Privacy & Data Protection

Last updated: 1 September 2026

Who We Are

DailyPrayer.uk is responsible for the personal information collected through this website, our contact and prayer request forms, and other ministry services that refer to this privacy notice.

For privacy questions, requests or concerns, email info@dailyprayer.uk.

Information We May Collect

Depending on how you use DailyPrayer.uk, we may collect:

• your name and email address;
• your message, enquiry or prayer request;
• a telephone number or postal address where you choose to provide one, for example for a Bible or resource request;
• personal information you choose to include in a prayer or pastoral request, including information about health, family circumstances, faith or religious belief;
• records of your contact with us and any reasonable follow-up connected with your request;
• information connected with donations, payments or requested resources where relevant;
• your preferences where you separately choose to receive ministry updates;
• basic technical information such as device type, browser, IP address, cookies, security logs and analytics information.

Prayer, Health, Faith & Other Sensitive Information

Prayer and pastoral requests can contain information that UK data protection law treats as particularly sensitive. This can include health information and information about religious or philosophical beliefs.

Please only include information that you are comfortable sharing with the DailyPrayer.uk team. When our form asks you to tick the required I agree box, you are confirming that we may use the information you choose to provide so that we can receive, understand, respond to and reasonably follow up on your request.

Why We Use Your Information

We may use personal information to:

• receive and respond to messages, questions and prayer requests;
• send a reasonable follow-up or check-in connected with the request you sent;
• pray for requests within the DailyPrayer.uk ministry;
• provide Bibles, resources, services or support you have asked for;
• manage donations, payments, records and ministry administration;
• protect the website, prevent abuse or spam and investigate security issues;
• meet legal, safeguarding, regulatory, accounting or record-keeping responsibilities;
• send optional ministry news or updates only where you have separately asked to receive them.

Our Lawful Bases

UK data protection law requires us to have a lawful reason for using personal information. Depending on the situation, we may rely on:

• Legitimate interests — for example, responding to people who contact us, operating the ministry, keeping appropriate records, protecting the website and carrying out reasonable follow-up connected with a request, where those interests do not override your rights and freedoms;
• Consent — where you have made a genuine choice, for example if you separately choose to receive optional ministry updates;
• Explicit consent — where you voluntarily provide special category information in a prayer, pastoral or support request and we rely on your clear agreement to use it for that purpose;
• Legal obligation — where we need to use or retain information to comply with the law or an appropriate regulatory or safeguarding duty;
• Contract or steps requested by you — where this is relevant to a specific service, transaction or resource you have asked us to provide.

The lawful basis used can depend on the reason the information was collected and how it is being used.

Replying & Following Up

When you contact DailyPrayer.uk, we may reply to your message and contact you again where the follow-up is reasonably connected with your enquiry, prayer request, pastoral request or support request.

This does not mean that the required contact-form agreement is consent to unrelated marketing or promotional emails.

Optional Ministry Updates

If DailyPrayer.uk offers a separate sign-up for ministry news, services, events, prayer encouragement, resources or other updates, that sign-up is optional and separate from sending us a contact or prayer request.

If you choose to receive those updates, you can unsubscribe or ask us to stop at any time by contacting info@dailyprayer.uk.

Cookies, Analytics & Website Information

Our website may use essential cookies and similar technologies needed for security, forms, website operation and preferences. We may also use analytics or other non-essential technologies where appropriate.

Where consent is required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we use our cookie controls to give you a choice before those technologies are used.

Who We May Share Information With

We do not sell personal information. We may share information only where reasonably necessary with:

• authorised DailyPrayer.uk ministry, prayer, administration or safeguarding people;
• trusted service providers that help us operate the website, forms, email, security, analytics, payments, hosting, storage, postage or similar services;
• professional advisers where this is reasonably necessary;
• law enforcement, regulators, safeguarding bodies or other authorities where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

Service providers must only use information for the services they provide to us, or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

International Processing

Some technology or service providers may process or store information outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens and UK data protection law requires additional safeguards, we take reasonable steps to ensure appropriate protections are in place.

Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure. This includes limiting access to people who reasonably need it and using secure website and account services.

No online service can be guaranteed completely secure. Please avoid sending information that is not necessary for your prayer request, enquiry or support request.

How Long We Keep Information

We keep personal information only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the reason it was collected, for appropriate ministry records, to deal with safeguarding or legal responsibilities, to resolve questions or disputes, or where a longer period is required by law.

Prayer and contact messages are retained only while they are needed for response, appropriate follow-up and reasonable ministry records. Optional update preferences may be kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove them. Information that is no longer needed is deleted or anonymised where practical.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law may give you rights to:

• ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
• ask us to delete information where the law gives you that right;
• ask us to restrict certain uses of your information;
• object to certain processing;
• withdraw consent where we rely on consent;
• receive certain information in a portable format where that right applies.

To exercise a privacy right, contact info@dailyprayer.uk. We may need to confirm your identity before completing a request.

Automated Decisions

We do not use information submitted through our contact or prayer request forms to make solely automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.

Medical, Pastoral & Emergency Matters

DailyPrayer.uk provides prayer and Christian encouragement. It is not a replacement for professional medical, counselling, legal, safeguarding or emergency services.

If you or another person is in immediate danger or facing a medical emergency, contact the emergency services or another appropriate professional service straight away.

Changes To This Privacy Notice

We may update this notice when our website, ministry activities, service providers or legal responsibilities change. The latest version will always be published on this page, together with the date it was last updated.