Vobo Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 27, 2025

Introduction

Our Services provide information sharing and communications services, mediated through mobile applications and administrative portals, to discrete communities.  We use the term ‘Content Provider’ to mean the individual, or individuals, who are responsible for disseminating information among the members of their community. We use the term ‘User’ to mean the members of a Vobo-supported community. Users receive messages sent by, and consume information published by, Content Providers. Messages and published information can include unlimited length content including images, videos, documents, text and links to web-accessible third-party sites and functions.

This Privacy Policy describes how and when we collect, use and share your information across our websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, widgets, ads, commerce services, and our other covered services that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”), and from our partners and other third parties. For example, you send us information when you use our Services on the web, via SMS, or from a Vobo-provided Android or iOS application. When using any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes any information you choose to provide that is deemed sensitive under applicable law.

When this policy mentions “we” or “us”, it refers to the controller of your information under this policy. If you live in the United States, your information is controlled by Vobo, LLC If you live outside the United States. Irrespective of where you live, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your information in the United States. The privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those in the country where you live.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please submit a request through our form, available at https://Vobo.com/privacy.

Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to the Vobo platform and to all mobile applications and related services that use the Vobo platform, including but not limited to: Vobo, Adventist Community, Parent-Teacher Association, POA Connect, End Brain Cancer, and CougsFirst! Connect. Depending on the specific app and community, your personal data may be controlled by Vobo, LLC and/or, by the Seventh-day Adventist Church – NPUC (North Pacific Union Conference) in partnership with Vobo, LLC.

Information Collection and Use

We collect and use your information below to provide, understand, and improve our Services.

Basic Account Information: If you choose to create a Vobo account, you must provide us with some personal information, such as your name, email address, or phone number. If you use Vobo, the account information you provide is not public.

Contact Information: You may use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to customize your account or enable certain account features. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive push messages or text messages to that number. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services, to market to you, to help prevent spam, fraud, or abuse, and to help others find your account, including through third-party services and client applications. You may use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from Vobo. You may also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or the instructions on our website.

Additional Information: You may choose to provide us with additional information to help improve and personalize your experience across our Services. If you email us or provide feedback we may keep your message, email address, and contact information to respond to your request. If you connect your account on our Services to your account on another service in order to cross-post between our Services and that service, the other service may send us your registration or profile information on that service and other information that you authorize. This information enables cross-posting, helps us improve the Services, and is deleted from our Services within a few weeks of your disconnecting from our Services your account on the other service.

Following, Profile, and other Public Information: Vobo is primarily designed to help you receive information from your chosen content providers. Most of the information you provide us through Vobo is information you are asking us to use in support of our services to you and information you provide to your followed content providers. You may provide us with profile information to make public on Vobo, such as a short biography, your location, your website, or a picture. Additionally, your public information includes the messages you send, information about your account, such as creation time and time zone. When you share information or content like photos, videos, and links via the Services, you should think carefully about what you are making public. We may use this information to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide through the Services public for as long as you do not delete it.

Location Information: We may receive information about your location. For example, you may choose to publish your location in your Vobo profile. You may also tell us your location when you set-up your account on Vobo.com. We may also determine location by using other data from your device, such as precise location information from GPS, information about wireless networks or cell towers near your mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store information about your location to provide features of our Services, such as local special deals and discounts from our advertisers with your location, and to improve and customize the Services.

Links: We may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our push messages, email notifications, third-party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.

Using Our Services: We receive information when you interact with our Services, even if you have not created an account (“Log Data”). For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, interact with our pushcast notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party website, application, or service, we may receive information about you. This Log Data may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, or cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view or interact with links on our Services, including links to third-party applications, such as when you choose to install another application through Vobo. We use Log Data to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in, and to customize the content we show you, including ads. We keep Log Data as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We will either delete Log Data or remove any common account identifiers, such as your username, full IP address, email address, or phone number, after a maximum of 18 months.

Advertising: Our Services are supported by advertising. We may use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness and to help recognize your devices to serve you ads on and off of Vobo. We do not use the content you share privately to serve you ads. Our Vobo Ads Policy also prohibits advertisers from targeting ads based on categories we consider sensitive, such as race, religion, politics, sex life, or health.

Third-Parties and Affiliates: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as other Vobo users, partners (including ad partners), or our corporate affiliates. Our ad partners and affiliates may share information with us such as a browser, ID, mobile device ID, or cryptographic hash of a common account identifier (such as an email address), as well as demographic or interest data and content viewed, or actions taken on a website or app. Our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, may enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not disclose your private personal information except in the limited circumstances described here.

User Consent or Direction: We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. When you use Vobo to sign up for or log in to a third-party application, you are directing us to share your contact information, such as your phone number, with that application. If you’ve shared information, with another user who accesses Vobo through a third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third-party service.

Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States, For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help provide our Services, such as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and to help us understand and improve the use of our Services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal information with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions.

Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect our or our users’ rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.

Business Transfers and Affiliates: In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose information about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help provide, understand, and improve our Services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of ads.

Public or Non-Personal Information: We may share or disclose your public, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your public user profile information.

Accessing and Modifying Your Personal Information

If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account.

You can also permanently delete your Vobo account. If you follow the instructions in our application, your account will be deactivated and then deleted. When deactivated, your account and app will not be viewable by Vobo or the public.

Keep in mind that search engines and other third parties may still retain copies of your public information, like your user profile information and even after you have deleted the information from the Vobo Services or deactivated your account.

Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at https://vobo.com/vobo-policies/. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via update or Vobo Pushcast or to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.