Privacy Policy — Cadence

Cadence is a Bible reading plan app. This policy explains what the app collects, why it collects it, who else sees it, and how to get rid of it.

The short version: Cadence collects the minimum it needs to give you a reading plan that follows you between devices. There is no advertising, no analytics or tracking SDK, no third-party profiling, and nothing is sold.

1. What we collect

Your email address. You sign in by asking for a link sent to your email. There is no password. Your email address is held by our authentication provider (Supabase) and stored alongside your profile so we can identify your account.

Your reading plans. The name of each plan, the books and passages it covers, the date each day falls on, and which readings you have marked as done. This is what makes your progress and your streak work.

Your app preferences. Your chosen translation, reader layout, text size and font, whether the daily reminder is on, the time you set for it, and your device’s timezone. The timezone is used only to decide which calendar day counts as “today” for you.

Group information, if you join a group. The display name you choose for that group (which does not have to be your real name), which group you are in, whether you have turned progress sharing on, and your own copy of the group’s plan.

Group messages and reactions. Anything you post in a group discussion, which day of the plan it relates to, what it is a reply to, and any emoji reactions you add. Other members of that group can see these.

Moderation records. If you block another reader or report a message, we store that so we can act on it and keep the block in effect.

A push notification token, if you enable reminders, so that notifications can be delivered to your device.

Basic operational logs. Our servers record ordinary request information (such as timestamps, IP address and error details) as part of running and securing the service.

What we do not collect

We do not use any analytics, advertising or tracking SDK.
We do not collect your contacts, location, photos, or device identifiers for advertising.
We do not ask for your name, date of birth, address, or payment details.
We never see or store your password, because there isn’t one.

2. Why we collect it

What	Why
Email address	To sign you in and to identify your account
Plans and completion marks	To show you today’s reading, your progress and your streak
Preferences and timezone	To make the app work the way you set it up, on any device
Group membership and display name	So the group can show who is in it
Messages and reactions	To deliver group discussion
Progress sharing setting	To decide whether the group can see that you finished a day
Blocks and reports	To enforce a block and to review reported content
Push token	To send the daily reminder you asked for
Operational logs	To keep the service running, debug faults and prevent abuse

3. Who can see your reading progress

By default, nobody. When you create or join a group, Cadence asks whether the group may see when you finish a day, and the answer defaults to no. If you leave it off, other members of the group see your display name and nothing about your reading. If you turn it on, they can see whether you have finished each day’s reading and you count towards the group’s daily total; your streak and your day-by-day calendar are still not shared. You can change this at any time in the group’s screen.

Groups are reachable only by an invite code. There is no public directory of groups, and no way to search for a person.

We use a small number of service providers to run Cadence. We do not sell data to anyone, and none of these providers are advertising networks.

Supabase — handles sign-in and sends the sign-in link to your email, and hosts the database that stores your plans, groups and messages.

Anthropic — when you use the “describe your plan” feature, the description you type is sent to Anthropic’s API to generate the schedule. Only the text of that description is sent. Your email address, your plans, your progress and your group messages are not. If you would rather not have any text leave the app this way, use the four-step manual builder instead — it generates your plan entirely on our own servers.

Crossway (the ESV API) and API.Bible — supply the Bible text you read. When you open a reading, the passage reference (for example “John 3”) is sent to whichever service provides your chosen translation. Your identity is not sent with it; the request comes from our server, not from your device.

Our hosting provider — runs the API servers and processes data on our behalf.

Expo’s push notification service — delivers reminder notifications to your device, if you have turned them on.

Each of these processes data on our instructions. We may also disclose information where we are legally required to.

5. Where data is stored

Cadence’s database and servers are hosted in the United States. If you are outside the United States, your information will be transferred there in order to run the service.

6. Deleting your data

You can delete your account from Settings → Delete account in the app. This is immediate and permanent. It removes:

your account and profile,
every plan you have made and everything you have marked done,
your group memberships,
your messages and reactions,
your push notification tokens, and
any groups you created — which deletes them for everyone else in them too.

The app tells you all of this before you confirm.

If you would rather ask us to delete your account for you, email support@cadencebible.app from the address you signed up with.

You can also delete an individual message you posted, or an individual plan, without deleting your account.

7. How long we keep things

Your plans, groups and messages are kept for as long as your account exists, and are deleted when you delete your account. Operational logs are kept only as long as we need them to run and secure the service, and are then discarded.

8. Children

Cadence is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.

9. Security

Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit. Your sign-in session is held in your device’s secure storage. Sign-in is by emailed link, so there is no password to be reused or stolen. No system is perfectly secure, but we do not store anything we do not need.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal information, and to object to or restrict how we use it. You can exercise most of these directly in the app; for anything else, email support@cadencebible.app.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the “last updated” date at the top of this page. If a change materially affects how we handle your information, we will make that clear in the app.

12. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about your data: support@cadencebible.app.