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Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 24, 2026

1. What Stays on Your Device

The app saves the following on your iPhone. We do not receive it, and there is no PrayBreak account or server holding a copy:

• Your first name, and your gender if you choose to give it. We do not ask for a surname, email address, phone number, or password.
• Your onboarding answers — what you are struggling with, how often, what you have already tried, and where you are in your faith.
• Your recovery information — check-ins, relapses and the triggers you selected, your streaks, your start date, and the sessions you completed.
• Your saved prayers, your pledge progress, and your app settings.

2. What We Collect

Apart from what stays on your device, we and our providers collect a limited amount of information:

• Product usage — which onboarding and app screens are reached, and how far people get.
• Device and app details — such as device model, operating system version, app version, and an approximate area estimated from your IP address.
• Purchase information — trials, subscriptions, renewals, and cancellations.
• Advertising measurement — four events about installing and subscribing, never your answers or prayers, as described below.
• Support messages — if you write to us, or message us from inside the app, we receive what you send and the address or number you sent it from, as described under Messaging Support.
• Website information — described under Our Website.

3. Analytics

We use TelemetryDeck to understand how people move through onboarding and the app, so we can find and fix confusing steps. It receives events such as “onboarding step reached,” along with basic device and app details. These events are tied to an identifier for your app installation, not to your name or any account.

TelemetryDeck does not receive your onboarding answers, your first name, your prayers, the goals you selected, your streak or relapse information, or anything you type. We do not use it for advertising, and it is not used to track you across other companies’ apps or websites. TelemetryDeck stores this information on servers in the European Union.

4. Advertising Measurement

We advertise PrayBreak, and we use AppsFlyer to measure whether those ads work. It runs for everyone, and it is built so there is nothing about you in it to opt out of.

PrayBreak shows no tracking prompt and no consent screen of its own. It does not ask for Apple’s tracking permission, does not collect your advertising identifier, and does not collect the per-app device identifier either. There is no cross-app tracking to permit.

AppsFlyer receives that the app was installed, that onboarding was completed, that a trial started, and that a subscription started, together with basic device information such as model, iOS version and IP address. It never receives your advertising identifier: PrayBreak uses a build of AppsFlyer that has no ability to collect one.

AppsFlyer does not pass your app events on to TikTok or any other ad network. What TikTok receives instead is Apple’s own SKAdNetwork report, described below, which Apple sends directly. There is no TikTok software inside PrayBreak.

Apple may also provide advertisers with delayed, aggregated measurement about whether an ad led to an install or broad app milestone. This does not include your advertising identifier or your private onboarding answers.

Your onboarding answers, prayers, goals, name, streak and recovery information, relapse details, and anything you write are never used for advertising and are never sent to AppsFlyer or TikTok.

Because PrayBreak never requests Apple’s tracking permission, it does not appear under Privacy & Security › Tracking in iPhone Settings. If you would rather we did not hold these four measurement events for your install, email us and we will delete them.

5. Purchases

Apple processes your payment and runs subscription billing through the App Store, under Apple’s own terms and privacy policy. We never see your card number or your Apple credentials.

We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status, so paid features unlock and you can restore a purchase on a new phone. It also tells us how many people start a trial, subscribe, or cancel. RevenueCat receives purchase and subscription information and an app-generated identifier. It does not receive your name, your onboarding answers, your prayers, or your recovery information.

6. Permissions the App Asks For

Notifications — if you turn on the nightly check-in, the app schedules a reminder on your own device.

Screen Time — the blocking features use Apple’s Screen Time and Family Controls, which run on your device. You choose which apps and sites to block in Apple’s own picker, and Apple hands the app a set of sealed tokens standing in for your choices — not their names. PrayBreak cannot read which apps you picked, only that something was picked.

Those tokens, and the time a prayer keeps your apps open for, are kept on your iPhone in a container the app shares with its own blocking extensions, so the shield can put itself back when your time is up even if PrayBreak is closed. None of it is sent to us. Blocking is not included in analytics: we do not receive, monitor, or store your browsing history, the sites you visit, the apps you open, which apps you blocked, or when a shield appeared.

Tracking — described under Advertising Measurement above.

Camera — only if you turn on Strobing Light, and only on an iPhone with Face ID. It is explained in full under Face Data and the Strobing Light below.

The app does not request access to your contacts, microphone, photos, or your device’s location, and it shows no permission prompt for any of them.

