Privacy Policy

Version 1.0 · Effective date October 8, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Hanson Birringer, doing business as Rise, collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information when you use the Rise website, mobile applications, personalized AI-generated reflections and prayers, private journals and prayers, Rise Together and other community spaces, subscriptions, support channels, and related services. Rise is referred to as Rise, we, us, or our.

Rise may process sensitive personal information, including religious or philosophical beliefs, prayer content, journal entries, health and mental-health statements, sexual-orientation information, abuse or trauma disclosures, and other deeply personal reflections. Rise may also infer safety signals from this content. Read this Policy before using the Services. If you do not agree with our practices, do not use the Services.

1 Scope

This Policy applies to personal information processed by Rise through the Services. It does not apply to third-party websites, app stores, payment processors, or services that publish their own privacy policies, or to information Rise processes solely on behalf of a business customer under a separate agreement.

2 Information we collect

The categories below describe information we may collect. The information actually collected depends on the features you use, your device, permissions, and choices.

2.1 Account and contact information

We may collect your name, email address, telephone number, username, authentication credentials or tokens, profile details, age or date-of-birth information, denomination or faith preferences you choose to provide, and communications preferences.

2.2 Private content and AI interactions

We may collect prompts, personalized reflection and prayer requests, AI inputs and outputs, private prayers, journal entries, reflections, saved content, feedback, and information inferred from or generated in response to that content. This information may reveal religious or philosophical beliefs, health or mental-health concerns, relationships, grief, trauma, abuse, sexual orientation, criminal allegations, or other sensitive matters. Automated systems may classify content for safety risks such as self-harm, violence, exploitation, psychosis, substance use, or threats. Do not submit information about another person unless you have permission and it is appropriate to do so.

2.3 Community content

We collect prayers, comments, reactions, reports, profile information, images, and other content you choose to post in Rise Together or another shared space. Community content is visible according to the audience and settings shown when you post. Other users may capture or reshare it. Do not post confidential information or another person's sensitive information without permission.

2.4 Audio image and device inputs

If you use voice, camera, photo, or file features, we may process audio recordings, transcripts, images, and file metadata. The app will request device permission where required. We retain raw recordings only as long as reasonably necessary to provide the requested feature, maintain security, resolve a support issue, or comply with law, and then delete or de-identify them under our retention schedule.

2.5 Subscription and transaction information

We receive subscription status, product, price, renewal, trial, purchase, refund, and transaction identifiers from app stores or payment providers. Those providers process full payment credentials under their own policies. Rise ordinarily does not receive full card numbers.

2.6 Device usage and diagnostics

We may collect IP address, device identifiers, browser type, operating system, app version, language, time zone, general location derived from IP, pages or features used, clicks, session duration, referral information, crash reports, performance data, and security logs. Rise does not collect precise location unless a specific feature clearly requests it and you grant permission. Rise does not use advertising identifiers to target advertising based on private faith, journal, prayer, health, or crisis content.

2.7 Support research and communications

We collect support requests, survey responses, product research, correspondence, call or chat records, and information you provide when participating in a promotion or research program. We will request separate consent where required for recorded interviews, testimonials, or sensitive research.

2.8 Information from others

We may receive information from authentication providers, app stores, payment processors, service providers, referral partners, public sources, and other users who interact with you or report content. If you sign in through a third party, we receive information authorized by your settings with that provider.

3 How we use information

We may use personal information to:

• Create, authenticate, maintain, and secure accounts.
• Provide journals, personalized reflections and prayers, Scripture-related features, reminders, summaries, subscriptions, and community functions.
• Personalize content and remember settings, subject to your choices.
• Process purchases, manage entitlements, prevent fraud, and provide customer support.
• Moderate community content, investigate reports, enforce rules, and protect users and the Services.
• Detect, classify, prevent, and respond to security incidents, abuse, illegal activity, or threats to safety, including by interrupting generation, displaying support resources, limiting features, preserving records, or routing content for review where configured.
• Analyze performance, diagnose errors, measure feature use, and improve accessibility and reliability.
• Develop and evaluate features using de-identified, aggregated, synthetic, or appropriately consented data.
• Communicate about the Services, security, transactions, policy changes, and, where permitted, offers.
• Comply with law, legal process, audits, and lawful requests; establish or defend legal claims; and enforce agreements.
• Carry out another purpose disclosed when information is collected, with consent where required.

We do not use private faith, journal, prayer, health, or crisis content to target third-party advertising. Rise does not sell personal information for money or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined by applicable U.S. state privacy laws.

Safety analysis may infer information about mental or physical health, emotional state, religious belief, sexual or reproductive health, abuse, substance use, or other sensitive matters. Acceptance of the Terms alone does not constitute consent to sensitive-data processing where separate consent is required. Rise presents feature-level notices and consent controls and maintains records of the version and scope of consent.

