Privacy policy

Prosefchi collects nothing about you. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting, and nothing you do in the app is sent anywhere. Nobody, including the people who make it, can see which prayers you read or which reminders you set.

This covers the app, which appears on your device as Orthodox Prayer, and the website at prosefchi.org.

What is kept on your device

The app keeps:

• The language and text size you chose.
• Whether you have seen the welcome pages.
• Which reminders you switched on, and the times you set for them.
• The calendar of saints, feasts and readings it downloads, so the day's page and the prayers work with no signal.

All of it sits in the app's own private storage, is never uploaded, and goes when you uninstall. On Android it can also be cleared without removing the app, from Settings, then Apps, then this app, then Storage.

What the app sends

The calendar is not built into the app. It is a file published on this site and fetched when the app opens, and that request is the only thing the app sends anywhere.

Asking a server for a file means it sees your device's internet address, the time of the request, and which of the two languages you read. The app sends no identifier of its own, because it has none, and no cookies. The site is served by GitHub Pages, so that record is GitHub's. We are not given those logs and cannot see them. GitHub's privacy statement describes what they do with them.

Nothing else the app does touches the network.

Reminders

Reminders are worked out and scheduled on your device, using the notification scheduling the OS provides. Nothing is pushed from a server, which is why a reminder still arrives with no signal, and why the app never learns when you pray or fast. Your time zone is read on the device, so that a reminder set for seven in the morning arrives at seven in the morning.

The website

No cookies and no analytics. The prayer pages are plain files. The day page fetches the same calendar file the app does, logged by GitHub in the same way.

A prayer names the site its text came from, and the about page links to the project on GitHub. Following either hands you to that site, which is governed by its own privacy policy rather than by this one.

Permissions

• Notifications, so a reminder you switched on can appear.
• Internet access, so the calendar can be downloaded.
• Starting at boot, so reminders survive a restart. Without it they would disappear the first time the device was turned off.
• Vibration, so a reminder can be felt as well as seen.

Nothing else. The app has no access to your contacts, your location, your camera, your microphone, your files or your accounts.

What others record

If Android's backup is turned on, it may include this app's settings and reminders. That is the operating system copying the data above to your own account, at your instruction, rather than us. Android's settings are where it is turned off.

Installing from Google Play means Google records the install, as it does for every app, and reports back to us in aggregate: how many installs and active devices, in which countries, on which kinds of device, and, where you have allowed Google to share usage and diagnostics, anonymised reports of crashes. None of it identifies anyone and none of it comes from the app. It is Google's collection, described in Google's privacy policy. Installing the APK from the project's GitHub releases instead means GitHub sees the download.

Children

The app collects nothing from anybody of any age, so there is nothing held about a child either.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, the new version is published here, and every version it has had is in the project's history, with the date of each. Questions can be raised as an issue: github.com/Prosefchi/prosefchi/issues.