1. Overview and Scope
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of Live In Jesus Name (accessible at https://lij.name.ng and any
associated preview or mirror domains operated by our editorial desk, collectively referred to as the “Site”).
This policy explains what personal and non-personal information may be processed when you read teachings, adjust reading settings,
subscribe to updates, view advertisements, or correspond with us, together with your rights under applicable privacy laws including
the European Union and United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR / UK GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act
as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA / CPRA”), the Nigeria Data Protection Act (“NDPA”), and
children’s online privacy protections.
We design Live In Jesus Name as a quiet, low-friction reading room. You do not need to create an account, log in, or submit personal information in order to read any teaching article, browse our 365-day curriculum slate, or consult our doctrinal glossary.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Information You Voluntarily Provide
When you contact our editorial desk through the Contact page or message the desk line on WhatsApp
(+234 708 913 8631), you choose what to share — typically your name, a return number if you want one, the subject
of your message, and the contents of your correspondence. The Contact page does not submit to our servers: it prepares a WhatsApp
message on your own device, and the conversation that follows lives in WhatsApp under WhatsApp’s own terms. We see only what you
send us there. Please refrain from including sensitive medical, financial, or confidential third-party records in general inquiries.
2.2 On-Device Reading Preferences (Local Storage)
To make long-form Scripture study comfortable, the Site remembers two optional interface settings strictly inside your own browser’s
localStorage: your preferred theme mode (ijn-theme: Light or Night) and your preferred reading text scale
(ijn-scale). The Listening Room stores two more: your chosen voice and speed
(ijn-listen), so a preference set on one teaching carries to the next, and your advertising choice
(ijn-consent-v1), so you are not asked twice. These values stay on your device, contain zero personal
identifiers, and are never transmitted to our servers. Clearing your browser storage resets them immediately.
2.2a The Listening Room: Speech and Translation
Narration is produced by your own browser's speech engine. The text of a teaching is never sent to us or to a speech vendor — there is no audio file to download and no text-to-speech service involved. Some browsers fetch their voices from the operating system or the browser vendor under that vendor’s own terms; that is outside our control and outside our servers.
Translation follows the same rule. Where your browser supports its built-in on-device translator, the translation happens locally and no text leaves your device. Where it does not, we do not translate silently — the page tells you plainly and offers either the English original or a link to an external translation service that you choose to open. If you follow that link, the outside service’s privacy policy governs the visit.
2.2b Offline Reading
The Site registers a service worker so that pages you have already opened can be read again without a connection. It stores page HTML, fonts, and images in your browser’s own cache, on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser storage or your site data removes it.
2.3 Standard Server Log and Diagnostic Data
Like virtually all websites and content delivery networks, our hosting infrastructure automatically records standard HTTP request metadata necessary to deliver pages securely and defend against abuse. Such log entries may include your truncated or full Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser user-agent string, referring page, requested URL path, date and timestamp, HTTP status code, and approximate country or region derived from network routing. Log files are used strictly for technical reliability, security monitoring, and aggregated traffic diagnostics.
3. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a web server when you visit a website. Depending on which features and third-party services are active on the Site, cookies fall into three categories:
- Strictly Necessary Technical Storage: Essential mechanisms required to deliver pages securely over HTTPS, balance server load, or remember explicit consent and privacy choices.
- Analytics and Performance Measurement: Aggregated measurement tools (where enabled) that help us understand which teachings readers find helpful, how quickly pages load, and whether broken links occur, without building invasive personal profiles.
- Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense): When display advertising is active on the Site to sustain free public access to our teaching library, third-party advertising partners — principally Google AdSense — may place or read cookies and web beacons on your browser.
You can configure any modern web browser to refuse non-essential cookies, delete existing cookies automatically when closing a window, or alert you before a cookie is stored. Restricting advertising cookies will never block you from reading teachings on Live In Jesus Name.
4. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising Disclosures
Advertising loads only with your consent. On your first visit a small panel asks whether Google may show advertisements. Both answers are given equal weight. If you choose Essential only, the AdSense script is never injected, no advertising cookie is set, and every teaching remains fully available. If you choose Allow ads, the AdSense loader is added and Google may serve and measure advertising as described below. You can change the choice at any time with the Cookie settings control in the footer of every page.
To keep every teaching on Live In Jesus Name free of paywalls and subscription fees, the Site is configured to participate in the
Google AdSense program (Publisher ID: ca-pub-9124992249317290, verified via our root /ads.txt file).
In accordance with Google Publisher Policies and international transparency laws, please note the following disclosures whenever AdSense units are active:
- Third-Party Vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this Site or other websites across the internet.
- Google’s Advertising Cookies (DoubleClick / DART): Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements to our visitors based on their visit to Live In Jesus Name and/or other sites on the internet, as well as to cap ad frequency, detect invalid click fraud, and measure aggregate ad performance.
