Declaration of Data Protection & Privacy Policy

Updated on 5.31.12

We, at LEAP Communications Group, Inc., consider your personal identification and confidentiality of your data to be very important. Through this data protection declaration and privacy policy, we wish to inform you of the personal data we collect and the purpose for which we use that data.

LEAP Communications Group will inform you below of the type, scope, and purpose of the collection and use of personal data. You may access this notice on our website at any time at www.stayinthebible.com/privacy

Responsible Office, Contact
The responsible office is:

LEAP Communications Group, Inc.
Division: StayInTheBible.com
P.O. Box 1016
Frisco, TX 74075

If you have any information or suggestions on data protection, please feel free to e-mail us at support@stayinthebible.com

Subject Matter of Data Protection

As a member of the Bible Companion App community, information such as your email, screen name, gender, year of birth, country, state/province, and postal code, and language preference is within the general settings of your account.

Data Security

We take responsible measures to secure and encrypt any personal indentifying information. However, we are not liable for breaches in security that occur outside of reasonable security measures.

Collection and Use of Data

We may collect data through our website and from the registration and use of The LEAP Bible Companion App. The app automatically transmits data via the internet for technical reasons. The following data may be stored as part of the user data.

Personally identifiable information may include:
email address
screen name

Usage data may include:
Date and time of access
Sponsor clicks within the app
Sponsor ads displayed
Browser type and version
Operating system used
Volume of data sent

User-Entered Data & Disclosure of Data

To register as a member of The LEAP Bible Companion App community, you must enter your e-mail address and select a password. We need this information to create a unique Bible Companion App account. We also require other information from members, such as a screen name, gender, year of birth, country, state/province, and postal code, and language settings. In the future, we may include the options for a personal photo and affiliated places of worship. This information is to create a soft community among members in which anonymous aggregate data can be displayed. For example, when you access a particular book, the app displays how many other members are currently reading in the same book. Another example is the total chapters logged on the stayinthebible.com website. In the future, we plan to show readings stats by country, etc.

The Bible Companion App allows you to create accountability partners that share personal reading information. In the future, other accountability or group information may include prayer and other features. We are not responsible for how approved partners use this shared information.

The central function of The Bible Companion App is to track your Bible reading and prayer. The product requires an internet connection but books can be logged while offline. When in offline mode, past data collected and statistics will not be displayed. When using the app offline, your data is stored on a local storage medium and not within our servers. In this case, we have no possibility of accessing this data. If you use multiple devices with the same account, your data will by synchronized with the online database.

Third Party Processing Services

The LEAP Bible Companion App is acquired through various distribution channels such as app stores. Payment for the annual memberships and additional app features may be processed through third parties. We are not responsible for the use of personal information that is acquired by third party payment processors.

Sponsorship ads within the app

Local sponsorship ads may appear throughout The Bible Companion App. These sponsorships are based on your country, state/province, and postal code settings. We do not access your location services within your phone, such as GPS. We reserve the right to change how we provide sponsorships. For example, sponsorships may be targeted by language settings or gender. Sponsorship ads are an integral part of the app and may not be turned off.

All sponsorships must come directly through LEAP Communications Group, Inc. Your personal information is not provided to any of the sponsors or third parties. Sponsors may periodically receive reports of anonymous aggregate data of users over a specific region. For example, how many times did their sponsor ad appear within a specific state or country or how many users clicked on their sponsorship ad.

Links to Third Party Websites

Our service may contain links to other websites, software, services, and products. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the content of these websites, software, services, or products. Please visit the privacy policies of these third party sites in order to understand their privacy and information collection practices.

Use of Contractors

We may retain the service of outside contractors to perform services on our behalf. Examples may include the use of contractors to help provide technical support services or deliver new products. At times, we must disclose relevant personally identifiable information about you to a contractor so they may provide a specific service. We require our contractors to keep this information confidential and to only use the information on our behalf.

Email Communications

You may sign up for email communications on the stayinthebible.com website. Such communications may include news, updates, special offers, and other information relating to our service. You may unsubscribe from these email subscriptions at any time. Email is also used to establish accountability partners within the app. If you are an app user, you will receive a notification for an accountability request within the app. If you are not an app user, you will receive an email request. The email addresses of all non-app users that were collected via a request from a user are periodically purged from our system if an account is not established.

Disclosures Required by Law

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe in good faith that an applicable law, regulation, or legal process requires it, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of another user.

No Error-Free Performance

We do not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. We may not always catch an unintended privacy issue, despite our efforts to do so. Accordingly, we welcome your feedback regarding any privacy concerns that you may have, including how we can improve our service generally. We will use reasonable efforts to comply with this Privacy Policy and will take prompt corrective action when we learn of any failure to comply with it. We will not be liable for any damages, including incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, relating to the practices described in this privacy policy.

Deletion of Your Data

We will delete your data when it is no longer needed or for the following purposes.

Historical data that is no longer utilized by The Bible Companion App.
Inactivity or non-renewal of the account.
Written request by the user to delete his or her account.
Cancellation of the account by LEAP Communications Group, Inc.
We reserve the right to delete your data apart from the previous listed scenarios.

For account deletion or to obtain personal information about you that is stored in The Bible Companion App, please contact support@stayinthebible.com or write to the above postal code.

We will not provide information associated with your account that may aid in decryption of other users information. For instance, your encrypted user id will not be provided.

Updating Your Information

If you desire to change or modify and of the information that you have previously provided to us, you may do so within the "Settings" section of The Bible Companion App. We will not make corrections to personal usage and statistics. For example, if you forgot to log your readings on a previous day or you incorrectly marked readings, we will not adjust the data.

Changes to this Data Protection Declaration and Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Data Protection Declaration and Privacy Policy. You can always access a current version of the declaration and policy at: www.stayinthebible.com/privacy.

If you have any questions of concerns, please feel free to email us at: support@stayinthebible.com