Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information the FaithPulse mobile app and faithpulse.com collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. We built FaithPulse to handle the life of faith with care — that includes how we treat your data.

Information We Collect

• Account information — your name, email address, and the authentication identifier from Sign in with Apple or Google when you create an account.
• Profile & preferences — language, where you are in your walk, growth focus, and notification settings.
• Content you create — journal entries, prayer requests, notes, highlights, Pulse Check reflections, sermon imports, and group activity. Some of this is private to you; some is shared with your group by your choice.
• Spiritual Vitality Score (SVS™) — activity-derived signals across Word, Walk, and Witness used to compute your score and your group’s shared pulse.
• Usage & device data — app interactions, diagnostics, and device/OS information used to operate and improve the service.
• Purchases — subscription status (processed by Apple and our payments provider; we do not receive your full payment card details).
• Email list — if you subscribe to This Week Traced on faithpulse.com, your email address, the page you signed up from, and when you confirmed or unsubscribed. We use it only to send that email. You are added only after you confirm, and every issue has a one-click unsubscribe.

How We Use Your Information

• To provide the app — compute your SVS, sync your groups and gatherings, and deliver the Shepherd, Pulse Check, and your daily rhythm.
• To communicate with you about your account and product updates.
• To maintain security, prevent abuse, and improve the product.

AI Processing

Some features — the Shepherd, sermon analysis, Gospel Clarity™, and Pulse Check — send the relevant content to a third-party AI provider (Anthropic) to generate a response. This content is processed to serve you and is not sold. We treat journal, prayer, and reflective content as sensitive and minimize what is shared.

Shepherd Everywhere (browser extension)

Shepherd Everywhere lets you ask Shepherd about text you select on a web page. It does not watch you browse. It reads only what you deliberately send it, at the moment you send it.

• What it reads: the text you select, after you choose “Ask Shepherd” or press its shortcut, and the name of the site (for example, example.edu) so the panel can show where the quote came from. Text the page hides from view is left out, except on pages the browser does not let extensions read, such as its PDF viewer; the panel tells you when that happens.
• What it never reads: the rest of the page, the page’s full address or title, your browsing history, other tabs, or anything on a page where you did not ask Shepherd.
• What it sends: the selected text and your question go to Shepherd (processed by Anthropic, as described above) and are saved in your Shepherd history, the same place your web and app conversations are kept. The site name is shown to you but not sent to the AI.
• Permissions: it asks only for access to the tab you are using when you invoke it. It has no access to any website until you click it.
• Deleting it: you can delete a conversation from your Shepherd history in the FaithPulse app at any time, or delete your account and all of its data as described below. Removing the extension removes nothing from your account and stops all collection.

The extension does not sell data, does not use it for advertising, and does not share it except to provide the feature.

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers who help us run FaithPulse, under contract:

• Google Firebase — authentication, database, storage, hosting, and messaging.
• Anthropic — AI processing for the features described above.
• Resend — delivers our email, such as receipts, subscription confirmations and This Week Traced.
• Apple and our subscription provider — payments and app distribution.
• Your group — content you choose to post to a household, circle, or church connect is visible to that group’s members by design.

Data Retention & Deletion

We keep your information while your account is active. You can request deletion of your account and associated data at any time from within the app, or by emailing [email protected]. We will delete or de-identify your data except where we must retain it to meet legal obligations.

Children & Families

FaithPulse includes household features that a parent may use to include a minor. FaithPulse is not directed to children under 13 without parental involvement, and we rely on the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian for any minor in a household.

Your Choices & Rights

You may access, correct, export, or delete your personal information. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA. To exercise any right, email [email protected].

Security

We use industry-standard safeguards, including encryption in transit and access controls, to protect your information. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to keep your data safe.

Changes

We may update this policy as the product evolves. Material changes will be reflected by the effective date above and, where appropriate, communicated in the app.

Contact

[email protected]