Faith Circles — Terms of Service

1. What Faith Circles Is

Faith Circles is a Christian community app designed to help users create private circles for prayer, Scripture discussion, encouragement, and spiritual growth. It may include private circles, prayer requests, answered-prayer tracking, comments and encouragement, weekly Scripture reflections, Bible passage selection, AI-assisted summaries and discussion questions, invite links, short links, and QR codes, notifications, and cross-promotion with other SnickityBit apps such as Ask The Word.

Faith Circles is a tool for personal and group encouragement. It is not a substitute for Scripture, church community, pastoral care, professional counseling, medical care, legal advice, financial advice, or emergency services.

2. Eligibility

You may use Faith Circles only if you are legally able to agree to these Terms and are old enough to use the app under applicable law and app store requirements. If you are under 13, you may not use Faith Circles unless permitted by applicable law and with appropriate parent or guardian involvement and consent.

If you use Faith Circles on behalf of a church, ministry, organization, small group, or family, you represent that you have permission to do so.

3. Accounts

You may need an account to use certain features. You agree to:

• Provide accurate account information
• Keep your login credentials secure
• Notify us if you believe your account has been compromised
• Be responsible for activity that occurs under your account

We may suspend or terminate access if we believe an account is being misused, compromised, or used in violation of these Terms.

4. Circles, Roles, and Invitations

Faith Circles allows users to create and participate in private groups called circles.

Circle Roles. A circle may include owner, leader, and member roles. Owners and leaders may have additional permissions, such as managing members, creating weekly reflections, or viewing leader-only prayer requests.

Invite Links and QR Codes. Circle owners or leaders may invite others using invite links, short links, or QR codes. You agree not to misuse, publicly expose, spam, sell, or abuse invite links or QR codes. Circle owners and leaders are responsible for managing who they invite.

Circle Responsibility. Circle owners and leaders are responsible for managing their circles in a respectful, lawful, and appropriate manner. SnickityBit Solutions LLC is not responsible for resolving every interpersonal dispute that occurs inside a circle, but we may take action if we believe these Terms have been violated.

5. User Content

You Own Your Content. You retain ownership of content you create, subject to the rights you grant us in these Terms.

License to Operate the App. By submitting content to Faith Circles, you grant SnickityBit Solutions LLC a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, display, transmit, and use that content as necessary to provide, maintain, secure, and improve Faith Circles. This license is for operating the app and related services. It does not mean we own your content.

Content Shared With Circles. When you post content in a circle, it may be visible to other users in that circle according to the app's functionality and the visibility settings you choose. Be careful when sharing sensitive information. Do not share information about others unless you have permission or a lawful basis to do so.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Faith Circles to:

• Harass, threaten, abuse, shame, exploit, or harm others
• Share hateful, violent, sexually explicit, or unlawful content
• Share private information about another person without permission
• Impersonate another person or organization
• Spam users or circles
• Abuse invite links, short links, QR codes, notifications, or app systems
• Attempt to access circles, accounts, data, or systems without authorization
• Reverse engineer, scrape, overload, or interfere with the app or its services
• Upload malware, malicious code, or harmful content
• Use the app for illegal activity
• Misrepresent AI-generated content as authoritative Scripture, pastoral counsel, or professional advice
• Use Faith Circles in a way that violates applicable law or app store rules

We may remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, or terminate access if we believe these Terms have been violated.

7. Faith-Based and Spiritual Content

Faith Circles is designed to support Christian prayer, Scripture discussion, encouragement, and community. However:

• We do not guarantee theological accuracy of user content or AI-generated content
• We do not endorse every statement made by users
• We do not provide pastoral counseling or church authority
• Circle leaders are responsible for reviewing and guiding content in their circles
• Users should compare all spiritual content with Scripture and trusted Christian teaching

If you need pastoral care, counseling, medical help, legal advice, or emergency assistance, contact an appropriate trusted person, church leader, professional, or emergency service.

