Privacy Policy
Nothing leaves your device.
Quiet Bible Reader is a local-first reading app. Your bookmarks, highlights, notes, searches and reading position are stored only on your own device.
1. What we collect
We do not collect personal data. The app has no account system, no email sign-up, no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no tracking pixels and no third-party scripts.
2. What stays on your device
- Your settings (theme, font, text size, language).
- Bookmarks, highlights and notes.
- Your last reading position and a private record of chapters opened.
- Bible text and search indexes you have downloaded for offline use.
- A cache of the app’s own interface files so it can open without a connection.
This information is kept in your browser’s local storage, IndexedDB and service-worker cache, or in the equivalent local storage of the installed app. It is not sent to us.
3. Network connections
When you download a Bible, a single book or a search index, the app requests a static file from the server that hosts this app. Like any web request, that request may appear in standard server logs (for example, IP address, user agent and time). The app does not attach an account, advertising identifier or reading history to that request, and it does not use cookies.
After a book is downloaded, reading it works offline. Search works offline once its local index has been downloaded.
4. Read-aloud
Read-aloud uses the voice engine built into your device or operating system. The app sends the verse text to that system engine, never to a server operated by us. Some operating systems may offer cloud-based voices; in that case the operating system’s own terms and privacy settings apply.
5. Purchases
In the App Store version, the optional one-time Quiet Pro purchase will be processed by Apple. We will not receive your payment details. In this prototype, the unlock button only simulates a purchase and no payment is taken.
6. Children
The app does not create accounts and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
7. Your controls
Inside the app you can clear all reading data, remove downloaded Bibles, export your notes, and create or restore a manual backup. Deleting the app or clearing its data removes the local information permanently unless you made a backup.
8. Third parties
No analytics, advertising or social SDKs are embedded. The app is hosted as static files; the hosting provider may process ordinary request logs as described above. Apple processes App Store payments. Scripture licences are described in the app and below.
9. Scripture and licences
- World English Bible (WEB) — public domain, published by eBible.org.
- Berean Standard Bible (BSB) — public domain since 2023, published by berean.bible.
10. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date. The app will not begin collecting data without a clear, visible change in the product and this policy.
11. Contact
Quiet Bible Reader is published by Kuilong Xia, an independent developer in Singapore. For privacy questions, contact kuilong.xia@gmail.com.
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