Privacy.

Pray is a place to pray, not a way for us to learn about you. What you write stays on your phone. The app asks for nothing and sends us nothing; the only thing we hold at all is an email address, and only if you left one on this site before Pray shipped. That is the whole policy; the rest of this page is the careful version of it.

Who we are

Pray is made by PastSunday LLC, a Missouri limited liability company in Farmington, Missouri, USA, doing business as PastSunday. For anything on this page, including a request to delete what we hold, write to us and a person will answer.

The address for Pray is pray@pastsunday.com.

Your prayers stay on your phone

What you write in Pray is written to your own device. The prayers, the names in them, the verses you keep with them, the updates you add over months, whether something is still being prayed or has been answered, the line you breathe with, and the time you set your reminder for: all of it lives on your phone. There is no account to make and no password to pick, because there is nothing on our side to sign in to.

That is why the app can say it knows nothing about you. Not that we promise not to look, but that there is nothing here to look at. We could not hand your prayers to anyone, because we never received them.

The one thing we do hold

If you asked for a place in the Pray beta while it was closed, we kept the email address you typed, which phone you said you pray on, the date you gave them, and two technical details from that submission: the IP address it came from and the browser it was sent with. The phone decided which of the two invitations you were sent, iPhone or Android, and did nothing else. The other two existed to keep automated signups out of the list, and for nothing else. We did not ask for your name and we do not know it. The form itself came down when Pray went public, so nothing new is being collected.

Two emails were promised for that address and two were sent: the invitation to the beta, and word on the day Pray went public. That was the whole intended use, it is finished, and nothing further is coming. The address was not sold, not rented, not handed to an advertiser, and not merged into a profile of you. You can have the row deleted at any time, and the section below says how.

Who else touches it

That list is a row in our own database, and only three services are anywhere near it. Fly.io hosts the site and that database. Cloudflare sits in front of the site as its proxy, which is why the IP address we recorded is the one Cloudflare passed us. Resend delivered the invitation and the announcement after it. Each saw only what its job required, and none of them was given the list for their own purposes.

What we do not do

There are no third-party analytics on this page and no advertising pixels: no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no session replay. We do not track you across other sites. We do not count your prayers or score your consistency, which is a product decision before it is a privacy one, because a streak is a number that makes you feel watched.

Children

Pray is written for adults and is not directed at children under 13. Since the app asks for nothing and sends us nothing, there is no children's data for us to collect. If you believe a child has given us an email address, write to us and we will remove it.

Your rights over what we hold

Because the only thing we hold is your email address, your rights are simple to exercise. You can ask us what we have, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, and we will do it. Deleting it means the row is gone, not hidden.

If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, UK GDPR and the GDPR give you those rights formally: access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, and the right to object. Our lawful basis for holding your address is your consent, given when you submitted the form, and you can withdraw it at any time by asking us to remove you. You also have the right to complain to your data protection authority, which in the UK is the Information Commissioner's Office.

Removing your data

Deleting the app from your phone deletes what you wrote in it. We hold no copy, so there is nothing on our side to delete with it, and nothing we could restore for you either. Settings has an export if you want to keep any of it first.

One honest caveat, since this is the page where it matters, and it is not the same on both phones. On iPhone, Pray stores your journal the ordinary way an app does, which means your own device backup carries it. That is what lets a new phone come up with your prayers still in it, and it also means a backup made before you deleted the app still holds what was in it then. That backup is between you and Apple, in your iPhone's own settings; we are not party to it and cannot see it, delete it, or restore from it.

On Android, Pray keeps its journal out of the cloud backup that Android would otherwise take, so what you write is never uploaded to Google Drive or anywhere else, and deleting the app leaves nothing behind in a backup to worry about. What does carry your prayers is the direct transfer from your old phone when you set up a new one, which happens between the two phones rather than through a server. The trade is the honest one: nothing of yours is sitting in the cloud, and nothing of yours is waiting there if the phone is lost before you move.

To have that address deleted, use the form at pastsunday.com/pray/support/unsubscribe, which deletes the row rather than hiding it. Writing to us works just as well, and you do not need to explain why.

If this ever changes

A future version of Pray could add something that genuinely needs to leave your phone, like syncing your prayers between your own devices. If that day comes, this page changes before that version ships, and it will say plainly what moved, where it went, and whether you have a choice about it. We would rather lose a feature than quietly redraw this line.

Questions about any of this? Write to pray@pastsunday.com and a person will write back.