Privacy Policy

Storied is a personal reading tracker. This policy explains what data we collect when you use the Storied app or website, why we collect it, and what your rights are. We don't sell your data, we don't run ads, and we don't track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Who runs Storied

Storied is operated by StephMyLife L.L.C-FZ. You can reach us about anything in this policy at help@storied-app.com.

What we collect

When you create an account and use Storied, we store:

• Account info — your email address (used for sign-in, password reset and the emails described below) and an internal user ID.
• Profile — display name, theme preference, and optional avatar image you upload.
• Reading goals — any annual books, annual pages, daily reading minutes, or daily listening minutes targets you set.
• Books on your shelves — the titles you add, your shelf assignments, your current page or audiobook position, and any custom shelves you create.
• Reading sessions — when each session started and ended, how long it ran, how many pages or minutes you covered, and any paused time.
• Notes and quotes — anything you write down while reading.
• Reviews and ratings— your rating, optional review text, and a flag for whether you've marked the review public.
• Discussion comments— comments and replies you post in a discussion (for example, under a book recap), the comments you like, and any reports you file about other readers' comments.
• Photo uploads — any photos you choose to use as backdrops on share cards. These are stored alongside your account.
• Subscription state — if you subscribe to Storied Premium, we receive your subscription status (free trial, active, expired or cancelled) through RevenueCat, whether you subscribed through the App Store, Google Play or our website. Website payments are taken by Stripe. We never receive your payment card details.
• How you use the app— which screens you open and the main things you do in Storied: how you signed up (email, Google or Apple), adding or finishing a book, starting and ending a reading session, writing a review, opening a recap, sharing a card, searching, tapping something on Explore, and seeing or closing the Premium offer. These are linked to your internal user ID. They never include what you write or type: not your reviews, notes, quotes, shelf names or the words you search for. We don't record your screen or your taps.
• Diagnostic data — technical information that helps us find and fix problems. When something goes wrong, the app sends an error report to Sentry with your internal user ID and, on the mobile app, your email address, so a report can be matched to your account. We also see anonymous page-load timings on the website, and the app version and device model when your phone checks for updates. None of this is used to personalize what you see.

What we do with it

• Run the app — your data is what powers your shelves, stats, history, share cards, and account screens.
• Show your reviews to other Storied readers — but only if you explicitly mark a review public. Reviews stay private by default.
• Show the comments you post in a discussion to other Storied readers, with your display name and profile picture. Comments are public within Storied by nature; delete one at any time.
• Sync across your devices — sign in on a phone, see the same shelves on web.
• Honour your Storied Premium entitlement — confirm via RevenueCat whether your subscription is active, and unlock the corresponding features in the app.
• Make Storied better — see which features readers use, where people get stuck, and whether a change helped. We use this to improve the app, never to advertise to you or to change what you see.

We may email you about your own reading — a nudge if you've been away for a while, or a note when something of yours is ready to read. You can turn these off in Settings or with the link in any email. We send news and offers about Storied only if you ask for them (a tick at sign-up, in the welcome steps, or in Settings), and you can stop them the same way. Our email is sent by Resend. So that the right note reaches the right reader, they hold your address, the display name you use in Storied, your email choices, and a few facts about your account: which app you use, whether you have Premium, when you joined, whether you have added a book, and a rough measure of how recently you have been reading. When we send a note about a particular book, they also receive that book's title, author, cover and release date, and, for a nudge about a book you paused, how far through it you had got. Nothing you write in Storied is shared with them.

We don't sell your data, we don't share it with advertisers, and we don't use it to track you across other apps or websites.

Diagnostic data (described above) is used only to keep the app running and to measure aggregate performance. It is not used to personalize anything you see — book recommendations, themes, and stats are all driven by your own choices and reading history, not by diagnostics.

Where it's stored

Storied's backend runs on Supabase. Your data sits in a Supabase database and Supabase Storage, scoped to your authenticated account. Database access is gated by row-level security so other Storied users only see your data when you've explicitly made something public (like a review).

Subscriptions are handled by RevenueCat, which receives subscription updates from Apple, Google and our website checkout and passes them to Storied so your Premium access is always right. RevenueCat receives your internal user ID and your account email address, so your subscription and receipts are tied to your account.

How you use the app (see above) is recorded by PostHog, a product analytics service, and stored in the EU. PostHog receives your internal user ID, whether you're a Premium member, and the activity listed above — never your email address or anything you've written.

Error reports go to Sentry, an error-monitoring service, and are stored in the EU.

The website (this page included) is hosted on Vercel. Vercel collects anonymous, aggregated analytics about the website — visitor counts and page load speed — to help us tell whether the site is fast and being used. These analytics don't identify you and aren't connected to your Storied account.

When you search for a book, we query OpenLibrary for the title and metadata. Those queries are book searches only — we don't send your account info, email, or reading history to OpenLibrary.

Sharing to social media

When you tap Share inside the app, Storied generates a PNG image of your card and hands it to your device's share sheet. From there it's your choice which app to send it to. We don't see anything that happens after the system share sheet — we don't know which apps you posted to or whether you posted at all. We do note that you opened a share card or sent it to your share sheet.

Your rights

• See your data — everything Storied knows about you is visible inside the app, on your profile, history, and stats screens.
• Edit or delete it — display name, goals, theme, books, sessions, notes, quotes, reviews, discussion comments, and shelves are all editable or deletable from inside the app.
• Delete your account — tap Delete account on your profile screen. Your account is scheduled for permanent deletion 30 days later, giving you time to change your mind: sign in inside that window and tap Restore to bring everything back. After 30 days the account and every row of data linked to it — books, sessions, notes, quotes, reviews, discussion comments, likes, shelves, avatars — are permanently removed and cannot be recovered. Where other readers replied to one of your comments, their replies stay under an empty placeholder.
• Immediate deletion — if you want your account removed straight away rather than waiting out the 30-day window, email help@storied-app.com from the address tied to your account and we'll process the deletion within a reasonable time.

Children

Storied isn't designed for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, email help@storied-app.com and we'll remove it.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. For material changes (adding a new third-party service, expanding what counts as public data, etc.) we'll also notify you in the app.