Privacy Policy

The short version

There is no account, no sign-up, no login, and no email required to use Bible Journal. We don’t build a profile of you, and we don’t track you across apps or websites.

Your journal entries live only on your device. Reading the Bible, browsing theme collections, and writing in your journal all work offline, with no network connection at all.

The only time anything leaves your device is when you choose to use an AI feature. In that moment we send the specific text you’re working with over an encrypted connection so it can be processed, and we send back Bible verse references and a little framing text. We don’t store what you sent.

What stays on your device

Your journal entries are stored only on your own phone or tablet. They are never uploaded to us, never stored on our servers, and never shared with anyone unless you choose to share them yourself.

The complete Bible text and all of its translations are bundled inside the app and read directly from your device. Browsing scripture and our curated theme collections never sends anything anywhere.

Your app settings, such as your chosen theme, reading font, and translations, are also kept only on your device. They help the app feel like yours, and they stay with you locally.

What happens when you use an AI feature

Bible Journal offers a few optional AI features: finding relevant verses for something you’ve written (which includes sensing the mood or feeling in your words, so the verses fit what you’re actually carrying), searching scripture in plain language, and explaining a verse you’ve selected. These features only run when you choose to use them.

When you do, we send the specific text involved over a secure, encrypted (HTTPS) connection: the journal entry text you’re reflecting on, the search words you typed, or the verse and its reference that you selected. We send that to our own backend, which passes it along to OpenAI’s API to compute a helpful result.

What comes back to you is Bible verse references (like “John 3:16”) and short framing or explanation text for your personal reflection. The text you sent is used to produce that answer in the moment, and it is not saved by us afterward.

Our servers and logs

Our backend is a stateless relay. It does not write your journal text to disk, and it does not keep your entries. It exists only to safely pass an AI request along and hand the result back to you.

Like most internet services, our servers keep basic technical logs to keep things running and to spot problems. These logs record request metadata such as the method, the path, the response status, and how long the request took. They do not record the contents of your journal entries or your AI requests.

OpenAI, our AI partner

OpenAI is the subprocessor that powers our AI features through its API. When you use one of these features, the relevant text is processed by OpenAI to generate the verse references and framing you receive.

Under OpenAI’s current API data-usage policy, data sent through the API is not used to train their models, and it is retained only for a limited period for abuse monitoring. That policy is set and controlled by OpenAI and can change over time, so for the authoritative, up-to-date details we encourage you to read OpenAI’s own published API data-usage policy.

We’ve chosen to work with OpenAI in a way that keeps your involvement minimal: we pass along only what’s needed to answer your request, and nothing is tied to an account, because there are no accounts.

Working offline

Bible Journal is designed to be useful even with no signal. Because the full Bible and all translations are bundled in the app, you can read scripture, explore theme collections, and write in your journal entirely offline.

A network connection is only needed for the optional AI features, since those rely on processing your request. Everything else simply works, anywhere, with nothing leaving your device.

Subscriptions and billing

Bible Journal+ is an optional subscription. Purchases are handled entirely by the Apple App Store or Google Play, depending on your device.

We never see or receive your payment-card details. The app stores manage billing, renewals, cancellations, and refunds; the app only checks whether your subscription is currently active so it can unlock the right features.

Any questions about charges, renewals, or refunds are handled through your App Store or Google Play account settings, under the terms and privacy practices of those stores.

No analytics, no ads, no tracking

We do not use third-party analytics SDKs, advertising, or tracking pixels. There is no cross-app tracking, and we do not build advertising profiles.

We do not sell your data, and we don’t have journal data to sell in the first place, because it never leaves your device. A calm, private place to reflect shouldn’t come with someone watching over your shoulder, and this one doesn’t.

Children

Bible Journal is not directed to children. It isn’t intended for children under 13 — or the minimum age of digital consent in your country, where that age is higher. In practice, the app processes essentially no personal data, since there are no accounts and your journal stays on your device.

If you are a parent or guardian and have questions about your child’s use of the app, please reach out to us at limesdevelopment@gmail.com.

Your control and your rights

Because your journal entries live only on your device, you are always in control of them. You can edit or delete your entries at any time, and deleting the app removes the journal data stored on that device.

We don’t hold an account or a stored copy of your entries to look up, correct, or export on your behalf, because we never receive them. Depending on where you live, you may have privacy rights regarding personal data; given how little we process, those mostly translate to the control you already have on your own device, but you’re always welcome to contact us with questions.

If you choose to use AI features, you control when that happens. If you’d rather keep everything fully offline, you can simply not use those features.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example if we add a feature or need to explain something more clearly. When we make a meaningful change, we’ll update the effective date shown below.

This policy is effective as of May 31, 2026. We encourage you to revisit it now and then so you always know how Bible Journal treats your information.

How to contact us

If you have a question, a concern, or just want to understand something about your privacy in Bible Journal, we’d genuinely like to hear from you.

You can reach us at limesdevelopment@gmail.com, and we’ll do our best to help.