Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 7, 2025
Welcome to Global Christian Fellowship (“GCF,” “we,” “our,” “us”).
We know privacy policies can feel like reading Leviticus—important but a bit overwhelming—so we’ve written ours in plain English. Here’s the gist of what we collect, why we collect it, and how you stay in control.
1. What We Collect (and Why)
| Type of information | Examples | Why we need it |
|---|---|---|
| Account basics | Name, email, password | To create your login and greet you personally. |
| Profile details | Country, denomination, profile photo (optional) | Helps members find fellow believers with similar backgrounds—entirely your choice. |
| Prayer requests & testimonies | Whatever you share in posts, comments, or messages | So the community can pray, celebrate, and encourage you. |
| Usage data | Pages visited, links clicked, device type | To keep GCF running smoothly and figure out which features you love (or don’t). |
| Cookies & similar tech | Small text files in your browser | They remember you’re logged in and keep your scripture reading plans in sync. |
We do not collect: financial data, government IDs, or anything that could be used to steal your identity.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Building community – Displaying your posts, likes, and comments so friends can respond.
- Daily Devotion delivery – Scheduling Bible verses or notifications at the time you request.
- Feature improvement – Aggregated, anonymous stats help us fix bugs and plan new tools.
- Legal & safety – Detecting spam or harmful content, and complying with applicable laws.
We will never sell your personal information or bombard you with third-party ads. Period.
3. When We Share (Rarely)
We share data only when it’s absolutely necessary:
- Service providers (e.g., cloud hosting, email delivery) who process information on our behalf and sign strict confidentiality agreements.
- Legal requests – If a law requires us to hand something over, we’ll comply after reasonable review.
- Community safety – If someone’s at risk of serious harm, we may alert proper authorities.
4. Your Choices & Controls
- Edit or delete your profile any time under Account Settings.
- Unsubscribe from devotional emails with a single click in the footer.
- Download your data in a readable file—just email privacy@gcf.org.
- Disable cookies in your browser (some features may stop working, but salvation doesn’t).
5. Protecting Kids
We welcome young believers but require anyone under 13 to join only with verifiable parental consent, in line with COPPA (U.S.) and similar regulations worldwide. Parents can review or delete their child’s data at any time.
6. Security Measures
- End-to-end encryption on private messages
- HTTPS everywhere
- Regular security audits and vulnerability scanning
- Limited employee access—only those who need to see data can see it
Still, no website is 100 % hack-proof, so keep your password unique and don’t share sensitive details in public posts.
7. International Visitors
Our servers sit in the United States. If you’re joining us from outside the U.S., you’re agreeing to have your information transferred and processed here.
8. Policy Updates
If we change something substantial, we’ll post an announcement and, if you have an account, send you an email. Minor wording tweaks may appear without notice, but the “Last updated” date will always tell you when revisions happened.
9. Talk to Us
Questions? Concerns? A scripture that inspires better privacy practices?
Email us at YouFriends@GlobalChristianFellowship.com or write:
We’re grateful you’re part of this global family. Let’s keep encouraging one another—safely and respectfully.
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Who we are
Our website address is: https://globalchristianfellowship.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.