Privacy policy
Bible Mood (our app) is provided by Walk with Jesus Ltd a company registered in England and Wales with company number 12572762 whose registered office address is 6 Lapwing Grove, Farington Moss, Leyland, PR26 6AR (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our app, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our app. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). We are also subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) in relation to goods and services we offer to individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA).
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
- What this policy applies to
- Personal data we collect about you
- How your personal data is collected
- How and why we use your personal data
- Marketing
- Who we share your personal data with
- How long your personal data will be kept
- Transferring your personal data out of the UK and EEA
- Cookies
- Your rights
- Keeping your personal data secure
- How to complain
- Changes to this privacy policy
- How to contact us
- Do you need extra help?
What this policy applies to
This privacy policy relates to your use of our app and the services provided through it.
Throughout our app we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain third parties to make additional products and services available to you. Those third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
Personal data we collect about you
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our app. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:
- your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number
- your billing information, transaction and payment card or other payment method information
- bank account and payment details
- details of any information, feedback or other matters you give us by phone, email, post or via social media
- your account details, such as username, avatar and login details
- your activities on, and use of, our app
- information about the services we provide to you
- your contact history, purchase history and saved items
- information about how you use our app and technology systems
- your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
If you do not provide your personal data when we ask for it may prevent us from providing our services to you.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.
Please do not include personal data in any information you provide to us.
How your personal data is collected
We collect personal data from you:
- directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you register with us, contact us (including via email), send us feedback, donate to us, post material to our app or complete user surveys, and
- indirectly, such as your browsing activity while in our app; we will usually collect information indirectly using the technologies explain in the section on ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below
How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:
- where you have given consent
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
| What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
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Create and manage your account with us | For our legitimate interests to deliver the best service to you |
Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings | Depending on the circumstances:
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| Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our app and how you move around different sections of our app for analytics purposes. This helps us to understand how people use our app so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our app is working as intended | Depending on the circumstances:
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| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to our services or other important notices | Depending on the circumstances:
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| Protecting the security of systems and data | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us |
| Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g. in relation to our financial performance, user base or other efficiency measures | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Updating and enhancing user records | Depending on the circumstances:
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| Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g. to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
| Marketing our services to existing and former users | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to promote our business to existing and former users See ‘Marketing’ below for further information |
| External audits and quality checks, e.g. for the audit of our accounts | Depending on the circumstances:
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| To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary | Depending on the circumstances:
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See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.
Marketing
We may use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new services.
We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above ‘How and why we use your personal data’). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you marketing information. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this separately and clearly.
You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:
- contacting us at by email using the email address listed in the ‘How to contact us’ section below
- using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.
Who we share your personal data with
We routinely share personal data with:
- third parties we use to help deliver our services to you, e.g. our app analytics providers;
- other third parties we use to help us run our business, e.g. our bank
We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data.
We or the third parties mentioned above may occasionally also need to share personal data with:
- external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- other parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible, however, the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
How long your personal data will be kept
We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used.
Transferring your personal data out of the UK and EEA
The EEA, UK and other countries outside the EEA and the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy.
It is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data to countries outside the UK and EEA. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK and EEA laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.
Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK/EEA or to an international organisation where:
- in the case of transfers subject to UK data protection law, the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR. A list of countries the UK currently has adequacy regulations in relation to is available here
- in the case of transfers subject to EEA data protection laws, the European Commission has decided that the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy decision’) further to Article 45 of the EU GDPR. A list of countries the European Commission has currently made adequacy decisions in relation to is available here
- there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you, or
- a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law
Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK we do so on the basis of an adequacy regulation or (where such is not available) using legally-approved standard data protection clauses recognised or issued further to Article 46(2) of the UK GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law.
Where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA we do so on the basis of an adequacy decision or (where such is not available) using legally-approved standard data protection clauses issued further to Article 46(2) of the EU GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the EEA unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by applicable data protection law.
Cookies and other tracking technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our app. We use essential session cookies in our app to enable to recognise and link your actions during a browsing session to make it easier to use the app.
We do not require consent for the cookies that we use as they are strictly necessary to provide an ‘information society service’ (i.e. a service over the internet). This means that they fall within the exemption listed with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations meaning that we do not need your consent to use them.
If you would like more details on our use of cookies, please getting in touch with us using the contact details in the ‘How to contact us’ section below.
Your rights
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
| Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
| Correction (also known as rectification) | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
| Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
| Restriction of use | The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
| Data portability | The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
| To object to use | The right to object:
A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
| Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our app. A more detailed explanation of this right under UK law is available here |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner on your rights under the UK GDPR.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:
- provide enough information to identify yourself and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
- let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates
Keeping your personal data secure
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
How to complain
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your information (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.
The Information Commissioner may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this privacy policy
This policy was last updated on: 10/05/2024
We may change this privacy policy from time to time—when we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via by including a prominent link to a description of those changes on our app for a reasonable period or by other means, such as email.
How to contact us
You can contact us by post or email if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our email address is info@walkwithjesus.life and our address is 6 Lapwing Grove, Farington Moss, Leyland, PR26 6AR.
Do you need extra help?
If you would like this policy in another format (for example audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).