Privacy and cookies
Updated 14 September 2026. This website provides the Belgic Confession and music to help you read and learn it. We do not use advertising tracking or remarketing.
Your choice
Accept enables Google Analytics and BibleGateway verse previews. Both stay off until you accept. Declining does not restrict reading, search, music, or Scripture links. You can change your decision using on this page. Declining after a service has loaded reloads the page to stop its scripts.
Preferences stored on your device
We use local storage to remember your theme, text size for each screen size, whether footnotes and songs are visible, music volume, and whether you have seen the swipe hint. These settings remain until you change them or clear this site's browser data.
Session storage keeps the article and menu data used for search, continuous-play state, and navigation direction for the current tab. After analytics consent, it also records whether reading preferences have been counted in that tab. Search runs in your browser, and we do not send search words as custom analytics events. If a URL contains search words, those words may still appear in a page request to our host.
The cookie bc_analytics_consent_v2 remembers your choice for analytics and verse previews for one year. The former separate verse-preview cookie is no longer used. An older consent cookie and local-storage choice are retained for compatibility with older open tabs. Earlier acceptances are not automatically treated as a new opt-in; earlier refusals remain refusals. Browser controls may clear or shorten storage sooner.
Optional Google Analytics
If you allow analytics, Google receives usage information such as pages visited, browser and device details, referral information, music plays and completions, continuous-play use, and display preferences. This includes requests from your IP address and cookie identifiers; it should not be described as anonymous. We do not ask for your name or send search text as an analytics event.
The Google tag is loaded only after consent, and does not load on pages opened from a site search link, whose address contains the words searched for. On other pages, the page address and referring address supplied to analytics exclude query strings and fragments. Advertising storage, advertising personalisation, advertising user data, and Google signals are disabled in our integration. Google Analytics cookies named _ga and _ga_… may be set; we configure them to expire after one year without extending expiry on each visit. Rejecting analytics stops future collection from this page and removes accessible Google Analytics cookies for this site. It does not erase data already received by Google.
Google processes data under its own terms and may process it outside Australia. See Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from partner sites. The analytics property's retention settings are managed separately from browser cookie expiry.
Scripture previews and external links
Accept also enables BibleGateway verse previews automatically, with no separate checkbox. Decline keeps both analytics and previews off. Accepting loads a script from BibleGateway, which receives connection information such as your IP address and browser details and may use its own storage. Disabling previews leaves normal Scripture links available.
Following Scripture, Spotify, or other external links opens another service under that service's privacy practices. See BibleGateway's privacy policy. Music played directly on this site is served from this site's audio files.
Hosting and contact
Our server and Cloudflare process network information needed to deliver and protect the site, including IP addresses, requested pages, and browser information. This is separate from optional Google Analytics. See Cloudflare's privacy policy. The private Hibbo navigation widget is restricted to local and Tailscale previews and does not load on the public site.
If you email contact@belgicconfession.com.au, your email address and message are used to respond. You can use that address for privacy questions. Clearing this site's cookies and storage resets the choices described above.