Privacy

Updated October 31, 2026. BibleMeanings is a reading reference at biblemeanings.net. You can read its explanations without creating an account or submitting a personal reading history.

Reading and filtering

The reference filters operate in your browser. They do not require a name, email address or religious affiliation. The site does not provide an email signup or collect a personal study profile. Browser storage may retain a consent choice where consent controls are shown.

Audience analytics

After analytics consent in the UK and European Economic Area, and never with a Global Privacy Control signal, the site's own measurement script sends the offer identifier and page path when a sponsored link is clicked, and the page address, the referring site, campaign tags and time on page. Our hosting provider adds country, device and browser type and a daily-changing code derived from your IP address and browser, which it does not store, and keeps these counts for about three months.

Our cookieless analytics provider measures page views and load speed without cookies. It loads only after consent in the UK and EEA and never when Global Privacy Control is enabled. If your country cannot be identified, analytics stays off. Google supplies Google Analytics 4, which sets analytics cookies and can collect pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser details, and outbound link clicks. The country of the connection alone determines whether the banner appears. Visitors in the UK and EEA see it until they have a saved choice: a saved Accept loads analytics, and a saved Decline leaves it off. In other known countries analytics loads without a banner. An unknown country or failed lookup leaves analytics off. Global Privacy Control blocks analytics everywhere, including after Accept. To withdraw your choice, clear this site's data in your browser. See Google's partner-sites information.

Messages

If you use the contact form, the message and reply address are used to handle your request. Include only what is needed to identify the page and question. Do not send confidential pastoral, medical or family records with a source correction.

Delivery and external links

Hosting and security providers can process ordinary request information, such as an IP address and requested URL, to deliver and protect the site. Product cards use locally hosted publisher cover images. Following a product link takes you directly to the publisher without an affiliate identifier. External source links lead to services with their own privacy practices. The reference does not control the information those services receive when you visit them.

Your choices

You can use your browser's controls to manage local storage. You can also contact the publication about a message you have sent or a privacy concern. Ask through the contact form, with enough context to identify the request.

See Contact and Disclosure for the related publication information.

Our hosting provider stores contact messages in a delivery queue for up to 90 days; delivery may remove them sooner. This expiry applies to the queue, not delivered correspondence.

IP-based contact spam-limit records expire within 25 hours.

Delivered contact messages remain in our mailbox until deleted. You can request deletion through our contact page.

Subject to applicable law, you can request access to, correction or deletion of your personal data, restrict or object to processing, and withdraw consent. Use our contact page to exercise these rights or raise a privacy question.