About Bible Study Helper

Terms of Use

Last Updated: June 26, 2026

Important: By accessing or using this site, you acknowledge and agree to these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

Purpose of This Site

Bible Study Helper is an informational and educational resource created solely for spiritual enrichment and personal study. It is not designed to replace the guidance of a qualified professional, nor is it a substitute for counseling, medical care, legal advice, financial planning, or pastoral leadership.

No Professional Relationship

Using this site does not create a therapist-client, attorney-client, doctor-patient, or pastor-parishioner relationship. Responses generated by the site — including those written in a “Counselor” or similar style — are for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for making decisions regarding health, finances, legal matters, or relationships. Always seek the advice of qualified professionals for such matters.

Crisis Situations

If you are experiencing a medical or mental-health emergency, are in crisis, or require urgent assistance, please contact emergency services or a licensed professional in your area immediately. This website is not monitored for emergency communications.

Limitation of Liability

Bible Study Helper and its owners, developers, partners, and contributors disclaim all responsibility for any decisions, actions, or consequences that result from using this website or any information it provides. All content is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. By using this site, you agree that you do so at your own risk and accept that we are not liable for any damages, losses, or outcomes related to your use of this service.

Use Restrictions

This site is not intended for use in jurisdictions where its operation or content would violate local laws. Users are responsible for ensuring that accessing Bible Study Helper is lawful in their location.

Consent to Terms

By using this site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy below. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the site.

Privacy Policy

Overview

We respect your privacy and are committed to handling your information responsibly and transparently. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and how we keep it secure.

1. Information We Collect

We practice data minimization: we collect only what we need to operate and improve the service and to understand engagement, and we intentionally avoid information that could identify an individual seeker.

• Questions & Answers: the text of the questions you submit and the responses generated, together with topic tags (such as the study style and life-issue categories you select). These question–answer pairs are stored to improve the service and as an aggregated corpus of Bible-study questions.
• Approximate Location: your approximate city, region/state, and country, estimated from your IP address at the network edge. We do not store your IP address in our own systems, and we do not collect your street address or precise GPS coordinates. Approximate location may be associated with the questions submitted (for research and analytics), but it is never tied to your name, email, IP address, or any identifier that would single you out as an individual.
• Coarse Device & Language Data: your language preference, time-zone offset, and whether you are on a mobile or desktop device. We do not build a device fingerprint.
• Source Channel: how you arrived (e.g., a campaign’s UTM tags or a referring site), so we can measure outreach. We do not use advertising click identifiers (such as Google or Meta ad IDs).
• Engagement & Diagnostic Data: non-identifying usage events such as sessions, time on site, scroll depth, features used, shares, and anonymous error reports.
• A Rotating Analytics Identifier: a random, first-party identifier that lets us measure return visits and retention. It automatically expires and rotates approximately every 12 months and is never tied to your name, email, phone number, IP address, advertising ID, or precise location.

We do not collect names, email addresses (unless you choose to email us), phone numbers, account credentials, street addresses, precise GPS coordinates, or advertising/cross-site tracking identifiers, and we do not store your IP address in our own databases. We do not run advertising on this site or use advertising trackers.

A note on the questions you submit: question text may contain whatever you choose to include. Because questions about faith can be sensitive, we deliberately keep them detached from any identifiable person and stored at the cohort level only. Please avoid including personal details (such as your name, location, or contact information) you do not wish to have recorded.

Safety tools (help against trafficking and forced labour) — added 2026-09-26

• What you type into the job-offer check, the private chat or the witness report (and any screenshot) is sent to our server and to our AI provider, OpenAI, to write the answer. We do not store it. Questions you ask on the main page are also sent to OpenAI to write the answer.
• We keep only anonymous counts (which tool, language, country, risk level) with no identifier.
• If a question seems to describe trafficking, abuse or self-harm, we do not store its words or send them to our analytics providers.
• If you choose to share a job offer to warn others, we keep its text for up to 12 months to spot repeated scams, and may share patterns from it, never your identity, with anti-trafficking organisations. Remove your own name and number first.
• The Safe Journey Card is made on your phone and is not sent to us.
• The AI is not a person, a hotline or an emergency service. If you are in danger, call your local emergency number.
• Full details: our safeguarding approach.
• Added 2026-10-09: weekly safety check-ins on Telegram (only if you turn them on). We keep your Telegram chat number, your family contact's chat number, your country and any details you choose to leave, encrypted. We send those details to your family contact only if you reply 2 or stop replying. Send /home to delete everything; check-ins nobody uses are deleted after 400 days.
• Job-offer and contract checks keep a few anonymous facts for 12 months (country, type of job, warning signs, and scrambled codes made from phone numbers and agency names, which cannot be turned back into them), so we can spot scams that repeat and warn people. Never the text, the photo or who you are.
• If a Telegram group adds our bot, it reads job posts in that group only to point out warning signs; it keeps the group's id and counts, never the messages. If you message our WhatsApp number, your number is used only to reply and is never stored.
• Morning verses and Freedom ambassador warnings on Telegram: we keep your chat number and language only to send the messages you asked for. Send /stop to delete them.
• The fake-job game, the one-question survey and church poster scans are counted anonymously.

2. How We Use the Data

• Operate and maintain the service
• Secure the platform against misuse or malicious activity
• Improve features, performance, and user experience
• Understand global trends in Bible study questions and engagement
• Measure retention and the effectiveness of outreach at the cohort level (never the individual level)
• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
• Generate aggregated and/or anonymized insights for research and analytics

We do not use your data for advertising, and we do not run ads on this site.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

For users in the EEA, our legal basis is legitimate interest in operating, securing, and improving the service, analyzing usage trends, and complying with applicable laws. In some cases, processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations.

4. Data Sharing & Disclosure

• Service Providers: trusted vendors who help us run the service (e.g., hosting and product-analytics providers) under data-protection agreements. This includes the questions you submit and the responses generated, together with usage and approximate-location data, processed on our behalf to operate and improve the service. We do not share your IP address, and this information is tied only to a rotating, non-identifying identifier — never to your name, email, or phone number.
• Legal Compliance: when required by law, court order, or government request.
• Business Transactions: if there is a sale, merger, acquisition, or other transfer of ownership, the limited, privacy-preserving data we hold (including the aggregated question corpus and cohort-level usage data) may transfer to the acquiring entity, which will honor this policy or notify you of material changes.

We do not and will not sell personal data as defined by the CCPA, and we do not re-identify, or attempt to re-identify, the people behind the data we hold.

5. Data Retention and Storage

The rotating analytics identifier expires and rotates approximately every 12 months. Question–answer pairs and aggregated/cohort-level data may be retained for research, analysis, and product improvement, but are kept detached from any identifiable person. Data is stored on secure servers (in the United States and/or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate) under appropriate security measures and contractual safeguards.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction (e.g., GDPR/CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or export data. Because we collect coarse, cohort-level data and do not hold identifiers such as your name, email, IP address, or precise location, we are generally unable to link stored data back to a specific individual, which may limit how these rights apply. You may contact us anytime regarding data concerns.

7. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect data. However, no internet service is 100% secure; you use this site at your own risk.

8. Children’s Privacy

This site is not directed toward children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from minors. If we learn we have collected information from a child under 13, we will promptly delete it. If you believe a child has provided data, please contact us immediately.

9. International Data Transfers

Data may be processed in countries other than your own. By using this site, you consent to such transfers in compliance with applicable laws.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update these Terms and this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in practices, technology, or legal requirements. We will revise the “Last Updated” date above. Your continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance.

11. Contact Us

Questions? Contact us