Effective Date: 23 August 2026
This page explains the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Copyright and Use Policy for JaredByrns.com and the resources published on this site.
Hopoksa Ministries is a registered trade name Jared Byrns uses for some of his publishing, teaching, and media work.
These policies apply to JaredByrns.com and to any other domains, subdomains, or URLs owned or controlled by Jared Byrns that redirect to, display, or provide access to content published through this site.
For questions about these policies, contact:
Jared Byrns
PO Box 16
Elgin, OK 73538
United States
Email: info [at] jaredbyrns [dot] com
Terms of Use
By using this website, you agree to these Terms of Use. The Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Copyright and Use Policy below explain additional terms and practices that apply to this website.
Nature of This Website and Ministry
Jared Byrns publishes biblical teaching, articles, sermon texts, outlines, discussion questions, books, media, and related ministry resources through this website.
This website supports Jared’s broader teaching and writing ministry. It is not a church, counseling center, emergency service, or substitute for membership and pastoral care in a faithful local church.
Hopoksa Ministries is a registered trade name Jared uses for some of his publishing, teaching, and media work.
No Institutional Endorsement
Unless expressly stated otherwise, JaredByrns.com is a personal website and is not owned, operated, controlled, sponsored, or endorsed by any church, denomination, school, ministry, association, or other organization with which Jared Byrns may be affiliated.
Views expressed on this website are Jared’s own and should not be understood as official statements of any such organization unless specifically identified as such.
General Information Only
The resources on this website are provided for general biblical, theological, educational, and ministry purposes.
They are not intended to replace pastoral counsel, medical care, mental health care, legal advice, financial advice, or emergency assistance.
If you are facing an emergency, please contact the appropriate emergency services in your area.
Contact Form Limits
Our contact form is provided for general questions and communication. Please do not use it to send urgent, confidential, or highly sensitive information.
Although Jared may receive prayer requests or personal concerns through the site, he cannot guarantee a particular response time, an ongoing pastoral care relationship, or the same level of confidentiality that may apply in direct pastoral counseling or local church ministry.
Accuracy, Updates, and Archived Content
Jared makes reasonable efforts to provide faithful, accurate, and useful content. However, content may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, or material that reflects the context in which it was originally written, preached, recorded, or published.
Content may be revised, corrected, updated, archived, removed, or reorganized at any time without prior notice.
Older sermons, articles, outlines, transcripts, translations, recordings, or other materials may not reflect later revisions, clarifications, changes in wording, or current branding and presentation.
Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
This website may link to or embed content from third-party websites or services, including YouTube, Google Calendar, the Internet Archive, Amazon/KDP, Substack, and other external platforms.
Third-party services are operated by their respective owners. Jared Byrns is not responsible for third-party content, availability, recommendations, advertisements, comments, algorithms, purchases, payment practices, data practices, privacy policies, terms of use, outages, or policy changes.
Links, embeds, quotations, references, or mentions do not necessarily imply endorsement by Jared Byrns of every view, product, platform, ministry, organization, author, speaker, or third-party resource.
Prohibited Uses
You may not use this website or its content to:
- Violate any applicable law
- Misrepresent Jared Byrns, Hopoksa Ministries, or the content of this website
- Suggest endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation without written permission
- Interfere with the operation or security of the website
- Attempt unauthorized access to the website or related systems
- Scrape, harvest, bulk download, or redistribute content without written permission
- Use automated systems in a way that burdens, disrupts, or abuses the website
- Use the content for commercial exploitation without written permission
No Donations, Sales, or On-Site Payments
Jared does not charge for access to the teaching content published on this website, solicit donations, or accept donations through this website.
This website may include links to third-party sites where books or other resources are available. Those sites are operated independently and are governed by their own terms, privacy policies, payment practices, and data practices.
Jared does not process payments, receive payment card information, or manage purchases through this website.
Changes to the Website
Jared may change, suspend, remove, reorganize, or discontinue any part of the website at any time without prior notice.
Changes to These Terms
These Terms of Use may be updated from time to time. When they are updated, the effective date at the top of this page will be revised.
Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms of Use.
Limitation of Liability
This website and its content are provided as-is.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Jared Byrns is not liable for damages arising from your use of, inability to use, reliance on, or interaction with this website, its content, or third-party links and services.
Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected through this website, how that information may be used, and what choices and rights you may have.
