Your Churches™ is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides free apps and websites to churches. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It applies to our mobile app, our website at yourchurches.org, and the public church pages we host.
Your Churches is a nonprofit corporation organized in Alabama and recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3). We are responsible for the information described below. Our contact details are at the bottom of this page.
| What | Why we need it |
|---|---|
| Name and email address | To create your account, sign you in, and contact you about your account. |
| Password | Stored only as a salted bcrypt hash. We never store or can read your plain password. |
| Phone number (optional) | Shown to your church's leadership if you choose to provide it. |
| Church affiliation and role | To show you your church's content and to control what you can edit. |
| Profile details such as areas of interest | To help your congregation connect you with ministries. |
| Content you post: prayer requests, chat messages, event details, photos and videos | To deliver the feature you are using. |
If you sign in with Google, Apple, or Facebook, we receive a stable account identifier and, where you permit it, your name and email address. We do not receive your password and we do not post anything to those accounts.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with advertisers for their own marketing.
Church profile information — name, location, service times, contact details a church chooses to publish, events, and sermons — is intended to be public and appears on the church's page and in search engines. Prayer requests, chat messages, member directories, and member contact details are not public. Our public web endpoints deliberately strip personal fields such as event attendees and prayer request authors.
We share only what is needed to run the service, with providers acting on our behalf:
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure | Hosting, databases, and file storage. |
| Expo | Delivery of push notifications and app updates. |
| Google, Apple, Meta | Optional sign-in, if you choose to use it. |
| YouTube | Sermon video playback from a church's own channel. |
| Stripe and our print partner | Payment and fulfilment for merchandise orders. |
| Donation and giving processors | Processing gifts. Card details go to the processor, never to us. |
| OpenAI | Optional AI assistance for leaders drafting sermons, service plans, and bulletins. Only the text a leader submits is sent. |
We may also disclose information where required by law or to protect someone's safety.
Our website uses Google Analytics and the Meta pixel to understand how visitors find and use the site so we can reach more churches. These set cookies and may be used to measure advertising. You can opt out using Google's browser add-on, your browser's cookie controls, or your device's tracking settings. The mobile app does not run advertising.
Depending on where you live you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA. Write to us and we will honor them.
We keep your account information while your account is active. When you delete your account we remove your personal information within 30 days, except where we must retain records to meet legal, accounting, or security obligations. Content you posted to a shared space, such as a chat message others have replied to, may remain visible unless you ask us to remove it.
Traffic is encrypted in transit with HTTPS. Passwords are hashed with bcrypt. Access to production data is restricted and authenticated. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your information and will notify you of a breach affecting your personal data as required by law.
The app is intended for general congregational use and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it. See also our child safety standards.
If we make a material change we will update the date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.
Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy: keith.mccormick@yourchurches.org