Your prayers, and what we keep

The short version

• It never asks where you are. There is no location permission, and the map opens wherever you choose.
• Nobody is named on the map, and a street never shows how many times it has been prayed for.
• Your record of the streets you have prayed for is private to you.
• No adverts, no profile built about you, and your information is never sold.
• You can download or delete everything, at any time.

Who we are

Pray My Street is built and run by BozApps for its founder. BozApps is the trading name of Semir Kahrimanovic, a sole trader in England. While the app is being tested and at its launch, he is the data controller for the app. Contact us at semir@bozmaps.com.

What we keep

• An account number. It is made quietly the first time you choose to pray and share it with the map. It stays anonymous unless you add an email address.
• Which streets you prayed for, and when. This is your prayer record. It keeps your own journal and applies the once-a-day rule.
• A count for each street, with no person attached. This is what colours the shared map. It is not linked to you.
• Your home area, a town, if you choose one. It is a place you pick, not where you are.
• Your email address, only if you add one to keep your journal safe when you change phone.
• The permission you gave, with its exact wording and the time.
• Crash reports, with no account number: the app version, the phone model, the Android version and the error.
• A missing street, if you tell us about one: the street’s name, your note if you add one, and the spot on the map. It is kept with no account number, so please do not put anything about yourself in the note.
• How many times a shared street’s link was opened each day. A plain count for the street, with no person attached.

What we never keep

Your location, your contacts, an advertising ID, how long you prayed, or the names of other people. Streets you choose on the map are not your location.

Why a prayer record is treated with extra care

A record that you prayed shows your faith. UK data protection law treats that as special category data, so we only keep it with your explicit consent (UK GDPR Article 9(2)(a), and Article 6(1)(a)). We ask before your first prayer leaves your phone, in plain words, with a box that starts unticked.

If you say no, you can still pray. Your prayers stay on your phone only and do not colour the shared map. You can change your mind later in Settings.

Crash reports, missing-street reports and basic security records are kept because we have a legitimate interest in keeping the app working and the map honest (Article 6(1)(f)). They do not identify you, and you can object to them by emailing us.

How long we keep it

• Your prayer record, home area and account: until you delete them.
• Anonymous accounts that never prayed: removed after 30 days.
• Crash reports: 90 days.
• Missing-street reports: 12 months after the last report of that street.
• The permission record: for as long as your account exists.
• Street colours and link counts: for the life of the app. They hold no person.

Who helps us run it

These companies process data for us under contract, and may not use it for their own purposes:

• Supabase runs the database and sign-in. Your data is stored in London. Its security logs record connection details, including IP addresses, for a short time.
• Vercel serves the praymystreet.co.uk website, including the shared-street pages and this page. It counts visits to those pages without cookies and without identifying you.
• Resend sends sign-in codes by email, if you choose to add an email address.

Google delivers the app through Google Play, under its own privacy policy.

The background map is drawn from OpenFreeMap, using OpenStreetMap data. Like any website, its servers see your connection’s IP address and which part of the map you are looking at. They receive nothing about your prayers. When someone first prays for a street outside Great Britain, our server fetches that street’s outline from OpenStreetMap. Your phone is not involved, and nothing about you is sent.

When you search for a place, the words you type and the middle of the map on screen go through our server to a search service (Geoapify, LocationIQ or Photon by komoot) to find it. Nothing about you goes with them: not your account, not your IP address, and not where you are.

Where your information goes

Your prayer record is stored in London. Supabase, Vercel, Resend and Google are based in the United States, so connection details, and your email address if you add one, can be handled there. Where that happens it is protected by the safeguards UK law requires: the UK extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the company is certified, and otherwise the UK’s standard contract terms for international transfers.

Your rights, and how to use them

• See a copy, and take it with you: Settings, then Your data, then Download a copy.
• Withdraw your consent: Settings, then Your data. We delete your prayer record from our server. Your phone keeps its own journal.
• Delete everything: Settings, then Your data, then Delete your account. It works for anonymous accounts too.
• Anything else: you can ask us to correct something, to remove a single entry from your prayer record, to stop using your information for a while, or object to how we use it. Email semir@bozmaps.com. We act within a month, usually much sooner, and it costs nothing.
• If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Age

The app is for adults, aged 18 and over.

Changes

We will update this notice when anything changes. If a change affects your prayer record, the app will ask for your permission again.