Privacy Policy

Pray with Gabe ("the app", "we", "us") is operated by Ripple Tech Inc. This policy explains what information the app handles and why. We built Pray with Gabe to be private by design: there is no advertising or cross-app tracking, and we never sell your information.

Information you provide

• Your name and a note about what's on your heart. Both are optional, entered during setup, used only to personalize your call and prayer. Stored on your device.
• An optional email and phone number. All fields during setup are optional and the app works fully without them. If you choose to share them, we use them only to send important service updates and reach you about Pray with Gabe. They are stored securely in our backend (Supabase) and are never sold or used for advertising.

Information from a prayer call, and sharing with OpenAI

Prayer calls are powered by OpenAI, a third-party AI service. The app asks for your explicit permission inside the app before your first call; no call data is sent until you agree and start a call. When a call begins, the app sends the following to OpenAI:

• Your name (if you provided one) and your prayer request ("what's on your heart"), so the companion can greet you and pray for what matters to you. These are collected from the optional setup form or the You tab.
• Your voice, captured from the microphone and streamed in real time during the call, so the companion can hear and respond to you.
• After the call, the conversation transcript is sent to OpenAI to generate a summary, a prayer, and a scripture, which are saved as a private journal entry with the date and call length.

This data is used only to run your call and create your journal entry — for no other purpose. OpenAI processes it as our service provider under its API data-usage terms: it does not use this data to train its models and provides data protections consistent with this policy.

Where your data lives

Optional usage analytics. Usage sharing is off by default. If you enable it in the You tab, the app sends activity timestamps, call connection and ending events, call duration, inferred prayer-stage and audio-playback events, and journal-view events to our Supabase backend. These events use random installation, app-session, and call identifiers plus the app version and a testing flag. They do not contain names, contact details, prayer text, transcripts, or audio, and are not joined to your contact information. We use them to understand repeat use and improve call reliability. Prayer playback events do not establish your beliefs, participation, or feelings.

You can turn usage sharing off at any time. Doing so clears unsent analytics and resets the installation identifier; it does not remove events already received by the server. Unsent events are kept on your device for up to 29 days, with up to 2,000 queued events and 50 rejected events retained locally for troubleshooting. Ordinary backend request logs may contain technical network information separately from these event payloads.

Your profile and journal are stored on your device. Optional conversation review is a separate, default-off setting. If you explicitly enable it, text transcripts of new calls, their times, duration, app version and testing flag are sent to our Supabase backend. No historical journal entries, profile fields or audio recordings are uploaded by this setting. Transcripts themselves may contain names, religious beliefs, health information or other sensitive details you say during a call.

Authorized Gabe team members may read these shared transcripts to review conversation quality and improve the product. They are not public, not sold, and not used for advertising or model training. Access is restricted to authorized backend staff; the app uses a separate anonymous authentication credential for uploads and deletion. If both sharing settings are enabled, the call identifier can link a shared transcript to its technical usage events for quality review. This is not a cross-device journal backup.

How we use it

Only to provide the experience: to personalize the call, lead a relevant prayer, and create and show your journal, and, if you opt in, to measure feature use and call reliability or review shared conversations to improve the product. We do not use your content for advertising or profiling.

Service providers

• OpenAI: real-time voice conversation and generating the summary, prayer, and scripture. Receives your name, prayer request, live call audio, and conversation transcript — only during and right after a call, and only with your in-app permission. Does not use your data for model training and provides the same or equal protection as this policy.
• Supabase: secure backend, authentication and database hosting. Issues the temporary call credential and, if you chose to share them, stores your email or phone number. Also stores optional usage events and, with separate conversation-review consent, shared transcripts.

We share data with no other third parties, and we require our providers to protect your information to the same standard described in this policy.

Retention & deletion

Shared conversation copies expire 30 days after the call and are purged by an hourly cleanup job. Deleting a journal entry requests deletion of its shared copy. Turning conversation sharing off stops new uploads, clears unsent text and requests deletion of all shared copies under that consent. Offline requests remain pending until the app reconnects; the You tab shows their status. Unsent uploads are held in a protected, backup-excluded local queue and are retried when the app runs; uploads older than 30 days are discarded on the next sync rather than uploaded. Local journal entries remain until you delete them. Minimal consent and deletion markers contain no conversation text and are retained to prevent delayed requests from restoring deleted content.

Keep the app installed and reconnect until deletion is confirmed. Anonymous archive access cannot be recovered on another device. Provider backups may age out on their separate retention schedule; deletion from the live archive is not a claim of immediate erasure from all provider backups.

You can delete individual journal entries in the app at any time. To request deletion of all your data, contact us at support@praywithgabe.app.

Children

Pray with Gabe is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Not medical or crisis care

Pray with Gabe is a space for prayer and reflection. It is not therapy, medical advice, or a crisis service. If you are in crisis or may be in danger, please contact your local emergency number or a crisis line right away.

Changes & Contact

We may update this policy; material changes are reflected by the date above. Questions? Email support@praywithgabe.app.