Your work, your ownership, plainly stated
No legal fog. Here is exactly who owns what you write, who is responsible for backups, and what happens with refunds when paid plans arrive.
Every sermon, Bible study, lesson, illustration, resource and note you create in The Pastor’s Study belongs to you. We claim no ownership, no licence to publish it, and no right to reuse it.
We never use your content to train artificial intelligence, and there is no AI writing anywhere in this application. Your words are your own.
Support staff can help with your account — plan, sign-in, church seats — but cannot read the content you write.
We keep your work safe with autosave, version history and managed database backups. Even so, no online service should ever be your only copy.
Please download your own copies regularly. From Backup & Export inside the app you can download individual items, whole folders, or your full library as Word documents and PDFs.
The Pastor’s Study is not liable for content loss caused by accidental deletion, account closure or service interruption. Keeping a personal copy protects years of faithful work.
The Pastor’s Study is in a free beta. Every plan is free right now — no payment details are collected and nothing is charged.
When paid plans launch, this is the policy that will apply:
- First payment: a full money-back guarantee on your first paid subscription payment when you request it within 7 calendar days of that charge. The guarantee applies once per account and does not reset when you change plans, renew or resubscribe.
- Renewals: a renewal charge is refundable when you request it within 3 calendar days of that charge.
- Cancel any time. Your paid plan stays active through the end of the billing period you already paid for, then moves to the free plan. Unused time is not pro-rated or automatically refunded.
- Cancelling never deletes your account or your content — sermons, Bible studies, illustrations, resources and notes all stay, and you can download everything you have written at any time.
- Refund requests are made through the contact page and are normally reviewed within three business days.
Content is private to your account by default. On a church account, an item is only visible to your team if you explicitly mark it as shared with your church.
Access rules are enforced at the database level, not just in the interface, so one account can never read another account’s work.