Privacy Policy

App Data Collection

The Biblical Tools mobile app does not collect personal data. We do not require you to create an account, provide your name, email address, or any identifying information to use the app.

• No account or registration required
• No advertising tracking or behavioral analytics in the app
• No device fingerprinting or unique identifiers collected
• No data is sold, rented, or shared with third parties for marketing

Member Accounts & Study Data

BiblicalTools.org offers an optional member account, at no cost, for features like the community feed, private messaging, and the study dashboard. Creating an account is never required to read the Bible, use the study tools, or access any teaching resources.

When you create a member account, we collect your email address (for sign-in and account recovery) and a username you choose. If you sign in, the following is stored securely on our servers (hosted with Supabase, our database provider) so it stays with you across your devices:

• Your journal — private to your account. Journal entries are never shown to other members and are never published anywhere on the site.
• Study progress — reading activity, study points and levels, memorized verses, quiz results, and reading-plan progress.
• Your profile — username, avatar, and any bio you choose to write.
• Community content you choose to share — posts, comments, prayer requests, and answered-prayer testimonies. These are visible to other signed-in members, along with your username and avatar.
• Private messages — visible only to you and the member you are messaging.

Push notifications (optional): If you choose to enable browser notifications, we store a delivery address for your device so we can send them. Disabling notifications in your browser removes it. We never send notifications you have not opted into.

Your data is yours. You can download everything we store for you at any time from Account → Export Your Data, and you can delete your account and all associated data from the same page. We do not sell member data or share it with third parties for marketing.

Website Analytics & Advertising

The BiblicalTools.org website uses cookies and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with our site and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising through the Google Ad Grants program. Specifically, the website uses:

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect anonymized data about site traffic, page views, and user behavior. This helps us understand which resources are most useful and how to improve our site. Google Analytics may use cookies to distinguish unique visitors.
• Google Ads Conversion Tracking: As a participant in the Google Ad Grants program for nonprofits, we use Google Ads conversion tracking to measure how effectively our search ads direct visitors to our Bible study resources. This may involve cookies placed by Google when you click on one of our ads.
• Google Tag Manager: We use Google Tag Manager to manage the analytics and advertising tags described above.

The data collected through these tools may include your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring URL, and interactions with our site. This data is used to improve our website, measure the reach of our ministry, and inform our Google Ads campaigns. We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes. Where data is shared with Google as described in this section, Google acts as a data processor on our behalf under the Google Ads Data Processing Terms.

Managing Cookies: You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. You may also opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. To learn more about how Google uses data from partner sites, visit Google's privacy & terms page.

Audience Data for Advertising: We may use data collected through Google Analytics to create audience lists (such as lists of past website visitors) for use in our Google Ads search campaigns. These audience lists help us better reach people who have already shown interest in our Bible study resources. As a Google Ad Grants recipient, these audiences are used for search advertising only — we do not run display or video remarketing campaigns.

Conversion Counting: When you complete an action on our website, such as sending a contact message or signing up, our Google Ads tag records that the action happened, but only after your message or signup has gone through. This lets us count how well our ads lead people to our Bible study resources. We do not send your name, email address, phone number or any other personal identifier, hashed or otherwise, to Google with these counts. On every page, before any Google tag loads, our site sets Google’s “ad user data” consent to denied by default, which tells Google’s tags not to send personal information for advertising. Our Google Ads campaigns are geographically targeted to the United States only.

Site Activity Counts: On the Bible Reader, Light for Your Path, the Bible Audio Player and our homepage, a small script of our own sends an anonymous signal about every 30 seconds while the page is open and you are reading, listening or watching. It contains the part of the site you are using; whether text, audio or video is active and whether the page is visible; the number of seconds of activity; your device type (phone, tablet or computer); the general operating system and browser (for example, iOS and Safari); a rough screen-size group; how you arrived (search engine, social media, email, another page on this site, another website, or directly), worked out in your browser from the name of the referring site only; and your country, which our host works out when the signal arrives. It also contains two random codes: one for the browser tab (deleted when the tab closes) and one for the browser (replaced after 30 minutes of inactivity and every night). It never includes your name, email, IP address, the address of the page you came from, the passage you are reading, or anything you search or type, and we do not store your IP address. Each live entry is deleted about 10 minutes after the last signal, and the list of browser codes used to count each browser once a day is deleted after midnight (Pacific time). Only totals are kept, for up to 90 days: minutes per section, and daily counts by device type, operating system, browser, screen-size group, how visitors arrived and country, with countries that have fewer than 3 browsers in a day combined. The Quiet Hour stream is not counted by this script; our stream server counts its connections separately, by device type and by country and state or region. These counts are visible only to our own team. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, the script does not run.

Local Storage

Certain features save data locally on your device. When you use the app or the website without signing in to a member account, this data is never transmitted to our servers or any third party.

Data stored locally includes:

• Bible study chat history
• Bible reading progress and bookmarks
• Step counter and fitness tracking data
• Food and nutrition logs
• Personal notes

You can clear this data at any time by uninstalling the app or clearing app data through your device settings.

If you sign in to a member account on the website, your journal and study progress are also synced to your account as described in Member Accounts & Study Data — local storage then acts as an offline copy so those features keep working without a connection.

Third-Party AI Services

The Bible study chat feature uses an AI service (provided by OpenAI or Anthropic) to generate responses to your questions. When you send a message in the chat:

• Only the text of your conversation is sent to the AI service
• No personal identifiers are included (no name, email, device ID, or account info)
• No location data is sent
• No device information is transmitted

These AI providers have their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review them if you have concerns about how conversation text is handled on their end.

Audio Streaming

Audio Bible narration is streamed directly from our servers at biblicaltools.org. Standard web server logs (IP address, timestamp, file requested) may be recorded as part of normal server operation, but this data is not associated with any personal profile and is not used for tracking purposes.

No user account data or identifiers are collected during audio playback.

App Permissions

The app may request the following device permissions:

• Activity / Step Counter: Used to count steps using your device's motion sensors. Step data is stored locally on your device only and is never transmitted.
• Location (optional): If granted, location is used only to determine your local timezone for accurate day-boundary tracking (e.g., midnight rollover for daily step counts). No location coordinates are stored or transmitted to any server.

All permissions are optional where possible. Denying a permission will disable only the feature that relies on it.

Children's Privacy

The Biblical Tools app is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through the app, please contact us and we will promptly address it.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised policy on this page and update the effective date at the top. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Continued use of the app after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the Biblical Tools app, please contact us:

• Email: info@bibleministriesinternational.org
• Mail: Bible Ministries International, 1119 S. Mission Road #188, Fallbrook, CA 92028
• Website: biblicaltools.org