1. The service

Bible Scholar is a free Bible-study app: Scripture reading, audio, memorization, AI-assisted questions and studies, a personal prayer journal, and small groups. The core app is free. We may offer optional paid subscriptions in the future; if we do, they will be sold and billed through the Apple App Store or Google Play under their terms, and the price will be shown before you buy. We may add, change, limit, or discontinue any feature at any time without notice.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account, and if you are under 18 you need a parent or guardian’s permission. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child under 13 has created an account, email us and we will delete it. Children may enjoy the Bedtime readings and Scripture reader together with a parent or guardian, without an account.

3. Accounts

Reading Scripture, Listen, Memorize, Bedtime’s daily reading, and two Ask questions per device need no account. Everything else requires signing in with an email address. There is no password; we email you a one-time link or code. You may optionally add Face ID / Touch ID on your device and a display name. You are responsible for keeping your email account secure and for everything done through your Bible Scholar account. You may delete your account at any time from the Account page.

4. Fair use

To keep the service free, AI features (Ask, Study, Research, Commentary, Quiz, custom Bedtime content, lesson plans) share one small daily allowance per account that resets each day; without an account, Ask is limited to two questions per device per day. We may change these limits. You agree not to use bots, scripts, or automated tools to access the service, scrape content, bypass limits, or burden our systems, and not to attempt to access other people’s accounts or data.

5. AI-generated content

Answers, studies, quizzes, commentary summaries, lesson plans, and custom Bedtime content are produced by an artificial-intelligence model. They can be wrong, incomplete, or theologically imprecise, and they are not reviewed by a person before you see them. They are offered for personal study and reflection only. Always test them against Scripture itself and the counsel of your church. Bible Scholar is not a church, a pastor, a counselor, a doctor, or a crisis service, and nothing in it is professional advice of any kind. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (US) or your local emergency number.

6. Your content and conduct

You own what you write — questions, notes, prayer requests, studies. You give us a limited license to store, display, and transmit it only as needed to run the service for you (for example, to show your study to your group). We do not use your content to train AI models. By posting in a Small Group you give every member of that group permission to read it; anyone with a group’s invite code can join, so share codes thoughtfully. Group leaders may remove studies and members and must hand leadership to another member before deleting their own account if the group has other members. Your personal Prayer Journal is visible only to your own account.

You agree not to post anything unlawful, harassing, hateful, threatening, sexually explicit, deceptive, or infringing; not to post another person’s private information; and not to impersonate anyone. We may remove content or suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, without notice. We don’t pre-screen group content and are not responsible for what other users post.

7. Scripture, audio, and other material

Bible text is from public-domain translations (World English Bible, King James Version) via bible-api.com. Audio Bible recordings are public-domain LibriVox recordings served from archive.org. Commentaries are public-domain works served by the Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org); the app shows an AI summary alongside the commentator’s original text. Historical artwork is shown through The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access collection. The Bible Scholar name, logo, design, and software are owned by AGRABEN LLC; you may not copy, modify, or redistribute them. If you believe content on the service infringes your copyright, email us at the address below with the details and we will respond promptly.

8. No warranty

The service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, or non-infringement. We don’t promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any content is accurate or complete.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AGRABEN LLC and its owners, employees, and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, goodwill, or profits, arising from or related to your use of (or inability to use) the service or your reliance on any content in it, even if we were told such damages were possible. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed ten US dollars ($10). Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

10. Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold harmless AGRABEN LLC from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your content, your use of the service, or your violation of these terms or anyone’s rights.

11. Disputes and governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us and try in good faith to resolve it informally for 30 days. Any dispute that isn’t resolved will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in South Carolina, and you consent to their jurisdiction. You agree to bring claims only in your individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action.

12. Changes; termination; contact

We may update these terms; the effective date above changes when we do, and continued use after a change means you accept it. We may suspend or end the service, or your access to it, at any time. Sections 6–11 survive termination. Questions, copyright notices, or requests to delete your account and data: contact@agraben.com.

