Terms of Use

These terms are the agreement between you and us for the Emmaus app (iOS, Android and web), the website emmausapp.co and related services. Please read them together with the Privacy Policy.

1. Who we are and who can use Emmaus

Emmaus is operated by THA MOTORS TRADING - FZCO, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Building A1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Contact: [email protected].

By using Emmaus you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the service. You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent's or guardian's permission to use Emmaus, and they must be the one to make any purchase. The terms of the store where you got the app also apply.

2. What Emmaus is

Emmaus offers the Bible in several translations, a short daily ritual, the Road (the story of Scripture in twelve stations), prayer tools, reading plans and reminders. It serves Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and non-denominational readers alike and does not speak for any church.

Emmaus is a companion, not an authority. Reflections and guided prayers are offered for personal devotion. They are not pastoral, medical, psychological or legal advice. If you are in danger or thinking about ending your life, call your local emergency number. In the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline).

3. What stays free

• The full text of every Bible translation bundled with the app is free and available offline.
• Scripture is never placed behind a paywall and never generated or altered by AI.
• Emmaus shows no ads.
• If we offer something for free, we do not lock it behind payment later. We may add new paid content; we will not take away free access you already had in order to sell it back.

4. Your account

An account is optional. If you create one, give a real email address you control, keep your password private and tell us if you suspect someone else has access. You are responsible for activity under your account.

Sync is a separate choice you make after signing in, and syncing personal verse notes is one more choice. What is and is not synced is described in the Privacy Policy. Without an account and sync, your records live only on your device: if you lose the device or remove the app, we cannot restore them.

You can delete your account in the app at any time.

5. Emmaus+ subscription

Emmaus+ opens the paid parts of the app, such as premium episodes on the Road, seasonal journeys, the guided prayer library and all reading plans. The purchase screen lists what is included at the time you subscribe.

• Price. The price, currency, period and taxes are the ones the App Store or Google Play shows you before you confirm. This document does not set a price.
• Free trial. A trial may be offered to eligible new subscribers. Your eligibility, the length of the trial and the charge that follows are shown before you start. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, it converts to the paid plan shown.
• Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period until you cancel. On Apple, cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; Apple may charge the renewal within the 24 hours before it. On Google Play, the renewal date and rules shown in your Play account apply.
• Cancelling. iPhone or iPad: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Emmaus. Android: Google Play → profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. You can also open the store page from Settings → Subscription → Manage subscription in the app. After you cancel, access continues until the end of the period you paid for.
• Not a cancellation. Removing the app, signing out or deleting your Emmaus account does not cancel a subscription.
• Restoring. Use Restore purchases in the app to recover a subscription on a new device signed in to the same store account. A subscription bought in one store may not carry over to the other.
• Price changes. If a price changes, the store's notice and consent rules and the law apply.

6. Family plan

Where a family plan is offered, it is shared through the store's own family feature (Apple Family Sharing or Google Play Family Library, where the store supports it for subscriptions). The store sets who counts as a family member and how many people can share. Each person's journal, notes and progress remain their own.

7. Refunds

Payments are handled by the stores, so refunds are too.

• App Store: request a refund from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• Google Play: use Google Play's refund process, or write to us and we will help where the store allows it.

Cancelling does not by itself refund past charges. Any right of withdrawal or remedy for a faulty service that your local law gives you remains in place.

8. Bible translations and their licenses

The translations in Emmaus are in the public domain or openly licensed. We reproduce them unchanged; where a license requires it, formatting changes are noted in the app.

Full attributions are in the app under Settings → Licenses & credits. Those licenses, not these terms, govern your own reuse of the Bible text. The list may change as translations are added.

9. Ask (AI answers) — not yet available

Launch-conditional section. Ask is not live today. This section will apply, in its final form, when the feature is switched on.

