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.

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 app, on iPhone and on Android, 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 an app for one person to pray with: somewhere to pray through whatever you are carrying, one at a time, with psalms already written, the Scriptures, and a breath prayer for when your own words run out. What you write down is the record of it, kept so you can pray it again. It is free, and it is out on iPhone and on Android. Nothing on this page is a promise that it will keep any particular shape, or that any part of it will still be there in a year; what is promised is that it stays free and that what you write stays yours.

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. What carries them across is your phone's own way of moving to a new one, an iPhone backup or an Android device transfer, and the export in Settings, which hands you a plain text file to keep wherever you like. Neither of those is ours, and neither is a promise we can make on Apple's or Google's behalf. If that has gone as well and you never exported, what was in the app goes with the phone.

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 store you got it from

Pray comes from Apple's App Store or from Google Play, and whichever one you used, that store's own terms apply to the download alongside these. Neither store wrote this agreement and neither is a party to it: it is between you and us.

Apple's rules ask for three things to be stated plainly, and they are true of Google Play as well:

• 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.

Read Google and Google Play in place of Apple in all three and you have the Android half of it. We made the app, we are the ones responsible for it, and support for Pray comes from us rather than from the store.

If you left us your email address

Before Pray shipped, this site asked for an address so we could let you into the beta, on the promise of two emails and no more: the invitation, and word on the day Pray went public. Both have been sent and nothing further is coming. We did not use that address for anything else, and we will not. What we hold and how to have it deleted 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 promise.

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.