Privacy

Selah keeps what you do on your own computer. It has no accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting and no update checks. This page lists everything it stores and every request it makes. Each request is traced to the line of code that makes it, and a test fails if the code gains a request this page does not list.

What Selah stores, and where

Everything is in files on your computer:

File	What is in it
user.db	Your reading sessions and reads, highlights, bookmarks, notes and journals
config.json	Your settings: theme, translation, daily goal and the like
bible.db	The Bible texts and their search index
study.db	Matthew Henry and the Hebrew and Greek, if you installed them
scenes/	Doré's engravings, if you installed them

On Linux and macOS they are under ~/.local/share/selah and ~/.config/selah. On Windows they are under %LOCALAPPDATA%\selah and %APPDATA%\selah. selah --help prints the exact folders. Delete them and Selah forgets everything.

Every request Selah makes

Selah only goes online to download something you asked for. Each download is a plain file from a public source. The texts are pinned to a fixed commit of their source, and every one of Doré's plates is checked against a pinned SHA-256. A download that fails for a moment is tried again, up to four times, with a pause between tries. Nothing about you is sent with a download. As with any download, the server sees your IP address.

The Bible texts

• When: the first launch, and selah install KJV and the like
• From: raw.githubusercontent.com, scrollmapper/bible_databases
• In the code: src/data/importer.ts, src/data/translations.ts

Matthew Henry's commentary

• When: selah install commentary
• From: codeload.github.com, lyteword/mhenry-complete
• In the code: src/data/commentary.ts

The Hebrew and Greek

• When: selah install concordance
• From: raw.githubusercontent.com, STEPBible/STEPBible-Data
• In the code: src/data/concordance.ts

Doré's engravings

• When: selah install scenes, or the first time you open an engraving
• From: selah.hallelx2.com/scenes, a copy of the plates on this site, and for any plate it cannot give, www.gutenberg.org (Project Gutenberg #8710). Every plate is checked against its pinned SHA-256 whichever one it came from.
• In the code: src/data/scenes.ts

That is all of them. Each goes through src/data/download.ts, the one place Selah fetches anything, which is where the retries live.

Ask, and your own agent

Ask runs your Claude Code or Codex, on your computer, under your own login. Selah sends nothing to Anthropic or OpenAI itself, but your agent does, under that company's terms:

• your question
• what the agent reads through Selah's tools to answer it, which can include the passages, Henry, the original words and your notes

If you do not use Ask, none of this happens. The same goes for selah mcp when another agent calls it.

The installer

The install scripts download the program from this repository's GitHub releases and check it against the release's SHA256SUMS. Nothing else is sent.

This website

selah.hallelx2.com is a static site on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Like any website, Cloudflare logs requests. The fonts come from Google Fonts, so Google sees your IP address when the page loads them. The videos and images are served from this site.

Questions

Open an issue on GitHub.