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Privacy Policy

Effective March 1, 2026. Updated November 11, 2026.

1. Introduction

ScriptureVerse ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website and application at scriptureverse.app and the ScriptureVerse iPhone app. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our platform.

2. Information We Collect

Launch Waitlist and Habit Check

When you join the launch waitlist, we store your email, optional name, signup source and campaign tags, and the consent sentence shown to you. If you complete the habit check, its answers and simple routine score are stored with your signup for product research. Answers stay on the page until you join. Do not include private prayer details in optional feedback. We use aggregate answer counts to improve ScriptureVerse. We email launch news and updates only as described at signup. Unsubscribe using the link in any email, or contact privacy@scriptureverse.app to request deletion of your waitlist information.

Account Information

When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and authentication credentials through our authentication provider (Clerk). The iPhone app offers Sign in with Apple and sign-in with your email only; Sign in with Google is offered on the website only. If you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive your name and email from that account. If you add a profile photo, it is stored with your account by Clerk and shown on your profile; you can remove it at any time in Edit profile.

Profile Preferences

On the website you may optionally provide your denomination, Bible knowledge level, and display name during onboarding; in the ScriptureVerse app, onboarding asks for your tradition and Bible level, and your first name if you want to give it. These are used to personalize your AI Teacher experience. Your denomination is a setting you choose: the AI Teacher and the church calendar always follow the one in your profile, and you can change it at any time. Your display name and Bible level reach the AI Teacher only as memories it keeps about you (section 5), which you can delete.

Onboarding Answers (ScriptureVerse app)

When you set up the ScriptureVerse app, we save your answers in your account: the heart topics you picked (what is on your heart), what you want to grow in, your Bible level, how many minutes a day you have, your reminder time if you turned reminders on, your tradition, your phone's time zone, your first name if you gave one, your one-sentence prayer if you wrote one, who you would like to learn with, and the Teacher you chose. We use them to choose your plan, your Teacher and how each day is shaped, to send reminders at the time you chose, and, for the time zone, so your days and your daily Teacher questions follow your own midnight. Your first name (if you give it), tradition, Bible level and the names of your heart topics are also kept as notes the Teacher remembers (section 5), which you can delete. Your prayer is kept in your account and shown back only to you, in your daily prayer on every seventh day of a plan and on its last day: it is never sent to an AI model or to analytics. None of these answers is sent to analytics.

Plan Reflect Answers

Your answers to each day's Reflect question in a plan are saved in your account. They are never sent to an AI model or to analytics, and the Teacher does not keep them as a memory. This is separate from the reflections you write in a guided devotional with the Teacher on the website, which the Teacher's AI services receive once you agree (section 5).

Bible Highlights

The verses you highlight in the ScriptureVerse app's Bible, their colours, and any names you give the colours are saved in your account so they show on every device and in your Highlights list. They are not sent to an AI model or to analytics unless you turn on "Let the Teacher remember these" in Highlights: then the references of your newest highlighted verses and your colour names are kept as one memory the Teacher uses (section 5), which you can turn off or delete at any time. Your notes are never part of it.

Verses You Have Read

The ScriptureVerse app keeps a list of the Bible passages you have read: chapters you read to the end in the Bible tab, the passages of your plan days, and each verse of the day you see. We save the reference, the date and where you read it, never the verse text, so you can see your reading history and how many days in a row you have read. It is not sent to an AI model or to analytics. You can clear it at any time from "Verses you have read" in the Garden, and it is deleted with your account.

Usage Data

We collect information about how you interact with the platform, including verses explored, themes studied, and conversation history with the AI Teacher. This data powers your personal Journey tracking and helps us improve the service.

AI Conversation Data

Conversations with the AI Teacher are stored to provide continuity, memory features, and personalized responses. The AI may extract key preferences and spiritual interests from your conversations to improve future interactions.

If you report a Teacher answer, we keep the report, your reason and a copy of that answer so we can review it. The copy stays if you delete the conversation, and is deleted with your account.

3. How We Use Your Information

  • To provide and personalize the ScriptureVerse experience
  • To power the AI Teacher's memory and contextual understanding
  • To track your Bible exploration journey and show progress
  • To process payments and manage your subscription
  • To send important service-related communications
  • To improve the platform and fix issues

4. Third-Party Services

These are all the outside services that receive personal data from ScriptureVerse, on the website or in the ScriptureVerse app, and what each one receives:

  • Clerk: Sign-in and account management: your name, email address and sign-in details, and a profile photo if you add one. If you sign in with Google or Apple, that company tells Clerk your name and email.
  • Apple (Sign in with Apple): Only if you sign in with Apple: Apple confirms who you are and tells us your name and email (or a private relay address Apple makes for you). Our server keeps a token for your Sign in with Apple link only so it can ask Apple to remove that link when you delete your account.
  • Supabase: Our database and file storage: your account, answers, plans, notes, conversations, what the Teacher remembers and images it drew for you. Chapter audio also streams to your device from our storage at Supabase, so it sees your IP address and which chapter you play.
  • Render: Hosts our servers, so every request from the website and the app passes through it, with your IP address.
  • Anthropic (Claude): Only after you agree to AI use: your messages to the Teacher, your devotional reflections and what the Teacher remembers about you, to write answers and a short weekly summary of your growth.
  • OpenAI: Only after you agree to AI use: your messages and what the Teacher remembers, turned into search vectors so the Teacher can find what is relevant. On the website, the words you type into search, without your name or account. In the ScriptureVerse app, search runs on your phone and sends nothing.
  • Google (Gemini): Only after you agree to AI use: the description of an image, when you ask the Teacher to draw one.
  • Stripe: Payments on the website: your email, card details (held by Stripe, never by us) and your subscription.
  • RevenueCat: Subscriptions bought in the iPhone app: an account code (not your name or email), your App Store purchase history and your IP address, so the app knows what you have bought. Apple handles the payment itself.
  • PostHog: Product analytics in the ScriptureVerse app: which onboarding and subscription screens are seen and which plan days are completed, linked to an account code, and your IP address (we do not use it for location). Also crash reports from the app: the kind of error and where in the app's code it happened, so we can fix it. Never your prayers, reflections, Teacher questions, name or email. No advertising tracking.
  • Expo: Push notifications for the ScriptureVerse app: your device's push token, so a reminder you turned on can reach you. App updates: when the app checks for a fix, your IP address, the app version and a random code for this install, not linked to your account.
  • Sentry: Error reports from our servers and the website, which can include your IP address, your browser and the page you were on. On the website it also records some sessions as a replay to help us fix bugs, with all text masked.
  • Inngest: Runs our background jobs, such as noting what the Teacher should remember and your weekly summary: it receives account and conversation codes and keeps a record of each job, with counts and codes but not what you wrote. Some older job records can hold the text of a conversation the job read; they run out on Inngest's own schedule.
  • CARTO, MapLibre and Amazon Web Services: Map pictures and map lettering for the website's geography view load straight from CARTO, MapLibre's demo server and Amazon's open terrain data, so they see your IP address and the map area you view. The ScriptureVerse app's Extras maps load map pictures from CARTO the first time you open each map, so CARTO sees your IP address and that map area; after that they come from your phone.
  • Wikimedia Commons: Pictures of biblical people and places on the website load straight from Wikimedia Commons, so it sees your IP address and which pictures are shown.

Each service processes data according to their own privacy policies. We only share the minimum data necessary for each service to function. We do not sell your data and do not use it for advertising.

5. AI-Specific Disclosures

Your conversations with the AI Teacher are processed by Anthropic's Claude API. Anthropic does not use API inputs or outputs to train their models. Your conversations are not shared with other users.

Before your first message to the Teacher, ScriptureVerse asks your permission to send your content to the AI services listed above, and says what each one receives. Nothing you write to the Teacher, in a devotional, or about yourself is sent to them until you agree. If that list changes, we ask again. You can withdraw your agreement in Settings at any time; the Teacher then stops until you agree again.

Search works without that permission. On the website, the words you type into search are sent to OpenAI to find matching passages, without your name, email or account. In the ScriptureVerse app, search runs on your phone and sends nothing.

The AI Teacher may extract and store memories from your conversations (such as your name, denomination, spiritual interests, or what you are praying about) to provide personalized responses in future sessions, and once a week writes a short summary of your growth from them. When you ask it to remember something, or ask for prayer about something, it keeps that as a memory at once. Each memory is one short line. Once there are more than 50, the ones it learned on its own and has used least are deleted as described below. For each extraction we record how much text the AI model read and wrote, counted in tokens, and what that cost, never what was said. In the ScriptureVerse app, Profile, What your Teacher remembers lists them and lets you delete any one of them or all of them. On the website, Settings, What your Teacher remembers turns memory off or deletes them all; to delete one there, write to privacy@scriptureverse.app. The Teacher stops using a memory as soon as you delete it, including your name, and the note's words are erased from our live database at once: what it said, the history of its changes and its search data. We keep only a marker of the note: its kind (for example an interest or a struggle), where it came from, how sure the Teacher was, when it was made and deleted, if it was your name or tradition, that it was one, and a record that it was deleted and why, in our own fixed wording, never your words. Copies made before you deleted it, in our database provider's encrypted backups and in the records of our background jobs, are not changed and run out on those services' own schedules. Your conversations with the Teacher and the name and tradition in your profile are kept separately and are not changed by deleting a memory: the Teacher keeps following the tradition in your profile, which you change in your tradition setting. Deleting your account removes everything.

6. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored on servers in the United States via Supabase cloud services. We implement industry-standard security measures including encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest, parameterized database queries, and access controls. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

7. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Correct inaccurate personal data
  • Delete your account and associated data, in the app or on the website
  • Export your conversation history and journey data
  • See and delete the AI-stored memories about you
  • Withdraw your agreement to AI use, in Settings

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@scriptureverse.app.

8. Cookies and Tracking

We use essential cookies for authentication and session management. We do not use third-party advertising cookies, and the ScriptureVerse app does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

The ScriptureVerse app sends a short, fixed list of product events to PostHog (see section 4), linked to an account code, so we can see where people get stuck and how many study each week. If the app crashes, it sends PostHog a crash report with the kind of error and where in the app's code it happened. These events and reports never contain what you write.

9. Deleting Your Account

You can delete your account at any time: in the ScriptureVerse app under Profile, Delete account, in your account settings on the website, or by writing to privacy@scriptureverse.app. This deletes your account and everything in it from our database and file storage, and asks PostHog and RevenueCat to delete what they hold about you. Stripe and Apple keep the records of payments they processed, as the law requires. Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription: cancel it in your Apple ID settings.

10. Children's Privacy

ScriptureVerse is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected such information, please contact us immediately.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the effective date. Your continued use of the platform after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

12. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at privacy@scriptureverse.app.