Privacy

Privacy

Via Patrum does not collect personal data, on this website or in the Via Patrum app for iPhone and iPad.

The app

The app has no account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. It downloads the library and audio from viapatrum.org and keeps them on your device so you can read and listen offline. Your reading settings stay on your device. Nothing you read or listen to is sent to us.

This website

The website uses no tracking scripts and no tracking cookies. It remembers your light or dark theme and your Bible choice in your browser's own storage, which never leaves your device.

Before a download, a quick check by Cloudflare Turnstile makes sure you are a person and not a bot. Turnstile looks at standard signals such as your IP address and browser (Turnstile privacy notice). Once you pass, the site sets two small cookies that last two hours, so your next downloads start at once. They hold no name or account and are not used to track you. Reading, listening and searching need no check and set no cookies.

Like any web host, Cloudflare, which serves the site, briefly keeps standard request logs for security and reliability.

Search and Ask

When you search, in the app or on this site, or ask a question on the Ask page, the words you type go to viapatrum.org, and Cloudflare, which runs the site, uses them to find matching passages. When Ask cannot answer a question well, we keep the question, with no name or address, so we know which passages to add.

The games

The games at play.viapatrum.org keep your progress and streak in your browser's own storage, which never leaves your device. Their pages load fonts from Google Fonts, and Ten Leopards loads game code from jsDelivr and Polyfork. Those services see the request, as any web server does, and have their own privacy policies.

Bibles read online

When you choose the NIV, NASB, NIrV, Amplified, ASV or Geneva Bible, in the app or on this site, your device asks the YouVersion Platform for that chapter. On this site the ESV and CSB come from bolls.life the same way. Those services see the request, as any web server does, and have their own privacy policies (YouVersion). The other Bibles are part of the app and this site and need no outside request.

Links you choose to open

A Report a mistake link opens your own email app, addressed to hi@saneapps.com; nothing is sent until you send it. Links to GitHub or to netbible.org open those sites, which have their own privacy policies.

Questions

Email hi@saneapps.com.