Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 12, 2026

GiveThanks respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how GiveThanks collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you use the GiveThanks mobile app, web app, and related services.

Information We Collect

Account Information

When you sign in to GiveThanks with Google, we collect information associated with your Google sign-in, including your name, email address, profile image, email verification status, and authentication identifiers. GiveThanks uses Google OAuth for account creation and sign-in. GiveThanks does not support username/password account creation.

Profile and App Data

We may collect and store information you provide or generate while using the app, including your church, personal goal, group memberships, role, journal entries, reactions, daily activity, points, streaks, and interactions with app content.

Group and Community Data

GiveThanks includes group-based features. We may collect and store group names, group church information, posts, scripture, prayers, declarations, announcements, reactions, membership records, and administrator actions.

Journal Data

If you create journal entries, we collect the title, body, source post information, creation date, update date, and deletion status of those entries.

Voice and Microphone Data

GiveThanks may request microphone access for speech transcription features. Audio may be processed to provide live transcription and practice features. Microphone access is only used when you choose to use voice-based features.

Push Notifications

If you allow notifications, we collect and store push notification tokens and platform information so we can send app notifications, such as group updates or new content notifications.

Technical and Security Data

We may collect session and security-related information, including session tokens, IP address, user agent, device or platform information, timestamps, and logs needed to operate, secure, debug, and improve the service.

How We Use Information

We use collected information to:

  • Create and manage your GiveThanks account
  • Authenticate you securely
  • Provide app features such as groups, journals, reactions, practice, points, streaks, and notifications
  • Personalize your app experience
  • Process voice transcription features when you use them
  • Maintain app security and prevent unauthorized access
  • Debug, maintain, and improve the app
  • Respond to support, privacy, and deletion requests
  • Comply with legal or operational requirements

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate GiveThanks, including:

  • Google, for OAuth sign-in
  • Hosting, database, and infrastructure providers
  • Push notification service providers
  • Speech transcription providers when you use voice features
  • Analytics, logging, or debugging services if used to maintain app reliability

These providers are used only to operate, secure, and improve GiveThanks.

Data Retention

We keep account and app data for as long as needed to provide GiveThanks, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and operate backups. Deleted or removed data may remain in backups or logs for a limited period before being permanently removed.

Account and Data Deletion

You may request deletion of your GiveThanks account or app data at any time. Visit our Account and Data Deletion page for instructions.

When your account is deleted, we delete or anonymize account information and app data associated with your account, including profile data, group membership data, journal entries, reactions, daily activity, points, streaks, and push notification tokens, unless retention is required for legal, security, fraud prevention, backup, or operational reasons.

Children's Privacy

GiveThanks is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it if appropriate.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information. Data is transmitted over encrypted connections where supported. No system is completely secure, but we work to protect your information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, and disclosure.

Your Choices

You can:

  • Sign out of your account
  • Disable push notifications in your device settings
  • Deny or revoke microphone permission in your device settings
  • Request deletion of your account or app data
  • Contact us with privacy questions

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact us at:

contact@givethanks.world