Privacy

Bible Hebrew is a free site for learning to read the Hebrew Bible. It has no ads and no advertising tracking, and it does not sell your personal information. This page explains what is stored, where, and how to remove it.

If you don't sign in

Your lessons, review schedule, settings and saved words are kept only in your own browser, on your own device, and are not sent to us. (The anonymous visitor counts described below do note which pages and lessons are opened.) Clearing your browser's data for this site, or using You → Settings → Reset All Progress, removes it.

If you sign in with Google

Signing in is optional. It lets your progress follow you to other devices. When you sign in, we store your account with Google Firebase, the service that handles sign-in and saved progress. It holds:

• your name, email address and profile photo link, as Google gives them to us;
• your learning progress and settings (the same things kept in your browser);
• when you joined and when you were last active;
• your reminder email choice, if you make one.

Only you and the people who run the site can see your account's details, apart from service providers that store or process them for us, such as those described on this page. We use them to see how learners are getting on and to improve the course. They are not sold or used for advertising.

Deleting your account: go to You → Settings → Delete account. This deletes your saved progress and your sign-in account with this site. Your Google account itself is not affected.

Daily reminder email

If you're signed in, you can choose to get a short email each morning reminding you to practice (You → Settings, or when the Learn page offers it), and now and then a tip, a note when you reach a milestone, a request for a gift, or a note if you haven't practiced for a week (after which the daily email pauses until you practice again). Nobody gets these unless they switch the reminder on. To choose what to send, the reminder uses your saved progress (when you last practiced, your streak, the lessons you've finished, and whether you've given). To send it, your email address and first name are given to Resend (servers in the United States), the service that delivers the email; we use them only to send these emails. Every email has an unsubscribe link. If you unsubscribe, switch it off in Settings, or delete your account, your address is then removed from our mailing list with Resend, usually within a day.

Gifts

If you choose to support the site, payment happens on Stripe's own pages. Your card details never reach this site. Stripe tells us your email address (and your name, if you give it) and the amount, so a receipt can be sent and a monthly gift can be managed. Stripe's own privacy policy applies to the payment.

Other services the site uses

• Hosting: the site is served by Vercel, which keeps short-lived technical logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect the service.
• Visitor counts: the site uses PostHog (servers in the United States) to count visits and see which lessons and pages are used, so the course can be improved. Its traffic goes through this site's own address, and it sets no cookies. It keeps a random visitor code in your browser's local storage so a return visit isn't counted as a new person, and it records the page, how long you stay on it, the country, and the kind of device and browser. Like any web service, it sees your IP address when your browser contacts it, which is how it tells the country. We don't send it your name or email, it doesn't record your screen or track every click (it notes a few actions, such as starting or finishing a lesson, which practice question was missed and the answer picked, playing a video, creating an account or turning reminders on or off), and it is not used for advertising.
• Fonts and Bible text: the page fonts load from Google Fonts, and when you open a book in the reader its Hebrew text, and the English translation if you ask for it, load from public text services (such as Sefaria). Your browser contacts those services when it fetches them.
• Explainer videos: some lessons show a short video. Its picture comes from this site; when you press play, the video plays from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com, run by Google), so your browser contacts YouTube then, and not before.
• Pronunciation check: if you use the microphone to practise saying a word, your browser's own speech recognition listens. In Chrome and some other browsers that recording is processed by the browser maker (for example Google). We don't receive or keep it.

Cookies

The site sets no cookies for advertising, tracking or visitor counts. It uses your browser's storage to remember your progress, and the sign-in service uses it to keep you signed in. Google's sign-in window, and YouTube's player when you press play on a video, may set their own cookies under Google's policies.

Children

The site is suitable for all ages and asks for nothing personal unless someone signs in (the anonymous visitor counts above are not used to identify anyone). Anyone under 13 should ask a parent before signing in.

Questions

Email alisoftwaresllc@gmail.com with any question about your data, or to ask us to delete it for you.