Apple’s privacy labels list “Coarse Location” for PrayBreak, which is worth explaining. That refers to an approximate area — roughly your region or city — estimated from the IP address your phone uses to connect, as described under Advertising Measurement. It comes from your connection, not from your device’s location services, and the app never asks for or receives your precise location.

7. Face Data and the Strobing Light

PrayBreak has an optional feature called Strobing Light. It is off unless you turn it on, it exists only on an iPhone with Face ID, and it is the only part of the app that uses the camera.

Why it exists: the strobe is meant to be sensed through closed eyelids, not flashed into open eyes. So it runs only while both of your eyes are closed, and the app watches your eyelids to hold it to that. The instant either eye opens, or your face leaves the camera’s view, the flashing stops.

What is read: using Apple’s ARKit face tracking on the TrueDepth camera, the app reads two numbers about sixty times a second — how far the left eyelid is down, and how far the right eyelid is down, each a value between 0 and 1. That is all it reads. It does not read or use your face’s geometry or depth map, a face image, a photograph, or any other facial feature, and none of those are stored, logged or sent anywhere either.

ARKit makes more than that available — its face anchor carries a face mesh, and its frames carry camera images. PrayBreak reads neither. It takes the two eyelid values and nothing else.

What happens to those numbers: each pair is compared against a threshold, turned into a single yes-or-no answer — eyes closed, or not — and immediately replaced by the next pair. Nothing is written to your phone’s storage, added to your profile, logged, or included in analytics.

Where it goes: nowhere. The numbers never leave your iPhone. They are not uploaded to us, and they are not shared with, sold to, or disclosed to any third party — not our analytics provider, not our advertising measurement provider, not anyone. There is no server, database, or backup that holds them.

How long it is kept: only for the instant it is used. The values live in the app’s working memory during the hold and are overwritten about sixty times a second. The camera session starts when the hold starts and stops the moment the hold ends, the strobe finishes, or you leave the screen. When the app closes, nothing of it remains.

It is not identification. This is not Face ID, it is not biometric authentication, and no face template, faceprint, or identifier is created, stored, or compared. The app cannot tell who you are from it, and it is never used to recognise, verify, or track a person.

Your control: Strobing Light is off by default. Camera access is asked for the first time you use it, never at launch, and if you decline, the feature turns itself off. You can turn it off any time in PrayBreak › Settings, and withdraw camera access any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Camera. Turning it off ends all use of the camera and of face data immediately — and because nothing was stored, there is nothing left to delete.

8. Messaging Support

PrayBreak › Settings has a Live Support card. Tapping Message Support opens your own Messages app, with our support number already in the To field and an opening line already written. You can change any of it, and you send it yourself — the app never sends a message on your behalf.

PrayBreak does not access, read, or monitor the Messages app on your device, and has no access to your other conversations or to your contacts. It asks for no Messages or Contacts permission. It also cannot tell whether your message was delivered, read, or replied to.

The only thing PrayBreak puts in the message is that opening line and your app version, so we know which build you are on. Nothing about your streak, your check-ins, your relapses, what you entered in the app, your subscription, or any device or advertising identifier is attached.

What you send to our support number, and the phone number you send it from, are received by us in the ordinary way any text message is, and remain in our support Messages account until we delete them. We use them only to answer you and help with your request — never to market to you.

9. Our Website

praybreak.app collects a small amount of ordinary visitor information. This is separate from the app.

• Vercel — hosts the site and provides web analytics measuring page visits and performance.
• Cloudflare — provides security, DNS, and routing, and processes technical information such as your IP address in order to deliver the site.
• Kit (formerly ConvertKit) — runs our email list. If you submit your email address on the site, Kit stores it so we can email you. You can unsubscribe from any email we send. The app never adds you to this list.
• Support email — if you write to support@praybreak.app, we receive your message and email address so we can reply.

10. Cookies and Browser Storage

praybreak.app uses very little of this, and none of it is an advertising cookie. We set exactly one cookie, and only if you claim a pass on a creator’s gift page. The rest is kept by your own browser so the site behaves sensibly between visits.

• Claim cookie — if you claim a pass on a creator’s gift page, we set one cookie holding a random token, so that page can show you the pass you already claimed instead of spending a second one. It cannot be read by page scripts, it applies only to that one campaign, and it expires after 30 days.
• Your appearance choice — whether you picked light or dark, so the site does not switch back on your next visit.
• Campaign labels — if you arrive from a tagged link, or from a site such as TikTok, YouTube or Google, we keep short labels naming that source for the current browser tab, so a later action can be counted against the right campaign. They are reduced to plain text, contain nothing you typed, and are discarded when you close the tab.
• A retry key — on a gift page, a short random value so a claim interrupted by a poor connection resolves back to the same claim rather than a second pass.
• An analytics opt-out — a flag, present only if you set one, telling us not to count your visits.

