Draft awaiting legal review. This page describes how Tethered works today, but it has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer and may change before launch.
Terms of Use
Last updated: November 12, 2026
These terms are an agreement between you and Tethered about using the Tethered app and tetheredbible.com. By using Tethered you agree to them. If you get the app from the App Store, Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies, and these terms add to it.
1. Who can use Tethered
You must be at least 13. If you’re under the age of adulthood where you live, use Tethered with your parent or guardian’s permission.
2. What Tethered is, and isn’t
Tethered is a faith and accountability companion. It is not medical, psychological or addiction treatment, it isn’t a crisis or emergency service, and it can’t promise any result. The Bible Helper is an AI tool and can be wrong; it doesn’t replace your pastor, a counselor or a doctor. In an emergency, call or text 988 (US) or your local emergency number.
3. Community rules: no tolerance for abuse
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. When you post in a chat, a group, a prayer wall, a sermon question, or as a profile photo, you agree not to post anything that:
- harasses, threatens, bullies, shames or targets anyone;
- is sexual, graphic or violent, or involves the abuse of anyone, and above all of a child;
- is hateful toward anyone because of who they are;
- names or identifies someone in an anonymous space, or shares another person’s private information;
- is spam, a scam, advertising, or links where links aren’t allowed;
- breaks the law or encourages harm.
Anyone can report a post or block a person. Moderators review reports, and we act on reports within 24 hours: we remove content that breaks these rules and can mute, remove or ban the account that posted it. We report child sexual abuse material to the authorities.
4. Your content
You own what you post. You give us permission to store it and show it to the people it’s meant for, only to run Tethered. When you delete your account, your content is deleted as described in our Privacy Policy.
5. Churches
A church’s pastor and the people they give roles to manage their church on Tethered, and are responsible for how they use it. No role can see who pressed the help button or who is struggling. Church licenses are arranged directly between the church and Tethered under a separate agreement; they are not sold in the app.
6. Subscriptions
Optional personal subscriptions are sold through the App Store. Apple handles payment, renewals and refunds, and you can cancel in your iPhone’s settings. Rescue tools, the Bible and the prayer wall are free for everyone.
7. Your account
Keep your phone and email secure. You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.
8. The Bible text
The Bible translations in the app are in the public domain. Stories, explanations and other material in the app belong to Tethered or its licensors.
9. Disclaimers and limits
Tethered is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we don’t promise it will always be available or error-free, and we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the law that can’t be limited.
10. Changes
We may update these terms. If a change is important, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect.
11. Governing law
[To be completed with legal review: the state and courts whose laws govern these terms.]