Privacy Policy

St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Peoria, Arizona runs this app. This page explains what information the app collects, what we use it for, who can see it, and the choices you have.

What we collect

Your account

Your name, email address and how you sign in (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, or email and password).

Your church profile

Your preferred name, phone number, birthday, gender, grade or class, home address, family members and your roles at church (for example servant or deacon). A profile photo if you add one.

What you do in the app

Attendance, service and deacon schedules, your availability, requests you send (such as a role change), yearly confirmations, and Holy Grounds coffee orders and favourite drinks.

Messages

Messages you send in the app’s group chats, and which messages you have read.

Your choices

Your notification, schedule, language and calendar settings.

Your device

When you sign in we note the type of device, operating system and app or browser you used. If you turn on notifications we store this device’s notification token so we can reach it.

Problem reports

When the app runs into an error it records what went wrong, the screen you were on, your device and app version, and who you are, so we can fix it. Anything you type into a report or feedback form is saved with it.

Your location

How we use it

• To run the app: schedules, attendance, deacon scheduling, family features, chats and the Holy Grounds order queue.
• To send the notifications and weekly email you choose.
• To build your private calendar link if you set up Calendar Sync.
• To find and fix problems. Error reports may be summarised by an AI tool provided through our app platform, to help our volunteers sort them.
• To help the church run its ministries.

We do not sell your information, show you ads, or use advertising or analytics trackers.

Who can see it

• Priests and church administrators, and servants or coordinators where their role needs it (for example a class roster).
• Your family: parents and guardians manage their children’s information.
• Other members see your name and photo where you appear, such as a schedule, a chat or the Holy Grounds queue. Baristas see your name and order.

Services we use

• Base44 hosts the app and stores its data, handles sign-in, stores photos, sends email and provides the AI tool mentioned above.
• Google Maps calculates drive times. OpenStreetMap turns addresses into coordinates.
• Apple Push Notification service and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging deliver notifications to your phone.
• Calendly handles appointment booking. The app checks Calendly for bookings made with your email so it can show them.
• Zeffy handles donations. We never see your card details.
• Google, Apple, Microsoft or Facebook, if you sign in with them.

Each of these has its own privacy policy.

Keeping it safe

• Everything travels to and from the app over an encrypted connection (HTTPS).
• Access rules on our database limit each record to the people who should see it.
• Your calendar link is private, but anyone who has the link can see the events in it. Don’t share it.

Your choices

• Change your information at any time in Settings.
• Choose which notifications you get, and how, in Settings › Preferences.
• Turn location or notifications off in your phone’s settings.
• Download a copy of your data in Settings › Data & Privacy.
• Delete your account in Settings › Data & Privacy.

When you delete your account

Children

Changes to this policy