Privacy Policy
Your email address is private. Individual pledges are never publicly identified. We collect as little as the product actually needs.
Last updated 26 August 2026
What we collect
- Your email address, when you pledge to pray or join the movement. It is used to confirm the pledge and, if you have chosen to receive them, to send Urgent Prayer Alerts and the Weekly Prayer Update.
- Your country, at country level only, when you pledge. This is a two-letter country code, worked out from your connection by our hosting provider. It is used only to show how many countries are represented in the worldwide prayer response.
- Which prayer needs you pledged for, so that a pledge is counted once and your confirmation refers to the right one.
- Your email preferences and whether you have unsubscribed.
- What you send us if you submit a prayer need — your email address, a title and description, optionally a country and place, and any source links you provide. The email address lets us come back to you about the submission. Please do not include personal details about other people that they would not want shared.
What we do not collect
- Your precise location. No latitude, longitude, street, city or address.
- No browser location permission is ever requested.
- No IP address is stored for country detection.
- No account, password or public profile. You never create one.
- No payment information. Pledge to Pray is free.
- No third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
If your country cannot be determined, your pledge is accepted exactly as normal and counts in the worldwide total. It simply is not attributed to a country. Country detection is never a condition of praying.
What is public
Only aggregate numbers: how many people have pledged for a prayer need, the worldwide total, and how many countries are represented. Never a name, never an email address, never an individual pledge.
We only email an address after the person who owns it has confirmed it. Every email carries an unsubscribe link and a preference link that need no password. You can turn off Urgent Prayer Alerts and the Weekly Prayer Update independently, or stop everything at once.
If an address bounces permanently or is reported as spam, it is suppressed and we stop sending to it. We do not sell, rent or share email addresses.
Analytics
We measure how the site is used in aggregate — page views, pledges, shares, which prayer needs people are praying for — so we can tell whether the platform is doing its job. This is first-party and pseudonymous. Email addresses, tokens and IP addresses are never sent to analytics, and we do not use third-party advertising trackers.
Cookies and browser storage
The public site sets no cookies at all, and stores nothing whatsoever in your browser — no cookie, no local storage, no session storage, no identifier of any kind. We do not recognise your browser when you come back, and we have not built anything that would let us.
We used to store a single yes/no flag recording that this browser had been here before. We removed it. It told us very little, and not storing anything at all is a clearer promise than explaining why what we stored was harmless.
There are no advertising cookies, no cross-site trackers and no third-party analytics scripts. Signing in to the private admin area sets a session cookie, but that area is for the people who run the site, not for visitors.
Links in our emails
If you subscribe, the links in our emails carry a random code that tells us that someone we email came back and which message brought them. We use it for one number: whether the people who asked to hear from us actually return. It is resolved on our server and removed from the address bar as soon as you land, so it does not follow you around the site or get passed on to anyone else.
That code is not a login. It cannot be used to read your email address, see your preferences, or unsubscribe you, and it is different from the links that do those things. If you would rather it did not exist, unsubscribing stops the emails and stops this with them.
Who processes data for us
We use a small number of service providers to run the site. They process data on our instructions and for no purpose of their own:
- Vercel — hosting. Serves the site and supplies the two-letter country code described above.
- Supabase — the database that stores subscriber records, pledges and prayer needs.
- Resend — sends our email and reports deliveries, bounces and spam complaints so we can stop sending to addresses that should not receive mail.
- OpenAI — used only to generate an original illustration when no rights-cleared photograph of an event exists. It receives a short description of the event built from published facts: the type of emergency, the country and region. No subscriber information, email address, token or pledge data is ever sent to it.
Selling and advertising
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. No advertising technology runs on this site today. If that ever changes, this page will be updated before it does, and any tracking that would require your consent will ask for it.
Where we are, and where you are
Pledge to Pray is operated from the United States and is used worldwide, so information is processed in the United States and wherever our providers operate. Whatever country you are in, you can use the preference and unsubscribe links in any email, or write to us, to see what we hold about your address, correct it, or have it deleted.
Data we keep and for how long
Subscriber records are kept while the subscription is active and for as long as we need to honour an unsubscribe request — a suppressed address has to be remembered in order to stay suppressed. Prayer needs and their pledge counts are part of the public record of the prayer response and are kept.
Your choices
- Use the preference link in any email to change what you receive.
- Use the unsubscribe link in any email to stop everything.
- To ask what we hold about your address, or to have it removed, contact us at support@pledgetopray.com.
Children
Pledge to Pray is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update this page. Questions go to support@pledgetopray.com.