Readify AI Privacy Policy

Publication Date of This Version: September 20, 2026
Effective Date: September 20, 2026

DeepReads LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) understands the importance of your personal information and is committed to protecting its security.

We are committed to maintaining your trust, following the principles of consistency between rights and responsibilities, clear purposes, informed choice and consent, necessity, security assurance, openness, and transparency, and taking appropriate security measures in accordance with the law to protect your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Readify AI iOS application, Android application, web application, browser extension, official website, and other products or services provided by us under the Readify AI name.

Before registering for or using Readify AI, please carefully read and confirm this Privacy Policy.

For specific products or services, the purposes, methods, and scope of our collection and use of your information may also be disclosed to you through applicable product or service agreements, authorization forms, pop-up notices, or other means, and we will obtain your authorization or consent where required by law.

The foregoing documents, together with this Privacy Policy, constitute the complete agreement between you and us regarding the processing of personal information.

This Privacy Policy will help you understand the following:

1. We will collect and use your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will not collect personal information on a bundled basis merely because you have agreed to this Privacy Policy.

In particular, when you first open the application, we will not collect your personal information before obtaining your authorization and consent.

2. When you use or enable certain functions or services, we will collect and use information necessary to provide those functions or services.

Except for information necessary to provide basic business functions or information that must be collected pursuant to applicable laws and regulations, you may refuse to provide such information without affecting other functions or services.

We will identify in this Privacy Policy which information is necessary.

3. When you use or enable relevant functions or services, we may collect personal information necessary to provide such functions and may request corresponding device system permissions.

You may refer to the Readify AI App Personal Information and System Permissions List for details regarding the personal information collected and used in different business scenarios, as well as the types, purposes, and use scenarios of the system permissions we request and use.

Relevant system permissions will not be enabled by default merely because you agree to this Privacy Policy. We will use such permissions only after you actively use the applicable function and authorize the permission through the device system prompt.

You may manage or withdraw the relevant permissions through your device’s system settings.

4. You may refer to the Readify AI App Personal Information and System Permissions List, Readify AI Personal Information Sharing List, and Readify AI Third-Party SDK Directory for further information regarding our collection, use, and sharing of personal information and our use of device system permissions.

You may use the following index to navigate this Privacy Policy:

  1. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information — Following the Principle of Data Minimization
  2. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies
  3. Storage and External Provision of Your Personal Information
  4. How We Protect Your Personal Information
  5. Your Rights to Control Your Personal Information
  6. How This Policy Is Updated
  7. How to Contact Us

I. How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information — Following the Principle of Data Minimization

Personal information refers to various types of information recorded electronically or otherwise that relate to an identified or identifiable natural person, excluding anonymized information.

Sensitive personal information refers to personal information that, if leaked or unlawfully used, may easily result in harm to a natural person’s dignity or endanger personal or property safety, including biometric information, specific identity information, financial account information, location tracking information, and personal information of minors under the age of 14.

(I) Principles Governing Our Collection and Use of Personal Information

We collect and use your personal information in accordance with the principles of lawfulness, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith.

We process personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and business needs, do not collect information unrelated to the processing purposes, and do not process personal information through misleading, fraudulent, or coercive means.

(II) Purposes for Which We Collect and Use Personal Information

To comply with applicable laws and regulations, provide Readify AI services to you, protect account and system security, and improve the product experience, we may process relevant personal information in the following scenarios.

1. Registration, Login, and Authentication

1.1 Account Registration and Login

Certain basic Readify AI features may be used without logging in.

When you choose to register for or log in to a Readify AI account, depending on the login method you use, we will process your email address, verification code, user ID, password, or information necessary to log in through a third-party account.

You may also voluntarily provide an avatar, nickname, or other information to complete your account profile.

If you log in using a third-party account, after obtaining your authorization, we will receive the account identifier, avatar, nickname, and other information necessary to complete the login process from the third-party platform.

1.2 Account Security Services

When you use password recovery or modification, account unbinding, account deletion, or other account security services, we may need to verify your account information, contact information, device information, security status, and third-party account binding status in order to protect account security.

