Privacy Policy

Readerie, by App’d. Effective 25 August 2026.

Readerie is a reading journal. It keeps track of the books you own and the ones you are reading, and it lets you share notes about a book with people you invite. This policy explains what it stores, where that lives, and how to get rid of it.

It is written to be read. If anything here is unclear, write to us at hello@appd.land and we will explain it properly.

Who we are

Readerie is made by App’d, a trading name of an Australian business. We are the ones responsible for the information the app collects, and we are the ones you complain to if we get it wrong. Our contact address for anything on this page is hello@appd.land.

What Readerie stores

Your account
The email address you sign up with, and a password we never see in readable form. This is how you get back to your shelf on a new phone.
Reader profiles
The name you go by in the app, and your settings — reading goals, what your star ratings mean to you, which parts of the app you have switched on.
Little readers
If you keep a shelf for a child, Readerie stores the name and age you enter for them. Children do not have logins and do not use the app themselves; a little reader is a section of an adult’s account. See Children below.
Your library and your reading
The books you add — title, author, identifiers, cover images — and what you do with them: reading sessions, dates, pages, progress, goals, challenges, and anything you write about a book.
Shared reads
Notes, quotes, photos and voice notes you share into a reading-together thread, along with who wrote them and when. These are visible to the other members of that thread and to nobody else. There is no public feed in Readerie and no way for a stranger to reach you.
Reading places
Only if you choose to pin one. Readerie reads your device’s location a single time, while the app is open and in front of you, to drop a pin where you were reading. It is never read in the background and you are never tracked. You can add a place by hand instead, and you can skip places entirely.
Photos, camera and microphone
Used when you scan a barcode, take or choose a cover or keepsake photo, or record a voice note. Readerie does not browse your camera roll — it receives only the images you pick.
Analytics and crash reports
See Analytics below, which is the section worth reading carefully.

Analytics, and what it cannot see

Released versions of Readerie report anonymous usage statistics to Google Firebase Analytics, and send crash diagnostics to Firebase Crashlytics when something goes wrong. Both are on in the version you install from a store. There is currently no in-app switch to turn them off, and we would rather say so plainly than imply an option that is not there.

What makes that tolerable is the shape of what gets sent. Readerie’s analytics are built to carry counts, durations and a fixed vocabulary of screen and event names — and nothing else. No book title, no author, no reader’s name, no club or thread name, and not one word of anything you or anyone else has written. This is not a rule we remember to follow at each call site; the code has no way to pass such a thing through in the first place.

Crash reports carry technical diagnostics — device model, operating system version, and where in the code the failure happened — so that a crash can be found and fixed.

Neither is used for advertising. Readerie shows no ads.

Where your data lives

Readerie stores your shelf on Supabase, which provides our database, file storage and sign-in. Your data is held in Supabase’s ap-northeast-1 region, in Tokyo, Japan.

This matters and we want it stated rather than buried: if you are in Australia, your reading is stored overseas. Japan is a jurisdiction with comparable data-protection law, but it is not Australia, and by using Readerie you consent to that transfer. Data is encrypted in transit, and access is restricted at the database level so that one account cannot read another’s rows.

Readerie also keeps a copy of your shelf on your device, so the app works without a signal. Deleting the app removes that copy.

Who else is involved

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising. Nobody outside this list receives it, except where the law requires us to hand something over.

Deleting your data

Inside the app you can delete individual things at any time — a book, a note, a photo, a reading place, a whole shared read — and deleting them removes them for good.

To delete your entire account and everything in it, email hello@appd.land from the address your account uses, and ask us to delete it. We will confirm, and we will action it within 30 days. Backups holding a copy are cycled out within a further 30 days, after which it is gone.

One thing to know before you ask: notes you have shared into a reading thread are part of a conversation other people are also in. We delete your account, your library and your own content. If you want a shared note removed sooner, delete it in the app, or leave the read.

How long we keep things

Your shelf stays as long as your account does — a reading journal is not much use if it forgets. We do not expire your books, notes or history. When you ask us to delete, the timeframe above applies.

Children

Readerie is for adults, and is rated accordingly in both app stores. A child cannot have a Readerie account, cannot sign in, and does not use the app.

An adult can keep a “little reader” shelf to track a child’s reading. The child’s name and age are entered by that adult, who is responsible for what they choose to enter, and the shelf belongs to the adult’s account. If you would rather not store a real name, a nickname works exactly as well — Readerie only uses it to label a shelf.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, using the address at the top and bottom of this page. We will respond within 30 days.

If you think we have mishandled your personal information and our answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Access is enforced at the database row level, so an account can reach only its own rows and the shared reads it has been invited into. Passwords are stored hashed and are not visible to us.

No system is perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise. If we discover a breach affecting your data, we will tell you and the Commissioner as the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will change the date at the top. If a change materially affects what we collect or who receives it, we will tell you in the app or by email rather than leaving you to notice.

Contact

Questions, corrections, deletion requests, complaints — all to the same place: hello@appd.land.