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.

We keep no record of which passages you read, search for, or listen to.

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 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.
• 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.

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 commentaries you keep as tabs — are stored by your own browser and never sent anywhere. 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.