Android: Privacy for Bible App Friendships

Updated 3 days ago by Zizoh Anto

This section addresses your privacy, specifically concerning your YouVersion Friends. Refer to YouVersion’s Privacy Policy for more details.

NO ONE besides you can see:
  1. Your Bookmark Titles and Labels.
  2. Notes that you marked as Private.
  3. Your activity from Plans that you start as By Myself, Private.
  4. Your activity from Plans whose Settings you configure as Privacy > Private.
    You can check Plan Settings under Plans, My Plans, select Plan, ⋮, Settings.
ONLY people who are on your YouVersion Friends list can see:
  1. Your YouVersion profile.
  2. Your YouVersion Friends list.
  3. Your Bookmarks, Highlights, and Verse Images, as well as Comments and Likes on them.
  4. Your Badges and your Milestones on each Badge.
  5. Notes that you mark as Friends Only or Public.
  6. Your activity from Plans that you started as Visible to Friends.
  7. Your activity from Plans whose Settings are Privacy: Friends Only.
People who are NOT on your YouVersion Friends list CAN NOT see:
  1. Your Bookmarks, Highlights, and Verse Images.
ANYONE on YouVersion CAN see:
  1. Notes that you mark as Public.
  2. The name and image on your YouVersion Profile (so that friends can find you through search).
    At least one of the following conditions must be met before you are included in a person's Friends search result:
    1. They searched using the email associated with your YouVersion account.
    2. You have mutual friends.
    3. You both set the same church as your church on the App.
    4. You’re Facebook friends and your YouVersion accounts are associated with your Facebook email/account.
    5. The email associated with their YouVersion account is saved as a Contact on your device.
To maximize your privacy:
- Use a nickname that only your friends in real life know.
- Don’t use a photo of yourself for your profile image.
- Rest assured, with our new privacy policy, no one can find you in search results unless the above conditions are met.

Of course, people can see items that you post in spaces outside YouVersion’s control (such as on social media).

Bookmarks, Highlights, and Verse Images don’t offer privacy settings.

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