Privacy PolicyUpdated November 11, 2026.
Introduction
DisciPals ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, stored, and shared when you use the DisciPals app for iPhone and iPad, visit our website, or contact support.
Information We Collect
Account Information
When you create and use an account, we collect information such as your email address, display name, a profile photo if you add one, your password in a protected (hashed) form, authentication/session identifiers, and account ID.
App Usage and Study Data
We process your reading progress, reading plan activity, reading streaks, highlights, notes, bookmarks, milestones, translation selection, and related app preferences so core app features work as expected. Notes are always private to you.
Pals and Shared Content
If you use Pals, we process your Pal connections, invite codes and requests, the readings, highlights, streaks and milestones you share, emoji reactions, comments and replies, blocks, and reports. Your display name, profile color and profile photo are visible to your Pals. On a shared Pal’s post, people who are not your Pals can see your name, your comment and your photo, unless you choose to hide your photo from non-Pals.
Notification Data
If you enable Pals notifications, we process an app-specific push token for your device and your notification preferences so notifications can be delivered and turned off correctly. Verse of the Day and reading reminder notifications are scheduled on your device based on your notification preferences and do not require sending additional data to our servers.
Technical Data
We may process technical information needed to operate and secure the service, such as device type, operating system, app version, IP address, and request metadata.
Support and Website Messages
When you contact us, we receive the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, message topic, and message content.
How We Use Your Information
- Provide, operate, and improve DisciPals
- Authenticate accounts with your email and password, and with codes sent to your email
- Sync your personal study data when online
- Provide Pals: private connections, shared reading activity, reactions and comments
- Deliver notifications you choose to enable
- Review shared content and profile photos for safety, moderation, and abuse prevention
- Maintain account security and prevent abuse
- Respond to support requests and service issues
- Comply with legal obligations
Data Storage and Security
We use cloud infrastructure and managed authentication/database services, including Supabase, to store and process service data. We use safeguards including encrypted transport (HTTPS/TLS), access controls, and protections that limit each account’s data to that account and, for what you share, to your Pals.
No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal information or use it for third-party targeted advertising. We may share data only as needed to:
- Operate authentication, database, hosting, email, push notification, content-safety, and support-message services
- Comply with law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable requests
- Protect rights, safety, and security of users and the service
Push notifications are delivered through Apple. Account emails, such as sign-in codes, are sent through our email service provider. Profile photos are checked by an automated image-safety service before they are shown. Website contact submissions are processed through our form service provider. These providers process information under their own terms and privacy practices.
Local Device Storage and Offline Data
DisciPals stores some information locally on your device to support offline use and a continuous reading experience. This may include local copies of your preferences, reading state, notes, highlights, bookmarks, milestones, and installed translation files, and the verses shown by the Verse of the Day widget.
Session data may also be stored using secure device storage to keep you signed in. When your device is online, relevant data may sync with our backend.
Camera access, when you allow it, is used on your device to scan a Pal’s invite code. DisciPals does not store or send camera images to our servers. A profile photo you choose is uploaded only when you set it.
Information Shared With Pals
Pals are private: you become Pals only when both of you agree, by an invite code, link or QR code, or by a request. What you share with your Pals, such as finished readings, highlights, streaks, milestones, reactions and comments, can be seen by your Pals, and your comments on a Pal’s post can be seen by that Pal’s other Pals. You choose in the app whether finished readings, streaks and highlights are shared; notes are never shared. You can delete what you posted, remove or block a Pal, and report content. Do not share information that you do not want your Pals to see.
Your Rights and Choices
You may:
- Access and update profile details in-app
- Delete your account in-app
- Sign out and remove local session access on your device
- Enable or disable notification permissions and preferences
- Choose what your Pals see, remove or block a Pal, and delete what you shared
- Contact us with privacy requests or questions
Data Retention
We retain account and synced app data while your account is active and as needed to provide the service. Some records may be retained for a limited period when reasonably necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or reliable backup handling. Content may be removed earlier when you delete it, subject to those limited exceptions.
Account Deletion
You can delete your account from Settings in the app, after confirming that you want to. Once deletion is completed, account data is removed from active systems, subject to the limited security, legal, and backup exceptions described above.
Bible Content Providers
Scripture text in DisciPals is provided through API.Bible sources for currently supported translations, which at this time include NIV, NLT, NKJV, the World English Bible (US), and the American Standard Version.
Children's Privacy
DisciPals is rated 4+ on the Apple App Store. The service is not directed to children under 13 without parent or guardian involvement. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in violation of applicable law.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the last-updated date at the top of this page and provide additional notice when appropriate.
Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact support at support@discipals.com.