Legal
Terms of Service
Effective date: 2026-10-07 Operator: Joshua Katigbak, operating Praize ("Praize", "we", "us") Contact: support@praize.faith / privacy@praize.faith
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using Praize (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If you are under 16, do not use Praize.
3. Accounts and Modes of Use
3.1 Viewer Mode
You may browse public Scripture and prayers without creating an account.
3.2 Account Mode
To post prayer requests, give or receive signed-in intercessions, join groups, or participate in vigils, you must create an account. You can record an audio public prayer request at ask.praize.live after you sign in with Apple or Google and give explicit consent for religious content. You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity under your account.
3.3 Guest accounts
You may initially use Praize with a guest profile for limited intercession features. A guest can respond to a request but cannot post one. If you later create a full account, Praize may link your guest responses and subscriptions to your account. Guest activity is not fully anonymous.
4. User Content
4.1 Your content
You may submit prayers, praises, testimonies, reflections, audio recordings, and other content ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content.
4.2 License to operate the Service
You grant Praize a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and create technical derivatives of your User Content solely as needed to operate the Service. This includes:
- Rendering and delivering content to recipients you select
- Transcription of audio for accessibility and moderation (where enabled)
- Translation for cross-language delivery to other users (where enabled)
- Formatting, caching, and technical processing necessary for delivery
This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backup retention described in our Privacy Policy and any detached public content you choose to keep available under Section 4.5.
4.3 Public vs private content
- Public content is visible to all users and viewers
- Private content is visible only to you and recipients you choose
- Group content is visible to members of the group
- Vigil content is visible to vigil participants
The posting surface shows the visibility choices that are available for each type of content.
A public prayer request submitted at ask.praize.live uses quiet attribution. Other people can see the request without a link to your profile. The request still belongs to your account, and you can manage it as your content. Quiet attribution does not make the request anonymous to Praize.
4.4 Automated transcription and translation
If you use audio features, your recordings may be automatically transcribed. If translation is enabled, transcripts may be automatically translated for recipients in other languages.
Auto-generated transcripts and translations may be inaccurate. You are responsible for reviewing content you publish. We label AI-generated outputs where feasible.
4.5 Detaching content on account deletion
When deleting your account, you may choose to:
- Delete all your content permanently, or
- Detach your identity from eligible public content (your account link is removed, but the content remains as pseudonymous community content)
Detaching is pseudonymization, not true anonymization. If your content includes self-identifying information (your name, location, etc.), it may still be identifiable even after detaching. We recommend reviewing your content before choosing this option.
If you choose to detach public content, you grant Praize a continuing limited license to host and display that detached public content as pseudonymous community content. You may choose deletion instead where you do not want this continuing display.
5. Community Rules
5.1 Prohibited conduct
You agree not to:
- Post illegal content, threats, harassment, hate speech, or explicit violence
- Impersonate others or misrepresent your identity
- Post others' personal or sensitive information without their awareness (including full names combined with medical details, addresses, phone numbers, or other identifying information)
- Use the Service to proselytize aggressively, engage in theological harassment, or target users based on their denomination or tradition
- Attempt to bypass moderation, safety controls, or rate limits
- Use automated tools to scrape content or create accounts
- Upload malware or attempt to compromise the Service
5.2 Third-party data responsibility
Prayers naturally mention other people. When posting:
- Use initials, pseudonyms, or vague references instead of full names with identifying details
- Do not include others' contact information, health conditions, financial details, or other sensitive information in identifiable form
- If our privacy filter flags your post, please review and edit before publishing
5.3 Audio content
Voice prayers and intercessions are subject to the same community rules as text content. Audio sent to specific recipients (private intercessions) may not be shared publicly without the speaker's consent.
6. Groups and Vigils
6.1 Groups
- Group creators serve as group administrators
- Group content is visible only to group members unless otherwise specified
- Group administrators may remove members or content that violates these Terms
6.2 Vigils
- Vigil hosts manage vigil sessions and participation
- Content shared during vigils is visible to vigil participants
- Vigil participation data (join/leave times) is visible to the host
7. Moderation and Enforcement
7.1 Safety measures
Praize applies automated and human moderation to protect the community. This includes:
- Content review for prohibited conduct
- Privacy filter checks for high-risk personal information
- Enhanced safety checks during the first 14 days of a new account ("safety period")
7.2 Enforcement actions
We may remove content, restrict features, or suspend/terminate accounts for violations of these Terms, security risks, or legal compliance.
7.3 Appeals
We provide a way to appeal enforcement decisions through the in-app appeal flow or support@praize.faith, subject to the process in our Reporting & Appeals Policy.
8. Bible Text
Scripture text displayed in Praize must be sourced under confirmed license terms before launch of the relevant Reader feature. Current translation, publisher, display, cache, audio, AI-use, and attribution permissions are tracked in `docs/compliance/bible-license-register.md`. Praize does not claim ownership of Scripture text.
9. Praize Support (paid features)
Praying, posting requests, and receiving prayers are free. Praize Support is an optional way to fund Praize. It gives you a supporter badge, which you can show or hide. It unlocks no other features.
- You can support Praize with a monthly or an annual auto-renewing subscription, or with a one-time gift.
- The app shows the title, length, and price of each option before you buy. Prices are in your local currency and include any tax that the store collects.
- Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play) charges your store account when you confirm the purchase. Praize never receives or stores your payment details.
- A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the same price and for the same length, unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
- You can manage or cancel a subscription in your App Store or Google Play account settings. If you cancel, your support stays active until the end of the period that you paid for.
- Apple or Google handles refunds under its own refund policies. These terms do not limit any mandatory rights that consumer protection law gives you, including rights in the EU.
- If you use Praize on iOS, Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. Google Play purchases are also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service.
- Deleting your Praize account does not cancel a store subscription. Cancel it in your store account settings first.
Sponsorships and platform fees are not offered. If we offer them, we will update these terms first.
10. Intellectual Property
10.1 Praize IP
The Praize name, logo, design, and software are owned by or licensed to Praize. These Terms do not grant you any rights to our intellectual property except the limited right to use the Service.
10.2 Feedback
If you provide feedback or suggestions about the Service, we may use them without obligation to you.
11. Privacy
Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data, including special category data (religious beliefs).
12. Termination
12.1 By you
You may stop using the Service at any time. You can request account deletion from Settings > Privacy & Data. Account deletion includes a 7-day grace period during which you can cancel.
12.2 By Praize
We may suspend or terminate accounts for:
- Violations of these Terms
- Security risks or suspected unauthorized use
- Legal or regulatory requirements
- Extended inactivity (with prior notice)
13. Disclaimers
13.1 User content
Content on Praize is created by users. Praize does not endorse, verify, or guarantee the accuracy of user content, including theological interpretations, prayer requests, or testimonies.
13.2 Not professional advice
Praize is a faith community platform. It does not provide medical, legal, psychological, or professional advice, and is not an emergency service. If you are in crisis, please contact local emergency services.
13.3 AI-generated content
Auto-generated transcripts, translations, and other AI outputs may contain errors. Praize is not responsible for inaccuracies in AI-generated content.
13.4 Service availability
We aim to keep Praize available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may need to perform maintenance, updates, or changes that temporarily affect availability.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Praize is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, opportunities, or profits arising from your use of the Service.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be excluded by law (e.g., fraud, death or personal injury from negligence).
15. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will notify you via the app or email before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
16. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of Estonia, excluding conflict of law rules. The courts of Estonia have jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer protection laws in your jurisdiction provide otherwise.
17. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force.
18. Contact
- General questions: support@praize.faith
- Privacy inquiries: privacy@praize.faith
- Enforcement appeals: support@praize.faith
Change Log
| Date | Change | Why | Remaining blocker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Replaced the paid-features placeholder with the Praize Support terms: monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions, one-time gifts, store billing, renewal, cancellation, refunds, and the Apple standard EULA for iOS. | Praize Support is live in the app, and App Store guideline 3.1.2(c) requires functional subscription terms. | — |
| 2026-08-14 | Added signed-in audio web requests, quiet public attribution, and the guest intercession boundary. | The new ask.praize.live surface creates account-owned audio prayer requests. | — |
| 2026-05-16 | Removed public draft placeholders, set the release effective date, updated operator/contact details, and clarified that live paid products are not enabled in this beta release. | Makes the public terms suitable for TestFlight/App Store review links while keeping subscriptions out of scope. | Final legal review remains required before production submission. |
| 2026-04-28 | Marked draft, replaced guest-account anonymity wording, added detached public content license, tightened appeals wording, and moved Bible/paid-feature decisions to blocker registers. | Aligns Terms with Privacy deletion/detach and launch blocker posture. | Superseded by 2026-05-16 release update. |