Terms of Use

Cairn is for adults 18 and older. By using it, you confirm you are.

You sign in with an email link, Apple, or Google. Keep access to that account secure, and use Cairn as yourself. Don't share your account or sign in as someone else.

Cairn builds a daily reading plan and offers reflections, background, and prompts to help you read. Some of this is written with the help of AI and checked by Cairn's own rules, but it can still contain mistakes. Scripture itself is always shown from the translation, never rewritten.

Cairn doesn't tell you what a passage means. It isn't a church, pastoral counseling, therapy, or medical or crisis care. If you or someone else may be in danger, call 911 or your local emergency number, or call or text 988 in the US.

• Your journal entries, notes, and answers belong to you.
• Cairn keeps them only to run the service for you, as the privacy note explains. Your journal is never shown to AI.
• You can save your journal as a PDF and delete it, or your whole account, at any time.

• When you share a journey or join a group, you decide whether others can read your journal, and you can change that at any time.
• Everyone on a shared or group journey agrees to Walking Together, Cairn's guidelines for journeys shared with others.
• Cairn's reviewers may remove a comment, hide an entry from the people it was shared with, remove someone from a group, pause someone's sharing, or close an account when the guidelines aren't followed. Anyone affected can reply to the notice to ask for another look.

• A church or ministry can set up an organization on Cairn and give Leader seats to its group leaders. The person who sets it up confirms they may act for that organization.
• An organization sees group totals only, as described in the privacy note. It may not use Cairn to ask for, collect, or pressure anyone for their journal, their private answers, or reasons for not reading.
• A leader agrees, when accepting a seat, that their organization sees their group journeys and the content Cairn wrote for them, the days they read on them, and how many of their group's gatherings were skipped or given a date. A leader may name up to two co-leaders, who agree to the same guidelines. Leaders keep their own free account and personal journeys, and can give up their seat at any time.
• During the pilot, Cairn gives Leader seats at no cost. Cairn may change or end an organization's seats, or close an organization that misuses Cairn, and will say why. A group journey stays open to its members if its leader's seat ends.

• Scripture is the Berean Standard Bible, which is in the public domain. Its text and recordings come from the Free Use Bible API by AO Lab, and its credit appears where it's shown.
• Cairn's reflections, design, and logo belong to Cairn. You're welcome to use them for your own reading, and to share a passage or a thought with a friend. Please don't copy Cairn's content in bulk, republish it, or sell it.

• Use Cairn to harass, threaten, or deceive anyone.
• Post anything unlawful, hateful, or sexual.
• Try to get into accounts or data that aren't yours.
• Disrupt, overload, or work around Cairn's limits and safeguards.
• Use bots or scripts to use Cairn, or to copy its content.

• Cairn is free during the pilot. Features may change, pause, or stop as we learn.
• If Cairn ever closes, we'll give at least 30 days' notice by email, so you can save your journal first.
• Money never shapes the reading. No ads, and your writing is never sold or used for marketing.

• You can stop at any time and delete your account from My Account.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or Walking Together, or that puts others at risk.

If we make a change that matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Cairn after that means you accept the change.

Cairn is offered “as is” during the pilot. We work to keep it accurate, available, and safe, but we can't promise it will always be any of those.

To the extent the law allows, Cairn and the people who run it aren't responsible for indirect or unexpected losses from using Cairn. Our total responsibility to you for any claim is limited to $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

These terms are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, United States.

• Questions about these terms: hello@cairn.bible
• Questions about your data: privacy@cairn.bible