BiblioRata (“we”, “us”) is a Bible reading, study and preaching app. This policy covers the website at bibliorata.com and the BiblioRata apps for Android and iPhone, which show the same service. We collect only what the app needs to work, we never sell your data, and we don’t show ads.
1. What we collect
You can read the Bible, compare translations and use most study tools without an account. If you create one, we store:
- Account: your email address and your password, stored only as a secure hash (we never see the password itself), plus your display preferences such as theme and text size.
- Your study content: studies, the passages open in them, notes, highlights and highlight notes, reading plans and the days you finish, plan reflections, and preach queues (songs, thoughts and any pictures you upload for them).
- Sign-in sessions: the IP address and browser or app version of each sign-in, so you stay signed in. Sessions expire after 30 days.
- Testimonials: if you choose to leave a testimonial or a rating, we store what you write. If we publish a testimonial on our home page, it is shown with the part of your email address before the “@”.
Without an account, a study you work on is kept on our server and linked to your browser or app by a cookie.
Information collected automatically:
- Server logs: your IP address, browser or app version and the pages you request, kept for security and troubleshooting. The text of your notes and of your AI questions is filtered out of these logs.
- Error reports: when something breaks, a technical report of the error may be sent to our error-monitoring service. We configure it not to include your email address, IP address, cookies or what you typed.
- On your device: Bibles you download for offline reading, and settings such as your theme, are stored in your browser or app on your device.
We do not use advertising, analytics or tracking tools, and we don’t collect your location, contacts, photos library, microphone or camera. The only pictures we receive are ones you choose to upload.
2. How we use it
- To provide the app: save your studies, notes, highlights and plans and show them on every device you sign in on.
- To run the features you ask for, such as AI study help, audio Bible, sharing and live follow-along.
- To send you emails you request, such as a password reset.
- To keep the service secure, prevent abuse and fix problems.
3. AI features
The AI tools (the Rabbi, Find a Verse, quick search, chapter prayers, diagrams and illustrations) need an account. When you use one, the passage you selected, the surrounding chapter and the text you typed are sent to an AI provider (Google Gemini, OpenAI or Abacus.AI) to produce the answer. Some answers are cached so a repeated question doesn’t need another call. Please don’t put personal or confidential information into AI questions.
4. What others can see
Your studies, notes and highlights are private to you. Some things become visible to others only when you choose: a study you share by link, a passage or prayer you share, and a live session you start (anyone with the link or QR code can follow it). A published testimonial is visible on our home page.
5. Who we share it with
We don’t sell or rent your data and we don’t share it for advertising. We use these service providers to run BiblioRata, and each gets only what it needs:
- Hosting and security: our servers and database (Hetzner, in the EU), and Cloudflare, which protects and speeds up the site.
- Image storage: Cloudinary stores pictures you upload to a preach queue.
- AI providers: Google, OpenAI and Abacus.AI, as described above. Google and OpenAI also turn Scripture text into speech for the audio Bible; no personal data is sent for that.
- Email: an email delivery provider sends password-reset emails.
- Error monitoring: Sentry, for the error reports described above.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety.
6. Cookies
We use only cookies that the app needs: a session cookie, a sign-in cookie, a security token, and small preference cookies such as your reading theme. No advertising or tracking cookies.
7. Your choices and rights
- Download your data: on the Account page, download every study, note, highlight and reading plan as a file.
- Delete your account: in the app go to More → Account → Delete my account, or on the web at bibliorata.com/account. This permanently deletes your account and everything in it. How to delete your account also explains how to ask us by email.
- You can contact us to access, correct or erase your data, or to object to how we use it. Depending on where you live, you may also complain to your data-protection authority.
8. How long we keep it
We keep your content while your account is open. When you delete your account, your studies, notes, highlights, reading plans, sign-in sessions, testimonials and uploaded pictures are deleted from our live systems straight away. Copies may remain in backups for a limited time until they are overwritten, and server logs are kept for a short period for security.
9. Security
All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS), passwords are stored only as secure hashes, and sign-in and other sensitive actions are rate-limited. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password. We will tell you about a breach affecting your data as the law requires.
10. Children
BiblioRata is not directed at children under 13, and children under 13 should not create an account. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, contact us and we will delete it.
11. Changes
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the date above. For significant changes we will also let you know in the app.
12. Contact us
Questions or requests about your privacy: [email protected].