Privacy
What Quest2Reason keeps, and what it does not
Quest2Reason is free, has no ads and sells nothing about you. It keeps what it needs to remember your climb, and counts visits so the lessons can be improved.
Your progress
Until you choose a quest companion, nothing about you is saved on our server. Once you choose one, your progress (lessons finished, streak, shields, settings) is saved there, and this browser keeps one cookie, q2r_id, holding a random ID that finds it again. The server stores only a scrambled form of that ID.
With that ID we also note which days you visit, how many lessons you finish, and the last lesson you opened. None of it holds your name, email or IP address; if you sign in, it carries the number of your account. Progress not used for 400 days is deleted.
A second small cookie, q2r_tz, holds the name of your time zone, so that “today” and your streak follow your clock. Your theme, text size, voice and saved lines are kept in this browser’s own storage and never sent to us.
Signing in with Google (optional)
If you sign in, we store your Google name, your email address, Google’s ID for your account and your progress, so the same climb opens on any device. We use them for nothing else and share them with no one. Signing out clears your progress from the browser; it stays in your account. Your account is kept until you delete it.
The sign-in page loads Google’s sign-in script when you open it, so Google sees that visit. No other page loads it.
Counting visits
Our own server counts page views and lesson results: a time, the page or lesson, and whether an answer was right. It records no IP address, no browser details and nothing that tells one visitor from another. These counts are kept for 13 months. When a page fails, the site logs the error and the address that was asked for, again with no IP address. That log is kept for 13 months.
One thing does use your internet address, briefly. So that a script cannot flood the site, we count how many notes, sign-in tries and new quests come from one address in an hour. The address itself is never written down: only a scrambled form of it, in a count that is thrown away after the hour and is kept apart from your progress and from the visit counts.
Google Analytics: your choice
We would like to use Google Analytics to see how visitors find the site. It sets its own cookies and sends Google the pages you view, so it runs only if you allow it. Until you do, Google Analytics is not loaded and sets no cookies.
Google Analytics in this browser: Off. Changing this needs JavaScript; without it, Google Analytics never loads.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
If your browser sends either signal, our own counting is turned off, the record of the days you visit is not kept, and Google Analytics never loads, without your being asked. Your progress is still saved.
Notes you send us
A note sent with “Report a problem or suggest a fix” is saved with the page it is about. Nothing about the sender is stored with it. Notes are kept with no set time limit; write to us if you want one removed.
The Android and iPhone apps
The Quest2Reason apps show this same site, and everything on this page applies to them too. They collect nothing more: no contacts, no location, no device ID and no tracking of their own. On Android the app opens in Chrome, so it shares your progress with this site in Chrome on that phone. Inside an app, this browser’s own storage notes that the visit came from the app, so the tip button can be left out there; that note is never sent to us.
Other services
The Ko-fi tip button opens Ko-fi, which has its own privacy policy. Lessons are read aloud from recordings kept on this site, or by your device’s own voices if you choose them on your Profile page; no audio or text is sent anywhere for that. The narration is generated with Kokoro-82M, an open text-to-speech model, so the voice you hear is synthetic.
Seeing or deleting what we hold
“Reset quest” on your Profile clears your progress in this browser and, if you are signed in, in your account on every device. “Delete my account” on your account page removes your account, with the name, email and progress saved in it. To have other saved progress deleted, or to ask what we hold, write to Quest2Reason@gmail.com.