Privacy notice

Michael Clarke, trading as Living Verses, is the data controller for your information, operating from the United Kingdom. For anything in this notice, write to livingverses101@gmail.com.

• — Your email address, to identify your account and to send you essential messages about it.
• — Your clippings, notes and collections. On a free account these stay on your device and are never sent to us. On Plus, a copy is stored so it can sync between your devices.
• — Your public profile — username, display name, bio and logo — but only if you choose to set one.
• — Shared verse cards— if you share one, the verse reference, the one line you chose and the card’s style, so its page can be shown. Nothing else from your journal, and not your name.
• — Your word of the day choices — only if you ask for it: whether you want it by email, notification or both, and your time zone so it arrives in your morning. For notifications, the address your browser gives us for sending to that device.
• — Payment records. Card details are handled entirely by Stripe and never reach us; we hold only a customer reference and your subscription status.

There is no analytics, no advertising and no third-party scripts in the app or on published pages, beyond the single sign-up report described under Cookies, and only if you allowed it. Nobody reading something you shared is counted, profiled or followed around. Your notes are never read by us, never used to train anything, and never sold.

We do keep a few plain daily totals, to see whether the Bible journal page is working: how many times it was visited, how many people pressed “Start”, how many guests saved a first entry, and how many accounts were created. For verse cards: how many were made and shared, how often card pages were opened, and how many accounts were created after visiting one. Each is just a number for the day — nothing about who did it, and no address is recorded. Opening a card page leaves a small marker in your browser for a week (it holds nothing but “1”), so a sign-up that began there can be counted.

The one exception is the videos on the How to page. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play — the page itself contacts nobody. If you do play one, YouTube will see that and may set cookies, as it would on any site. That is why it waits to be asked rather than starting on its own.

• — To provide the service — storing and syncing what you write, and publishing what you choose to publish. This is performance of our contract with you.
• — To take payment and keep records of it. Contract, and our legal obligation to keep financial records.
• — To email you about your account— including warning you before a lapsed subscription’s cloud copy is removed. Legitimate interest in not deleting your work without telling you first.

• — To send the word of the day, by email or notification, only if you asked for it. Consent: switch it off any time in Settings, or with the Unsubscribe link in every email.

There is no marketing email. You will not be added to a mailing list.

Only the services needed to run the app. Each is a processor acting on our instructions:

• — Supabase — accounts, database and image storage
• — Vercel — hosting and delivery
• — Stripe — payments and subscriptions
• — Resend — sending account emails and the word of the day
• — Google and Meta — advertising measurement, on the front page and the Bible journal page, and only if you allow it

Some of these process data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where that happens it is covered by the safeguards those providers offer, such as standard contractual clauses.

• — While your account exists — your archive is kept so you can use it.
• — 60 days after a subscription ends — the cloud copy is kept so you can bring it back onto a device, then it is deleted. Copies on your own devices are never touched.
• — Published pages are kept indefinitely, because they are links other people may rely on. Unpublish one at any time and it stops being readable.
• — Shared verse cards are kept until you delete them (Settings → Your shared cards); deleting one takes its page down.
• — Word of the day choicesare kept while your account exists. A device’s notification address is removed when you switch notifications off there, or when the device stops accepting them.
• — Payment records are kept as long as tax law requires, currently six years.

Under UK GDPR you may ask for a copy of your data, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to how it is used, or ask for it in a portable form. Email the address above from your account address and it will be dealt with within a month.

You can also export your work yourself at any time using Export PDF, on any plan, without asking anyone.

If you are unhappy with how your data has been handled you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

The app sets a cookie to keep you signed in. That one is necessary for the service to work at all, so it is not something you are asked about.

The front page and the Bible journal page ask whether you will allow advertising cookies from Google and Meta, so we can tell whether an advert reached anyone. Nothing is loaded unless you say yes, and saying no simply means nothing loads.

If you said yes and then create an account, the first time you open your archive we tell Google and Meta, once, that a sign-up happened, so an advert can be credited with it. That is the only advertising code that ever runs once you are signed in, and nothing about your clippings is sent. Published pages — the ones you share with other people — carry no advertising code of any kind.

You can change your mind whenever you like. Change your cookie choice