Privacy and Cookie Notice

Christ Culture, Inc. ("Christ Culture", "we", "us") is a Catholic ministry based in Gallatin, Tennessee, USA. Many people share something very personal with us, such as a prayer intention, so we try to collect only what we need, keep it safe and never use it for anything else. This notice explains what this website and its app (installed from the website) collect, why, who can see it, and the choices you have.

In short

• We never sell your information and we do not show advertising.
• A prayer request is seen only by our prayer team, unless you choose to put it on the public prayer wall. Even then, your email address and phone number are never shown.
• The intentions and journal in your private prayer space are encrypted and are not read by our team.
• We measure how the website is used only if you agree to analytics cookies, and you can change your mind at any time.
• You can ask us to see, correct or delete your information at any time.

1. What we collect and why

Your account

When you create an account we keep your name, email address and password (stored only in scrambled, "hashed" form). If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and profile picture from Google. If you add a passkey or two-step verification, we keep what is needed for those to work. We also keep your time zone so reminders arrive at the right time. We use your account to sign you in and to show your own prayer requests, registrations and settings.

Prayer requests

When you send a prayer request we keep your name, email address, and, if you give them, your phone number, country, town or city, the category, and the intention itself. We use these to pray for you, to reply if you ask us to, and to ask a few weeks later how things are going (you can tell us not to). Our prayer team and the ministry staff who manage requests can read them.

If you choose the public prayer wall, your intention is shown on the website after our team has reviewed it, together with your first name and location only if you choose to show them. Updates you add are shown in the same way. A request can be taken off the wall at any time by asking us.

When you pray for someone else's intention, your name and location may be shown with your prayer, unless you choose to pray anonymously.

Your private prayer space

The intentions and journal entries you keep in "My prayer space" are for you alone. They are encrypted before they are stored and are not shown to our team. We record the days you prayed so the page can show your week, and the reminder time you choose.

Events

When you register for an event we keep your name, email address, phone number, country, the answers you give on the form, and the names (and any answers) of the people you register with you, for example your family. We use these to run the event: your ticket, reminders, check-in at the door and, if the organisers have turned it on, a thank-you message afterwards. The event's organisers can see the registrations for their event.

Photos taken at our events may be shown in the event's gallery. Some albums are visible only to signed-in members, and photos are kept out of image search engines. If you are in a photo and would rather not be, use "Remove this photo" in the gallery: it is hidden straight away while our team reviews it.

Testimonies, serving and contact

If you share a testimony, we keep what you write, any photo you add, and whether you want your name and location shown. It is published only after our team has reviewed it. If you offer to serve, we keep your contact details, the areas you are interested in and your availability, so a coordinator can get in touch. If you use the contact form, we keep your name, email address, phone number (optional) and message so we can reply.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, your browser gives us an address for your device and we keep it with the topics you chose (for example new videos, events, or your daily prayer reminder) and the type of browser. You can change the topics or turn notifications off in your account, or in your browser or phone settings.

Information collected automatically

Like most websites, our servers record basic technical information, such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, to keep the website working and secure. We also store the IP address with forms you send (for example a prayer request, registration or contact message) so we can detect and stop abuse.

2. Cookies and similar technologies

Always used, because the website needs them: a session cookie that keeps you signed in and protects forms, your light or dark display choice, your cookie choice, and small notes kept in your browser (for example that you already closed the "install the app" message, or the town and anonymous choice you used last time you prayed for someone).

Only if you accept: analytics cookies from Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, which help us see which pages are useful and where the website is hard to use. Clarity records how pages are used (scrolling and clicks); the text on prayer pages, testimonies, and signed-in pages is hidden from these recordings. You can change your choice at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.

From other services we use on some pages: videos play from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode, maps on contact and event pages come from Google Maps, and some forms are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a person, not a program, is sending the form. These services may receive your IP address and set their own cookies when you use them.

3. Who we share information with

Inside Christ Culture, people see only what they need for their role, for example our prayer team sees prayer requests and an event's organisers see that event's registrations. We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not share it for advertising.

We use trusted service providers to run the website:

• our hosting provider, which stores the website and its data;
• an email delivery service, which sends our emails;
• Google (sign-in with Google, YouTube videos, Google Maps, and Google Analytics if you accept it);
• Microsoft (Clarity, if you accept it);
• Cloudflare (Turnstile form protection);
• the notification services run by browser and phone makers (such as Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft), which deliver notifications to your device.

These providers may use your information only to provide their service to us. We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety.

4. Where your information is kept and how we protect it

Our website and its data are kept on servers in the United States. If you use the website from another country, such as India, your information is transferred to and kept in the United States. We use encrypted connections (HTTPS) everywhere, encrypt your private prayer space, limit staff access by role, and protect sign-in with passwords, passkeys and optional two-step verification. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to keep your information safe and will tell you if a breach affects you, as the law requires.

5. How long we keep it

• Your account: until you delete it.
• Your private prayer space and notification settings: deleted together with your account.
• Prayer requests, registrations, testimonies, offers to serve and messages: kept as part of our ministry records until you ask us to delete them, or until they are no longer needed.
• Analytics information: kept by Google and Microsoft for the period set in their services (a limited number of months).

Deleting your account removes the account itself, your prayer space and your notification settings. Prayer requests, registrations and other things you sent stay with us, no longer linked to an account. If you want those deleted as well, contact us.

6. Your choices and rights

You can at any time:

• see and change your details, notifications and reminders in "My account";
• delete your account in your account settings;
• change your cookie choice with "Cookie settings";
• ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it;
• withdraw your consent, for example to a prayer request being on the public wall.

Depending on where you live, laws such as the EU and UK GDPR, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, or US state privacy laws may give you further rights, including the right to complain to a data protection authority. We honour these requests wherever we reasonably can, whatever your location. To make a request, contact us as below; we may need to confirm it is really you before we act.

7. Children

Our website is meant for adults and families. Children under 13 should not create an account or send a prayer request themselves; a parent or guardian can register children for events and send requests on their behalf. In India, young people under 18 should use the website with a parent's or guardian's consent. If you believe a child has given us information without this, contact us and we will delete it.

8. Other websites

Our pages link to other websites and social media, such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Their own privacy notices apply when you use them.

9. Changes to this notice

We will update this notice when the website or the law changes. The date at the top shows when it was last changed. If a change is significant, we will also say so on the website or by email.

10. Contact us

For any question or request about your information, write to privacy@christ-culture.org, use the contact form, or write to Christ Culture, Inc., 180 N Belvedere Dr, Suite 7B, Gallatin, TN 37066, USA.