Data localization for your faith.

What stays on your device

• Your Bible reading — your place, bookmarks, highlights, saved verses and read-aloud settings.
• Your prayers and journal — every entry, every answered prayer, every testimony, private to you.
• Your reading plans and progress — streaks, goals and milestones.
• Your calendar and reminders — the personal ones you add yourself.
• Your backup — the backup is a file you save yourself, wherever you choose. It doesn't pass through us.

None of that is transmitted anywhere. You can wipe all of it from inside the app in one tap — Reset my data on the You screen.

What we actually hold

A short list, and it's short on purpose:

• Your account — the username you chose and a securely hashed PIN, so you can sign in again on a new phone. No name, no email required, no address book, no phone number.
• A consent record — when you accept the terms, we keep a dated record of that acceptance, including the approximate region derived from your connection, to honour privacy law. This is disclosed on the screen where you accept it.
• Two dates on your account — the last time you signed in, and the last day you opened the app while signed in. Two dates, overwritten each time, so we can tell how many people OurFold is actually serving. Not what you read, not how long for, not where — dates only.

That's it. We cannot read your prayers or your journal, because they were never sent to us.

Why installing matters here too

When you install OurFold to your home screen, the app and both Bible translations are copied onto your device, and OurFold stops needing the network at all. Left as an ordinary browser tab, it has to reach the site each time the browser decides to clear its storage. Installing is the difference between usually offline and actually offline — and the fewer requests leave your phone, the less there is to know about you.

This website

The site does not count you. No analytics, no cookies, no account, nothing that records which pages you read, where you arrived from, or how long you stayed.

Until recently this page said the opposite — that the site counted visits, and derived an approximate city and device from each one. It never did. The code for it was written for an earlier version of this site, pointed at an address that has never existed here, and every page view it produced went nowhere. It has now been removed, and this paragraph is the correction. We told you we collected more than we did, which is the better direction for a mistake like this to run, but it was still wrong to leave standing.

One thing does happen, because it is how the web works: Netlify hosts this site and handles your request in order to send the page back, the way any web server must. Beyond that, nothing here reaches anyone else. Every image, style and script on these pages is served from ourfold.net — there are no fonts, scripts or icons loaded from somebody else's servers, so reading this site does not announce you to a third party. None of it is joined to your account, and none of it can reach what is in the app; that was never sent to us to begin with.

When online features arrive

Connecting to a congregation, and searching for a church nearby, are still in development. When they land they'll be opt-in and clearly labelled, and anything you share with a church group will be shared on purpose, by you. The church finder will look places up through OpenStreetMap — a third-party service that sees a search, not who you are — behind its own consent step. The private core will never require any of it.