Effective 2026-08-22 · McNair Media
Rooted Bible collects no personal data. There is one exception, and only if you ask for it: notifications. It is described below.
Everything the app keeps — downloaded audio and text, playlists, saved searches, reading position, settings — is stored on your device only. There are no accounts, no sign-ins, and no analytics or advertising libraries of any kind.
The app downloads content (Scripture text, narration audio, study data) from our servers and content-delivery network. These are ordinary file downloads; we do not attach or derive any personal identifier from them. Standard web-server logs (IP address, requested file, timestamp) exist transiently for operating the service, as with any website, and are not used to profile anyone.
In Settings you can turn on Tell me about new playlists. It is off until you switch it on.
When you do, your device is issued a notification token by Google (on Android) or by your browser's push service (in the web app), and we store that token so we can send a notification to that device. The token identifies a device, not a person. We store nothing else alongside it — no name, no email, no reading history.
The notification itself carries no message. It only tells your device to check for new playlists; your device then works out what is new and writes the notification itself. So what you are shown is composed on your phone, and nothing we publish passes through Google's or Apple's servers on its way to you.
Turn the switch off and the token is deleted from our records and from your device, immediately. See deleting your data.
On phones that support it, question answering runs entirely on your device using the system's built-in AI. Nothing you read, search, or ask is sent to us or to any third party by Rooted Bible.
The app is suitable for all ages. It collects nothing from anyone unless notifications are switched on, and even then only a device notification token.
If this policy ever changes, the change will be dated here. Questions: erikmcnair.com/contact.