2. Display, Playback, and Browsing

When you use Readify AI for e-book reading, audio playback, or other basic services, we will process device and network information necessary to support network communications, content display, and device compatibility, including:

To save relevant content, reading status, or cached data, we use local storage capabilities provided by your device.

3. Importing and Uploading E-books and Documents

You may actively import e-books, documents, images, or other content supported by Readify AI.

Based on current product functionality, supported file formats include TXT, EPUB, PDF, AZW, MOBI, DOCX, and MD. Actual supported formats are subject to the functionality available in the applicable product version.

To provide file parsing, reading, typesetting, format conversion, content display, text-to-speech, translation, or other services that you actively choose to use, we will process:

File parsing, reading, typesetting, and content display may be performed locally on your device.

For format conversion, text-to-speech, and translation functions, your files or portions of their content will be uploaded to servers for processing.

We do not use e-books, documents, or images that you upload to train general-purpose artificial intelligence models intended for an unspecified group of users.

When you actively use AI Q&A, summarization, or translation features, we will send the text or images necessary to complete the relevant task to the artificial intelligence service providers listed in the Readify AI Personal Information Sharing List. Such recipients may process the data only to complete the relevant task.

4. Bookshelf, Reading History, and Reading Settings

When you use bookshelf, reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, notes, favorites, or reading settings features, we will process:

When you are not logged in, the above information may be stored only on your device.

When you log in and enable cloud synchronization or cross-device synchronization, we will associate the relevant data with your account so that it can be synchronized or restored across different devices.

5. Text-to-Speech Services

When you use text-to-speech services, we will process:

Text-to-speech using offline voices will operate locally on your device.

Text-to-speech using online voices will be provided through our servers or third-party technical service providers lawfully integrated into the service.

6. Voice Cloning

When you actively use the voice cloning feature, you may record, select, or import voice samples.

To provide voice cloning services, we will process:

Voice recordings and voice characteristics may constitute sensitive personal information under certain circumstances.

We will process such information only where there is a specific purpose and sufficient necessity, in accordance with the law, and will implement protective measures appropriate to the relevant risks.

When you use voice cloning functions, we need to upload the voice samples you provide to our servers in order to generate and provide the relevant voice cloning service.

If you use another person’s voice for voice cloning, please ensure that you have obtained lawful and sufficient authorization from the relevant rights holder.

Unless we separately obtain your express authorization, we will not use your voice samples, voice characteristics, or cloned voices for purposes unrelated to providing Readify AI services to you, nor will we use them to train general-purpose voice models intended for an unspecified group of users.

7. AI and Intelligent Services

Readify AI uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and related technologies to provide AI Q&A, content analysis, intelligent typesetting, full-text translation, selected-text translation, content summarization, and other intelligent features.

When you actively use such features, we will process:

For AI Q&A, content analysis, intelligent typesetting, full-text translation, selected-text translation, and content summarization, information necessary to provide the relevant functions will be uploaded to our servers or provided to service providers that lawfully provide the relevant technical services.

Unless we separately obtain your express authorization, we will not use the content of e-books or documents you upload to train general-purpose artificial intelligence models intended for an unspecified group of users.

To provide AI Q&A, summarization, and translation functions, we will provide the content necessary to implement the relevant features to third-party artificial intelligence service providers for processing.

We will provide such data in accordance with the principle of data minimization and require third-party service providers to process such data only to the extent necessary to provide the relevant services.

8. Uploading Images and Saving Content

When you actively use features such as uploading an avatar, uploading feedback screenshots, saving images from e-books, or other functions that require access to albums, photos, or files, we will request relevant system permissions according to the actual function being used.

If you refuse authorization, you will not be able to use the corresponding feature, but other unrelated features will not be affected.

9. Microphone

When you use voice cloning, voice input, or other features that require audio recording, we will request microphone permission.

The microphone is a sensitive system permission.

If you refuse authorization, you will not be able to use the relevant recording function, but other unrelated functions will not be affected.

Except when you actively use relevant functions, we will not actively collect audio through your microphone.

10. Notification Functions

When you use notification services, we will request system permissions necessary for push notifications.

To support different terminal devices, we may integrate push notification services provided by Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Meizu, or other system or device manufacturers, as applicable.

For details regarding third-party services and their processing of personal information, please refer to the Readify AI Third-Party SDK Directory and the third-party services actually integrated into Readify AI.

