Terms of Service

What Scriptorium is

Scriptorium is a personal archive for reading and ministry writing. You catalogue the books you read, keep notes on them, record sermons and other writing, and connect all of it through Scripture and the church year.

It is run by Spritz Solutions, LLC, an Alabama limited liability company, of Mountain Brook, Alabama. Questions, problems and requests go to support@spritzsolutions.com, and a person reads that address.

What it costs

Free for seminarians, for as long as you are in seminary. That one is a promise, not an introductory offer.

Nothing, today. Scriptorium is free while it is being built and while its first readers are finding out whether it is useful, and there is no plan to charge for it.

An earlier version of these terms named a yearly charge for clergy after the first year. That is withdrawn. If a paid tier ever exists, you will be told before it applies to you, and nothing you have written will be locked away because you stopped paying.

Your account

You sign in with a link sent to your email address. There is no password.

You can add more than one sign-in address, and you should. An address issued by a school or a parish stops working when you leave, and an archive reachable only through an address someone else controls is an archive you can lose. Add a personal address early.

Any address you add is a way into everything. Whoever opens a sign-in link sent to it can read the whole archive — your books, notes, comments and writing — and there is no way to add an address that sees less. Add addresses you control, and no others.

What is yours

Everything you put in — your books, notes, comments, writing, and the connections between them — is yours. We do not claim ownership of it, we do not use it to train anything, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone. Showing your library to a friend is something only you can do, by accepting them, and only you can undo.

Ask at support@spritzsolutions.com and we will send you a copy of your archive in a form you can read without Scriptorium.

What other people can see

Your writing is private. Always. Sermons, reflections, papers and letters are never shared by Scriptorium. There is no setting that publishes them and no feature that shows them to another reader. Who can read them is who can sign in to your Scriptorium — you, and any address you have added yourself.

Your books, notes and shelves are seen by you and by friends you have accepted, and by nobody else — not through an address you have not added, and not through a friend you have not accepted. Private is not the same as safe to confide in — see What not to put here.

Friends

You can add friends. A friendship has to be agreed by both people — one asks, the other accepts — and either of you can end it at any time, with immediate effect.

A friend can see your library: your books, which shelf each is on, whether you have read it and what you thought of it, your notes and summary, and the quotes and ideas you have saved from it. They see it as a reader and cannot change anything. They do not see whom you have lent a book to, and they never see your writing. A friend sees your name as you gave it, and the email address the request was sent to or from; a request always shows the asker's address, so you know who is asking.

Any book can be kept from your friends by marking it hidden. A hidden book, with its notes and quotes, is not shown to any friend and is not counted. Before you accept a friend you are shown how many books they will see, and you can hide any of them first.

A friend can also read the comments other readers have written on the books you have — the same comments you see, with no name on any of them. They see no more of them than you do. A book you have hidden shows them nothing, comments included.

Nothing is shared with anyone until you accept a friend. Adding one, or being asked by one, shares nothing.

Shared comments

A comment on a book is written to be shared. Scriptorium lets you write a comment about a published book, and other readers who have the same book can read it. That is what the comment box is for; anything you want kept to yourself goes in that book's notes instead. Each comment is a separate act — there is no setting that shares things on your behalf, and nothing you have already written becomes shared because a feature was added.

A shared comment shows what you wrote, the Scripture references you gave it, and the edition it is about — the publisher and year, the page number if you gave one, and, on a search result, the book's title and author. It does not show your name. It does not show your email address, your library, or anything else about you.

Your name is not shown, and we would rather be plain about what that does and does not mean. Scriptorium records that the comment is yours, so that you can come back and change or remove it, and so that one person cannot flood a page — but no reader sees it. And Scriptorium is small: somebody who has the same book and reads it the same week may still work out who wrote a comment, and no setting can prevent that. Write a shared comment as though a colleague will read it, because one may.

Readers who have the book can mark a shared comment up or down, and a comment can show how many of each it has received. We record which account cast which mark, so that one account cannot mark the same comment twice. That record is never shown to the comment's author or to other users. Marks do not change the order comments appear in and are not used to hide anything.

A shared comment is visible to Scriptorium readers who have the same book, and to the friends those readers have accepted. Nobody else can read it: someone who neither has the book nor is friends with somebody who does can see only that comments exist and how many. If the person who has the book has hidden it from their friends, its comments are hidden with it. Shared comments are not public, not indexed by search engines, and not readable by anyone without an account.

This audience applies to comments written from 8 September 2026. A comment written before that date is readable by people who have the book, as it was when you wrote it, and stays that way unless you ask us to widen it. Ask at support@spritzsolutions.com and we will widen your own comments, and only yours.

Marking a comment up or down is still for readers who have the book. A friend reading through somebody else's copy can read the comments and does not mark them.

What not to put here

Scriptorium is not a confidential records system and should not be treated as one.

Do not record pastoral information about identifiable people — counselling notes, confessions, health information, or anything told to you in confidence. It is not built for that, it carries no legal protection you might assume, and a note about a book can identify a person by context even when no name appears in it. A friend you have accepted can read your notes; write them as though one will.

What we ask of you

Be truthful about who you are. Do not post anything unlawful, or anything meant to harass or demean a person. Do not attempt to reach other people's private data.

Shared comments can be removed if they break these terms. Removal is recorded, reversible, and done by a person. If yours is removed you can ask why at support@spritzsolutions.com.

If you stop using it

Your archive stays, and we will not remove it quietly. If you stop signing in, your account becomes dormant and everything in it is kept. We do not delete accounts for inactivity.

We are a small operation, and we are not going to pretend we can hold an archive forever whatever happens. So the promise we can keep is this one: we will never remove your archive without telling you first and sending you a copy. If we ever cannot keep a dormant archive — because the service is ending, or because holding it is no longer something we can sustain — you will hear from us at least ninety days beforehand, at every address on your account, and you will be sent a copy of everything before anything is removed. If you answer, it stays.

If you want it deleted, ask at support@spritzsolutions.com and it will be deleted for real — not hidden. You can also ask us to delete your shared comments while keeping your archive, or the other way round.

Age

You must be at least 18 to use Scriptorium.

Changes, and endings

If these terms change, you will be told, and you will be asked to accept the new version the next time you sign in. What you accepted and when is recorded.

Scriptorium is a small operation. If it ever has to stop, you will get notice and a copy of your archive before it does.

The dull but necessary part

Scriptorium is provided as it is, without warranty. It is a personal archive and not a backup service — keep your own copies of anything you could not bear to lose. To the extent the law allows, Spritz Solutions, LLC is not liable for lost data or for what you do with the service.

These terms are governed by the law of Alabama, United States of America.