- How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising served by Google at any time
by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at
https://adssettings.google.com(orhttps://myadcenter.google.com). Alternatively, you may opt out of a wide range of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page athttps://optout.networkadvertising.orgor the Digital Advertising Alliance consumer choice portal athttps://www.aboutads.info/choices/(and for European readers,https://www.youronlinechoices.eu). - Editorial Independence: Advertisements are clearly separated from editorial content by reserved layout containers and an explicit “ADVERTISEMENT” label, are never placed inside Scripture blocks or spoken Declaration cards, and never influence the theological teaching or Scripture exposition published on Live In Jesus Name.
For comprehensive details on how Google processes information from sites and apps that use its services, you may review Google’s partner
disclosure document at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
5. Behavioral Remarketing and Analytics
We do not sell personal correspondence lists to data brokers, telemarketers, or third-party ministries. If web analytics or advertising measurement services (such as Google Analytics 4 or privacy-first traffic counters) are active, those services process pseudonymous usage events — such as page views, scroll depth, device category, and session duration — to help us maintain site speed and editorial quality. Where required by regional law (such as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland), non-essential analytics and personalized advertising tags respect Google Consent Mode and your browser or consent-banner preferences.
6. Legal Bases and Your Rights Under GDPR / UK GDPR
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process personal data only where a lawful basis exists under Article 6 of the GDPR:
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): For optional advertising personalization cookies where consent is required by law, and when you voluntarily write to us.
- Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f)): For securing the Site against malicious traffic, maintaining server reliability, and replying to editorial questions you initiate.
- Legal Obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)): Where retention or disclosure is required by applicable law.
Subject to statutory conditions, EEA and UK residents hold the right to request access to personal data we hold about them, request rectification of inaccurate data, request erasure (“right to be forgotten”), request restriction of processing, exercise data portability, object to processing based on legitimate interests, and withdraw consent at any time without affecting prior lawful processing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.
7. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA)
If you are a resident of California, the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) grants you specific rights regarding personal information:
- Right to Know: You may request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected about you, the sources of collection, the business purpose, and categories of third parties with whom information is shared.
- Right to Delete: You may request deletion of personal information we have collected directly from you, subject to statutory exceptions.
- Right to Opt Out of “Sale” or “Sharing” for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising: Live In Jesus Name never sells reader names or email addresses for money. Under the CCPA/CPRA’s broad technical definition, allowing third-party ad networks to use cookies for cross-context behavioral advertising may constitute “sharing.” You may opt out at any time via the opt-out mechanisms listed in Section 4 above or by enabling the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal in a supported browser.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will never deny access, degrade quality, or penalize any reader for exercising privacy rights.
8. Rights Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) and Global Frameworks
For readers in Nigeria and across Africa, Live In Jesus Name honours the principles of fairness, lawfulness, transparency, data minimization,
storage limitation, and security established under the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) 2023. Data subjects may request confirmation,
correction, or deletion of any personal correspondence held by our desk by messaging +234 708 913 8631
on WhatsApp and asking us plainly.
9. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)
Live In Jesus Name is a general-audience Christian Scripture study publication and is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in
jurisdictions with a higher digital consent threshold). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If a parent or legal
guardian believes a child has submitted personal details to our desk without parental consent, please notify us at
+234 708 913 8631 and we will promptly delete those records.
10. Data Retention, Security, and External Links
Correspondence sent to our editorial desk is retained only as long as reasonably needed to answer your question and maintain editorial continuity, after which routine correspondence is periodically archived or purged from the devices that hold it. We protect the Site with HTTPS transport encryption, minimal data collection, and restricted administrative access; however, no method of electronic transmission over the public internet can be guaranteed 100 percent immune from risk.
Occasionally our pages may reference external resources or opt-out portals operated by third parties. Once you follow a link outside Live In Jesus Name, that external website’s own privacy policy governs your visit.
10.1 Reader Community Channels (WhatsApp)
Our Community page, the footer, the home page, and the end of each teaching link to a WhatsApp Channel and a WhatsApp Group where readers receive daily teachings and discuss them. Those links leave this Site and open WhatsApp, a service operated by WhatsApp LLC / Meta. This Site does not receive, store, or process your phone number, and we are not told who joins or leaves either room.
What you post in the group is visible to other members and is governed by WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy. A broadcast Channel does not reveal your number to other followers; a Group does reveal your number to its members. Join with a number you are comfortable sharing, or read the teachings here instead — no teaching is ever gated behind a community invite.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy and How to Contact Us
Whenever we update this Privacy Policy to reflect new site features, advertising changes, or legal requirements, we revise the “Effective” date at the top of this page. For any privacy question, data access request, or deletion request, please write to:
Live In Jesus Name — Editorial & Privacy Desk
WhatsApp: +234 708 913 8631
Contact page: https://lij.name.ng/contact/
Community: https://lij.name.ng/community/