Refusing notification permission will not affect other major Readify AI functions.

11. Feedback and Customer Service

You may use the “Feedback” entry in the Readify AI application to submit issues, comments, suggestions, or complaints encountered while using the product, and you may view historical feedback and customer service responses through the relevant pages.

When you use feedback, customer service, or troubleshooting functions, we will process:

This information will be used to process your request, provide feedback on the handling of the matter, diagnose product issues, and improve our products and services.

If you voluntarily provide contact information while submitting feedback, we may contact you through the information you provide to further communicate regarding the relevant matter.

Except for information genuinely necessary to address the relevant issue, you may choose whether to provide other information.

Refusing to provide non-essential information will not affect your normal use of other Readify AI features and services.

12. Application Updates

When you use application update services, depending on the operating system and installation method, the system may use capabilities relating to application installation, file storage, or application stores.

Where installation of an application requires separate authorization from you, we will request such authorization through the operating system’s permission mechanism.

13. Other Auxiliary Functions

To support portrait and landscape display, cache clearing, battery and performance management, and navigation to system settings, Readify AI will use corresponding capabilities provided by the operating system.

Where battery or performance management requires separate system permissions, we will request them based on the actual usage scenario.

Such permissions will not be obtained by default merely because you agree to this Privacy Policy.

14. Auto-Start and Associated Start-Up

To ensure that you can normally receive notifications you have chosen to receive when Readify AI is closed or running in the background, push notification services may use auto-start or associated start-up capabilities on Android or certain terminal devices.

The specific implementation will depend on the actual Readify AI version and the applicable third-party push notification service.

15. Third-Party Services

Our services may include or link to information, technologies, or other services provided by third parties.

Third-party services may access device permissions or process relevant information depending on the specific functionality.

Different third-party services process different types of information and request different permissions. We recommend that you read the applicable terms of service and privacy policies before using third-party services.

Where third parties provide services as independent personal information processors, their personal information processing activities are governed by their own personal information processing rules.

For details regarding third-party SDKs, please refer to the Readify AI Third-Party SDK Directory.

16. Secure Operation

To prevent malicious programs, ensure stable service operation, and maintain network and account security, we may process the following information to the minimum extent necessary:

Such information is used to identify abnormal behavior, evaluate account security, perform identity verification, diagnose faults, and detect and prevent security incidents.

17. Clipboard

If you actively use functions such as importing text through paste, opening a specific link, identifying shared content, or other functions that rely on the clipboard, Readify AI will read specific content from the clipboard when you trigger the relevant function.

We will not access the clipboard for the purpose of collecting unrelated personal or private information.

18. Content Security and Compliance

As a general principle, we will not actively review e-books or documents you import for purposes unrelated to providing the services.

We may perform necessary automated or manual processing of relevant content in accordance with the law under the following circumstances:

All such processing will comply with the principles of lawfulness, legitimacy, and data minimization.

19. Marketing and Promotional Services

When you actively participate in a marketing campaign organized by us or a partner, we may require you to provide your name, contact information, or shipping address in accordance with the applicable campaign rules in order to fulfill campaign benefits.

If the relevant campaign requires us to provide your personal information to a partner, we will inform you in accordance with applicable law and obtain your authorization where required.

If Readify AI sends commercial marketing communications to you, we will inform you and obtain your authorization where required by law, and you may unsubscribe through the applicable settings at any time.

20. Purchasing Products or Services

If Readify AI provides memberships, subscriptions, or other paid services, we will process your account identifier, order information, product information, and payment status information in order to associate the purchased service with your account.

If you complete payment through the Apple App Store or another third-party channel, the relevant payment activity will also be subject to the rules and privacy policy of the applicable third-party service.

We do not directly obtain your complete bank card details, payment password, or payment credentials held by third-party payment providers.

(III) Processing Personal Information of Minors

1. Readify AI is not a product specifically intended for minors. We regard users under the age of 18 as minors.

2. If you are at least 14 but under 18 years of age, please read this Policy under the guidance of your parent or guardian and use our products or services only after obtaining your own consent or the consent of your guardian as applicable.

3. If you are a child under the age of 14, please read this Policy together with your parent or guardian and use Readify AI or provide personal information to us only after obtaining your guardian’s consent.

