Privacy Policy

When you create an account, we keep your name, username, email address, country, date of birth and password (stored only as a secure hash, never as you typed it). We also keep the areas you asked for help with when you signed up. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name, email address and an account number for your Google account, which we keep to sign you in. We don't get your Google password or anything else from your Google account.

As you use the community, we keep what you add: your profile picture, display name and bio, journal entries, testimonies, support requests, prayer times and settings, Bible reading progress, and your points.

When you pray with a guide, we keep how long you prayed and which steps you finished. We use this for your points and your groups. We don't record what you say or do during a session.

Your journal entries, what you pray about each week, the separate prayers picked out of it, any note you add about how God answered, your monthly reflections, your Selah conversations and your prayer guides are encrypted before they are saved. Your reflection answers go into your journal, so they are encrypted too.

You choose how your journal is protected. With the recoverable option, we can restore access if you reset your password. With the password-only option, only your password opens it, and if you reset your password we can't recover your old entries.

Your prayer times, reading progress, how long you prayed, and whether and when you marked a prayer answered are not encrypted, so reminders, calendars, groups and your Growth page can work without your password. The words of the prayer are not part of this.

We use OpenAI to write your prayer guides, and to pick out the separate things you are praying for so we can ask you later how God answered. To do this, the things you are praying about that week, the prayers you are still praying from earlier weeks, the Bible passage you are reading and our teachers' study notes are sent to OpenAI. Your name and email are not sent.

If you ask for a monthly reflection on your Growth page, that month's focus, prayers and notes on how God answered, journal entries and dreams are sent to OpenAI to write it. This happens only when you press the button, never on its own. The reflection is saved encrypted.

If you ask Selah a question, the parts of your journal, dreams, prayer requests (and how God answered them) and weekly prayer focus that relate to your question are sent to OpenAI with it, along with the last few messages of that conversation. Not your whole journal, and never your name or email. This happens only when you send a question. Your Selah conversations are saved encrypted, like your journal, and you can delete any of them.

If you answer a reflection question by voice, the recording is sent to OpenAI to turn it into text. We don't keep the recording; it is deleted once the text comes back, and only the text you save is kept.

OpenAI handles this information under its business terms, which say it is not used to train its models. You never have to use AI or voice: you can type your answers, and you can choose not to add a prayer focus.

On our Pray now page you can ask for a prayer without signing in. What you type is sent to OpenAI to check it for safety and to write the prayer. We don't keep what you type. We keep the prayer itself for two days, so you can listen to it or have it emailed to you, and then delete it.

If you choose Listen now, the prayer is sent to OpenAI to be read aloud by an AI voice. We don't keep the recording. If our voice isn't available, your device can read the prayer with its own voice instead, and nothing is sent anywhere.

To stop misuse, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that you're a person, and we count how many prayers come from your internet address each day using a scrambled version of it, never the address itself.

If you ask us to email you the prayer, we send it once and don't keep your email address, unless you also tick the box to hear from us. Then we keep your email address, the words you agreed to and when, and every email we send has a link to unsubscribe.

Prayer groups. People in your groups see your name, whether you prayed each day, how long, how many steps you finished and which chapter you read. They never see what you pray about, your guides or your answers.

Your Growth page. Only you see it. Your prayers, answers and dreams on that page are not shown to your groups or anyone else.

Support requests. Leaders see your name with every request. If you share a request with the community, members see the request but not your name.

Testimonies. Testimonies you submit for sharing are used as described in the terms on the testimony form. If you submit anonymously, we don't publish your name.

Calendar link. Your calendar link shows your prayer times, not what you pray about. Anyone who has the link can see those times, so keep it private. You can make a new link at any time, which stops the old one working.

Our team. A small number of administrators can see account details and unencrypted information to run and protect the community. They can't read your encrypted journal or prayers through the app.

We don't sell your information. We share it only with services that help us run the app:

• Amazon Web Services, which hosts the app, the database and uploaded files.
• Mailgun, which sends account and reminder emails.
• OpenAI, for prayer guides, Pray now prayers, AI voices and voice answers, as described above.
• Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a person is asking for a prayer on our Pray now page.
• Google Analytics, which tells us how the public website is used.
• YouTube, when you watch a video in the app, using its privacy-enhanced mode.
• API.Bible, which provides some Bible translations. It receives the passage requested, not who asked for it.

Witnesses of God uses YouTube API Services. Our videos are hosted on YouTube and play on our website and app through YouTube's player. When you watch them, YouTube's Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy apply, and YouTube may set its own cookies.

We connect only the ministry's own YouTube channel, so that our team can upload its videos. We never ask for, or have access to, your YouTube or Google account. From that connection we keep only the channel's name and picture and a token that lets us upload to it, stored encrypted. The channel's owner can remove our access at any time in their Google account's security settings.

You need to be 13 or older to create an account. We ask for your date of birth when you sign up to check this, and keep it with your account. If we learn that someone under 13 has an account, we delete it. If you live where the age to agree to this yourself is higher (16 in some EU countries), please ask a parent or guardian before you join.

We use a cookie to keep you signed in, for up to 30 days after you last use the site. Signing out ends that sign-in on our side too, and changing your password signs you out everywhere else. Google Analytics also sets cookies on the public website. We don't use advertising cookies.

You can edit or delete your journal entries, change what you are praying about, change your prayer times, turn off reminders, leave any group and make a new calendar link at any time from the app.

You can delete your account yourself, in Settings on the website or in the app. It happens straight away and can't be undone. Your journal, prayers, prayer times, guides, sessions, growth, points, testimonies (including public ones), Support Wall posts and comments, and group memberships are deleted with it, and so are your profile picture and any testimony recordings. Groups you lead pass to the longest-standing member. We keep a list of email addresses banned for abuse, so they can't sign up again. Anything already sent to OpenAI to write a guide or turn a recording into text can't be recalled, and testimonies submitted without signing in aren't linked to an account, so they aren't deleted with it; email us to remove those.

To get a copy of your information or correct it, email us at privacy@witnessesofgod.com.

If we change how we handle your information, we'll update this page and the date at the top. For questions about your privacy, email privacy@witnessesofgod.com.