Terms.
The agreement for using Pray, in language you can actually read. Pray is free, what you write in it is yours and stays on your phone, and we do not want anything from you except the chance to hand you a quiet place to pray.
Written in plain language, and accurate as far as we know, but not yet reviewed by a lawyer. A counsel-reviewed version will replace this one at the same address, and we will date the change.
Who you are agreeing with
Pray is made and published by PastSunday LLC, a Missouri limited liability company in Farmington, Missouri, USA, doing business as PastSunday. "We" and "us" on this page mean that company. "Pray" means the iOS app and this website's pages about it.
By using Pray you are agreeing to what is written here. If you do not agree with it, the right answer is not to use the app, and nothing is lost by that.
What Pray is
Pray is a prayer journal for one person: somewhere to say what you are praying for, and a way to keep praying for it. It is free, and it is not out yet. Nothing on this page is a promise that it will ship on any particular date, or in any particular shape.
What you write is yours
Your prayers, the verses you keep with them, and everything you add to them over time belong to you. We claim no licence over any of it and we could not exercise one if we did, because what you write stays on your device and never reaches us. There is nothing here for us to own, publish, sell, or train anything on.
The other side of that: we hold no copy, so we cannot recover your prayers for you. If your phone is lost or the app is deleted, what was in it is gone. Anything you would grieve losing is worth keeping somewhere else too.
What we ask of you
Very little, honestly. Use Pray for yourself. Do not use it to break the law, and do not try to break, overload, or interfere with the app or this site, or with anyone else's use of them. Do not pull the app apart in order to pass it off as your own.
What Pray is not
Pray is a place to pray. It is not pastoral care, counselling, medical advice, or mental-health treatment, and it is not a crisis service. It does not read what you write, and no one is on the other side of it. If you are struggling, please tell a real person: your pastor, someone who loves you, a doctor, or your local emergency or crisis line. An app is a poor substitute for the church, and we built this one on the assumption that you have one.
The App Store
When you get Pray from the App Store, Apple's own terms apply to that download alongside these. Two things follow from Apple's rules and are worth stating plainly:
- This agreement is between you and us, not between you and Apple. Apple is not a party to it.
- Apple has no obligation to provide any support or maintenance for Pray. If something is wrong, write to us, not to them.
- Any claim about the app itself, including a claim that it fails to conform or infringes someone's rights, is ours to answer, not Apple's.
The waitlist
If you gave us your email address on this site, you did it to be told when Pray lands, and that is the only thing we will use it for. One email, at launch. What we hold and how to be removed is set out on the privacy page.
Free, and provided as it is
Pray costs nothing, and it is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We work to make it careful and quiet and correct, but we cannot promise it will be free of faults, always available, or right for your situation. Software has bugs, phones fail, and an app is not a covenant.
Where our responsibility ends
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss arising from your use of Pray, including lost data. Since Pray is free and we hold nothing of yours, there is little for a claim to attach to, and our total liability to you is limited to what the law requires of us.
Your rights where you live
Nothing on this page takes away a right your local law gives you and does not allow us to exclude. If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom, the European Union, or anywhere with statutory protections of that kind, those protections stand whatever this page says, and where the two conflict, your law wins.
Changes, and stopping
You can stop using Pray whenever you like by deleting it, and you owe us no explanation. We may change Pray, or these terms, as it grows: when something material changes we will date it at the top of this page. If we ever discontinue the app we will say so rather than letting it quietly rot.
Which law applies
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where your own local consumer law requires otherwise, as above.
Something here unclear, or something that reads wrong to you? Write to pray@pastsunday.com and a person will write back.