Privacy Policy

This policy is the standing policy until a newer version is published in the app.

1. Information we collect

Account details you give us (name, username, email, phone number), sign-in data from Azure AD B2C or our password fallback, profile details you choose to add (bio, location, social links), content you post (comments, reviews, ratings, and — for authors — titles, chapters and cover images), and basic usage data such as which titles you've unlocked. If certain features require identity verification, we record a verification status flag rather than raw ID documents beyond what's needed to set it.

2. Payments

Website payments are processed by Flutterwave; app purchases are processed by Apple, Google or Microsoft's in-app billing. We receive confirmation that a payment succeeded and the amount — we never see or store your card, bank or wallet details.

3. Device and integrity signals

To detect accounts evading a ban, we may compute a one-way hashed identifier of the device you sign in from. This hash can't be reversed back into a device identifier and is used purely for fraud/ban-evasion detection, not advertising or tracking.

4. How we use your information

To operate your account and the reading/purchase/publishing features you use, to process payments, to screen uploaded content (including automated text and image scanning before or after publishing), to enforce our Terms of Service, and to email you service messages like password resets or account-deletion confirmation codes. We don't sell your personal data.

5. Who we share it with

Our identity provider (Microsoft Azure AD B2C), our payment processor (Flutterwave) or the relevant app store for in-app purchases, and an automated content-moderation vendor used to screen uploaded text and images. These providers process data on our behalf under their own security commitments.

6. Your choices

You can review and update your profile at your account page, and delete your account at /deleteAccount. If your account is in good standing when deleted, we scrub your personal details from our records. If your account was flagged for a platform-integrity violation at the time of deletion, we retain a one-way hash of your email (not the email itself) so a returning account can be recognised — that hash cannot be reversed to recover your address.

7. Children

Ains Reads isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal data from them.

8. International transfers

Some of the providers above may process data outside Nigeria as part of delivering their service to us.

9. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in a newer published version, shown here with its effective date.

Questions about this policy can be sent to support@ainsreads.com.