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Legal
Effective date: October 1, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how The Catholic Zone LLC collects, uses, shares, retains, and protects information.
Updated for business applications, public owner/parish information, ambassador records, and listing analytics. Previous version
This Privacy Policy explains how The Catholic Zone LLC collects, uses, shares, retains, and protects information through The Catholic Zone web app, iOS app, Android app, and related services.
We collect information you provide, including:
The app asks users to select a home parish or local parish anchor so local discovery, parish-related features, and weekly digest features can work.
If you are not Catholic, unsure, or do not have a regular parish, you may choose a nearby Catholic parish for locality purposes.
Home parish is private account data unless you explicitly share it through a feature. If your parish participates in parishioner host access and you activate it, The Catholic Zone staff and the official parish team can see your host profile and seat status to administer that access. This does not share your private account activity. Parish selection, Catholic event participation, parish suggestions, and related activity may imply religious or community affiliation, so we treat this information carefully and use it for app functionality, safety, support, and user-requested workflows.
We may process location information from event addresses, host/team profile locations, business addresses, ambassador hosting areas, selected home parish coordinates, preferred search locations, and device/browser location when you choose to enable it.
Device location is used for nearby discovery and similar location-based features.
For private-location events, public views may show coarse location information while exact location is restricted according to platform rules.
Some content may be visible to other users or the public, including public profiles, team profiles, event listings, event images, handles, comments, ratings summaries, and shared event/profile previews. Public discovery, host profiles, and approved business listings can also be viewed by signed-out visitors. Public content may be shared or copied by others; removing it from our service cannot remove copies held elsewhere.
Your settings and feature context affect what is visible.
We may send in-app inbox notifications, email notifications, push notifications, transactional messages, account/security messages, billing messages, moderation/trust updates, parish suggestion updates, Get Involved-related messages, and weekly local digests.
You can manage many notification preferences in-app. Some critical operational, legal, billing, or security messages may still be sent.
We process billing-related information needed to manage plans, entitlements, invoices, subscription status, cancellations, renewals, payment risk, and support.
Full payment card details are handled by payment or app-store billing providers rather than stored directly by The Catholic Zone.
We collect and retain information needed to operate moderation, reporting, verification, official profile relations, abuse prevention, rate limits, account security, and audit workflows.
This may include reports, review notes, verification evidence, official-source evidence, admin actions, trust case history, moderation decisions, device/request metadata, and related communications.
We collect technical information needed to operate and secure the service, including session data, authentication events, device/platform context, browser/app version, IP address, request metadata, error reports, performance telemetry, push subscription/device-token data, and abuse-prevention logs.
We use information to:
We share information when needed with service providers that support hosting, database, storage, authentication, payments, app-store billing, entitlement management, email, push notifications, geocoding/maps, moderation/safety, anti-abuse, diagnostics, support, and similar operations.
We may share information with profile/team managers when you submit an inquiry, RSVP, team action, report-related interaction, or other feature that requires manager follow-up.
We may disclose information when required by law, to enforce policies, to protect users or rights, or in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, or asset transfer.
We do not sell personal information to data brokers.
We do not provide personal information for third-party cross-context behavioral advertising.
We use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for authentication, session continuity, security, preferences, app functionality, diagnostics, and view/click measurement. For example, an anonymous browser identifier helps avoid repeatedly counting business listing views; signed-in measurements can use the account identifier. Businesses receive aggregate listing views and contact/website clicks, not a list of individual visitors.
We retain information for as long as needed for app functionality, safety, support, billing, audit, legal compliance, and operational integrity.
Withdrawing an application or removing a listing stops that workflow or its public display; it does not itself erase all associated records. Application versions, review notes and evidence, publication permissions, accepted terms, invoices, and ambassador activity or reward records may be retained for the purposes above. Some records may be deleted, de-identified, disassociated, or retained longer when needed for fraud prevention, moderation, trust/safety, accounting, legal, or security purposes.
You may request account deletion in-app or through the account deletion page at /account-deletion.
Deletion uses a recovery window before permanent purge. Some records may be retained or de-identified for safety, billing, legal, audit, or operational reasons.
Where available, you may also export account data from account settings.
You can update profile information, notification preferences, home parish, location preferences, privacy-related event settings, and certain account settings in-app.
You can disable device location through your browser or operating system.
You can unsubscribe from non-required emails where available.
The service is intended only for adults age 18 and older. We collect birth date information to enforce this requirement.
We use technical, administrative, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No transmission or storage system is completely secure.
Information may be processed in the United States or other countries where we or our service providers operate, subject to applicable safeguards.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material updates may be reflected by an updated effective date and a notice or in-app review. Acknowledging this policy is not blanket consent to new uses of sensitive information. Where required, we obtain separate consent; we do not treat a policy update alone as permission to expand previously promised uses of information.
We collect business identity, handle, category, location, website, public contact details, descriptions, images, offers, and the names and parish affiliations of owners. We also process applicant account name and email, authority-to-represent explanations, review decisions, private supporting documents, requested changes, invoice records, and acceptance/publication authorization records.
Approved listing information, including each named owner's name and parish affiliation, is public. Parish affiliation can reveal religious beliefs. This publication is a separate choice from selecting a private account home parish: applicants must have each owner's permission and consent for their own information if listed. Owners can contact support to correct information or withdraw publication permission. Identity and ownership changes are reviewed; contact support for an urgent privacy concern.
Your private account email is not automatically added to a listing. Public email or phone fields you supply are public. Business information can also populate its associated host profile. Selecting an owner's parish does not change the applicant's private home parish.
Applications and private evidence are available to the applicant where provided and authorized reviewers or administrators according to their roles. Staff-only review attachments are not published. Authorized business administrators can receive application notifications containing the applicant's account name, account email, and business name so they can review and contact the applicant. Listing removal deactivates the associated business host team and unpublishes its upcoming events; it is separate from account deletion.
Ambassador applications use your account name and email and collect motivation, hosting area, optional group or organizational connections, role, group size, links, experience, hosting plans, and comments. We retain the proposal version shown with the application, accepted terms, review decisions, and relevant correspondence. These application answers are not automatically published on your profile.
Authorized marketing staff and administrators use these records to review applications, conduct onboarding, contact applicants, and administer participation. Administrative notifications can include applicant name, account email, and hosting area. Program records may include participation periods, complimentary access, event activity, RSVP and attendance confirmations, referral attribution, qualifying subscription conversions, eligibility decisions, rewards, and fulfillment records.
We use this information to evaluate program requirements, prevent duplicate or fraudulent activity, manage benefits and rewards, and provide program notices. Relevant service providers process information as described above. Notification preferences control optional channels where available; necessary account, safety, and program administration communications may still be sent.
Privacy questions may be sent to support@thecatholiczone.com.