Pray.com

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Pray.com

Pray.com
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Beoardielingsdatum: April 20, 2022

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Research shows prayer has modest mental health benefits. Pray.com, which bills itself as the "#1 app for Christians," aims to help users "develop a daily habit with Jesus." For $7.99 a month, users get access to things like custom daily prayers, bedtime Bible stories, James Earl Jones reading the Bible, and daily meditations. Unfortunately, it seems users have to give up a good bit of their privacy when they start their daily prayer journey on Pray.com. We won't mince words -- Pray.com has shown absolutely terrible privacy and security practices. We're not sure that has any mental health benefits.

Wat kin der barre as der wat misgiet?

If you use Pray.com, you'd better pray for your privacy. Because Pray.com is absolutely awful when it comes to their users' privacy and security. They collect a ton of personal, app usage, and location information. They say they can buy data from third parties like data brokers to add to the data profile they build on you -- information like gender, age, religious affiliation, ethnicity, marital status, household size and income, political party. Pray.com then says they can use all this data to target you with ads, share with third parties to target you with ads, and share with other "faith-based organizations" so they can target you too.

There's more! They say they can publish your name, voice, and likeness and other personal information for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional activities, as well as for any other commercial purpose. If you give them your phone number, they say you've now given them express written consent to receive promotional, marketing, and/or informational text messages and/or phone calls from us and other faith-based organization.

We don't mean to be, well, mean, but Pray.com really feels like it might be a data harvesting business targeting Christians for purposes that go way way way beyond helping them on their prayer journey. It seems they aim to collect as much data on you as they can, share that data with many, many third parties to market more products, target more ads, and make money with your personal information as a business asset. It all feels kinda icky to us.

And if anyone can explain to us why the app needs access to your phone's flashlight, well, we'd love to be shown the light.

What could happen if something goes wrong? Well, back in 2020 Threat Post reported Pray.com leaked the personal information of nearly 10 million users. Personal information like name, church-donation information, photos, and users’ contact lists. To make matters worse, ThreatPost found that Pray.com didn't secure their users' leaked personal information even after they were made aware of the problem. "The database was discovered on Oct. 6, but it wasn’t made private despite multiple attempts to contact Pray.com about the problem, according to vpnMentor. After the researchers contacted Amazon directly, the contact files were removed from the open bucket on Nov. 17." This is so, so, so bad.

Pray.com absolutely comes with *Privacy Not Included. Please be very careful if you chose to use this app. We don't recommend you do.

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Kin it my bespionearje? ynformaasje

Kamera

Apparaat: Net beskikber

App: Ja

Mikrofoan

Apparaat: Net beskikber

App: Ja

Folget lokaasje

Apparaat: Net beskikber

App: Ja

Wat is der nedich om jo oan te melden?

Hokker gegevens sammelet it bedriuw?

Hoe brûkt it bedriuw dizze gegevens?

Pray does not “sell” Personal Information about you to third parties and have not done so in the past 12 months. However, they share certain such Personal Information with the third parties.

Pray shares your location with third-parties as part of the location-based services they offer and for other commercial purposes. This location data is collected in a form that personally identifies you and will be used by Pray.com and their partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services or for other commercial purposes. They share your location information with the following third-parties: Google Analytics, Braze, Chartio, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Tableau, and Twilio.

Pray will, from time to time, supplement the information they collect directly from you with outside records from third-parties such as data analytics providers and data brokers for various purposes, including to enhance their ability to serve you, to tailor content to you and to offer you opportunities that may be of interest to you. These records may include information such as your gender, age, religious affiliation, ethnicity, marital status, household size and income, political party affiliation and interests, geographic location, and Personal Information.

If you are an Individual User, you acknowledge that by providing your telephone number(s) to Pray, you are providing Pray with your express written consent to receive promotional, marketing, and/or informational text messages and/or phone calls from us and/or FBO Users.

For non-EU and non-UK users, Pray share your Personal Information, Demographic Information, Business Information, Usage Information, and/or Device Identifiers with third-parties for other commercial purposes. For EU and UK users, Device Identifiers, along with data related to you and your activities, can be shared with advertising, sale and marketing tools.

Pray.com use Tracking Technologies to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests on the Service and third-party services based on how you interact with their advertisements and/or content. This includes using Tracking Technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the content and ads that have been delivered to you.

Hoe kinne jo jo gegevens beheare?

Pray will retain your information for as long as we are required in order to provide the Service to you, as required to fulfill our legal requirements and defend legal claims. After you have terminated your use of our services, they store your information in an aggregated and anonymized format.

The rights to access or to erase data are unclear for residents outside of the EU, UK, and California.

Hoe stiet it bedriuw bekend as it giet om it beskermjen fan brûkersgegevens?

Min

In 2020, Pray.com exposed millions of user records. A hacker could have compromised personal information on as many as 10 million people. It was reported Pray.com did not immediately fix the problem once they were made aware.

Privacy-ynformaasje foar bern

Pray does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of sixteen (16) or knowingly allow such persons to sign-up for the Service. Pray and its Service are not directed at children under the age of sixteen (16). If you are a child under sixteen (16) years of age, you are not permitted to use the Service and should not send any information about yourself through the Service. In the event Pray becomes aware that they have collected personal information from any child under the age of sixteen (16), they will dispose of that information as quickly as possible.

Kin dit produkt offline brûkt wurde?

Kin net bepale

Brûkersfreonlike privacyynformaasje?

Nee

Keppelingen nei privacy-ynformaasje

Foldocht dit produkt oan ús minimale befeiligingsnoarmen? ynformaasje

Unbekend

Fersifering

Kin net bepale

Sterk wachtwurd

Net beskikber

Email verification is required.

Befeiligingsfernijingen

Ja

Beheart kwetsberheden

Kin net bepale

Privacybelied

Ja

Brûkt it produkt AI? ynformaasje

Nee

*Privacy net ynbegrepen

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