Terms of Use
These terms are an agreement between you and Shan ("we", "us") for the Bible DMs app. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.
1. Who can use Bible DMs
You must be at least 16, and old enough where you live to agree to these terms, or have a parent or guardian agree for you. You need an Apple or Google account to sign in. Keep your account secure: you are responsible for what happens under it.
2. Membership, free trial and payment
- Bible DMs needs a membership. New members get a 3-day free trial, then pay monthly or annually at the price shown in the app, in your currency, before you buy.
- Payment is taken by Apple or Google to your store account when you confirm the purchase, or when the trial ends if you don't cancel first.
- Memberships renew automatically for the same period and price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your store account is charged within the 24 hours before each renewal.
- Manage or cancel your membership in your App Store subscriptions or Google Play subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
- If you cancel during the trial, you won't be charged. The app doesn't remind you before the trial ends.
- Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. We can't issue them ourselves.
- When a membership ends, your sermon notes stay available to read and edit. Other features wait until you choose a plan again.
- If we change prices, Apple or Google will tell you before the change affects your renewal, as their rules require.
- Deleting your account doesn't cancel your membership. Cancel it in your store settings as well.
3. Scripture and other content
- Bible text is from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain, and the King James Version. The King James Version is in the public domain in most countries. In the United Kingdom, its rights belong to the Crown.
- Related verses come from OpenBible.info, used under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.
- Book backgrounds are marked "Background, not Scripture". Audio stories are retellings written by us and read by an AI voice, marked "A retelling, not Scripture." Neither is the Bible's own words. Each links to the real passage.
- The daily greeting and 11:11 lines are our own words. 11:11 is a moment to pause, pray and hope. Taking part, or writing an aim, doesn't make anything happen.
- The app's design, code, name, logo and our own writing belong to us. You may not copy, sell or redistribute the app or its content, other than sharing verse images as the app allows.
4. AI features
Chats, Explain, note summaries and note questions use artificial intelligence from third-party AI providers.
- Replies in Chats are written by AI and signed "Bible DMs". The AI is not a person, and it never speaks as God, Jesus or anyone in the Bible.
- AI can be wrong. It can misread a question, misremember context or give a poor answer. The app checks the verse references an AI gives and shows the real verse text, but you should read the passage for yourself.
- AI replies are not pastoral counsel, or medical, mental health, legal or financial advice, and they don't replace a pastor, doctor, counsellor or emergency service.
- If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line now. The app shows crisis help when it notices this, but it can't watch over you.
- Daily limits apply to AI features so one account can't overload the service.
5. Your content
What you write and add (notes, photos, recordings, aims, highlights and chats) stays yours. You give us permission to store, sync, process and send it to the providers in our Privacy Policy, only to run the app for you. You can delete it at any time. You are responsible for having the right to anything you add, such as a recording of someone else's sermon.
6. Acceptable use
Don't use Bible DMs to break the law; to harass, threaten or harm anyone; to try to get into other people's accounts or our systems; to overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the app or its AI features; or to get around membership or usage limits.
7. Ending your use
You can stop using the app and delete your account at any time in Profile. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, and will tell you why where we can. We may also change or stop features, or the app, and will give reasonable notice of anything significant.
8. Disclaimers
We work hard to make Bible DMs reliable, but it is provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we don't promise that it will always be available, error-free, or suited to a particular purpose. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that can't be excluded.
9. Limitation of liability
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of data, profits or goodwill. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for Bible DMs in the 12 months before the claim. This doesn't limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit.
10. Apple and Google
These terms are between you and us, not Apple or Google. We, not Apple or Google, are responsible for the app, its support and any claims about it. Apple and Google have no obligation to provide maintenance or support. If the app doesn't meet a warranty that applies, you may tell Apple or Google, and they may refund the purchase price. Apart from that, they have no warranty obligation. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm that you are not in a country under a US government embargo and are not on a US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes will go to the courts of Tamil Nadu, India, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring them in your own courts.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using the app after that, you accept the new terms.
13. Contact
Shan
Tamil Nadu, India
support@bibledms.com