Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 18, 2026

This policy says what Your Bible App collects about you, why, who else touches it, how long we keep it, and how to make us delete it. It is written in plain English on purpose.

The app is not on the App Store yet, so nobody is using it and no customer information exists. This policy describes how the app is built to work, and the date above will change if the wording does.

The short version

We do not sell your information. Not to anyone, for any price.
We do not currently show adverts in the app, and nothing you do here is used to target adverts anywhere else. We are not promising that forever. If it ever changes, this page changes first and we tell you before it happens, not after.
There is no feed, no comments, no profile page and no friends list. There is nothing here for other people to see, because the app has no way for one person to see another person at all.
We never see your card details. Apple sells the subscription and Apple takes the money.
You can delete everything from inside the app. See Delete your account.
You must be 13 or older. The age check below explains how we check, and what happens if the App Store tells us something different.

Who we are

Your Bible App, operated by Joel Malone (sole proprietor), Texas, USA. A sole proprietor is a one-person business. You can reach a person at support@yourbibleapp.com.

What this policy covers

It covers the Your Bible App iPhone app and this website. There is no web version of the app and there is no sign-in on this website.

What we collect

How you sign in. An e-mail address, or a Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google identity — whichever you choose. There are no passwords in the app at all, so we never hold one.
Your answer to the age question and the date you answered it. The app asks once whether you are 13 or older. What we store is a yes or a no and that date — never your age, never your date of birth, never the age bracket Apple reports.
Your study record. Which collections and lessons you have studied, the answers you gave, your scores, stars and streaks, and how recently you were active. This is the part we treat as sensitive; it has its own section below.
Your time zone, so that daily streaks are counted against your day.
Your subscription. Whether you are on a free trial, paying, lapsed or refunded; the periods Apple has sold you; the identifiers Apple uses for your purchase; and the messages Apple sends us when your subscription renews, fails, is cancelled or is refunded. We never see your card details. Apple takes the payment, not us.
If you play as a guest without making an account: a random identifier created on your own phone, plus the same study record. It is not linked to your name, your e-mail or your phone number.
Crash reports when the app fails, and a short, fixed list of usage events — the app opening, the age question being shown and answered yes, the paywall appearing, a purchase or a restore starting, being recorded or failing, and the subscription state changing. It also records a lesson being started, completed, abandoned or repeated, a collection opened, a question answered or reported, and content synced, along with a few events about signing in and about checking whether your subscription is active — the same list, under the same rule below. That is a description of the whole list, not a copy of it. Each event records that the step happened, plus at most a state name, an outcome word, a count, or the identifier of a lesson, collection or question — never your name, your e-mail, your phone number, your account, Apple's transaction identifier, your age, or anything you typed.
One code that says "this is the same person as last time". The app sends our analytics service a single random string, so that two visits by one person are not counted as two people. It is the random identifier our sign-in service made for this installation of the app. Delete and reinstall the app and a guest gets a new one, so the old trail stops there. This is the one identifier about you that deliberately leaves the phone, and it is written here rather than buried in a footnote because it is the one exception.
Anonymous totals. How often a question is answered correctly across everyone. No person is attached to these and they cannot be traced back to you.
A report you send about a question. The question, your answer, and any words you type.

Nothing at all is recorded on our servers when somebody says they are under 13. No event, no row on our servers, no e-mail address. The app refuses on the phone itself and nothing leaves it. The phone itself remembers one thing so it does not have to ask again every time you open it: the date to ask again, about a year later. That date stays on the phone and is never sent to us.

We do not collect your location, your contacts, your photos, your health data or your card number. The app does not ask for any of those permissions. We use no advertising software, no attribution software, and no tool that measures which advert brought you here.

How we collect it

From you, when you type it into the app.
From your phone: the guest identifier the app creates, and your time zone.
From Apple: when you start a trial, buy, renew, cancel, or are refunded, Apple tells our server. Apple also answers the age-category question described in the age check below.
Automatically while the app runs: crash reports and usage events.

