Privacy & cookies

Your privacy

Study Bible is a free Bible study website run by Bernie. This page explains what it keeps about you, why, and what you can do about it. For questions or requests, email admin@studybible.uk.

Last updated 10 November 2026.

Reading without an account

You can read, search and explore the Bible without signing in. Notes, highlights and saved passages you make as a guest stay in your browser on your own device; they are not sent to the site.

If you create an account

Study Bible keeps:

• your email address, to send you sign-in links and to identify your account;
• when you joined and when you last signed in;
• what you save while signed in: notes, highlights, saved passages, recently read passages, your reading plan, your bookmark and the AI explanations you ask for;
• how many AI requests you have made and their approximate cost, so daily limits can be applied.

The site administrator can see your email address, when you joined and last signed in, and your AI use. Your notes and highlights are not shown to the administrator.

Signing in

Sign-in links work once and expire after 15 minutes. To stop the sign-in form being misused, the site keeps a scrambled (hashed) record of each address that asked for a link, and when, for 24 hours. Signing in sets one cookie, described under Cookies and browser storage.

Page visits

To help run the site, each page visit is logged for 30 days: the time; the page and passage; whether you were signed in, and if so your email address; your browser, operating system and type of device (worked out from the description your browser sends); the website you came from; and your network (IP) address with its last part removed, so it points to a neighbourhood of addresses rather than to you. Visits from search engines and other automated tools are not recorded.

AI answers

When you ask the study companion or the look-up a question, the passage, its surrounding chapter and your question are sent to OpenAI, which writes the answer. Your email address and account details are not sent. The site asks OpenAI not to store the request, and OpenAI says it does not use data sent this way to train its models; it may keep it for a short time to detect abuse. Please don’t put personal details in your questions. Answers you ask for while signed in are saved in your account so you can come back to them.

Who else handles your information

• 20i, a UK web host, runs the website and stores its data.
• Microsoft 365 sends the sign-in emails.
• OpenAI writes the AI answers; this can involve processing in the United States.

Your information is never sold or used for advertising. The site has no analytics, advertising or social media trackers, and its pages load nothing from other websites.

Why it is used

Your account and what you save are used to provide the service you asked for. The visit log and sign-in records are kept because there is a legitimate interest in running the site securely and understanding how it is used.

How long it is kept

• Your account and everything saved in it: until you delete your account.
• Page visits: 30 days.
• Records of sign-in requests: 24 hours. Sign-in links: 15 minutes.
• The sign-in cookie: 30 days, or until you sign out.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete the information held about you, or object to how it is used. You can delete your account yourself at any time on the Account page; that removes your account and everything saved in it, and removes your email address from the visit log. For anything else, email admin@studybible.uk. If you are unhappy with the answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Cookies and browser storage

Study Bible sets one cookie, and only when you sign in: __Host-still_session. It keeps you signed in for 30 days and is removed when you sign out. It is strictly necessary for signing in, so the site doesn’t ask for consent and shows no cookie banner. There are no analytics or advertising cookies.

The site also uses your browser’s own storage to remember, on your device, your guest notes, highlights, saved passages, recent passages, bookmark and the last passage you read. You can clear it at any time in your browser’s settings.

Children

Study Bible is not intended for children under 13.

Changes to this page

If anything here changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will show when.