What we collect

With an account: your email address; your optional display name; and what you create in the app — saved items, studies, highlights, notes, bookmarks, verse categories, memory verses, reading-plan progress, notification choices (in the app), prayer journal entries, quiz results, Small Group memberships and posts, your Ask conversations (saved automatically so you can return to them); and, if you tap 👍 or 👎 on an answer, that rating with the question, the answer, and any note you add, which we review to improve accuracy. We also keep a running daily total of your AI usage to enforce the fair-use limit, and the date of your last sign-in.

Without an account: nothing on our servers except, for the two free Ask questions, your device’s IP address and a count, kept to enforce the limit and reset daily.

What we don’t collect: no payment details (there’s nothing to pay), no precise location, no contacts, no advertising identifiers, and no analytics or tracking of your browsing. “Churches near me” simply opens Google Maps in a new tab.

Cookies and local storage

Bible Scholar uses no advertising or tracking cookies. It stores a small amount of data in your browser’s local storage only to make the app work: your sign-in session, your Bible version and reading position, reading-plan and Memorize progress, the free-Ask counter, and whether you’ve seen the welcome screen. It also keeps a cached copy of the app and of Bible chapters you’ve opened, so the app loads faster and the reader works offline. This is strictly necessary storage, so no consent banner is shown; you can clear it at any time by signing out or clearing your browser data for this site. Our hosting provider (Netlify) may keep standard, short-lived server logs (such as IP address and request time) for security and operations.

How we use your data

Only to run the service for you: signing you in, saving your things, showing group members what you post, sending the emails described below, and enforcing fair-use limits. We do not sell or rent personal information, do not share it for advertising, and do not use your content to train AI models. We do not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined in US state privacy laws.

Who processes your data

Supabase (accounts and database, hosted in the US), Netlify (hosting and server functions), OpenAI (the text you submit to AI features, and the conversation it belongs to, is sent to OpenAI to generate the response; under OpenAI’s API terms it is not used to train their models), Resend (sign-in and prayer-notification emails), bible-api.com (Scripture text), archive.org (audio), the Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org — public-domain commentary text, fetched by our server), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (artwork images), and FormSubmit (the “Report a problem” and “Send to a friend” forms), and Apple, if you use Sign in with Apple in the iPhone app (Apple shares your name and either your email or a private relay address). Reminders in the iPhone app are scheduled on your phone itself; we don’t use a push-notification service. Each receives only what’s needed for its task. If you are outside the United States, your data is transferred to and processed in the US.

Emails

We send only transactional email: your sign-in link or code, and — if you post a prayer request in a Small Group — a note when a member taps “Pray.” No newsletters or marketing.

Your Prayer Journal

Journal entries are protected at the database level so only your signed-in account can read or change them. They are never shared with other users, never emailed, and never sent to the AI.

Retention and deletion

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. “Delete my account” on the Account page permanently and immediately removes your account and everything tied to it. You can also delete any individual item in the app at any time. Backups held by our database provider are purged on their normal schedule (typically within 30 days).

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can see your data (it’s all shown in the app), correct it, export it (each item has a save/export option), or delete it yourself. If you want a copy of everything, or have a request we can’t fulfil in-app — including rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or US state privacy laws such as the CCPA — email contact@agraben.com and we’ll respond within 30 days. We won’t treat you differently for exercising your rights.

Children

Accounts are for people 13 and older. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if we learn we have, we delete it. Parents who believe a child has created an account can email us to have it removed.

Security

Data travels over HTTPS; sign-in uses one-time email links or codes (no passwords to leak); database access is restricted by per-user security rules; and API keys live only on our server. No system is perfectly secure, so please keep your email account protected.

Changes

If we change this policy we’ll update the date above; material changes will be noted in the app. Continued use after a change means you accept it.