This website collects nothing. See This website below.

How we use it

To sign you in and keep you signed in.
To store your study record and show it back to you.
To decide which lesson to put in front of you next, from what you have already answered. That is lesson ordering and nothing more: no person and no AI makes any other decision about you, and nothing in this app decides anything about a person automatically.
To work out whether your subscription lets you play, and to restore a purchase.
To answer you when you write to support.
To find and fix crashes and faults.
To see which parts of the app are used, so we know what to improve.
To keep the records a business has to keep, such as records of what was sold.
To meet a legal duty, or to protect the app, our users, or ourselves from fraud or abuse.

We do not sell your information. We do not use it for advertising, we do not build profiles of you for anyone else, and we do not send you marketing texts.

Your study record, and the agreement we ask for

This is a Bible app, so we have to be straight about this. Using this app does not tell us what you believe. We do not ask your religion, we do not ask you to declare one, and we do not assume one. People study the Bible for many reasons.

What we hold is a record of which Bible books, topics and lessons you have studied, with the answers you gave, your scores and your streaks, tied to your account. We keep it for two reasons and no others: to show your progress back to you, and to decide which lesson to put in front of you next.

We treat that record as sensitive information, because a record of what a named person studies in a Bible app can say something about their beliefs. So we ask you before we collect it, not after. That is the rule we hold ourselves to, and we would rather ask twice than assume.

So we ask before any of it exists. The first screen the app ever shows you is the age question, and under it is the line "By continuing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use." Your study record begins after you confirm your age and continue past the notice on that screen. There is no study record before that moment, because there is nothing to record until you play. Whatever you decide later, these rights stay yours: you can ask us what we hold, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete all of it, and we will never treat you worse for asking. They are listed under "Your choices and how to change your mind" below.

You can stop it. Delete your account, from inside the app, and the record goes with it on the timetable below. There is nothing else you have to do and nobody you have to write to.

Where it goes. Supabase holds the record itself. PostHog receives the usage events described above — which lessons were started, completed, repeated or answered — under the single pseudonymous code, which is a code that is not your name, never under your name or your e-mail address. Nothing about your study record is sent to any advertiser, any data broker, or any AI service.

The age check

You must be 13 or older to use Your Bible App. Two things settle that, and this is the order they run in.

The app asks you, once, the first time you open it. Under the question is the line "By continuing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use."
The app asks the App Store for the age category Apple holds for your Apple Account. Apple shares it only when an app asks, and you or your parent can decline to share it.

If Apple gives us a category and it disagrees with your answer, Apple's category is the one we use. That is a duty and not a preference: Texas law requires us to read and act on the age category the App Store reports, and we apply the same rule to everyone in the United States rather than only in Texas.

If Apple gives us nothing — because the sharing was declined, because your iPhone is too old for the feature, or because Apple holds no category for your account — your own answer stands, and we record that the check could not be made.

What we store about your age is a yes or a no, and the date you answered: whether you meet the minimum age. We do not store your age, your date of birth, or the age bracket Apple reports. We keep that yes-or-no for as long as your account is active, and it is deleted with everything else when your account is.

The App Store age rating for the app is 13+ for the same reason the terms say 13: Apple requires the store rating to match the minimum age our terms set.

If you are 13 to 17

Everything on this page applies to you the same way it applies to an adult, and we collect nothing extra about you because of your age.

The same events, the same code. The usage events and the single pseudonymous code are the same for a 15-year-old as for a 40-year-old. No age property is ever attached to any event, and your age answer never leaves our own database.
No parental controls in the app, and none pretended. There is no parent-facing screen in this app, and we do not claim there is one. Apple's own Ask to Buy and Screen Time controls sit outside our app, on the device, and we cannot see whether a family has switched them on.
The subscription is a real agreement. The terms and the subscription apply to a 13 to 17 year old the same way they apply to anyone else. Apple is the seller and Apple takes the money.
Nothing to post, nobody to meet. There is no messaging, no comments, no profile, no friends, no feed and no sharing anywhere in this app.
Same rights. Everything under "Your choices and how to change your mind" is yours at 13 exactly as it is at 30.

