1. About Prayer Stories
Prayer Stories is a Christian community where members can share prayer requests, pray for others, follow prayer journeys, share testimonies, and connect through prayer circles. Messaging, gatherings, community resources, and notification features are subject to their individual permissions and availability. In these terms, Prayer Stories, we, and our refer to the people operating this service.
Prayer Stories is free to join and use. We do not promise a particular spiritual, medical, financial, or personal outcome. The service is not an emergency service, professional counseling service, medical provider, or substitute for appropriate care. If there is an immediate emergency, contact your local emergency services.
2. Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter an agreement to use Prayer Stories. Do not create an account for a child or allow someone under 18 to use your account. Describing a concern involving a child does not give permission to publish that child's identity or sensitive information.
Use an account you are authorized to access, provide accurate account information, protect your sign-in credentials, and tell us if you believe your account has been compromised. Do not impersonate another person or organization. Features may require email verification, completed onboarding, or current account permissions. This age requirement is a participation rule; it does not mean that every member's age or identity has been independently verified.
3. Respectful and lawful participation
Follow the Community Guidelines and applicable law. Do not harass, threaten, discriminate, exploit, deceive, spam, distribute malware, bypass access controls, scrape restricted information, or interfere with the service. Do not post illegal content, sexual exploitation material, or private information about another person without permission.
Respect Christian traditions and differences in experience. Do not pressure someone to disclose personal details, accept private contact, send money, abandon medical treatment, or adopt your interpretation of a difficult event. Prayer and encouragement must never be used to coerce or manipulate.
4. Your content and permission to operate the service
You retain the rights you hold in the prayers, messages, photos, comments, and other content you submit. You are responsible for having permission to share it. Do not include copyrighted material, another person's story, or identifying details unless you have the necessary rights and consent.
By submitting content, you give Prayer Stories a nonexclusive permission to host, store, reproduce, format, transmit, and display it as needed to provide the features you choose and operate, secure, and moderate the service. This permission is limited by your visibility settings and the purposes described in the Privacy Policy; it is not permission to sell your story. Necessary service providers may process the content for those purposes.
Removing content or closing an account does not immediately remove copies already shared with others, search-engine copies, independent member contributions, backups, or records retained for legitimate safety or legal reasons. Retention and deletion are described in the Privacy Policy.
5. Visibility, anonymity, and public sharing
A community-public prayer request is intended for verified, onboarded members; it is not automatically a public internet page. Private requests are restricted to their owner in ordinary member views. Circle stories, messages, and gatherings have separate access and membership rules. Profile visibility does not replace the audience setting on an individual request.
Anonymous posting hides account identity from the member-facing prayer view, but your words may still identify you. Ownership information remains available for authorized account and safety operations. Eligible web previews require separate sharing permission and current eligibility. Think carefully before allowing internet sharing: outside services and people may keep copies even after you withdraw it.
6. Messaging, circles, and gatherings
A public post or circle membership is not blanket consent to private contact. Respect message-request decisions, support permissions, blocks, leadership rules, and limits on meeting information. Do not share invitation links, screenshots, private messages, or someone else's prayer outside its intended audience without permission.
Members and organizers are responsible for their conduct and arrangements. A circle, gathering, or directory listing does not independently establish a person's identity, qualifications, affiliation, trustworthiness, or service availability. Use reasonable judgment about online and offline interactions.
7. Outside services and financial profile links
Outside websites and providers have their own terms and privacy practices. Directory publication and external links do not constitute endorsement or verification of an organization or account owner.
Where enabled, optional Venmo, Cash App, and PayPal links belong only in their authorized member-profile locations. Prayer Stories does not process payments, host fundraising campaigns, verify payment-account ownership, or guarantee a transfer, refund, or provider protection. Do not solicit money through prayer content or pressure another member. Evaluate any outside transaction independently.
8. Reports, restrictions, and appeals
We may review reported content, remove or limit content, restrict features, or suspend or close accounts to enforce these terms, protect members, comply with law, or respond to security concerns. Authorized reviewers may access relevant safety information under the service's review procedures. We do not promise continuous monitoring or an immediate response.
Use in-app reporting or contact support to raise a concern. Account Support provides available notices and appeal options. An appeal does not guarantee reversal, and a directory or moderation review is not a guarantee that all content is accurate or safe.
9. Account closure and data requests
You can stop using Prayer Stories and submit an account deletion or privacy request through the available account controls or support. A submitted deletion request enters authorized review; it does not immediately delete the account or every related record. Identity verification and lawful retention requirements may affect processing.
The Privacy Policy explains categories of information, visibility, service providers, and deletion limitations. Do not send passwords, authentication codes, payment credentials, or unnecessary sensitive documents with a support request.
10. Availability and limitations
The service may be interrupted, changed, or unavailable. Member content reflects its authors' views and may be incomplete or inaccurate. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, the accuracy of third-party content, a particular result from prayer, or absolute security.
Any disclaimer or limitation applies only to the extent permitted by applicable law. Nothing in these terms excludes rights or responsibilities that cannot lawfully be excluded. Operator-specific legal provisions remain subject to review.
11. Updates and questions
We may update these terms as the service changes. We will identify the updated version on this page and provide additional notice or request agreement where required. A page update is not a representation that a new agreement has already been recorded for your account.
For service, account, copyright, or policy questions, contact support using the details below. If a dispute arises, contact us so the issue can be understood and addressed; this does not limit any rights available under applicable law.
Contact and related policies
Contact Prayer Stories at support@prayerstories.com or use our contact form. For a privacy request, choose Privacy request on the form. Do not send passwords, authentication codes, payment credentials, or unnecessary sensitive information. This inbox is not an emergency service.