Red Letter Rebels
Privacy Policy
Red Letter Rebels: Daily Verses ("Red Letter Rebels") is a Scripture reading app published by Gratia Dei LLC ("we"). This policy explains what the app does and does not collect. The short version: the app has no accounts, cannot identify you, and works entirely on your device except for the few optional features listed below.
What stays on your device
Your favorites, chosen topics, theme, notification settings, and reading position are stored only on your device. We cannot see them. Deleting the app deletes them.
What the app sends, and when
| Feature | What is sent | When | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email updates (optional) | The email address you type | Only on the website at rlr.gratia-dei.com — the app never asks for it | To send one message when the app launches. Nothing is sent if you don't enter one. |
| Passage updates | Nothing about you — a request for the latest verse collection | Roughly once a day when online | To download new passages so the app stays fresh without an update |
| Chapter reader | The book and chapter you tap "Read chapter" on | Only when you tap it | To fetch the full chapter text from bible-api.com (World English Bible) |
| Reading groups (optional) | The group's join code, a second random ID for your installation (the group ID below), and that your installation read the day's verse — never a name, message or profile | Only if you create or join a group | So the group can show "4 of 5 read this today" |
| Engagement counts | Which verse was hearted, un-hearted, or shared, which topics were picked, which denomination was searched — tagged with a random ID your device generates on first launch (the engagement ID below) | As you use those features | To learn which verses and topics people love most, and to avoid counting one person twice |
| Church finder | Nothing from this app | When you tap "Find churches near me" | The app opens your Maps app with a search. Maps — not Red Letter Rebels — asks for your location. We never access, store, or transmit your device's location. |
About the random IDs
There are two of them, and they are separate. Both are created on your device. Neither is your name, email, phone number, advertising identifier, or any account. Neither is ever used to contact you or to build a profile of you. Neither is shared with advertisers, and neither ever will be.
The engagement ID is made on first launch and tags the engagement counts above, so we can tell which verses and topics people love most without counting one person twice. We use it only to run and analyse the app itself.
The group ID is made only if you create or join a reading group. It is sent with every group request so the group can count how many of its members have read today. It is not the engagement ID, we never link the two, and it carries nothing about you beyond "this installation is a member of this group."
You can switch the engagement counts off at any time in Settings, under "Contribute anonymous counts." Doing so stops those counts and deletes the engagement ID from your device. It does not delete the group ID — that would silently break the group you are in, so the switch deliberately leaves it alone. To be rid of the group ID, leave the group: that deletes your membership on our side too, and it is the only way to remove it from our records. Deleting the app removes both IDs from your device. Either way, starting again generates new ones.
The daily reader count
Once a day, when online, the app tells us that *someone* read a verse. It sends no identifier at all — not the engagement ID, not the group ID, not a device name, nothing. The count is kept as a daily total, and the country is worked out from the connection itself and stored only as a number. There is no row anywhere that says you read today, which is also why we could not remove one if you asked.
You can switch it off in Settings under "Contribute anonymous counts."
What we do not collect
No name. No account. No password. No contacts. No advertising identifiers. No tracking across other apps or websites. No analytics SDKs from other companies. No location from your device — we never ask your device where it is.
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it for advertising.
One thing we cannot avoid: like every app that connects to the internet, requests reach a server carrying your IP address. Supabase and bible-api.com necessarily see it when the app talks to them. We do not store your IP address and we never attach it to anything else in this policy.
We do take one thing from it. When the app sends the daily reader ping, the server reads which country the connection came from and adds one to that country's total for the day. That is the whole of it: a country, and a number per day. The address itself is not kept, the country is not kept against you, and there is no row anywhere that says you read from anywhere.
Where data is stored, and for how long
| Data | Where | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Email addresses (only if you entered one on the website) | Supabase (cloud database hosting, USA) | Until you ask us to remove it |
| Engagement counts + engagement ID | Supabase | 24 months, then deleted |
| Reading group membership (the group's join code + your group ID) | Supabase | Until you leave the group. Leaving deletes your membership row, and the last member leaving deletes the group itself |
| Reading group daily records (which verse a group had on a day, and which members read it) | Supabase | 7 days, then deleted |
| Chapter text requests | bible-api.com, not stored by us | Not retained by us |
If you use the app outside the United States, this means your information is processed in the United States.
Where the law requires us to name a basis for handling this information, ours is our legitimate interest in running, maintaining and improving the app. You can object to it at the address above, and you can avoid it entirely by not using the optional features.
Your choices and your rights
- The app never asks for your email. If you gave one on the website, write to the address above and we will remove it.
- Turn notifications off at any time in Settings.
- Turn off engagement counts in Settings — "Contribute anonymous counts." Nothing further is sent, the daily reader ping stops too, and the engagement ID is deleted from your device. Your reading group is not affected: its separate group ID stays, because deleting it would break the group.
- Leave a reading group whenever you like, in Settings under "Read together." That deletes your membership and your group ID from our records, and if you were the last member, the group itself goes with it.
- Uninstalling the app removes all on-device data, including both random IDs.
- To see, correct, or delete your email address, write to support@gratia-dei.com and we will act within 30 days.
An honest limit. Because the engagement ID is not connected to your name, email, or device, we have no way to find "your" engagement counts if you ask us to. We are not refusing — we genuinely cannot tell which rows are yours. That is a consequence of collecting as little as we do, and we think it is the right trade. Deleting the app stops any further counts immediately.
Children
Red Letter Rebels is a general-audience app. It is not directed to children: it has no games, no rewards, no cartoon characters, no child-focused content, and no advertising of any kind.
We do not ask anyone's age and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have, we will delete it. The app itself asks for no email address and no other contact information at any point. A parent or guardian who believes their child has provided us with information can write to support@gratia-dei.com and we will remove it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at the same address with an updated effective date. If a change materially affects what we collect, we will say so plainly at the top of this page. This policy lives at https://rlr.gratia-dei.com/privacy.