Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Held is a prayer-sharing app operated by A Seat For Jesus at heldinprayerapp.com. This policy describes information used when you visit Held, create an account, share prayer requests, or enable notifications. Contact us at held@aseatforjesus.com with privacy questions.

Information You Provide

• Account information: your email address, display name, sign-in information, and any phone number or profile photo you choose to add. Email sign-in uses a password; Google or Lovable sign-in uses information returned by that service to establish your account.
• Prayer activity: prayer requests, shared updates, invitations, prayer responses, thank-yous, request status, bookmarks, hidden requests, and associated dates.
• Preferences: invitation settings, daily request limits, timezone, quiet hours, and notification choices.
• Notification information: when you enable push notifications, a device registration token and browser information are saved for delivery, along with notification delivery status and errors.

How Information Is Used

Held uses this information to sign you in, maintain your profile and preferences, form prayer circles, display prayer activity, share updates with eligible circle members, deliver notifications, and investigate technical problems. Your selected timezone and daily limit help determine invitation availability and notification timing.

What Other Members Can See

Your display name and prayer request are shared with members invited to that request’s circle. The requester can see the display names of members who mark that they prayed and when they responded. Shared updates are available to the requester and invited members who had already marked that they prayed when the update was shared. A thank-you is visible to the requester and the member being thanked.

Your account email, phone number, notification token, and profile photo are not displayed to other members in the current prayer views. Bookmarks and hidden-request choices affect your own view. Members who receive a request can still copy or share what they have seen.

Sensitive Prayer Information

Prayer requests may reveal religious beliefs, health concerns, family circumstances, or other sensitive information. Share only what you are comfortable making available to invited members. Avoid identifying another person or sharing their private information without their permission.

Services Used By Held

• Lovable Cloud: provides the app’s hosting and account services and stores account details, profile uploads, preferences, prayer records, and notification records for Held. Lovable’s privacy policy describes its handling of information.
• Google and Lovable sign-in: if you choose either service, it processes your sign-in and returns account identity information to Held. Its own privacy policy also applies: Google or Lovable.
• Google Firebase Cloud Messaging: supports push notifications. Device registration information and notification messages, including the destination prayer-circle identifier, pass through Lovable’s delivery service to Firebase and your browser’s push service. Notifications may appear on a device’s lock screen. Firebase’s privacy information describes its data handling.
• Google Fonts: supplies the fonts shown in Held. Your browser requests font files from Google, which receives connection information such as your IP address and browser request details. Google Fonts privacy information.

Visitor Analytics

Lovable’s visitor analytics records page visits and clicks on buttons and links for every visitor to the published site. Page visits, time on page, page speed, and errors are recorded for every visitor without cookies and without identifying anyone. There is currently no consent banner connected to this analytics service.

It records the pages visited, where visitors came from, their country, browser, operating system and device type, how long they stay, how fast pages load, errors, and the position of clicked buttons and links. The analytics uses no cookies, stores nothing on the visitor’s device, does not keep IP addresses, and does not identify visitors. Detailed data is kept for 90 days and daily summaries for a year.

Lovable collects this data for us. Lovable’s privacy policy explains how it handles it.

Browser Storage

Separate from visitor analytics, Held saves sign-in session information in your browser’s local storage so your account can stay signed in. When push notifications are enabled, Held and Firebase use local storage and browser-managed storage for device registration. Held also uses temporary session storage to prevent repeated reloads after a page-loading failure. Installing Held adds an app icon and browser-managed installation information; it does not remove the need for an internet connection.

Your Choices And Requests

You can edit your display name, phone number, and photo in My Profile. Preferences lets you stop receiving prayer invitations, adjust daily limits and quiet hours, or turn off push notifications. You can also revoke notification permission in your browser or device settings. My Circles lets you delete a prayer circle you created; hiding an invitation only removes it from your own visible list.

For questions about your information, corrections you cannot make in the app, or an account-deletion request, email held@aseatforjesus.com. There is currently no self-service account-deletion button. Requests will need to be handled by the operator; this draft does not promise a completion deadline or complete removal from backups or third-party systems.

Retention And Deletion — Pending Review

A Seat For Jesus has not yet finalized retention periods for account information, prayer records, profile uploads, notification delivery records, or backups, or the procedure for account deletion. Marking a request Answered, bookmarking it, or hiding it does not delete it. The analytics retention periods above apply only to Lovable’s visitor analytics. This section must be completed before this draft becomes a finalized policy.

Member Ages

Held is intended for people aged 13 and older, not children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information, contact held@aseatforjesus.com. The app does not currently verify a member’s age during signup.

Policy Changes And Contact

Updates to this policy will be posted on this page with a revised date. This draft is provided by A Seat For Jesus and is not a certification or legal-compliance statement. Contact held@aseatforjesus.com for privacy questions or requests.