Privacy policy

Without an account: nothing that identifies you. You can browse the games, the map, the generator and the timer without giving us anything.

Audience measurement: we count visits, and we do it without cookies — so there is no consent banner. For each page view we store the page, the day, the country given by our host, and the *domain* of the site you came from ("facebook.com", never the full address). We do not store your IP: it goes into a one-way hash together with the day and a secret key, and is discarded. Because the day is inside the hash, the identifier changes every night: we can count how many people came on Tuesday, and we cannot tell whether any of them came back on Wednesday. That is the difference between counting people and following them. We also use Vercel Web Analytics, which is cookie-free and stores no personal data.

With an account: your email address, a password (never stored in clear — it is hashed by our provider), and a display name.

What you choose to add: city, country, and — only if you click the button — your approximate coordinates; a bio, your improv languages, your social links, a photo. All of this is optional, and your profile is private by default.

What you create: favourites, ratings and reviews, courses and classes, shows, groups, wall posts and comments, video links and suggestions you propose.

Your private messages: their content is stored so that it can be delivered and read again. Also who blocked whom, and any report you send us.

If you sign in with Google: your email address, your name and your profile picture, as Google gives them to us. We never get your Google password.

The email address of someone you invite: when you invite a person to a troupe or to the site, we store the address you typed, in order to send that one email. See “When you invite someone” below — this is the one case where we hold data about a person who never asked us for anything.

To run the service (your account, your courses, your groups): performance of the contract between you and us.

Location and public profile: your consent. You tick the box, you can untick it.

Audience measurement: our legitimate interest in knowing whether the site is read, and which pages are useful. It is limited to what that purpose requires — no cookie, no IP kept, no tracking from one day to the next, nothing shared with anyone.

Newsletter about improv events near you: your consent, given when you tick the box. Every email has an unsubscribe link.

Moderation and security (fighting spam and abuse): our legitimate interest in keeping the community usable.

Knowing whether the site is actually used: our legitimate interest. We count what people *do* here — reviews, shows, events, messages sent — never what they read. We do not read the content of your messages, and we build no profile: the figures are recomputed on the spot and nothing is stored. You can object at any time.

We never sell your data and we do not run advertising trackers. We use these providers to run the service:

Supabase — database and authentication (EU region). Vercel — hosting of the site itself. Resend — the emails we send you (confirmation, password reset, invitations); they see the recipient address and the content of that email. Google — only if you choose to sign in with Google. OpenStreetMap / Nominatim — when you type a city name, that text is sent to them to find its coordinates. Amazon — our book links are affiliate links; if you click one, Amazon knows you came from us and we may earn a commission (which costs you nothing).

Your profile is private by default. Made public, it shows what you chose: display name, city, languages, bio, links, and your reviews. Your email is never public.

What you post on a group's wall is visible to anyone who can see that group. A show you publish appears on the world map. A course is private unless you share it.

A private conversation is readable only by its two participants. That is enforced by the database itself, not by the interface: even our own code cannot hand a message to a third party.

One exception, and we say it plainly: if someone reports a message, a moderator reads that message in order to judge the report. That is the price of being able to protect people from harassment. Nobody at Improv Bible browses conversations for any other reason.

You can block anyone (they can no longer write to you) and report a message. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the platform safe.

You can delete a message you wrote. It disappears from the conversation, for you and for the person you wrote to. A copy is kept for 30 days, readable by a moderator only — otherwise it would be enough to insult someone and delete the proof. After 30 days that copy is erased automatically. You cannot delete what somebody else wrote to you: that would not be deleting, it would be rewriting.

You type an address, we send one email in your name. We store that address for as long as the invitation is valid — thirty days — so that the link works. Then it is deleted with the invitation.

That address is used for nothing else: no mailing list, no reminder, no second email, no resale. Someone who ignores an invitation never hears from us again. Only invite people who would be glad to hear from you — you are the one asking, we are only the postman.

If an account is used to harass, spam or endanger someone, we can suspend it: it sends no more messages and leaves the directory. We keep the reason, for us. Write to us if you think we got it wrong — a decision made quickly can be reconsidered slowly.

Some troupe pages were listed by us, from information those troupes publish themselves: name, city, official website. No personal data: no names of members, no emails, no phone numbers. Such a page says so, on itself.

If it is your troupe, you can claim the page and become its owner — you then decide what it says. If you would rather it did not exist at all, click “Report an error” or write to us: we remove it, without asking you to justify yourself.

As long as your account exists. Delete your account and everything goes with it — profile, courses, shows, favourites, posts — in one click, from your account page. Nothing is kept in a shadow copy.

Content you contributed to the commons (a suggestion approved for everyone, a video link on a game sheet) may remain, but detached from your name.

Invitations: thirty days, then deleted. Reports: kept while open, and for twelve months after they are closed — long enough to see a pattern, short enough not to become a file on anyone.

You can access, correct, delete, export or object to the processing of your data, and withdraw your consent at any time. Most of it you can do yourself from your account page. For anything else, write to us and we will answer within a month.

Contact: improvbible@gmail.com. If you think we got it wrong, you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).

We only use the cookies needed to keep you signed in. No analytics, no advertising, no third-party tracking — which is why you are not being asked to accept anything. If that ever changes, we will ask first.

An account requires you to be at least 15 years old (or the age of digital consent in your country). Improv is played at every age, but a child does not need an account to read the games.