Privacy in Yachad

Faith is personal. Information that allows conclusions about your faith counts as sensitive under Swiss data protection law. That’s why Yachad is built cautiously from the start.

Principles

No ads, no tracking, no selling of data. The app contains no advertising or tracking tools. Visibility cannot be bought.
Cautious defaults. By default only your friends see your RSVPs, and dates on your profile are for friends only anyway. See Visibility.
Numbers, not names. Churches only see totals, never who is interested or going.
No precise location. Your location is only used for searching near you, rounded and not stored.
No direct messages. Strangers cannot write to you privately.
No address book matching. You find friends via search and invite links.
Photos without metadata. Uploaded images are re-saved; details such as where the photo was taken are removed.

Which data Yachad stores

Account: name, email, password (only as a secure hash), date of birth (only for the protection of minors)
Profile: username, pictures, “About me”, your churches and ministries, interests
What you do: plans, RSVPs, comments, reactions, photos, groups, friendships, My places
For notifications: a device identifier of your iPhone

Where the data is stored

Servers, database, images, backups and sending emails are with Infomaniak in Switzerland. Only for the iPhone app is Apple also involved: notifications, Sign in with Apple and maps. Connections to the app are encrypted.

Your rights

Access and export: Profile → Settings → Export my data (file in JSON format).
Correction: change your name, picture and “About me” under Edit profile.
Deletion: Profile → Settings → Delete account. After 30 days everything is permanently deleted. See Delete your account and export your data.
For anything else: contact@yachad.social.

These help pages

The help pages set no cookies and use no tracking. Search runs entirely in your browser. Only your browser remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme.