Cookie & storage policy
Last updated: [EFFECTIVE DATE]
The short version
- SynchedWord sets no cookies. None — not ours, not anyone else's.
- No advertising, no tracking, no analytics. No code is loaded from any other company's servers on any page of this app.
- We do keep a few things on your own device, in your browser's storage, so the app works. You choose whether we also keep a few preferences.
Your choice on this device
What is stored on your device
Essential — always kept, because the app does not work without them
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your sign-in | Keeps you signed in. Only if you have an account. | Until you sign out (sessions expire after 30 days) |
| A random device id | Signed in, links the notes taken on this device to your account. It is random and says nothing about you. | Until you sign out, delete your account, or clear this site's data — then a new one is made |
| A note that hasn't saved yet | If the connection drops while you write, the note waits here and is sent as soon as it can be. Only with an account. | Until it reaches our server — usually seconds |
| A copy of the app's own pages and code | So the app opens quickly and still opens with a poor signal. Kept by your browser's offline cache (a "service worker"); it holds nothing about you. | Replaced with each new version of the app |
| Your choice below | Only if you save one, so it is remembered. | Until you change it or clear this site's data |
| Your text size, light or dark, high contrast and red-letter choice | Only if you change them — in Settings, or with the A− / A+ buttons while following a sermon. Kept on this device so they work on every page, with or without an account. | Until you change them back |
| An age-check refusal | If someone under our minimum age tries to sign up, this keeps the form closed on this device, as the law requires. | Until you clear this site's data |
Preferences — kept only if you allow them
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your place in the Bible, and your Bible version | The Bible opens where you left off, in the version you chose. |
| The last service you joined | A one-tap "Rejoin" button while it is still live. |
| Your online delay | If you watch a livestream, how far behind the room you want passages to appear. |
| Your name and email | Filled in for you when you sign in again. |
| Sermons you've opened | So you're counted once in a sermon's "people reached" total, not every time you open it. The count itself holds nothing about you. |
What we do not do
- No cookies, advertising, tracking pixels or analytics tags.
- Nothing is shared with advertisers or used to follow you across other sites or apps.
- We honour Global Privacy Control — though with no tracking at all, there is nothing it needs to switch off.
Other sites we send you to
If you choose to support SynchedWord, you pay on Stripe's secure checkout page, not ours. Stripe sets its own cookies there, under its own cookie policy. Nothing of Stripe's runs on SynchedWord's pages.
Clearing it
Everything above lives in your browser. Clearing this site's data in your browser's settings removes all of it — and signs you out. To keep only what is essential without signing out, choose Essential only above.
More about the information we hold: Privacy Policy.