Effective Date: July 25, 2026
Welcome to VerseBeacon. We value your trust and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and safeguard your data when you use our mobile application and related services. By accessing or using VerseBeacon, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information:
When you create an account, we may collect your name, email address, authentication details, account settings, and other information needed to operate your account.
User-Generated Input:
To provide personalized experiences, we collect the text, feelings, spiritual topics, reflections, moods, saved verses, recommendation history, or prompts you choose to input into the App.
Voice Input:
VerseBeacon may request access to your microphone so you can speak a prompt instead of typing it. Voice input is optional. Speech recognition is used to convert your spoken words into text, which is then inserted into the prompt input box for your review and editing before submission.
VerseBeacon does not store audio recordings, does not save voice files, and does not upload raw audio recordings to our servers. Once your speech is converted into text, the recognized text is treated the same way as typed input if you choose to submit it.
On some devices, speech recognition may be processed by your device operating system or platform speech recognition services, such as Apple or Google, according to your device settings and their respective privacy practices.
Sensitive Data Notice:
Because VerseBeacon provides personalized Scripture recommendations and spiritual encouragement, your prompts may include personal feelings or life situations. This information is used to provide app features such as Bible verse recommendations and AI-assisted responses. We advise against inputting highly sensitive medical, legal, financial, or emergency-related information.
Usage Data:
We may automatically collect data on how you interact with the App, including followed topics, saved verses, reminder settings, feature usage, session duration, app performance data, crash information, device type, operating system, and general diagnostic information.
Subscription Data:
We use third-party processors, including RevenueCat, Apple, and Google, to handle subscriptions. We do not store your credit card information on our servers.
We use your information to:
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We only share information where necessary to operate VerseBeacon, provide app features, comply with legal obligations, or protect our rights and users.
Infrastructure:
We use Google Firebase and related Google Cloud services for authentication, data storage, cloud functions, storage, notifications, app infrastructure, and related backend services.
AI Processing:
We may use Google Vertex AI/Gemini or other AI service providers to process submitted text prompts and generate app responses.
Speech Recognition:
Voice input may be processed by device-level or platform-level speech recognition services, such as Apple or Google, depending on your device and operating system. VerseBeacon does not store or upload raw audio recordings to its own servers.
Payments:
We use RevenueCat, Apple App Store, and Google Play Store for subscription management, purchase verification, entitlement management, and restore purchase functionality.
Legal Requirements:
We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, government request, or where necessary to protect our legal rights, users, services, security, or safety.
We implement reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect your information, including encryption in transit, access controls, authentication safeguards, and service-provider security measures where appropriate. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Your information may be transferred to, processed, and maintained on servers located in Canada, the United States, or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate. Data protection laws in those jurisdictions may differ from those in your location.
We retain personal information and user data only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide VerseBeacon’s services, maintain user accounts, provide app functionality, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, protect security, and improve app reliability.
Account information, such as your name, email address, authentication information, subscription status, app settings, saved verses, reminders, recommendation history, Creator Studio records, and related user preferences, is retained while your VerseBeacon account remains active.
User-generated input, including typed prompts, voice-converted text prompts, selected moods, reflections, saved content, and AI-assisted recommendation history, may be retained while your account remains active so that the App can provide personalized features, saved history, reminders, spiritual insights, Creator Studio records, and account continuity.
Voice input is optional. VerseBeacon does not store audio recordings, does not save voice files, and does not upload raw audio recordings to our servers. If speech is converted into text and you choose to submit that text, the submitted text is treated the same as typed input and may be retained according to this Data Retention section.
Temporary files generated for app features, such as video rendering output, cached media, thumbnails, or temporary processing files, may be retained for the limited period needed to complete the requested feature, support retry or download functionality, maintain app stability, or perform routine system cleanup. Some rendered content may be overwritten or deleted automatically when newer content is generated or when it is no longer needed.
Subscription and purchase-related records may be retained for as long as necessary to manage premium access, verify purchases, handle refunds or disputes, prevent fraud, maintain accounting records, and comply with App Store, Google Play, RevenueCat, tax, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Diagnostic logs, crash reports, security logs, and abuse-prevention records may be retained for a limited period as needed to maintain app security, investigate technical issues, prevent misuse, and improve reliability.
When you delete your account through the App Settings > Delete Account menu, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with your VerseBeacon account, unless we are required or permitted to retain certain information for legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, backup, accounting, or compliance purposes.
Residual copies of deleted information may remain in encrypted backups or system logs for a limited period before being automatically deleted or overwritten according to our service providers’ backup and retention practices.
Aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify you may be retained and used for analytics, app improvement, security, reporting, and service development purposes.
VerseBeacon integrates with third-party platforms for authentication, cloud storage, AI processing, speech recognition, analytics, payments, subscriptions, notifications, and app infrastructure. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external services and encourage you to review their respective privacy policies.
Third-party services may include, but are not limited to:
Access & Update:
You can modify your profile details within the App settings where available.
Voice Input Control:
Voice input is optional. You may choose not to use the microphone feature and may type your prompt manually instead. You can also manage microphone permissions through your device settings.
Notifications:
You may enable, disable, or adjust app notifications and reminders through the App settings or your device settings.
Opt-Out:
You may opt out of promotional emails at any time via the “Unsubscribe” link, where applicable.
Account Deletion:
You may request full account and data deletion directly through the App Settings > Delete Account menu. When your request is processed, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with your VerseBeacon account, subject to limited retention where required or permitted for legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, backup, accounting, or compliance purposes.
Subscription Management:
Deleting your VerseBeacon account does not automatically cancel an active App Store or Google Play subscription. You must manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings.
As an Ontario-based service, we comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Users may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about them, request corrections where appropriate, withdraw consent where applicable, and challenge our compliance with applicable privacy obligations.
VerseBeacon is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate consent where required by law. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the App, please contact us so we can review and take appropriate action.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Changes may be notified through an in-app alert, app update notes, or an updated “Effective Date” on this page. Continued use of the App after changes means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
For questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact our Privacy Officer at:
Email: privacy@jdeglobal.com
