App Privacy Policy
What the Christchurch Miami app collects, who can see it, and what we never touch. This covers the mobile app specifically — the website has its own policy.
Last updated: August 3, 2026
This policy covers the Christchurch Miami mobile app. Our website is covered separately by the website privacy policy.
The Short Version
You can read the prayer wall, watch sermons and read the daily devotional without an account. If you sign in, we know your name and email. If you post a prayer request, we store what you wrote — and a person reads it before anyone else sees it. We never touch your payment information. We never sell anything about you, and we share nothing with anyone for advertising.
Sensitive Information — Said Plainly
Two things about this app deserve saying directly rather than burying.
Using this app reveals something about your religious life. That is treated as sensitive information under Apple's and Google's rules, and it should be. Downloading a church app, signing in, and asking for prayer says something about you. We collect it because the app cannot work otherwise, and we handle it accordingly.
A prayer request can contain health information. "My mother goes in for surgery on Thursday" is health data. It isn't in a health field — it's in a sentence you typed — and because your request is attached to your church record, it is connected to you by name. We are not going to pretend otherwise. Write what you need to write; just know that is how it works.
What We Collect
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Name and email | When you sign in | To know who you are and reply to you |
| Phone number | Only if you enter one on a care request | So a pastor can call you |
| What you write in a prayer or care request | When you post | So the church can pray for you |
| Your Planning Center record ID | When you sign in | To connect the app to your church record |
| Which devotional you opened, and your streak | As you use the app | To show your progress |
| A notification token for your phone | Only if you turn notifications on | So we can send the daily reading to this device |
| Your notification choices and quiet hours | When you set them | So we send only what you asked for, when you asked for it |
| What you report, and why | When you report a request | So a moderator can look at it, and so it leaves your wall |
| Who you have blocked | When you block someone | So the two of you stop seeing each other |
| An anonymous device code | Only if you report something without signing in | So the request leaves your wall even though we do not know who you are |
Your Devotional Reflections Stay On Your Phone
When you write a reflection in the daily devotional, it is saved on your device and is not sent to us. Nobody at the church can read it. We cannot recover it for you, and if you delete the app it is gone.
This is deliberate. A reflection written honestly in the middle of a hard week is nobody's business but yours and God's. If that ever changes, this page will change with it, before the change ships.
Who Inside the Church Can See What
This table is a promise, not a description of intent. Access in Planning Center is configured so that it is true.
| What you post | Who reads it |
|---|---|
| A public prayer request | The whole church — after a person reviews it |
| An anonymous prayer request | The whole church. Your name is never shown, and is never sent to the app |
| A private prayer request | Pastors and staff only. Never published |
| A care request | Pastors and staff only. Never published |
| A devotional reflection | Nobody. It stays on your phone |
Every prayer request is read by a person before it appears anywhere. Nothing publishes automatically.
What We Never Collect
- Payment information — ever. Giving goes through Church Center, run by Planning Center. The church never sees or stores your card number, and neither does this app.
- Your location.
- Your contacts.
- Your browsing history outside the app.
- Advertising identifiers. There is no advertising in this app.
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with anyone for advertising. There is no exception to that sentence.
Other Companies Involved
Planning Center holds our church records and runs Church Center, where giving happens. When you give, you are on their system and their privacy policy applies to that transaction.
YouTube plays our sermons. When you watch one, Google's terms and privacy policy apply to what happens inside the player, including any comments you read.
Expo delivers our notifications. If you turn notifications on, your phone gives us a delivery code for that device, and we hand that code and the text of the notification to Expo so they can pass it to Apple or Google. The code identifies a phone, not a person — it carries no name, no email, and nothing you have written. Turning notifications off, or signing out, removes it.
Giphy provides the GIFs in group rooms. When you search for one, the words you type are sent to Giphy so they can answer — that is the only thing that goes. We do not send your name, your email, or anything identifying you, and Giphy is not told which church or which group the search came from. Results are limited to Giphy's most restrictive content rating, and that limit is set on our server, not on your phone.
Reporting and Blocking
If you report a prayer request, we keep which request it was, the reason you picked, anything you chose to add, and who reported it — either your account or, if you were not signed in, a random code for your device. The author is never told who reported them.
Reporting something takes it off your wall straight away. It does not take it off anyone else's; only a moderator can do that, and if they do, the person who wrote it is told why.
Children
Accounts for children under 13 require verified parental consent. A parent can withdraw that consent at any time by emailing us, and we will remove the account and its content.
Removing Something You Posted
Email jeff@christchurchmiami.org and we will take it off the wall.
One thing to know: when a prayer request comes down, our pastors keep a copy so they can keep praying for you. If you would rather they did not, say so and we will delete it completely — including from their records. We would rather tell you that plainly than have you find out later.
Deleting Your Account
Email jeff@christchurchmiami.org and ask. We will delete your app account, your prayer and care requests, and your streak. Your record in Planning Center is separate — it is your church membership record, not app data — and we will tell you what remains and help you with that too if you want it removed.
Questions
Email jeff@christchurchmiami.org, call (305) 271-5262, or come by 8485 SW 112th Street, Miami, FL 33156. A person answers.