Privacy Policy
Your information should be handled with care.
Updated October 5, 2026
Destiny Apostolic Church uses personal information to welcome people, provide requested ministry care, support spiritual growth, manage serving and leadership, and keep church records accurate. This policy explains the information we collect and how we use it.
Information we collect
Depending on how you interact with Destiny, we may collect your name, contact information, household and visit details, requests you submit, account identity, attendance or follow-up history, baptism and discipleship milestones, Grow and Leadership course progress, quiz scores, serving assignments, and consent preferences. Prayer and pastoral-care forms may contain sensitive religious or personal information you choose to share.
How we use information
We use information to respond to you, prepare for a visit, send communications you authorize, maintain one connected person profile, prevent duplicate records, support discipleship and ministry participation, protect accounts, and provide appropriate church administration and pastoral care.
Who may see it
Members see only their own profile and progress. Authorized leaders see only the people or ministry teams assigned to them. Pastor and authorized administrators may see church-wide records. Sensitive pastoral notes are limited to Pastor and authorized administrators unless they are explicitly shared for a ministry purpose.
Service providers
We use trusted providers to operate this system, including Clerk for sign-in, Vercel for website hosting, Turso for the Destiny database, and Text In Church for approved communications and follow-up. Those providers process information on our behalf under their own security and privacy commitments. We do not sell personal information.
My Destiny Church mobile app
My Destiny Church, shown as My Destiny on your phone, is Destiny Apostolic Church’s mobile companion. This notice covers the app and its shared website account. For app privacy, account deletion or support, contact pastor@destinyapostolic.org.
Adults-only first release
The first mobile release is for people 18 and older. Group messaging and access for minors are not available. The age confirmation is a self-declaration, not verified age or an identity-document check. Do not make that declaration on a child’s behalf so the child can use the app. Families remain welcome at church, and an adult may still contact Destiny about a child under the ministry practices described in this notice.
Your shared account, profile and learning
Clerk handles sign-in, verification and account security. The app uses the same Destiny account and person profile as the website to show your own name, lessons and progress. Protected device storage supports remembered sign-in; security checks can still require another sign-in or verification.
Editing your name changes the shared profile. An optional photograph you select is uploaded to Clerk’s profile-image service and used by your website and app account. Do not upload another person’s image without permission, identity documents or other private material. The app’s name editor does not change other contact information or communication preferences.
Grow stores lesson participation, quiz answers, scores, completion dates and progress. These records concern your religious education and are handled as personal information, not advertising audiences. Authorized ministry access follows Destiny’s role restrictions. The separate personal notebook is explained below.
Videos, giving and meeting links
Watch and lesson videos use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embedded player. A visible Watch player may start muted. Loading it, including muted autoplay, contacts Google and can send network, device and playback information. Privacy-enhanced playback is not a promise of no collection or ad-free video. You can pause or leave the player. The read-only church catalog connection and shareable nature of unlisted videos are explained below.
Give opens Destiny’s Church Center checkout in your browser. The app does not collect card or bank details or receive donation amounts or history through a native payment integration. Planning Center/Church Center and its payment providers operate that checkout. Giving is optional and does not unlock app features. Deleting a Destiny account does not cancel a recurring gift there.
Zoom and other external links open when selected. The app does not append your Destiny profile or automatically join a meeting. Those services manage their own sign-in and permissions. The church-information help area is not a live AI, an emergency service or a promise that a person is available at any time.
Account deletion and status receipts
Our account-deletion page explains the currently available request process outside the app. The enabled app also provides Profile → Delete account. A deliberate confirmation affects the shared website and app account, not just one installation. Uninstalling or signing out does not delete the account.
When a request is accepted, access closes while cleanup is processed. A request receipt is not proof of finished deletion. Where protected status checking is enabled, a random receipt is saved in this browser or the app’s protected device storage so you can check completion after the original login is removed. The server stores a hash of the secret status verifier, not the verifier itself. No name, email or notebook content is stored in the device’s receipt.
Keep receipt access private. Anyone using the same browser or unlocked app may be able to check its saved request status. Removing the local receipt only removes that access; it does not cancel deletion or restore an account. Only a confirmed completed status means the described active-account cleanup has finished. It does not claim immediate removal from all historical backups or independent provider records.
