Terms of Use

Last updated: September 16, 2026

These are the rules for using Your Bible App. Using the app means you accept them. They are written in plain English, and the parts that cost you money are near the top.

The app is not on the App Store yet. These terms are published now so they are public before it is, and the date above will change if the wording does.

Who we are

Your Bible App, operated by Joel Malone (sole proprietor), Texas, USA — a sole proprietor is a one-person business. support@yourbibleapp.com. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean that business, and "you" means the person using the app.

You must be 13 or older

You must be 13 or older to use Your Bible App. The app asks you to confirm your age once, the first time you open it. Under that question is the line "By continuing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use." Its App Store age rating is 13+ to match this rule. If you are under 13, you may not use the app, and you may not make an account or buy a subscription. If you answer that you are under 13, the app stops on that phone and asks again about a year later. Nothing about your answer is sent to us.

We also ask the App Store. As well as asking you, the app asks the App Store for the age category Apple holds for your Apple Account. If Apple gives us one and it disagrees with your answer, Apple's category is the one we use. If Apple gives us nothing — because the sharing was declined, or because your iPhone is too old for the feature — your own answer stands. The Privacy Policy explains what we store about it, which is a yes or a no and nothing more.

If you are 13 to 17, these terms apply to you the same way they apply to an adult, and the subscription is a real agreement. We do not require a parent or guardian to agree separately, and the app has no parent-facing screen. Apple's own family controls — Ask to Buy and Screen Time — sit outside our app, on the device, and we cannot see whether a family has switched them on.

There is nothing in this app that lets one user contact another, and there is nothing to post. We do not currently show adverts. We are not promising that forever; if it ever changes, these terms and the Privacy Policy change first and we will tell you before it happens.

Your account

• There are no passwords. You sign in with a link sent to your e-mail address, Sign in with Apple, or Sign in with Google.
• Keep control of whichever one you use. Anyone who can read your e-mail can get into your account.
• Your account must always keep at least one verified way to sign in, so the last one cannot be removed.
• You can try the app without an account. That guest progress is tied to a random identifier on the phone itself, so it can be lost if the app or the phone is — we cannot recover it for you.
• If you are playing as a guest and then sign in to an account you already have, the guest progress is discarded. The app warns you before that happens.
• The account is yours, for you. Do not share it or sell it.

The subscription, the free trial and how you are billed

• Apple sells and bills the subscription, not us. Apple is the merchant of record — in plain words, Apple is the seller. It is charged to your Apple Account through the App Store. We never see or handle your card.
• The price shown in the App Store before you confirm is the price that applies. On the date at the top of this page, that price is $1 per month in the United States.
• There is a 3-day free trial. Apple allows one introductory offer per subscription group for each Apple Account — in plain words, a free trial, once per Apple Account — and this app has a single subscription, so the trial cannot be taken twice by deleting and reinstalling. That is Apple's rule, not ours, and Apple can change it.
• It renews automatically every month until you cancel it. Apple charges the renewal within 24 hours of the end of each period, unless you cancel first.
• The app may let you play a limited number of lessons before asking you to subscribe. How many is a setting we can change.
• Family Sharing is not available for this subscription.
• If a renewal payment fails, Apple retries it for a while and you keep your access during that time. If it never succeeds, your access ends.
• A person aged 13 to 17 can be the subscriber, on the same terms as anyone else. What a family can control about that is Apple's to decide, on the device, not ours.

Cancelling

Cancel in your device's subscription settings, or anywhere else Apple lets you manage subscriptions. The app cannot cancel an Apple subscription for you — the most it can do is send you to Apple's own screen. Apple's monthly subscriptions cannot be paused, only cancelled.

When you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for. After that, your progress is kept, not deleted: you can still open the app and see everything you have earned, but you cannot start or replay lessons. Subscribe again and you carry on exactly where you stopped.

Refunds

Apple takes the payment, so Apple handles refunds, under Apple's own refund rules — the ones published in the App Store, which apply to every app sold there. Those rules are Apple's and can change; the current ones are the ones Apple publishes. Ask Apple for one through the App Store; we cannot refund an App Store purchase ourselves, and we have no say in whether Apple grants one. If Apple does refund you, your access to the paid part of the app ends.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account from inside the app. There is a 30-day grace period in which signing in again, or buying a subscription, cancels the deletion; after that the account and its progress are removed and cannot be restored. The Delete your account page explains all of it, and the Privacy Policy says how long each step takes.

