Privacy Policy

Lebanon Chronicles — A trip to Beirut

Last updated: July 14, 2026

Lebanon Chronicles ("the game", "we") is a point-and-click adventure game for learning Lebanese Arabic, available on the web at lebanonchronicles.com and as a mobile app. This page explains what data we collect, why, and what we do (and never do) with it.

1. Data we collect

When you create an account, we ask for:

Email address — used to sign in, verify your account and, rarely, to contact you about your account.
Display name — shown to other players in the global chat and on content you choose to share publicly.
Age, gender, country, native language and reason for playing — used in aggregate to understand who plays the game and improve it.
Password — stored only as a salted cryptographic hash (bcrypt). We never see or store your actual password.

While you play, we store:

Game progress — story milestones, flashcard scores, achievements, in-game wallet balance.
Chat messages — messages you send in the global chat, visible to other players and moderated by the team.
Content you create — flashcard sets you build; if you mark a set as public, its content and your display name are visible to all players.
Technical basics — last sign-in time and platform (web or mobile app), used for moderation and statistics.

What we do NOT do: no advertising, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, no selling or sharing of your data with anyone. Your data exists to make the game work — nothing else.

2. Anti-bot protection

Account registration on the web uses Cloudflare Turnstile to block automated sign-ups. Cloudflare may process technical information (such as your IP address) solely to distinguish humans from bots, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy.

3. Where your data lives

All game data is stored on a server hosted by Amazon Web Services (Lightsail) in the Paris region (European Union). Connections to the game are encrypted with TLS (HTTPS/WSS).

4. How long we keep it

Your account and progress are kept for as long as your account exists, so you can pick up your trip to Beirut where you left it. If you delete your account, all of it goes with it.

5. Your rights

You can ask us at any time to access, correct, export or permanently delete your account and all associated data (progress, chat messages, created content). Deletion is irreversible. To exercise any of these rights, contact us — we usually reply within a few days.

6. Children

The game is suitable for a general audience and contains no violence, no gambling and no user-tracking. If you are a parent and believe your child created an account you'd like removed, contact us and we will delete it.

7. Contact

For any privacy question or request: [email protected]
You can also use the "Contact us / Report an error" button in the game's settings menu.

8. Changes to this policy

If we ever change how the game handles your data, this page will be updated and the date at the top revised. Significant changes will be announced in the game.