Readbit

Welcome to Readbit ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data of our users ("you" or "user"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application (Readbit, com.readbit.app), our website, and associated services (collectively, the "Services").

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide: your email address (used to sign in via Google, Sign in with Apple, or email/password); profile details you choose to add (display name, avatar, bio, country, favorite genres, reading goals); reading activity (page logs, shelves, reviews, ratings); and any book details you contribute to the shared catalog.

Optional convenience features: if you scan a book's barcode to add it to your library, the camera feed is processed on your device only to read the barcode; no photo or video is uploaded or stored. If you use voice-to-text page logging, your speech is transcribed by your device's speech-recognition service; we store only the resulting text, not any audio.

Automatically collected: basic technical data (device/app version) and crash/error diagnostics, which are stripped of cookies, authorization headers, and session tokens before being sent to our error-monitoring provider. Our error-monitoring provider also assigns a random, non-hardware installation identifier (unique per app install, not linked to your account) to correlate crash reports, and a sample of sessions includes app performance data such as page and request load timing. We also record product usage events tied to your account, such as completing sign-up, adding your first book, logging a page, or returning to the app on a later day, so we can understand which features are actually used and improve the product. These events stay in our own database, are never shown to other users, and are never used for ads. Separately, for visitors outside the EU, our web analytics provider derives your approximate (country-level) location from your IP address to report visits by country; it does not store the IP address itself and sets no cookies.

Device push token: in the iOS and Android apps, each time you open the app while signed in, we store a push token for your device (a random code from Apple or Google that lets us address a notification to that device) together with the platform and the time it was last seen. The token is linked to your account and is used only to deliver notifications. Storing a token does not turn notifications on: the app asks for your permission first, and you can turn notifications off at any time in the app's settings or your phone's settings. We do not use the token for ads. It is shared only with the services that deliver notifications (Apple Push Notification service for iOS and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging for Android), and it is deleted when you delete your account.

We do not currently use any affiliate/retailer integration or collect precise location data.

2. How We Use Your Information

To provide the core app experience (your reading history, streaks, and shelves), to compute your personal reading insights, to power social features within reading clubs you join, to keep your account secure, to diagnose and fix technical issues, and to understand which parts of the app are used and where people get stuck, so we know what to improve.

We also assess how you use Readbit to pace what the app shows you. That includes bringing in features gradually and offering extra tips to readers who seem to need them.

3. Sharing & Disclosure

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data, and we do not use your reading data for advertising. We share data only with the infrastructure providers that operate the Services on our behalf, currently Supabase (database and authentication), Cloudflare (hosting, CDN, and image storage), Cloudflare Web Analytics (page-view and performance analytics, disabled for EU visitors), and Sentry (crash and error monitoring, with cookie and session-token scrubbing applied before data is sent), Apple Push Notification service and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (delivering push notifications to your phone), plus the Google Books API for public book-metadata lookups. We also share data with other Readbit members only to the extent your display name, avatar, and public activity are visible within clubs you join, exactly as intended.

4. Account & Data Deletion

You can permanently delete your account and personal data at any time, free of charge: in the app, go to More → Settings → Delete Account, or email us at readbitapp@gmail.com with the subject "Account Deletion Request." Your data is permanently removed from our active systems within 30 days. If you'd rather not log in first, this page walks through both options without requiring sign-in.

5. Children's Privacy

Readbit is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in applicable EU jurisdictions), and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children in that age range.

6. Your Rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time by emailing readbitapp@gmail.com. We respond to all requests within 30 days.

7. Contact

Registered developer: Abhishek Jain. Design & product: Rishabh Sharma. App package name: com.readbit.app. Contact: readbitapp@gmail.com.

This page summarizes our Privacy Policy. The full versioned policy, including our complete Data Safety disclosures and changelog, is maintained in our public repository.