Privacy Policy

Who we are

pursueGod is run by [LEGAL NAME OF THE ORGANISATION], [POSTAL ADDRESS].

For any question about your data, or to ask us to see, correct or delete it, write to [CONTACT EMAIL].

What we keep

Your account: your email address, your password (stored by our account provider in a scrambled form we can't read), your first name, the year you were born (the year only), your language and your time zone.

The country your connection came from when you created your account (two letters, such as "US"), as our hosting reports it. We use it only to decide which email choice to show you and to keep a record of it. We don't keep your internet address.

Your email choice: whether you receive emails about pursueGod, which version of the choice you were shown, when, and which version of this policy was in place.

For an account set up by a parent or guardian: that it is a child's account, and when the parent or guardian agreed.

What you write and add: your journal pages, the photos you add to them, your marks in the Bible (underlines, circles, highlights), your prayer card, and your reading progress and plans.

The words of the Bible itself are never stored with your account.

If you ask us to tell you when the journal store opens, we keep only that email address, the language of the page and the time, use it for one email when the store opens, and then delete it (write to [CONTACT EMAIL] to be removed sooner).

On your device

To keep things quick and to work without a connection, your browser keeps some things on your device: pages you are writing that haven't saved yet, a copy of your Today screen and prayer card, your reading settings, your language, and a few notes for the current visit (such as whether you said "Not now"). Signing out removes the copies that belong to your account. We use cookies to keep you signed in and to remember your language. We don't use advertising cookies.

When Scripture is shown, API.Bible's code (see below) may also keep an identifier for your device and your visit in your browser, so it can count how often passages are read without knowing who you are.

How we use it

To run your account and show you your own journal, plans and prayer card, on any device you sign in on.

To send account emails, such as confirming your address or resetting your password. These always come, because the account needs them.

Emails about the pursueGod mobile app, the online version and the printed paper journal. In the United States, these emails are on when you create an account. Everywhere else, we send them only if you tick the box when you create your account. Every one of these emails has a link to unsubscribe, and you can switch them off (or on) at any time in Profile, under "Emails from pursueGod". A child's account never receives them.

What we never do

We never sell your data.

We don't show ads.

We never send your journal, prayers or photos to any artificial intelligence (AI) service.

Your journal is private to you. No one else using pursueGod can see it, not even your Circle: a Circle sees only what is described under "Circles", and only a line you choose to share.

Who helps us run pursueGod

Supabase holds your account, our database and your photos, and sends account emails.

Vercel hosts the website and app. Every request passes through Vercel, which tells us the country it came from. Like any host, Vercel may keep short technical logs, which can include internet addresses.

API.Bible provides the Bible text. Our server asks API.Bible for the chapters you read. When a passage is shown, your browser loads a small piece of code from API.Bible that tells them a passage was displayed, as the Bible publishers' licences require. Like any website your browser contacts, API.Bible receives the usual technical details, such as your internet address. API.Bible doesn't receive your name, your email or your journal.

Each of these companies works for us under its own terms and may store data in [COUNTRIES OR REGIONS].

Children

Anyone under 13 needs a parent or guardian to set up the account. The parent or guardian uses their own email address and ticks that they agree. We work out the age group from the birth year only, and when the year alone can't tell, we treat someone as the younger age.

A child's account never receives emails about our products. Account emails go to the parent's or guardian's address.

A parent or guardian can sign in to see everything in the account, download a copy of the journal, or delete the account in Profile (or write to [CONTACT EMAIL] to ask us to delete it).

Your choices

Download a copy of your journal at any time: in the Journal, open the options menu (⋯) and choose "Export my journal".

Delete pages: they go to the Trash, where you can bring them back for 30 days. After that they are deleted for good the next time you open your Journal or Trash.

Switch off emails about pursueGod in Profile, under "Emails from pursueGod", or with the unsubscribe link in any of those emails.

Correct a mistake: you can change your first name, but your birth year can only be set once in the app. If it's wrong, write to [CONTACT EMAIL] and we'll correct it.

Delete your account: in Profile, choose "Delete my account". Your account and everything in it are deleted straight away. You can also write to [CONTACT EMAIL] from your account's email address and we will delete it for you.

How long we keep it

We keep your account and journal for as long as you have an account. Pages in the Trash, and photos you took off your pages, are deleted for good once they have been there 30 days, the next time you open your Journal or Trash. Earlier versions of a page are deleted after 90 days, except the 5 most recent. When your account is deleted, everything in it is deleted too, except for [ANY RECORDS KEPT LONGER, AND FOR HOW LONG].

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the version date at the top and, for important changes, tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.

Reminders

Reminders are off until you switch them on in Profile, and children's accounts never get them. When you switch them on, we keep: this device's delivery address and the two keys that let only this device read a reminder (made by your browser's push service, such as Google's or Apple's), the reminders you chose and the time you picked, and a note of which reminder went to you on which day (kept 60 days, so none is sent twice). Only if you switch on Today's chapter or Welcome back, we also keep when you last opened pursueGod, so we don't remind you on a day you already came; a small note on this device makes sure the app asks only once a day.

A reminder only ever says the app's own words, like "Day 26 · Luke 2 is ready." It never contains anything you wrote, anyone else's name or progress, or advertising. The push service carries it encrypted.

To stop: switch the reminders off in Profile, choose "Turn off on this device" or "Turn off on all my devices", block notifications for pursueGod in your device's settings, or sign out. Signing out removes this device's delivery address, and deleting your account removes all of it.

Circles

A Circle is a small group that reads the Gospels plan together. You join one only with its invite code, and you can be in one Circle at a time. Children's accounts can't join a Circle.

The other people in your Circle see: your first name; which day of the Gospels plan you are on and which of that day's six steps you have ticked (never what you wrote); the short lines you choose to share with the Circle (typed for the Circle, never taken from your journal); and the encouragements you send to someone, which only that person sees. Everyone in the Circle sees the leader's welcome note and the meeting day and time.

The leader can also: change the Circle's name, meeting day and time, move or cancel one week's meeting, write the welcome note, make or replace the invite code, remove a member, remove a shared line (only the person who wrote it sees a note that it was removed), hand the Circle to someone else, or close it.

Anyone with an invite code can look it up: they see the Circle's name, the leader's first name, the meeting day and time, which day of the plan the Circle is on and how many people are in it; nothing else. Someone who has signed in (never a child's account) also sees the leader's welcome note before they join. Wrong codes are limited, so codes can't be guessed.

When you leave a Circle or are removed, your lines and the encouragements you sent or received there are deleted, and the others no longer see you. When the last member leaves, or the leader closes it, the Circle is deleted. Deleting your account does all of this too.