Privacy

Your prayers stay with you

What you write here, your prayers and journal notes, is saved on your own device, in your browser. You don't need an account. We don't keep a copy on our servers.

If sign-in to keep prayers across devices is added later, it will be your choice, and this page will say exactly what changes before it does.

When you ask for a psalm or help praying

To suggest a psalm or help you put a prayer into words, what you type is sent to our server and on to OpenAI, the AI provider we use, only for that one answer.

OpenAI does not train its models on what is sent through its API. It may keep requests for a short time (up to 30 days) to watch for abuse, and then deletes them. We are asking OpenAI for zero data retention, and will update this page when that is in place.

We never write your words into our logs, and we never use them for training, advertising, or anything else.

If you're in danger

Before anything else, what you type is checked for signs that you might be in danger, so we can show you how to reach a real person right away. That check is used only to help you in that moment.

At the end of that help you may be asked once whether you'd like a gentle check-in when you come back. If you say yes, this device alone remembers three things: that you said yes, when, and which country's help line to show. It never keeps what you wrote or why help was shown, and nothing is sent to us. The next time you open the site, from 12 hours to 7 days later, you'll see one short hello with that line, and then it is forgotten. After 7 days it is removed unseen. There are no notifications, and you can undo it right away on the same screen.

No tracking

There are no third-party analytics, ads, or trackers here. No one is measuring how long you pray or how often you come back.

Our host, Vercel, keeps basic technical records that every website has, such as the time of a request and your IP address, for security and to keep the site running. Those records never contain your prayers or journal text.

At the end of a calm session you may see two optional buttons, "This helped me pray" and "I felt less alone", at most once a visit. If you tap one, we count that tap and nothing else: no words, no ID, no cookie. Your answer is also kept with what you kept, on your device only.

When you reach the end of a journey, we count that someone reached the end of a journey: only whether something was kept (a prayer, a note, a step, a psalm, or nothing) and whether it began at "Where are you today?". Never your words, the psalm, how you were feeling, or anything that could link one count to another or to you. It is never sent from a session where you told us something hard. These counts help us see whether this is helping anyone; they are not used to keep you coming back.

Looking back

On Your prayers you can choose to have a prayer you're still praying come back about a month, and about three months, after you kept it. That choice and your answers stay on this device.

If you tap "Look back over what I've kept" and say yes, the words you've kept here (with each one's psalm and month, and any note you wrote when a prayer was answered) are sent to our server and on to OpenAI for that one answer, as with any help with words. Not what you first typed, not your name, not an ID. It isn't stored and isn't used for training. Nothing is sent unless you tap and confirm.

Reading offline

So the psalms are there without a connection, your browser saves a copy of the site's pages (the 150 psalms, the home page and Your prayers) on your device. They are the same pages everyone sees. Nothing you type is ever saved into that copy, and what you ask for help with is never stored there.

Gentle reminders

If you choose a gentle reminder, it is added to your own calendar as a daily event. We don't store your time, your calendar, or anything about you: the time you pick is used once to make the calendar file and then forgotten. This device remembers which reminders you added, so it can show you how to turn them off.

If you pick the Google Calendar option, Google receives the event (its title and time) as it would any event you add. To stop a reminder, delete the event in your calendar.

Keeping or removing your words

Nothing personal is stored on our servers. Your prayers, notes, and what you keep live only on your device, so there is no account to look up and nothing you need to ask us for.

On Your prayers (/remember) you can export everything as a file, or delete one entry or everything on this device.

Clearing this site's data in your browser settings removes all of it too.