Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to TypeByFaith.com. This Privacy Policy explains how Dacfact LLC ("we", "our", or "us") collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you use our website typebyfaith.com (the "Service").

By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

We collect information you provide directly to us when you:

• Create an account (email address, password)
• Use our typing practice features
• Contact us for support or other purposes

2.2 Usage Information

We automatically collect certain information about your use of the Service, including:

• Typing speed, accuracy, and progress
• Reading speed and time
• Bible passages you've practiced
• Lesson completion and achievement data
• Timed test results and performance metrics
• Daily activity counts (verses typed, prayers completed, and timed tests completed)
• Prayer, Memory Verse, and Rhythm Mode progress, including scripture audio completions
• Race Mode statistics (races played, wins, losses, daily race counts)
• Bookmarked passages and bookmark category names
• Session information (time spent, frequency of use)
• Device information (browser type, operating system)

2.3 Cookies and Local Storage

We use strictly necessary cookies for authentication (to keep you logged in), analytics cookies to understand how the site is used, and local storage to save your preferences. We do not use third-party tracking cookies for advertising, and we do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Stored data includes:

• Theme and visual preferences
• Font size and display settings
• Music and audio preferences
• Reading mode settings (speed, font size, highlight preferences, accumulated time)
• Virtual keyboard and training aid settings
• Notification dismissal status
• Session navigation data
• Your place in a Bible passage you are typing (the letter you reached, with that attempt's speed and accuracy), so a refresh or a later visit can pick up where you left off
• Analytics identifiers used to count visits and measure which pages and features are used
• How you first found us (the referring website or campaign link), saved to your account if you sign up

School students are excluded from analytics. When a student signs in with a school code, username and password, no analytics is loaded and no analytics cookie is set. See section 4.2.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our Service
• Process and track your typing progress
• Enable achievements, lessons, and personalized features
• Enable bookmark organization and optional sharing with other users
• Remember your preferences and settings
• Communicate with you about your account or our Service
• Send you technical notices and support messages
• Send you occasional emails about your use of the Service and about features or plans that may be relevant to you
• Monitor and analyze aggregated usage data to improve our Service
• Detect and prevent fraudulent activity and improve security

Your choices about email. Every non-essential email we send carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing stops all marketing and product email immediately. We will still send messages that are necessary to run your account, such as password resets, receipts, and security notices, because these are not promotional and you cannot be opted out of them while your account is open. You can also ask us to stop by contacting us at the address in section 10.

3.1 Shared Bookmark Collections

When you choose to share a bookmark collection, other users who have your share token can view the category name and the Bible passages you have bookmarked. You control when to share, and you can delete a shared category to remove access for all followers. Category names you create are visible to users you share with.

3.2 Shepherd's Hub Data Sharing

Shepherd's Hub is a feature for personal discipleship groups, designed for youth leaders, Bible study groups, and mentors. It no longer accepts new groups, but groups created earlier keep working and can still accept members. When you join one of those groups, you consent to share your typing activity data with the group's shepherd leader (a premium subscriber). The shared data includes:

• Your display name (or email prefix if no display name is set)
• Current daily streak count
• Verses typed today and this week
• Prayers completed today and this week
• Reading time accumulated
• Typing speed (WPM) and accuracy percentage
• Verse of the Day completion status
• Last activity timestamp

You can leave a group at any time from your Account page, which will immediately stop sharing your data with that shepherd. Existing groups are managed by their shepherd, who must be a premium subscriber; joining a group is free for all logged-in users.

Note: Shepherd's Hub is separate from our School Licenses. For information about how student data is handled in school settings, see Section 7 (Children's Privacy & School Accounts).

4. Third-Party Services

Our Service uses the following third-party services:

4.1 Firebase

We use Google Firebase for authentication and data storage. Your interaction with Firebase is governed by Google's Privacy Policy, which can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

4.2 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and use the Service, so we can improve it. It records information such as the pages you visit, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device and browser you use. We have not enabled Google Signals, advertising features, or remarketing, so this data is not used to build advertising profiles or to follow you across other websites.

If you arrive by clicking one of our ads on Google, Google Analytics records that your visit came from that ad, and we share whether it led to a signup or purchase with Google Ads so we can tell which ads work. This is not used to show you ads on other websites.

Students signed in under a School License are excluded. Google Analytics is not loaded at all on pages viewed during a school student session, and it is also not loaded on the sign-in page itself, which is where students enter their school code. No student browsing data reaches Google at any point. This is a deliberate design choice that supports our COPPA commitments in the School License Terms.

Your interaction with Google Analytics is governed by Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can opt out across all websites using Google's browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or by enabling your browser's Do Not Track or tracking-prevention setting.

4.3 Loops (Email)

We use Loops to send account and product emails. When we email you, we share your email address and your display name with Loops so the message can be addressed and delivered. Loops also records whether an email was delivered, opened, or clicked, which we use to tell whether our emails are useful and wanted.