Ask answers questions about Scripture with the help of an AI model, and every answer is labeled as AI-assisted. Verses shown in an answer come from the translations in the app, not from the model. The explanation around them is machine-written: it can be incomplete, mistaken or out of step with your tradition's teaching. It is not the voice of any church and is no substitute for Scripture itself, your pastor or priest, or professional help. Free use may have a daily limit shown in the app. Do not use Ask to try to produce harmful or unlawful content.

10. Your content

Your notes, highlights, journal entries and prayers are yours. Most of them never leave your device. For anything you choose to sync, you give us only the limited permission needed to store it and show it back to you on your devices. We do not publish it, use it in advertising or use it to train AI models.

11. Circle (prayer with friends) — not yet available

Launch-conditional section. Circle is hidden in current builds. This section will apply, in its final form, when the feature is switched on.

Circle lets you share prayer requests with people you invite. When you post to a circle, you let us store the post and show it to that circle's members. In a circle:

• share only what is yours to share, and respect the privacy of people you pray for;
• no harassment, hate, threats, sexual content, spam, fundraising or selling;
• no impersonation, and no attacks on another person's church or tradition.

You can report a post, block a member or leave a circle. We may remove content or restrict access when these rules are broken. Circle is not a crisis service; if someone may be in danger, contact local emergency services.

12. What you may not do

• Use Emmaus for anything unlawful, or to harm or deceive others.
• Access another person's account, or probe, overload or disrupt our systems.
• Copy, scrape, resell or redistribute the app's content, except the Bible text as its own license allows.
• Reverse engineer the app, except where the law gives you that right.
• Get around payment, usage or security limits.

13. Our content and intellectual property

The app, its design, texts, rituals, the name Emmaus and the traveller mark belong to us or our licensors. You receive a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app on devices you own or control.

The engravings in Emmaus are based on public-domain prints. Some scenes, and the depth and motion layers of others, were created or processed with generative AI tools; the walking companion figure was made that way. Sources are credited under Settings → Licenses & credits. The original prints remain in the public domain; our arrangement, processing and animation of them are ours.

For an app obtained from Apple, the Apple Standard EULA applies to the license unless we provide a custom one. Apple and Google are not responsible for the app or its support.

14. Reminders and availability

Reminders depend on your permissions, battery settings, focus modes and the operating system, and may arrive late or not at all. Features can differ by device, platform, language and country. We may change, add or retire features; if a change materially reduces what a current subscriber paid for, the store's and the law's rules on refunds and remedies apply.

15. Warranty and liability

To the extent the law allows, Emmaus is provided as it is. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors, or that it will bring about any particular spiritual or personal result. Guarantees that the law gives you and that cannot be excluded are not affected.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Beyond that, and where the law permits, we are not liable for indirect losses, and our total liability is limited to the amount you paid for Emmaus+ in the twelve months before the claim.

16. Ending the agreement

You can stop using Emmaus and delete your account at any time. Manage any store subscription separately. We may limit or end access in cases of serious or repeated breach, a security threat or a legal requirement. Where it is appropriate and lawful, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. Mandatory refund rights for paid access remain.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates as applied in the Emirate of Dubai. The mandatory consumer protections of the country where you live, and the mandatory jurisdiction of its courts and authorities, remain in place. Where no such mandatory jurisdiction exists, the courts of Dubai have jurisdiction. We would rather solve a problem by talking: write to us first. Doing so does not limit your legal rights or time limits.

If one provision cannot be enforced, the rest remain. The English and Turkish versions are meant to describe the same rights; a difference in translation is not to be read so as to reduce your mandatory rights.

18. Changes to these terms

When the service or these terms change, we update this page, its date and its version. Important changes are announced in the app or by email before they take effect and, where the law requires, are put to you for acceptance. Changes affecting paid access follow store and consumer rules.

19. Contact

Questions, requests and legal notices: [email protected], or THA MOTORS TRADING - FZCO, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Building A1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For step-by-step help, see Support.