Lantern Privacy Policy
Lantern is church presentation software: the Lantern app for Mac, the Lantern Remote app for iPad and iPhone, and the Sermon Builder web page at lantern-sermons.web.app. It is published by CRMB Industries ("we", "us"). This page explains what information these apps handle.
In short: we don't have user accounts, we don't run analytics or advertising, and we don't collect, sell or share your personal information. Your songs, slides and sermons stay on your own devices and in your own accounts.
Lantern for Mac
- Your content. Songs, slides, playlists, pictures, videos and settings are stored on your Mac. We never receive them.
- Local network. Lantern announces itself on your Wi-Fi so your iPad or iPhone can find it. Slides and commands go directly between your own devices on that network, not through our servers.
- Camera. If you choose a camera or capture card as a slide background, Lantern shows its picture on your screens. It is not recorded or sent anywhere unless you use Lantern's recording feature, which saves a file on your Mac.
- Services you connect. If you add a Planning Center token or a Bible service key (ESV or API.Bible), Lantern keeps it in your Mac's Keychain and uses it only to ask that service for your plans, songs or Bible passages. These connections only read; Lantern never changes anything in those services. Those requests go straight from your Mac to that service, which handles them under its own privacy policy.
Lantern Remote for iPad and iPhone
- Lantern Remote finds the Mac running Lantern on your local network and controls it. It asks for Local Network permission for this.
- When you pair with a Mac, your device shares its name with that Mac, and the two keep a pairing token so they can reconnect without asking again. The token stays on your devices.
- It remembers the name and network address of the Mac you used last, on your device, so it can reconnect.
- It has no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. It sends nothing to us.
Sermon Builder (web)
- The Sermon Builder runs in your browser. Your draft is kept in your browser's own storage on your device. We don't receive it.
- Optional Google sign-in. If you choose "Sign in with Google", the builder asks for permission to create and open files it makes in a "Lantern Sermons" folder in your Google Drive (the
drive.filepermission) and to see your email address, so it can show which account is connected. Sermon files are saved to and opened from your Drive directly by your browser. They don't pass through our servers, and we can't see your other Drive files. - Lantern's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
- You can disconnect at any time from your Google Account permissions.
- The page is hosted on Google Firebase Hosting and loads its fonts from Google Fonts (as do the lanternlive.com pages), so Google may receive standard web request information, such as your IP address, under Google's privacy policy.
Buying a license (website only)
- Paid licenses sold at lanternlive.com (made and sold by Jeff Lowe, while the App Store apps are published by CRMB Industries) are processed by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record. Paddle collects your name, email, billing details and payment information under its own privacy policy. We never see your card.
- We receive your name, email address, church name and subscription details from Paddle so we can email your license key and renew it. We keep them only for that purpose and do not sell or share them.
- A Lantern that has a license key asks our license service for a renewed key shortly before the paid period ends. That request contains your key; it contains nothing else and is not used for tracking. Lantern for Mac downloaded from the Mac App Store has no license system and does not make this request.
What we don't do
- We don't sell or share personal information.
- We don't use advertising, analytics, or tracking tools in any Lantern app.
- We don't knowingly collect information from children. Lantern is not directed to children.
Your choices
Because your content stays on your devices and in your own accounts, you control it there: delete it from the app, your Mac, or your Drive. Removing the apps removes the settings and keys they stored on your device. To disconnect Google, use the permissions link above. To disconnect Planning Center or a Bible service, remove the token in Lantern's settings.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@lanternlive.com