iOS Privacy Policy

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to version 0.1.1 and later of the Libly audiobook application for iOS and iPadOS (the “App”) and the online services operated for the App by Oleksandr Boliachyi (“Libly,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). iOS 0.1.0 included optional Firebase Analytics, which could process usage events and approximate location derived from IP addresses. Updating to 0.1.1 or later stops that analytics collection. The Android policy covers Android separately. It does not replace the policies of a third-party service you independently connect to Libly, such as your own Audiobookshelf server.

Libly does not require a Libly account. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, precise location, or payment-card details to use the App.

2. Data we process

3. Feature-specific details

Transcription and language tools

Audio or text is transmitted after you authorize network processing and invoke the relevant feature. Transcription, translation, and recap processing use Libly-operated services; no external AI provider receives this content. We use it to return the requested transcript, translation, recap, language result, or contextual word result, maintain feature quotas, troubleshoot failures, and protect the service. We do not use the content to build advertising profiles or sell it.

Audiobookshelf

If you connect an Audiobookshelf server, Libly sends the server URL and the credentials you provide directly to that server to authenticate. Access and refresh tokens are stored in protected storage on your device. Library metadata, cover art, audio downloads, and listening progress pass between the App and your selected Audiobookshelf server. Libly’s own service does not receive your Audiobookshelf password or access token. Your Audiobookshelf administrator’s privacy and retention practices apply to that server.

LibriVox

When you browse or download a LibriVox audiobook, the App connects to LibriVox to retrieve catalog metadata and the audiobook files LibriVox makes available. LibriVox may receive ordinary network information such as your IP address and user-agent information under its own policy.

Premium subscriptions

Purchases and renewals are managed by the Apple App Store. Libly verifies purchase evidence with our server to unlock Premium and stores a short-lived access token and entitlement expiration on your device. Subscription management, cancellation, billing history, and refunds are handled by the applicable app store.

4. Service providers and sharing

We share data only as needed to provide the App, operate it securely, comply with law, or respond to a valid legal request. We do not sell or rent personal data. Our main service providers are:

We require providers acting on our behalf to protect information consistently with their agreements and applicable law. Services you independently select or administer are controlled by their respective operators.

5. How we use information

• Provide audiobook playback, downloads, transcription, translation, vocabulary, practice, and sync features.
• Verify Premium purchases, apply subscription benefits, and enforce feature quotas.
• Maintain reliability, diagnose crashes and failed requests, and improve App usability.
• Prevent fraud, duplicate processing, abuse, and attacks against the App or service.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our rights.

Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on performing the service you request, our legitimate interests in operating and securing Libly, compliance with legal obligations, and consent where applicable.

6. Retention and deletion

• On-device data remains until you delete the applicable audiobook, transcript, saved item, or server connection, clear the App’s storage, or uninstall the App. Some secrets stored by the operating system’s protected credential store may persist across reinstallation, depending on the platform.
• Uploaded audio is retained only for the time reasonably necessary to process the requested transcription and deliver or troubleshoot its result, then deleted from active processing storage. We do not keep it as a permanent personal media library.
• Translation, recap, and language content is retained only as needed to process the request, maintain security, and diagnose failures. Results you save in Libly remain on your device until you remove them.
• Installation, quota, subscription, and security records are kept while needed to provide the feature, prevent abuse, resolve disputes, meet legal obligations, and maintain service integrity. They are deleted or de-identified when no longer necessary for those purposes.
• Firebase data follows Google’s retention controls. Firebase states that Crashlytics crash traces and associated identifiers are retained for 90 days before removal begins. Data previously collected by Firebase Analytics on iOS 0.1.0 remains subject to the applicable retention controls; updating the app does not automatically delete historical data. Contact us to request deletion.

Because Libly has no user-account system, we may need your random installation identifier, purchase evidence, or other request details to locate server-side records. Email us to request deletion; we will explain any data we must retain for security, legal, or transaction-record obligations.

7. Your choices and rights

• Manage network processing and optional crash reporting separately in Settings > Privacy & Data. You can withdraw either choice there.
• Do not invoke transcription, translation, or Smart Recap if you do not want the selected content sent for processing.
• For a deletion request, use the support identifiers and deletion-request option in Settings > Privacy & Data. Do not send us passwords or payment-card information.
• Disconnect an Audiobookshelf server in Libly to remove its saved connection and tokens from the App.
• Delete downloaded books, transcripts, or vocabulary items from the App, or clear/uninstall the App.
• Manage or cancel Premium through your Apple App Store subscription settings.
• Use your device settings to limit permissions available to Libly.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection, and to withdraw consent or complain to a data-protection authority. Contact us to exercise a right. We may ask for limited information needed to verify and locate the relevant records.

8. Security and international processing

We use HTTPS for Libly-operated network services and platform-provided protected storage for sensitive tokens where available. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. Data may be processed in countries other than your own by us or our providers, subject to applicable contractual and legal safeguards.

9. Children

Libly is a general-audience app and is not directed to children under 13 or the minimum digital-consent age in their country. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child provided information to us, contact us so we can investigate and delete it where appropriate.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when Libly’s features, providers, or legal requirements change. We will post the revised version here and update the effective date. Material changes may also be highlighted in the App.

11. Contact

Questions, privacy requests, and deletion requests can be sent to the developer and data controller below.