Privacy

Bible Timeline Explorer, the website and the Android app. Last updated 30 October 2026.

The short version: there are no accounts with us, no ads, and no tracking. Your notes stay on your device unless you choose to keep a copy in your own Google Drive (see below); they never reach our servers.

What stays on your device

Your notes, highlights, reading place, and settings (text size, color theme, translation) are stored on your own device, in the browser's or app's private storage. They are never sent to us or to anyone else. If you choose to back up or share a notes file, the file goes only where you send it (for example Google Drive, email, or a printer).

Keeping your notes in your own Google Drive (optional)

If you choose "Connect Google Drive" on the My notes page, you sign in with Google (on the website through Google's sign-in script, and in the Android app through Android's own Google sign-in) and allow one thing only: storing this app's data in your Drive. Google calls this the "application data folder" (the permission is named drive.appdata). It is a hidden folder in your Drive that only this site and app can open; it cannot see, read, or change any other file in your Drive.

The folder holds one file, a copy of your notes, highlights, and bookmarks, so they can follow you to your other devices where you connect the same Google account. The copy goes straight between your device and your Google Drive. It does not pass through our servers, and we cannot read it. We do not receive your Google password, your email address, or your name. To show your profile picture at the top of the page while you are connected, the site asks your Drive for your account's display name and the link to its picture; both are kept only on your device (and forgotten when you disconnect), and the picture is loaded from Google. Google's script is loaded, and Google contacted, only after you choose to connect (and on later visits once you have), and Google's own privacy policy applies to that sign-in and to your Drive.

To stop: press "Disconnect" on the My notes page to stop syncing and keep the copy in your Drive, or "Delete the copy in Drive" to disconnect and remove the file. You can also remove this app's access and its stored data in your Google Account under Security, "Third-party apps with account access". Deleting a note on one device removes it from your other connected devices too.

What we collect

Nothing. The site and the app have no sign-in of our own, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party trackers. We do not ask for your name, email address, location, contacts, or any other personal information.

Connections the app makes

The website, and the map and the Hebrew and Greek word audio in the app, fetch files from our own servers (bibletimelineexplorer.com and audio.bibletimelineexplorer.com, hosted by Cloudflare). Like any web server, the host may log the request itself (your IP address and the file asked for) for security and to keep the service running. We do not use these logs to identify or follow anyone. The timeline, Bible, word study, Library, and commentaries inside the Android app work without a connection once it is installed.

Gift links

The gift page ("Help keep it free") links to payment services (PayPal, Cash App, and Venmo). Following a link leaves this site; the payment is made on that service, which has its own privacy policy. We never see or store your payment details.

Children

The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this ever changes, this page will say so and the date above will change.

Questions

Questions about this page, or anything else about Bible Timeline Explorer, can be sent to bibletimelineexplorer@gmail.com.