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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 1.6, 1 November 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. Your address is also how the operator tells you about the service itself: a change to it or to your own plan, a price change, an outage, or something new. If a promotion code gave you your plan and nothing has been made on the account for eight days, it also gets a short reminder, a week apart and at most three in a row, each with a link that stops them for good. If a creation you started finishes while the page is no longer open, one email says it is ready. The operator may also write to you personally, for example to welcome you when you join, and such a note can include a promotion code. A copy of every email the service sends you goes to the operator's own inbox ([email protected]), the confirmation, reset, hand-over and invitation links included, so the operator can help when a link does not arrive. Nothing else is sent to it: no newsletter, no mailing list, and nothing on anyone else's behalf.

Per account the service also keeps how often and when you sign in (the last ten moments), on which days you used it, how many files of each kind you rendered, and when your first and your latest creation were made (since version 1.5). The operator reads these on the admin page to see whether the service is used and by whom. Nothing records what you looked at, and nothing is kept about visitors who have no account.

An account can have a team: further sign-ins that share the church's creations, church design and photos. Everyone on the team sees each other's names and addresses and everything made on the account, and the owner can remove a member at any time; a removed member's creations stay with the church.

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, or the text read from a Word, PowerPoint, PDF or text file you upload (the file is read in memory and not kept), the YouTube link you give, the title and preacher you type, and the service details for an upcoming Sunday. If you choose a file from Google Drive, your browser signs in to Google and fetches that one file itself; this server receives the file and never your Google sign-in.

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 church design settings it was made with.

Kept so you can come back and download it again. How many are kept depends on your plan.

Church design

Your two colors, typeface, theme, church name, handle, and a logo file if you upload one.

Photographs you upload

Any photograph you put behind a post, a story or an invitation card, stored with the creation you added it to. Nothing is read out of it: it is kept as the file you sent and drawn behind that one asset.

A photograph of people is personal data about them, and they are not the ones who uploaded it. You are responsible for having their agreement before it goes in, which is clause 7 of the terms.

Needed to perform the contract: it is part of the asset you asked the service to build.

Feedback

If you use the feedback tab: your message, the kind you chose, and where you were when you sent it (the page, the open panel, the creation and asset if you were in the studio, your plan, interface language and browser). Replies are sent to your address and shown on your dashboard. Kept until your account is closed, so a thread can be picked up again.

Legitimate interest: answering you without asking which creation you meant, and improving the service. The context is captured so you do not have to describe it.

Survey answers

If you answer the survey the operator sends to people who used the service in the last month (since version 1.6): your answers to its ten questions, kept together with your name, address, church, plan and interface language, and the date. You answer once, and nothing is asked of you unless you choose to open it. The operator reads the answers to learn what to improve and may write back to you about them. Nobody outside the operator's team sees them, and they are not sent to any other service. Finishing the survey shows a discount code on the page; the code is not tied to your answers. Kept until your account is closed.

Legitimate interest: learning how the service is used and where it should improve, from the people who use it. Answering is voluntary, and you can ask for your answers to be deleted at any time by writing to [email protected].

Technical

Your IP address, held briefly in memory to limit signups and generations per address, and a session cookie so you stay signed in. Cloudflare Web Analytics also counts the visit itself, without a cookie. See the cookie notice.

Legitimate interest in keeping the service usable and its model costs from being spent by strangers.

The one measurement on this site is a visit counter from Cloudflare (see the list of services below): it counts page visits, countries and referring sites, sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser. There is 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 or upload, 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 and uploaded photographs.

United States, with the deployment region set by the operator · their terms

Google LLC (YouTube Data API; Google Drive picker)

Reads the title and description of a linked video; hands over a Drive file you pick. The video id from the link you paste, and this server's address. Not your notes and nothing that identifies you. If you choose a file from Google Drive, your own browser signs in to Google and fetches that file; nothing goes from this server to Google.

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', and the words you type into the photo search in the studio. When you search, your browser loads the thumbnails straight from Unsplash. Never the notes themselves, and nothing that identifies you.

United States · their terms

Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.)

Delivers every email the service sends: address confirmation, password resets, account hand-overs, team invitations, replies to your feedback, plan reminders, and notes the operator chooses to email. Your email address and name, and the text of the email being sent, with a copy of each to the operator's own inbox. Never your preaching notes or what your packs contain.

United States · their terms

Paddle.com Market Ltd.

Takes the payment, and is the seller of record for it. Your email address and which plan you picked, sent when the checkout opens, plus an internal reference to your account so the payment can be matched back to it. Your card details are entered on Paddle's own checkout and never reach this service, which stores only the subscription id Paddle gives back.

United Kingdom · their terms

Cloudflare, Inc. (Web Analytics)

Counts visits to the website, nothing more. What a browser sends when it loads any page: the page address, the referring site, the browser and device type, and the visitor's IP address, which Cloudflare uses to work out the country and does not keep as an identifier. No cookie is set, nothing is stored in your browser, and visitors are not tracked from one site to another. Never your notes, your account or what your packs contain.

United States, with servers around the world · 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, church design and logo are kept until you close the account, then deleted.

Photographs you upload are deleted with the creation they belong to, at the same moment and by the same code, whether you delete it yourself or a new creation pushes it off the end of what your plan keeps.

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. An uploaded photograph is read by its first bytes rather than the name or type it arrived under; only PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF and TIFF are accepted, and every one is re-encoded to a JPEG before it is stored, which also strips the location a phone writes into it.

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. A password reset is sent by email, so whoever controls the address controls the account, and an account can be handed to another address the same way. Data sits on a single disk as files. A copy of it is taken every night, encrypted, and kept for 30 days in the operator's private code repository at GitHub, so the operator can restore the service if the disk is lost. That copy contains everything on the disk except cached stock photographs, and what you delete stays in it until its 30 days are up. It is a safeguard for the operator, not a service to you: Download what you cannot lose.

A photograph you upload is unlisted, not private. It is served from an address containing the creation's own random identifier, which is not listed anywhere, not indexed and not guessable, but the address itself is not behind a password: the renderer has to fetch the file while it draws your asset, and it does that without your session. Anybody holding the link can open it for as long as the creation exists. Treat it the way you would an unlisted video.

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.