Privacy policy
PrayO is built to keep your prayer life private. It has no sign-up, advertising, analytics, crash reporting or tracking, and it does not sell or share personal data.
What stays on your phone
- Your settings, prayer queue, personal prayers, reminders and prayer history.
- Voice recordings you make during a session. They are kept in the app's private storage and never uploaded.
- Prayer-pause choices: the apps you select, your rules and the times pauses appear.
This data is not sent to us or to anyone else.
Permissions
- Accessibility service (optional). When you turn on prayer pauses, PrayO uses Android's accessibility service to detect scrolling in the apps you selected, so it can show a prayer pause over them. It receives only scroll events and the name of the app being scrolled. It cannot read screen content, messages or what you type, does not perform actions for you, and sends nothing off your phone.
- Usage access (optional). Used on your phone to notice when you open the apps you selected and how long you use them, for opening and time-based pauses. It is not uploaded.
- Microphone. Used only while you record a prayer.
- Notifications and restart. Used to deliver the reminders you set, including after your phone restarts.
- Internet. Used only for the downloads below.
You can turn off prayer pauses, revoke any permission in Android settings, and keep using the rest of PrayO.
What is sent over the internet
- Daily content. PrayO downloads the daily prayer and Scripture from our content server hosted by Cloudflare. The request contains no personal data, but, like any web request, it reveals your IP address and device details to the host, which may keep them in short-lived logs.
- Invitation library (optional). If you redeem an invitation to the protected prayer library, PrayO creates an anonymous library account with Supabase. No name, email or phone number is collected. Supabase stores an anonymous account ID, the invitation you redeemed and request logs (including IP address). The sign-in token is stored on your phone.
- Links you open. Scripture and partner links open in your browser and are covered by those sites' policies.
Feedback
Feedback opens your own email app, addressed to support@techforexcellence.org, with nothing filled in. We receive only what you choose to send and use it to reply and improve PrayO.
Moving to a new phone
You can export your data into a passphrase-encrypted archive saved where you choose. PrayO has no cloud backup or sync.
Retention and deletion
- Clearing PrayO's storage in Android settings, or uninstalling the app, permanently deletes everything stored on your phone.
- To delete an anonymous library account, email us. Feedback emails are kept only as long as needed to respond.
Children
PrayO is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, including the EU, UK and California, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data and to object to its processing. Because almost all PrayO data stays on your phone, you control it directly. For anything we or our hosting providers hold, email us and we will respond within 30 days.
Changes
We will update this page and its effective date when this policy changes. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Tech for Excellence · support@techforexcellence.org