Privacy Policy

This policy explains what Bible.talk collects, why, who else sees it, and what you can ask us to do about it. Realtime Comms Ltd is the data controller for that information.

What we collect

• Your email address. Required to sign in, because Bible.talk uses sign-in links rather than passwords.
• Your display name and handle. Both are shown to other members beside your messages.
• What you post. Messages, replies and reactions, and which discussions and groups you belong to.
• Limited technical data. Your IP address is used to rate limit sign-in emails and to guard against abuse. We keep a record of when a session was last active so we can expire it.

We do not use advertising trackers, we do not sell personal data, and we do not build advertising profiles. We do not ask for your religion, and anything you choose to reveal about your beliefs is simply what you wrote in a conversation.

Why we are allowed to hold it

We process this information to perform our contract with you, namely to run the service you signed up for. We rely on our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and free of abuse for the technical data above, and we rely on your consent where you opt into something specific, such as browser notifications.

Who else sees it

Other members see your display name, handle, and whatever you post in a discussion or group you share with them. Public discussions are visible to every signed-in member. Private groups are visible only to their members.

We use these providers to run the service:

• Resend sends your sign-in links and group invitations, and receives the email address they go to.
• Cloudflare provides the challenge that protects the sign-in form from automated abuse.
• DeepSeek provides the language model behind @Bible. See the section below, because this one affects what you write.

@Bible and your messages

This is the part worth reading carefully. @Bible only responds when someone mentions it. When that happens, the recent messages of that conversation, up to the last fifteen, are sent to DeepSeek so a reply can be written. That means those messages leave our servers and are processed by a third party outside the UK and the EEA.

If @Bible is never mentioned in a conversation, that conversation is not sent anywhere. If you would rather a discussion stayed entirely on our servers, do not mention @Bible in it.

Bible passages themselves are held on our own servers and looked up locally, so quoting Scripture does not involve any third party.

How long we keep it

Messages are kept for as long as the discussion or group exists, because a conversation people can no longer read is not much of a conversation. Sign-in links expire after fifteen minutes and can be used once. Sessions expire after thirty days. When you close your account we delete your account and personal details; messages you posted in shared conversations may remain, and we will anonymise or remove them on request where doing so does not destroy the context of other people’s conversations.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, object to how we use it, or ask us to restrict that use. Write to support@bible.talk and we will respond within one month. If you are not satisfied you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Children

Bible.talk is not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, tell us and we will remove it.

Security

Traffic is encrypted in transit. Sign-in tokens and session tokens are stored only as hashes, so a copy of our database does not reveal a way into your account. Access to production systems is restricted.

Changes

We will update this policy as the service changes, and will give notice in the service before a significant change takes effect.

Contact

support@bible.talk, or see the contact page for our postal address and company details.