Privacy Policy

One-line custom excerpt for Ghost: How Love Church handles personal data - what we collect, why, and your rights.

Last updated: 28 April 2026

Love Church ("we", "us", "this site") respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, and the rights you have over your data. It applies to every visitor and member of love-church.com.

If you have questions about anything here, email us at lovechurchgroup@gmail.com.

1. What we collect

Visitors who never sign up

We collect almost nothing. Our hosting provider (Ghost Pro) keeps anonymous server logs - IP address, browser type, the page you visited - for the standard purpose of running and securing the site. Logs are kept for a short period and we do not link them to you.

Members and email subscribers

When you subscribe to email updates or become a paying member, we collect:

  • Your email address: required to deliver teachings and manage your account
  • Your name: only if you provide it (optional)
  • Country: inferred by Ghost from your sign-up IP, used for newsletter analytics
  • Member tier: free, monthly, or yearly
  • Newsletter activity: whether you opened recent emails (used by us to keep our list healthy, not shared)

Paying members only

Payment is processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card details. Stripe sends us only a customer ID, your billing email, and the subscription status. Read Stripe's privacy policy.

Contact form

When you message us via the contact form, the message and your reply email are emailed to us and retained until we no longer need them to follow up.

2. What we do with it

  • Send you teachings you signed up for
  • Run your member account (sign-in, billing, content access)
  • Reply to messages you send us
  • Understand which teachings are read most, in aggregate (no individual tracking)
  • Comply with our legal obligations

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information. We do not share it with marketing companies. We do not use behavioural advertising trackers.

3. Where it lives

  • Ghost Pro (our hosting provider) stores member data on EU servers. Read Ghost's privacy policy.
  • Stripe stores payment data on its own infrastructure under its own terms.
  • Email delivery uses Ghost's built-in mailer (Mailgun under the hood for newsletter, Ghost's transactional service for account emails).

4. Cookies

See our separate Cookie Policy for what cookies are set and why. The short version: a few essential cookies for sign-in and member access, nothing for advertising.

5. Your rights (POPIA / GDPR)

Wherever you live, you can:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you - email us
  • Correct anything that's wrong - update your name/email in your account, or email us
  • Delete your data - cancel your membership and email us to remove the residual records
  • Export your data - email us; we can send the Ghost-native export
  • Object to any processing you think is unjustified
  • Unsubscribe from emails - every email has a one-click unsubscribe link

We are based in South Africa and comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA). If you're in the EU/UK, we honour the equivalent rights under the GDPR / UK GDPR. If you are in California, the equivalent rights under the CCPA.

To exercise any of these rights, email lovechurchgroup@gmail.com and tell us which right you want to use. We respond within 30 days.

6. Children

This site is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has signed up, email us and we will delete the account.

7. Security

We use HTTPS site-wide. Member passwords are handled by Ghost Portal - we never see them. Payment data is handled by Stripe - we never see it. No system is perfectly secure; if you discover a vulnerability please email us before disclosing it.

8. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we update the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will be announced in a teaching email so members know.

9. Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints:

Email: lovechurchgroup@gmail.com Site: love-church.com

If you are in South Africa and unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Information Regulator at https://inforegulator.org.za.