they are configured and available
• Use our interactive features

This information may include:

• Name and contact information (email, phone, address)
• Account credentials (email and password)
• Profile information (church affiliation, role, location)
• Content you submit (listings, events, resources, and account devotional records such as prayer schedules, prayer intentions, goals, habits, reading plans, recent activity, and journal entries)
• Communication preferences where those preferences are available

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information:

• Device information (browser type, operating system)
• Usage data (pages visited, time spent, features used)
• Location data (general geographic location based on IP address)
• Cookies and similar tracking technologies

Information from Third Parties

We may receive information from:

• Analytics services
• Public directories and databases

How We Use Your Information

We use collected information to:

• Provide and maintain our services
• Process enabled submissions, corrections, contact requests, and account features
• Send notifications or updates you have requested where delivery is configured
• Respond to your inquiries and support requests
• Monitor and analyze usage patterns
• Improve our services and user experience
• Prevent fraud and ensure security
• Comply with legal obligations
• Send administrative information about changes to terms or policies

Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area, our legal basis for processing includes:

• Consent: You have given clear consent for processing
• Contract: Processing is necessary for providing our services
• Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with the law
• Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests

How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information in the following circumstances:

Public Information

• Approved directory listings (churches, schools, businesses) are publicly visible
• Published events are publicly visible
• Your name may be displayed with public content you submit only where that content is approved and published

Private Account Information

Prayer intentions, prayer schedules, goals, habits, reading plans, recent activity, and journal entries are account features for your own use. They are not public directory listings or public articles.

Administrative access is limited to what is needed to operate, secure, support, and troubleshoot the Service. Do not store highly sensitive pastoral, medical, legal, or emergency details in these tools.

Private Prayer Feature Opt-In

Private prayer tracking and related dashboard features are disabled by default. If you choose to enable them, we store the date and time of your opt-in, the Terms and Privacy Policy versions accepted for that opt-in, and a minimal source marker such as dashboard or API. We do not use that opt-in record to store unnecessary personal details.

These features may store prayer schedules, completion history, favorites, recent activity, reminder settings, intentions, goals, habits, reading plans, journal entries, badges, and formation progress for your signed-in account.

Public Profiles

Public profile publishing is not currently available. Account profile fields may still help us operate your account or submissions, but users cannot publish public profile pages until this feature is intentionally enabled.

Launch-Gated Submissions

Directory, event, and resource submission forms may appear as unavailable while launch testing continues. When those forms are disabled, submitted public content is limited to imported, reviewed, or administrator-managed records. The contact form remains available for corrections, concerns, and requests.

Service Providers

We may share information with trusted third-party service providers:

• Hosting and infrastructure providers
• Analytics services
• Email service providers

Legal Requirements

We may disclose information if required by law or in response to:

• Court orders or legal processes
• Government or regulatory requests
• Protecting rights, property, or safety
• Preventing fraud or security threats

Business Transfers

In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred.

Data Retention

We retain information only as long as needed for the purpose it serves:

• Account information and private dashboard records are retained while your account is active or while needed to provide features you enabled.
• Closed contact submissions are anonymized after the operational support window. Names, email addresses, message text, IP addresses, and user agents are redacted from those old closed records.
• First-party view analytics rows are retained for a limited analytics window and then deleted. Aggregate counters may remain.
• API idempotency records, expired login tokens, revoked refresh tokens, notification history, and mobile sync tombstones are pruned on operational schedules.
• Admin audit logs and security records may be retained longer when needed for security, abuse review, legal compliance, or operational accountability.

If you ask us to delete your account or personal information, we will delete or anonymize it where reasonably possible, except where retention is needed for legal compliance, security, or legitimate operational records.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

General Rights

• Access: Request a copy of your personal information
• Correction: Update or correct inaccurate information
• Deletion: Request deletion of your information
• Objection: Object to certain processing of your data
• Data Portability: Receive your data in a portable format
• Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent at any time

California Residents (CCPA)

California residents have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

European Residents (GDPR)

European residents have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

To exercise your rights, please use the contact page .

Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Remember your preferences
• Analyze site usage
• Provide personalized content
• Maintain security

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may limit some features.

Third-Party Links

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.

Children's Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we learn we have collected such information, we will delete it promptly.

Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information, including:

• Encryption of data in transit and at rest
• Secure authentication systems
• Limited access to administrative tools
• Access controls and authentication

However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for such transfers.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of significant changes by:

• Posting the updated policy on this page
• Updating the "Last Updated" date
• Sending an email notification for material changes

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the site contact page: