Privacy Policy

Our commitment

The people who trust us with their details are trusting the ministry. We collect only what we need to serve you, we keep it safe, and we never sell it.

This policy applies to this website, the Youths For Christ Android app, the Jesus is LORD Radio player, the account area, and every form on the platform.

What we collect

• Account details: your name, email address, country, the languages you speak and the altar you belong to.
• What you add to your profile, only if you choose: a profile picture, your social media names, and a WhatsApp number. Pictures are re-drawn when uploaded, so hidden details such as where a photo was taken are removed.
• Chamas, if you use them: the name you joined with, your role, and the contributions and meetings your chama records about you. Only the members of that chama can see them. We keep these records only and never hold or move money. If you delete your account your name is removed from the books, and the amounts stay so the group's records still add up.
• Your birthday, only if you add it: the day and the month, never the year. We use it only to send you a birthday wish by email or WhatsApp, and you can turn that off or remove your birthday at any time.
• Your choices: whether you want announcements by email or on WhatsApp, and whether your name shows in your church's member list. If you hide your name you are still counted, and nobody sees it.
• What you choose to send: contact messages, comments, devotions and hymns, things for sale and job posts. Posts carry no payment in the app and are read by our team before they show.
• Prayer requests: sent by email to the ministry's prayer inbox and, when you chose an altar with its own address, to that altar as well. They are not stored on this platform.
• A notification token from Firebase, linked to your account, used only to deliver ministry announcements to that phone. It is removed when you sign out or delete your account.
• Giving intentions: the name, contact details and amount you tell us you wish to give. We do not store card numbers.
• Basic technical data: browser type, device type and pages visited, used to keep the platform secure and fast.
• Kept only on your own phone and never sent to us: your recordings, notes, favorites and downloads. We do not use your location, contacts or photos, other than a picture you choose to upload.

How we use it

• To run your account, answer your messages and pray with you when you ask.
• To send ministry announcements, event reminders and live-service notices. They always appear in the app's notification inbox. We send them by email or WhatsApp only if you have turned that on, and every email has a link to stop them.
• To review and moderate what is posted, so the platform stays safe and faithful to its purpose.
• To protect the platform against fraud, abuse and unauthorised access.

Prayer requests and confessions

Prayer requests are private. They are delivered straight to the ministry's prayer inbox by email, and to the altar you chose when it has its own address. They are not saved on this platform. They are seen only by the members of the prayer team who need to read them. Confessions posted in the community are anonymous: your name is not shown to other members.

Who sees your information

Only authorised ministry staff and volunteers, each limited to what their service requires. We use trusted service providers for hosting, email and payments; they may process data on our instructions and may not use it for their own purposes. We disclose information to authorities only when the law requires it.

How long we keep it

We keep your information while your account is active and for as long as needed to serve you and meet legal obligations. Messages sent through the contact form and the "can't find it" notes are deleted after 12 months, and delivery records of announcements after about 4 months. Prayer requests are not kept on the platform at all: they are delivered by email and then live only in the prayer team's inbox. When an account is deleted, your personal details, picture and posts are erased as described in our Account Deletion Policy; records of gifts are kept for the accounts, with your name and contact details removed.

Your rights

You may see and correct your details in the app under My profile, download a copy of everything we hold about you (My profile, Download my data), delete your account in the app, and withdraw your consent to messages at any time. You can also ask us through the contact form. Where Kenya's Data Protection Act, or the law where you live, gives you further rights, we will honour them.

YouTube videos

Our altars publish their services and teachings on YouTube. This platform uses YouTube API Services to list those public videos, and it plays them in YouTube's own player. By watching a video you are also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and to Google's Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy), because YouTube may collect information such as your IP address and viewing activity when the player loads.

We keep only public details of each video (title, thumbnail and description) and refresh them at least every 30 days; videos removed, made private or no longer allowed to be shown are removed from our site. We do not download or store the videos themselves. You can manage what Google keeps about you in your Google account settings.

Security

Connections to the platform are encrypted, passwords are stored in scrambled form, the app keeps your sign-in in the phone's secure storage, and the app does not back itself up to cloud storage. Access is limited by role and sensitive actions are recorded. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong password and never share it.

Contact

Send us any privacy question or request through the contact form on the Contact page. We will reply within a reasonable time.