Effective Date: 14 August 2026
This page explains the terms of use, privacy, cookie, and copyright policies 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
USA
Email: info [at] jaredbyrns [dot] com
Terms of Use
By using this website, you agree to these policies. If you do not agree, please do not use this website.
Nature of This Ministry
Jared Byrns publishes biblical teaching, articles, sermon texts, outlines, discussion questions, 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.
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 However, content may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, or material that reflects the context in which it was originally written, preached, or published.
Content may be revised, corrected, updated, archived, removed, or reorganized at any time without prior notice.
Older sermons, articles, outlines, transcripts, translations, or other materials may not reflect later revisions, clarifications, or changes in wording.
Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
This website may link to or embed content from third-party websites or services, including YouTube, 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.
No Implied Endorsements
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 his own and should not be understood as official statements of any such organization.
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 sell access to the teaching content on this website, solicit donations, or accept donations through this website.
This website may include links to third-party sites, including Amazon/KDP, Substack, YouTube, the Internet Archive, or other external platforms. Those sites are operated by third parties 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 and These Policies
Jared may change, suspend, remove, or discontinue any part of the website at any time.
These policies may also be updated from time to time. When they are updated, the effective date above will be revised. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated policies.
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 you have.
Information We Collect
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 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.
The website may also collect limited technical information automatically, such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Pages visited
- Referring pages
- Approximate location based on IP address
- Date and time of visit
- Cookie and usage data
This information may be collected through WordPress, the hosting provider, site statistics tools, security tools, spam-prevention tools, Complianz, and other services used to operate and protect the website.
How We Use Information
Information collected through the website may be used to:
- Respond to messages or questions
- Maintain and improve the website
- Understand general website traffic and usage
- Protect the website from spam, abuse, unauthorized access, or security threats
- Manage cookie consent preferences
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
We do not sell your personal information.
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 and privacy policies. You may unsubscribe from Substack emails using the unsubscribe link provided in those emails or through your Substack account settings.
Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
This website may link to or embed content from third-party websites or services, including YouTube, the Internet Archive, Amazon/KDP, Substack, and other external platforms.
Embedded content from other websites may behave as though you visited that website directly. Those third parties may collect data, use cookies, track interactions, or apply their own privacy policies.
Jared Byrns is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of third-party websites or services.
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 needed to respond and maintain appropriate records and may be deleted when they are no longer needed.
Technical, anonymous, or aggregated data that does not identify a specific person may be retained for a longer period.
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.
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 above will be revised.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how JaredByrns.com uses cookies and similar technologies.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies may help a website function, remember preferences, improve security, measure traffic, or provide embedded content.
How This Website Uses Cookies
This website may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Operating the website
- Remembering cookie consent preferences
- Measuring general website traffic
- Improving site performance
- Protecting against spam, abuse, or unauthorized access
- Displaying embedded content from third-party services
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others may be optional and used only with your consent, depending on the type of cookie and applicable law.
Cookie Consent
This website uses Complianz to manage cookie consent. Visitors may be presented with options to Accept, Reject, or Manage cookie preferences.
You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie settings tool available on this website.
Third-Party Services and Cookies
This website uses or may embed services provided by third parties, including YouTube, Google reCAPTCHA, and other external services. These services may use cookies or similar technologies when they are permitted to load or when you interact with them.
Third-party services are governed by their own privacy and cookie practices. Jared Byrns does not control how those third parties process information once you interact with their services.
Managing Cookies
You may also manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
Cookie List
The following list is maintained automatically through Complianz and Cookiedatabase.org.
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 reproducing or adapting substantial portions of material from this website, please provide reasonable attribution to Jared Byrns and, when practical, include a link to JaredByrns.com.
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
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 and terms of its respective copyright owners.
Permission granted for Jared’s original content does not extend to third-party material.
Requests and Permissions
For questions about using material from this website beyond the permissions described above, contact info [at] jaredbyrns [dot] com.
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, copy, harvest, bulk download, or reproduce 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.
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.
Third-Party Materials
Some content quoted, linked, or embedded on this website may belong to third parties, including Bible publishers, YouTube, the Internet Archive, and other rights holders.
Those materials remain subject to the copyrights, licenses, terms, and policies of their respective owners.
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 above will be revised.