Who else handles your information

We use other companies to run the service. Each one only handles what it needs for the job named here, and none of them is allowed to use your information for their own purposes.

Company	What they do for us
Apple	Sells and bills the subscription through the App Store, and tells our server about renewals, cancellations and refunds. Provides Sign in with Apple if you use it, and answers the age-category question described above. Apple handles the payment; we never see your card details.
Supabase	Hosts our database and runs the sign-in service that holds your identifiers and your study record.
Twilio	Set up to send a one-time sign-in code by text. This version of the app has no phone sign-in, so nothing is sent to Twilio.
SendGrid	Sends the sign-in link and other account e-mails when you sign in by e-mail.
Google	Provides Sign in with Google if you use it, and hosts the support mailbox, so an e-mail you send us is stored there.
Sentry	Receives crash reports from the app so we can fix what broke.
PostHog	Receives the usage events described above, under the single pseudonymous code.
Vercel	Hosts this website. Like any web server, it records the ordinary technical details of a request, such as the address it came from and the page asked for.

Where it is stored. Your information is stored in the United States. Every company above is a United States company, and we have chosen no service that stores your information outside the United States. If that ever has to change, this page changes first.

Legal process. We will hand over information if the law requires it — a court order, a subpoena, or a lawful demand we cannot refuse.

If the business changes hands. This policy contains no clause allowing your information to be sold or transferred to a buyer of the business, because no such arrangement has been decided. If one ever is, this page changes before it happens.

Artificial intelligence

We use an AI service from Anthropic to help write the study material — the questions, the wrong answers, the explanations — before anybody plays them. Nothing about you is sent to it. It never sees your name, your study record, your answers or your account. It is a writing tool pointed at the Bible, not at you. If that ever changes, this section changes in the same release, and we will say so.

Text messages

This version of the app does not send text messages at all, because there is no signing in with a phone number in it. If we ever add that, the only text the app will send is a one-time sign-in code, and this page will say so before it happens. We do not send marketing texts, and we never will without telling you first.

We do not share, sell, or provide your mobile phone number or messaging consent data to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

If a one-time code by text is ever added, message and data rates may apply, and you would only get a text when you asked for a code by trying to sign in — so there would be no list to unsubscribe from.

One rule holds whichever way you sign in: your account must always keep at least one verified way in, so the last one cannot be removed. That would lock you out of your own progress.

How long we keep your information

Every period below is either a setting in our own database or a property of how backups work. None of them is a guess, and the right-hand column is the rule that decides it.

What	How long	What decides it
Your account, your study record, your sign-in identifiers, your subscription record, your time zone and the yes-or-no age answer	For as long as your account exists. Cancelling your subscription does not delete it — your progress waits for you	The life of the account. Only asking us to delete starts a clock
All of the above, once you ask us to delete	30 days, and then it is deleted from the live service that night	A grace period, so that you can change your mind. The 30 days are stamped on your request the moment you make it, so changing the setting later cannot move your date
The last copy held in a backup	Up to about 30 days more — about 60 days in total from your request	Backups run on a fixed 30-day cycle and a backup cannot be edited, only allowed to expire. A backup taken shortly before day 30 can still hold a copy for another 30 days
A guest profile with no account	180 days after it was last used, then it is deleted	Nobody comes back to delete a guest profile by hand
A sign-up that was started and never confirmed	24 hours	It is not an account yet
A message from Apple that matches no account of ours	30 days from the day it arrived	We cannot match it to a person, so it gets a stated life rather than an open one
Totals with no person attached	Indefinitely	There is no person in them to delete
A report you send about a question	Kept until your account is deleted	It goes with your account, the same as your study record

So the honest total is this: deletion from the live service completes 30 days after you ask, and the last backup copy expires up to about 60 days after you ask. We do not promise 30 days end to end, because that would not be true.

