Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Readence (“Readence”, “we”, “us”) is operated by Gere Lajos e.v., a sole proprietor established in Hungary, European Union. For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Gere Lajos e.v. is the data controller for your personal data.

If you have any questions about this policy or your data, contact us at hello@gerelajos.hu.

2. Data we collect

We collect only the data we need to provide and improve Readence:

• Account data: your email address and your display name / handle.
• Authentication identifiers: when you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive an account identifier from that provider so we can recognise you. We do not receive your provider password.
• Reading activity: reading progress, streaks, and statistics. We use this to provide the core service and to sync your progress across your devices.
• Device & advertising identifiers: collected via Google AdMob, and only with your consent. On iOS this is gated by App Tracking Transparency (ATT), and in the EU by Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) consent flow.
• Subscription status: whether you have an active subscription and which entitlements it grants. Purchases themselves are processed by Apple; subscription state is managed on our behalf by RevenueCat.
• Basic diagnostics: crash reports and technical diagnostics used to keep the app stable and secure.

3. Books you upload stay on your device

This is important: book files you add from your device stay on your device.Readence stores only the book’s title, metadata, cover image, and a content hash on its servers so we can show your library and sync your progress. The book file itself is never uploaded to us.

You are responsible for ensuring you have the rights to any file you add to Readence.

4. How we use your data

• To create and maintain your account and authenticate you.
• To provide the core reading experience and sync your library, progress, and streaks across devices.
• To manage your subscription and unlock the features it includes.
• To show advertising (only with your consent), and to measure and improve it.
• To diagnose crashes, prevent abuse, and keep the service secure.

5. Legal bases (GDPR)

• Performance of a contract: providing the app, your account, sync, and subscriptions.
• Consent: advertising and advertising/device identifiers, obtained through ATT and Google’s UMP consent flow. You may withdraw consent at any time.
• Legitimate interests: keeping the service secure, preventing abuse, and understanding aggregate diagnostics.

6. Advertising

Readence uses Google AdMob to show ads. Personalized (interest-based) ads are shown only where you have given consent; without consent, ads are limited to non-personalized ads. Google may process device and advertising identifiers as an independent controller for its own purposes. See Google’s partner privacy policy for details.

7. Payments & subscriptions

Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple through the App Store. Readence never receives or stores your card or payment details. We use RevenueCat to process and verify your subscription entitlements so we know which features to unlock.

8. Sub-processors

We share data with the following service providers as needed to run Readence:

• Apple: Sign in with Apple and App Store billing.
• Google: AdMob advertising and Google Sign-In.
• RevenueCat: subscription entitlement processing.
• Our EU hosting provider: application and database hosting within the European Union.
• Resend: sending transactional email (for example, sign-in and account notifications).

9. Data retention

We keep your account data and reading activity for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, we delete the associated personal data, except where we are required to retain limited records to meet legal obligations. Account deletion is available directly in the app.

10. Your rights

If you are in the EU/EEA, the GDPR gives you the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you;
• rectify inaccurate or incomplete data;
• erase your data (“right to be forgotten”);
• receive your data in a portable format (data export);
• restrict or object to certain processing;
• withdraw consent at any time, without affecting prior processing.

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@gerelajos.hu. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (in Hungary, the Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság, NAIH).

11. Children

Readence is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has provided us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

12. International transfers

Some of our sub-processors (such as Apple, Google, RevenueCat, and Resend) may process data outside the EU/EEA. Where they do, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “last updated” date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.

14. Contact

Gere Lajos e.v. (Hungary, EU) , hello@gerelajos.hu.