Privacy

Last updated 7 November 2026

People bring very personal things to Adullam: prayers, grief, marriages, money, doubts. This page says plainly what happens to what you write here. Adullam is run by [operator name], who is responsible for your data. Questions go to hello@adullum.app.

The short version

• What you keep here is yours. Nobody else using Adullam can see it, and every request is checked on our server to be yours.
• No ads, no tracking, no analytics, and we never sell or share your data for marketing.
• Aquila is an AI. To answer you, what you write to her is sent to OpenAI, our AI provider.
• You can download everything, or delete your account and everything in it, from Settings at any time.

What we keep

• Your account: your email, the name Aquila calls you, your settings and time zone. Your password passes through our server to our sign-in provider and is never stored by us.
• What you make here: conversations with Aquila, your journal and reflections, prayers and fasts, notes, highlights and saved verses, reading plans, sermon notes and their photos, churches you add, goals and habits, declarations, and anything you choose to keep from Refuge.
• What Aquila remembers: short notes about you, taken from conversations, your journal and your prayer list, so she can know you over time. You can see, remove or switch these off in Settings. They are never treated as Scripture.
• Reminders: if you turn on notifications, the address your browser gives us for sending them.
• Daily counts: to keep Adullam free for everyone, we count how many questions, Refuge messages and calls each account has a day, and for guests, a scrambled form of their network address. The counts hold nothing you wrote and are deleted after a week.
• Repeated questions: a study question asked with no memory notes behind it is held in our server's memory with its answer for up to a day, without who asked, so the same question asked again is answered at once.
• On your device: your sign-in, theme and a few preferences are kept in your browser's storage, with a copy of today's home screen so it opens at once. Signing out clears your sign-in and that copy. We don't use tracking cookies.

Refuge

• Write it out: "Let it go" never leaves your device. Only "Keep it" stores anything.
• Talk with Aquila: the talk is held in your browser and gone when you leave, unless you press Keep. Aquila's replies are written by OpenAI, so what you say is sent there to answer you. These talks are never recorded in our quality logs and never become memory notes.
• Amens: nobody using Adullam, the people who look after the wall included, is ever shown who wrote a post. A post is stored with your account so you can see, manage and delete it. Before it goes up it's checked automatically (using OpenAI's moderation service) and may be read by a person on our admin desk. Posts leave the wall after a set time.
• If something you write suggests you may be in danger, Adullam shows you helplines. It never contacts anyone on your behalf.

Who else handles your data

We use a small number of services to run Adullam. Each handles only what it needs.

• Supabase: our database, sign-in, sign-in emails and photo storage.
• Render: runs our server.
• OpenAI: writes Aquila's replies and checks Amens posts. It receives what you ask or write for those features, along with relevant notes Aquila keeps about you. Under OpenAI's API terms this isn't used to train their models, and it may be kept by them for up to 30 days to detect abuse.
• Langfuse: keeps a record of Aquila's answers outside Refuge (the question, the answer and the steps between), so we can find and fix mistakes. These records aren't labelled with your email and are deleted after [retention period].
• Cognigy and its speech providers: only if you use "Talk out loud". Your voice and its transcript go to them to hold the call. The call isn't confidential the way a talk with clergy would be.
• Google: serves the fonts this site uses (which shares your IP address with Google), and handles sign-in if you choose "Continue with Google".
• Cloudflare (cdnjs): serves the code that draws Connections.
• YouTube: plays sermons in Listen when you press play, using its privacy-enhanced player.
• Giving: if you give, you do it through the service you pick on the Support page (Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle or your bank), under its own privacy policy. Your card and account details go to that service, never to us. If you put your email in a gift's note so we can thank you, we use it only to mark your account as a friend of the cave.
• Apple, Google or Mozilla: deliver notifications to your device, if you turn them on.

Some of these providers process data outside your country, including in the United States. [Describe the transfer safeguards that apply, for example the providers' standard contractual clauses.]

Why we use it

We use your data only to give you Adullam: to answer you, keep what you keep, send the reminders you ask for, keep the Amens wall safe, and fix what goes wrong. [Legal basis, for example: performing our agreement with you, and your consent for optional features such as memory and notifications.] We never use it for advertising or to build a profile for anyone else.

Your choices

• Download your data: Settings, then Account. You get one file with everything you keep here.
• Delete your account: Settings, then Account. This removes everything at once and can't be undone. Copies in our database provider's backups expire within [backup window], and records held by OpenAI and Langfuse expire on the schedules above.
• Memory: switch it off, or remove any note, in Settings.
• Notifications: turn them off from any bell, or in your browser. Signing out stops them on that device.
• You can also ask us to see, correct or delete your data, or object to how we use it, at hello@adullum.app. [If you are in the UK or EU, you can complain to your data protection authority.]

Keeping it safe

Everything travels over encrypted connections. The keys to our database stay on our server and never reach your browser. Every request for your data is checked to be yours, and only the few people named to look after the Amens wall can open the admin desk, which never shows who wrote a post. If something ever goes wrong that puts your data at risk, we will tell you and, where the law requires it, the authorities.

Age

Adullam is for people aged [13] and over.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.

Terms of use

Terms of use

Last updated 7 November 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and [operator name] about using Adullam. By creating an account or using Adullam, you agree to them. How we handle your data is on the Privacy page.

Aquila is an AI

Aquila is an AI study companion, not a pastor, counselor, doctor or lawyer. She quotes Scripture from the verses in our database and is built never to invent a reference, but she can still be wrong or miss what matters. Read the passages for yourself. Nothing here is professional advice. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency services or a helpline; Adullam can't respond to emergencies.

Your account

You must be [13] or older. Keep your sign-in to yourself; you are responsible for what's done with your account. You can delete it at any time in Settings.

What you write

What you write here stays yours. You let us store and process it only to run Adullam for you, as the Privacy page describes. If you share a sermon note's link, anyone with the link can read that note until you stop sharing.

The Amens wall

The wall is for asking for prayer and sharing good news. Please don't post:

• anything that identifies someone, including yourself: names, contact details, addresses or links to profiles;
• hate, harassment, threats, sexual content, or anything illegal;
• advertising, fundraising or spam.

Posts are checked before they go up and can be reported. We may keep a post off the wall, or remove it, and may suspend an account that keeps breaking these rules.

Using Adullam fairly

Don't try to reach other people's data, get around our limits or security, overload the service, or use Adullam to build a competing dataset or service.

Giving

Adullam is free. A gift is voluntary and doesn't buy access to anything people rely on. Monthly gifts can be stopped at any time in the service you gave through (Stripe's receipt, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App or your bank). If something went wrong with a gift, write to hello@adullum.app.

Scripture and sources

The Bible translations here are in the public domain. Cross-references come from OpenBible.info under CC BY. Sermons in Listen belong to their publishers.

No guarantees

We work to keep Adullam available and correct, but it's provided as it is, without guarantees. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect losses from using it. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have by law.

Changes and ending

We may update these terms and will say so in the app before a change that matters takes effect. We may stop offering Adullam; if we do, we'll give you notice and time to download your data. These terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction].

Questions: hello@adullum.app