Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Wealth and Happy Future LLC ("we," "us," "our"), the maker of Be Equipped, handles information when you use our mobile and web applications and this website. Be Equipped is a reader for discipleship and ministry-training content, and it is local-first by design: most of what you do stays on your device, and we aim to collect as little as possible.

1. Information we handle

Be Equipped is designed to work with minimal personal data. Depending on how you use it, the app may involve:

• Local settings & reading state (stored on your device). Your preferences (such as theme, text size, and narration voice), your list of added catalogs, bookmarks, notes, and which lessons you've completed are stored on your device. This information stays local unless you use an optional account that syncs it (below).
• Optional Be Equipped account information. Creating a Be Equipped account is not required to read. Where offered, if you choose to create or sign in to this optional app-level account through beequipped.io — for example to use membership or syncing features — we collect what's needed to operate it, such as an account identifier, email address, and authentication details.
• Content-provider accounts. A content provider account is a separate account with an independent provider whose catalogs you connect. The provider, not Be Equipped, collects and handles the information needed to operate that account under its own privacy policy.
• Content-provider & device pairing. Connecting a phone, TV, or Roku device to a provider is a separate choice from connecting it to a Be Equipped account. Each connection handles the account and device identifiers needed to establish and maintain that particular connection. Connecting one does not automatically connect the other. We do not collect your precise location or advertising identifiers for this.
• Content you add. When you add a catalog by scanning a QR code or entering a URL, the app fetches lesson content and images from the address you provide. That request goes to the server hosting the catalog, which is operated by the publisher — not necessarily by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party catalog hosts.
• Subscription status. If you purchase a subscription, it is processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play. We receive your subscription status from those stores; we do not receive or store your full payment-card details.
• Support communications. If you email us, we receive your message and contact details so we can respond.
• Basic technical & diagnostic data. We may process limited technical information (such as app version, device type, and crash logs) to keep the app working and fix problems.
• Optional anonymous connection metric. If you turn on “Share anonymous connection count” in the app, a device that is connected to one or more content providers but is not signed in to a Be Equipped account may send us a separate random device identifier and the number of connected providers. The report does not include your email, account ID, username, provider name or address, platform, app version, advertising identifier, or precise location. We use it only to estimate how many provider-connected devices use Be Equipped without an app-level account.

The accounts are separate. A Be Equipped account and a content provider account are different accounts, even if you use the same email address for both. Signing in to or deleting one does not sign you in to or delete the other.

What we do not collect. By design, Be Equipped does not use advertising trackers, does not build advertising profiles of you, and does not track you across other apps and websites.

2. How we use information

• To provide core functionality: displaying lessons, saving your progress, bookmarks, and notes, and syncing an optional account.
• To connect you to content providers and paired devices you choose to use.
• To operate subscriptions and unlock the features they include.
• To diagnose crashes, fix bugs, and improve reliability and performance.
• When you explicitly enable it, to estimate anonymous counts of provider-connected devices that do not use a Be Equipped account.
• To respond to your support requests and, where necessary, to comply with law or protect rights and safety.

3. What we do not do

• We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
• We do not use third-party advertising trackers on this website or, by design, to profile you across other apps and sites.
• We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.

4. Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We share information only as needed to run the service, for example:

• Service providers. Infrastructure and service providers who process data on our behalf under appropriate obligations (for example, hosting, authentication, and crash diagnostics).
• App stores. Apple and Google process subscription purchases and share subscription status with us under their own terms.
• Content providers. If you connect to a provider, information needed to deliver their catalogs to your account is exchanged with them.
• Legal & safety. When required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of users, the public, or Be Equipped.

Catalog content is fetched directly from the publishers whose URLs you add; your interaction with that content is governed by the publisher's own terms and privacy practices.

5. Automatic sign-in to content providers

Some content providers may let you turn on automatic sign-in so that, once you're signed in to your Be Equipped account, you don't have to separately enter a password with a provider you've connected. This feature is off by default and only works if both you and the content provider have turned it on.

• What we share. If you turn this feature on for a provider that supports it, we send that provider a short-lived, signed token asserting the email address(es) on your Be Equipped account that we have verified — your primary email and any verified secondary email. We do not send your password, and we do not send any email address we have not verified.
• Who receives it. Only a content provider you have connected (or that has otherwise been made available to you, for example through a group you belong to) and that has separately enabled this feature on its own systems. It is never sent to a provider that hasn't turned the feature on, and it is never sent to a provider you haven't connected.
• Why. So the provider can sign you in to your account with that provider — without you re-entering a separate provider password — by matching the verified email in the token to an account it already recognizes. The provider decides, on its own systems, whether that match is sufficient to sign you in; we do not create, access, or control the provider's account.
• Your control. This feature is opt-in and off by default. You can turn it on or off at any time in your Be Equipped account settings (and, where offered, when you connect a provider). Turning it off stops future automatic sign-ins; it does not, by itself, sign you out of a provider you're already signed in to, and it does not affect an independent provider account you manage directly with that provider.
• Verified emails only. Only email addresses we have verified as belonging to your Be Equipped account are ever used for this feature — never an unverified or merely claimed address.

As with any content-provider account (Section 1), the provider — not Be Equipped — is responsible for how it handles the information in that token and for operating your account with it under its own privacy policy.

6. Data retention & deletion

• Data stored locally on your device stays until you delete it, clear the app's data, or uninstall the app.
• If you have a Be Equipped account, you can delete that account and its associated data directly in the app (Settings → Account → Delete account). Deleting it does not delete an independent provider account; contact that provider or use its deletion tools for that account. You may also request access to or deletion of your Be Equipped account data by contacting us (below).
• You can remove any catalog from your library at any time within the app.
• We retain account and diagnostic data only as long as needed for the purposes above or as required by law.
• For the optional anonymous connection metric, the current retention target is to remove a device's record after 90 days without a report. Turning the setting off stops future reports; uninstalling or clearing app data may replace the random identifier if you later opt in again.

7. Your rights & choices

The anonymous connection metric is off by default. You can enable or disable it at any time in the app's Browsing / Tabs settings. Disabling it stops future reports from that device.

Automatic sign-in to content providers (Section 5) is also off by default. You can enable or disable it at any time in your account settings; disabling it stops future automatic sign-ins.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal data, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent. You can exercise the core of these rights yourself — reading without an account, deleting your Be Equipped account in the app, and removing catalogs — or by contacting us. For rights involving a provider account, contact that independent provider. We will honor applicable data-protection rights and will not discriminate against you for exercising them.

8. Third parties

The Service works with third parties you choose or that help us operate — including Apple and Google (billing), content providers, and catalog publishers. A provider you connect is independent of Be Equipped. We do not create, control, monitor, or endorse its content, and we are not responsible for that content or for how the provider handles your information. You connect at your own discretion, and the provider's handling of your information is governed by its own privacy policy, which we don't control. Please review that policy before connecting.

9. This website & cookies

This marketing and legal website is intentionally lightweight: it serves plain HTML and one stylesheet, with no analytics, no advertising trackers, no third-party fonts, and no cookies set by us. Your browser may still keep standard local records (such as cache) as it does for any site.

10. Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we'll revise the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.

12. Contact us

Be Equipped is a product of Wealth and Happy Future LLC.