App-only profile details and account-created history are removed during cleanup. If your shared person record also contains separate church, donation or safety information, the team reviews what has an independently justified retention purpose before completing the request. Minimal opaque identifiers and deletion records are kept to prevent a revoked login from restoring the account.
Our current database plan provides a 24-hour point-in-time recovery window. Restricted historical backups may temporarily contain older information; that recovery window does not establish when every provider-held copy is physically erased. Restoring a backup must not return deleted information to active use. Ask the support team about a specific retention concern.
Pastor Travis Morgan handles app support and deletion requests, with Patrice Morgan as backup. Contact pastor@destinyapostolic.org for retained-record, backup or ownership questions. Do not send passwords, verification codes or private notes. These contacts do not imply continuous staffing.
Our target is to complete a verified deletion request within seven days. A request that needs a separate retention review or technical attention stays pending until resolved; it is not reported as completed. Contact the support team if your request is delayed.
Your personal study notes
Where My Notes is enabled, notes are saved to your existing Destiny account and can contain a title, your writing, a Scripture reference, and creation or update dates. Your personal notebook is separate from leadership and pastoral-care notes. Other members and routine leadership screens cannot read it. Authorized technical operators and our hosting and database providers may access stored data when necessary to operate, secure, or support the service; this is not end-to-end encrypted storage.
We do not send your notebook to the Bible provider, Text In Church, advertising services, or AI tools. Notes are not posted to your public profile or chat. An export happens only when you choose it. A downloaded or shared copy is outside Destiny’s access controls, so choose its destination carefully.
Autosave needs an internet connection. “Saved to your account” means the server confirmed the save. Unsaved drafts are held temporarily in memory, not durable offline storage, and may be lost if the app or page closes. Sign-in and account changes clear private in-memory content to protect the next person using the device.
Moving a note to Trash hides it from your active notebook but retains it for restoration; it is not permanent deletion. Trash does not currently empty automatically. Exports include saved notes in Trash and do not include unsaved drafts. Contact admin@destinyapostolic.org for a permanent-deletion request. Necessary backups and security records may be retained under the retention policy below.
Bible reading and passage-use reporting
The app’s licensed Bible reader retrieves Scripture from API.Bible. Before opening Scripture, it explains the provider’s required usage reporting with random identifiers and offers a choice to continue or use My Notes without the reader. These identifiers make the reporting pseudonymous, not a promise that no information is collected. The reader loads chapters on demand; it does not download a complete Bible for offline use. Brief server caching is used within the provider’s limits.
When a chapter is displayed, Destiny sends API.Bible its passage token, a randomly generated installation identifier, and a random app-session identifier. These identifiers are separate from your Destiny identity, but can let the provider associate reading events from the same installation or session. The installation identifier is stored in protected device storage and does not change simply because you sign out; a new session identifier is generated when the app starts afresh.
This reporting does not include your name, email address, Destiny account or person identifiers, private notes, lesson results, or church records. It is relayed through Destiny’s server without forwarding your device’s IP address, sign-in credentials, or cookies to API.Bible. Our hosting service still processes ordinary technical information needed to deliver and protect the app.
Your reader choice is not saved as a permanent account preference. You can leave Bible reading and continue using your notebook. Reporting is for Scripture licensing and usage, not advertising or member profiling. Scripture copyright notices remain visible in the reader. For provider requirements, see API.Bible’s terms.
Optional Plan Your Visit ad measurement
The Plan Your Visit page offers an optional “Allow measurement” choice. Until you select it, we do not enable Google advertising measurement. If you allow it, Google may use advertising cookies and technical information, including an ad-click identifier when present, to help us measure whether an ad led someone to open our visit form. Opening the form does not tell us that a visit was registered or that someone attended church.
This measurement does not send Google your name, email address, phone number, household details, form answers, prayer requests, or private church records. We do not enable enhanced conversions, personalized advertising, or remarketing through this feature. Google may still receive technical information such as your IP address and browser information when its measurement service is contacted. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Your choice applies only to the current visit page. You can use “Turn off and reload” on that page to stop this measurement, remove its accessible Google advertising cookies, and reload with measurement off. Leaving the page ends this measurement session; a later visit starts with measurement off. Declining has no effect on your ability to open the form, attend Destiny, or contact us. Your separate email and text communication choices are managed independently.
