Terms of use

This website is free, and it is offered in good faith rather than sold. These terms say what you may expect of it, what it expects of you, and what happens when either of us falls short. They are written to be read — if a sentence here is doing something you would not agree to, we would rather you noticed it now than discovered it later.

Operator

Operated by Mint Labs, s. r. o. — identified in full below. Questions about anything here go through the contact form. Last updated August 17, 2026.

What this is

These terms are an agreement between you and the company below — “we” and “us” throughout. It is set out in full because an agreement should say exactly who it is with, and a name alone can be shared by two companies where a company number cannot.

Company: Mint Labs, s. r. o.
Registered seat: Ostravska 1014/8, 040 11 Kosice, Slovakia, European Union
Company number (ICO): 52874052
VAT number (IC DPH): SK2121163506
Business Register: Spisova znacka OR Mestsky sud Kosice Oddiel Sro, Vlozka cislo 48095/V
How to reach us: The contact form, or by writing to the address above. This site sends no email and has no address to receive it at.

The same details appear in the Credits on the About page. Being established in the European Union is also why the privacy policy is written in the terms the GDPR uses.

You accept them by using the site. If you register, you are asked to say so explicitly, because an account is a longer relationship than a visit and it should not begin with something you were never shown. Everything here applies to readers without an account too — most of the site works signed out, and it would be strange for the terms of that use to depend on a tick you were never offered.

What we do with information about you is a separate question, answered separately and at length in the privacy policy. That policy is part of this agreement, and where the two ever appear to disagree about data, the privacy policy is the one to believe.

The website, and the apps

These terms are about this website. The iPhone and Mac apps are bought from Apple and the Windows app from Microsoft, and each store’s own terms govern that purchase — what you paid, what a refund depends on, and the licence you hold the app under all come from the store rather than from us. Nothing is sold on this site, and no payment is taken here.

Neither app has an account. There is no registration, no sign in, and nothing to close: what you write in an app is kept on that device and belongs to you there. So the Accounts section below, and everything in these terms about recovery codes, blocking and closing an account, is about the website alone. What each of the three keeps, and what it does not, is set out at the head of the privacy policy.

The rest applies wherever you read: The texts, and our own work covers the same commentary, the same maps and the same recordings whether you meet them here or in an app, and No warranty and Liability are written to cover both.

The service

Biblion is a Bible reader with a study apparatus: public-domain translations, the Hebrew and Greek, Strong’s lexicon, cross-references, maps, devotional readings, articles, and tools for keeping notes and favorite verses of your own. It costs nothing, no part of it is held back for payment, and there is nothing on it to buy: the apps are sold on Apple’s pages, not on these. Search results may occasionally carry a single clearly marked sponsored line, and the Articles shelf may occasionally carry a clearly marked sponsored article — both served from our own server with no ad network and no tracking. The About page describes the arrangement, and it never touches the text of Scripture.

Because it is free, it is also offered without any promise that it will keep working, keep its present shape, or exist at all next year. We may add to it, change it, or take parts of it away. Where a change would remove something you have made or relied on, we will say so on the site beforehand where we reasonably can — and export exists precisely so that what you have written never depends on our plans.

We do not promise the site will be available at any particular time. It runs on rented hardware, it is maintained by a very small number of people, and it will sometimes be down.

Accounts

Nobody needs an account to read, search, follow cross-references, look up Hebrew and Greek, or open the maps. An account exists to hold what you make — notes, favorites, preferences, your place in the text, your reading progress.

An account is for one person, and the details you give should be true as far as they go: a made-up last name harms nobody, but a username or an email address that belongs to somebody else is a different thing. You must be old enough for the site to be lawful where you live; if you are a child, the privacy policy says what that means here.

Your password and your recovery code are yours to keep safe, and this matters more here than on most sites. Because no email is sent to you automatically, there is no reset link: the recovery code is the way back in. If you lose both it and your password, write to us and a replacement code can be issued by hand and sent to the address stored on your account — that is the only remaining road, it is slower, and it depends on that address still reaching you. Keep them to yourself, and tell us through the contact form if you believe someone else has been in your account. Nobody here will ever ask you for your password.

What is done through your account is treated as done by you. That is not a trap so much as a description of what we can see — a signed-in session is the only evidence there is.

What you write

What you write stays yours. Your notes, your favorites and anything you send us remain your own; registering gives us no ownership of them and no right to publish them, and closing your account takes them with it.

We need one narrow permission and no more: to store what you write, and to show it back to you. That is what running the service consists of, it lasts only as long as you keep the material here, and it extends to nothing else — not to publishing it, not to passing it to anyone, not to training anything on it, and not to using it to send you anything.

Notes are private. They are visible to you when you are signed in, and are not shown to other readers. That is a description of how the site is built rather than a promise of secrecy against every possibility: an administrator with access to the server can technically read the database, as on any site anywhere, and the privacy policy says plainly what is looked at and when. Please do not keep anything in a note that would harm you if it were read.

You are responsible for what you write — that it is yours to write, and that it breaks no law. Do not paste in copyrighted text you have no right to hold here.

Articles are different, because they are published. If you are given an editor’s or an administrator’s role and write an article for the site, you keep the copyright in what you wrote and you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, unpaid permission to publish it here, to keep it here, and to edit it for accuracy and house style. You confirm it is your own work, or that you have the right to give it to us. We may unpublish or delete an article at any time, and you may ask us to unpublish yours — we will, though we cannot undo the fact that it was once readable.

