Privacy Policy
Berean Bible Search is a Bible reading, search and study app. It is built so that your personal information stays on your own device. This policy explains what the app stores, what it sends over the internet, and why.
Summary
- No account or registration is needed to use the app.
- We do not collect your name, phone number, email, photos, contacts or location.
- We do not sell data, show ads, or use advertising or tracking SDKs.
Information that stays on your device
The following is stored only on your phone or tablet and is never uploaded to our server:
- Your profile: name, phone number, church name and profile photo, if you choose to enter them. They are used only to place your details on verse images you create.
- Your notes, sermons, collections, favorites, highlights and cross references you add.
- Reading plans and progress, reading time, quiz results, search history and recently viewed chapters.
- Your settings, such as app language, Bible version and text size.
You can clear your history at any time in Settings. Deleting the app removes all of this data from your device.
Information sent over the internet
Online features go through our server at bereanbiblesearch.com. These requests contain only what is needed to answer them — for example the Bible passage, word or search you asked for — and never your personal details:
- Licensed Bible versions (such as NIV and NKJV) and recorded audio Bibles.
- Bible version downloads, commentaries, cross references, the Hebrew & Greek concordance and quiz updates.
- The optional online stock-photo search for verse image backgrounds (photos from Unsplash). You can turn this off in Settings.
Our server does not store these requests in a database. Like any web server, our hosting provider may keep short-lived technical logs (such as IP address and time of request) for security and troubleshooting.
Third-party services
- API.Bible (American Bible Society) licenses some Bible texts and recordings. As its fair-use terms require, it receives anonymous usage counts with random device and session numbers. Nothing in these counts identifies you. See the American Bible Society privacy policy.
- Unsplash provides stock photos when you search for backgrounds; the search words you type are sent to Unsplash through our server. See the Unsplash privacy policy.
- Speech recognition: voice search and voice typing use your device's built-in speech service (Apple or Google), which may process the audio on its provider's servers under that provider's privacy policy. The app does not record or keep audio.
Device permissions
- Camera and photo library — only when you add a photo to your profile or a verse image, or save an image you made. Photos stay on your device.
- Microphone and speech recognition — only while you use voice search or voice typing.
You can change these permissions at any time in your device settings.
Sharing
When you share a verse, note or image, it is handled by your device's own share sheet and goes only where you choose to send it.
Children
The app is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Data security and deletion
Because your personal data is kept on your device, it is protected by your device's own security. We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to delete; removing the app or clearing its data removes everything it stored.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email sophiainfotech.net@gmail.com.