Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 5, 2026
Your privacy matters to us. This policy explains what personal information we collect, what we do with it, who we share it with, and the choices you have.
Scrybe LLC ("we," "us," "Scrybe") runs the platform at scrybe.to where screenwriters submit work to competitions, grants, residencies, and workshops. It applies to scrybe.to and all related Scrybe services.
What we collect
You give us:
- Account information: name, email, password (stored hashed), phone, billing address.
- Profile and submission information: the creative work you submit (screenplays, series bibles, treatments, prose, pitches, or other materials), project descriptions, bios, preferences, contest entries.
- Payment information: billing name and address, the last four digits and brand of your card. Full card numbers go directly to Stripe and never touch our servers.
- Partner-requested information: program partners may ask for additional information specific to their program (for example, mailing address, demographic details for diversity initiatives, prior writing credits, geographic eligibility, or proof of eligibility documents). The exact fields are shown on the submission form for that program. This information is collected on behalf of the partner and shared with them.
- Anything you send to support.
We collect automatically when you use the site:
- Device and connection information: IP address, browser, operating system, language, timestamps, and the page that referred you.
- How you use the site: pages viewed, links clicked, search terms.
- Cookies — see "Cookies and tracking" below.
We get from third parties:
- Payment confirmations and fraud signals from Stripe.
- Submission information from partner organizations when you've entered one of their programs.
What we do with it
| What we do | Why we're allowed to (for EU/UK users) |
|---|---|
| Run your account, accept submissions, deliver what you bought | Performing our contract with you |
| Process payments and prevent fraud | Performing our contract; legitimate interest |
| Send you receipts, submission confirmations, and account notices | Performing our contract |
| Send you marketing emails and newsletters | Your consent, withdrawable at any time |
| Measure ad campaigns via program partner pixels | Your consent |
| Keep the site secure and prevent abuse | Legitimate interest |
| Comply with the law | Legal obligation |
| Use anonymized statistics to improve the platform | Legitimate interest |
Who we share it with
We do not sell your personal information.
We do share some information with the groups below. Under California law, sharing for advertising is a "share" you can opt out of.
Service providers (under contract, with data-protection terms). These providers process information on our behalf to operate the platform — they're integral to the service, not optional features. Using Scrybe means your data is processed by them as part of normal operation.
- Stripe — payments and payment fraud prevention. Only used when you make a purchase.
- Cloudflare — site delivery, DDoS protection, bot challenges. Used on every request.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) — server infrastructure and transactional/marketing email delivery. Used on every request.
- Umami (self-hosted on our own AWS infrastructure) — anonymized usage statistics. Does not use cookies, does not track individuals, and does not share data with any third party.
- Plausible Analytics — privacy-friendly, cookieless aggregate site usage statistics.
Advertising and analytics partners. Scrybe does not load any third-party advertising trackers of its own. However, individual program partners may enable any of the following platforms on their program pages, and these will load only if you accept marketing cookies: Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, TikTok Pixel, and Amplitude. Which of these (if any) are active depends on the specific program you're viewing — the program page identifies the partners involved. When active, these platforms receive the page you visited, your IP address, your browser identifier, and the values of their tracking cookies. Under California law this is a "share" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can accept or reject all marketing tracking using our cookie banner or "Your Privacy Choices" in our footer.
Partner organizations — when you submit to a partner-run program, we share your submission and contact information with that partner so they can review your entry and contact you.
Legal and safety — when the law requires it, in response to valid legal process, or when needed to protect Scrybe, our users, or the public.
Business changes — if Scrybe is acquired or merged, your information may transfer as part of the deal. We'll notify you before a different policy applies.
Aggregated or de-identified data — we may share data that does not identify you for any purpose.
Where your data goes
Scrybe is in the United States. If you're in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, or elsewhere outside the US, your information will be transferred to the US and to other countries where our service providers operate. For EU transfers we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. For UK transfers we use the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the SCCs. We apply additional safeguards where needed.
Cookies and tracking
Our cookie banner controls all of this. The first time you visit, you can accept or reject non-essential cookies, and you can change your mind at any time using the "Cookies" or "Your Privacy Choices" link in our footer.
Cookies Scrybe sets
These are the cookies our platform uses directly to keep the site working and remember your preferences.
| Cookie | Category | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
scrybe |
Strictly necessary | Keeps you logged in | Session |
XSRF-TOKEN |
Strictly necessary | Protects against cross-site request forgery | Session |
cf_clearance |
Strictly necessary | Cloudflare bot/DDoS challenge | Up to 30 days |
cc_cookie |
Strictly necessary | Stores your cookie-consent choice | 6 months |
theme |
Functional | Remembers your light/dark theme choice | 1 year |
__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid |
Strictly necessary | Stripe fraud prevention during checkout | Up to 1 year |
Optional marketing cookies — depending on the program partner
Scrybe does not set marketing cookies of its own. We use optional PostHog analytics cookies only after you accept Analytics. (Our internal Umami analytics is self-hosted, cookieless, and does not identify individuals.) The cookies below are only set if both of these are true:
- You have accepted marketing cookies in our banner, and
- The program partner whose page you're viewing has enabled one of the platforms below.
