Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:
Our websites (including biblebuddy.io);
Our native iOS and Android applications
Our Third party integrated applications (including the BibleBuddy SMS, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and WhatsApp chatbots).
Throughout this Privacy Policy, we’ll refer to our websites, applications, and other products and services collectively as “Services.”
Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.
Information We Collect
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so - for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.
We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.
Information You Provide to Us
Information We Collect Automatically
Information We Collect from Other Sources
We may also get information about you from other sources. For example, if you create or log into your Bible Buddy account through another service (like the sms or social media chatbots) or if you connect your account to a social media service (like Facebook), we will receive information from that service (such as your username and basic profile information) via the authorization procedures used by that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available.
Purposes for Using Information
We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:
To provide our Services–for example, to set up and maintain your account, host your website, backup and restore your website, charge you for any of our paid Services;
To further develop and improve our Services–for example, by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or will help them to create and manage their teams more efficiently;
To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use;
To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition — for example, we may analyze how many individuals purchased a paid plan after receiving a marketing message or the features used by those who continue to use our Services after a certain length of time;
To monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Higher Power Technology Ltd and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our Services;
To communicate with you, for example through an email, about offers and promotions offered by Higher Power Technology Ltd and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on Higher Power Technology Ltd and our products (which you can unsubscribe from at any time); and
To personalize your experience using our Services, provide content recommendations, target our marketing messages to groups of our users (for example, those who have a particular plan with us or have been our user for a certain length of time), and serve relevant advertisements.
Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
1. The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or
2. The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
3. The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
4. We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or
5. You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.
How We Share Information
How Long We Keep Information
We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it — which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
Security
While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
Choices
While we’d be very sad to see you go, if you no longer want to use our Services, you can close your account. In addition, if you wish to explicitly delete your account, you can email us at delete_account@biblebuddy.io with your request. Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain some of your information after your account is closed or deleted, as described in How Long We Keep Information above. This may be necessary to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or when it's reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Higher Power Technology Ltd may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Higher Power Technology Ltd encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or Twitter account, or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard).