Go Pray for iPhone: privacy
Last updated: 2026-11-12
Nothing about your prayers leaves your phone. A few things do:
- Your city goes to Apple's own map service: the city you type, or, if you turn on "Follow my location", your rough location (see "Your city" and "Follow my location" below).
- Payments go through Apple. We never see your card or your Apple ID.
- A small record about the Go Pray Plan goes to RevenueCat, the service that handles our plans (see "The Go Pray Plan and RevenueCat" below).
There are no accounts, no servers of ours, no ads and no tracking. We don't sell anything about you.
What the app keeps on your phone
- Your settings: city, prayer calculation method, Athan voice, break length, pause.
- Which prayers you have marked as done, and how many emergency exits you have used this year.
- The apps you chose to keep open during a break.
- The cause you picked, if you picked one.
All of this stays in the app's own storage on your iPhone. If you delete the app, it is deleted. (The copy of your cause at RevenueCat is covered below.)
The Go Pray Plan and RevenueCat
Go Pray is free. The Go Pray Plan is optional. If you choose it, you pay through Apple.
To show prices and to know whether a plan is active, the app talks to RevenueCat, a company that runs subscriptions for apps. This happens for everyone who opens the app, even if you never pay. RevenueCat is another company's service. It is not a server we run.
What RevenueCat gets:
- A random ID the app makes up. It has no name or email in it.
- Your Go Pray purchase history, if you have one: which plan, when, and whether it renews. This comes from Apple.
- The cause you picked, as one choice from our list (clean water, hygiene kits for girls, a year of reading, care for a sick child), never anything you typed. It is sent when you pick, whether or not you pay. If you haven't picked, no cause is sent.
- Basic facts about your phone. These may include the phone model, iOS version, app version, language, the country of your App Store, and a device code Apple makes for apps from the same maker (Apple calls it the "identifier for vendor").
- Like any server on the internet, RevenueCat sees your internet (IP) address when the app connects. RevenueCat says it does not store it by default.
What RevenueCat does not get: nothing about prayer. Not the prayers you marked as done, not your pause, not your break settings. Your city, your location and the apps you keep open don't go to RevenueCat either.
How we use it: to know whether a plan is active, to add up how much goes to each cause, and to see how our plans do overall. We don't know who you are from this record. We don't use it to track you across other apps or websites. RevenueCat handles this record for us.
How long it stays: RevenueCat may keep the record while we use its service, unless we ask it to delete it. Deleting the app stops anything new from being sent, but it does not delete the record.
Deleting your record
Write to hello@simkinselgazar.com and ask us to delete it. Because the record has no name or email, we need a way to find it:
- If you bought a plan, send the order ID from Apple's receipt email. It may let us find your record.
- If you never paid, your record has no purchase and nothing that points to you, so we may not be able to tell it apart from others.
If we find your record, we will ask RevenueCat to delete it. If you delete and reinstall the app, it makes a new random ID.
Ratings
Go Pray may show Apple's standard rating pop-up, a few times a year at most. Apple runs it. We get nothing from it except the public ratings and reviews you choose to post.
Screen Time
Go Pray uses Apple's Screen Time API (Family Controls) to cover other apps during a break. You choose which apps stay open in Apple's own picker. Apple gives the app opaque tokens, not app names, so Go Pray cannot see which apps you picked. Nothing about them is sent anywhere. You can turn this off any time in Settings, Screen Time, Go Pray.
Your city
When you type a city, the app asks Apple's location service (the iOS geocoder) to turn it into coordinates. That request goes to Apple and is covered by Apple's privacy terms. Go Pray never sends it anywhere else. Prayer times are then worked out on your phone.
Follow my location
This is off unless you turn it on in Settings. When it is on, and only while the app is open, Go Pray asks iOS for your approximate location (about a kilometre, never precise), at most once every 15 minutes. The coordinates are rounded and sent to Apple's location service to get the city name, the same way a typed city is. The app keeps only your current city, not a history of where you have been, and never sends your location anywhere else. Turn it off in Go Pray's Settings, or in iPhone Settings, Privacy, Location Services.
Notifications
The Athan is a local notification set up on your phone. No push server is involved.
Children
Go Pray has no accounts and never asks anyone for a name or email. What leaves the phone is described above.
Contact
Simkins & Elgazar LLC, PO Box 304, Fairfax VA 22038-0304