Privacy Policy

Ottoman Script Reader · Last updated 20 September 2026

Ottoman Script Reader has no account, no server of its own and no analytics. Your progress stays on your device. The only thing that leaves it is the receipt that proves a purchase.

1. Who is responsible

Safiye Meram, Esenler/Istanbul, Türkiye, gelistirbizi@gmail.com, is the controller for the little data described here.

2. What we collect

Nothing. There is no sign-up, no profile, no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no crash reporter. We do not know who you are, how often you open the app or which lesson you are on.

3. What stays on your device

  • Which lessons you have finished and how well.
  • The spaced-repetition schedule for each word: interval, ease factor, lapses, next review date.
  • Your daily streak and the study counters behind the progress screen.
  • Words you have saved.
  • Your settings: interface language, daily goal, typeface, text size, sound, haptics and the reminder time.

All of it lives in a database file inside the app's own container, which no other app can read. None of it is sent anywhere. We have no copy and no way to obtain one.

4. What leaves the device

One thing, and only when you buy or restore a purchase. Purchases are verified through RevenueCat, Inc. (United States), which receives:

  • a random anonymous installation identifier it generates itself,
  • the store receipt issued by Apple or Google,
  • the country of your store account and the app version.

That identifier is not linked to your name, your email or any account, because there is no account. We use it for one purpose: to know whether Premium is active on this installation. RevenueCat's privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.

Apple and Google separately process the payment itself under their own privacy policies. We never see your payment details.

5. Notifications

The app can show one reminder a day, at a time you choose. Permission is requested at the moment you switch the reminder on and never at launch. The reminder is scheduled locally on the device; no notification is ever sent from a server, because there is no server. Turning the reminder off cancels it.

6. Permissions

On iOS the app declares no permission at all beyond the notification prompt described above. On Android the shipped app declares network access and the Play billing permission, both required by the purchase library, the vibration permission used for answer feedback, and the notification permission. There is no camera, microphone, location, contacts or photo access, and no background mode.

7. Tracking and advertising

None. No advertising identifier is read, no tracking domain is contacted, no profile is built and nothing is shared with data brokers. The app's iOS privacy manifest declares no tracking and no tracking domains.

8. Children

This app is not directed to children. It is written for adults and older students reading historical documents, and it is rated for a general audience of 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect anything from anyone, of any age, because we collect nothing.

9. Legal basis and your rights

Under the GDPR the purchase verification described in section 4 rests on the performance of our contract with you, namely giving you what you paid for. Under Turkish KVKK the same processing rests on the equivalent ground.

You have the right to ask what we hold, to have it corrected or erased, and to complain to your data protection authority. In practice we hold nothing about you except the anonymous purchase record described above. Write to us and we will act within 30 days. How to have that record erased is on the data deletion page.

10. Retention

Data on your device stays until you delete it or delete the app. The anonymous purchase record at RevenueCat is kept while the entitlement is live and is erased on request as described on the data deletion page.

11. Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes. Material changes are announced in the app.

12. Contact

Safiye Meram, Esenler/Istanbul, Türkiye. gelistirbizi@gmail.com.