Privacy
Last updated 12 September 2026.
Bidewell is an app for church small groups. This page says what it stores,
who can see it, and how to get rid of it. It is written to be read rather
than to be defensible.
What we store
- Your email address. Used to sign you in with a six-digit code and for nothing else. No marketing, ever.
- The name you choose. Shown to the other people in your group.
- What you write. Prayer requests, updates, meeting notes.
- What your group sets up. When and where you meet, including an address if a leader adds one, and any files or links a leader shares.
- Which groups you are in, and whether you lead them.
What we do not store
- No location. The app never asks for it and never records it.
- No contacts. It cannot read your address book.
- No photos, beyond a file a leader deliberately uploads.
- No advertising identifiers, no tracking pixels, no analytics that follow you between apps.
- No payment details. There is nothing to pay for yet.
Who can see what you write
Only the people in your group. Not other groups, not the
public, and not anybody at a church unless they are a member of that
particular group. This is enforced by the database itself rather than by
the app asking nicely.
Somebody who joins a group later cannot read what was written before
they arrived. A prayer request written to eight people in a living
room stays with those eight people.
A link a leader shares deliberately, so somebody outside the group can see
when and where you meet, shows only that: the time, the place, and the group
name. It never carries a member list or anything from the prayer list, and
the leader chooses whether the address is included.
The camera
Bidewell asks for the camera in one place: reading a QR code to join a
group. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. Declining it is fine,
and the code can be typed instead.
Getting rid of it
You can delete your account from inside the app, under You.
It removes your account, your prayer requests, and everything you have
written, and it cannot be undone. Things you added for the group to use,
like a file or a link, stay with the group.
You can also leave a group without deleting anything. What you wrote stays
with the people you wrote it for.
Who else touches it
Two companies, both because the app could not work without them:
- Supabase hosts the database, in the United States.
- Resend sends the sign-in code to your email address.
Nobody else. Your data is not sold, shared, or handed to advertisers, and
there is no third party doing analytics on what you write.
Children
Bidewell is not designed for children under 13 and should not be used by
them. If a child's information has ended up here, write to the address
below and it will be removed.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that affects what is stored or who can see it,
the app will say so rather than quietly updating the date at the top.
Asking about any of this
hello@bidewell.app. A real person
reads it.