About Lamplight

Our content principles

• One Bible. Every question is based on the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures and cites a verse you can open on jw.org with one tap.
• Faithful to the Bible. Nothing in Lamplight should contradict the Bible or the teachings published on jw.org. We use the Bible's own terms: Jehovah, torture stake, illustration, congregation, the holy spirit as God's active force.
• Respectful art. We never picture Jehovah God or Satan. When a scene needs to show Jehovah's presence, it is shown only as an endless bright light shining from above.
• Wholesome fun. No holiday themes, luck, magic or wagering. Competition stays kind: wrong answers cost nothing unless the host chooses otherwise.
• Checked carefully. Questions are written for four levels, then checked again for accuracy, wording and age-appropriateness. If something is uncertain, it is left out.
• Four languages. Papiamentu, Dutch and Spanish questions were translated by volunteers and are marked for review by native speakers. English is the source text.

Not an official site

Lamplight is an independent project made by volunteers. It is not produced by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania or jw.org. Verse text belongs to its publisher, so we link to it rather than copy it. jw.org

Privacy

• No accounts, no ads, no tracking or analytics cookies, and no trackers from other companies.
• Names and scores live in the server's memory while a room is open, and the room forgets them when it closes. Two things last longer: the visitor log described below, which keeps the names typed on each device to join a game, and a recap of a night that someone chooses to share with the share button at the end. A recap keeps only the date and time, whether it was day or evening, the language, the number of games, the scores with their animals, the scriptures that were read, one “Talk about it” prompt, and first names only if the host chose to add them. It is kept for 30 days under a private link that search engines do not list, and then deleted.
• Your browser remembers your name, animal, level, language and display preferences on your own device so you can rejoin quickly, along with the list you save for “Bring my family” and your Practice progress. When you choose a language, it is also kept in a small cookie so every page opens in it. The host screen also remembers which questions it has shown, so new ones come first next time. While a tab is open, it also keeps a short note that your visit has started, so the visit is counted once. Each phone also keeps a code it made up for itself and sends it to every room it joins, so a host can remove that phone from the room; the room forgets it when it closes. Clearing site data removes all of this.
• Drawings in Sketch & Seek are only sent to the people in your room and are never stored.
• To see which games and questions work well, we keep anonymous totals by day: how many games were started, finished or left early; which game, level and question language; how many players were in a game (in groups such as 4–6); how long games last on average; and, for each question, how often it was shown, answered and answered correctly, and which answer choice was picked. These totals hold nothing about people: no names, no room codes, no device or network addresses, no typed answers, and nothing more exact than the day. We also keep anonymous visit totals by day: pages viewed, the site that sent you, an estimated country from your time zone, device type and visit length, the site language, a campaign tag from the link, and which pages lead to which. For these totals your network address and browser are used only in memory, for one day, to count each visitor once; the totals themselves keep no address and use no cookies.
• Besides these totals, we keep a visitor log that is not anonymous. For each device and browser it keeps: the network address (IP address); browser and device details, such as the system (iOS, Android and so on) and its version, the browser, the phone model, the screen size, whether the site is installed as an app and whether dark mode is on; the time zone and the country it points to; the languages of the browser and of the site; the pages viewed; the site that linked here and any campaign tag in the link; when the first and last visits were, how many there were and how long they lasted; and the names typed on that device to join a game, with the time and the room code. So a child's name and the device's IP address can be kept. Each record is deleted 30 days after that device's last visit, and the log holds at most 5,000 records (the oldest go first).
• We keep this log to see how the site is used and to keep it safe, for example to spot misuse. Only the site owner can see it, on an admin page that needs a password. It is never shown to other visitors or on game screens, and it is not sold or shared with anyone. If your browser sends “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control”, nothing is added to it.
• To have your record removed sooner, email support@ankorallc.com with the subject “Lamplight”. Tell us roughly when you visited and any name you used to join a game, so we can find it.

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