Last Updated: October 20, 2026
This policy covers one app: Let Them Pray: Prayer List, on iPhone, iPad and Android. Our other apps are covered by the general Illumination Development privacy policy, which does not apply here. That policy describes accounts and reward records that this app does not have.
The short version
What you write never leaves your phone. The people and intentions on your list, your own words about them, the updates you add, the notes you write when a prayer is answered or set down, and any tradition label you pick or type are stored on the device and nowhere else. There is no account and no sign-in, and we never receive any of it. We treat it as sensitive, because a prayer list can reveal what you believe.
What does leave the device is advertising, counts-only usage analytics and crash reports, plus any email you choose to send us. Each is described below, along with how to limit it.
What stays on the device
- Your prayers: who or what each one is for, your own words, its reminder, its tradition label, and the dated updates you add along the way.
- Your journal: prayers marked answered or set down, the note you wrote, and how long you held each one.
- When you prayed: the days you tapped I prayed, which is how the app puts the prayer you have waited longest on first.
- Your moments: the names and times of up to five daily times to sit with your list.
- Your settings, including whether the app lock is on and whether reminders show names.
None of it is transmitted anywhere, and there is no profile. If the device backs itself up to iCloud or to Google, that copy is governed by Apple's or Google's terms and your own backup settings, and we have no access to it.
Reminders
Reminders and moments are notifications scheduled on your device by the phone's own notification system. Nothing is sent to us or to any server to do it. By default a reminder says only that someone you are holding in prayer is waiting, so a name never shows on a locked screen; Settings → Show names in reminders changes that, and the same switch decides whether a moment's name shows. The app asks for notification permission only when you first set a reminder or add a moment, never at launch.
App lock
Settings → Lock with Face ID or passcode (on Android, fingerprint or screen lock) is off until you turn it on. The check is done by your device's own biometric system; the app is told only whether it passed and never sees your face, fingerprint or passcode. While the lock is on, the list is hidden in the app switcher on iPhone and iPad, and from recent apps and screenshots on Android.
Keeping a copy and sharing
Settings → Keep a copy saves your list as a file, made on the device and handed to your share sheet or file picker, and it goes only where you send it. The file is readable text, so keep it somewhere you trust. Restoring reads a file you choose and adds only the prayers not already on the phone. Sharing a single request shows you the exact text first, then hands it to your messaging app. We never receive either.
Usage analytics
The app sends usage events to Google Analytics for Firebase, in our own Firebase project, so we can see which parts of the app are used. An event can only carry a number, a yes or no, or a fixed choice from a list we wrote: for example, that a prayer was added, or how many prayers a sitting held. The app is built so an event cannot hold text, and our tests check that no words from a prayer ever appear in one. Screen names are fixed words such as "journal", never anything you typed. Google Analytics also records the device model, operating system, app version, country derived from the IP address and a random app-instance identifier.
Crash reports
If the app crashes or hits an error, Firebase Crashlytics sends a report with the kind of error, where in the code it happened, the device model, operating system and app version. Error messages are stripped before a report is sent, because some errors quote the text on the screen, so a report never contains your words.
Advertising
The app is free and carries advertising from Google AdMob and no one else. There is one placement: a banner under the prayer list. It never shows where you write a prayer, sit with your list, read your journal, change settings or share, and it is hidden while the app is locked. There are no full-screen or rewarded advertisements, and there is nothing to buy.
To serve advertisements, the Google Mobile Ads SDK contacts Google and may collect device and advertising information: an advertising identifier (Google's advertising ID on Android, and Apple's Identifier for Advertisers on iPhone and iPad if you allow it), device signals, an approximate location derived from the IP address, and the request, impression and click themselves. Nothing from your prayer list is ever sent with an ad request, and we never see the identifier.
Advertisements in this app can be personalized, where the law and your choices allow it. This app is not child-directed and does not ask Google to switch personalization off; the choices below are how you limit it. Google's use of the information it collects is governed by Google's own privacy policy.
On iPhone and iPad: the tracking prompt
The app shows Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt when it opens. If you choose Ask App Not to Track, the app never receives Apple's Identifier for Advertisers and advertising continues without it. You can change your answer at any time under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
On Android: the advertising ID
The advertising-ID permission is present because the Google Mobile Ads SDK declares it. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalized ads, in your device's settings — on most phones, Settings → Privacy → Ads, or Settings → Google → Ads.
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland
Where a consent regime applies, Google's consent message is shown before any advertisement is requested. You can change your answer at any time in Settings → Ad privacy choices, which appears only where Google reports that a consent regime applies.
Contacting support
Settings → Contact support opens your own email app, addressed to support@illuminationdevelopment.com. The app attaches nothing to it: what we receive is exactly what you write and send. We use your address to reply and for nothing else.
Delete my data
Settings → Delete my data works offline, at once, and without asking us. It permanently erases every prayer, update, journal entry, label, moment and setting on the device, deletes any copy of your list the app left in its own storage, cancels every scheduled reminder, and resets the Google Analytics identifiers on the device so later analytics start from a new one. A copy you saved elsewhere with Keep a copy is yours and is not touched.
Analytics events and crash reports already sent are kept by Google under its own retention periods, keyed to identifiers that no longer lead back to this installation. Write to privacy@illuminationdevelopment.com if you want those looked at, or a support message you sent deleted.
What the app does not do
- No account and no sign-in.
- No upload of anything you write, ever.
- No server-side reminders.
- No in-app purchases and nothing for sale.
- No chat, no prayer wall, and no way to reach another person through the app other than sharing a request yourself.
- No access to location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos, calendar or health data.
- No advertising network other than Google AdMob.
- We do not sell personal information. The advertising described above may count as sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CCPA and CPRA; declining the tracking prompt, resetting or deleting your advertising ID, and opting out of personalized ads are how you limit it.
Children
Let Them Pray is not directed at children. Its advertising requests are not flagged as child-directed, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through Contact support, write to privacy@illuminationdevelopment.com and we will delete it.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA and CPRA, and comparable laws elsewhere, you have rights to access, correct, port and delete the personal information a company holds about you. The only thing this app gives us that names you is a support message you chose to send; everything else is keyed to a random identifier. Your prayer list is on your device, where you can save a copy or erase it yourself. For anything else, write to privacy@illuminationdevelopment.com. Information held by Google from serving advertisements, running analytics and receiving crash reports is subject to Google's privacy policy.
A note about this web page
Tapping Privacy policy in Settings opens this page in the device's browser, and this website uses Google Analytics to see which pages people find useful. That is described in the general policy, and it applies to your visit to this page, not to your use of the app.
Changes to this policy
If any of this stops being true, this page changes before the version that changes it reaches either store, and the App Store privacy label and Google Play Data safety form change with it. Revisions are posted here with an updated date.
Contact
Email: privacy@illuminationdevelopment.com
You can also reach us through our contact and support page.