Deleting your account does not cancel your Apple subscription. Cancel that separately with Apple, or the billing continues.

What you may and may not do

You may use the app to study, on your own devices, for yourself. You may not:

• copy, republish, sell or redistribute the lessons, questions, explanations or other material in the app;
• extract the content in bulk, by hand or with any automated tool, or use it to build another product or to train a model;
• take apart, decompile or reverse-engineer the app, or work around what you have paid for;
• share your account with other people or let anyone else use it;
• attack, overload, probe or interfere with the app or its servers;
• pretend to be us, or to be somebody else, anywhere the app gives you a way to type;
• use the app to break the law.

If you do any of these, we may suspend or end your access. Where we can, we will tell you why first. If we end your access for something you did, you are not owed a refund; ask Apple.

There is nothing to post

This app has no comments, no notes you can share, no profile page, no friends, no messages and no feed. There is no way for you to publish anything, and no way for another user to see you. So these terms give us no licence over anything you write, because there is nothing you can write here for anybody to see. If we ever add a feature that changes that, these terms change first, and we will tell you.

The one thing you can send us is an e-mail to support. We use it to answer you and to fix what you told us about, and that is all.

What is in the app

The app contains Bible text and study material we write ourselves — questions, answers, explanations and the games built on them. Our own material belongs to us. Bible text is used under the terms of whoever publishes that translation, and those terms belong to them. Bible facts — who did what, where a place is, what happened when — are free for anyone to use; some translations are not, and we use only what we are allowed to. The name Your Bible App and our artwork are ours, and you may not use them without our written permission.

No translation is named on this page, and none will be until the publisher's written terms exist. When they do, this section and a copyright notice will be rewritten to match them. Some of the map data in the app also carries an attribution obligation, which appears in the app itself.

The study material is for learning. It is not spiritual direction, legal advice, medical advice, or a substitute for your own reading. Where scholars disagree about something, we try to say so rather than pretend there is one answer.

If you think we have used something of yours

If you believe anything in the app infringes your copyright, write to support@yourbibleapp.com with enough detail for us to find it, and we will look. Nothing in this app is uploaded by a user, so everything in it is ours to check and ours to fix.

The app may change, and it may stop

We add, change and remove lessons, features and content. We do not promise that any particular lesson, feature or translation will be there tomorrow, that the app will always be available, or that it will be free of faults. If we ever stop the service entirely, we will say so beforehand and stop taking money for it.

Suspending or ending your access

We may suspend or end your access if you break the rules above, if we are required to by law, or if keeping your account open would put other people or the service at risk. Where we can, we will tell you why, and where the reason can be fixed we will tell you how. You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account.

No warranty

The app is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind about it, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Some states do not allow those exclusions; where that is so, this paragraph applies to you only as far as the law allows.

Limit on what we owe you

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, and our total liability to you for any claim connected with the app is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing here limits anything that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

If you cost us money

These terms contain no indemnity. You are not promising to pay our legal costs, and we are not asking you to. If that ever changes, these terms change first and we will tell you.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. That is one rule for the whole country: we do not apply different terms in different states.

These terms name no court, require no arbitration, and contain no class-action waiver. You keep whatever rights the law gives you to bring a claim.

Odds and ends

• If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands, and that part is cut back only as far as it has to be.
• If we do not enforce something straight away, that does not mean we have given it up. Anything we give up, we give up in writing.
• These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the app. Anything said anywhere else — a screenshot, a review, a marketing line — does not change them.
• You may not transfer this agreement to anybody else. We may transfer it if the business changes hands, and we will tell you if that happens.

Where we operate

The app is offered in the United States only. We make no claim that it is appropriate or available anywhere else. Using it from another country is your decision and your responsibility, including whether your own country's law allows it.

Apple

Apple is not a party to this agreement, and Apple has no responsibility for the app or its content. Apple sells and bills the subscription, and Apple's own terms cover that sale. Nothing in these terms takes away any right Apple's terms give you.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and the current version is always on this page. If a change matters to what you pay or what you get, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. A change that costs you money will never apply to a period you have already paid for.

How to contact us

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