Last updated 25 October 2026
The Reader Passport is optional. These terms cover it, and only it. Reading the journal never requires one.
The Reader Passport is a free, optional membership inside the EPRIS Journal app. You create it by signing in with Apple. It gives you a numbered passport, stamps awarded for reading and for completing quizzes, and a library that follows you between devices. It is a keepsake and a loyalty mark; it is not money, not a ticket and not a financial product.
You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age at which you may consent to an online service where you live, whichever is higher. One passport per person. The passport is personal and may not be sold, lent or transferred.
Signing in with Apple creates the passport. We receive your Apple-provided name and e-mail (which may be Apple’s private relay address) and nothing else from Apple. You may add a photograph and other details to the passport; you decide what to add, and each item is optional. You are responsible for keeping them accurate and for activity on your Apple ID.
Stamps are awarded automatically for reading articles and completing quizzes, and some are awarded by the editors. They have no cash value, cannot be exchanged or redeemed for money, and may be added, changed, re-issued or withdrawn as the journal develops. We may remove stamps obtained by automated means or by exploiting a fault.
A passport can be shown by its number or QR code. Anyone who has the number or code can open the public passport page, which shows the information you chose to put on the passport and the stamps you hold. Do not add anything to the passport that you do not want a person holding it to see. Your e-mail address is never shown there.
If you leave library sync on, your saved articles, reading progress and quiz results are stored on our server so they follow you to other devices. You can turn sync off in the passport settings at any time; the data kept on your device is then unaffected.
Don’t impersonate anyone, add unlawful or offensive text or photographs, try to read or alter other people’s passports, or interfere with the service. We may reset or remove content, suspend or delete a passport that breaks these terms, and will say why where we reasonably can.
A passport is valid for five years from issue and can be renewed. After expiry it stays readable by you; we may stop displaying it publicly.
You can delete your passport at any time in the app (Settings, then Passport, then Delete account). Deletion removes the passport, stamps, photograph, reading history and synced library from our server and ends the public page. Copies in routine backups are overwritten on the normal backup cycle. Deleting the app alone does not delete the passport, and you can sign in again later with the same Apple ID to restore it.
How your information is handled is set out in the Privacy Policy. The general Terms of Use apply as well; if they conflict with this page on passport matters, this page prevails.
We may change the passport, add or remove features, or stop the service, in which case we will give notice in the app where practical. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law.
Questions about this page: eprisjournal@outlook.com.