How Connect-Ask handles what you share

What we don’t ask for

You don’t create an account, and none of the forms ask for your name, email address or phone number. The optional name on a testimony is the only exception, and you decide what to put there.

Who can see what

• Questions and context are read by church leaders. They appear on the public Question Board only if a leader approves them, and leaders can remove them at any time.
• Prayer requests are only ever seen by church leaders with administrator access. They are never published.
• Thanksgiving and testimonies stay with church leaders unless you chose “Leaders may share it publicly” and a leader approves it. Both are required.

The small cookie we use

When you send something or tap “Me too”, your browser receives a random code in a cookie. It lets the site remember which questions you’ve supported and stops anyone flooding the forms. It contains nothing about you. We store only a scrambled (hashed) form of it, which can’t be traced back to your device or to you. Clearing your browser’s cookies resets it.

Network addresses

To protect the forms from abuse, we briefly count requests from each network using a hashed form of its address. The address itself is never stored, and these counts are cleared out regularly, usually within a day.

Please be careful with details

What you write is stored as you wrote it. If you mention names or personal details, church leaders will be able to read them, so please avoid naming other people.

Questions about your data

Because nothing is linked to your identity, we can’t look up what a particular person sent. If something you shared needs to be removed, please speak to a church leader and describe what you sent.