The Plan My Visit button opens our website visit form on a separate page without this Google measurement tag. Its form answers are used by Destiny to prepare for your visit and are not sent to Google. The alternate Text In Church card is not measured by this feature.
After a website visit request is saved, a separate confirmation page may offer another optional measurement choice to count the received request. Your earlier visit-page choice does not carry over. Google is not loaded on the form or on a confirmation page unless you choose “Allow measurement” there. A received request is not a record of attendance.
We use a secure first-party confirmation cookie that expires after 10 minutes to verify that a request was saved and to prevent duplicate measurement. It contains a random receipt, not your form answers, and is not accessible to Google’s script. Only hashed references are kept in our confirmation ledger; older references are removed during later form processing. We never send these receipt references or church record IDs to Google. You may decline measurement without affecting your saved request.
Optional visitor-page analytics
The public Plan Your Visit page separately offers “Allow analytics” and “No thanks.” Only if you allow analytics do we enable Google Analytics for summary reports about that page. We manually send its fixed page address and title, without query parameters, form answers, church record identifiers, or private-page information. Google may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser information, and a cookie identifier; this is not anonymous collection. Our analytics cookies are limited to the visit path and expire after 10 minutes.
We do not enable automatic page views, enhanced event measurement, Google signals, user-provided data, or personalized advertising for this feature. Google Analytics may process basic session and engagement information while this public page is open. Analytics is not installed on our visit form, confirmation, or private pages. Declining analytics does not prevent you from using any visitor feature or from separately choosing ad measurement.
Both choices start off each time you visit the page. “Turn off and reload” stops both optional features, removes their accessible cookies, and reloads with both off. Leaving the page unloads this measurement session. Learn more about Google’s use of data and the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Some public pages also embed YouTube videos. Those embeds contact YouTube when the video player loads and may share technical information such as your IP address and browser details under Google’s privacy policies. This is separate from the optional visit measurement described above.
YouTube and automatic Watch updates
Destiny Watch uses YouTube API Services to display our church channel’s video titles, thumbnails, publication times, and broadcast availability. The church channel owner may authorize a read-only connection so Watch can identify public and unlisted broadcasts automatically. This connection does not upload, edit, or delete YouTube videos. Viewers do not need to connect their own Google accounts, and we do not send Destiny profiles, lesson results, or church records through this channel connection.
Public broadcasts and recordings may appear on the public website. Unlisted broadcasts and their replays are offered through authenticated Destiny app access, not the public Watch feed. An unlisted YouTube video is not confidential: anyone who receives its YouTube link may be able to view or share it. Private YouTube videos are not included.
Connection credentials are stored privately on our hosting service, separate from the mobile app and public website code. Video metadata is refreshed and cached briefly to operate Watch; we do not use this connection for advertising, member profiling, or sale of data. Destiny Watch’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
The channel owner can revoke this connection in Google Account permissions and can contact admin@destinyapostolic.org to request removal of retained connection credentials. Embedded playback is provided by YouTube and may share device, network, and playback information with Google when the player loads, including during muted autoplay. See Google’s Privacy Policy and YouTube’s Terms of Service.
Email and text communications
We send email or text messages when you have asked for them or otherwise authorized them. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to a Destiny text to opt out or HELP for help. Opting out of messages does not prevent you from attending or requesting ministry care.
Retention, correction, and deletion
We keep information only as long as it is reasonably needed for church ministry, safety, legal, accounting, and recordkeeping purposes. Access to prayer and pastoral details is especially restricted, and those details may be archived when the request is complete. You may ask us to correct your profile, provide a copy of your information, or consider a deletion request. Some ministry or legal records may need to be retained.
Security and children
We use role-based access, authenticated accounts, restricted administrative tools, and service-provider safeguards. No system can guarantee absolute security. Parents or legal guardians should submit information for children and may contact us about a child’s record.
Contact us
Questions or requests may be sent to admin@destinyapostolic.org. This policy may be updated as the ministry and its systems grow.