Privacy Policy — Declare Bible

The short version

Who we are. Declare Bible is made by Joelior Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. We are responsible for your personal data.
What we collect. Your account details, what you create in the app (declarations, prayers, reflections, notes, chats), how you use the app, and technical information about your device.
Faith is sensitive. Much of what you write in Declare Bible reveals your religious beliefs. The law treats that as special, and so do we.
We do not sell your personal data. Your prayers, reflections and chats are never used for advertising, and never used to train AI models.
Your data is stored in the United Kingdom. Some of the services we use are in other countries, with legal safeguards.
Some features use AI services. Bible Chat and personalised declarations send what you write to OpenAI to produce a reply.
Every service we use is listed, with what it receives, in Third-party services.
You are in control. You can see, correct, download or delete your data, and delete your account from inside the app.

1. Who we are

Declare Bible (the "app", and together with our website declarebible.com, the "Services") is provided by Joelior Limited, company number 16244636, registered in England and Wales, with its registered office at 9 Dorwood Avenue, Manchester, M9 0RS, United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our").

We are the controller of your personal data: we decide why and how it is used.

For privacy questions and requests — including from users in India, for whom our privacy team is the point of contact for grievances — email [email protected].

This policy covers the Declare Bible apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, and our website. Where something applies only to the current version of the app, or only from Declare Bible 2.0, we say so. The companies whose services we use have their own policies, linked in section 6.

2. The information we collect

2.1 Your account

Sign-in details.
- With email: your email address, and a securely hashed password.
- With Apple, Google or Facebook: what they share with us — usually your name, email address and an account identifier. If you use Apple's "Hide My Email", we receive a relay address instead of your real one.
Guest accounts. You can use parts of the app without signing in. We still create an anonymous account so your progress is kept.
Profile. Your name or display name, username, profile photo or chosen avatar, language, time zone and app preferences.
Onboarding answers. What you tell us when you set up the app — for example, what you hope to grow in, and when you would like reminders — so the app can suit you.

2.2 What you create in the app

Faith content.
- Declarations you save or create, prayers, reflections and journal entries.
- How you are feeling when you check in.
- Notes, highlights, bookmarks and reading history.
- Fasting records, streaks and quiz results.
Bible Chat. The questions you ask, and the replies you receive.
Voice input. If you speak instead of typing, your device's own speech recognition turns it into text: Apple's speech recognition on iPhone, on the device whenever your device supports it, and your phone's speech service on Android. We receive only the text, never the recording.
Community.
- Circles you create or join, and your role in them.
- Messages you send in a circle.
- Prayer requests, encouragements and reactions.
- Prayer campaigns you create or join.
- People you block or report.
Gifts and invitations.
- If you buy a gift of Premium: the recipient's name, your name as the sender, and any message you write.
- If you invite someone, or are invited: the invitation or referral code, so we can credit it.
Support and feedback. What you send us when you contact us, or leave feedback in the app.

2.3 Purchases

When you subscribe or buy a gift, Apple or Google take the payment. We never receive your card or bank details. We do receive what we need to give you access: the product you bought, whether you are on a free trial, when your subscription renews or ends, refunds, and a transaction identifier.

2.4 Information collected automatically

Device and app. Device model, operating system, app version, language, time zone, and identifiers the app creates for your installation.
Approximate country. We work out your likely country from your device's time zone and from your IP address. We use it:
- to choose a Bible translation to start you on;
- to decide which offers, such as free trials, are available where you are;
- to understand where our readers are.
We do not collect your precise location.
Usage. Which features you use, when you open and close the app, and events such as finishing a declaration or starting a subscription.
Diagnostics. Our servers record requests and errors, including IP address, to keep the Services running and secure. The current version of the app also sends crash reports and error details to the diagnostic services listed in section 6, which can include your account identifier and IP address so a problem can be traced.
Notifications. A push token from Apple or Google, so reminders reach your device, and the reminder times you choose.
Advertising identifier. Your device's advertising identifier, for advertising measurement — see TikTok.

2.5 Things that stay on your device

Some features work entirely on your phone. We never receive what they see:

Prayer Lock.
- iPhone: it uses Apple's Screen Time, which does not tell us which apps you choose or open.
- Android: it uses an accessibility service and usage access to notice when you open an app on your list. The app's name is compared with your list on your phone, and is never stored or sent to us.
Your music library. If you save songs to your library, the app writes them to your device. We do not read your library.
Your photos and camera. The app only sees the photo you choose for your profile.

3. Your faith and other sensitive information

What you write in Declare Bible can reveal sensitive things about you:

Your religious beliefs — prayers, declarations, reflections, chats.
Your health — how you feel when you check in, or details of a fast.

Data protection laws in the UK, the European Union, Brazil and elsewhere give this kind of information extra protection. Here is how we treat it:

Only to provide what you use. We keep and process it so the features you choose work for you. Where the law requires your explicit consent, we rely on the consent you give when you choose to add this information to Declare Bible. You can withdraw it at any time by deleting the content, or your account.
Never for advertising. None of it is shared with TikTok, or with anyone else for advertising.
Never sold, and never used to train AI models.
Shared only when you choose. If you post a prayer request to the community, others will see it. You decide that each time.

Please don't put other people's sensitive information, such as someone else's health condition, into prayer requests you share without their agreement.

4. How we use your information, and why we are allowed to

UK and EU law require a legal reason — a "lawful basis" — for each use of personal data.

To provide the Services you asked for (contract):
- creating and running your account, and syncing your content between devices;
- providing the features you use, including Bible Chat, personalised declarations and audio;
- showing what you choose to share to others in circles, campaigns and the community, and translating it for readers of other languages;
- processing subscriptions, trials, gifts, refunds and referral credits.
With your explicit consent: storing and processing your faith content, Bible Chat conversations and feelings check-ins — see section 3.
With your consent: sending reminders and notifications you have turned on, which you control in your device settings; and advertising measurement where the law requires consent — see TikTok.
For our legitimate interests, which we have weighed against your rights:
- understanding how the Services are used, and fixing problems;
- deciding which offers and trials are available in each country;
- measuring whether our advertising works, where consent is not required;
- keeping the Services and our community safe, preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our Terms of Use.
To meet our legal obligations: keeping financial records, and responding to lawful requests from authorities.

You can object to any use based on our legitimate interests — see section 10.

We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects. Offers that vary by country, and content suggested for you, do not have such effects.

5. AI features

Some features send text to AI service providers, who produce a result for us:

Bible Chat — your question, and your recent messages in the same conversation so the reply follows what you have been discussing. Sent to OpenAI.
Personalised declarations — the verse and themes you choose. Sent to OpenAI.
Community translation — prayer requests and encouragements, so readers in other languages can understand them. Sent to OpenAI.
Spoken audio — the text of declarations and verses to be read aloud. Sent to OpenAI and ElevenLabs. Your prayers, reflections and Bible Chat conversations are never sent to ElevenLabs.

What happens to it:

No names attached. We send the text alone — not your name, email address or account identifier.
Not used for training. OpenAI does not use content sent through its API to train its models, and keeps it for up to 30 days to detect abuse before deleting it.
Where replies are kept. Bible Chat conversations are stored in your account so you can come back to them, until you delete your account.

AI can be wrong. Replies are generated, not written by a pastor or a scholar. Please test what you read against Scripture and seek wise counsel — see our Terms of Use.

6. Third-party services

We use the following third-party services to run Declare Bible. Each receives only what it needs for the purpose shown. Where a service acts on our behalf, it may use your data only on our instructions.

Supabase

Purpose: our database, accounts, file storage and server functions — where your account and what you create in the app are kept.
Data shared: account and profile details; everything you create in the app, including faith content, Bible Chat, community posts and gifts; purchase status; IP address.
Where: London, United Kingdom.
Privacy policy: https://supabase.com/privacy

OpenAI

Purpose: Bible Chat replies, personalised declarations, translation of community posts, and spoken audio — see section 5.
Data shared: the text of your questions and recent Bible Chat messages; the verse and themes you choose for a declaration; prayer requests and encouragements to be translated; text to be read aloud. No name, email address or account identifier.
Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies/

ElevenLabs

Purpose: spoken audio of declarations and verses.
Data shared: the text of declarations and verses to be read aloud — never your prayers, reflections or Bible Chat conversations.
Privacy policy: https://elevenlabs.io/privacy-policy

RevenueCat

Purpose: managing subscriptions and purchases across the App Store and Google Play.
Data shared: your Declare Bible account identifier; purchase and subscription history; device and app information; approximate country.
Privacy policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy

Superwall

Purpose: presenting subscription offers in the app. Used in the current version of the app.
Data shared: your Declare Bible account identifier; device and app information; which offers you see and how you respond.
Privacy policy: https://superwall.com/legal/privacy-policy

PostHog

Purpose: understanding how the app and website are used so we can improve them, and turning features on or off for groups of readers. The current version of the app also uses it for in-app surveys and error reports. The app and the website use separate PostHog projects.
Data shared:
- App: your Declare Bible account identifier and how you signed in; features used and screens visited; when you open and close the app; survey answers you choose to give; error details; device and app information; IP address, used to estimate your approximate location.
- Website: the page visited, the website language and which download button was used. Nothing is stored on your device, and pages that handle sign-in, invitations and gifts are never measured.
Where: United States for the app; European Union for the website.
Privacy policy: https://posthog.com/privacy

TikTok

Purpose: measuring whether our advertising on TikTok leads people to install and subscribe to Declare Bible.
Data shared: app events such as installing, signing up and subscribing; device information and IP address; your device's advertising identifier; and your Declare Bible account identifier, name and email address, which TikTok uses to match activity to its own accounts. TikTok is also a controller of this information, under its own privacy policy.
Your choices:
- From Declare Bible 2.0: nothing is sent to TikTok unless you allow it. On iPhone the app uses Apple's tracking permission; on Android the app asks you once. You can change your answer at any time — on iPhone in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, and on Android in the app's settings.
- In the current version: on iPhone, choosing Ask App Not to Track stops TikTok receiving your device's advertising identifier. On Android, you can delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings, under Google → Ads or Privacy → Ads. In either case, to stop your account details being shared with TikTok, email [email protected] and we will do so.
Privacy policy: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/privacy-policy/en

Google Firebase

Purpose: delivering reminders and notifications. In the current version of the app, also analytics, crash reporting and remote configuration of app settings. From Declare Bible 2.0, notifications only.
Data shared: a push token for your device and the notification content; in the current version, also app events, crash reports and device information.
Privacy policy: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Sentry

Purpose: error and crash reporting, so we can find and fix problems. Used in the current version of the app.
Data shared: error details, device and app information, your Declare Bible account identifier and IP address.
Privacy policy: https://sentry.io/privacy/

Google Cloud

Purpose: storing diagnostic logs from the app. Used in the current version of the app.
Data shared: technical log messages from the app, which can include your account identifier.
Privacy policy: https://cloud.google.com/terms/cloud-privacy-notice

Apple

Purpose: Sign in with Apple, App Store purchases, and notifications to iPhone.
Data shared: what you choose to share when signing in; purchase information; a push token.
Privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

Google

Purpose: Sign in with Google, and Google Play purchases.
Data shared: what you choose to share when signing in; purchase information.
Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Purpose: signing in with Facebook, if you choose it.
Data shared: the sign-in request, and device information Meta's software needs to complete it. Meta shares your name, email address and Facebook account identifier with us. In the current version of the app, Meta's software also receives app launch events and device information from all users. From Declare Bible 2.0, that is switched off, and Meta receives nothing from readers who don't sign in with Facebook.
Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Cloudflare

Purpose: delivering the app's images, audio and Bible files quickly and securely, and protecting and measuring our website.
Data shared: IP address and technical details of each request; on our website, page views, referring websites, approximate country and page performance. Cloudflare's website analytics stores nothing on your device, and is switched off on pages that handle sign-in, invitations and gifts.
Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

We do not sell your personal data. Beyond the services above, we share it only in these cases.

7.1 With other people using Declare Bible

What you choose to share is visible to others:

your name, username and photo, where you take part in the community;
messages in circles, visible to the circle's members;
prayer requests, encouragements and campaign activity you post, visible to the people you shared them with;
your participation on community boards, such as declarations completed;
when you send a gift, your name and message, which the recipient sees.

7.2 When the law requires it, or to protect people

We may disclose information if we must by law or to respond to a valid legal request; to protect the rights, safety or property of our users, the public or us; or to prevent fraud or abuse.

7.3 If our business changes

If Joelior Limited is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, your information may transfer as part of it. It will remain protected by this policy, or one at least as protective, and we will tell you before that happens.

8. International transfers

Your account and what you create in the app are stored in the United Kingdom. Several of the services in section 6 are in the United States or elsewhere. When your personal data is transferred out of the UK or the European Economic Area to a country without an adequacy decision, we rely on a recognised safeguard, such as:

the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, or UK Addendum;
the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses;
the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension, where the recipient is certified.

You can ask us for more information about these safeguards at [email protected].

9. How long we keep information

We keep personal data only as long as we need it:

Your account, profile and content — until you delete it, or your account.
Bible Chat conversations — until you delete your account.
Purchase and gift records — for as long as tax and accounting laws require.
Diagnostic information and analytics — for limited periods, set in each service's retention settings, and then deleted.
Support messages — for as long as we need them to help you, and to show how a request was handled.

When you delete your account:

Our systems. Your account, profile, content, Bible Chat conversations, circle messages, prayer activity, campaigns you own and referral records are deleted from our database straight away. Copies in our encrypted backups are removed as those backups are replaced.
Third-party services. Copies they hold are deleted under their own retention periods.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have some or all of these rights:

Access — get a copy of your personal data.
Correction — fix information that is wrong or incomplete.
Deletion — have your data deleted.
Portability — receive your data in a common format, or have it sent to someone else.
Objection — object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
Restriction — ask us to limit how we use your data.
Withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting what we did before.
Complain to a data protection authority — see below.

How to use them:

In the app: edit your profile and content, change notification and tracking permissions, and delete your account in Settings → Account → Delete Account.
By email: write to [email protected]. We may need to confirm your identity first. We reply within one month, or sooner where local law requires. Using your rights is free.

We would like the chance to help first, but you can also complain to your local authority:

UK: the Information Commissioner's Office — ico.org.uk
EEA: the authority in your country — edpb.europa.eu
Brazil: the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD)
India: the Data Protection Board of India, after first contacting our privacy team

11. Children

Declare Bible is not meant for children. You must be at least 16 to use it, and in India you must be 18 unless a parent or guardian has agreed.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under those ages. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact [email protected] and we will delete it.

12. Region-specific information

United Kingdom, European Economic Area and Switzerland

Sections 3, 4, 8 and 10 set out the legal bases, safeguards and rights that UK and EU data protection law require.

United States

Some US states give residents specific rights over their personal data. Depending on your state, you have the right to:

Know and access what personal information we collect, use and disclose, and get a copy.
Correct and delete it.
Opt out of "sale", "sharing" for targeted advertising, and profiling. We do not sell personal information. Our advertising measurement with TikTok may count as "sharing" or "targeted advertising", and you can opt out as described in TikTok.
Limit sensitive information. We use yours only to provide the Services.
Appeal — if we decline your request, reply to our decision and we will review it.

We will not treat you differently for using these rights. An authorised agent can make a request for you with your written permission.

The categories we collect, described in section 2, are: identifiers; customer records; commercial information (purchases); internet and device activity; approximate location; inferences (preferences); and sensitive personal information (religious beliefs, and information about your wellbeing).

Brazil

Under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), your religious beliefs and health information are sensitive personal data. You have the rights in section 10, and also the right to be told which organisations we share your data with, and what happens if you do not give consent.

India

We process your digital personal data under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, with your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. You have the rights to access, correct and erase your data; to nominate someone to exercise your rights if you die or become incapacitated; and to grievance redressal through our privacy team (section 1) before approaching the Data Protection Board of India.

Other countries

Wherever you live, you can contact us to access, correct or delete your data, and we will help within the time your local law allows.

13. Security

We protect your information with:

encryption in transit, and encryption at rest by our hosting providers;
access limited to the people and systems that need it;
gift redemption links stored only as a secure hash, never as the link itself.

No service can be perfectly secure. If a breach puts your rights at risk, we will tell you and the relevant authorities as the law requires.

14. Changes to this policy

We will update this policy when our Services or the law change. For significant changes, we will tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. The date at the top always shows when it last changed.

15. Contact us

Joelior Limited
9 Dorwood Avenue, Manchester, M9 0RS, United Kingdom
[email protected]