Privacy Policy
Prayer First ("the app", "we") is built and operated by Brian Tan as an independent developer. This policy describes what data the app handles and what it does not.
Summary
Prayer First is designed to keep the core app on your device. We do not have ads or cloud journal sync. Your journal entries, photos, settings, chosen apps, and app-usage decisions stay on your phone during normal app use. Photo OCR runs on your device, and photos and images are never uploaded to Prayer First servers, Qwen, or OpenRouter. Power Pack users on supported Apple devices may also use on-device Apple Intelligence models provided by the operating system to clean up recognized photo text, tidy notes, or suggest smart topics without journal text or photos leaving the phone. Tidy and Smart Topics also use on-device AI on supported Android devices. Cloud Assist has been retired. Website update signups, optional accounts, payment reconciliation, anonymous product analytics, and platform-store purchase verification use limited server-side or third-party service records.
What the app accesses on your device
- Android Accessibility and app usage permissions: Prayer First uses Android Accessibility and app usage permissions, where you grant them, for app selection, detecting selected app activity, and applying daily shielding until today's unlock is complete. Permission state, selected app identifiers, and local diagnostics are stored in the app's private storage and are not sent to us during normal local app use.
- Journal entries and optional photos: Stored locally on your device in the app's private storage. They are not uploaded by Prayer First during normal local app use. Photos are never uploaded by Prayer First. Cloud Assist has been retired; the hosted service no longer processes journal text, OCR text, or topic context.
- Local journal search and topic data: To power journal search, wiki views, and topic organization, Prayer First may store derived search text, normalized text, non-reversible hashes, on-device embedding vectors, and topic labels from your journal and OCR text in app-private storage. These remain local. Cloud Assist has been retired.
- Camera, photo picker, and local OCR: If you choose to add a journal photo, Prayer First may access the selected image and run on-device OCR, using iOS Vision or Android ML Kit, to extract editable photo text. Photos and images are not uploaded to Prayer First servers, Qwen, or OpenRouter. Power Pack users on supported Apple devices may also use on-device Apple Intelligence models provided by the operating system to clean up recognized photo text; if Apple Intelligence is unavailable, Prayer First shows the raw locally recognized text.
- Notifications: If you enable reminders, Prayer First uses local notification permissions to show setup or Bible-time reminders. Reminder contents are generated by the app and are not used to upload your journal, chosen apps, or usage history.
- Settings and entitlement cache: Your daily shield settings, chosen unlock paths, paid status, student discount email if you enter one, and similar preferences are stored locally on your device.
What leaves your device
- Website analytics: We record limited page visits, store-link clicks, and successful signup events through PostHog. Events include the page path, store destination, referrer hostname and campaign labels, with a session-only anonymous identifier. We exclude email-like campaign values, full query strings, fragments, journal content and photos. We do not create person profiles or use session replay, and website measurement honours Do Not Track. Store-link clicks do not establish an app install or purchase.
- Anonymous mobile product analytics: Prayer First may send limited events through PostHog, such as app opened, onboarding step completed, and paywall shown. Screen capture, session replay, automatic screen-view capture, and element-interaction capture are disabled. We do not send your journal text, photos, selected apps, foreground app names, Accessibility events, app usage history, or email address.
- Optional account: If you sign in, Prayer First sends your email for sign-in links and keeps limited account, session, device, and purchase-link records. Account-status requests use the account API; they do not upload your journal or photos.
- Website waitlist: If you join the free waitlist, we store your email address, platform choice, signup source, and signup time so we can send launch updates.
- Website checkout records: If a website checkout flow is explicitly active and you complete it through Stripe, Prayer First stores your email address, platform choice, checkout/session identifiers, payment status, amount, currency, and purchase time so we can reconcile the purchase and send the relevant launch invite. We do not see or store your full card number.
- In-app purchase and entitlement records: In-app purchases are processed by Google Play or Apple's App Store when available for your platform and may be verified through RevenueCat. Prayer First receives and caches only the limited entitlement status, product identifier, and purchase state needed to unlock paid features and restore purchases.
- Historical Cloud Assist records: Cloud Assist has been retired. Earlier versions could send selected text to Qwen or OpenRouter-routed providers after upload consent. Historical usage metadata, such as account ID, feature, token counts, provider, model, timestamps, and non-reversible hashes, may remain until deleted. Prayer First did not store raw journal text, photos, prompts, or model responses by default. Retirement does not itself delete historical records.
- No cloud sync, no backups managed by us, no social features.
- No selling or sharing of personal information. We do not have access to your journal, photos, chosen apps, or usage history during current local app use. Earlier Cloud Assist requests could process selected text after upload consent, as described above.
Payments
In-app subscriptions and one-time purchases are processed by Google Play or Apple's App Store when available for your platform and may be verified through RevenueCat. Prayer First does not see or store your full payment details. The platform store's and RevenueCat's privacy policies govern their handling of payment and purchase-verification data. The app receives only the limited purchase records needed to verify or reconcile your entitlement.
Permissions and platform controls
Prayer First uses Android Accessibility and app usage permissions, where you grant them, for app selection, detecting selected app activity, and applying daily shielding until today's unlock is complete. You may revoke these permissions at any time in Android system settings; the lock feature will then no longer function.
On-device AI and retired Cloud Assist
Power Pack uses on-device Apple Intelligence or Android ML Kit/Gemini Nano on supported devices to tidy notes and suggest smart topics. Journal text and photos stay on the device for this processing. Device and operating-system support determine availability; purchasing Power Pack does not make an unsupported device AI-capable. Original notes remain canonical, and intelligent results are drafts until you accept them.
Cloud Assist has been retired. Its hosted AI endpoints no longer process text from older app versions. Historical usage metadata may remain for support, abuse investigation, and deletion requests. Retirement does not erase past provider processing or delete historical records; contact us to request deletion.
Service providers
Prayer First may use service providers to operate limited parts of the app and website, including PostHog for anonymous product analytics, RevenueCat for in-app entitlement verification, Google Play or Apple's App Store for in-app purchases, Vercel for the website and account APIs, Supabase for optional accounts, update signups, payment reconciliation, and historical quota records, and Resend or similar email infrastructure for account, launch, support, or internal signup/payment alerts. Qwen and OpenRouter were used for earlier optional text Cloud Assist requests after upload consent; the hosted service has been retired. On-device Apple Intelligence models are provided by the operating system and are not a data recipient for journal text or photos. These providers process data for the purposes described in this policy.
Children
Prayer First is not directed at children under 13. It is intended for adults choosing to manage their own attention.
Your rights
Most Prayer First data stays on your device. You can ask us to delete server-side account, waitlist, or historical Cloud Assist usage records associated with you. Payment records may need to be retained where required for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, or dispute handling. To remove local app data, uninstall Prayer First or delete its data from system settings.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change and the new version will be published at this URL. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes or store listing.
Contact
Questions or requests: radiansnail@gmail.com