Last updated: November 13, 2026
The Fathers Speak app (Android: net.copticstudy.fathers; also on iPhone) is published by Modern Business Transformation LLC, Pennsylvania, USA (copticstudy.net).
In short. The app has no user accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We never ask for your name, e-mail address or contacts, and we do not sell or share data for advertising.
What stays on your phone. Your reading settings (text size, view, playback speed), audio you save for offline listening, how much free listening time you have used, and whether you have unlocked the narrations are stored only on your device. Uninstalling the app removes them.
Audio streaming. When you play narration, the app streams the audio from our file host (Cloudflare). Like any web server, the host receives your device’s IP address to deliver the file; we do not use it to identify you, and we do not combine it with any other information.
Ask the Fathers. When you ask a question, the app sends it, with any earlier questions in the same conversation, to our server (Cloudflare) and to an AI service (Anthropic’s Claude or Google’s Gemini), which writes the answer from the passages our server finds. The app also sends a number derived from your device and scrambled (a one-way hash of the device identifier Android gives this app, or on iPhone a random number kept on the device), so it cannot identify you; it lets us count the free questions. This number stays the same if you reinstall the app, so the free questions are counted per device. Our server keeps a log of questions with that number, the time and the answering cost, to run and improve the service. To count questions per network it also keeps your IP address for the current day only. Please do not include personal information in your questions.
Rating answers. If you give an answer a thumbs up or thumbs down, the app sends the rating with your question, the answer, the passages it was written from, the reasons you tick and any note you type, together with the device number above. We keep these to improve the answers. A thumbs down is also e-mailed to the editors (admin@copticstudy.net) so the answer can be checked. No name or e-mail address is sent.
Purchases. Purchases in the app are handled entirely by Google Play or the Apple App Store. We never see your name, card or payment details; the store only tells the app that a purchase was made, and that is remembered on your device.
Service providers. We use Cloudflare (server, audio hosting, question log) and Anthropic or Google (writing answers) only to run the features above. They process the data on our behalf under their own privacy terms. We do not sell any data.
Your choices. Ask the Fathers and ratings are optional; the rest of the app works without sending anything but audio requests. To ask about or request deletion of question logs, e-mail us.
Children. The app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes. If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.
Contact. Modern Business Transformation LLC — admin@copticstudy.net — https://copticstudy.net