Terms of use
Scrollwork is free to read and free to leave. These terms are short because there is little being exchanged: you are not buying anything, and nothing is being taken from you.
In force from 22 September 2026
What this is
Scrollwork is a reference surface for Biblical history — the text, its chronologies, the evidence bearing on it, and the connections between them. It presents; it does not adjudicate. Where a question is genuinely contested, it is shown as contested, and what you conclude is yours.
It is not spiritual direction, and it is not authoritative. It is a tool for study, assembled from sources it names. Treat it the way you would treat any reference work: as something to check, not something to trust blindly. Errors are possible and corrections are welcome.
Using it
- Read it, quote it, teach from it, argue with it. That is what it is for.
- Do not attack the service — flooding it, breaking into it, or trying to reach other people's accounts.
- Do not scrape it in a way that degrades it for others. The underlying data is published openly; take it from the source rather than hammering this one.
- If you hold an account, its security is yours to keep. Choose a real password, and tell us if you think someone else has it.
Accounts that attack the service can be closed. That is the only reason one would be, and no account is closed for disagreeing with anything on the site.
Donations
A donation is a gift, not a purchase. It buys no feature, no tier, no early access and no influence over anything the product says. A reader who gives nothing and a reader who gives a hundred dollars get an identical product.
Donations are handled by GitHub Sponsors and PayPal under their own terms. Scrollwork never sees a card.
Refunds: within fourteen days, less any fees already incurred. If you gave by mistake, or gave more than you meant to, write and say so within fourteen days of the gift and it will be returned. What comes back is what actually arrived, minus the payment platform's fee and any other cost already spent on receiving it — that money is gone before it ever reaches Scrollwork, and refunding it would mean paying it twice.
After fourteen days a gift is not refundable. That is the ordinary position for a gift: a church does not return a tithe because the giver changed their mind, and neither does a charity. Fourteen days is there to undo a mistake, not to make giving reversible.
Where surplus donations go is set out on the donate page and is binding on how the money is handled.
What is promised, and what is not
The work is offered as it is. It is one person's project, given away, and it comes with no warranty — not of accuracy, not of availability, not of fitness for any particular purpose. It may be wrong. It may be down. It may change.
To the extent the law allows, there is no liability for loss arising from using it. That is the ordinary term, and here it is also the literal situation: nothing is being charged, and there is no commercial relationship to found a claim on.
Nothing in these terms takes away a right you have under the law of your own country that cannot be given away.
Content and licences
What may be copied, and under what conditions, is set out on the licensing page. The short version: the data is open and carries a share-alike obligation, and the writing and design are ours.
Governing law
Scrollwork is run by one person in Arizona, United States, and these terms are governed by Arizona law. Any dispute belongs in the courts of Arizona.
This was deliberately left blank until it could be stated accurately. Naming the wrong jurisdiction is worse than naming none, so it sat empty rather than being filled with a plausible guess. If you are reading this from somewhere with consumer protections that cannot be signed away, you keep them — a line in these terms does not override the law where you live.
Changes
These terms can change. When they do materially, the date above changes and anyone with an account is asked to accept the new version once — not on every visit, which is how a notice becomes wallpaper.