Religious affiliation is special personal data under Ghana’s Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). VisFaith is designed around that from the start.
What a church stores
Names, phone numbers, household links, attendance, visitor follow-up, messages and giving records. Pastoral notes are visible only to named pastoral staff. Children’s records are hidden from general broadcasts and public pages.
Consent
A member agrees to be on the platform and to receive church messages. A visitor is asked when they register. Reply STOP to any SMS to opt out. A receipt for a gift you have just made may still be sent once.
Who can see it
Access follows the role your church assigns. A choir leader sees the choir. A treasurer sees giving. An usher sees check-in. VisFaith staff do not browse member records. If support needs to look, a limited support session is opened, it ends automatically, and it is written to the audit log.
Your rights
A church can export all of its data at any time. A person can ask for their record to be erased. Where accounting records must be kept, the name is removed. Write to privacy@visfaith.com.
Security
Traffic is encrypted in transit. Pastoral notes and secrets are encrypted before they are stored. Admins and treasurers use two-step sign-in, and data is backed up every day.