Privacy Policy — Covenant

Covenant is a marriage-intent dating app published by Apex Root Solutions LLC. This policy describes the app as it actually behaves, not as a category of app generally behaves. Where we do something unusual — with your genotype, your location, or your messages — it is written out in full rather than folded into a general clause.

The short version. Covenant needs an account, because it introduces you to other people. We hold your profile, your conversations and your verification records. Your genotype is health information: it is private by default, never shown on your profile, never used to filter who sees you, and never disclosed to another member — not even to a partner who has agreed to a compatibility check with you. Your location is held and shown at city level only; your exact position is never shared with another member. We do not sell your data, we do not advertise to you, and we do not build a profile of you for anyone else's purposes.

1. Who we are

Covenant is published by Apex Root Solutions LLC ("we", "us"), a limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Delaware, with its registered office in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, and its principal place of business in Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas. We are the controller of the personal data described here.

2. You must be 18

Covenant is for adults seeking marriage. You may not create or hold an account if you are under 18. We collect your date of birth at sign-up and refuse accounts below that age. If we learn that an account belongs to a minor we close it and delete the data, and you can tell us at support@apsoluts.com if you believe one exists.

3. What we collect

Account and identity

Your phone number, which is how you sign in. It is confirmed with a six-digit code and is never shown to another member.
An email address, if you choose to sign in with Apple or Google instead. We never post to those services and never read your contacts from one.
Your name as you wish to be known, and your date of birth.

Your profile

Photos you upload.
Gender, height, occupation, employment sector, education and field of study.
Country, state and city; your state of origin; whether you are travelling.
Languages, cultural identity, and whether you are open to an inter-ethnic marriage.
What you are looking for: relationship intent, marriage timeline, marital status, and whether this would be a first or a subsequent marriage.
Children you have, children you want, and how involved you expect family to be.
Interests, lifestyle answers, and your written prompts and bio.
Your answers to the compatibility questions.

Faith

Religion, denomination, how important faith is to you, whether you would consider someone of a different faith, and — if you choose to give it — where you worship. Religious belief is sensitive information. You control whether it appears on your profile, is used only for matching, or is kept private.

Genotype and health

Your haemoglobin genotype, and any health preferences you record. This is health information and it is treated differently from everything else in the app. Section 5 describes exactly what we do and do not do with it.

Verification

If you verify your identity, we collect a live selfie and, for identity verification, an image of a government identity document. Identity documents are stored separately from your profile and are never returned by the ordinary profile interfaces that serve other members. They are used to confirm you are who you say you are and are not shown to anyone you match with.

Conversations and calls

Messages you send and receive: text, photos, short video, voice notes, and the name of any meeting place you type. Covenant never attaches your device location to a message — only the words you type.
Records that a call happened, with whom, and how long it lasted. We do not record the content of audio or video calls.

People you name

If you add a trusted contact or a family sponsor you give us their name, relationship to you, phone number and sometimes an email address. That is somebody else's personal data, and you should have their agreement before you enter it. We use it only to contact them for the purpose you chose, and they can ask us to remove it.

Technical and usage

Device and notification tokens so we can deliver notifications, and a minimal set of product analytics events. Those events carry identifiers and fixed categories — that a message was sent, that a paywall was shown, which capability was locked. They never carry anything you wrote.

4. What we do not collect

Your precise location. Covenant works from the city you tell it.
Your contacts, calendar, or the content of anything outside the app.
Payment card details. Subscriptions are billed by Apple or Google, and we receive a confirmation that a purchase is valid — never your card.
Advertising identifiers. There is no advertising in Covenant and no third-party advertising or tracking software in the app.

5. Genotype: the rules we hold ourselves to

In Nigeria a couple's genotype combination is a question that has to be settled before a marriage, and settled early. Covenant asks for it so it can be useful to you at the right moment. Because it is health information about you, we bind ourselves to the following and treat them as commitments, not preferences.