4 How artificial intelligence processes information

When you request a personalized reflection, prayer, or other AI-generated feature, Rise sends the information needed to generate a response to one or more AI model and infrastructure providers acting for Rise. Depending on the feature, this may include your prompt, recent context, selected profile preferences, safety classifications, and technical metadata. Providers may temporarily log or retain information for security, abuse prevention, debugging, or service delivery under their contracts with Rise.

Inputs and outputs may be automatically analyzed for quality and safety, including across multiple exchanges where context is needed to evaluate escalating risk. Automated classifications can be inaccurate. Authorized personnel may review limited interactions when needed to investigate a report, assess a high-risk safety signal, address abuse or security, respond to support, evaluate system performance, or comply with law. Rise limits this access by role, records access where appropriate, trains authorized reviewers, and minimizes the information made available for the review purpose.

Safety processing may result in an automated response, refusal, interruption, resource display, temporary feature restriction, or referral for human review. Rise does not use these classifications to make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects. Where required by law, you may contest a material automated restriction and request human review through the contact methods in Section 16.

Rise and its providers do not use identifiable private journals, private prayers, or private interactions to train general-purpose AI models unless Rise first obtains separate, informed, affirmative consent to a clearly described training program.

Rise currently uses these material providers: Supabase (hosting, database and authentication), Anthropic (AI reflections, prayers and safety screening), OpenAI (text to speech for read-aloud features), RevenueCat (subscription management) and Apple (Sign in with Apple, payments and on-device speech recognition). Provider practices may differ when you intentionally access a third-party feature governed by that provider's own terms.

5 When we disclose information

We may disclose personal information to the following recipients for the purposes described in this Policy:

5.1 Service providers

We disclose information to vendors that provide cloud hosting, AI inference, content moderation, analytics, crash reporting, authentication, communications, customer support, security, payment support, subscription management, and professional services. They may process information only for contracted purposes and subject to appropriate restrictions.

5.2 Other users and the public

Content you post in a community or public area is disclosed to the audience indicated by the feature. Your profile, reactions, and interactions may also be visible. Private content is not intentionally posted to a community unless you choose to share it.

5.3 App stores and transaction partners

We exchange transaction, subscription, entitlement, device, fraud, and usage information with app stores, payment processors, and subscription platforms as needed to process purchases, manage access, and evaluate refund requests. Their privacy policies govern their independent processing.

5.4 Legal safety and rights protection

We may preserve or disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with law or valid legal process; respond to lawful government requests; investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations; protect the rights, safety, or property of Rise, users, or others; or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Where legally permitted and reasonably necessary to address a credible imminent threat, child exploitation, abuse, or another serious safety concern, we may disclose relevant information to emergency services, law enforcement, child-protection authorities, or another appropriate recipient. Rise will assess requests and, where lawful and appropriate, seek to narrow overbroad demands.

5.5 Corporate transactions

Information may be disclosed as part of due diligence, financing, merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets. A recipient may use information only as permitted by this Policy unless it provides notice and obtains any consent required by law.

5.6 With your direction or consent

We disclose information when you direct us to share it, connect a third-party service, publish content, or give consent. You can revoke consent prospectively where applicable, but revocation does not affect earlier lawful processing.

6 Sales sharing and targeted advertising

Rise does not sell personal information for money and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined by applicable U.S. state privacy laws.

If Rise later engages in activity treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable law, Rise will update this Policy, provide required notices, and offer legally required opt-out methods before beginning that activity. Rise will not sell or share personal information known to belong to a person under 18 without legally required authorization.

7 Data retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including to provide the Services, honor user choices, maintain security, prevent fraud, comply with law, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Retention depends on the type of information, sensitivity, user settings, legal requirements, and technical backup cycles.

Ordinarily, account data and private content are kept until you delete them or close your account; community prayer requests leave public view after 5 days; and transaction records are kept as long as tax and accounting law requires. You may ask support@risefaith.app about the retention period for a specific category.

We may retain de-identified or aggregated information that cannot reasonably identify you. When information is subject to a legal hold, security investigation, unresolved dispute, or fraud-prevention need, we may retain it until that need ends.

Safety classifications, reviewer decisions, incident records, and records preserved because of an identified risk may follow a different retention period from the underlying journal or prayer content, as described above. When you delete underlying content, Rise deletes or de-identifies linked safety classifications unless continued retention is reasonably necessary for security, incident response, abuse prevention, legal compliance, or the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

8 Security

Rise uses administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, taking account of its sensitivity and the nature of the Services. Safeguards may include encryption, access controls, logging, vendor review, secure development practices, incident response, and workforce confidentiality obligations, as appropriate. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, loss, or misuse will never occur.

Protect your credentials and use a unique password. Contact support@risefaith.app if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

9 Your choices and controls

Depending on the feature and law, you may:

• Review or update account and profile information.
• Delete individual journal entries, conversations, prayers, or community posts through available controls.
• Close your account and request deletion.
• Change notification, personalization, device, microphone, camera, photo, or location permissions.
• Unsubscribe from marketing email using the link in the message; service and security messages may continue.
• Cancel a subscription through the platform used to purchase it.
• Request access, correction, deletion, portability, or another privacy right described below.

