Privacy

What Chasten knows about you

Last updated: July 24, 2026

Chasten exists to help you read the Bible. This page explains, in plain English, what the app collects, why it collects it, and how to make it all go away. If any sentence here reads like it was written by a lawyer instead of a person, tell us and we’ll fix it: hello@chasten.ai.

1. Who we are

Chasten is made by Chasten LLC, a for-profit limited liability company in Florida (“Chasten,” “we,” “us”). This policy covers the Chasten mobile app and this website, chasten.ai.

2. What we collect

Nothing, until you save something

The first time you open Chasten, the app creates an anonymous session — a random identifier that lets your phone keep your place, your highlights, and your streak. It is not tied to a name or an email, and at that point we have no idea who you are. If you later create an account, those same records come with you; nothing you saved is lost.

Your account, if you make one

• First name and last name.
• Email address.
• Birth month and year. This is used for exactly one thing: checking that you’re 13 or older. We don’t ask for the day, and we don’t use it for anything else.
• Your church, if you choose to add one. Church is optional, and your attendance is private unless you deliberately choose to share it.

If you sign in with Apple or Google, they pass us your name and an email address so you don’t have to type them. We never see your Apple or Google password.

What you create in the app

Highlights, notes, and saved verses. These are stored so the app can give them back to you on your next visit and on your next phone.

Feedback you send

If you send feedback from inside the app, we store the kind of feedback (idea, problem, or praise), your message, a screenshot if you attach one, and the app version plus your device’s operating system and version — that last part is what makes a bug findable. We store an email address for a reply only if you ask for one.

Your reading activity

Chasten keeps an append-only record of things you did in the app: chapters read, app opens, reading-session minutes, highlights, notes, shares, and saves. Each entry carries the calendar date where you were and your device’s time zone, so “today” means your today and not a server’s.

This record is the whole basis for your streak, your milestones, and the Insights you see about your own walk. It is about you, shown to you. It is not sold, not published, and not turned into a leaderboard — Chasten has no leaderboards anywhere.

Referrals (“Plant a seed”)

If you invite someone, we store a referral code on your profile, the status of that invitation, and a one-way hashed device identifier. The hash exists for one purpose only: keeping referrals honest, so one person can’t farm a hundred of them from one phone. We can’t turn it back into your device, and we use it for nothing else. Referrals are never disclosed in either direction — the person you invite is never told who invited them.

Diagnostics and product analytics

To keep the app from crashing and to see which parts of it are confusing, we use crash reporting (Sentry) and product analytics (PostHog): events like “a screen opened” or “this flow finished,” plus the technical details of a crash. You can turn both off in Settings.

Neither one ever carries the Scripture you read, your highlights, your notes, or the text of your feedback.

Reminders

Reading reminders are scheduled by your phone, on your phone. Turning them on doesn’t tell us anything, and turning them off doesn’t either.

3. What we don’t collect

• No ads, ever. No ad networks, no advertising identifiers, no third-party ad trackers anywhere in the app.
• No one watches you read. The Bible text is bundled inside the app as a local database, so reading a chapter doesn’t call out to a server or to any third party.
• We don’t sell or rent personal information, and we don’t share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
• We don’t ask for what we don’t need — not your contacts, not your photo library beyond a screenshot you choose to attach, not your precise location tracked in the background.

4. Why we use it

• To run the app: keep your place, sync your highlights and notes, sign you in.
• To show you your own walk: streaks, grace days, milestones, and Insights.
• To answer you when you write to us.
• To keep referrals honest and the service free of abuse.
• To fix crashes and make confusing screens less confusing.
• To meet the age requirement (13+) and our legal obligations.

5. Who else touches it

We keep the list short on purpose. Each of these companies processes data on our instructions, for the job named next to it, and for nothing else.

• Supabase — the database, sign-in, and hosting behind the app.
• Resend — sends transactional email, such as sign-in links.
• Expo — builds the app and delivers app updates.
• Apple and Google — only if you choose to sign in with them.
• Sentry — crash reports.
• PostHog — product analytics.
• Vercel — hosts this website.

We may also disclose information if the law genuinely requires it, or to protect someone’s safety. If Chasten is ever part of a merger or sale, this policy travels with your data, and we’ll tell you before anything changes.

6. Children

Chasten is for people 13 and older. When you create an account we ask for your birth month and year, and if that puts you under 13 we stop there — kindly, without a lecture — and no account or personal information is stored for you.

If you believe a child under 13 has given us information anyway, write to hello@chasten.ai and we will delete it.

Chasten is rated 12+ and is not directed to children. Anyone under 13 is blocked at signup by a neutral age gate, and no account or personal information is stored for them.

7. Your choices

• Read without an account. The reader never asks you to sign in, and it never will.
• See and change your details in Settings inside the app.
• Turn crash reporting and analytics off in Settings.
• Ask us for a copy of what we hold about you by writing to hello@chasten.ai. There’s no self-serve export button yet, so we put your copy together by hand and send it to you.
• Delete everything yourself from Settings, at any time.

8. Deleting everything

In the app: Settings → delete your account. It removes your profile, your highlights, your notes, your saved verses, your reading record, and your referral entries from our live systems. It cascades — we don’t keep a quiet copy of your walk after you’ve asked us not to.

Deletion is permanent and we can’t undo it, so the app asks you to confirm first. Where routine encrypted backups are enabled, they are kept on our hosting provider’s standard schedule — up to seven days — and then age out.

9. How long we keep things

We keep your account and what you’ve saved for as long as you have an account, because that’s the point — your notes should still be there in five years. Feedback is kept while we work on it and for a while after, so we can tell you it’s fixed. When you delete your account, the rest goes with it.

10. How we protect it

Data is encrypted in transit. Every table in our database has row-level security, so your rows are readable only by you. Nothing secret ships inside the app itself. Chasten is small, and the amount of data it holds is deliberately small too — the safest data is the data we never asked for.

No service can promise perfect security, and we won’t pretend otherwise. If a breach ever affects you, we’ll tell you plainly and quickly.

Your data is stored in the United States — Amazon Web Services, US East (Ohio), region us-east-2.

11. Where you live

Depending on where you live, you may have specific rights over your personal information — to see it, correct it, delete it, or object to certain uses. We try to give everyone the same rights regardless of address: the app already lets you see, change, and delete your information, and we’ll honor any request you send to hello@chasten.ai. We will never charge you for asking or treat you differently because you did.

Chasten is operated from the United States and, for now, serves people in the United States, so information is processed here. If we ever offer Chasten outside the United States, we’ll add the formal protections those places expect — such as the GDPR and UK GDPR mechanisms — before we do.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we’ll update the date at the top, and if the change is significant we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect — not by quietly editing a page and hoping you don’t notice.

13. Talking to us

Write to hello@chasten.ai. A person reads it. You can send privacy notices to that email, or by post to the address below.

Chasten LLC
16400 US Hwy 331 S, Suite B2 #172
Freeport, FL 32439