NearFaith Care — Applicant Consent & Verification Authorization

By submitting a Care application, you authorize NearFaith to:

• Contact the church you named and disclose to its representative: your name, the fact that you applied for Care assistance, your need category, and the requested amount — so the church can confirm it knows you and that the need appears legitimate. Your written explanation is shared with the church only where needed to evaluate the request.
• Call or text the phone number you provided to confirm it reaches you and to ask follow-up questions about the request.
• Contact the vendor you named (for example the utility company, mechanic, or school) to confirm the amount owed and, if your request is approved, arrange direct payment.
• Hold a private video conversation with you as the final step before any decision. The conversation is live, confidential, and limited to you and a Review Board member (or designee); it is not recorded unless you separately consent in writing at the time, and only a brief written note of the outcome is retained.
• Screen the application for fraud, including checking it against other Care accounts and requests (for example, duplicate phone numbers or repeated requests), and recording the outcome in an internal audit log.
• Share request details with the administering entity — the operator or, where arranged, the participating church or qualified charitable partner that would fund an approved award — to the extent needed for its decision and payment.

• Publication of your name, situation, or request anywhere public — that never happens.
• A credit check, background check, or any inquiry with a consumer reporting agency — we do not perform these.
• Contact with your employer, landlord, family, or anyone other than the church, the named vendor, and the administering entity.
• Any marketing use of your information, or sale of it to anyone.

By submitting, you confirm that:

• the information in your application is true and complete;
• you are applying for yourself or your immediate household;
• the church you named genuinely knows you or your household;
• you are a Christian with a genuine ongoing connection to the local Christian church you named, and you understand NearFaith Care is a religious benevolence program of the Christian community with eligibility limited accordingly;
• you understand that a private video conversation is required as the final step, that declining it withdraws your application without penalty, and that an application whose interview is not completed cannot be approved;
• you understand that assistance is by application only, that every application is manually reviewed and decided at the sole discretion of the appointed NearFaith Care Review Board in the exercise of its religious purpose, and that submission — even with full church verification and a completed interview — does not guarantee assistance and creates no entitlement or contractual right to it.

You may withdraw your application, and this authorization, at any time before a decision by replying to any Care email. Verification steps already completed (for example, a note that your church confirmed knowing you) remain in our records under the retention rules in the Care Privacy & Data Retention Notice, but no further contact will be made.