Terms of Use

These terms are the agreement between you and Bruno Gomes Selva, an individual developer in California, United States ("Aeterna", "we") about your use of the Aeterna app. By using the app you accept them. They are written to be read, not to be impressive.

What Aeterna is, and what it is not

Aeterna is a daily companion for prayer and for reading Scripture. Part of it is written by artificial intelligence: the Companion's replies, and the notes that explain a passage.

Aeterna is not medical, psychological or crisis care. If you are in danger or thinking of harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line. The app shows one when it can, but it is not a service that can help you and no one is monitoring what you write.

Aeterna is not pastoral counselling, spiritual direction, or legal or financial advice.

Your account

• You need an email address you control. We send a code rather than asking for a password.
• One account per person. Keep your email secure; anyone who can read it can sign in as you.
• You must be at least 18 years old.
• You can delete your account at any time, from Me. It cannot be undone.

What you write stays yours

Your prayers and your conversations belong to you. We do not claim any ownership of them and we do not publish them. We hold them so the app can show them back to you, and we delete them when you delete your account.

We need one narrow permission to operate: to store your words and to send the two kinds of text described in the Privacy Policy to the AI services that write replies and read them aloud. Nothing wider than that.

Scripture and the rest of the content

Bible translations in Aeterna are used under licence from their publishers and remain theirs. English is the King James Version, which is in the public domain. Portuguese is the Bíblia Livre, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Brazil licence. Spanish is the Reina-Valera 1909. The reflections, prayers, journeys, notes and recordings are ours or our licensors', and you may not redistribute them outside the app, except that you may share a single verse card as the app's own sharing feature offers.

Subscriptions

Aeterna is free to use for reading Scripture and keeping a prayer journal. Premium adds full daily episodes, an unlimited Companion and Journey Reflections.

• Subscriptions are sold and billed by the App Store, not by us. We never see your card.
• A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before it ends. Cancel in your App Store settings.
• Where a free trial is offered, it is given once per Apple ID and converts into a paid subscription unless you cancel before it ends.
• The price is shown in the app before you buy, in your own currency, and it is the price the App Store charges. Prices differ by country and may change; a change never affects a period already paid for.
• Refunds are Apple's to give, under their policy. We cannot refund an App Store purchase, but write to us if something went wrong and we will help you ask.
• Deleting your account does not cancel your subscription. Cancel it in the App Store first.

Fair use

Please do not:

• Use Aeterna to produce or spread anything unlawful, hateful, or intended to harm someone.
• Try to get the AI to ignore its instructions, or use the app to test or attack the models behind it.
• Automate access, scrape the content, or resell any part of it.
• Share one account among several people, or work around the free limits.

We may suspend an account that does these things. Where we can, we will tell you why first.

Changes to the app

Aeterna is early, and it changes often. We may add, alter or remove features. If we remove something you are paying for, you may cancel and ask Apple for a refund of the unused part of the period.

If the app is unavailable

We try to keep Aeterna running, but we do not promise it will always be available or always be correct. It depends on services we do not control. As far as the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim and US$50. This does not limit anything the law does not allow to be limited, such as liability for fraud or gross negligence, and it does not take away rights you have as a consumer where you live.

Ending this agreement

You may stop using Aeterna at any time and delete your account. We may end your access if you break these terms. If we close your account without cause while you are paying, we will help you obtain a refund of the remaining period.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of the State of California, United States, and disputes go to the state or federal courts in California. That does not take away the protections the law gives you as a consumer where you live: a Brazilian user, for example, keeps the Código de Defesa do Consumidor.

Getting in touch

support@aeterna-app.com. We read everything, and we answer.