Privacy Policy
Effective October 11, 2026
Who we are
Bibsca is a Bible reading and listening app made by Bible Scrolls App, LLC (“we,” “us”), a Texas limited liability company. This policy covers the Bibsca web reader, any installed Bibsca app, and our website, bibsca.com.
We try to collect as little as we can. We do not show ads, and we never sell your information. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and measure page speed. It uses no cookies, does not store your IP address, and does not follow you to other websites. If you have a question, email support@bibsca.com.
Reading without an account
You do not need an account to read or listen. Without one, we do not know who you are. Your bookmarks, highlights, notes, collections, settings, and reading place stay on your device.
Your device still asks our servers for pages, Bible text, and audio narration, the same way any website works. Our host, Cloudflare, sees ordinary technical details such as your IP address and browser type. We use those only to deliver Bibsca and keep it secure.
The web reader can save copies of pages and Bible text in your browser so it works offline. An installed app can download Bible text and narration for offline use. Those copies stay on your device.
Looking up words
When you select words in Scripture, Bibsca offers a few lookups:
- Define asks Wiktionary for a definition. Your browser sends the word straight to Wiktionary, not to us.
- Wikipedia appears only when an article exists. To check, your browser asks Wikipedia about the word or phrase you selected. Common words like “and” or “the” are never sent.
- Web opens a Google search in a new tab.
- Original Text sends the verses you selected to our servers to look up the Hebrew or Greek words. It does not use AI, and we do not save the lookup.
Wiktionary, Wikipedia, and Google follow their own privacy policies. We do not control what they keep.
If you create an account
An account is optional. To create one, you choose a username and your device makes a passkey. There is no password. We do not ask for your name, and you do not need an email address to create an account. Unless you add a recovery email or buy a membership, your username is the only identity we hold.
You can change your username in your account settings. We do not keep your earlier username, and another person can then choose it. We keep a count of how many times you change your username.
A passkey is a key that your device or password manager keeps for you. You unlock it with your face, your fingerprint, or your device passcode. That check happens on your device. We never receive your face or fingerprint data. The secret half of a passkey never leaves your device or password manager. We store only the public half, a name for the passkey, whether your device says it is backed up, the technical details your device sends with it, and the dates it was made and last used. An account can have up to 4 passkeys.
If your passkey is saved with Apple, Google, or another password manager, that company handles it under its own privacy policy.
When you create an account, we show you 8 recovery codes one time. If you lose your passkey, you can sign in with your username and one of these codes. You need both. We keep only a scrambled copy of each code, so we cannot show the codes to you again.
You can add a recovery email. It is optional. Before we save it, we email a link to that address and you open the link, so we know that the address is yours. We use your recovery email for account recovery. If you lose your passkey and your recovery codes, we can email you a link that signs you in, so that you can make a new passkey. If you forget your username, we can email it to you. You can change or remove your recovery email at any time in your account settings. Anyone who can read that mailbox can ask for a link and sign in to your account, so use an address that only you can read.
When you add a recovery email, you can check a box to get news and offers from Bibsca at that address. The box is not checked unless you check it. You can stop these emails at any time in your account settings or at bibsca.com/unsubscribe. If you remove your recovery email, these emails stop.
We have no other way to check who you are. If you lose your passkey, and you have no recovery code and no recovery email, we cannot give your account back.
After you sign in, a secure cookie keeps you signed in for up to 30 days after you last used Bibsca. It is not used for tracking.
We do not send news or offers to an account that has only a username. If your account has a recovery email, we send news and offers to it only if you checked the box that allows it.
Accounts made before October 10, 2026 used an email address. If you have one, we still hold that address until the account is deleted, and we may email you news about Bibsca unless you unsubscribe at bibsca.com/unsubscribe. To delete that account, email support@bibsca.com from that address.
What syncs across your devices
With a Silver or Gold membership, Bibsca can keep these in sync between your devices:
- Bookmarks
- Highlights
- Notes
- Collections
- Audio position
- AI chat history
Each one has its own switch in your account settings. Turn a switch off and that category stays on your device only. Display choices, such as text size and dark mode, follow your account so Bibsca looks the same everywhere. Your reading place in the text stays on each device.
We store synced content with Cloudflare. Other users cannot see it. We can technically access your notes, highlights, bookmarks, collections, and chats. We use them only to provide and improve Bibsca. We never sell them.
Home Screen widgets use a copy of your collections kept on your device. Widgets do not connect to our servers.
Paid memberships
Stripe handles checkout, monthly billing, and the subscription portal. When you start checkout, we give Stripe a random account number. Stripe asks for your email address on its own page. You type your payment details on Stripe’s pages, so we never see or store your full card number.
If you pay for a membership, we can see the name, the email address, and the billing address that you give Stripe. We use your email address to send you messages about your membership: your confirmation, a receipt for each payment, and a reminder before each renewal. We use your name and your billing address only for billing, tax, and account support. We also keep your Stripe customer number, your plan, the dates your plan started and was last checked, and the start and end of your current billing period. Stripe keeps payment records under its own privacy policy.
If your paid plan ends and you no longer have sync, we delete your synced bookmarks, highlights, notes, and collections from our servers. The copies on your devices stay.
If you are locked out of your account and you have a paid plan, email support@bibsca.com and tell us the email address that you used when you subscribed. We use it to find your subscription and cancel it.
If you use an access code, we keep a record that your account used it.
AI chat
AI chat and “Ask a Question” are part of the Gold membership. A computer writes the answers, not a person. When you use them:
- Your message, the recent conversation, and any passage you selected go to our servers and then to Anthropic, which runs the AI models. We may add Bible text and Hebrew or Greek word data from our own database to help answer. The AI does not search the web.
- Anthropic does not train its models on this data. It deletes it within 30 days. It can keep it longer only when the law requires it or to look into a violation of its usage policy. See Anthropic’s data retention policy.
- To check an answer against the Bible text, your question and parts of the answer also go to TypeSafe. TypeSafe does not write the answers.
- Your chats stay in your account until you delete them. You can delete any chat in Bibsca. Shared answers, described below, are kept apart from your account.
- AI chat has a monthly usage allowance that starts over when your membership renews. We keep a count of each day’s use to apply it.
Faith is personal
What you read, highlight, write, or ask about can reveal your religious beliefs. We treat all of it as sensitive. We use it only to provide and improve Bibsca. We never sell it or share it for advertising.
What we do not do
- We do not show ads.
- We do not sell or rent your information, or share it with advertisers or data brokers.
- We do not use tracking pixels or advertising cookies.
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and measure page speed. It uses no cookies, does not store your IP address, and does not follow you to other websites.
We don't track you across other websites, and we don't let others do so on Bibsca. We treat every visitor the same whether or not your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. We do not sell or share personal information.
Companies that help us
These companies help run Bibsca. Each one handles your information only to do its job for us:
- Cloudflare hosts Bibsca and our database. It also runs sync, audio, security, and our emails (membership emails and the emails to a recovery email), and its AI service matches similar questions for shared answers. Cloudflare keeps security logs that contain IP addresses for a limited time.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits and measures page speed. It uses no cookies.
- Stripe handles payments and subscription management.
- Anthropic provides the AI chat answers.
- TypeSafe checks AI chat answers.
We share information with others only if the law requires it. If that happens, we share only what is required, and we tell you first unless the law does not allow it. If Bibsca is ever sold or merged, this policy stays in place for your information, and we will tell you before anything changes.
How long we keep information
- Synced content stays until you delete it or your account. Deleting something on one device deletes it everywhere.
- Chats stay until you delete them or your account. Shared answers are not linked to you, so they stay after you delete a chat or your account, until we remove them or you ask us to.
- A passkey stays until you remove it or delete your account. A recovery code is deleted when you use it or make new codes. A recovery email stays until you remove it or delete your account. A link that we email to it works one time, for up to 1 hour. Sign-in sessions end when you sign out, or after about 30 days without use.
- Payment records stay with Stripe as long as tax and accounting law requires.
Deleting your account
Open your account settings and choose Delete Account. We permanently delete your account and everything synced with it from our servers. If you have a paid plan, deleting your account cancels it right away. Copies on your devices stay there. Shared answers are not linked to your account, so deleting it does not remove them. If you cannot sign in, email support@bibsca.com and tell us your username. We must confirm that the account is yours before we delete it.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us to show you, correct, give you a copy of, or delete the information we hold about you. You can do most of this yourself in Bibsca. For anything else, email support@bibsca.com. We will answer within 45 days and will not treat you differently for asking.
If we cannot do what you ask, we will explain why. You can reply to appeal. If you still disagree, you can contact your state attorney general.
Children
Bibsca is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, tell us and we will delete it.
Security
Everything sent between your device and our servers is encrypted. Other users cannot see your synced content. No system is perfectly secure, so we also protect you by keeping as little as possible. If a breach ever affects your information, we will tell you.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the date at the top. If a change matters, we will post a clear notice on bibsca.com before it takes effect. We will also email members whose email address we have.
Contact
Bible Scrolls App, LLC
support@bibsca.com