Information You Provide
We collect information you voluntarily provide when you contact Jared through the website. This may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The content of your message
Our contact form is powered by Contact Form 7. Please do not submit highly sensitive personal information through the contact form, including confidential counseling matters, medical information, financial information, or other information you would not want transmitted through a website form.
Although sensitive information is not requested, visitors may sometimes include prayer requests or personal concerns in a message. Such messages will be treated with care, but the contact form should not be used for urgent, confidential, or emergency communication.
Technical Information
The website may automatically process limited technical information necessary to operate, secure, and understand the use of the site. This may include information such as:
- Browser or device type
- Pages visited
- Referring pages
- Date and time of visits
- Language preferences
- Limited network and session information
Website statistics are compiled using privacy-oriented settings designed to avoid storing information that directly identifies individual visitors.
Hosting, security, spam-prevention, consent-management, and other site-operating services may also process limited technical information, including network identifiers such as IP addresses, when necessary to provide their functions, protect the website, or prevent abuse.
Optional third-party services may process additional information only when those services are permitted to load or when you choose to interact with them.
How We Use Information
Information collected through the website may be used to:
- Respond to messages or questions
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Understand general website traffic and usage
- Remember language and other site preferences
- Protect the website from spam, abuse, unauthorized access, or security threats
- Manage cookie and consent preferences
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
We do not sell personal information.
We do not use personal information we collect directly through this website for behavioral advertising or to build advertising profiles of visitors. Third-party services may process information under their own policies when they are permitted to load or when you interact with them.
Cookies and Consent
This website uses cookies and similar technologies for functions such as remembering preferences, managing consent, protecting the site, and providing certain embedded services.
Some cookies are necessary or otherwise permitted without consent because they support essential or requested site functions. Optional cookies and services that require consent are used only after consent is given or when you choose to interact with the relevant service.
More information about the cookies and services used on this website, including a current list maintained through Complianz, is provided in the Cookie Policy below.
The cookie and service list is maintained dynamically through Complianz and may be updated automatically as the site’s cookies or services change; such updates may not result in a change to the effective date of this Privacy Policy.
Newsletter and Substack
This website may link to a newsletter or subscription page hosted by Substack. Newsletter subscriptions are handled by Substack, not directly by this website.
If you subscribe through Substack, your subscription information is governed by Substack’s own terms, privacy policies, and data practices. You may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link provided in those emails or through your Substack account settings.
Third-Party Services, Embedded Content, and External Links
This website uses or may embed services provided by third parties, including YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google reCAPTCHA.
These services may receive technical information, such as your IP address, browser information, or interactions with embedded content, when they are permitted to load or when you choose to interact with them. Where appropriate, Complianz is used to block optional third-party content until consent is given.
This website may also link to external websites and services, including Substack, Amazon/KDP, the Internet Archive, and other third-party platforms. Following an external link takes you to a site that is operated independently and governed by its own terms, privacy policies, and data practices.
This website also uses third-party tools and services for hosting, security, spam prevention, content display, and website operation. These services may process limited technical information as necessary to provide their functions.
Third-party services are governed by their own privacy policies and practices. Jared Byrns is not responsible for how those third parties process information once you interact with their services or leave this website.
Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed to children under 13, and Jared does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website, please contact Jared so the information can be reviewed and deleted as appropriate.
Retention of Information
Personal information is retained only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to messages, maintaining appropriate records, protecting the website, resolving disputes, or complying with legal obligations.
Contact form messages may be retained as long as reasonably needed to respond and maintain appropriate records and may be deleted when they are no longer needed.
Anonymous, aggregated, security-related, or technical information that does not directly identify a specific person may be retained for a longer period where appropriate.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of your personal information.
You may also have rights to object to or withdraw consent for certain types of processing where applicable.
To make a privacy-related request, contact info [at] jaredbyrns [dot] com. Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable law.
Security
Reasonable measures are used to protect information under our control. However, no website, email, contact form, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. When it is updated, the effective date at the top of this page will be revised.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how JaredByrns.com uses cookies and similar technologies.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small files stored on your device when you visit a website. They may be used to provide site functionality, remember preferences, improve security, manage consent, or support embedded services.
How This Website Uses Cookies
This website may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Operating the website
- Remembering language and other preferences
- Managing cookie and consent choices
- Protecting the website from spam, abuse, and unauthorized access
- Supporting embedded content and third-party services
Some cookies are necessary or otherwise permitted without consent because they support essential or requested site functions. Optional cookies and services that require consent are used only after consent is given or when you choose to interact with the relevant service.
