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Last updated 11 August 2026
Sermon Guides turns your church's public sermon streams into sermon pages, clips and social posts, and emails them to you. This page describes exactly what we store, why we store it, and how to get rid of it.
What we collect
Account details — your first name, last name, role at your church, church name and email address. You give us these at sign-up. If you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address and Google account identifier, and nothing else.
Channel details — the YouTube channel or Facebook page link you connect, and public metadata about the videos on it (title, publication date, duration, thumbnail).
Sermon content — the audio and video of the streams we process, the transcript we generate from them, and the pages, clips and posts we produce.
Operational records — sign-in times, processing status, email delivery status, and error diagnostics. We keep these to run and debug the service.
We do not collect payment card details; we do not process payments on this site.
Why we process it
To create your account and sign you in, to detect and download your new sermons, to generate your sermon page and its clips and posts, to email them to you on your chosen schedule, and to keep the service secure and working. We do not sell your data, and we do not use your sermon content to train our own models.
Who we share it with
We use a small number of processors, each for one job: a transcription and language model provider to produce transcripts and written guides, an object storage provider to host finished clips and images, an email provider to deliver your emails, and our own servers to run the processing. Each receives only what that job requires.
Anything you publish — your sermon page, its clips and its quote graphics — is public by design, because that is the point of it. Source video, audio and raw transcripts are never made public.
How long we keep it
Source video and audio are deleted automatically shortly after processing; we do not keep a permanent copy of your stream. Transcripts, generated pages, clips and posts are kept while your account is open. Delete a sermon and its artefacts are removed. Close your account and we delete your account data and generated content.
Your choices
You can disconnect a channel at any time, which stops all further processing. You can unsubscribe from the weekly email from any email footer or in your settings; account emails such as password resets will still reach you. You can request a copy or deletion of your data by emailing us from your account address.
Because we act on public streams from a channel you control, please make sure you have the right to the content you connect.
Security
Passwords are stored using a modern password-hashing algorithm and never in readable form. Traffic is encrypted in transit. Access to your content is scoped to your church account.
This document describes how the product actually works today. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer — have counsel review it before launch, particularly if you take churches outside the United States.