Privacy policy
What AfterPreach collects, why, who else sees it, and how to get it back or get rid of it. Written from the code rather than from a template: every service named below is one this software actually calls.
Version 1.0, 12 September 2026.
1 Who is responsible
The controller is ND Strupler, Cambodia. For anything in this policy, write to [email protected].
2 What is collected, and why
Account
Your email address, your name, your church's name, and a scrypt hash of your password. The password itself is never stored and cannot be recovered from the hash.
Needed to perform the contract: without an account there is nothing to hold your creations or your plan.
Plan and usage
Your plan, when you paid, how many creations you have made in total and this week, and any promotion code you redeemed.
Needed to perform the contract and to enforce the allowance you bought.
What you put in
The preaching notes you paste, the YouTube link you give, the title and preacher you type, and the service details for an upcoming Sunday.
Needed to perform the contract: this is the material the pack is written from.
What comes out
The generated pack, with its copy, caption, hashtags and image instructions, and a snapshot of the brand settings it was made with.
Kept so you can come back and download it again. How many are kept depends on your plan.
Brand kit
Your two colors, typeface, theme, church name, handle, and a logo file if you upload one.
Technical
Your IP address, held briefly in memory to limit signups and generations per address, and a session cookie so you stay signed in. See the cookie notice.
Legitimate interest in keeping the service usable and its model costs from being spent by strangers.
There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixel and no third-party cookie anywhere on this site. Nothing about your visit is sold or shared for marketing.
3 Your preaching notes go to an AI provider
Stated plainly because it is the disclosure that matters most here. To write a pack, the service sends the text you paste, together with the title and description of any video you link, to Anthropic in the United States. Your name, your email and your church's name are not sent with it.
Under Anthropic's commercial terms, material sent through their API is not used to train their models. It is retained by them for a limited period for abuse monitoring.
The practical consequence: do not paste anything into the notes box that a person told you in confidence. A pastoral conversation, a named person's illness, a marriage in trouble. Preach it if you must, but do not send it here.
4 Who else receives anything
Anthropic PBC
Writes the pack from the message. The preaching notes you paste, and the title and description of the video you link. Not your name, email or church.
United States · their terms
Railway Corp.
Hosting, and the disk your account and packs sit on. Everything the service stores, because it runs on their machines: account details, preaching notes, generated packs, uploaded logos.
United States, with the deployment region set by the operator · their terms
Google LLC (YouTube Data API)
Reads the title and description of a linked video. The video id from the link you paste, and this server's address. Not your notes and nothing that identifies you.
United States · their terms
Unsplash Inc.
Supplies the photographs behind the assets. Two to four English search words taken from the message, for example 'empty bench lake dusk'. Never the notes themselves, and nothing that identifies you.
United States · their terms
Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.)
Delivers the email that confirms your address. Your email address and name, and the confirmation link. Never your preaching notes, and nothing about the packs you make.
United States · their terms
Stripe, Inc.
Takes the payment, when paid plans are live. Your card details, entered on Stripe's own page. They never reach this service, which stores only the customer reference Stripe gives back.
United States and Ireland · their terms
5 Data leaving your country
The providers above are mostly in the United States, so your data goes there. Transfers rest on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, and where the provider is certified, on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
This is a real consequence rather than a formality: United States authorities have powers over data held there that your own country's authorities do not. Clause 3 is the practical answer.
6 How long anything is kept
Creations are kept to the number your plan allows, shown on your dashboard. Making a new one deletes the oldest beyond that number, permanently and immediately.
Your account, brand kit and logo are kept until you close the account, then deleted.
Rate limiting records live in memory only and are gone within the hour, and on every restart.
Payment records are kept by the payment provider and by the operator for as long as tax law requires, which is commonly ten years.
7 What you can ask for
You can ask for a copy of your data, for it to be corrected, for it to be deleted, for its use to be restricted, for it in a portable form, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to [email protected] and you will get an answer within a month.
You can also complain to a regulator without asking the operator first. Cambodia has no data protection authority to complain to. If you are in the EU, the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you can complain to the authority where you live, and that right is unaffected by where this service is run from.
8 How it is protected, and where it is weak
Passwords are hashed with scrypt and a per-account salt. Sessions are a signed token in an http-only cookie, sent over TLS only. API keys live on the server and never reach the browser. Uploaded logos are checked against their declared type, and SVGs containing script, foreign objects or remote references are rejected outright.
Being straight about the weak points, because a policy that only lists strengths is not worth reading:
An address is confirmed by a link before the account can create anything, but accounts made before that was introduced were grandfathered in unconfirmed, rather than locking their owners out. There is no password reset, so recovery is manual. Data sits on a single disk as files, and while the hosting provider keeps the volume, there is no separate backup you could be restored from. Download what you cannot lose.
9 Children
The service is for churches and their staff and is not directed at children. Do not create an account if you are under 18, and do not paste material that identifies a child.
10 Changes
This policy may change. The version and date at the top of the page say which one you are reading, and a material change will be notified before it takes effect.