My Adventist Library · Last updated: 18 September 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of My Adventist Library. By creating an account or signing in you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
You must provide accurate information when registering and keep your password secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. You may delete your account at any time from the app.
You agree not to post content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, misleading, or that infringes the rights of others; not to impersonate any person; not to spam; and not to interfere with the operation of the app or attempt to access it by unauthorized means.
You keep ownership of the content you post or upload. By posting, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, display and distribute that content so the service can function — within the app, and, for content you publish publicly such as a team journal, on a web page for that content. You are responsible for having the rights to anything you upload — including books and PDFs — and you confirm your uploads do not infringe copyright.
The same applies to photographs, video and recordings of other people. Take them only where you are entitled to, and share them in the app only where those in them would be content for you to. Some places require everyone's agreement before a conversation is recorded; that is your responsibility, not ours.
Publishing is public. A published team journal can be read by anyone signed in, and anyone holding its link can read it without an account at all. A link, once sent, can be passed on by whoever receives it. Do not publish anything you would not be content to see outside the app.
Discussions and uploads are user-generated. We may review, remove, or restrict content or accounts that violate these Terms, at our discretion and without prior notice. You can report content and block users from within the app.
A team publishes under a shared name. Anyone may register one; we approve teams before they appear, and we may decline or withdraw approval. A team's name, picture, description and member list are public.
Anything published under a team's name is the responsibility of the person who wrote it and of the team that carries it. A team's creator can edit or remove anything published under that team, and can turn off comments on its journals. Do not register a team whose name implies it speaks for a church, conference, union or division you have no authority to represent.
Anyone signed in can run an event. If you do, it is yours: you are responsible for what you say about it, for the people you accept, and for the personal information you collect through your registration form. Ask only for what you need, and use it only to run the event.
You may appoint helpers. A helper sees everything you see — including the names, emails, phone numbers and answers of everybody who has registered — so appoint only people you would trust with that list. You remain responsible for what your helpers do with it.
An event's registration form and its check-in page are public web pages. Anybody holding the link can open them, and a link once sent can be passed on. Do not put anything on an event page you would not be content to see outside the app.
An event may instead be run open to anyone, taking no registrations. Its form is then filled in at the door by whoever comes, and everything above about the information you collect applies to it in the same way. You may also accept everybody who registers rather than deciding one at a time, and set a last day to register — both change who gets onto your list, not what you may do with it.
If you let people add their own answer to a question, what they type becomes an option other people see. Keep an eye on it, and remove anything that should not be on a form with your event's name at the top.
We may remove an event, as we may remove any content, if it breaks these Terms. Deleting an event removes its registrations, announcements and messages with it.
When you check in — at a church, at a meeting or at an event — you can write down the people who came with you and cannot check themselves in. Only their name and their age are recorded.
At an event you can also fill the whole joining form in for somebody: a child, or a person with no phone. That is more than counting them, so do it only for people who have asked you to, or whose parent or guardian you are, and answer as they would answer. They are on the organiser's list under your name, and you are responsible for what you put there.
Write down only people who are actually with you and would be content to be counted. Do not add anybody as a way of inflating a figure, and do not enter a name you have been asked not to. The person who typed it can remove it, and so can the church or organiser who holds the list.
If you are named on a list and would rather not be, tell the church or the organiser, or contact us, and it will be removed.
A church can keep its tithe, offering and expense books in the app. They are the church's records, kept by its treasurer, and the church remains responsible for them: for what is entered, for what is corrected, and for holding them as long as its own auditors and its conference require. We do not audit a church's books, do not check them, and do not act as its accountant.
Where a church has the handwriting on a photographed receipt read for it, what comes back is a suggestion. The treasurer must check every figure before saving it. A misread amount that is saved without being checked is the church's to correct.
A receipt photograph is shown to the member whose gift it is. Photograph the slip that belongs to the gift, and nothing else — the page of somebody else's giving does not belong on another person's record.
If a treasurer copies a book into their own Google account, that copy is theirs to look after. We cannot delete it, restore it, or control who they share it with.
The library grows because readers add to it, and we will help you prepare a book if scanning or formatting is beyond what you can take on. There is no charge for that.
Upload only what is yours to share, or what you have the copyright holder's permission to share. If you are not certain, ask us before uploading. Uploading gives us no ownership and no claim of any kind — the copyright remains entirely with the author or the publisher, and we host the book only so that others can read it.
Every book now carries a label saying on what footing it is published, and readers can see it: Published with permission when the rights holder has agreed, Own publication when it is the uploader's own work, and Test publishing for a book being trialled before it is offered generally. Only an administrator can apply the last of those, and it is not a claim that permission exists. Where a book is published with permission we may hold a copy of that permission; we do not publish it.
A book with no label is not thereby cleared — it is simply a book nobody has yet recorded a basis for, and everything above still applies to it.
If you or the rights holder ask us to take a book down, we remove it immediately. You do not need to give a reason.
Ellen G. White writings and my custom books content are provided for personal, non-commercial study. Rights in those works remain with their respective owners.
The app is provided free of charge and "as is". We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, and we may add, change or remove features at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties and are not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the app. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced in the app; continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
Questions about these Terms: [email protected]