Terms of Use

1. Acceptance

By accessing Gratia Plena, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2. About the service

Gratia Plena is a free tool for studying the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Catechism of Saint Pius X, the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and papal encyclicals. The service is provided «as is», without warranties of availability, integrity, or correctness of the content.

3. Content and copyright

Gratia Plena aggregates texts from several sources. The legal status of each source is documented in docs/data-sources.md in the project repository. In summary:

• Public domain: Clementine Vulgate, CPDV, Douay-Rheims, Catechism of Saint Pius X (1905), all 16 Vatican II documents, magisterial encyclicals published by the Holy See.
• Ave Maria Bible (PT-BR): translation protected by Editora Ave Maria. Gratia Plena uses it in good faith as a non-commercial study tool, without ads or monetization. If the publisher requests, the version can be disabled via configuration; the service remains functional in Portuguese (via other public-domain editions) and other languages.
• Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992): magisterial text published by the Holy See on vatican.va. Use for study is broadly tolerated.

You may read, quote, and reference Gratia Plena's content freely for personal study. You may not redistribute the corpus as your own product nor claim authorship over the translations.

4. Acceptable use

You agree to:

• Not perform large-scale automated scraping that would harm service stability for other users.
• Not attempt to access restricted areas, bypass security mechanisms, or exploit technical vulnerabilities.
• Not use the service for illegal, offensive, or otherwise bad-faith purposes (the project's intent is serious religious study).

For programmatic large-scale use (research datasets, integration into other tools, etc.), please get in touch — the source data repositories are public and likely more convenient than scraping.

5. Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided without express or implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted availability, or doctrinal correctness of possible ingestion errors. Although every effort is made to preserve fidelity to the original texts (cf. docs/architecture.md on the fail loud, never fix silently principle), transcription, parsing, or cross-reference errors may occur.

Gratia Plena is not a primary authoritative source for theological study. For serious doctrinal questions, always consult the official sources (vatican.va, authorized printed editions, local magisterium).

6. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Gratia Plena and its contributors are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use of or inability to use the service.

7. Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated. The last-updated date at the top of this page reflects the most recent substantive change. Continued use of the service after a change constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by Brazilian law. The forum is elected as the user's domicile, or, in its absence, the forum of São Paulo/SP.

9. Contact

For questions about these terms, write to contato@gratiaplena.app.