Privacy and cookies

Who is responsible

The details of the person responsible for this site are still being added. Until they are published, this site does not measure individual visitors at all.

Your choice

Nothing beyond what is listed as strictly necessary or your own settings is stored on your device unless you accept. Declining changes nothing about what you can read.

Cookie settings

With your permission we would like to measure how this site is used: how many people visit, which site brought them here, which country they are probably in, and how long they stay. A small cookie would recognise your visits for up to 180 days. Because this is a Christian Bible-study site, a record that you visited could suggest something about your beliefs, so we only do this if you explicitly agree. We do not record which pages you read, keep your IP address in these statistics, share them or use them for advertising.

What is measured if you accept

• That a visit took place, when, and how long you were actively reading.
• The name of the website that brought you here, never the address of the page you came from, and any campaign label in the link.
• The country you are probably in, estimated from your device's time zone. We do not use your IP address for this.
• A random code in a cookie that recognises your return visits, for up to 180 days.

Page statistics are daily totals for each page and are not connected to any visitor, so our records cannot show what any person read. The purpose is to learn whether the books are reaching people and how they find them. We do not use these statistics for advertising or to identify you.

Lawful basis

Measurement is based on your explicit consent, including for the possible inference about religious belief described above (POPIA sections 11 and 27, and GDPR articles 6(1)(a) and 9(2)(a) where they apply). You can withdraw at any time under Cookie settings. Withdrawing deletes the visits recorded against your code straight away.

What is counted without a cookie

The server adds one to a daily total each time a page is opened. That total is a date and a number. It contains nothing about you and uses nothing on your device.

How long it is kept

• Visit records and daily page totals: 395 days.
• The record of your decision, kept as proof: 730 days. It contains the decision, the wording version and the date, nothing else.
• Daily counts of page openings contain no personal information and are kept.

Who receives it

These statistics stay on our own server. They are not sent to any analytics or advertising company.

Like every website, the web server may keep technical access logs, which include IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. They are separate from these statistics and are not used for them.

Your rights

You may ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to processing, and withdraw your consent. Because the statistics hold no name or contact details, the simplest way to delete yours is to decline under Cookie settings on the device you used. You may also complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa or, if you live in the EU or UK, to your data protection authority.

What is stored on your device