Terms of Use

Commontide renders the BCP 2019 Daily Office (Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Midday, Compline, Family Prayer), the Eucharist, the Great Litany, the liturgical calendar, and lives of the saints. It includes scripture passages from the English Standard Version (ESV), psalms from the Coverdale Psalter, and hymn metadata from selected hymnals. We provide the service "as-is" and may change features, texts, or availability at any time.

You may use Commontide without an account. If you create one, you are responsible for the activity that happens under it. You agree to provide accurate sign-in information and not to share your account with others. We may suspend or close accounts that violate these terms or are used to attack the service.

You may delete your account at any time. Deletion cascades all of your profile data and prayer intentions.

You agree not to:

• Use the service to harass, defame, or threaten any person.
• Submit unlawful, infringing, or knowingly false content into fields the application stores (e.g., prayer-intention names, prayer context).
• Attempt to circumvent, disable, or stress-test access controls, rate limits, or Row-Level Security policies. (If you've found a vulnerability, please report it privately — see our security policy in the repository.)
• Scrape or systematically copy the application beyond what fair personal use of the rendered Daily Office requires.
• Resell access to the service.

There is zero tolerancefor objectionable content or abusive behavior. Prayer requests you share with your household or a group are visible to other people, and content that is harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise objectionable is not permitted. You can report any shared prayer and block another person from within the app (tap a prayer, then “report” or “block”). We review reports and act on them in a timely way, and we may remove offending content and suspend or remove the accounts of people who post it.

4.1 Book of Common Prayer 2019

Commontide reproduces the Book of Common Prayer 2019 with permission from the Anglican Church in North America via Anglican House Publishers. Liturgical text remains subject to the BCP 2019 license. You may read, print, and use the rendered offices for personal and congregational worship; you may not extract the BCP text for republication outside that scope.

4.2 English Standard Version (ESV)

Scripture passages are served via the Crossway ESV API and are subject to Crossway's ESV API terms of use, including the 500-verse local cache cap and the per-day query limits enforced by the application. You may not extract scripture text from Commontide for republication outside the scope of personal devotional use.

4.3 Coverdale Psalter

Coverdale psalter text is in the public domain.

4.4 Hymnal metadata

Hymn metadata (titles, tune names, indexing) from St. Bernard's Breviary Hymnal and Sing to the Lord (SUTL) is reproduced for indexing and lookup; full hymn texts that remain under copyright are not stored in Commontide.

4.5 Application code

The Commontide application code is licensed separately. These Terms cover the service — your use of the deployed application — not your use of the source code.

You retain ownership of any content you provide (prayer-intention names, prayer context, preferences). You grant us a limited license to store and process that content solely to render the Daily Office to you, as described in the Privacy Policy. We do not share your content with third parties beyond the subprocessors listed in our subprocessor inventory, and we do not use it to train models.

Commontide is a devotional tool, not a substitute for pastoral care, theological counsel, or licensed clergy. The application's selection of saints, collects, and rubrics reflects the ACNA BCP 2019 tradition; it is not an authoritative pronouncement of the Anglican Church in North America or any of its provinces.

The service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Commontide and its maintainer shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, goodwill, or use, arising from your use of the service.

For users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or jurisdictions that prohibit certain limitations of liability, nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited by law (e.g., for gross negligence or willful misconduct).

Commontide is intended for users 16 and older (see the Privacy Policy §7). If you are under 16, please do not create an account.

We may update these terms when the service materially changes. When we do, we'll update the Last updated date above and notify signed-in users in-app for changes that affect their rights. Continued use after a change constitutes acceptance.

You may stop using the service at any time and delete your account per §2. We may suspend or terminate access for violations of §3 or where required by law, and we will give reasonable notice unless doing so would itself create harm or risk.

These terms are governed by [GOVERNING LAW JURISDICTION — TO BE FILLED], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising under these terms will be resolved in the courts of [FORUM — TO BE FILLED], except where mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction provides otherwise.

• Email: m@shadowandlife.com
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