What the other companies keep. PostHog keeps the usage events we send it for 1 year on our free plan, and then deletes them; the person record PostHog builds from those events runs on the same clock, because PostHog publishes no separate period for it. Sentry keeps the crash reports we send it for 30 days on our free plan. Vercel keeps the ordinary web server log for 1 day on our current plan. Supabase keeps its own sign-in and service logs for 1 day on our current plan, and takes no automated database backups on that plan — the backup rows in the table above are our own copies of our own database, which is a different thing.

Deleting your account

You can ask for deletion from inside the app, and guests can delete their data too. The whole process, including what a purchase during the grace period does, is on the Delete your account page.

One thing worth repeating here: deleting your account does not cancel your Apple subscription. You have to cancel that separately, in your device's subscription settings, or Apple will keep billing you.

Your choices and how to change your mind

Stop us keeping your study record. Delete your account. That is the way out of it, it is in the app, and it takes the record with it on the timetable above.
Delete everything from inside the app, or by writing to support@yourbibleapp.com from the address on your account.
Ask us what we hold. There is no self-service download button. Write to support and we will answer you.
Ask us to correct something. Write to support.

We will never treat you worse for asking. Nothing in this list changes the price you pay or what the app gives you, except where that is the direct point of the request.

We will ask you to prove who you are before we delete or hand over anything, and if we cannot tie the request to a verified way into the account, we will refuse it. Refusing is the safer mistake: the other one destroys the wrong person's work.

If we say no, you can appeal. Reply to our answer, or write again to support@yourbibleapp.com with the word APPEAL in the subject line. A person — not a machine — looks at it again, and we write back within 60 days with the decision and the reason for it. If you are still not satisfied, you can complain to the Texas Attorney General's consumer protection division, at texasattorneygeneral.gov.

There are two ways to make any of these requests: from inside the app, or by e-mail to support@yourbibleapp.com. You do not need an account with us to ask about a request you have already made.

Children

Your Bible App is for people aged 13 and over. It is not designed for or directed at children under 13. If you tell the app you are under 13, it stops there: no account is made, no sign-in is offered, and there is nothing to buy. Nothing about that answer reaches us — no row on our servers, no analytics event, no e-mail address. The phone itself keeps one marker so it does not have to ask again every time the app opens: the date to ask again, about a year later. It never leaves the phone. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, write to support@yourbibleapp.com and we will delete it. You do not have to prove anything to us first.

Keeping it safe

Your information travels encrypted between your phone and our servers, and it is stored encrypted at rest by our database host. There are no passwords in this app, so there is no password of yours to steal. The keys our servers use are held by the services that run them and are never in the app on your phone.

Nobody can promise that a system on the internet will never be broken into, and we do not. What we can say is what we have done, which is above.

Where this applies

Your Bible App is offered in the United States only. It was not built for use elsewhere, and this policy does not try to describe rights under the laws of other countries. One rule applies everywhere in the United States: we do not vary what we collect, or how we behave, from state to state.

This website

This website is a handful of pages of plain text. It sets no cookies, runs no JavaScript, has no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no forms. It loads nothing from any other company — no fonts, no images, no scripts from anywhere else — and the server is configured to refuse to load any of those even if someone added them by mistake.

The only record of your visit is the ordinary web server log kept by our host, Vercel, described in the table above. There is no cookie banner on this site because there are no cookies to consent to.

Changes to this policy

If this changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the current version is always on this page. If we change something that matters — what we collect, who gets it, or what we do with it — we will tell you in the app before it takes effect, rather than quietly changing the date.

How to contact us

support@yourbibleapp.com
Your Bible App, operated by Joel Malone (sole proprietor), Texas, USA.