If a partner hasn't enabled a tracker, none of these cookies are set — even if you've accepted marketing cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time via the "Cookies" or "Your Privacy Choices" link in our footer.
When a partner has enabled the platform, that platform sets the following cookies on the program page:
| Cookie | Platform | How long |
|---|---|---|
_fbp, _fbc |
Meta Pixel | Up to 90 days |
_ga, _gcl_* (and similar) |
Google Analytics / Google Ads | Up to 2 years |
| LinkedIn Insight Tag cookies | Up to 6 months | |
_ttp (and similar) |
TikTok Pixel | Up to 13 months |
AMP_* |
Amplitude | Up to 1 year |
Categories explained:
- Strictly necessary cookies are required for the site to work. They're always on. You can block them in your browser, but the site won't function correctly.
- Functional cookies remember preferences you've explicitly set.
- Marketing cookies are off by default and only set after you accept them — and only when a program partner has enabled the corresponding platform.
Browser signals. We honor the Global Privacy Control signal. If your browser sends Sec-GPC: 1, we treat your visit as an opt-out of advertising sharing automatically — no marketing cookies will be set, and we record this opt-out in our consent log.
How long we keep things
- Active account data — While the account is active, plus 90 days after deletion.
- Submission and entry data — While the account is active. Submissions are private by default — only you, Scrybe staff, and the program partner you submitted to can see them. If you've chosen to make a project public, deleting your account also takes the public page down.
- Payment records — 7 years (US tax and accounting).
- Cookie consent records — 5 years (compliance audit trail).
- Marketing email records — Until you unsubscribe, plus 30 days.
- Server access logs — 90 days.
- Backups — 30 days from the most recent backup.
We may retain information longer than the periods above when required by law, court order, contractual obligation (including retention requirements imposed by program partners), or to defend or pursue legal claims. In those cases, the data is held only for the purpose that requires it and deleted once that purpose has been satisfied.
Your rights
If we have personal information about you, you can:
- See what we have about you.
- Correct anything that's wrong.
- Delete your account and your personal information.
- Withdraw consent for marketing emails (every email has an unsubscribe link) and marketing cookies (footer link).
We verify your identity before fulfilling any of these requests so that we only share your information with you.
California residents also have the right to:
- Know what categories and specific pieces of personal information we've collected, where we got them, why we have them, and who we share them with.
- Delete personal information we've collected from you (with limited legal exceptions).
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the "sharing" of personal information. We do not sell personal information. We do share with advertising partners as described above. Opt out via the "Your Privacy Choices" link in our footer or by enabling Global Privacy Control in your browser.
- Limit the use of sensitive personal information. The only sensitive personal information we collect is your account password (a credential), which we use exclusively to authenticate you — a permitted purpose under California regulation that does not trigger this right.
- Not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights. We won't deny service, charge different prices, or provide a degraded experience.
To submit a California request: email [email protected] with the subject "California Privacy Request," or use the "Your Privacy Choices" link. We verify your request by matching the information you provide against what we have on file. You may use an authorized agent — they'll need written, signed permission from you, and we may verify your identity directly.
EEA, UK, and Swiss residents also have the right to:
- Get a copy of your information in a portable, machine-readable format.
- Restrict how we process your information in certain cases.
- Object to processing we do based on legitimate interest.
- Complain to your local data protection authority. The EU list is at edpb.europa.eu; UK residents can complain to ico.org.uk.
We are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer. Privacy questions: [email protected].
Children's privacy
Scrybe is for people 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we discover we have, we'll delete it. If you believe we have collected information from a minor, email [email protected].
Security
We use industry-standard safeguards: TLS encryption in transit, encryption at rest for sensitive fields, hashed passwords, and access controls. Stripe handles all payment card data; we do not store full card numbers after a transaction. No system is perfectly secure, but we work continuously to protect your information.
Third-party links
Our site links to other sites we don't control. Their privacy practices are their own — read their policies before sharing personal information with them.
Changes
We may update this policy. If we make material changes, we'll email you or post a prominent notice. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent change.
Contact
Scrybe LLC Email: [email protected] Mailing address: 3135 Larga Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Optional PostHog analytics. With your consent, PostHog, Inc. processes activity and pseudonymous identifiers on our behalf to help us improve Scrybe. This is separate from partner marketing tracking and from anonymous usage statistics. See the optional analytics and cookie disclosure below for what we collect, storage and retention, US hosting, and how to withdraw consent or request deletion.