Privacy Policy

Who we are

The apps are operated by Reed Light Books, an imprint of Aperture Work LLC (“we,” “us”). This policy applies to Clear Worship, Pastoral Lens, Sermon Lens, the Worship Trend Map, and any other tools hosted under apps.reedlightbooks.com.

What we collect

When you use the apps, our server records the following operational data on every request:

• Your IP address — used to apply per-IP rate limits and detect abuse patterns.
• Timestamp of each request — date and time you submitted an analysis or other action.
• HTTP response code and duration — whether the request succeeded, failed, or was rate-limited, and how long it took.
• The path you visited — which app or page (e.g., /api/discernment/analyze).
• Your browser's user-agent string — a short technical identifier sent by every browser.

If you create an account, we also store the following on your user record:

• Your email address — for sign-in, password reset, and transactional notices (e.g., a receipt after a coin purchase).
• Your name — the display name you provide at sign-up (optional). We use it to address you in transactional emails (e.g., “Hi Sarah”) and in the account header. If you don't provide one, we use the local part of your email address as a fallback.
• A salted hash of your password — we cannot read your password; we can only verify a password you re-enter.
• Your coin balance and a capped history of coin transactions (the last ~50 entries) — so the billing page can show what you've spent and on what.
• A per-action usage log — records that you ran a given tool (e.g., “sermon_lens”), how many coins it cost, when, and the input's word count. The actual lyrics, sermon text, or analysis body are not included.
• Audit events — sign-in, sign-out, password reset, and admin actions, so we can investigate security incidents. No content is recorded.
• Sermon Lens analysis notes (if you use that tool) — see the “Sermon Lens history” section below.
• A session cookie — required to keep you signed in. It is server-signed and used only to identify your session.

What we do NOT collect

• Your worship lyrics. Lyric text you paste or that we fetch on your behalf is sent to the AI provider, analyzed, and returned to you. It is never saved on our server.
• Your sermon manuscripts. Sermon text, outlines, imagery notes, or congregation notes submitted to Sermon Lens are sent to the AI provider, analyzed, and returned. The original manuscript is never written to disk on our server.
• Snippets or excerpts of your lyrics or sermons in our logs. Usage and audit logs contain only metadata (which action, when, how many coins) — never the content itself.
• Your payment-card details. Card data goes directly from your browser to Stripe. Our server never sees it.
• Tracking cookies, third-party analytics, advertising trackers, or cross-site cookies. The only cookies we set are the session cookie (required for sign-in) and a small EULA-accepted flag in localStorage, which never leaves your device.
• Anything used to train an AI model on your content. We do not enable training on submitted inputs at the AI provider.

Sermon Lens history

Sermon Lens keeps the AI's analysis notes from sermons you've run — the synopsis, paraphrased doctrinal claims, named imagery, and pastoral observations — on your user record so you can revisit them from the History sidebar. The original sermon manuscript is not stored. History is capped at the most recent 5 entries (Free), 25 (Pro), or 100 (Admin); older entries are dropped automatically. You can delete any entry yourself at any time, and if you delete your account, your history goes with it. A plain-language walkthrough of this is on the data-handling page.

How long we keep operational logs

Request logs (IP, timestamp, response code, path, user-agent) are written to daily files on our server and retained for approximately 30 days, then deleted. The purpose is detecting abuse patterns (bots, scraping attempts, denial-of-service activity). Usage and audit logs (the metadata-only records described above) are kept indefinitely on the user record so the account itself remains accountable across its lifetime, but again, they contain no content. We do not use any of this data for advertising, profiling, or sale.

Third parties we send data to

To deliver the apps, some requests necessarily pass through service providers. Each is listed below with what it sees:

• Anthropic — the AI provider that performs analyses. The text you submit (lyrics, URL, or sermon) is included in the API call. We use Anthropic's commercial API; training on submitted inputs is not enabled. See Anthropic's privacy policy.
• Hymnary.org (via the public CORS proxy api.allorigins.win) — when you use Clear Worship's “Search by Title,” your browser sends only the title string. No credentials, no lyrics, no account information.
• Stripe — processes coin-pack and subscription purchases. Card data goes directly from your browser to Stripe; our server never receives it. We receive a session ID and webhook events confirming the purchase. Stripe's own handling is governed by its privacy policy.
• Cloudflare Turnstile — a bot-check on sign-up and sign-in. It validates a token your browser produces; it does not see your content.
• Our SMTP mail provider (mail.supremecluster.com) — delivers transactional email (verification, password reset, receipts). It carries only the body of those emails, never your lyrics or sermons.

We do not sell or share your data

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share your information with any third party for marketing, advertising, profiling, or model-training purposes. The only third parties that receive any information from your use of the apps are the service providers listed above, and only to the extent necessary to deliver the requested function.

Your rights and how to exercise them

You can review and update your account from the billing and account pages while signed in. You can delete a Sermon Lens history entry from the History sidebar at any time. To request deletion of your account and any associated data, or to ask what information we hold about you, write to legal@reedlightbooks.com. We will act on reasonable requests within 30 days.

Children's privacy

This tool is intended for adult worship leaders, pastors, and other ministry users. We do not knowingly collect any information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision. Material changes will be flagged through the EULA modal when you next visit the tool.

How to reach us

If you have questions about this policy or wish to request information about what (if any) data is associated with your IP address, contact us at legal@reedlightbooks.com.