Cookie Consent
This website uses Complianz to manage cookie consent.
Where applicable, visitors may accept, reject, or manage optional cookies and services. Consent preferences can be changed or withdrawn at any time through the cookie settings tool available on this website.
Optional third-party content and services are blocked before consent where appropriate.
Third-Party Services
This website uses or may embed third-party services such as YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google reCAPTCHA.
When these services are permitted to load, they may use cookies or similar technologies and may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser information, or interactions with the embedded content.
These third-party services are governed by their own privacy and cookie practices.
Managing Cookies
You may also manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
Cookie List
The following cookie and service list is maintained dynamically through Complianz and Cookiedatabase.org and may be updated automatically as the site’s cookies or services change. Routine updates to this list may not result in a change to the effective date shown at the top of this page.
Copyright and Use Policy
Unless otherwise stated, the original content published on this website is copyrighted by Jared Byrns.
Jared’s goal is not to monetize teaching content but to make it available for the benefit of Christians, families, churches, students, and others who may find it useful. You are therefore welcome to use and share much of the material on this website for personal, educational, church, and other noncommercial purposes, subject to the guidelines below.
Permitted Uses
Unless otherwise stated, you may:
- Link to content on this website
- Share brief quotations with appropriate attribution
- Print or distribute copies for personal, classroom, small-group, or church use
- Use sermon outlines, discussion questions, teaching aids, and similar resources in local church or educational settings
Attribution
When quoting, printing, distributing, or otherwise using material under the permissions above, please provide reasonable attribution to Jared Byrns and, when practical, include a link to JaredByrns.com. Material used with separate permission should also be attributed as appropriate.
Uses Requiring Permission
Please obtain permission before:
- Republishing substantial portions of the website’s content in a book, article, website, course, commercial publication, or other distributed work
- Selling or licensing material from this website
- Using the content in a way that suggests endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation that does not exist
- Republishing substantial portions of sermons, articles, books, translations, or other copyrighted works as though they were your own
Linking Preferred for Audio and Video
Please link to the original page on JaredByrns.com rather than downloading, re-uploading, reposting, or redistributing audio or video files.
This helps ensure that visitors receive the content in its proper context and that older versions are not circulated after updates, corrections, or removals.
AI, Scraping, and Automated Use
You may not use automated tools to scrape, harvest, bulk download, or reproduce substantial amounts of content from this website without prior written permission.
You may not use content from this website to train, fine-tune, develop, or improve artificial intelligence systems, machine-learning models, datasets, or similar technologies without prior written permission.
Ordinary search-engine indexing, normal search snippets, and reasonable linking to public pages are permitted.
Names, Logos, and Branding
The names “Jared Byrns,” “Hopoksa,” and “Hopoksa Ministries,” along with associated logos, branding, graphics, design elements, and other identifying marks, may not be used in a way that suggests affiliation, sponsorship, approval, or endorsement without prior written permission.
Third-Party Content
Some material appearing on this website may be owned by others, including Scripture translations, quotations, images, videos, embedded content, logos, and other third-party materials.
Such material remains subject to the rights, licenses, terms, and policies of its respective owners.
Permission granted for Jared’s original content does not extend to third-party material.
Scripture Quotations
This website may quote from several Bible translations. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are identified by translation abbreviation, such as NASB20, NASB95, NBLA, KJV, NKJV, or CSB.
Scripture quotations are governed by the copyright and permission policies of their respective copyright holders. The following notices apply site-wide where these translations are quoted.
NASB20 — Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB®), Copyright © 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org
NASB95 — Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB®), Copyright © 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org
NBLA — Scripture taken from Nueva Biblia de las Américas (NBLA), Copyright © 2005 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.NuevaBiblia.com
KJV — Scripture quotations from the King James Version are in the public domain in the United States.
NKJV — Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
CSB — Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.
When Scripture is quoted in audio, video, downloadable materials, printed materials, or other formats, additional or different copyright notices may be required by the applicable Bible publisher.
Copyright Concerns
If you believe that content on this website infringes your copyright or other rights, please contact info [at] jaredbyrns [dot] com with a description of the concern and enough information to identify and review the material.
Changes to This Copyright and Use Policy
This Copyright and Use Policy may be updated from time to time. When it is updated, the effective date at the top of this page will be revised.
