Privacy policy

What we keep when you send us something

If you send a video, we keep your name, your email, your video link, any note you add, and the boxes you ticked to confirm you have the rights and permissions. If you write to us, we keep your name, your email, your message, your mobile number (with its country code) and your country. If you report something inaccurate on a nation page, we keep your report, the link you give, and your email only if you give it, so we can check and correct the page.

If you send a prayer request, we keep the request, the nation, and your first name and email only if you give them. You choose when you send it: we may pray for it, invite our friends to pray along and publish it, or we keep it private. A private request is never published. If you allow publishing, we publish it only after WindFire approves it, and we never show your email.

If you tick the box for updates, we also keep the time you agreed.

Your WindFire account

You can make a WindFire account to keep your videos, prayers and nations in one place. You log in with Google, or with your email and a password. Logging in is handled for us by Google (Firebase Authentication), which keeps your email, your name and when you last logged in. If you use a password, Google keeps it safely; WindFire never sees it. A small cookie keeps you logged in on this site for up to 5 days, and Google's log-in tools keep a note in your browser that you are logged in.

Your account keeps:

• your name, email and country, and your mobile number (with its country code) if you give it
• a photo and a short bio, only if you add them
• the nations you follow and the nations you mark as prayed for, with the dates
• the prayer projects you take part in
• which WindFire channels you tell us you follow
• the messages you send us from your account
• whether you want news and updates from WindFire, and when you agreed or stopped

Only you and WindFire's administrators can see your account. It is never shown to other visitors.

When anyone presses "I have prayed" for a nation, we count it for our statistics. If you are not logged in, the count keeps only the nation and the time, nothing about you. If you are logged in, it is also added to your own list in My WindFire.

Children and young people

If you are under 18, please ask a parent or guardian before you make an account, add a photo or send a video. We never show a child's face or name without a parent or guardian's written permission.

Deleting your details

You can delete your account at any time from the bottom of My WindFire. This removes your account details, your photo and bio, your log-in, the nations you follow, your list of nations you have prayed for, and your project list. The prayer counts stay, with nothing about you left in them.

Videos, prayer requests and messages you sent are kept separately. You can delete a video you sent yourself, from My videos in My WindFire. You can ask us to remove anything else at any time: write to hello@windfireofficial.com and we will delete it.

If an account breaks our Terms of use, WindFire may delete it. The same details are removed as when you delete it yourself, and we keep a short record of who deleted it and when.

Where your details are kept

What you send us is saved in our own private database (Google Firebase), which only WindFire's administrators can open. The site is hosted by Vercel. When you send a form, a copy is also emailed to WindFire's own inbox. Our emails are sent for us by Resend, which keeps your email and first name if you agreed to updates. The emails that confirm your email address or reset your password are sent for us by Resend. Every update email has an unsubscribe link, and we stop sending when you use it. If you tick news and updates in My WindFire, you are added to that list in the same way, and unticking it unsubscribes you. If you delete your account, you are also removed from the email list.

Blocking spam

To block spam, our forms check how fast they are filled in and how often they are sent from one place. They may also use a check from Cloudflare (Turnstile), which can use information from your browser for that purpose only.

Your videos

Nothing you send is shown on this site without your clear permission and approval from WindFire. You can ask us to remove your video at any time.

Videos, photos and links from other sites

Worship videos on this site are shown from Instagram and YouTube. When a video loads, that service may set its own cookies or collect information under its own privacy policy. In My WindFire, the small picture for a YouTube video is loaded from YouTube.

The photos on nation pages are loaded from Wikimedia Commons, which may see that your browser asked for the photo.

TikTok videos open on TikTok, and the share buttons open WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok only when you press them. The PrayerCast links on nation pages open prayercast.com, and the verse link opens the Bible app's site (bible.com). Each is a separate site with its own privacy policy.

Emails

We use your email only for what you signed up for. Every news and updates email has an unsubscribe link.

If you have an account, a WindFire administrator may also write to you personally by email, for example to reply to something you sent or to thank you for taking part. Your reply goes to that administrator. We keep a copy of each such message, with who sent it and when.

How long we keep your details

We keep your details while your account is open, or until you ask us to delete them. Our providers (Google, Vercel and Resend) may store them outside Singapore, with protection similar to Singapore's law.

Who looks after your details

WindFire's founder, Angelynn Khoo, is responsible for the personal data WindFire keeps, with help from our administrator. To see, correct or delete what we keep about you, or to ask any question about it, write to hello@windfireofficial.com.