Our Privacy Policy

Last Modified: July 20, 2023

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully as it explains the following:

GENERAL

We provide the Readcap Application. We ("Individual", "us", "we" or "our") recognizes and understands the importance of the privacy of its users ("User", "you" or "your") and wants to respect their desire to store and access personal information in a private and secure manner. This Privacy Policy applies to our application and describes how we manage, store, and utilize your Personal Data through its Products.

In order to use our app, we require you to consent to the collection and processing of your Personal Data before you start using the app. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you may not use in any manner the app.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of all its users' Personal Data and providing a secure, user-controlled environment for the use of the app.

PERSONAL DATA YOU PROVIDE

Feedback/Support. If you provide us feedback or contact customer support, we collect your name and e-mail address and possibly other Personal Data (e.g., IP address), as well as any other content that you send to us in order to reply and address any issue. If you contact customer support, we also collect and retain certain technical diagnostic data, such as your phone model. We may keep records of our communication with you, including any complaints we receive from you about other users (and from other users about you).

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

We are a Data Controller of your information.

For legal basis we are collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

  • We need to perform a contract with you

  • You have given us permission to do so

  • Processing your personal information is in we legitimate interests

  • We need to comply with the law

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information, we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

You are entitled to the following rights under applicable laws:

  • 1.   The right to access: You may at any time request to access your personal data. Upon request, we will provide a copy of your personal data in a commonly used electronic form.

  • 2.   The right to rectification: You are entitled to obtain rectification of inaccurate personal data and to have incomplete personal data completed.

  • 3.   The right to erase: Under certain circumstances (including processing on the basis of your consent), you may request us to delete your User Data. Please note that this right is not unconditional. Therefore, an attempt to invoke the right might not lead to an action from us.

  • 4.   The right to object: To certain processing activities conducted by us in relation to your personal data, such as our processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interest. The right to object also applies to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

  • 5.   The right to data portability: You are entitled to receive your personal data (or have your personal data directly transmitted to another data controller) in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)

  • 1.   What personal information we have about you. If you make this request, we will return to you:

    • The categories of personal information we have collected about you.

    • The categories of sources from which we collect your personal information.

    • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information.

    • The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information.

    • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

    • A list of categories of personal information that we have sold, along with the category of any other company we sold it to. If we have not sold your personal information, we will inform you of that fact.

    • A list of categories of personal information that we have disclosed for a business purpose, along with the category of any other company we shared it with.

    Please note, you are entitled to ask us to provide you with this information up to two times in a rolling twelve-month period. When you make this request, the information provided may be limited to the personal information we collected about you in the previous 12 months.

  • 2.   To delete your personal information. If you make this request, we will delete the personal information we hold about you as of the date of your request from our records and direct any service providers to do the same. In some cases, deletion may be accomplished through de-identification of the information. If you choose to delete your personal information, you may not be able to use certain functions that require your personal information to operate.

  • 3.   To stop selling your personal information. We don’t sell or rent your personal information to any third parties for any purpose. We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration. However, under some circumstances, a transfer of personal information to a third party, or within our family of companies, without monetary consideration may be considered a “sale” under California law. You are the only owner of your Personal Data and can request disclosure or deletion at any time.

    • If you submit a request to stop selling your personal information, we will stop making such transfers.

    Please note, if you ask us to delete or stop selling your data, it may impact your experience with us, and you may not be able to participate in certain programs or membership services which require the usage of your personal information to function. But in no circumstances, we will discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

    To exercise your California data protection rights described above, please send your request(s) by email: [email protected]

    Your data protection rights, described above, are covered by the CCPA, short for the California Consumer Privacy Act. To find out more, visit the official California Legislative Information website.

PERMISSIONS REQUIRED

  • INTERNET

  • NOTIFICATION

Link to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the app

LOG DATA

We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in case of an error in the app, we collect data and information (through third-party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

YOUR PERSONAL DATA

User data that is used to authenticate a user (e.g., email - if you choose to provide one) is stored at a GDPR compliant hosting provider in the EU. User generated content, like created summaries, are stored, and synced across user devices via Apple's CloudKit (iCloud) and are not stored on our servers. Should you opt to utilize the feature that auto-generates summaries from your reading updates and character notes, the content of your reading updates and characters will be transmitted to OpenAI's API for summary creation. You can view OpenAI's privacy policy here: https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies

SECURITY

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided me with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.

PAYMENT TERMS

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.

The payment processors we work with are:

Apple Store In-App Payments

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our Service;

  • To provide the Service on our behalf;

  • To perform Service-related services; or

  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

UPDATES OR CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Occasionally, we may change or update this Privacy Policy to allow us to use or share your previously collected Personal Data for other purposes. If we would use your Personal Data in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of the collection, we will provide you with a notice on our Website and in our Readcap Mobile Application indicating that the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated and request you to agree with the updated or changed Privacy Policy.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]