Privacy Policy for Catholic Christian Community
Last Updated: September 6, 2025
Welcome to the Catholic Christian Community ("we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your data when you use our platform, including features such as posting, sending prayer requests, following users, and receiving notifications.
1. Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information to provide and improve our services:
- Personal Information: When you register, you provide details such as your full name, username, email address, phone number (optional), country, diocese, parish, gender (optional), vocation (optional), and a profile picture (optional). You may also provide a bio and choose whether your profile is public or private.
- Content You Share: We collect posts, comments, likes, and prayer requests you send, including any attached files (e.g., images, videos, PDFs, or other supported formats up to 100MB). These may be publicly visible or restricted to followers based on your privacy settings.
- Usage Data: We collect information about your interactions with the platform, such as pages visited, posts liked, comments made, and users followed. This helps us personalize your experience and provide relevant notifications.
- Technical Information: We may collect device information (e.g., browser type, IP address, and operating system) and usage patterns to improve platform performance and security.
2. How We Use Your Information
Your information is used to:
- Provide Services: Enable you to post, send and receive prayer requests, follow other users, and receive notifications about likes, comments, and follows.
- Personalize Your Experience: Display a personalized feed from users you follow, suggest users based on shared diocese or country, and highlight top contributors.
- Ensure Security: Verify user identities, prevent unauthorized access, and maintain the integrity of the platform.
- Communicate: Send you notifications about new comments, likes, prayer requests, or follows, as well as updates about the platform.
- Improve the Platform: Analyze usage patterns to enhance features, such as search, filtering by diocese or vocation, and pagination for community members.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information as follows:
- Public Content: If your profile is public, your username, profile picture, bio, and posts may be visible to all users. Private profiles are visible only to approved followers.
- Prayer Requests: Prayer requests you send are shared with the recipient and may generate a notification for them.
- Community Features: Your username and profile picture may appear in notifications, comments, or likes visible to other users, depending on your privacy settings.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or to protect the rights, safety, or property of our users or the platform.
4. Your Choices and Controls
You have control over your information:
- Profile Privacy: You can set your profile to public or private (visible only to followers) via the dashboard settings.
- Content Management: You can edit or delete your prayers, comments, and bio at any time through the platform’s interface.
- Follow Settings: You can choose whom to follow or unfollow, and only followed users can receive your prayer requests.
- Notifications: You can view and mark notifications as read, and they are automatically marked as read when you visit the notifications page.
- Account Deletion: Contact us to request deletion of your account and associated data.
5. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your information, including:
- Storing passwords securely using password hashing.
- Securing file uploads with unique file names and restricted permissions.
- Limiting file types and sizes (e.g., 100MB for posts, 2MB for profile pictures) to prevent abuse.
- Using session-based authentication to ensure only logged-in users access protected features.
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information and content as long as your account is active or as needed to provide services. If you delete your account, we will remove your personal information, posts, comments, and other data, except where required by law to retain certain records.
7. Children’s Privacy
The Catholic Community is not intended for users under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will promptly delete it.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify users of significant changes via email or a prominent notice on the platform. Your continued use of the platform after such changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at support@maryourhelp.org.