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  1. 1Who we are
  2. 2The Bible is free
  3. 3Your account
  4. 4Your content is yours
  5. 5The Scripture we ship
  6. 6Using Chasten well
  7. 7Plant a seed
  8. 8If a paid tier arrives
  9. 9Feedback and ideas
  10. 10Beta, changes, and downtime
  11. 11No warranty
  12. 12Limits on liability
  13. 13Ending things
  14. 14Apple and Google
  15. 15Governing law
  16. 16Changes to these terms
  17. 17Contact

Terms

The agreement between us

Last updated: September 11, 2026

These are the terms for using Chasten. We’ve written them the way we’d want them written for us — short sentences, ordinary words, nothing hidden in the middle. By using Chasten you’re agreeing to them.

The short version

  • The Bible reader is free, forever. No paywall, no ads.
  • Your notes and highlights belong to you, not to us.
  • Be 13 or older, and be kind with what you post or send.
  • The translations we ship are public domain, openly licensed, or licensed from their publishers, and we name each one with thanks.
  • We’re a small company doing our best; the app comes as it is, and our liability is limited.

Who we are

Chasten is made by Chasten LLC, a for-profit limited liability company in Florida (“Chasten,” “we,” “us”). These terms cover the Chasten mobile app and this website. Your privacy is covered separately, in our Privacy Policy.

The Bible is free

Reading Scripture in Chasten will never sit behind a paywall, and it will never be interrupted by advertising. That isn’t a launch promotion; it is the reason the app exists, and it is a term of this agreement, not a marketing line we can quietly retire.

You don’t need an account to read. The reader works from the first moment you open the app.

Your account

  • You must be 13 or older to create an account.
  • Give us real information — your name, your email, your birth month and year — and keep it current, so we can reach you if something goes wrong.
  • Your account is yours. Keep your sign-in safe, and tell us if you think someone else has it.
  • You’re responsible for what happens under your account.
  • If you choose a handle and a profile photo, the people you connect with can see them; that is what they are for. A handle is yours while you keep it. Changing it has a short cooldown, and a handle you leave, or free by deleting your account, is held back for a while before anyone else can take it.

Your content is yours

Your notes, highlights, and saved verses belong to you. We don’t claim ownership of them and we never will.

So the app can work, you give us permission to store, back up, sync, and display your content to you across your devices. That permission exists only to run Chasten for you, and it ends when you delete the content or your account.

We don’t sell your notes or highlights, we don’t publish them, and we don’t use them to train AI models.

The Scripture we ship

Chasten ships translations that are in the public domain or published under open licenses, so nobody has to pay to read them, and every page that shows Scripture names the translation and its license beside the text. On chasten.ai that is the whole list, in three languages:

The King James Version is public domain in the United States, where Chasten is published. The cross references on verse pages come from OpenBible.info under CC BY 4.0, and the texts are served from the eBible.org editions through the AO Lab API. What each open license asks of us, chiefly attribution, is written on the page beside the text; the full list with sources is at chasten.ai/bible/translations.

The app carries the Berean Standard Bible, King James Version, World English Bible, American Standard Version, and Reina Valera 1909 in the public domain, and three modern translations under license from their publishers: the New International Version (Biblica), and the New Living Translation and Nueva Traducción Viviente (Tyndale House Foundation). Their copyright notices appear with them. Those licenses cover reading inside the app, which is why some ways of sharing a verse are offered only for the public-domain translations, and why they are not published on chasten.ai.

We’re grateful to the translators and to the people who put this work into the commons. If we add a translation, it is licensed properly and named on the translation itself.

Using Chasten well

Please don’t:

  • Break the law with it, or use it to harm or harass anyone.
  • Try to reach other people’s accounts, notes, or data, or poke at the service looking for a way in.
  • Scrape, resell, or redistribute the app or its features as your own product.
  • Upload anything you don’t have the right to share, or anything abusive.
  • Automate accounts or invitations to inflate referrals.
  • Pretend to be someone you’re not. A handle or profile that impersonates a person, a church, or a ministry can be renamed or reclaimed.

If something you do trips one of these, we’d rather talk to you than make an example of you. But we can limit or close an account that keeps causing harm.

If someone is using Chasten to harass or impersonate, use Block or Report on their profile in the app, or write to hello@chasten.ai; a person will look.

Plant a seed

Chasten lets you invite people to read. It is honor-only:no money, no discounts, no credits, nothing cashable, ever. What you receive is a medallion, an icon, a name in the Founding Grove — things that mean something and are worth nothing.

We may adjust the honors and the thresholds as the app grows. To keep it honest, invitations that look automated simply don’t count toward honors; the app won’t accuse you of anything. Founding Grove inscriptions are opt-in, read by a person before they’re planted, and meant to stay. We may decline or remove an inscription that is abusive or impersonates someone.

Chasten may one day offer optional paid features — study tools that cost real money to run. If that happens: Scripture stays free, the price and the billing terms will be shown to you before you pay, and nothing you already have will be taken away and sold back to you.

Purchases made through the App Store or Google Play are billed by Apple or Google under their terms, and refunds for those purchases are handled by them.

Feedback and ideas

If you send us an idea or a bug report, thank you — genuinely. We may use it to make Chasten better without owing you payment, and you don’t give up anything you own by telling us. If we build something you suggested, we’ll be glad you said it.

Beta, changes, and downtime

Chasten is early. Features will change, some will be added, and some will be taken away if they aren’t serving the reading. We’ll try never to remove something you rely on without telling you first. Servers occasionally go down; the reader is built to keep working on your phone when they do.

No warranty

Chasten is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied — including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the fullest extent the law allows. We don’t promise the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will meet every expectation. Some places don’t allow these exclusions, and in those places this section applies only as far as local law permits.

Chasten is a reading tool, not a substitute for pastoral care, counseling, or medical, legal, or financial advice.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Chasten and its people are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost goodwill arising from your use of the app.

Our total liability for any claim relating to Chasten is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim — which, for a free reader, is likely nothing — or one hundred United States dollars, whichever is greater. Again, some places don’t allow these limits, and there they apply only as far as local law permits.

Ending things

You can stop using Chasten whenever you like, and you can delete your account and everything in it from Settings or at chasten.ai/account/delete. We can suspend or close an account that is breaking these terms or harming other people; where we reasonably can, we’ll tell you why first and give you a chance to put it right. The sections about your content, warranties, liability, and governing law survive the end of this agreement.

Apple and Google

If you downloaded Chasten from the App Store or Google Play: this agreement is between you and Chasten LLC, not with Apple or Google. They aren’t responsible for the app or for supporting it — if something is wrong, write to us. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You also agree you’re not in a country subject to a United States embargo and aren’t on a prohibited parties list, and that you’ll follow the app store’s own terms when you use their software.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be handled by the state and federal courts located in Florida, and both of us agree to that venue. Nothing here takes away rights you have under the consumer laws where you live.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms we’ll update the date at the top, and if the change matters we’ll tell you in the app and on this site before it takes effect. If you don’t agree with a change, you can delete your account — and the Bible reader stays free either way.

Contact

Write to hello@chasten.ai. A person reads it. Legal notices may be sent to that email, or by post to the address below.

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