Privacy Notice

In force from 9 October 2026.

Who we are

The Last Scribe (Play the Bible) is a Bible adventure game played in the browser at playthebible.quest. Write to us about anything on this page at privacy@email.playthebible.app. We answer within 10 days.

What we keep

What	Why
Username and password (stored scrambled, never readable)	To sign you in
Your email address (grown-ups only)	To sign in, reset a password, and send receipts
Year of birth (not the day or month)	To know whether a player is a child, and when they are not
A parent's email address (children only)	To ask the parent, and to send them their child's password resets
Play: stories and lands visited, quiz answers, experience, coins, achievements, items, friends, parties, blocks and reports	To run the game and keep your progress
If you choose: a church and a country; grown-ups may add a town	For the churches board and church weeks
If you choose: a device's notification address	To send the reminders you turn on
Your email, if you join the waitlist on this site	To send your invitation. It is removed when you ask.
Feedback you send us	To fix and improve the game
Sign-in sessions with the internet (IP) address and browser they came from	To keep accounts safe
Your time zone, sent by your browser	To open weekly gatherings and the Sabbath at your own hours

We never ask for a real name, home address, phone number, photo or voice, and we never know your precise location.

What other players see

Your username, level, rank, what your Scribe wears, and up to three achievements you choose to show. A child's username is never shown: other players see "Scribe" and a number.
Players cannot type to each other. They speak only with a fixed list of phrases and gestures.
Nobody is told which church you chose.
You choose who sees you: everyone, friends and church, or just your party. Children choose between friends and their party.

Who else handles it

We do not sell anything we keep, show no adverts, and never use what we keep to follow you across other sites. These companies run parts of the game for us, and handle only what that part needs:

Railway (servers) and Neon (database): everything above is stored there.
Cloudflare: delivers the game, its pictures and its voices.
Stripe: takes payment. It has the payer's email and card; we never see the card. For a child's account, Stripe is given the parent's email, never the child's.
Resend: sends our emails.
Sentry: tells us when the game breaks. It is sent no names or emails.
Plausible: counts visits without cookies and without telling one visitor from another across days.
Your browser's maker (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) delivers the notifications you turn on.

We give information to others only if the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety.

Children under 13

We follow the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). When a player's year of birth means they may be under 13:

We ask only for a username, a password, the year of birth and a parent's email. We never ask for the child's own email.
We email the parent. Until the parent confirms, the child plays alone: nobody else can see them or play with them.
When the parent confirms, we send a second email confirming it, with a link the parent keeps.
With that link, at any time, a parent can download a copy of everything we keep about their child, withdraw consent (the child plays alone again), or delete the account and everything in it.
If no parent confirms within 14 days, the account and everything in it are deleted.
A child cannot buy a subscription until their parent has confirmed.
A child cannot write feedback. They can only choose from a short list of ready-made messages.
Nothing a child types or chooses is shown to other players in a way that says who they are. Choosing a church never lets more people see a child.

A parent who did not get the email, or who has a question, can write to privacy@email.playthebible.app.

How long we keep it

What	For how long
An account and its play	Until it is deleted
A child's account no parent confirmed	14 days from asking the parent
A deleted account	Erased at once. Copies in the database host's backups are gone within 7 days.
Feedback	A year
Sign-in sessions	Until you sign out, or they expire
Error reports and server logs	30 days
Records of payments	As long as tax law requires, at Stripe

Payments and deleted accounts

Deleting an account cancels its subscription at once, and the time left on it is not refunded. One exception: a child cannot buy a subscription until a parent confirms the account, so if a child's account that a parent never confirmed is deleted after a payment, that payment is refunded in full.

Keeping it safe

Connections are encrypted, passwords are stored scrambled, staff tools need a staff account, and only the people who run the game can reach the database. If something we keep about you is ever exposed, we will tell you.

Your choices

See and change your profile, and who sees you, in the game's settings.
Download a copy of everything we keep about you, or delete your account and everything in it, under "Your account" in the game's profile settings. Deleting cancels any subscription; the time left on it is not refunded.
To correct something, or for anything else, write to privacy@email.playthebible.app.

Changes

If we change what we keep about children, or who handles it, we will ask parents again before it applies to their child. Other changes are shown here with a new date.