Who we are
"Prayhouse" (the app, the website at prayhouse.app, and related services) is operated by Good Steward Labs, doing business as Prayhouse. When this policy says "we," "us," or "Prayhouse," it means Good Steward Labs.
What we collect
- Account info: your email address, display name, and (if you choose) a profile photo.
- Household content: prayer requests, answered prayers, notes, household members you invite, and the visibility settings you choose for each item.
- Usage data: anonymous product analytics (pages viewed, features used, crashes) to help us improve the app. We use PostHog for this.
- Device data: device type, OS version, and a unique device identifier for push notifications.
We do not sell your data. We do not show third-party ads. We do not use your prayer content to train AI models.
Prayer Writer (AI drafting)
When you use Prayer Writer to turn a request into a written prayer, the text you enter is sent to our third-party AI providers (OpenAI and OpenRouter) at the moment of generation, solely to produce that prayer. It is not used to train any model. Prayer Writer output can occasionally be inaccurate or theologically imprecise — you're always free to edit it, and we don't represent AI-drafted prayers as the words of God or any clergy member.
How we use it
- To run the app — saving and syncing your household's prayers.
- To send the notifications you ask for (prayer reminders, revisit nudges, household invitations).
- To send transactional emails (sign-in, account, billing).
- To diagnose bugs and improve features.
Households and sharing
Prayer requests, answered prayers, and notes are visible only to the people in the household you create them in, plus anyone you explicitly invite. You can mark individual items as private to a subset (for example, between co-parents). We do not share household content with anyone outside your household.
How long we keep it
We keep your household content for as long as your account is active. If you delete a prayer, it's removed. If you delete your account, we permanently delete your personal data within 30 days, except where we're required to retain limited records (for example, billing receipts for tax compliance).
Your rights
You can request a copy of your data, correct it, or delete it at any time by emailing hello@prayhouse.app. If you're in the EU/UK or California, you have additional rights under GDPR and CCPA respectively — including the right to object to processing and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights.
Security
Your data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Access to production systems is restricted to a small number of authorized team members. We use established cloud infrastructure providers (Supabase, Cloudflare) and follow standard industry practices. No system is perfectly secure, but we take this seriously — these are the prayers people love most.
Cookies and analytics
We use a small number of essential cookies to keep you signed in, and PostHog for privacy-respecting product analytics. We do not run third-party advertising trackers.
Children's privacy
Prayhouse is designed to be used by families together, but accounts belong to adults. Children never sign in, authenticate, or create their own account. A parent or other adult household member can add a child's name, age, and prayer requests as a parent-managed profile inside their own account — the child's profile is controlled entirely by that adult. We never knowingly collect data directly from children.
Third-party services
We use a small set of vendors to run the service: Supabase (database, auth, storage), Cloudflare (hosting, CDN), Resend (transactional email), PostHog (product analytics), OpenAI and OpenRouter (Prayer Writer drafting, described above), and RevenueCat (processes House Pro and Community subscriptions on our behalf; receives a pseudonymous user ID and purchase history, never your prayer content). Each is bound by their own privacy terms and processes data only on our behalf.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes, we'll update the effective date above and notify active users by email. Continued use of Prayhouse after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Contact
Questions, requests, or concerns? Email hello@prayhouse.app.
Good Steward Labs (DBA Prayhouse) · Colorado Springs, CO