Privacy Policy | Following Him

Following Him (“we”, “our”, or “us”) operates the followinghim.app website, which you can also install to your home screen as a web app. Following Him is free to use. This page describes what information we collect, how we use it, who helps us process it, and the choices you have.

Following Him is an independent product. It is not official content of, nor affiliated with or endorsed by, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Who the app is for

Following Him is designed for parents to share with their children, but accounts are created and managed by adults. Children do not create accounts or enter information in the app, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. The only information about children we hold is what a parent chooses to share during onboarding (the number of children and their age ranges), which is optional.

Information we collect

Account information. When you sign up we store your email address and a hashed password (via Supabase Auth).
Profile information. During onboarding we ask for your first and last name. You may also choose to share the number and age ranges of your children, your gender, marital status, goals, and how you heard about us. You can skip those optional questions and your account will still work.
Progress. We record which lessons and lesson sections you have completed, along with the points, streaks, and badges they earn, so your progress follows you across devices.
Engagement analytics.While you are signed in, the app records first-party usage events in our own database: when a session starts, pauses, resumes, and ends; which pages you view; a “heartbeat” about once a minute while the app is open and visible; and actions such as opening a storybook or coloring page or installing the app. A session start also records your browser's user-agent string, your screen size, and whether the app is installed. We use this only to understand how families use Following Him (for example, how many people open it each day and for how long). These events are not shared with advertising or third-party analytics services.
Feedback. If you send feedback or a bug report, we store your message, its category, the page you were on, your email address, and any screenshots you attach.
Email preferences and delivery. We store which emails you have opted into. Our email provider tells us when an email we sent was delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, or marked as spam, and we keep a log of those events with the recipient address.
Legacy billing records. Following Him used to offer a paid subscription through Stripe. If you subscribed during that time, we still hold your Stripe customer ID and subscription status. We never saw or stored your full card number. We no longer charge for the app.
Error reports and session replays.We use Sentry to detect errors and performance problems (see “Error monitoring” below).

Error monitoring

When something breaks, Sentry receives an error report with a technical description of the problem (such as a stack trace, the page address, and your browser and device type). We also send performance timing for about 10% of page loads and requests.

Sentry session replay records a reconstruction of what happened on screen for about 1% of browser sessions, and for sessions in which an error occurs. Replays mask all on-screen text and block all images and media, so they show the layout and clicks but not the words you read or type. Before a report leaves your browser, we remove your email address, IP address, cookies, request headers, and any sign-in codes or tokens in page addresses. Reports from our servers also have your email address and IP address removed, along with request bodies that contain passwords, tokens, or billing identifiers.

Cookies and local storage

We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in (set by Supabase Auth), plus one referral cookie when you arrive through a partner’s referral link. That cookie (fh_ref) holds only the partner’s referral code, not anything about you, and expires after 30 days. It was used to credit partners when the app was paid; now that the app is free, nothing reads it. The app also stores some data only on your device: pages cached for offline use, coloring pages you have colored, and small display preferences (such as whether you dismissed the install banner). We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

How we use your information

To deliver the lessons and sync your progress across your devices.
To send a welcome email, the daily lesson and weekly summary emails, and occasional product announcements. You can turn the recurring emails off at any time.
To respond to feedback and support requests.
To understand how the app is used and to diagnose bugs and crashes so we can keep it stable.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for behavioural ad targeting.

Service providers

We share data only with the providers who help run the service, and only for that purpose:

Supabase — database, authentication, and file storage. Holds your account, profile, progress, analytics events, and feedback.
Vercel — hosts the website and runs our servers. Like any web host, it processes your IP address and request details to serve pages.
Resend — sends our emails and reports their delivery status.
Sentry — error monitoring, performance monitoring, and session replay, as described above.
Anthropic— our team can use Anthropic's Claude model to summarize batches of feedback. When we do, the feedback message, category, page, date, and the sender's email address are sent to Anthropic for that analysis. Anthropic's models also help draft lesson content; that process does not use any user data.
OpenAI — helps create lesson illustrations and audio narration. OpenAI receives only curriculum content, never information about you or your family.
Stripe — holds billing records for families who subscribed when the app was paid. Stripe processes no new payments for Following Him.

You can read more about how AI is used to create lessons on our How we use AI page.

Deleting your account

You can permanently delete your account at any time from Settings → Danger zone. Deleting your account removes your login, profile, progress, badges, analytics events, and feedback messages, and cancels any active legacy Stripe subscription. A few records are not removed automatically and may remain for a limited time: screenshots attached to feedback, email delivery logs, error reports held by Sentry under its retention period, routine backups, and billing history that Stripe keeps as required by law. To ask us to remove any of these, contact us using the details below.

Your choices

Change which emails you receive at any time from Settings → Email notifications, with the unsubscribe link where an email includes one, or by contacting us.
Skip the optional onboarding questions, or ask us to correct or remove the answers you gave.
Request a copy of your data or delete your account through Settings (recommended) or by contacting us.

Mobile apps

Following Him is currently available only on the web. We have not released native iOS or Android apps. If we do, we will update this policy before they launch.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your information, we will update this page and the “last updated” date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy or a data request? Email admin@followinghim.app or visit the support page. See also our Terms of Use.