This Privacy Notice for Xin Cheng ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@readibean.app.
This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by using the table of contents below.
What personal information do we process? We process information you provide to run a family reading journal: account details, child profiles you add, reading logs, and optional photos. Learn more in Section 1.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We process children’s personal information that a parent or caregiver enters (for example a child’s first name, age or birthday, and optional photo). Optional holiday or heritage preferences may also reveal cultural background. We do not use this information to advertise to children. Learn more in Sections 1 and 1A.
Do we collect any information from third parties? We do not buy personal information from data brokers. We may look up book details (title, author, cover) from public catalogs using an ISBN or title, not a child’s name.
How do we process your information? To provide, sync, and improve the journal; personalize book suggestions; run optional Pro librarian features; process App Store purchases; communicate with you; protect the Services; and comply with law.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? With service providers who help us operate ReadiBean (for example Apple, Google Sign-In, our database host, and, only if you use a Pro librarian feature, an AI provider). We do not sell personal information and we do not show advertising to children.
How do we keep your information safe? We use organizational and technical measures. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.
What are your rights? Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete personal information. Parents can review and delete a child’s profile and journal data in the app or by emailing us.
How do you exercise your rights? Use Settings → Privacy & Data in the app, or email support@readibean.app.
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you register on the Services, add family members, keep a reading journal, use optional features, or contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You. Depending on how you use ReadiBean, this may include:
Sensitive Information. When necessary, with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, we process:
We do not use sensitive information to advertise to children or to infer unrelated characteristics about a child.
Payment Data. If you subscribe or buy a pack, payment is handled and stored by Apple. We receive subscription and purchase status, not your full card number. See Apple’s privacy notice: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/.
Social Login Data. You may register with Apple or Google. We receive the profile information described in Section 7.
Application Data. If you grant permission, we may collect:
All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate. Please update it when it changes.
To fill in a book’s title, author, and cover, we may query public catalogs using an ISBN or title. Those lookups are not tied to a child’s name.
Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
In Short: ReadiBean is for parents and caregivers. We do not require a child to create an account.
The signed-in adult is the account holder. Child profiles exist so the journal can be age-right. We collect a child’s information only when a parent or caregiver enters it.
We do not sell children’s personal information. We do not show advertising to children. We do not use children’s reading data for targeted advertising.
A parent or caregiver can review, correct, or delete a child’s profile and journal in the app (including Settings → Privacy & Data) or by emailing support@readibean.app. Deleting the app from a device does not by itself delete a signed-in cloud account.
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes only with your prior explicit consent.
We process personal information:
In Short: We only process personal information when we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
We may rely on:
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information with your express or implied consent, or where Canadian law permits processing without consent (for example fraud prevention, legal process, or other exceptions similar to those listed in standard Canadian privacy notices).
In Short: We share information with service providers who operate ReadiBean for us, and in the limited situations below. We do not sell personal information.
Community book ratings, if you participate, are stored as an anonymous or account-linked vote on a book — not as a child’s profile.
In Short: We are not responsible for third-party sites or apps you open from ReadiBean (for example a bookstore or library listing).
ReadiBean may open a specific website to help you get a paper book. Those sites have their own policies. We do not operate an in-app web browser for general surfing. The inclusion of a link is not an endorsement.
In Short: Optional Pro features may use AI. They are not required to keep a journal.
When you use a Pro librarian feature, we send the minimum book and journal facts needed for that job to an AI provider (including OpenAI) through our backend. Do not include information in notes that you would not want processed for that feature.
How to opt out. Do not use Pro librarian features, or cancel your subscription in Apple subscriptions. You can also delete journal notes or your account in Settings → Privacy & Data.
In Short: If you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive the profile information those providers share with us (typically name and email).
We do not offer Facebook or X login. We do not control how Apple or Google use your information. Review their privacy notices and your account settings on those services.
In Short: We keep it while you have an account, unless a longer period is required by law.
When you delete your account, we delete or anonymize personal information from active systems. Backups may persist for a limited time until they rotate. We may retain limited records to prevent fraud, debug issues, or meet legal requirements.
In Short: We use reasonable technical and organizational measures. No system is 100% secure.
Transmission of personal information to and from the Services is at your own risk. Use the Services in a secure environment and keep your device and account sign-in protected.
In Short: Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, delete, or restrict processing of personal information, and to object or withdraw consent.
In the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada, these rights may include access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection to certain processing. If a solely automated decision produces legal or similarly significant effects, we will explain the main factors and offer a way to request human review.
EEA/UK complaints: your local data protection authority or the UK ICO. Switzerland: the FDPIC.
Account information. In ReadiBean, go to Settings → Privacy & Data to export your journal or delete everything we store for your account. You can also email support@readibean.app.
After a deletion request we remove information from active databases. We may keep limited records as described in Section 8.
There is no uniform standard for Do-Not-Track (DNT) browser signals. We do not currently respond to DNT signals. If a standard is adopted that we must follow, we will update this notice. California requires this disclosure: we do not respond to DNT signals at this time.
In Short: Residents of certain US states may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal information, and to opt out of sale, sharing for targeted ads, or certain profiling. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for targeted advertising.
The table covers the past twelve (12) months. Examples are illustrative. See Section 1 for what we actually collect in ReadiBean.
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers | Name, email, account identifier | YES |
| B. Customer Records information | Name, contact information | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics | Age or birth date, optional gender on a child profile | YES |
| D. Commercial information | Subscription or pack purchase status from Apple | YES |
| E. Biometric information | Fingerprints, voiceprints | NO |
| F. Internet or network activity | Basic diagnostics and in-app usage needed to operate the Services | YES |
| G. Geolocation data | Approximate location, only if you turn it on | YES |
| H. Audio, electronic, visual | Cover photos and optional child photos you add | YES |
| I. Professional or employment information | Job history | NO |
| J. Education information | Student records | NO |
| K. Inferences | Book suggestions from books you logged | YES |
| L. Sensitive personal information | Account login; children’s information; optional precise-enough location; optional photos | YES |
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about a child for advertising. We retain account-related categories for as long as you have an account, unless you delete them sooner.
Sale and sharing. We have not sold or shared personal information for targeted advertising in the preceding twelve months, and we will not sell personal information of families who use ReadiBean.
Your rights may include the right to know, access, correct, delete, obtain a copy, and non-discrimination. You may designate an authorized agent. We will verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
How to exercise / appeals. Email support@readibean.app. If we decline a request, you may appeal to the same address. If an appeal is denied, you may contact your state attorney general.
California Shine the Light. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing. California residents may write to us using Section 15 to request the annual disclosure described in Civil Code § 1798.83.
In Short: You may have additional rights based on the country you reside in.
We collect and process personal information under Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 and New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020. If you do not provide information needed for a feature, that feature may not work. You may request access or correction by emailing us. Complaints: OAIC (Australia) or the Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand).
You may request access or correction by emailing us. The Information Regulator: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za; complaints via PAIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za and POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za.
In Short: Yes, as needed to stay accurate and comply with law.
The updated version is marked by the date at the top. For material changes we may post a notice in the app or notify you directly.
Email support@readibean.app.
Use Settings → Privacy & Data in ReadiBean, or email support@readibean.app. We will handle requests in line with applicable law. Rights may be limited in some circumstances.
This Privacy Policy follows the same structure as our other product notices and was adapted from a Termly-generated template for ReadiBean’s actual practices.