Privacy Policy - Anba Moses Service

Last updated: 31 October 2026

"Anba Moses Service" (خدمة الأنبا موسى) is the service app of St. Mary & Anba Moses Church, Al-Samakin. It is used by service members - students, servants, and service leaders - to follow attendance, study, and spiritual life.

Data we collect

• Account data: name, email address, phone number, optional profile photo.
• A student's profile: address, date of birth, father of confession, school year, and the dates of their last communion and confession. If given (optional): mother's and father's phone numbers, school, talent, and whether they are a deacon. Only the owner, their stage's servants and the leaders see it.
• Service data: the batch you are in, meeting attendance records, competition results, and submitted excuses.
• Spiritual notebook: daily marks (morning prayer, night prayer, reading), and what you write on the day's page (what you learned, a verse, your prayer, your answers, the month's challenges). Only you, your stage's servants and the leaders see it; no other student does.
• For servants: the photos of your lesson preparation and homework you upload each week. Only the leaders see them; the last 4 weeks are kept and older ones are deleted automatically. The photos of paper you send with an answer to a task are seen only by whoever set it, your stages' leaders and Abouna.
• Notification identifier: a technical token for your device so notifications can reach it, removed with the account.

How we use it

Data is used inside the service only: recording attendance, computing scores and the leaderboard, letting servants follow the students assigned to them, and sending service notifications. We do not sell it, use it for advertising, or give it to anyone to use for their own purposes. The hosting provider that stores it processes it on our behalf alone and may not use it for anything else.

Where it lives

Data is held on secure cloud servers and encrypted both in transit and at rest. Access is role-scoped: each servant sees their own batches only, and the service leader sees the whole service.

Photos are kept with the same provider, either inside the records themselves or as files that open only through a long random link, which the app hands only to the people allowed to see them. A photo is deleted with its record.

Closing your account

You can close your account at any time from inside the app: Profile → Close Account. Closing it ends your access immediately: you are signed out and cannot sign back in until a servant approves you again, and the app stops sending you notifications.

Your record is kept rather than erased. A member's attendance, marks and spiritual notebook are the service's own educational register as much as they are yours, and people who leave often return - keeping the record means returning is an approval away rather than starting from nothing. The same mobile number reaches the same account.

If you want your data erased outright rather than closed, ask the service leader; they can delete an account and its personal records permanently.

Children

The app is for members of the church's Sunday school, from nursery to university; every account is reviewed and approved by service leaders before activation.

Contact

For any privacy question: Mina Samir, the service leader - 01228278255