FirstAmen ("we," "us," or "our") provides the FirstAmen iOS app and this website. This policy explains how information is handled when you use them.
Information stored on your device
FirstAmen stores the information needed to provide its features locally on your device. This may include:
- your name, if you choose to enter it;
- alarm times, repeat days, sounds, and prayer or scripture selections;
- custom prayers and scripture passages you add;
- bookmarks, reflections, completed sessions, streaks, and prayer duration;
- onboarding status and app preferences; and
- identifiers needed to keep scheduled alarms working.
FirstAmen does not currently require an account and does not upload this content to a server operated by us.
Microphone and speech recognition
FirstAmen requests microphone and speech-recognition access when you choose to read a prayer or scripture passage aloud. The app uses the resulting transcription to follow your reading progress and determine when the reading is complete.
Speech recognition uses Apple's system frameworks. FirstAmen prefers on-device recognition when available. If an on-device model is unavailable, iOS may use Apple's speech-recognition service. FirstAmen does not store your microphone audio or completed transcript after the reading session ends and does not send them to a server operated by us.
Camera and scanned text
If you choose to scan a printed Bible page, FirstAmen requests camera access and uses Apple's on-device text-recognition framework. FirstAmen does not upload or retain the image. Text you choose to save as a custom verse remains on your device.
Alarms and notifications
FirstAmen uses Apple's AlarmKit and notification services to schedule and present alarms and related reminders. Alarm schedules and identifiers are stored on your device and shared with iOS system services only as needed to provide these features.
Purchases and trial offers
Monthly and annual subscriptions and the lifetime purchase are processed by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive or store payment-card details. The app reads product and transaction status to provide access, restore purchases, and respond to expiration or revocation.
Eligible monthly or annual subscribers may receive a seven-day introductory free trial through Apple. Apple confirms the offer, requires purchase authorization, and automatically renews the selected subscription at the displayed price when the trial ends unless it is canceled in Apple Account settings. The lifetime purchase has no trial and does not renew.
Analytics, diagnostics, and advertising attribution
FirstAmen uses Google Firebase Analytics to understand whether core flows work, Firebase Crashlytics to diagnose crashes, and Singular to measure installs and selected conversion events from advertising campaigns.
These services may process an app-instance or device identifier, app and device information, country or region, app interactions, session information, diagnostic data, crash information, and purchase plan, price, and currency. Singular receives install and session attribution data plus selected conversion events for starting a trial and completing a purchase. It does not receive alarm content types, prayer-completion events, the seven-prayer milestone, or prayer-count groups.
FirstAmen does not set a Firebase user ID. Onboarding analytics record the page reached and, for the multiple-choice questions in onboarding, which of the offered answers you selected — sent as a fixed short code such as pray_on_and_off, never as free text, and only the first answer you give to each question. Prayer-frequency analytics use broad groups such as zero, one-to-six, or seven-plus.
Because FirstAmen is a prayer app, prayer-completion events, broad prayer-count groups, and onboarding answers about how often you pray may reflect engagement with religious activity and may be considered sensitive information. FirstAmen uses this information only for product analytics in Firebase. It is not sent to Singular and is not used for advertising.
Version 1 does not request App Tracking Transparency permission and is configured not to access Apple's advertising identifier (IDFA). FirstAmen tells Singular to limit third-party data sharing and uses Apple-supported aggregated attribution technologies to measure advertising results. FirstAmen does not use collected data to track users across other companies' apps or websites, and we do not sell personal information.
We share this information only with the service providers named above, and only so they can provide analytics, crash diagnostics, and attribution for FirstAmen. Each of them is required to protect it with the same or equal protection as described in this policy.
Learn more in Google's Privacy Policy and Singular's Privacy Policy.
Website delivery
This website is delivered through Cloudflare. Cloudflare may process IP addresses, request metadata, and security logs to deliver and protect the site under Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
Support and community
In the app, Support and feedback opens our Support page. If you email support@firstamen.com, we use your email address and message only to answer you, and we delete them on request.
Join the Community in the app, and a link on the Support page, open the optional FirstAmen Facebook Group. A Facebook account is required to join or participate. Posts and profile information may be visible to others according to the group's settings and are handled by Meta under its terms and privacy policy. Do not post private prayer content or sensitive personal information you do not want other members to see.
Data retention and deletion
You can remove locally stored FirstAmen data with Settings → Reset App Data, or by deleting the app. This does not cancel a subscription or erase App Store purchase history.
FirstAmen has no developer-hosted account or cloud profile to delete in the current version, and we do not run a server that stores a copy of analytics data. Analytics, crash, and attribution data is kept by Google and Singular for the retention periods set in those services.
Withdrawing consent and requesting deletion
You can stop all analytics, crash-diagnostic, and attribution collection at any time by deleting FirstAmen from your device. To request deletion of data that has already been collected, or of your support emails, email support@firstamen.com. Because analytics identifiers are not connected to an account or email address, we may ask for details such as when you used the app to find a record; where we can identify it, we will ask the provider to delete it. Facebook Group activity is managed through Facebook.
Children's privacy
FirstAmen is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through a developer-operated account or service.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the app, our practices, or legal requirements change. The updated version will be posted here with a revised date.
Contact us
FirstAmen Support
Email: support@firstamen.com
firstamen.com/support