1. Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to the official We Are Loretto iPhone app and to public WeAreLoretto.com pages opened through the app. The app provides Loretto-area news, community events, weather, directories, jobs, sports information, app alerts, and links to public community resources.
No account is required to browse the main app. Some optional website features—such as submitting community news or posting a job—may ask for information needed to process that specific request. Those details are provided voluntarily through the applicable website form or service.
2. Information received
Push-notification information
The app uses Firebase Cloud Messaging, a Google service, to deliver optional push notifications. When notifications are configured, Firebase records the Apple Push Notification service token and associates it with an app-installation identifier used as the Firebase Cloud Messaging registration token. Firebase also receives technical information needed to manage notification subscriptions, such as device model, language, time zone, operating-system version, app identifier, and app version.
Notification preferences
Your choices for Community Alerts, Community News, Food Trucks, and LHS & SLS Sports Final Scores are stored on your device. The app uses those choices to subscribe or unsubscribe that installation from the corresponding Firebase notification topics. Community Alerts are enabled by default in the app, while the other categories are optional.
Firebase Analytics status
Firebase Analytics is currently disabled in the app’s Firebase configuration. The app does not currently use Firebase Analytics to collect app-usage events. The Firebase Analytics software package is present in the Xcode project, but the current Firebase configuration marks Analytics as disabled. If Analytics is enabled in a future release, this policy and the App Store privacy disclosures will be updated to describe that change.
Public website content and website analytics
The app retrieves public content from WeAreLoretto.com and may display public webpages inside the app. Like most web servers, the site receives standard technical request information needed to deliver a page. Public pages may also use We Are Loretto’s privacy-conscious website analytics system to record page views, sessions, traffic source, device or browser category, language, engagement time, and similar site-usage information.
The website analytics system uses randomly generated browser and session identifiers. Identifiers are privately hashed on the server. The analytics system does not store full IP addresses, names, email addresses, private message contents, form values, or private Trading Post conversation pages. Phone and email link clicks may be counted without storing the phone number or email address that was clicked.
Weekly poll voting
The website’s optional weekly polls use a long-lived first-party browser cookie and a locally stored random browser identifier to limit voting to one response per browser or device. The server stores privately hashed versions of those random identifiers with the selected answer and voting time. Poll voting does not require a name or email address, and the poll system does not store full IP addresses.
Information you send to support
If you email us for help, we receive the information you choose to include, such as your email address, device details, screenshots, and description of the issue. We use that information only to respond, troubleshoot, protect the service, and maintain necessary support records.
3. How information is used
Information is used to:
- Deliver app alerts and honor your selected notification categories.
- Load public news, events, directories, weather, Alerts History, and other community content.
- Operate, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the app and website.
- Understand aggregate website usage and improve the usefulness of public pages.
- Respond to questions, problem reports, and support requests.
We do not sell personal information. The app does not use information for third-party targeted advertising or cross-app tracking.
4. Service providers and sharing
Information may be processed by service providers that help operate the app and website, including:
- Google Firebase, for Firebase Cloud Messaging and related app-installation services.
- Apple, for App Store distribution, iOS services, and Apple Push Notification service delivery.
- Website and infrastructure providers, for hosting, security, storage, and delivery of WeAreLoretto.com content.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users or the public, investigate misuse, or defend the security and integrity of the service.
5. Your choices
- Notification permission: You may allow or deny notifications when iOS asks. You can change that choice later in the iPhone Settings app.
- Notification categories: In the app, open More → App Notifications to enable or disable individual categories.
- Website storage: Clearing Safari or app website data may remove locally stored website analytics and weekly-poll identifiers and start new anonymous browser sessions.
- Support information: You may ask us to delete information you previously sent in a support email, subject to records we reasonably need for security, legal, or operational purposes.
- Stop all app collection: You may disable notifications and remove the app from your device.
6. Retention and deletion
Notification preferences remain on your device until they are changed, cleared, or the app is removed. Firebase manages app-installation and notification-token data according to its service operation and retention practices. Registration tokens can change and may become invalid when an app is removed or reinstalled.
Public Alerts History entries are community content rather than user profiles. We Are Loretto administrators may hide, restore, or permanently delete those entries. Website analytics are retained for operational and historical reporting. Support correspondence is kept only as long as reasonably useful for responding, troubleshooting, security, recordkeeping, or legal obligations.
Former Trading Post account deletion: People who created an account before the Trading Post was discontinued can use the public Delete Trading Post Account page. After confirmation, the system removes the member profile and sign-in credentials, listings and listing photos, associated private buyer–seller conversations, and a Trading Post new-item email subscription using the same address. A limited non-identifying security record that a deletion occurred may be retained.
To request deletion of other information you directly provided to us, email admin@weareloretto.com and describe the information involved. We may need enough detail to identify the relevant record.
7. Children’s privacy
The app is a general community-information service and is not designed to collect personal information from children. We do not knowingly create profiles of children or knowingly collect personal information from a child through the main app. A parent or guardian who believes a child submitted personal information may contact us to request review or deletion.
8. Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the information handled, including restricted administration access, protected service credentials, and encrypted network connections where supported. No internet or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
9. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the app, website, service providers, or legal requirements change. The updated policy will be posted at this URL with a revised effective date. Material changes will also be reflected in the app or App Store disclosures when appropriate.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy or the app’s privacy practices may be sent to: