Terms of Use

Last Updated: September 15, 2026

The short version

  • Declare Bible is a devotional app. It is not a substitute for a pastor, a doctor, a counsellor or emergency help.
  • AI features can make mistakes. Test what you read against Scripture.
  • Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in your App Store or Google Play settings. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google.
  • What you write is yours. We only use it to run Declare Bible for you.
  • Treat people in the community with love and respect. We may remove content or accounts that break our community rules.
  • If you live in the UK, the EU or another country with consumer protection laws, nothing here takes away your rights under those laws.

1. About these terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Joelior Limited, company number 16244636, registered in England and Wales, of 9 Dorwood Avenue, Manchester, M9 0RS, United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our"). They cover your use of the Declare Bible apps and our website declarebible.com (the "Services").

By creating an account or using the Services, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Services.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal data, and forms part of these Terms.

2. Who can use Declare Bible

  • You must be at least 16, and in India you must be 18 unless a parent or guardian has agreed.
  • If you are under the age of majority where you live, you confirm that a parent or guardian has agreed to these Terms for you.
  • You must not be barred from using the Services under the laws that apply to you.

3. Your account

  • Keep your details accurate and your sign-in secure. You are responsible for what happens in your account.
  • Tell us straight away at [email protected] if you think someone else has used it.
  • Guest accounts. If you use Declare Bible without signing in, your content is tied to that device. If you delete the app or lose the device before signing in, we may not be able to recover it.
  • One account per person. Please don't create accounts on someone else's behalf without their permission.
  • Deleting your account. You can do this at any time in Settings → Account → Delete Account. Deleting it does not cancel a subscription — see section 6.

4. What Declare Bible is, and isn't

Declare Bible helps you read Scripture, speak declarations, pray and grow in faith alongside others. It is offered for devotional and informational purposes.

  • Not professional advice. Nothing in the Services is medical, psychological, legal, financial or pastoral advice, or a substitute for it. Declarations about healing or provision are expressions of faith, not a promise of any particular outcome.
  • If you are in crisis. If you are thinking about harming yourself or someone else, or are in danger, contact your local emergency services now, or a crisis line where you live. Declare Bible cannot respond to emergencies.
  • Fasting. Talk to a doctor before fasting if you are pregnant, have a medical condition or take medication. Stop if you feel unwell.
  • Theology. Christians hold a range of views. Content in the app reflects particular understandings of Scripture, which you are free to weigh for yourself.

5. AI features

Some features use artificial intelligence, including Bible Chat, personalised declarations, translations of community posts and spoken audio.

  • AI can be wrong. It can misquote or misapply Scripture, reflect bias, or sound more certain than it should. It is not a pastor and does not know you or your circumstances. Check what matters against the Bible itself, and seek counsel from people you trust.
  • Be careful what you share. Don't put information into Bible Chat that you would not want processed by our AI providers — for example, other people's private details. Our Privacy Policy explains what is sent and to whom.
  • What you receive. You may use AI replies and generated declarations for your own personal and devotional purposes. The same or similar content may be produced for other people.
  • Music and audio. Songs and audio made for you in the app are for your personal listening. You may not sell them, or distribute them as your own work.

6. Subscriptions and purchases

6.1 Premium

Some features need a paid subscription ("Premium"). What Premium includes, the price and the billing period are shown before you buy. Prices can differ between countries and include any taxes the store applies.

6.2 Buying through Apple and Google

Purchases are made through the Apple App Store or Google Play, and are also governed by their terms. They take the payment, not us.

6.3 Automatic renewal

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price then in effect, until you cancel.

  • To cancel, do so at least 24 hours before the renewal date, in your store settings:
    • iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions
    • Android: Google Play → Profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions
  • What cancelling does. It stops the next renewal. You keep Premium until the end of the period you have paid for.
  • Deleting the app or your account does not cancel your subscription.

6.4 Free trials

We may offer a free trial, which may be available only in some countries or to new subscribers. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, it becomes a paid subscription, and the store charges you then.

6.5 Price changes

If the price of your subscription goes up, Apple or Google will tell you in advance. Where the law or the store requires it, the new price applies only if you agree. If you don't, the subscription ends at the end of the current period.

6.6 Refunds

Refunds are decided by Apple or Google under their policies, and we cannot issue them ourselves:

Nothing in these Terms affects any refund rights you have under consumer law.

6.7 Your right to cancel in the UK and EU

If you live in the UK or the European Union, you normally have 14 days to cancel a purchase of digital content or services.

  • When the right ends early. When you buy Premium, you ask for access to start straight away, and agree that this right ends once it does.
  • What stays. Your rights if the Services are faulty or not as described are unaffected.

6.8 If we change Premium

We may change which features are included in Premium. If a change makes Premium significantly worse for you, we will tell you in advance, and you can cancel.

7. Gifts of Premium

You can buy one year of Premium as a gift for someone else.

  • It does not renew. It lasts for the period shown when you buy it.
  • The link is the gift. Anyone who has the link can redeem it, once. Share it only with the person you mean it for. We cannot replace a gift that someone else has already redeemed.
  • Your message. The recipient sees your name and any message you write. Please make sure it is something you are happy for them, and anyone they show it to, to read.
  • Redeeming. A gift is redeemed in the Declare Bible app, with an account. It can't be redeemed on an account that already has Premium, so no one loses days they have already paid for. The link keeps working, so it can be redeemed once that Premium has ended.
  • Refunds. A gift purchase is refunded through Apple or Google like any other purchase. If it is refunded, the gift is cancelled, and Premium ends for whoever redeemed it.
  • No resale. Gifts cannot be sold, or exchanged for cash.

8. Invitations and referrals

If we offer rewards for inviting others, the details are shown in the app.

  • We may end or change a referral offer at any time, without affecting rewards already earned.
  • We may withhold or remove rewards gained by fraud, by creating accounts for yourself, or by spamming people who didn't ask to hear from you.

9. The community

Circles, campaigns, prayer requests, encouragements and community boards exist so believers can carry each other.

9.1 Community rules

When you take part, you agree not to post or send anything that:

  • harasses, bullies, threatens, shames or intimidates anyone;
  • attacks people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age, or for their faith or lack of it;
  • is sexual, graphic or violent, or involves the exploitation of children in any way;
  • encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorders;
  • is false or misleading in a way that could cause harm, or impersonates anyone — including claiming a church role or authority you do not have;
  • shares someone else's private information, including a prayer request they shared in confidence, without their permission;
  • asks for money, promotes a business, or spams — including through campaigns;
  • is illegal, or infringes anyone's copyright or other rights.

9.2 Circles and campaigns

  • Owners set the tone. If you create a circle or campaign, you are responsible for how it is run, and for removing members who break these rules.
  • Keep what you're told in confidence. What is shared in a circle is shared with its members. Please keep it there.

9.3 Reporting and blocking

  • Blocking. You can block people in the app.
  • Reporting. You can report content or people in the app where that option is shown, or by emailing [email protected]. We review reports, and act on those that break these Terms.
  • If someone may be at risk. If you believe someone is in danger, please contact local emergency services. Don't rely on a report to us.

9.4 What we may do

We do not review everything posted, but we may remove or hide content, limit features, suspend or close accounts that break these rules, and report illegal content to the authorities. Where it is appropriate and safe, we will tell you why, and you can ask us to reconsider by replying to that message.

10. Your content

  • What you create stays yours. That includes your declarations, prayers, reflections, notes, messages and posts ("your content").
  • The permission you give us. To run the Services, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, process, translate, display and deliver your content. We use it only to provide Declare Bible to you and to the people you share with.
  • When the licence ends. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies held in our backups until they are replaced.
  • What we don't do. We don't sell your content, and we don't use it to train AI models.
  • Your promise. You confirm that you have the right to post your content, and that it follows these Terms.

11. Our content and intellectual property

  • Ours. The Services — software, design, artwork, audio, music, the Declare Bible name and logo, and the content we write — belong to us or the people who licensed them to us.
  • Bible translations. They belong to their publishers, and are used under licence.
  • What you may do. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Services on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use.
  • Sharing. Sharing verses and declarations through the app's share features is encouraged, within the limits the translation publishers allow.
  • Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything. You don't have to send any.

12. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • copy, sell, rent or redistribute the Services or their content, including Bible text, except through the app's own sharing features;
  • reverse engineer, decompile or try to extract the source code of the apps, except where the law allows it;
  • scrape, harvest or bulk-download content or data, including with automated tools;
  • get around paywalls, security or usage limits, or access accounts or systems you aren't allowed to;
  • interfere with the Services, or with other people's use of them;
  • use Bible Chat or other AI features to create content that breaks these Terms or the law, or to build a competing product;
  • use the Services to break the law.

13. Prayer Lock

Prayer Lock lets you choose apps to hold back until you have said a declaration.

  • How it works. It uses Apple's Screen Time on iPhone, and an accessibility service and usage access on Android, which you turn on yourself and can turn off at any time.
  • Emergencies. Don't add apps you may need in an emergency to your list. If you need an app urgently, you can switch Prayer Lock off in the app or in your device settings.
  • Its limits. It depends on your device's operating system, which can change or limit how it works. We cannot guarantee that it will hold back every app, every time.

14. Other services

  • Sign-in and purchases. Signing in with Apple, Google or Facebook, and buying through the App Store or Google Play, are governed by those companies' own terms.
  • Links. The Services may link to websites or services we don't control. We aren't responsible for them.

15. Apps downloaded from the Apple App Store

If you got the app from Apple's App Store, you and we agree that:

  • Who is responsible. These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for the app and its content.
  • Your licence. Your licence is to use the app on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as the App Store's Usage Rules allow.
  • Support. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
  • Warranty claims. If the app fails to meet an applicable warranty, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price you paid for it. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
  • Other claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for any claims about the app, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
  • Intellectual property. We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and dealing with claims that the app infringes someone's intellectual property rights.
  • Legal compliance. You confirm you are not in a country under a US Government embargo, or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
  • Third-party terms. You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use the app.
  • Apple's rights. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and may enforce them against you.

16. Suspending or ending your use

  • You can stop any time. Delete your account in the app, and cancel any subscription in your store settings.
  • When we may suspend or close your account. If you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, if we must by law, or if your use puts other people or the Services at risk. Where it is reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put things right.
  • If we close Declare Bible. We will give you reasonable notice, and help you seek a refund through Apple or Google for any period of Premium you have paid for but can no longer use.

Sections 10, 11, 17, 18 and 20 continue to apply after your use ends.

17. Disclaimers

We work hard to keep Declare Bible accurate, available and safe, but we provide it "as is" and "as available".

  • What we don't promise. To the extent the law allows, we make no promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful components, or that content — including AI-generated content — is accurate or complete.
  • Content you can't afford to lose. Keep your own copy of it.

If you are a consumer in the UK or EU, you have legal rights that these Terms cannot take away, including that digital content and services are of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose, as described, and supplied with reasonable care and skill.

18. Our liability to you

  • What we are always responsible for. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law — including your statutory rights as a consumer.
  • Foreseeable loss. We are not responsible for loss or damage that was not foreseeable when you started using the Services, or for loss caused by events outside our reasonable control.
  • Personal use only. Declare Bible is for personal, non-commercial use. We are not liable to you for loss of profit, business or business opportunity.
  • The cap. Subject to the above, our total liability to you for all claims about the Services is limited to the greater of what you paid us for the Services in the 12 months before the claim arose, or £100.

19. Changes to the Services and to these Terms

  • The Services. We are always improving Declare Bible, so features may change or be removed. We won't make changes that reduce what you have paid for without telling you, as section 6.8 explains.
  • These Terms. We may update them to reflect changes to the Services or the law. For significant changes, we will tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect, unless the change is needed sooner for legal or safety reasons.
  • If you don't agree. You can stop using the Services, and cancel your subscription, before the change takes effect.

20. Governing law and disputes

  • Talk to us first. Contact [email protected]. Most concerns can be sorted out quickly.
  • Governing law. These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
    • In the UK: you can bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, or in the courts of Scotland or Northern Ireland if you live there.
    • Outside the UK: you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live, and can bring proceedings in your local courts where those laws allow it.
  • In the EU: you may also be able to use an out-of-court dispute resolution body in your country.

21. General

  • The whole agreement. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Services.
  • If part fails. If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.
  • Delay. If we don't enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later.
  • Transfers. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation. If we do, your rights won't be reduced. You may not transfer yours.
  • Third parties. Apple, as section 15 says, is the only one who can enforce these Terms besides you and us.
  • Language. If these Terms are translated, the English version applies where the two differ, unless your local law says otherwise.

22. Contact us

Joelior Limited
9 Dorwood Avenue, Manchester, M9 0RS, United Kingdom