Data Distribution

Never share JwContacts PERSONAL data with anyone NOT a member of your Congregation's Body of Elders; otherwise you violate JwC Terms of Use and very possibly local law or open yourself to being sued.

JwC provides two general means of Data Distribution amongst the local Body:

1. Unsecured email. This may be used ONLY if local law allows. Please see Respecting Individual Privacy.

Note: To use email certain optional data may not be appropriate; for example it may not be possible to transmit a person's photograph without prior consent.

(JwContacts provides separate mechanisms for transmitting textual and graphical data.)

All email is insecure in the sense that copies may continue to exist on any computer through which the email passed between sender and recipient, even if both of them deleted their own copies.

While encrypted email does exist, setting it up requires each recipient supply each expected sender with a private encryption key. This is beyond the scope of JwContacts. Not all email services will accept encrypted emails.

2. Use of your own private, secure, cloud data service

JwC will send data to your service and anyone to whom you've specifically granted permission can then copy it to their own.

JwC CANNOT send data to anyone else's service.

If you've copied such data into your own service, JwC can then download it.

This is the recommended means whenever possible and will be the only means when email cannot be used.

However note carefully and please comply with the latest Shepherding restrictions regarding online storage of sensitive or confidential information.

Those restrictions may limit the information you intend to store in JWC and then place in a cloud service, no matter how "secure".