Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Selah is operated by Selah (operated by Pirow Engelbrecht).
Registered address: Available on request — write to support@selah.quest
Registration: Available on request — write to support@selah.quest
Contact: support@selah.quest

2. What Selah is

Selah is a Bible-study and Scripture-memorisation service, on the web at selah.quest and as an app for iPhone. We provide public-domain Bible texts, interactive study tools and games, journeys, and a way to read alongside friends.

The Selah app for iPhone is free. It has no purchases, subscriptions, or advertising.

Some content is generated by AI models (e.g. study notes, journey cover art). We mark this clearly. The canonical Bible text is never AI-generated.

3. Your account

You sign in with Apple or Google. You must be at least 18 years old, or have the consent of a parent or guardian if you are between 13 and 17. You agree to keep access to your account secure, and you are responsible for activity on it.

4. Paid plans on the website

Selah is currently free to use, on the website and in the app, and the iPhone app has no purchases or subscriptions. If we offer paid plans on the website, the terms in this section apply to them.

Free trial

New subscribers receive a 7-day free trial. We require valid card details to start a trial so we can convert you to a paid subscription automatically if you decide to continue. You will not be charged during the trial. Founding members accepted after an intro chat receive three months free instead of seven days, on the same terms.

Conversion

At the end of the trial we will charge the subscription fee shown on the checkout page in South African Rand (ZAR), and again at the end of each subsequent billing period (monthly or annual, whichever you chose).

Reminders

We email you 2 days before your trial converts so you have time to cancel. You can change or cancel your subscription at any time from Profile → Settings → Membership.

Cancellation

You can cancel at any time, with no notice period and no cancellation fee. When you cancel, you keep full access until the end of the period you have already paid for. After that, you need an active subscription to keep using Selah. Your reading, journeys and journal entries stay safe.

Refunds

Trial: we do not charge during the trial, so no refund is needed if you cancel before it ends.

Within 5 business days of charging (Consumer Protection Act, cooling-off for direct marketing): if you signed up after a direct marketing message from us and have not used the paid features beyond what is reasonable to evaluate them, you may cancel and receive a refund of the amount paid.

Outside the cooling-off period: our subscriptions are non-refundable once charged, but you can cancel future renewals at any time. Where the Consumer Protection Act gives you a stronger right, that right always applies.

Price changes

If we change the price, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before the new price applies to your next renewal. You can cancel before the new price takes effect.

Tax

Prices include any applicable South African VAT.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Selah for anything illegal, abusive, or that infringes someone else's rights.
• Try to break, overload, or reverse-engineer the service.
• Scrape or republish our content beyond what fair-dealing allows.
• Impersonate other users or misrepresent your affiliation.
• Use a display name or profile photo that is hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise harmful.

We may suspend or close accounts that breach these rules. If we do, we will tell you why and give you a reasonable chance to respond, unless we are prevented by law or by an active investigation.

6. Reporting and blocking

Selah has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Names and photos that are hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise harmful are not allowed, and neither is using Selah to pester or threaten anyone.

• Report — open the person's profile, open its menu, and choose Report. Tell us what is wrong. The person is not told who reported them.
• Block — from the same menu, choose Block. Any friendship between you ends, and neither of you can find the other or open the other's profile. They are not told. Unblock them at any time in Settings → Safety.
• Email us about anything else at support@selah.quest.

We review every report within 24 hours. We remove content that breaks these terms, and we suspend or permanently close the accounts of the people who post it.

7. Your content

Anything you create in Selah — journal entries, notes, your display name and photo — remains yours. You grant us only the limited rights we need to store it, show it back to you, and show your name and photo to other readers. You can delete your content at any time.

8. Our content and IP

The Selah brand, software, design, illustrations, and curated study materials are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. You may use them only as part of the Selah service. Public-domain Bible translations are not owned by us; licensed translations remain the property of their rights-holders.

9. Service changes

We will keep improving Selah, which means features will be added, changed, or removed over time. We will give reasonable notice of any change that materially reduces the value of a paid subscription.

10. Liability

To the maximum extent allowed by South African law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of these terms or the Selah service is limited to the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including the rights you have under the Consumer Protection Act.

11. Suspension and termination

You can delete your account at any time: in the app, Profile → Settings → Delete my account; on the website, Profile → Privacy → Delete my account. We can suspend or close your account for serious or repeated breaches of these terms, or where the law requires it.

12. The iPhone app

If you use Selah on an iPhone, Apple's standard licence agreement for App Store apps applies alongside these terms. These terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for Selah or its content and has no duty to support it. Contact us with any question or claim about the app.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by South African law. Any dispute that cannot be resolved by talking to us will be referred to the courts of South Africa. Where the Consumer Protection Act applies, you may also approach the National Consumer Commission or the relevant ombud.

14. Changes

We may update these terms. For material changes we will notify you by email at least 30 days before they take effect, and the “last updated” date above will reflect the change.

15. Contact

General questions: support@selah.quest
Privacy questions: support@selah.quest