Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information the Oratio app and this website (oratioprayer.com) collect, why, and the choices you have. Oratio is made by Oratio Press LLC (“Oratio Press”, “we”, “us”), which is responsible for the information described here.

In short

• You can use the whole app without an account. Your prayer records, settings, and reminders stay on your phone.
• We never collect what you pray, read, or write in the app.
• The app can send anonymous usage statistics and crash reports to help us improve it. You can turn either off at any time in Profile → Privacy.
• If you choose to create an account and turn on sync, we keep your email address and your prayer records with your account so your other devices have them. You can delete the account, and everything kept with it, from inside the app.
• Oratio has no ads. We do not sell your information, share it for advertising, or track you across other apps and websites.

Information that stays on your phone

Oratio is built to work offline. It stores the following on your device only, and does not send it to us:

• Your settings: your Prayer Form, Bible translation, language, appearance, and similar choices.
• Your prayer records: which office you prayed, in which Prayer Form, on which day and at what time.
• Your reminders: the times you chose. Reminders are scheduled on your phone as local notifications; no reminder is sent from a server, and we do not receive them.

Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data, deletes this information from your phone. If you have turned on sync, see “Optional account and sync” below.

Anonymous usage statistics

To learn which parts of the app are used, so we can improve it, the app can send usage statistics through Google Analytics for Firebase. This is on by default, and you can turn it off at any time with Profile → Privacy → Share usage statistics. Nothing is sent until the app has read your choice.

The app reports only these events:

• An office was started or completed, with the office (for example, Compline) and the Prayer Form number.
• A Prayer Form was chosen, with the Form numbers and where it was chosen (onboarding, the Prayer Forms screen, or an invitation on Home).
• Home showed an invitation to a deeper Prayer Form, and whether it was accepted or put off.

With these events, Google Analytics also records standard technical information: a random identifier for this installation of the app, the device model, operating system and its version, the app's version, your approximate region (country or city, from your IP address), and when and how often the app is used. It never receives your name, your email address, the text of any prayer or reading, or anything you type. The app does not collect your device's advertising identifier.

Crash reports

If the app stops working, it can send a technical report through Firebase Crashlytics so we can find and fix the problem. A report contains the error and where in the app's code it happened, the device model, operating system and its version, the app's version, the time of the crash, and a random identifier for this installation. It contains no prayer text and nothing you have typed. This is on by default, and you can turn it off with Profile → Privacy → Send crash reports; turning it off also deletes any reports that have not yet been sent.

Optional account and sync

An account is never required. If you choose to create one, so that your prayer records follow you to another device:

• Signing in uses Firebase Authentication. With an email and password, we keep your email address; your password is held by Firebase in protected (hashed) form, and we never see it. If you continue with Google, Google shares your email address with Firebase, and may also share the name and profile picture of your Google account; Oratio uses only your email address.
• Sync is off until you turn on Sync prayer records in Profile. While it is on, your prayer records (which office, which Prayer Form, the day, and the time) are kept with your account in Cloud Firestore, a Google Cloud database in the United States, and copied to the devices where you sign in. Nothing else is synced: not your settings, not your reminders, and never any prayer text.
• Only you can read your synced records: our database rules allow each signed-in account to read and write its own records and nothing else.
• Signing out keeps your records on your phone.
• Deleting your account, from Profile → Delete account, deletes the records kept with it and then the account itself, including your email address. The records already on your phone stay there.

How we use information

We use the information above only to provide the app's features you ask for (such as sync), to understand how the app is used so we can improve it, and to find and fix problems. We do not use it for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone except:

• Our service providers: Google LLC provides Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics, Authentication, and Cloud Firestore) and processes this information on our behalf. You can read how Google handles it in the Firebase privacy and security information and Google's Privacy Policy.
• When the law requires it, for example to answer a valid legal request, or to protect the rights and safety of our users or others.

Apple and Google provide the app stores you download Oratio from, under their own privacy policies.

How long we keep it

• Usage statistics are kept in Google Analytics for no longer than 14 months, and then deleted.
• Crash reports are kept by Crashlytics for about 90 days.
• Your account and synced records are kept until you delete your account or ask us to delete it.

Your choices and rights

• Turn usage statistics or crash reports off at any time in Profile → Privacy.
• Turn sync off, sign out, or delete your account in Profile.
• Delete your account without the app: email us from the address you signed in with, at the address below, and ask us to delete your account. We will delete it, and the records kept with it, within 30 days.
• You can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, by emailing us. Usage statistics and crash reports are not linked to your name or email, so we can act on them only if you can tell us which installation they came from.

Depending on where you live (for example, in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or California), you may have further rights under data-protection law, such as the right to object to our use of your information or to complain to your local data-protection authority. Where the law asks for a legal basis, we rely on your choice to create an account and turn on sync, and on our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and improving it for usage statistics and crash reports, which you can switch off at any time. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Children

Oratio is meant for people 13 and older, and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, please contact us and we will delete it.

Security and where information is kept

Information the app sends is encrypted in transit. Firebase stores and processes it on Google's servers, which may be in the United States or other countries where Google operates; synced prayer records are kept in the United States. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but we collect as little as we can, so that there is as little as possible to protect.

This website

oratioprayer.com is hosted on GitHub Pages. It uses no cookies, no analytics, and no tracking scripts, and every file it loads, fonts included, comes from the site itself. Like any web host, GitHub may log technical information such as your IP address to keep the service secure; see GitHub's Privacy Statement. The site's email links open your own email app; nothing is sent until you send it.

The app's Library links to other websites, such as Concordia Publishing House's. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Changes to this policy

If Oratio begins to collect anything new (for example, if subscriptions are added), we will update this policy before that change reaches the app, and change the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will also say so in the app or its store listing.

Contact us

Questions about this policy, or requests about your information, are welcome at info@oratiopress.com.

Oratio Press LLC