Privacy Policy

CATHOLICA collects no personal data. There are no accounts, no advertising, no analytics. The one feature that involves a third party’s data collection is the optional Live Adoration video, which is played by YouTube and is described below.

What stays on your device

Your preferences (calendar region, parish patron, appearance, text size, Bible translation and reminder settings) and your own progress (saved prayers, reading progress, quiz results, Rosary and novena progress, and your place in each Audio Bible recording) are stored only on your phone. None of this is sent to us or to anyone else.

Network use

• The text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is loaded from the Holy See’s website (vatican.va) when you open a section. That request goes directly from your phone to vatican.va and is subject to their policies. Text © Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
• When you listen in the Audio Bible, the recording is streamed as you play it: the Douay-Rheims reading from the Internet Archive (archive.org) and the World English Bible reading from eBible.org. Your phone connects to them directly, so they can see your IP address and which recording you asked for, and they are subject to their own policies.
• When the app is opened, and again when you return to it after six hours, it asks our own server, afrikresolute.com, for a small settings file that says which live stream to offer, or whether to switch the feature off. The request carries nothing from the app beyond what any web request carries. As with any web server, ours can see the IP address and time of the request and may keep ordinary access logs. A copy of the answer is kept on your phone so that it still applies when you are offline.
• Everything else in the app (the liturgical calendar, Mass readings, the Bible text, prayers, the Rosary and the spoken prayers) is included in the app and works offline.

Live Adoration (YouTube)

The Live Adoration screen shows a live video stream from YouTube using the YouTube embedded player, which is a YouTube API Service. The video belongs to its owner (St Benedicts Burwood); the app does not record, copy or re-broadcast it.

When you open that screen, the player loads from YouTube, and YouTube (Google) may collect and use information such as your device and usage data. Playback may start automatically when the screen opens, which can cause this collection to begin at that moment. YouTube may also use cookies or similar technologies in the player. We do not receive or store this data.

By using this feature you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google’s use of your information is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

Notifications

If you turn on Angelus reminders, the app schedules local notifications on your phone. No notification data leaves the device.

Children

The app is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address and with the app update.

Contact

Afrik Resolute · afrikresoluteltd@gmail.com