QRead for iOS Privacy Policy

Effective date:

This policy covers the QRead app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, made by Accessible Apps. It does not cover this website.

In short

  • QRead does not collect your data. Accessible Apps receives nothing from the app.
  • QRead has no tracking, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting.
  • Your books, reading positions, bookmarks and settings stay on your device, and in storage you choose yourself, such as your own iCloud Drive.
  • QRead goes online only when you use Bookshare or Project Gutenberg, and then it connects directly to that service.

What stays on your device

Your library, the books in it, your reading positions, bookmarks, notes and settings are stored on your device.

Narration uses the voices built into your device, so the text being read aloud never leaves it.

If you sign in to Bookshare, your email address and password are kept in the keychain on your device. They are never sent to Accessible Apps.

QRead keeps a small troubleshooting log on your device, for example whether a Bookshare sign-in succeeded. The log never contains your email address or password, and QRead never sends it anywhere.

Services you choose to use

Each of these features connects your device directly to the service you are using. Accessible Apps has no server in between and does not receive what you send.

Bookshare

When you sign in to Bookshare, search, browse or download a book, QRead sends your Bookshare email address, a hashed form of your password (as Bookshare requires), your searches and the books you choose directly to Bookshare. Bookshare handles this information under its own privacy policy.

Bookshare privacy policy: bookshare.org/privacy

Project Gutenberg

When you browse or download free books from Project Gutenberg, QRead requests the book lists and books directly from gutenberg.org, and identifies itself only as QRead and its version number.

Searching Project Gutenberg happens on your device, so your search terms are not sent anywhere. To make this possible, QRead downloads a catalog of Project Gutenberg books that Accessible Apps publishes on GitHub. This is an ordinary file download handled by GitHub, and no account, search or reading information is sent with it.

Project Gutenberg privacy policy: gutenberg.org/policy/privacy_policy.html

GitHub privacy statement: docs.github.com

Folder sync

If you turn on folder sync, QRead saves your reading positions, bookmarks (with their names and notes) and any books you choose to share into a folder that you pick in the Files app, such as a folder in your iCloud Drive. The storage service that holds that folder moves the files between your own devices. QRead does not send them anywhere else.

In that folder, each device is named by a random ID that QRead makes up. It is not a hardware or advertising identifier.

Apple Watch

The QRead watch app gets books only from your paired iPhone. When you send a book to your watch, the book, your reading position and your bookmarks pass directly between your iPhone and your watch. They do not go to Accessible Apps.

If you activate a web or email link inside a book, it opens in your browser or mail app, which handles it from there.

Changes to this policy

If QRead changes how it handles your information, we will update this page and its effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about QRead and your privacy? Contact Accessible Apps