Effective May 27, 2026 · Last updated July 5, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Voryn Software ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares information when you use the Forge Study Bible mobile app, the macOS app, the website at forgestudybible.com, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). It applies to all users of the Service, including readers, family leaders, group members, pastors, and church leaders. If a feature of the Service has its own additional privacy notice, that notice will apply in addition to this policy.
Some of the information described above is treated as "sensitive" or "special-category" data under applicable laws, including:
We rely on your explicit consent — given when you create an account, opt into recording, or add a family member — as the lawful basis for processing this information in regions where consent is required (including the EEA, the UK, and US states that classify it as sensitive). You can withdraw that consent at any time by deleting the relevant content or your account.
Several features of the Service use third-party large-language-model and speech-to-text providers to generate responses for you. When you use these features, we send the necessary content to the provider as follows:
| Feature | What we send | Provider |
|---|---|---|
| Ask Forge chat | Your message, the recent messages in that conversation, the system prompt with our theological guardrails, and a summary of your recent Forge activity that is pre-loaded automatically into every conversation today — your display name, short snippets of your recent reflections, and samples of your active prayer-request text. If you ask a question that needs more detail, Ask Forge can also retrieve and send the fuller text of your chapter notes, reflections, prayer requests, memorization items, or a sermon transcript you reference. We are building an explicit, per-conversation consent step for this activity context; until it ships, using Ask Forge means this activity summary is included automatically, as described here. | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Verse commentary | The verse reference and Scripture text, plus the system prompt | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Personal study builder | Your prompt, plan style, and target length | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Family Worship plan builder | Your prompt, plan style, target length, and — for each family member represented in your family — their display name (typically a first name) and current age in years, so the plan can be written at the right level for each child. We do not send birthdates, photos, or any other information about a child to the AI provider. | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Session extraction (outline, highlights, summary, Scripture references) | The transcript of the recording you submitted | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Year-end review narrative | Aggregated annual statistics (counts and totals); we do not send the full text of your reflections or journals | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Audio transcription (sermon, devotional, prayer, memorization) | The audio file you recorded | Deepgram |
We instruct these providers to process your content only to return the requested response and not to retain it for model training, in accordance with the data-processing terms we have with them. AI-generated content is a study aid and may be incomplete, inaccurate, or unconventional; it should always be weighed against Scripture and discussed with your pastor or trusted teachers.
We use the following service providers to operate the Service. We share with each provider only the information needed for it to perform its function, and we require contractual safeguards around that data.
| Provider | Purpose | Categories of data |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Authentication, database, storage, edge-function hosting, and delivery of authentication-related emails (e.g., password resets and account confirmations) | All categories described in Section 2, including your email address for authentication emails |
| Vercel | Website hosting and API hosting | Request metadata; data submitted through web forms |
| Anthropic | AI generation (Claude) | Inputs to AI features (see Section 5) |
| Deepgram | Speech-to-text transcription | Audio recordings you create and submit for transcription |
| Apple | App Store and Mac App Store distribution, in-app purchases, receipts, and Apple Push Notification service | Subscription events; APNs device tokens; notification payloads |
| Sentry | Error monitoring and crash reporting | Stack traces, breadcrumbs, app/device version, user identifier |
We may change subprocessors from time to time; we will update this list when we do.
Some content is shared with other users when you choose to share it:
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own advertising or marketing.
We may create and use de-identified or aggregated data derived from how the Service is used — for example, total minutes spent in study sessions, the most-bookmarked passages across the user base, retention statistics, or AI-feature quality metrics. We use this data to operate, secure, evaluate, and improve the Service, to publish high-level statistics, and to develop new features.
"De-identified" means the data has been processed so it no longer identifies, and cannot reasonably be linked back to, an individual user, household, or device. We commit to maintaining the de-identified status of this data, not to attempt to re-identify it, and to require the same of anyone we share it with. De-identified and aggregated data is not "personal information" under this policy and may be retained and used after your account is deleted.
We take a careful posture on artificial-intelligence training:
We retain your information for as long as your account is active and for the periods necessary to operate the Service:
You can delete your account from Account → Profile → Delete Account, or by emailing us. Deletion removes your profile, study content, recordings, group memberships, and Family Worship participation. Some records described above are retained for the limited purposes stated, and de-identified or aggregated data survives deletion.
Forge Study Bible is intended for users who are at least 13 years old. We do not knowingly allow children under 13 to create their own Forge accounts.
Family Worship is the one place where information about a child under 13 may be entered into the Service, and only by the child's parent or legal guardian. When a parent or guardian creates a child profile in Family Worship, we collect: the child's display name, birthdate, an optional avatar emoji selection, and (during use of Family Worship) the child's attendance, takeaway notes, and prayer requests if those are recorded by the family leader.
By creating a child profile, the parent or guardian confirms that they are the child's parent or legal guardian, that they have authority to provide this information, and that they consent to our collection and use of this information solely to operate Family Worship for that family. We do not require or knowingly collect any other personal information from children. We do not condition a child's participation in any activity on disclosing more information than is reasonably necessary. We do not use child profile information for marketing or to send communications to the child.
When a family leader uses the Family Worship plan builder, we send each family member's display name and current age in years — not their birthdate, photo, or any other information — to our AI provider (Anthropic) so the generated plan can be pitched at the right level for each child. See Section 5 for the full list of what AI features send.
A parent or guardian may at any time review the information stored about their child, delete the child's profile, or contact us at hello@forgestudybible.com to request access, correction, or deletion of any child-related information.
If we learn that we have collected information from a child under 13 outside the Family Worship parent-attestation framework described above, we will delete that information promptly. To report a concern, contact hello@forgestudybible.com.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
We do not "sell" or "share" personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under California, Colorado, Connecticut, and other US state privacy laws. We do not engage in profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects about you.
To exercise any of these rights, contact hello@forgestudybible.com. We may need to verify your identity before responding. Authorized agents may submit requests with documented authority.
We protect your information with measures including HTTPS encryption in transit, encryption at rest by our hosting providers, password hashing, row-level-security policies in our database, signed URLs for private audio, and least-privilege access for our team. No system is perfectly secure; if we become aware of a security incident affecting your information, we will notify you and applicable regulators as required by law.
The Service is operated from the United States, and your information is processed in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate. If you access the Service from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions that may have different data-protection laws. Where required, we rely on standard contractual clauses or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the app, by email, or by prominent notice on this page before the changes take effect. The "Effective" date at the top of this page indicates when the current version took effect.
For privacy questions or to exercise your rights:
Voryn Software — Forge Study Bible
hello@forgestudybible.com