Your reading, your choices.

Reading without an account

You may read the public Library without creating an account. Anonymous reading progress, saved works, and bookmarks can be stored in your browser on that device. This browser-local information is not sent to Voices of the Fathers merely because you are reading.

When you create an account

We store the information needed to provide your account and Personal Library: your email address, securely hashed password, email-verification and sign-in metadata, reading position and section-completion state, saved works, and passage bookmarks.

Essential cookies and email delivery

Signing in uses an essential session cookie so the site can keep you authenticated and protect account actions. Verification and password-reset messages are sent through the site's configured transactional email provider, which necessarily processes the destination email address for delivery. These functions are not used for advertising.

How personal reading data is used

Personal reading data supports features such as Continue Reading, saved works, bookmarks, and cross-device synchronization. We do not sell this information or use private reading activity for advertising. Your individual reading history is not made public by default.

Sharing and aggregate features

Bookmarks, future highlights or notes, and other personal reading activity remain private unless you explicitly choose to share something through a sharing feature. Voices of the Fathers may use aggregated or de-identified activity to understand how the Library is used and, if introduced, to support discovery features such as generally popular works, passages, or quotations without publishing an individual reader's history.

Device-to-account import

If a browser already contains anonymous reading data when you sign in, the site may offer to add that guest data to your account. The import requires your choice. Reader data previously associated with another signed-in account is kept in a separate browser-storage namespace and is never offered as guest data.

Data access and deletion

From your Account page you can download a machine-readable export of your Personal Library and underlying account-owned reading records. You can also delete your reader account and its synchronized personal data from the active service. The current browser clears its account-specific cache after deletion; browser-local copies on other devices may remain until those browsers are cleared. Private operational backups may retain a copy until they expire under the site's normal backup-retention cycle.

Operational data

Like most websites, the server may retain limited technical logs needed for security, reliability, abuse prevention, and troubleshooting. These are separate from the Personal Library feature.

Questions

This privacy explanation is intended to be plain language and will be updated if the account system or sharing features materially change.