Privacy Policy

The Short Version

We collect only the information we need to run Tropely, recommend books, keep your account in sync, understand what is working, and fix problems.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not ask for your precise location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos, payment card details, or government ID.

Information We Collect

Depending on how you use Tropely, we may collect:

• Account details, such as your email address. If you choose Google or Apple sign-in, we may also receive profile details they provide, such as your name or profile photo.
• Your book tastes, such as favorite genres, favorite tropes, disliked tropes, spice level, darkness preference, and pacing preference.
• Your book activity, such as books you save, skip, mark as read, or rate as liked or disliked.
• Basic app activity, such as when the feed is opened, a book is shown, a book page is opened, or a purchase link is tapped.
• Push notification information, if you turn reminders on, such as your Expo push token, device platform, device timezone, device locale, and whether reminder delivery succeeded or failed.
• Device and troubleshooting information, such as app version, device type, crash reports, error messages, and other information that helps us find and fix bugs.
• Feedback you choose to send us.
• Information stored on your device, such as your signed-in session, tutorial progress, and book actions waiting to sync.

Why We Use It

We use this information to:

• create your account and keep you signed in;
• save your preferences and book lists;
• recommend books that better match your tastes;
• keep your activity synced between app sessions;
• send feed reset and streak check-in notifications if you enable them;
• understand which parts of the app are useful;
• fix bugs, crashes, and performance problems;
• respond if you contact us;
• protect Tropely and prevent misuse;
• meet legal requirements.

Our Legal Reasons

Where privacy law requires a legal basis, we use your information because it is needed to provide Tropely to you, because we have a legitimate interest in improving and protecting the app, because you gave us permission, or because we need to comply with the law.

You can withdraw permission where processing is based on consent, but this will not affect anything we already did lawfully before you withdrew it.

Who We Share It With

We use trusted service providers to help run the app. They may process information for us, but they are not allowed to use it for their own unrelated purposes.

• Supabase helps us provide sign-in, account storage, book preferences, saved books, and account deletion.
• Apple and Google help provide optional Apple or Google sign-in.
• PostHog helps us understand app usage if analytics is enabled.
• Sentry helps us receive crash reports, error reports, and feedback if diagnostics or feedback are enabled.
• Expo, Apple, and Google help deliver push notifications if you enable them.
• Book retailers or other websites receive information directly from you only when you choose to open an external purchase link.

Push Notifications

If you enable daily feed reminders, we store an Expo push token for your device, along with your device platform, timezone, locale, and app variant. We use this information to decide when to send feed reset and streak check-in notifications.

We also keep reminder delivery metadata, such as notification type, quota date, send attempt time, Expo ticket or receipt status, and delivery error details. This helps us avoid duplicate reminders, stop sending to devices that can no longer receive notifications, and troubleshoot delivery problems.

The notification message content is limited to feed reset and streak check-in copy. You can turn daily feed reminders off in the Account screen or in your device settings.

Analytics and Crash Reports

Analytics helps us understand general app usage, such as which book cards are shown, saved, skipped, or opened. We try not to send your email address in analytics events.

Crash reports help us understand what went wrong when the app fails. They may include technical details such as device type, app version, error messages, and the part of the app where the issue happened.

Your Choices

You can update your reading preferences in the app. You can sign out at any time. You can also delete your account from the Account screen.

If you do not want to use Apple or Google sign-in, you can use email sign-in instead.

You can turn daily feed reminders on or off in the Account screen. Your device may also let you block or adjust notification settings at the operating system level.

Account Deletion

You can delete your account in the app from the Account screen. Press the Delete account button, follow the confirmation step, and confirm the deletion. This helps prevent accidental account deletion.

If your account is linked with Apple sign-in, we may ask you to complete a fresh Apple authorization step during deletion so we can revoke the Apple token connected to Tropely.

If you delete your account, we delete your Tropely account, profile, reading preferences, and book activity from our main systems. The app also tries to clear your local session and any unsynced book actions from your device.

Some information may remain for a limited time in backups, logs, analytics, crash reports, or records we must keep for legal, security, or operational reasons.

How Long We Keep Information

We keep account information, preferences, and book activity while your account is active. We delete or de-identify it when it is no longer needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless we need to keep it longer for legal, security, backup, or legitimate business reasons.

Push tokens are disabled or removed when you turn reminders off, sign out, delete your account, or when delivery systems report that the device can no longer receive notifications. Delivery metadata may be retained for a limited time for security, debugging, duplicate prevention, and operational reasons.

If you delete your account, your main account data is removed as described above.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, export, or object to certain uses of your personal information. You may also have the right to appeal a decision we make about a privacy request.

To make a privacy request, contact us at admin@tropely.io. We may need to confirm your identity before responding. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Children

Tropely is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us at admin@tropely.io and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

International Users

Your information may be processed in countries other than where you live. Privacy laws may differ in those places, but we use safeguards where required by law.

Security

We use reasonable safeguards to protect your information, including secure connections, access controls, and protected local storage for sign-in information. No app or online service can be completely secure, but we work to limit access to people and providers who need it to run Tropely.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If the changes are important, we will take reasonable steps to let you know, such as updating this page or notifying you in the app.

Contact Us

If you have questions or want to make a privacy request, contact: