Privacy Policy

The short version

• We use Google Analytics to understand which pages are read.
• We may show ads and use affiliate links; these partners can set cookies.
• We do notsell your personal information — ever.
• You can block or clear cookies in your browser at any time.

Information we collect

We do not run a login, newsletter database, or contact form on this site, so we collect no names, passwords, or account details. The information that is gathered is the ordinary technical and usage data that almost every website receives, described below, plus whatever you choose to put in an email if you contact us.

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

We use Google Analytics 4, a measurement service provided by Google, to see how the site is used — for example which pages are popular, roughly where visitors come from, and what kind of device they use. To do this, Google Analytics uses cookies and similar identifiers and processes data such as your IP address, pages viewed, and time on the site. This helps us decide which passages and topics to add or improve.

This information is aggregated and used to understand traffic, not to identify you personally. You can learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and you can opt out of Google Analytics across all sites using Google’s browser opt-out add-on.

Advertising

Bible Garden may display advertising to help cover the cost of running the site. Where we use a third-party ad network — such as Google AdSense — that network and its partners may use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, including personalised (interest-based) ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can review and control how Google personalises the ads you see at myadcenter.google.com, and opt out of personalised advertising from many vendors at optout.aboutads.info. If advertising is not currently shown on the site, this section describes how ads would work should we enable them.

Affiliate links (Amazon Associates)

Some pages recommend books and include links to Amazon. Bible Garden is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. When you click one of these links, Amazon may set cookies to record that the visit came from our site so that any qualifying purchase is credited to us as a commission — at no extra cost to you. We do not receive your name, card details, or order contents; Amazon handles that data under its own privacy notice. See our affiliate disclosure for the full details.

Cookies and your choices

Cookies are small files that a site or its partners store in your browser. As described above, they are used here for analytics, advertising, and affiliate tracking. You are always in control: every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, and you can use the opt-out tools linked in the sections above to limit analytics and personalised ads specifically. Blocking cookies will not stop you from reading anything on the site.

We do not sell your data

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone. The third-party services named above (Google and Amazon) process data under their own privacy policies for the purposes described here — analytics, advertising, and affiliate tracking — and for nothing else on our behalf.

Children

Bible Garden is a general-audience reading site and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site changes — for example if we add or remove an advertising or analytics provider. When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this page.