Privacy Policy

Files you open (PDF, EPUB, Word, text), text you paste, web articles you add, photos you scan and the text recognised from them are stored only in the app's private storage on your phone. So are your library, reading positions, folders, settings and listening counters (minutes listened today, documents finished, scans used).

Android cloud backup and device transfer are switched off for Voxlet, so this data is not copied to your Google account or another phone. Deleting a document removes it, and uninstalling the app or clearing its storage deletes everything for good.

Text extraction from PDF, EPUB and Word files, and the cleanup of web articles, run entirely on your phone.

Text recognition from camera or gallery photos uses Google ML Kit on your phone. Photos and recognised text are not sent anywhere. ML Kit may send anonymous usage and performance metrics to Google to improve the service.

Speech is produced by the text to speech engine installed on your phone (for example Speech Services by Google). Most voices work offline. Some engines offer voices marked "needs internet" in the voice picker; if you choose one, your phone's speech engine sends the text being read to its provider to generate audio, under that provider's privacy policy.

When you add a link, the app downloads that page directly from the website you chose, like a browser would. The website receives your IP address and a standard browser user agent. We do not see which pages you open.

The free plan shows ads from Google AdMob in three places only:

• a banner in a fixed space at the bottom of the library, never on the reading screen;
• an occasional full-screen ad when you leave a document you finished. Never in your first minutes with the app, and spaced minutes apart;
• an optional video you can choose to watch for 30 more listening minutes today. It never plays unless you tap it.

Voxlet Plus removes all ads.

To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google may collect your device's advertising ID, an approximate location derived from your IP address, which ads were shown or tapped, and diagnostic information about the ad software. Ads may be personalised where you allow it. Voxlet never passes your documents or your library to the ad software. Google handles this data under its privacy policy; see also how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

Your choices: in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent before any ads load, and you can change your choice at any time in Settings > Ad privacy choices. Everywhere, you can reset or delete your advertising ID or opt out of personalised ads in your phone's Android settings.

Voxlet Plus is a subscription sold through Google Play. Google processes the payment under its own privacy policy, and we never receive your card or billing details. The app only learns whether your subscription is active and remembers that on your phone. You can manage or cancel the subscription in the Google Play Store app.

Save as audio (Voxlet Plus) turns a document into a WAV file on your phone using your speech engine, then opens the Android share sheet. The file goes only where you choose to send it.

Share to Voxlet: when you share a link, text, file or image from another app to Voxlet, it is handled exactly like an import (sections 1 to 3).

Rating request: after you finish a couple of documents, the app may show Google Play's standard rating card, at most once. That card is run by Google Play; we only see a review if you choose to post one publicly.

• Internet and network state: to load web articles you add, show ads and check your subscription with Google Play.
• Camera and photos: Voxlet does not request the camera or storage permission. When you scan text, your camera app or the system photo picker hands only the chosen picture to Voxlet.
• Foreground service and wake lock: to keep reading aloud with the screen off and show playback controls on the lock screen and in the notification shade.
• Advertising ID: used by Google AdMob as described in section 4.

• No account, sign-up or login.
• No analytics, tracking or crash-reporting tools of our own.
• No location access, no contacts, no microphone.
• We do not sell personal data, and apart from the Google services above, nothing is shared.

Voxlet is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing for us to look up or delete on a server. To delete everything the app stores, delete documents in the app, uninstall it, or clear its storage in Android Settings > Apps > Voxlet > Storage. For data held by Google (ads, purchases), use your Google account settings. If you are in the EEA or UK you have rights of access, correction, deletion and objection, and you are welcome to contact us about them.

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Questions: [email protected].