Terms of Use

What Koinonia is

A Bible study app. It gives you Scripture in many translations, the original languages, cross references, study tools, and an assistant that reads the text with you. It also has one room where you can meet another believer who is reading near where you are reading.

It is not a church, and it does not stand in for one.

Your account

One account belongs to one person. Keep the password to yourself; anything done with your account is treated as done by you.

Give a real email address, because it is the only way an account can be recovered and the only way you can be reached about your own data.

What you may not do here

Do not use Koinonia to abuse, threaten, harass, or frighten another person.

Do not send, show, or say anything sexual, and do not use the camera for it. This applies with absolute force where children are concerned: any sexual content involving a minor is reported to the authorities and the account is removed permanently and immediately.

Do not incite violence or hatred against any person or any group of people.

Do not impersonate somebody else, and do not pretend to an office in a church that is not yours.

Do not advertise, recruit, solicit money, or run a scheme of any kind.

Do not attack the service, scrape it, or try to reach another person's account or data.

An account that does any of these is closed. Depending on what was done, it is closed without warning.

The feed

Anything you post on the feed, including a study you attach to a post, is public to everybody signed in to Koinonia, and it carries your name and your picture. There is no private posting and no audience you can narrow it to. If you would not say it out loud in a room full of believers you have not met, do not post it.

Every post is read by an automatic check before it appears. It refuses sexual content, attacks on a person or a people, harassment, threats, encouragement of self-harm, advertising and spam, impersonation, and deliberate mockery of God. It does not refuse disagreement, doubt, lament, anger, a hard question, or a passage of Scripture however violent that passage is. Where it holds a post it tells you why, and only you are shown that it was held. A study attached to a post is read in full by the same check.

A check made by a machine is not perfect in either direction. Something may be held that should not have been, and something may get through that should not have. Report anything that should not be here.

You keep whatever rights you have in what you write and in the pictures you upload. By posting, you give Koinonia permission to show it inside Koinonia, and nothing more: it is not licensed to anybody else, not sold, not used in advertising, and not used by Koinonia to train a model. The automatic check described above is made by DeepSeek, whose terms allow it to use what it reads to improve its models; the privacy policy says more.

Do not post anything that is not yours to post. A photograph of somebody who has not agreed to appear on a public feed is not yours to post either.

Koinonia may remove any post, and may remove an account that keeps posting things that have to be removed. You can delete anything of your own at any time.

Reporting and blocking

There is a report button in every session, and on every post that is not yours. Use it. It takes one press and a reason.

Reporting somebody blocks them permanently and at once, and the block covers the whole app rather than the place you pressed it: neither of you will see the other's posts, on any day, and the block holds everywhere in the app rather than only where you pressed it.

Every report is read by a person. Reports are acted on within 24 hours, and the outcome, where the report is serious, is an account removed rather than a warning.

If you are in danger, or if a report concerns a child, contact your local police as well. An app cannot do that part for you.

What the assistant is, and what it is not

The assistant is a language model reading Scripture alongside you. It is a study tool. It is useful, and it is confidently wrong sometimes, which is a property of the thing rather than a fault that will be patched away.

Check it against the text. The text is the authority; the assistant is not, and Koinonia is not.

It is not a pastor, not a counsellor, not a doctor, and not a lawyer. Nothing it says is medical, legal, financial, or professional advice, and it must not be used in place of any of those. If you are in crisis, speak to a person: your pastor, your doctor, or an emergency service.

Scripture and other people's work

The Bible translations in Koinonia are used under the terms their publishers set, and they remain the property of those publishers. The photographs shown with the daily verse carry their own licences and their own credit, which is printed on every one of them.

What you write is yours. Your notes, your journal and your highlights belong to you, and Koinonia claims no ownership of them and no right to publish them. Permission is taken only to store and show them back to you, which is what the app is for.

Payment

The Bible is free and stays free. Every translation, every note, every map, the reading plans and the feed cost nothing and never will. The assistant costs real money to run, so it is metered: two questions a day at no charge, seven a day on Berea at 10 EUR a month, twenty a day on Emmaus at 15 EUR a month. Prices include VAT.

Every plan reads the same Bible and gets the same assistant giving the same answers. What a plan buys is how many questions a day it will answer, and nothing else. Nobody is ever given a truer answer about the Word for paying more.

A subscription renews each month until it is cancelled, and it can be cancelled at any time, taking effect at the end of the period already paid for. Where you cancel depends on where you bought it: a subscription bought on the phone is cancelled in the Play Store, under Payments and subscriptions, because Google holds it and only Google can end it. One bought on the website is cancelled from Settings.

If a payment fails, the plan keeps working for a while rather than stopping the same hour, so that an expired card does not take somebody’s Bible study away before they have had a chance to change it.

Ending it

You may delete your account whenever you like, from Settings in the app or from the deletion page, with no reason given and nobody to persuade.

Koinonia may close an account that breaks the rules above, and will say why unless saying why would put somebody at risk.

The plain warnings

Koinonia is provided as it is. It is worked on constantly and it is not promised to be flawless, uninterrupted, or free of mistakes.

To the extent the law allows, Koinonia is not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing here limits liability for death, personal injury, or fraud, because that cannot be limited and should not be.

These terms are governed by Romanian law.

Changes

If these terms change, the date at the top moves and the change is announced in the app. Continuing to use Koinonia after that means accepting the new terms. If you would rather not, delete your account. Questions go to [email protected].