All of this lives in your own browser, and clearing your site data removes it. None of it is an advertising identifier, so none of it can be used to build a profile of you or to recognise you on another company’s website. The website analytics described above does not rely on cookies to count a visit.

11. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We share limited information with the providers described above, who handle it on our behalf: Apple and RevenueCat for purchases, TelemetryDeck for analytics, AppsFlyer for ad measurement, and our website providers.

App events are shared with AppsFlyer only. They are not passed on to the ad platform your install came from, and no advertising identifier is involved.

Face data is never shared with anyone. The eyelid values read by Strobing Light do not leave your iPhone, and are not given to any provider named above.

We may also disclose information where the law requires it, or to enforce our Terms.

12. Your Choices

• Ad measurement — email us and we will delete the measurement events recorded for your install.
• Notifications and Screen Time — change or remove these permissions in your iPhone settings at any time.
• Email list — unsubscribe using the link in any email we send.
• Everything saved on your device — edit or delete it in the app, or delete the app.

13. Retention and Deletion

Deleting the app removes what it stored on your device. Because we never held a copy, there is nothing for us to delete and nothing we can restore.

Face data has no retention period at all: the eyelid values Strobing Light reads are overwritten about sixty times a second and are gone when the hold ends. They are never stored, so there is nothing to delete.

We keep website email addresses until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove you. Support messages — whether emailed to support@praybreak.app or texted to our support number — stay with us for as long as we need them to help you and keep a record of the issue. You can ask us to delete your support conversation at any time.

Purchase records are kept by Apple and RevenueCat under their own schedules and applicable tax and accounting law. Analytics events are kept by TelemetryDeck, and ad-measurement records by AppsFlyer, under their own retention schedules.

To manage or cancel a subscription, use your Apple Account settings.

14. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal information, to object to or restrict how it is processed, and to withdraw consent. You will not receive different service for exercising these rights.

There is a practical limit worth knowing. We cannot access, correct, or delete what is saved only on your device, because we never receive it — you control that directly in the app. TelemetryDeck analytics are not tied to your name or a PrayBreak account.

To make a request, email support@praybreak.app. We respond within the time the law requires, generally 30 to 45 days.

15. California, EU, and UK

California — we do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. App events go to AppsFlyer for our own measurement and are not passed on to ad networks.

EU and UK — where we process personal data, we rely on performing our contract with you (providing the app and your subscription), your consent (the email list, which you can withdraw at any time), our legitimate interests (keeping the website secure, improving the app, measuring our own advertising without identifying you, and answering support messages), and our legal obligations.

Your onboarding answers and recovery information can describe sexual behaviour and religious belief, which EU and UK law treat as special category data and some US laws treat as sensitive or as consumer health data. The content of your sensitive onboarding and recovery information stays on your device and is not sent to our analytics or advertising partners.

Obscurium LLC is based in the United States. Information handled by our providers may be processed in the United States and other countries where they operate, with appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses where required.

16. Security

What you record in the app is protected by your iPhone itself — your passcode, Face ID or Touch ID, and Apple’s device encryption. Anyone who can unlock your phone can open the app and read what is in it, so keeping your phone locked and updated is the most effective protection.

For the limited information we do hold, we use access controls and reputable providers, and information sent to and from our website is encrypted in transit. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a security incident affects your personal information, we will investigate and notify you where the law requires.

17. Age Requirements

PrayBreak deals frankly with pornography and sexual temptation. The app is rated 16+ on the App Store and is intended for users aged 16 and over, in line with our Terms of Use. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe someone under 16 has provided information to us, contact support@praybreak.app and we will delete it. Where the law sets a higher age for consent to data processing, that higher age applies.

18. Other Services

The app and website may link to services we do not control, such as the App Store or outside help resources. This policy does not cover them, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

19. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy. If we make a material change, we will post the updated version here with a new date, and where the change is significant we will also tell you in the app or by email. If we begin collecting a category of information we do not collect today, we will update this policy before that collection starts.

20. Contact Us

Questions about this policy, or about your information, go to support@praybreak.app. PrayBreak is operated by Obscurium LLC.