By installing or using Lantern (the "App"), you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the App.
What Lantern is
Lantern is a prayer companion app — a personal tool to help you pray for the people and intentions on your heart. It generates prayers, scripture references, and reflections using AI. It is not a substitute for a pastor, counselor, doctor, lawyer, or any professional advisor.
What Lantern is not
Lantern is not:
- Spiritual or pastoral counseling.
- Mental-health, medical, legal, or financial advice.
- An emergency service.
- A replacement for trusted human guidance.
If you or someone you love is in crisis or in danger, please reach out to a trusted pastor, counselor, doctor, or crisis service immediately. In the U.S., you can dial 988. In South Africa, the SADAG Suicide Crisis Helpline is 0800 567 567. Other countries: please contact your local emergency services.
AI-generated content
Prayers, reflections, and scripture references in Lantern are generated by AI (currently OpenAI models, via our backend). Generated content is intended to be a helpful starting point for your own prayer life and may contain inaccuracies, paraphrases, or interpretations you don't agree with. We encourage you to verify scripture references in your own Bible and to weigh AI-generated content against trusted spiritual sources.
Acceptable use
You agree not to use Lantern to:
- Generate content intended to harass, threaten, or harm any person.
- Submit content that is illegal, hateful, or sexually explicit.
- Attempt to extract, reverse-engineer, or abuse the AI service for purposes outside of personal prayer.
- Use the App in connection with any commercial product without written permission.
Your content
You retain ownership of everything you write in Lantern (subject names, notes, journal entries, situations you describe). By using AI features, you grant us a limited, transient license to send your text to our backend and to OpenAI for the sole purpose of generating a response. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Service availability
Lantern's AI features depend on third-party services (OpenAI) and our own infrastructure. We make no guarantee of uptime. The App will fall back gracefully where possible (template prayers work offline; AI features require connectivity).
Limitation of liability
Lantern is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind. We are not liable for any spiritual, emotional, financial, or physical outcomes resulting from your use of the App.
Termination
You may stop using Lantern and erase all your data at any time via Today tab → Settings → Reset all my data, then uninstall the App. We may suspend the AI service for any device that abuses our rate limits or violates these terms.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the App evolves. Material changes will be communicated through the App. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.
Contact
Questions or concerns: shingim1@gmail.com.