Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains what information the Novel Reader mobile application (the “App”) handles, why, and what choices you have. It is issued by the developer of the App (the “Developer”, “we”, “us”), who is identified in section 10. We comply with the privacy and data protection laws that apply to us and to you, including, where they apply, the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and other national, state, and local privacy laws. Where a local law gives you rights beyond those described here, we honor them.
1. Information stored on your device
The App keeps the following in its private storage on your device. None of it is sent to us.
- Books and documents you import (for example EPUB and PDF files), including their text, metadata, and cover images.
- Your reading progress and settings such as voice, speed, and appearance.
- Voice data the App downloads so it can read aloud, and the audio it generates from your books.
- A cached copy of your subscription status.
Deleting the App removes all of it from your device. If you use iCloud Backup or another device backup, a copy may remain in that backup, which is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.
2. Subscriptions and purchases
Purchases are made through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles your payment details, name, and Apple Account; we never receive them. Apple’s handling of that information is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.
To check whether your subscription is active, the App uses RevenueCat, a subscription management service that processes data on our behalf. The App sends RevenueCat:
- A randomly generated identifier for your installation of the App. It is not linked to your name, email address, or Apple Account.
- Your App Store purchase receipt and transaction identifiers, the product purchased, price, currency, and subscription status.
- Device model, operating system version, App version, and locale.
- Your IP address, from which an approximate country may be derived.
We use this information to deliver the subscription you bought, to restore purchases on a new device, to prevent fraud, and to see aggregate revenue statistics. Our legal bases, where one is required, are performance of our contract with you and our legitimate interest in preventing fraud and operating the App.
3. Network connections
- Voice downloads. When you first enable a voice, the App downloads the required voice data from a public file host (currently GitHub). Your IP address and standard request information are visible to that host under its own privacy policy. We do not receive them.
- Our servers. The App does not currently send any information to servers operated by us. If we add features that require our own servers, we will update this policy before they launch.
- Apple. If you have turned on “Share With App Developers” in your device settings, Apple may share aggregated, de-identified crash and usage statistics with us. You control this in Settings.
- This website. When you view this page, our hosting provider receives your IP address and standard request logs in order to serve it. We do not use them to identify you.
4. What we do not do
- We do not sell personal information.
- We do not share personal information for targeted advertising, and the App contains no advertising.
- The App contains no third-party analytics, tracking, or crash-reporting software, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
- We do not build profiles of you or make automated decisions about you.
5. Data retention
Information stored on your device stays there until you delete it or delete the App. Subscription records held by RevenueCat and Apple are retained for as long as needed to manage your subscription and to meet accounting, tax, fraud-prevention, and other legal obligations, after which they are deleted or anonymized.
6. Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information described in this policy. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Children
The App is intended for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, or under the higher age required by your local law, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information; to restrict or object to how it is processed; to withdraw consent; to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information (we do neither); not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights; and to complain to a data protection authority. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at qaz111id@gmail.com. We respond within the time required by applicable law.
Because we hold no information that identifies you by name, we may be unable to connect a request to a specific record. If that is the case we will tell you. You can delete all information stored on your device at any time by deleting the App, and you can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings.
European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
We process the information in section 2 on the legal bases described there. Our service providers Apple and RevenueCat may process data in the United States and other countries; those transfers are covered by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, standard contractual clauses, or other safeguards recognized under applicable law. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
California
We collect, through our service providers, the following categories of personal information: identifiers (an anonymous installation identifier and IP address), commercial information (subscription purchase records), and device information. We collect it from you, your device, and Apple, for the purposes in section 2, and disclose it only to service providers. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA, and we have no actual knowledge that we collect personal information of consumers under 16.
Other jurisdictions
Where your local law grants you additional rights or requires additional disclosures, we will honor those rights and provide those disclosures on request.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top. If a change is material, we will also notify you in the App or by other reasonable means where the law requires it. The version posted here is the one in effect.
10. Who we are and how to reach us
The App is published by an individual developer based in New Jersey, United States of America. For the purposes of data protection law, the Developer is the controller of the limited information described in this policy.
Questions about this policy or your information: qaz111id@gmail.com. See also our Terms of Use.