Bible Trivia

Privacy Policy

Effective 7 November 2026

Bible Trivia is published by Brandapt as a community service through Revival Centre (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information the app handles, where it goes, and the choices you have.

1. Information stored only on your device

The app saves these on your phone. Unless you sign in with Google to save your progress (section 5), we never receive them:

• Player profile: your name, date of birth, gender and a short bio.
• Your content: question packs you create, import or edit, custom reading plans and your progress through them.
• Practice history: your streak, level, badges and round stats.
• Settings, including an AI provider key if you add your own. That key is kept in your phone’s secure storage.

Reminders you switch on (daily challenge, streak, reading plan) are scheduled by your phone itself, work offline, and send nothing to us or anyone else.

Deleting the app deletes all of this from your phone. Your date of birth, gender and bio are never saved to your account; they stay on your phone even when you sign in.

2. Playing a game with others

• Joining a game. When you join, your name is sent to the host’s phone over the local network. Your date of birth, gender and bio are shared with the host only if you switch on sharing for each one.
• Camera. Used only to scan a game’s QR code. Images are processed on your phone and are not saved or sent anywhere.
• Microphone. Used only for push-to-talk voice during a local game. Your voice is streamed live to the other phones in the game while you hold the button. It is not recorded or stored, and it is never sent to our servers.
• Sharing the app. On Android you can send the app to a nearby phone over your hotspot. This happens directly between the two phones.

3. Generating questions with AI

When you ask the app to write questions, it sends what you gave it (a topic, a Bible passage, or text taken from a document you picked) to an AI service, which sends back draft questions for you to review.

• Built-in generator (no key needed). Your request goes to our server, which passes it to an AI provider (currently Groq and, as a backup, Zhipu AI). We don’t keep the text you send or the questions that come back. To enforce a fair daily limit, the app sends a random ID created when the app was installed. We store that ID with a count of today’s requests. This record is not linked to your name, email or account. Sections 4, 6, 7 and 8 explain the other places the app uses this ID.
• Your own provider key. If you add your own key (for example OpenRouter or Groq), requests go straight from your phone to that provider under their privacy policy. They do not pass through us.

Don’t put personal information in documents you upload for question generation.

4. Donations

Giving is optional. When you give through the app, we collect:

• the amount, currency and payment method you choose
• your mobile wallet phone number, if you pay by mobile wallet
• your name, if you enter it
• your email address, for a receipt
• the app’s random install ID, which helps us match a payment to the request that started it

This information is sent to Paynow (Zimbabwe), our payment processor, so the payment can be made. It is handled under Paynow’s privacy policy. We never see or store your wallet PIN or card details.

We keep donation records to confirm payments, show the app’s donation totals and keep financial records. Donation totals and milestones shown in the app are amounts only and never name a donor.

Your giving history. If you are signed in with Google when you give, we record your Google user ID and email on that gift, so you can see your own gifts and totals in the app under “My giving”. You can also ask the app to find gifts you gave earlier: it links a past gift to your account only when the email typed on that gift is the same as your verified Google email. Nobody else can see your giving history.

Proof of how money is used. The church publishes invoices, quotes and receipts for its giving goals so donors can check them. These are open to anyone in the app. We remove personal details from them before publishing.

5. Signing in with Google

Signing in is optional and never required to play or to give. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and a user ID from Google, through Firebase Authentication. We use them to:

• Save your progress. Your practice stats and streak (and so your level and badges), your player name, your reading-plan progress and custom plans, and your saved question packs are saved to your account, so you can get them back on a new phone. The app still keeps its own copy and works fully offline. You can delete the saved copy at any time from the You tab; signing out leaves the copy on your phone as it is.
• Show your giving history and, once you have given, how donated funds have been spent (section 4).
• Give Founding Testers their perks during the test period.

6. Sending feedback

Feedback is optional. When you send it from the app, we receive:

• your star rating and any comment you write
• where you sent it from (the You tab, or the end of a game or practice round), your app version and your phone’s platform, such as Android
• your contact details, only if you switch on “You may reply to me” and type them in
• up to three screenshots or pictures, only if you choose to attach them

Screenshots are optional. The app makes them smaller on your phone before sending. We store them privately in our Google Cloud storage, with no public link, and use them only to understand and fix the problem you are reporting. Please check a screenshot doesn’t show anything private before you attach it.

We use feedback to improve the app and, if you asked us to, to reply to you. Your comment is stored as you wrote it, so please leave out anything private about yourself or others.

To limit how much feedback one phone can send each day, the app also sends its random install ID. We store that ID with a count of today’s messages, separately from your feedback.

The app may also show Google Play’s own rating card after a game. If you rate the app there, your rating goes to Google under Google’s privacy policy, and the app doesn’t see what you chose.

7. The daily challenge leaderboard

When you finish the daily challenge, the app posts your score, your time and a display name (your player name, or “Anonymous”) to that day’s leaderboard, which everyone using the app can see. To allow one score per phone per day, the entry is stored with the app’s random install ID, which is never shown. To stop the board being flooded, we also keep a scrambled code made from your internet connection’s address; the address itself is not stored. Names that contain offensive words are shown as “Anonymous”. If you’re offline, your score isn’t posted.

8. Rating and commenting on questions

After you answer a practice question, you can rate how hard it was and leave a short comment. At the end of every practice round, whether or not you rated anything, the app sends, for each question, whether you answered it correctly and any rating or comment you gave. We use this to work out how hard each question really is, to show that in the app, and to find and fix poor questions. Each rating is stored with a scrambled code made from the app’s install ID, so one phone counts once per question; the install ID itself isn’t stored with it. Please leave personal information out of comments.

9. Where your information is stored

Our servers use Google Firebase and Google Cloud, hosted in the United States. Your information may therefore be stored or processed outside your country.

10. How long we keep it

• Daily-limit records (random install ID and count): deleted after 30 days
• Donation records: kept for 6 years, as Zimbabwe’s tax law requires for financial records
• Sign-in accounts: until you ask us to delete yours
• Saved progress: until you delete it from the You tab, or ask us to
• Daily challenge leaderboard entries: deleted after 30 days
• Question ratings and comments: kept while they help us improve the questions. Counts of answers and ratings are kept as totals per question
• Feedback, including any screenshots: until we no longer need it to improve the app, or until you ask us to delete it. Feedback isn’t stored with your install ID, so tell us roughly when you sent it and what it said.

11. What we don’t do

• We don’t sell or rent your information.
• We don’t show ads, and we don’t share information with advertisers.
• We don’t use your information to build a profile of you.

We share information only with the services named above, or when the law requires it.

12. Children

Bible Trivia is intended for users aged 13 and over.

13. Your choices and rights

• Play without sharing anything with us. Local games, solo practice, the Bible reader and reading plans need no account. Practice rounds send only which questions were answered correctly, under a scrambled code (section 8), plus any ratings or comments you choose to add. If you are offline, they are sent later.
• Delete your saved progress from the You tab at any time, or don’t sign in at all.
• Keep profile details private by leaving their sharing switches off.
• Refuse camera or microphone access in your phone’s settings. The rest of the app keeps working, but you won’t be able to scan a game’s QR code or use voice.
• Ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of information we hold about you by emailing us. We may need to keep some donation records where the law requires it.

14. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If the change is significant, we’ll also say so in the app.

15. Contact