Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Ignite. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our platform and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

• Identity Data: Name, username, or similar identifier
• Contact Data: Email address
• Profile Data: Your testimony, bio, church affiliation, and preferences
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our platform, including challenges completed, verses memorized, and community interactions
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data to:

• Provide and improve our faith-sharing platform services
• Personalize your experience with daily challenges and memory verses
• Enable community features and prayer support
• Send you notifications about challenges, encouragement, and prayer responses
• Analyze usage to improve our platform
• Ensure the security of our platform

4. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your data with:

• Service Providers: Third-party services that help us operate our platform (authentication, hosting, analytics)
• Community Members: Information you choose to share publicly in the community (posts, testimonies marked as public, encouragements)
• Legal Requirements: When required by law or to protect our rights

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. We use industry-standard encryption and security practices to protect your information.

6. Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• Request access to your personal data
• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Right to withdraw consent

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

8. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our platform and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@igniteapp.com