It is private by default. It is not shown on your profile unless you deliberately choose to show it.
It is never a filter. No one can search or filter members by genotype, and it never affects who is shown to whom. Filtering on it would expose carriers and push people to lie, which would make the information worthless and the app harmful.
It is never disclosed to another member. Not to a match, not to a partner, not in aggregate.
The couple's check tells you both one thing and nothing more. Once you are in an exclusive courtship, you and your partner may each separately agree to a genotype check. Only if you both agree do we calculate anything, and the only result either of you sees is whether your combination is one to take to a doctor. Neither of you learns the other's genotype from us, then or ever. Either of you can withdraw agreement, which removes the result for both.
It is guidance, not medical advice. Covenant tells you whether a conversation with a clinician is warranted. It does not diagnose, counsel, or tell you what to do.

6. Why we use it, and on what basis

Purpose	Basis
Creating and running your account	Performance of our contract with you
Showing you to compatible people, and them to you	Performance of our contract with you
Delivering your messages and calls	Performance of our contract with you
Faith, genotype and health information	Your explicit consent, which you may withdraw
Verification and fraud prevention	Our legitimate interest in a community that is who it says it is
Investigating reports and keeping members safe	Our legitimate interest, and our legal obligations
Billing and subscription management	Performance of our contract with you
Product analytics	Our legitimate interest in knowing which parts of the app work

Where we rely on consent — for faith, genotype and health information — you can withdraw it at any time in the app under Settings › Data & privacy. Withdrawing consent stops future use. It does not by itself erase what we already hold; to remove that, request deletion under section 10.

7. Who sees what

Other members see your profile as you have configured it, your city, and what you send them. They never see your phone number, your email address, your identity documents, your exact location, or your genotype.
Our safety team sees reported conversations when you include them in a report, and profile information when reviewing a report.
Apple and Google process subscription payments and tell us whether a purchase is valid.
Service providers who host our systems, deliver our notifications and verify identity documents, acting on our instructions and no one else's.

We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for anyone else's advertising. We may disclose data where the law requires it, or where it is necessary to protect someone from harm.

8. Reports, blocks and evidence

Reports are confidential. A member you report is never told who reported them.

When you block someone, they can no longer message you, call you, see your status, or find you in discovery — through any part of the app. Your conversation with them is kept but becomes read-only.

We keep conversations so that a report can be investigated, including after a subscription lapses. A relationship that later becomes a safety matter should not be unprovable because someone stopped paying.

9. How long we keep it

Your account and profile: while your account is open.
Conversations: while the account exists, and after deletion only where an open safety report or a legal obligation requires it.
Identity documents: only as long as needed to complete and evidence the check.
Analytics events: in aggregate, with identifiers removed once they are no longer needed.

10. Your rights

You can, from inside the app under Settings › Data & privacy:

Get a copy of your data. Choose "Request my data" and we prepare a file covering your profile, preferences, matches, messages and account history, and email you a private link — usually within 48 hours.
Correct anything by editing your profile.
Withdraw consent for faith, genotype and health information.
Delete your account. This removes your profile, your matches and your conversations. It cannot be undone. It does not cancel your subscription — cancel that in your Apple or Google account settings first, or you will continue to be charged.

Depending on where you live you may also have the right to object to or restrict our use of your data, to receive it in a portable form, and to complain to your data protection authority. In Nigeria that is the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. Write to support@apsoluts.com and we will answer within the period your law allows.

11. Security

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Access to member data is limited to staff who need it. Our application logs are built to redact message content, phone numbers, verification codes, access tokens and document numbers, so that sensitive values are not written into logs even by accident.

No system is perfect. If a breach affects you, we will tell you and the relevant authority as the law requires.

12. International transfers

We are based in the United States and our service providers may be elsewhere. Where we move personal data out of the country you live in, we do it under the safeguards your law provides for — standard contractual clauses, or an equivalent mechanism.

13. Changes

If we change this policy in a way that materially affects you, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect. The date at the top always shows the current version.