Privacy

What the service processes

When you ask a question or create a plan, Bible Clearly sends that text, your selected audience, and the name of your selected Bible translation to OpenAI so it can produce a response. The response is checked against our local Bible and reference sources before it is shown. Your translation preference is stored only in your browser on this device.

Accounts and saved content

If you create an account, we store your name, email address, securely hashed password or linked Google sign-in, and account settings. If Google supplies a profile photo, it is used as your initial avatar. You may instead choose a Bible Clearly avatar or upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP profile photo; uploaded photos are stored privately and served only to the signed-in account. Plans you create while signed in are saved to your account. Answers are stored only when you choose to save them. Saved items include the question or topic, generated text, selected translation, cited sources, folders, tags, personal notes, plan schedules, reminders, and reading progress so you can organize and reopen them.

Support requests

When a registered user contacts support, we store the request, its category, account name and email, status, and any resolution update. Authorized administrators use this information to respond and manage the support queue. When a request is resolved, our email provider receives the reporter’s email address and the support update so it can deliver the message. Requests may be archived or permanently deleted by an authorized administrator.

Family members, profiles, and child devices

A family owner may invite another adult by email. We store the invited email, invitation status, expiration, and resulting family membership; our email provider receives the address and invitation link for delivery. Invitation links are single-use, expire after seven days, and are stored only as one-way hashes. Adult family members share the family’s points and may manage child profiles and devices, but saved answers, plans, account credentials, personal notes, and personal profile settings remain private to each adult account. A plan becomes visible to the family only when an adult assigns it to a child profile. We then store the assignment and child reading progress. Removing an adult from a family does not delete that person’s account or saved content.

An adult may create child profiles using a nickname and age range. Pairing codes are single-use and expire after five minutes. Device-session and pairing credentials are stored only as one-way hashes. A paired child device receives a separate session and does not receive an adult’s email, password, Google credentials, or private notes. Adults can revoke connected devices from Family controls.

If the family owner enables weekly summaries, we provide the owner’s email address and a recap of assigned-plan progress to our email provider for delivery. The setting can be turned off from Family controls.

Membership payments and invites

Stripe provides checkout and billing management. Stripe receives payment and billing details under its own privacy terms; Bible Clearly does not receive or store complete payment-card numbers. We store the Stripe customer, subscription, price, billing status, renewal date, and cancellation status needed to provide and manage your membership. If you redeem a complimentary membership invite, we store the invite identifier, granted plan, redemption date, and access expiration date. The complete invite code is stored only as a one-way hash.

Usage limits

To provide point balances and prevent automated abuse, we count usage within fixed hourly, monthly, and visitor-preview windows. Anonymous use is associated with an opaque, first-party device cookie and is also protected by a monthly one-way hash of the connection’s IP address. Signed-in individual use is counted against the account; adult-member and child-profile use is counted against the family owner’s shared balance. We do not store the raw IP address in the rate-limit database, and expired counters are deleted automatically.

Feedback

Ratings and correction details may be stored so we can review answer quality. Your question or plan topic is included with feedback only when you turn on the consent checkbox.

Children

The service is designed for adults and families. Children under 13, or the applicable age of digital consent where they live, should use it only through a parent-managed child profile and with a parent or legal guardian’s supervision. Child profiles do not require an email address.

What we avoid

We do not sell personal information or serve behavioral advertising.