Privacy Policy

Overview

Our Daily Guide is a quiet place to read, listen to, and reflect on scripture. We collect the minimum information needed to let you create an account and share reflections. We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising.

What we collect

• Account details: a name, email address, and a hashed password.
• Content you post: reflections and comments you choose to share, along with the date they were written.
• Your email, if you ask for the daily verse: held until you unsubscribe, which every one of those emails offers in a single click.
• A notification address, if you turn notifications on: the anonymous endpoint your browser issues us. On its own it identifies a browser, not a person, and turning notifications off retires it. If you were signed in when you turned them on, we also record which account, and for one reason: so the notification can tell you where you have reached in a reading plan, which belongs to your account rather than to your browser. Turn notifications on while signed out and no account is recorded — you simply get the day's verse.
• Anything you send through the contact form, so we can reply to it.
• Basic usage: standard server logs (such as request time and page) used only to keep the site running reliably.
• Podcast downloads: a count of how often each episode is downloaded, and by which kind of app (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, this site's player…). Each download is tied to a scrambled code that changes every day and cannot be turned back into your IP address, so we can count a listener once a day without knowing who they are.

We keep no record of which passages you read, search for, or listen to, beyond those anonymous podcast download counts.

Accounts are for readers of 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect anything from a child under 13, and will delete it if we find we have. Reading the site needs no account and asks nothing of anyone, at any age.

How we use it

We use your account details to sign you in and to display your name with the reflections you post. We use your content only to show it on the site as you intend. We do not use your data to train models or build advertising profiles.

Who else is involved

A site like this cannot be run entirely by itself. The list of outside services is deliberately short, none of them are advertisers, and none of them are paid in your information. Two kinds are worth telling apart.

Services your browser talks to directly

These can see your device's IP address, the way any site you visit can.

• Vercel hosts the site and serves every page of it.
• Cloudflare provides the “are you human?” check on our forms, and stores the files the site plays back to you — a narration clip, or a video or photo someone attached to a reflection.
• Your browser's own notification service — Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft, depending on the browser — and only if you turn notifications on, so that one can reach you.

Services we talk to on your behalf

These see what was asked for, not who asked for it. The request goes from our server, not from your browser.

• Turso hosts our database. Your account and the reflections you post live there.
• Google Cloud Text-to-Speech renders the narration you hear when you press Listen. It receives the words of the verse and nothing else; the audio is then kept under a fingerprint of that text, so the same verse is never sent twice and no reading is tied to a reader.
• Google Cloud Vision checks photos attached to reflections for content unsuitable for a family site, before anyone else can see them. It receives the photo alone — not your name or account — and returns a verdict; Google does not use it to train their models. Photos are resized in your browser first, which removes the location and other details your camera stores in the file.
• Anthropic answers the assistant and writes the ✦ Reflect passages. It receives what you typed, or the passage you were reading. Under their API terms it is not used to train models.
• api.bible supplies the three licensed translations — the Amplified Bible, the New King James Version and the New Living Translation. Their licence covers showing that text, not turning it into audio, so those three are the ones with no Listen button. A screen reader you have turned on yourself is your own and reads them as it reads anything else.
• bible-api.com supplies the older public-domain versions we don’t keep on the site ourselves. Both it and api.bible receive a reference and a translation, and nothing about you; the translations stored here need neither.
• Google carries our outgoing email — a confirmation, a sign-in code, or the daily verse.

Our YouTube channel

We post short clips from our own films on our YouTube channel, @ourdailyguidebible. To schedule them we use a small tool of our own, the Our Daily Guide Uploader, which uses the YouTube API Services. Only we use it, signed in to our own channel; it is not offered to anyone else.

It uploads our videos with their titles, descriptions and publish times, and reads our own channel’s name to check it is posting to the right place. It does not read, collect, store or share anything about anyone else’s YouTube account, and nothing from YouTube is shown on this site through it. The only thing it keeps is a list of the videos it has uploaded, on our own computer; deleting that list, or the videos on YouTube, removes it.

Google’s handling of data on YouTube is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. The tool’s access to a YouTube account can be withdrawn at any time from that Google account’s third-party access settings. Watching or interacting with our videos on YouTube is subject to YouTube’s own terms and Google’s privacy policy, not this one.

Cookies and tracking

There is no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking on this site. It sets one cookie of its own — the one that keeps you signed in — and not until you sign in. Your reading settings — the typeface, the text size, which translations and commentaries you keep as tabs — are stored by your own browser and never sent anywhere while you are signed out. Signed in, they are saved to your account instead, so they follow you to other devices. The typefaces are served from this site rather than fetched from a font service.

Your choices

You can sign out at any time. To request removal of your account and the reflections tied to it, contact us and we will delete them from our database.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach out and we will be glad to answer.