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This is a translation for your convenience. Only the German version is legally binding.
These terms apply to churches that manage their profile in the Yachad admin portal at app.yachad.social, and to everyone in a church’s team. The provider is Levi Grossenbacher, Bannäckerstrasse 7, 8582 Dozwil, Switzerland (“I”). By applying for a login or accepting an invitation to the team, you accept these terms.
The terms of use and the community guidelines apply accordingly. How I process data is described in the privacy policy.
Application and verification
Anyone who may act for the church can apply for a login, such as the pastor, the office or the leadership. The application goes through the church’s official email address. The platform team reviews every application; once approved, your church counts as verified and receives a badge.
The platform team decides which communities are admitted to Yachad. There is no entitlement to admission.
A church profile may have been prepared from public information, such as your website. You can take it over with an application, correct it or ask for its removal.
Team, roles and access
Every person in the team has their own login, separate from any app account. Logins must not be shared.
- Admins manage everything in the church, including the team.
- For each ministry there are the roles leader, editor and read-only. A role only applies to its ministry, not to sub-ministries.
- Two-factor sign-in is mandatory for admins and leaders.
Admins are responsible for who is in the team. Remove people who no longer work for the church, and report lost or misused access immediately to levi@grossenbacher.net.
Your content
Whatever you publish on your profile, for ministries and dates is public and your responsibility. Make sure the information is correct and that you have the rights to logos, texts and images. Images in which people can be recognised need their consent, for children that of their parents.
Not allowed are advertising for third parties, content that violates the community guidelines and calls for donations: Yachad does not show donation links. You may link to your own website.
You allow me to store your content, process it technically and show it in the app, in the web app and through shared links as long as it is on Yachad.
Information about people
Churches generally only see numbers: how many people list your church, follow a ministry or are coming to a date. You never see who is coming.
If you approve members for your church or a ministry, the responsible team sees the name, username, profile picture, whether your church is their main church, and the age in years of people who request access or have been admitted. This information is confidential and religiously sensitive:
- Only use it to decide on access and to organise your ministry.
- Do not pass it on outside the responsible team and do not copy it into other systems.
- Do not use it to contact people outside Yachad, for example for advertising or calls for donations.
If you nevertheless process such information outside Yachad, you are responsible for it yourselves.
Log and support
The portal logs who in the team changed what, with the name at the time of the change. Admins see the log of the whole church, leaders that of their ministry. Entries are deleted after 12 months.
The platform team can act in your church’s portal to support you or to handle reports. Such actions appear in the log as “Platform team”.
Reports and moderation
People can report your church and your events. If content violates these terms, the platform team may hide it, revoke the verification or suspend logins. You receive every decision with a statement of reasons by email.
If you disagree, reply to the email with the decision or write to levi@grossenbacher.net. I will then review the decision again.
Costs
The profile and the admin portal are free. Visibility in Yachad cannot be bought; no church and no denomination is preferred.
Ending
If you want your profile or your logins deleted, write to levi@grossenbacher.net. If a person is removed from their last team, their login and its sessions disappear.
I may suspend logins, revoke the verification or remove a profile if these terms are violated or the information is not correct.
Liability, changes and law
For liability, availability, changes to these terms, applicable law and place of jurisdiction, the rules of the terms of use apply. I will announce significant changes to admins by email before they apply.