Students signed in under a School License are excluded. Student accounts have no email address, are never added to any mailing list, and are never sent marketing of any kind. See section 7.2.

Your interaction with Loops is governed by their Privacy Policy at https://loops.so/privacy.

4.4 Stripe

We use Stripe to process payments for Premium, Lifetime, and School License purchases. You enter your payment details directly with Stripe at checkout; we never see or store your full card number.

Stripe receives your email address, the name and billing address you enter at checkout, and what you purchased. For School License purchases, this also includes the school name and the name and role of the person purchasing. We attach an internal account identifier to each purchase and, where available, how you first found us (the referring website or campaign link) and an anonymous Google Analytics identifier, so we can see which ways of finding us lead to purchases.

Payment records are business and tax records. If you delete your account, these records remain with Stripe as needed for accounting and tax purposes.

Your interaction with Stripe is governed by Stripe's Privacy Policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law. You may request deletion of your account and associated data at any time. You can also download a copy of your data, or delete your account yourself, from your Account page. Specifically:

• Individual accounts: kept until you delete your account or ask us to. Deleting from your Account page takes effect immediately; we complete a request sent to us within 14 days.
• School License student data: kept while the license is active and for 12 months after it ends, so a school that renews finds its roster and progress intact. After that we may delete it. The license owner can delete any student sooner from the Teacher Dashboard, and we complete a request to delete all of a school's student data within 30 days.
• Student login sessions: expire after 24 hours of inactivity.
• Payment records: kept by Stripe, and by us as needed for accounting and tax purposes.

6. Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Children's Privacy & School Accounts

7.1 General Users

Our general Service (individual accounts) is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through individual signups. Everyone who creates an individual account is asked for their birth year when they sign up, or right after a first sign-in with Google, and for the month only when the year alone cannot tell. We record only whether they are 13 or older; we do not keep the date. Someone who tells us they are under 13 cannot continue with an individual account, and is pointed to a School & Family plan that a parent or teacher manages instead. If an account is found to belong to a child under 13 after it was created, we delete it. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected information from your child through an individual account, please contact us.

7.2 School/Classroom Accounts (COPPA and FERPA)

We offer a School License feature where teachers, school administrators, and homeschool parents can create and manage student accounts for educational purposes. This feature is built for Christian schools, homeschool co-ops, homeschool families, and private educators. It is designed to meet the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) for accounts a school or parent sets up for educational use, and to support schools that are subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Many private schools and all homeschools are not subject to FERPA; the protections below apply to every school account either way:

• No email required from students: Student accounts use only a school code, username, and password assigned by their teacher. We do not collect email addresses, phone numbers, or social media accounts from students.
• School/Teacher consent: By purchasing a School License, teachers and administrators represent that they are authorized to create student accounts and consent to this data collection on behalf of their students, as COPPA allows for school-authorized educational use. For schools subject to FERPA, we act as a "school official" under FERPA's school official exception.
• Teacher control: Teachers create and manage student accounts. The license owner can delete any student account and all of its educational data at any time from the Teacher Dashboard, or ask us to through our Contact Form. The license owner may also create sub-teacher staff accounts that share the same student-data-handling rules and authorization scope; sub-teachers do not collect any additional personal information beyond what is described here.
• Educational data only: We collect only educational progress data (typing speed, accuracy, lessons completed, scripture passages practiced, prayers completed) necessary for the educational purpose of the service.
• No marketing to students: Student data is never used for advertising, marketing, or any non-educational purpose. We do not display ads to students.
• No social features: School students cannot interact with other users outside their teacher's classroom. There are no public profiles, chat features, or social sharing for school accounts.
• Data deletion: The license owner can permanently delete any student and all of that student's data from the Teacher Dashboard. Teachers can also request deletion of all student data through our Contact Form. We will process deletion requests within 30 days.

7.3 Information Collected for School Students

For school student accounts, we collect only:

• Username (assigned by teacher, can be pseudonymous)
• Display name (assigned by teacher, can be initials or nickname)
• Password (system-generated, stored encrypted)
• Educational progress data: typing speed (WPM), accuracy percentages, lessons completed, scripture passages practiced, prayer completions, reading time, race mode statistics, achievement progress, and which keyboard keys are mistyped most often
• Session data: login timestamps and session identifiers for security purposes

We do NOT collect from school students: email addresses, phone numbers, photos, location data, social media accounts, or any other personal information.

A teacher or parent can create a private, read-only link to one student's progress to share with that student's family. Anyone holding the link can view that student's progress page, which is never indexed by search engines or measured by analytics. The teacher can turn a link off at any time, and we keep only a scrambled fingerprint of it, never the link itself.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including:

• Accessing and updating your information
• Deleting your information and account
• Objecting to certain processing of your information
• Data portability

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information in the "Contact Us" section.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our contact form.