Divine Duty

To use some of our products and services you need to have an account, and to create an account, you need to provide us certain information. Likewise, if you use our paid products and services, we cannot provide them to you without getting payment information. Basically, certain information is necessary if you want to use many of our products and services.

• Personal Accounts. If you choose to create an account, it is essential to provide us with certain information to facilitate the provision of our services to you. This includes details such as your username, first name, last name, middle name, family name, date of birth, email address, gender, phone number, display language, baptism name, baptism date, mailing address, country, location, relationships, contact preferences, job titles, blood group and photos. While certain profile information, like first name and last name, is always public, you have the option to control the visibility of your personal information on your profile, allowing you to manage who can access your details. Our default settings prioritize privacy, and you have the flexibility to adjust these settings according to your preferences. It is important to note that all your personal information will be visible to your church leaders for the purposes of effective communication and community engagement.


• Payment Information. When making a donation to the church, purchasing a subscription, or engaging in any other payment-related services, it is essential to provide payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address. It is crucial to highlight that we do not retain any of this payment information, and none of these details are accessible to us. Only the designated payment provider has visibility of these details, and, in most cases, they refrain from saving such information unless explicitly specified by you.

When utilizing our services, we gather information regarding your usage of our products and services. This information is utilized to furnish you with enhanced products and services, to bolster the security and respectfulness of Divine Duty for all users, and to tailor our offerings to be more pertinent to your needs.

• Usage Information. We collect information about your activity on Divine Duty including,
  • • Content you share (including the date, application, and version of Divine Duty),
  • • Your interactions with other users' content,
  • • How you interact with other users on the platform,
  • • When you use direct messages, including the contents of the message, recipients, and date and time of the messages.
• Purchase and payments.To facilitate payments or money transfers using Divine Duty features or services, including transactions through an intermediary, we may receive information about your transaction, including the transaction date, subscription expiration or auto-renewal date, and the amounts paid or received.


• Device & Log Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use to access Divine Duty, including:
  • • Information about your connection, such as your IP address, network connection type, and related information.
  • • Information about your device and its settings, such as device and advertising ID, operating system, carrier, language, memory, apps installed, and battery level.
  • • Your computer/mobile operating system type, browser type, browser language, the website you visited before browsing to our website, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page/screen, and access times.
• Location Information.When you use Divine Duty, we gather certain information about your approximate location to deliver the expected service. Additionally, you have the option to voluntarily share your current precise location.


• Inferred Identity We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:
  • • When you sign into Divine Duty on a browser or device, we will link that browser or device to your account. Depending on your settings, we may also link your account with browsers or devices other than the ones you use to sign into Divine Duty.
  • • When you provide additional information to Divine Duty, such as an email address or phone number, we link that information to your Divine Duty account. Depending on your settings, we may utilize this information to infer other details about your identity.
  • • When you access Divine Duty without being signed in, we may deduce your identity based on the information we collect.
• Log Information. We may receive information when you view content or interact with our products and services, even if you have not created an account or are signed out. This information may include:


• Cookies and similar technologies. Similar to many websites, we utilize cookies and similar technologies to gather additional data on website usage and to facilitate the operation of our services. While cookies are not essential for many aspects of our products and services, such as searching and viewing public profiles, you can find more information on how we use cookies and similar technologies.


• Web Beacons. We may log information using digital images called Web beacons on our website or in our emails. These Web beacons help us manage cookies, track visits, analyze the effectiveness of marketing efforts, and determine user engagement with our emails, including whether they are opened or acted upon.


• Interactions with our content on third-party sites. When you engage with our content on third-party websites that integrate Divine Duty content, we may receive log information, including details about the web page you visited.


• User Generated Contents. When you use our Services, you may have the opportunity to create, share, or contribute to user-generated content (UGC), such as text, images, videos, or other materials. By submitting UGC to our Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, publish, translate, distribute, perform, display, and create derivative works from your UGC in connection with our Services. You also agree that your UGC may be made available to other users of our Service. We will not use your files for any purpose other than to provide you with the Services, except with your consent. You are solely responsible for the User-Generated Content you post on the Application. You agree not to post any User-Generated Content that is:
  • • Defamatory, obscene, or harassing.
  • • Hateful or discriminatory.
  • • Illegal or promotes illegal activity.
  • • Infringes on the intellectual property rights of others.

We reserve the right to remove any User-Generated Content that we deem to be in violation of these terms.

• File uploads. When you use our Services, you may have the opportunity to upload files, such as images, videos, or other documents. By uploading files to our Services, you agree that we may store, process, and transmit your files in connection with our Services. When you upload files to our Services, we may collect information about the files, such as the file size, file type, and file name. We may also collect information about your device, such as your device type, operating system, and IP address. We use this information to provide you with our Services, to improve our Services, and to protect our users from fraud and abuse. We will not use your files for any purpose other than to provide you with the Services, except with your consent. When you upload files to the Application, you agree to the following:
  • • The files you upload are your own original work or you have the necessary permission to use them.
  • • The files you upload do not violate any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights.
  • • The files you upload do not contain any viruses or other malware.

We may scan uploaded files for viruses or other malware. We may also remove files that we deem to be in violation of these terms.

We leverage the information we collect to deliver and manage Divine Duty products and services. Additionally, this information is instrumental in enhancing and customizing our products and services, ensuring you have an optimized experience. Moreover, we may utilize the collected information, along with publicly available data, to contribute to the training of our machine learning or artificial intelligence models, aligning with the objectives outlined in this policy.

We may utilize the information gathered from accounts of other services that you choose to link with your Divine Duty account to offer features such as cross-posting or cross-service authentication. This information is also used in the operation of our services.

We utilize your contact information to facilitate the discovery of your account by others, as permitted by your settings. This may include interactions with third-party services and client applications.

We leverage your information to deliver our advertising and sponsored content services, adhering to your settings, to enhance the relevance of ads on Divine Duty. This data is also instrumental in assessing the effectiveness of ads and recognizing your devices for targeted advertising both on and off the Divine Duty platform. Our ad partners may facilitate the direct collection of similar information from their websites or apps through the integration of our advertising technology. Information obtained from ad partners, affiliates, or collected by Divine Duty from their websites and apps may be combined with other information you share with Divine Duty, as detailed elsewhere in our Privacy Policy.

We employ the information we collect to ensure the safety and security of our users, products, services, and your account. This involves tasks such as verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and safeguarding against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activities. Furthermore, we utilize this information to assess and enhance the safety and quality of content on Divine Duty. This encompasses investigations and enforcement of our policies, terms, and applicable laws.

We utilize the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services. This analysis helps us gain a deeper understanding of how you use our offerings, enabling us to make continuous improvements for a better user experience.

We employ the information we collect to communicate with you regarding our products and services, providing updates and informing you of any changes to our policies and terms. If you are receptive to receiving such communications, we may also send you occasional marketing messages.

We leverage the information you share with us, or that we collect, for research, surveys, product testing, and troubleshooting purposes. These efforts are aimed at enhancing the operation and improvement of our products and services.

If you are a resident of the European Union (EU), you have certain data protection rights. Education Progress Tracker aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at [email protected]. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

1. • Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Information directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
2. • You have the right to have your Personal Information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
3. • You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information.
4. • You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Information.
5. • You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
6. • You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Divine Duty relied on your consent to process your Personal Information.
7. • Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
8. • You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Union (EU).

We sometimes employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. The service providers we use on our Website includes:Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Your Personal Information may be transferred to, and stored on, computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by the submission of such information, signifies your agreement to this transfer. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Information will occur to an organization or country unless adequate controls are in place, including the security of your Personal Information.