راعيRa3y Terms & data ownership

Terms of Service

Effective Date: August 26, 2026  |  Last Updated: August 26, 2026

1. Agreement

These Terms govern use of Ra3y (راعي), a parish-management service for Coptic Orthodox churches, across its mobile applications and web portal. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a church, diocese, or institution, you confirm you are authorized to bind that organization.

These Terms work alongside our Privacy Policy, which describes what data we handle and why.

2. Who Owns the Data

The church owns its records. Family records, visits, pastoral notes, confession records, Sunday-school rosters, and every other record entered by a church or its members remain the property of that church. Ra3y stores and processes them on the church's behalf; it does not acquire ownership of them.

Concretely, and for as long as an account exists, this means:

3. Accounts and Responsible Use

Accounts are approved by a church administrator. You are responsible for the confidentiality of your login and for activity carried out under your account.

You agree not to:

Pastoral confidentiality. Confession records, health conditions, family needs, and financial circumstances are held in confidence. Handling them outside the church's own pastoral discipline is a breach of these Terms as well as of that discipline.

4. Subscriptions and Payment

5. Availability and Offline Use

Ra3y is offline-first on mobile: records are stored encrypted on the device and synchronized when connectivity returns. We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service, and we may take the service down for maintenance.

Because a device may hold unsynchronized changes, you should allow the app to complete synchronization before uninstalling it, resetting the device, or transferring it to another person.

6. Termination and What Happens to the Data

7. Intellectual Property

The Ra3y application, its source code, design, and brand remain ours. These Terms grant a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service for the church's ministry for the duration of the subscription. Nothing here transfers ownership of the software, and nothing here claims ownership of the church's records.

8. Disclaimers and Liability

The service is provided "as is". While we take substantial care with pastoral data — encryption at rest on device, server-side authorization, audit logging, and regular backups — no system is free of fault.

Keep your own records. Ra3y is a working system of record, not a substitute for the church's own archival practice. Export regularly.

To the extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the fees paid by the church for the twelve months preceding the claim.

9. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced in the app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance. If a church does not accept a material change, it may terminate under Section 6 and export its data.

10. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Disputes will be handled by the competent courts of Cairo, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protections available where you live.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms, a subscription, or a data export request:

WhatsApp: +20 128 616 1777