Privacy Policy

Date Last Revised: May 1, 2026

"Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered." –Proverbs 11:13 (ESV)

At Prayvine, we are deeply committed toward being "trustworthy in spirit". We take your privacy extremely seriously. Our faith-based mission, Bible-based values, engineering practices, product design, terms of service, and privacy policy all reflect our commitment toward maintaining your privacy. We have taken steps to provide security for your personal information and content, and to allow you to control the privacy of your personal information and content:

As with any online service, there are certain cases where we are not able to absolutely guarantee your privacy. To better protect your privacy, we encourage you to share your content and information only with people you trust and who share your views on privacy. About These Terms. “Prayvine,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Prayvine, the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. “Services” refers to Prayvine’s website, mobile applications, and any other products, features, or services we make available, whether accessed through our website, a mobile or desktop application, or any other means (collectively, the “Services”).

OWNERSHIP

Summary: You own and control your data. We will never sell it to advertisers.

Although we store the information you share with us on the servers that operate the Services, the content you post in a prayer team belongs to you and is only visible to individuals added or approved by the prayer team owner. You can modify or delete your content and personal information, and manage your preferences at any time. You are also able to delete your account entirely from our databases and all of the data associated with it from within the Services or by contacting [email protected].

We do not sell your personal information or content to advertisers. We may use your data to provide improvements and enhancements to the Services by performing our own internal analysis, product research, and related engineering. Such use is strictly internal and is subject to our commitment never to sell your personal information to advertisers. We do not allow any advertiser or third-party to see any of your personal information or content without your consent.

We may retain archived copies of your information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes (including to address fraud and spam).

PRIVACY

Summary: We do collect some personal information from you, but we only use it to provide you with the Services.

We may collect personal information, such as your name, username, telephone number, and email address, when you sign up to use the Services. We use your personal information for internal purposes only, such as to provide you with the Services, or to otherwise communicate with you about Prayvine.

No personal information of yours is shared outside of the Services without your consent. We do give you the option of sharing such content with email accounts and telephone numbers if you so choose. When content is shared with email accounts and telephone numbers, we can no longer guarantee its privacy, so we encourage you to be mindful of who you are sharing with on the Services at all times.

We contract with third-party service providers to host our servers and databases and to provide other services to us. We track statistics across the Services, in order to provide better quality of service. We may sometimes share anonymous, aggregated data with third parties; we do not provide third-party software providers with any of your personal information for this purpose. We may also analyze service usage and account data internally to understand how the Services are being used and to improve the experience for our users. The underlying data is not shared with or disclosed to any third party. We may publish or present anonymized, aggregated findings derived from such analysis (for example, in research or educational content) provided that no individual user or their content can be identified from those findings.

We also use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and browser) and/or Web beacons (a file placed on a website that monitors usage) to improve the experience of the Services. You can reset your Web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

You may decide to authorize Prayvine to access your contact data on certain third-party services (e.g. Mailchimp, Google) using the OAuth standard, for the purpose of adding contacts as prayer partners in your prayer team(s). Prayvine will store names and email addresses only from the contacts that you choose to import. Stored contact data will be used for the purpose of sending notifications to your partners (e.g. when you post a prayer request or send a private message), and to help you manage your prayer team. Any imported contact data will not be shared with third parties.

Prayvine’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Prayvine uses ZeroBounce, a third-party email validation service provided by Hertza LLC, to verify the deliverability of email addresses added to your prayer team. This email validation helps reduce the number of prayer requests and messages that land in your prayer partners’ spam folders. Prayvine deletes uploaded data from the ZeroBounce servers after the email addresses have been validated. For additional details, please refer to the ZeroBounce data security certifications and terms of use.

Prayvine uses csvbox.io, a third-party data importer utility provided by Thalia Technologies, to parse, validate, and import contact data from comma-separated value files and Excel spreadsheets. Prayvine has configured the import utility such that uploaded contact data is neither sent to nor stored on csvbox.io servers (“Private Mode”). The csvbox.io user data policy is available here.

If Prayvine is ever involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity, including your right to delete your account entirely from our databases and all of the data associated with it from within the Services. If you do not wish your information to be transferred as part of such a transaction, you may delete your account prior to the transfer by contacting us at [email protected].

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request or to protect the safety, property, or rights of Prayvine or others. However, nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party or government request to disclose your information.

PRAYER PARTNERS

Summary: If you have joined a prayer team or received prayer requests from Prayvine, here is the personal information we hold about you and how to manage your preferences.

If you were added to a prayer team by a Prayvine user: Your name and email address may have been added to a prayer team by a Prayvine user who wished to share prayer requests and ministry updates with you. Prayvine stores only the name and email address provided by that user, and uses it solely to deliver notifications on their behalf. We do not collect any additional personal information about you through this process, and we do not use your contact information for any other purpose. We never sell your contact information. Your email address may be processed by contracted service providers solely to verify its deliverability and ensure notifications reach you; any such data is deleted once that purpose is fulfilled. Prayvine processes your contact information as a data processor acting on behalf of the user who added you. That person is responsible for ensuring they had a valid basis for sharing your information with us. If you have concerns about how your contact information was obtained, we encourage you to reach out to them directly.

If you joined a prayer team through a sign-up form: If you submitted your information through a Prayvine prayer team sign-up form, you provided your name and email address directly to Prayvine for the purpose of joining that prayer team. Prayvine stores the information you submitted and uses it to send you notifications about prayer requests and ministry updates from that team. We do not use this information for any other purpose, and we never sell your contact information. Your email address may be processed by contracted service providers solely to verify its deliverability and ensure notifications reach you; any such data is deleted once that purpose is fulfilled.

Managing your preferences: You have several options for managing communications from Prayvine. To stop receiving notification emails, use the unsubscribe link included in any notification email. Unsubscribing stops future emails but does not delete your contact information from our systems or remove you from the prayer team. To be removed from a specific prayer team, you may ask the missionary who manages that team to remove you from within the Services; this will stop notifications from that team but does not delete your contact information from Prayvine’s systems. To have your contact information removed from our systems entirely, contact us at [email protected]. Following removal, we will delete your contact information except where retention is required by law or for legitimate purposes such as fraud prevention.

SECURITY

We exercise commercially reasonable efforts to secure your data. For example, we encrypt all requests via secure connection (HTTPS). However, no data transmission on the internet or on a network is 100% secure, so we cannot make a security guarantee. You are responsible to manage access to the computers and devices where you are logged in to the Services.

CHANGES

From time-to-time, we need to make changes to our Privacy Policy to account for new features or for other reasons. We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy by posting such change, update, or modification on the Services. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Services. By continuing to use the Services, you are consenting to the revised policy.