Removing content from your account may not remove copies previously shared with or retained by other users. We may verify your identity before completing a request and may deny or limit requests where permitted by law.

10 Global privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, obtain a portable copy, opt out of certain disclosures or advertising, complain to a regulator, and appeal a denied request. Rights and exceptions vary. Email support@risefaith.app or use available in-app controls. We may verify identity and authority before acting. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

10.1 European Economic Area United Kingdom and Switzerland

For people in the EEA, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, Rise acts as the controller of personal information described in this Policy unless another notice says otherwise. Rise relies on one or more legal bases depending on the processing: performance of a contract to provide requested features; consent, including explicit consent where required for religious, health, or other special-category information; legitimate interests in security, service improvement, fraud prevention, and protecting users, balanced against individual rights; and compliance with legal obligations. In a genuine emergency, Rise may also rely on a legally recognized vital-interests or other emergency basis where the requirements are met.

You may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to processing, data portability, and withdrawal of consent. You may complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work or where an alleged violation occurred. Rise does not make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

10.2 United States state privacy rights

Residents of certain states may have rights to know or access personal information; correct inaccuracies; delete information; obtain a portable copy; opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or certain profiling; limit certain uses of sensitive personal information; and appeal a denied request. Rights and exceptions vary by state.

Email support@risefaith.app or use the in-app privacy controls. Describe the right you wish to exercise and the account involved. We will verify your identity using information appropriate to the request. An authorized agent may submit a request where law permits, but we may require proof of authority and direct identity verification. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

To appeal a decision, reply to our response with Privacy Appeal in the subject line. If an appeal is denied, residents of states that provide the right may contact their state attorney general.

10.3 California notice

California law may require disclosure of categories collected, sources, purposes, recipients, retention criteria, and whether information is sold or shared. During the preceding 12 months, Rise may have collected the categories described in Section 2: identifiers and account information; customer records; commercial and transaction information; internet or electronic activity; approximate geolocation; audio or visual information; inferences; User Content; and sensitive personal information, including account credentials, religious or philosophical beliefs, health-related information, and sexual-orientation information a user chooses to disclose.

Rise collects these categories from you, your devices, service providers, transaction partners, authentication providers, and other users, and uses and discloses them for the purposes in Sections 3 through 5. Recipient categories may include service providers, other users or the public at your direction, app stores and transaction partners, authorities where legally required, and transaction counterparties.

Rise uses or discloses sensitive personal information only to provide requested Services, maintain security and integrity, resist fraud or illegal activity, ensure physical safety, verify or maintain service quality, or for another legally permitted purpose. Rise does not use or disclose sensitive personal information to infer characteristics for advertising or unrelated profiling.

Rise does not offer financial incentives for personal information unless it provides separate terms describing the material aspects of the program. California residents may also request information under California's Shine the Light law by contacting support@risefaith.app.

10.4 Consumer health data

Certain prompts, journal entries, prayers, inferences, safety classifications, and related information may qualify as consumer health data under laws such as the Washington My Health My Data Act or Nevada's consumer-health-data law. Before collecting or sharing consumer health data where those laws require it, Rise provides the required notice in this Policy and obtains consent that is distinct from acceptance of general terms. Rise does not sell consumer health data. If that practice changes, Rise will first obtain any separate authorization required by law.

Rise does not use geofencing around health-care facilities to identify or track people, collect consumer health data, or send health-related messages or advertisements.

11 Cookies analytics and mobile technologies

Rise and its providers may use cookies, software development kits, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember settings, measure performance, prevent fraud, and understand use. Rise does not permit these technologies to use private faith, journal, prayer, health, or crisis content for targeted advertising.

You can use browser or device controls to limit some technologies. Blocking necessary technologies may impair the Services. Where required, Rise will present a consent or preference tool. Rise will process legally recognized browser opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, where required and technically applicable.

12 Children and minors

The Services are intended only for people 18 or older. Rise does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that a minor provided personal information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it and disable the account, subject to legal preservation duties. Contact support@risefaith.app if you believe a minor has used the Services.

In the United States, services directed to children under 13 or knowingly collecting their personal information may be subject to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

13 International users and transfers

Rise is operated from the United States. If you use the Services from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries where Rise and its providers operate. Those countries may have different data-protection laws. Where required, Rise will rely on an adequacy decision, approved contractual clauses such as the European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, or another lawful transfer mechanism, and will apply supplementary safeguards as appropriate.

Rise may limit or suspend availability in a country where local requirements, crisis resources, language support, or operational safeguards are not yet in place.

14 Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in the Services, practices, or law. We will post the updated Policy and revise the effective date. If a change materially affects how we use information already collected, we will provide additional notice and obtain consent where required. Prior versions are available on request from support@risefaith.app.

15 Region specific notices

Where a country or state has additional requirements, Rise will publish a regional supplement on this site. A regional supplement controls if it conflicts with this Policy for a person covered by that supplement.

16 Contact us

Privacy requests and questions

Hanson Birringer

Email support@risefaith.app