What you believe is personal. This is how Yachad handles it.

Private by default

By default, only your friends see whether you are going to a service or event, and you can switch to “Only me” with every RSVP. Only friends see the dates on your profile and your friends list. For every plan you choose who sees it:

1. Only the group or the people invited
2. Your friends as well
3. People from certain churches or ministries
4. Everyone in the app, including Discover

Numbers, not names

Churches only see totals: how many people listed them as their church and how many are coming to or interested in a date. They never find out who, not even in the admin portal.

If you set a main church, it appears on your profile. Other churches you add stay private. The only exception: if a church or ministry admits members only on request, the responsible team sees who has requested access or is a member. Who is coming to a date stays anonymous even then.

No precise location

For “near you”, the app uses your location only for that search, rounded to about one kilometre, and does not store it.

For plans, only members and confirmed participants see the exact address. Everyone else only sees the neighbourhood.

No direct messages

Yachad deliberately has no private messages: strangers cannot write to you. Contact happens through friendships, groups and shared plans. You decide who can send you a friend request: everyone, or only people with mutual friends or the same church.

No ads, no tracking, no selling of data

Yachad shows no ads and builds no profiles for third parties. I do not include tracking or advertising SDKs and pass no data to ad networks. Visibility cannot be bought, not even by churches.

This website sets no cookies either, uses no analytics tools and serves fonts and images from its own server. If you save the light or dark theme, only your browser remembers it.

Where your data is stored

Servers, database, images and backups are with Infomaniak in Switzerland. Apple is only involved for notifications, Sign in with Apple and the maps on iPhone. Connections to the app are encrypted.

I re-save uploaded photos and remove metadata such as where the photo was taken.

Deleting means deleting

You delete your account right in the app. After 30 days it is gone for good, including all comments, RSVPs, photos and images. If you sign in again before then, the deletion is cancelled.

You can export your data as a file at any time.

Protection for teenagers

Yachad is for people aged 16 and over; your birthday counts. Until 18 stricter rules apply: adults can only send requests or invitations to teenagers if there is a shared connection, such as mutual friends or the same church, if the church has approved both memberships.

I only ask for your date of birth for this protection. Others cannot see it. Reports involving teenagers are reviewed with priority.

I moderate behaviour, not belief

Different Christian views are welcome. I step in for harassment, hate, spam, fraud or danger, not for differing theology.

You can report people, plans, groups, comments, photos, churches and events. If you block someone, they no longer see your profile content, RSVPs and plans, and your friendship ends.