8. AI Features

Faith Circles may use artificial intelligence to help generate weekly Scripture reflections, summaries, discussion questions, prayer prompts, or related content. You understand and agree that:

• AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate
• AI-generated content should be reviewed before being shared
• AI-generated content is not Scripture
• AI-generated content is not pastoral, medical, legal, financial, or professional advice
• You are responsible for how you use or share AI-generated content

We may limit, throttle, suspend, or modify AI features at any time to manage cost, reliability, safety, or abuse.

9. Bible Text and Translations

Faith Circles may display Bible passages from selected translations. Bible translations may be provided by third-party sources or services. You agree not to misuse Bible text or translation data in a way that violates copyright, license terms, provider terms, or applicable law. Availability of specific translations may change over time based on licensing, provider availability, localization, or technical reasons.

10. Notifications

Faith Circles may send notifications if you enable them. Notifications may include prayer updates, weekly reflection reminders, circle activity, or invite-related notices. You can manage notifications through your device settings and, where available, app settings. We do not guarantee that notifications will always be delivered, delivered on time, or delivered to every device.

11. Cross-Promotion and Other SnickityBit Apps

Faith Circles may include optional links or references to other SnickityBit apps or services, including Ask The Word. These links are intended to help users discover related tools. You are not required to use another SnickityBit app to use Faith Circles unless a feature clearly states otherwise. Other apps and services may have their own terms and privacy policies.

12. Purchases, Subscriptions, and Paid Features

Faith Circles may offer free and paid features, subscriptions, trials, or in-app purchases. If paid features are offered, pricing and billing terms will be shown before purchase, purchases may be processed by Apple, Google, Stripe, or another payment provider, app store refund policies may apply, and subscription terms, renewal, cancellation, and trial details will be provided in the purchase flow. We may change, add, or remove paid features in the future, subject to applicable law and app store rules.

13. Account Deletion and Termination

You may request account deletion through the app, if available, or by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, your use creates risk or harm, we are required to do so by law, the app or a feature is discontinued, or your account appears fraudulent, abusive, or compromised.

After account deletion or termination, some content may remain if necessary for circle continuity, legal compliance, security, backups, or legitimate operational purposes.

14. Service Availability

We work to keep Faith Circles available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service. Faith Circles may be unavailable due to maintenance, updates, network issues, cloud provider outages, app store issues, third-party API outages, security events, or changes to third-party services. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the app at any time.

15. Privacy

Your use of Faith Circles is also governed by our Privacy Policy. Please review it carefully.

16. Intellectual Property

Faith Circles, including its name, design, software, graphics, logos, features, and related materials, is owned by SnickityBit Solutions LLC or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from Faith Circles except as permitted by law or with our written permission. All third-party trademarks, Bible translations, service names, and logos remain the property of their respective owners.

17. Feedback

If you provide feedback, ideas, suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, you grant SnickityBit Solutions LLC permission to use them without restriction or compensation. We appreciate feedback, but we are not obligated to implement any suggestion.

18. Disclaimers

Faith Circles is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SnickityBit Solutions LLC disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, reliability, and security. We do not guarantee that:

• The app will meet your expectations
• The app will be uninterrupted or error-free
• User content will be accurate or appropriate
• AI-generated content will be accurate or theologically correct
• Notifications will always be delivered
• Specific Bible translations or third-party services will remain available

19. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SnickityBit Solutions LLC and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, loss of goodwill, spiritual distress, emotional distress, or other damages arising from or related to your use of Faith Circles.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim related to Faith Circles will not exceed the amount you paid to use Faith Circles in the twelve months before the claim, or $100, whichever is greater.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply to you.

20. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SnickityBit Solutions LLC and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and service providers from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from or related to:

• Your use of Faith Circles
• Your content
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your violation of another person's rights
• Your misuse of invite links, QR codes, AI features, or circle features
• Your violation of law

21. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, unless applicable law requires otherwise. You agree that any dispute arising from or relating to Faith Circles or these Terms will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Texas, unless applicable law requires another venue.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make changes, we may update the effective date and provide notice through the app, website, or other appropriate means. Your continued use of Faith Circles after updated Terms become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

23. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at: