Orafide
Privacy policy
DRAFT - needs legal review. This page is a working draft and is not yet legal advice or a final policy. Items in [square brackets] are still to be completed.
Draft of 11 October 2026
Orafide (“Orafide”, “we”, “us”) is operated by [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], [ADDRESS]. This policy explains what personal information the Orafide apps, the Apple Watch app and orafide.ai (together, the “Service”) collect, why, who we share it with, and the choices you have. You can reach us about privacy at privacy@orafide.ai.
1. Information we collect
| What | Details | When |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Email address, name (optional), sign-in method (email and password, Sign in with Apple, or Sign in with Google), language and country. We never see your password; it is handled by our sign-in provider. | When you create an account |
| Preferences | Language, theme, distance units, default search radius, notification choices, your home parish. | When you set them |
| Location | Your device location, to find Catholic churches near you and to show distance. If you choose a search area by typing a city, we use that instead. Dating (if used) stores an approximate location for your profile. | Only when you use the map or dating, and only if you grant permission |
| Ask Orafide conversations | The questions you type or speak and the answers, saved so you can see your history. | When you use the assistant |
| Parish information | If you administer a parish: the parish profile, Mass and confession times, events, announcements and team members you enter. | When you use parish tools |
| Dating profile (optional) | Display name, birth year, gender, who you are interested in, bio, a note about your faith, photos, city or approximate location, likes, matches, messages, blocks and reports. | Only if you create a dating profile |
| Journal (Premium) | Prayer journal entries you write. They are stored on your device and, if you use sync, on our servers. | When you use the journal |
| Purchases | Which plan you have and when it renews. Payments are processed by Apple, Google or Stripe; we do not receive your card number. | When you subscribe or buy a pack |
| Notifications | A push token for your device so we can send the reminders you turn on, and match or message alerts if you use dating. | When you allow notifications |
| Technical | IP address, device type, app version and error logs, used for security and to fix problems. | Automatically |
Sensitive information. Using a Catholic app can reveal your religious beliefs, and dating information (who you are interested in) can reveal your sexual orientation. Many laws treat these as special categories. We use this information only to provide the features you ask for, never to profile you for advertising, and where the law requires it we ask for your explicit consent before collecting it. [CONFIRM consent flow wording with counsel.]
2. How we use information, and our legal bases
- Provide the Service (account, daily readings, church map, assistant, parish and dating features) – performance of our contract with you.
- Payments and subscriptions – performance of our contract and legal obligations.
- Safety, fraud prevention and moderation, including reviewing reports about dating profiles – legitimate interests and legal obligations.
- Notifications you turn on – your consent, which you can withdraw in Settings.
- Location, and sensitive information – your consent.
- Improve and secure the Service (aggregated diagnostics) – legitimate interests.
3. Ask Orafide and artificial intelligence
When you use Ask Orafide, your question and recent messages in that conversation are sent to Anthropic, our AI provider, which generates the reply. [VERIFY: under our agreement with Anthropic, content sent through its API is not used to train its models.] Ask Orafide is an automated assistant. It is not a priest, deacon or spiritual director, it cannot hear confession or administer any sacrament, and it does not give medical, legal or mental-health advice. Its answers can be wrong; please check important matters with your parish priest or the Catechism. Please do not share confessions, emergencies or other sensitive details in the chat.
4. Who we share information with
We share information only with the service providers below (our “processors”) and as described in this section. We do not sell your personal information and we do not “share” it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| WorkOS | Sign-in and account identity (email and password, Apple, Google) |
| Amazon Web Services (United States) | Hosting and our database |
| Anthropic | Generates Ask Orafide answers |
| Google (Maps Platform) | Church map and place search; Sign in with Google |
| Apple | Sign in with Apple, App Store billing, push notifications on iPhone and Apple Watch |
| Google Play | Billing and push notifications on Android |
| Stripe | Payments made on the web |
| RevenueCat | Managing in-app subscriptions and purchase status |
| Expo | Delivering push notifications |
Other people. If you create a dating profile, the profile details you enter are visible to other members according to your settings, and your messages are visible to the person you message. Parish information you publish as an administrator is visible to everyone. We do not give parish administrators access to your personal account data. [CONFIRM when priest chat and parish messaging launch.]
Legal and safety. We may disclose information if required by law or to protect the rights, safety and property of our users or the public, for example in response to valid legal process.
5. How long we keep information
- Account, preferences and conversation history: until you delete them or your account.
- When you delete your account we delete your personal data from our live systems [within 30 days]; encrypted backups roll off within [35 days]. [CONFIRM retention periods.]
- Reports about unsafe behaviour may be kept for up to [X months] to protect other members.
- Records we must keep for tax or legal reasons are kept for the period the law requires.
6. Your rights and choices
In the app: Settings → Privacy & data → Export my data gives you a copy of your information; Settings → Delete account permanently deletes your account. You can also change your preferences, clear your Ask Orafide history, turn off location and notifications, and hide or delete your dating profile.
If you are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to our processing of your data, to data portability, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to your data protection authority.
If you are a California resident you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion and correction, to opt out of any sale or sharing (we do neither), to limit use of sensitive personal information, and not to be discriminated against for using these rights. Other US states give similar rights.
To use a right that is not available in the app, email privacy@orafide.ai. We may need to verify your identity first and will reply within the time the law allows.
7. International transfers
Our servers are in the United States. If you use the Service from elsewhere, your information is transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries where our providers operate. Where required, we rely on safeguards such as standard contractual clauses. [CONFIRM transfer mechanism with counsel.]
8. Children
The Service is for people aged 13 and over (16 and over in the European Union unless a parent or guardian consents, or the higher age your country sets). Dating features are for people 18 and over only. We do not knowingly collect personal information from younger children; if you believe we have, contact us and we will delete it.
9. Security
We use encryption in transit, access controls, hashed session tokens, and rate limiting, and we limit who can reach production systems. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.
10. Our website
orafide.ai does not use advertising or analytics cookies. If that changes we will update this policy and ask for consent where the law requires it.
11. Changes and contact
We will post changes here and, for material changes, notify you in the app. Questions: privacy@orafide.ai, [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], [ADDRESS]. EU/UK representative and data protection officer, if required: [TO BE APPOINTED].