Terms of Use

What BodyBook is

BodyBook is a free, nonprofit, educational website about Catholic faith and practice. It exists to help people who feel lost at Mass — including the person who built it. There is no paid tier. There is no signup wall. There are no ads. There is no commercial business behind it.

Most of the writing on this site is original composition. Where we quote someone else's specific wording, we attribute it.

How we handle quoted material

When a Bible verse, a Mass response, a Catechism passage, or another copyrighted text appears on BodyBook, we follow these rules:

• Short quotations only. Verses, single responses, brief Catechism citations — never full chapters or long passages from copyrighted translations.
• Always attributed. The translation, edition, and copyright owner are shown inline or in a hover tooltip on every quoted line. No anonymous quoting.
• Public-domain text is preferred wherever the translation choice is ours: World English Bible (Catholic edition), Douay-Rheims, Reina-Valera 1909, Clementine Vulgate.
• Original commentary surrounds every quote. The quote is the seed; our explanation is the harvest. The quote is never the main content.

This is standard fair-use practice for educational and devotional use under 17 U.S.C. §107. Our purpose is educational, nonprofit, and transformative. The amount used is short. The use does not substitute for or compete with the copyrighted work itself.

What you can do with content from this site

You may freely:

• Read, share links, and quote BodyBook in your own writing with attribution.
• Print pages for personal study, parish use, RCIA programs, or family catechesis.
• Translate our original commentary into your own language for personal or parish use.
• Use any prayer text on this site in your own prayer life — the prayers belong to no one.

Please do not:

• Sell BodyBook content or republish it as your own.
• Rebrand BodyBook as a product or service of your own organization without permission.
• Use BodyBook content to train commercial AI systems without permission.

If you think we got something wrong

If you believe BodyBook has quoted your copyrighted work in a way you don't agree with, has misattributed a translation, has misrepresented Catholic teaching, or has any other issue that needs correction — please tell us. We're a small operation, we're acting in good faith, and we will fix or remove anything we got wrong, fast.

Take-down contact: partners@bodybook.net (this email is currently routed to BodyBook's administrator). Please include the specific page, the specific quoted material, and the basis for the concern. We aim to respond within seven days.

The AI listener (Reflect)

The Reflect page hosts a conversational AI that responds to anything you type. It is not a priest. It does not offer sacramental absolution. It is not a substitute for pastoral or mental-health care. It is a tool for reflection.

Conversations are stored against a private session cookie on your browser only. We don't collect your email, your name, or any account information. We don't have user accounts. If you lose the cookie, the conversation is gone — that's by design.

If you express thoughts of harm to yourself or others, the AI will direct you to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US) and encourage you to speak with a priest or trusted person. BodyBook is not equipped to provide crisis intervention; please reach a human resource if you are in crisis.

Privacy, briefly

BodyBook does not have user accounts. We do not collect personal information beyond a session cookie used to keep your Reflect conversation linked to your browser. We do not sell, share, or transmit your conversations to third parties beyond the AI inference provider (Cloudflare Workers AI) for the purpose of generating a reply. We do not track you across sites. We do not run advertising.

No warranty, no guarantee

BodyBook is provided as-is for educational and devotional use. The site may contain errors of fact, doctrine, translation, or attribution. We do our best, but we are fallible. Nothing on this site constitutes formal Catholic doctrine — for that, consult the Catechism, your priest, or the bishops' conference.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change as BodyBook grows. Material changes will be noted at the top of this page with a date. The current version is dated below.