The texts, and our own work

The biblical texts are in the public domain and we claim nothing over them. Copy them, quote them, print them, build something else with them; that they are free is much of the point of this site. Each edition and its provenance is described under The texts, and where a text carries a trademark or a jurisdictional oddity — the World English Bible’s name, the King James Version in the United Kingdom — that section says so and you should mind it.

The rest is our own work: the software, the design, the maps drawn for Biblion from open data, the devotional retellings written for it, the Biblion Bible Commentary, and the text of the site’s own pages. Copyright in all of it belongs to Mint Labs, s. r. o., and publishing it here does not put it in the public domain. You may of course read it, quote it normally with attribution, link to it, and print a copy for your own study or for a group you teach. Ask us before putting any substantial part of our work into something of your own, paid or free, and the answer will usually be yes. Third-party data behind the maps carries its own terms, credited under The maps.

The commentary is held more tightly than the rest of our work. Republishing a book of it, translating it, and including it in anything of your own are not permitted, whether or not money changes hands. Reading it and printing it for your own study or for a class you teach stay free. Quote it freely — up to a few hundred words, or one comment in full — with a mention of Biblion and a link where there is one. Beyond that, ask.

Text and data mining is reserved, with named exceptions. For our own work as listed above we expressly reserve the rights under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790: it may not be mined, nor used to train or fine-tune a machine-learning system, without our permission. That permission is granted, in machine-readable form, to exactly the crawlers expressly allowed in robots.txt — the allowance there is the written permission, and it can be withdrawn there for content not yet collected. For everyone else the reservation stands, and it is repeated where machines look for it: robots.txt, the tdm-reservation tag on every page, and llms.txt. The biblical texts are not covered — they are public domain, and we claim nothing over them.

Fair use of the service

The rules here are about conduct toward the service, not about the text — Scripture is nobody’s property and we are not pretending otherwise. Do not:

attack the site, or try to reach accounts, data or parts of the server that are not yours — including by breaking, guessing or evading the sign-in;
run automated collection against it: scraping the text, mass-downloading it a query at a time, or otherwise loading the site in a way that makes it slower for the people reading it. The search allowance described in the privacy policy exists for exactly this, and working around it is working around this rule. If you want the texts in bulk, ask — they are public domain and there are better sources than our search box;
use the site to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, or to store or send material that is unlawful;
abuse the contact form, or use it to send threats, spam, or anything of the sort;
impersonate anyone, whether another reader or us;
resell access to the site, or present it as your own service.

Ordinary reading, however much of it, is never a breach of this. Nobody has ever read too much of the Bible.

Ending it

You can leave at any moment, completely. Close your account at the foot of Account & preferences deletes the account and everything on it — notes, favorites, preferences, reading position, progress and badges — at once. Rolling backup copies of the database exist so that a disk failure cannot take everyone’s work with it, and a closed account sits inside those until they expire, within 14 days; they are never opened to look at anyone’s data and never used to bring an account back. The privacy policy sets this out in full. Export first if you want to keep anything. You do not have to tell us why, and closing an account is not a thing we will try to talk you out of.

We can block or delete an account, and it is fairer to say when than to leave it unwritten. We would do it where an account is used to break the rules above, where it endangers the site or another reader, or where we are obliged to by law. In anything short of a serious or repeated case we would rather write to you first; where the harm is ongoing we may act at once and explain afterward. A blocked account can still reach us through the contact form — that form is open to people who cannot sign in for precisely this reason — and if we have got it wrong, say so and we will look again.

We may also close the site itself. If that day comes we will give what notice we can, so that anyone who wants an export has the chance to take one.

No warranty

Biblion is provided as it is, and as it happens to be available, without warranty of any kind — express or implied, including any implied warranty of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted or error-free operation.

That is not a formula covering an absence of care. Accuracy on the About page sets out in plain words where the errors in a thing like this actually come from: texts transcribed by other hands, lexicon tagging done at scale, cross-references compiled in the nineteenth century, maps drawn from evidence that is incomplete. Please read it — it is the honest version of this paragraph.

Nothing here is legal, medical, financial or other professional advice, and nothing here is offered as a settled interpretation of Scripture. If a matter is consequential — something you will teach, publish, quote in print or decide by — verify it against a printed critical edition.

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site or from reliance on anything found here — including lost data, lost profits, or any indirect or consequential loss. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded and some limit must be named, ours is capped at what you have paid us for the service, which is nothing.

Two things are never excluded, here or anywhere: our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, and for our own fraud. Nor does anything in these terms take away a right the law gives you and does not let us contract out of — including your rights over your own data under the privacy policy, and, if you are a consumer in the EU, your rights under consumer law. If a clause here turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Changes to these terms

These terms will change as the site does. The date at the top says when this version was written, and it is the version in force. For a small correction that is all the notice there will be; for a change that materially affects what you may do or what we may do with your material, we will say so on the site before it takes effect, and we will not apply it retroactively to something already done. If a change is one you will not accept, closing your account is always available and always immediate.

Law, and disagreements

This agreement is governed by the law of Slovakia, and the courts of Slovakia have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it. If you are a consumer, that does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, nor of the right to bring proceedings in your own courts — that right exists whatever this paragraph says, and it is written here so you know it rather than having to find it.

Before any of that, please write to us. Nearly everything that could go wrong between a reader and a small free Bible site is something a message and a little patience will settle, and the contact form is read by a person.