4. Minors should obtain the prior consent of their guardian before using voice recording, voice cloning, image uploading, or paid services.

Please do not upload another person’s voice, voiceprint, photograph, or other personal information without lawful authorization.

5. If we discover that we may have collected a child’s personal information without obtaining the guardian’s consent, we will take measures such as deletion, anonymization, or other necessary actions in accordance with the law.

6. A minor’s parent or guardian may contact us using the contact details provided in this Policy to request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information of the minor under their guardianship, withdraw authorization or consent, or delete the corresponding account.

(IV) How We Collect Personal Information

We collect personal information through the following methods:

  1. personal information you actively provide while using the services;
  2. service-related information generated while we provide services to you;
  3. information obtained from third parties after obtaining your authorization; and
  4. other methods permitted by applicable laws and regulations.

(V) How We Use Personal Information

1. We use personal information to provide products or services to you and to continuously improve such products and services.

2. While you use the relevant services, we will continue to process the applicable information based on actual service needs.

After you delete your account or terminate the relevant service, we will stop collecting personal information based on the original service purpose and will delete or anonymize the relevant personal information in accordance with the retention provisions of this Policy, except where applicable laws and regulations require retention or another lawful basis for processing exists.

3. To improve product experience, analyze service operation, or prevent security risks, we may perform aggregated statistical analysis or de-identification of service usage information.

4. To keep you informed about the status of products or services, we may send you necessary service notifications.

If we send commercial information to you, we will provide an opt-out method as required by law.

5. We may process personal information to fulfill obligations imposed by applicable laws and regulations or lawful requests made by competent authorities.

6. We may use personal information for other purposes permitted by applicable laws and regulations.

II. How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

To ensure the normal operation of the Readify AI official website, web application, and related online services, we may use Cookies, LocalStorage, SessionStorage, and other similar technologies to store necessary information.

These technologies may be used to:

You may manage or clear Cookies and website local data through your browser settings.

If you disable certain necessary Cookies or local storage functions, login, preference saving, or certain online functions may no longer operate normally.

If, in the future, we use such technologies for personalized recommendations, advertising, cross-site tracking, or other activities that require separate authorization under applicable law, we will separately inform you and obtain the relevant authorization in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

III. Storage and External Provision of Your Personal Information

(I) Storage

1. In principle, personal information collected and generated by us within the People’s Republic of China will be stored in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

2. We retain your personal information only for the period required by applicable laws and regulations and for the period necessary to achieve the processing purposes described in this Policy.

Unless otherwise provided by applicable laws or regulations, you actively delete the relevant information, or a relevant function provides otherwise, user data associated with your Readify AI account will generally be retained from the date you register the account or begin using the relevant service until the date you actively delete your Readify AI account.

Such account-related user data includes but is not limited to:

Where Readify AI provides a corresponding deletion function, you may also delete information that you no longer need us to retain before deleting your account.

3. After you actively delete your Readify AI account, we will stop collecting and using personal information associated with that account based on the original service purpose and will delete or anonymize such information in accordance with the law, except where applicable laws and regulations provide otherwise or another lawful basis for processing exists.

Where applicable laws and regulations require us to continue retaining relevant information, or where retention is necessary on a lawful basis for regulatory compliance, auditing, security protection, dispute resolution, or lawful requests from judicial or administrative authorities, we will continue to retain such information for the period prescribed by law or necessary to achieve the foregoing purposes.

During such period, in principle, we will only store the information and implement necessary security measures, unless otherwise provided by applicable laws and regulations.

4. Security logs, operation logs, and other information required by law to be retained for a certain period will be retained for the period required by applicable laws and regulations and necessary for network and information security management.

Upon expiration of the retention period, we will delete or anonymize the relevant information in accordance with the law.

5. When the purpose of processing personal information has been achieved, can no longer be achieved, or the information is no longer necessary to achieve the processing purpose, or when the retention period expires, we will delete or anonymize the relevant personal information in accordance with the law, except where otherwise provided by applicable laws and regulations.

6. If personal information needs to be provided outside the People’s Republic of China due to actual business needs, we will fulfill the applicable compliance obligations relating to cross-border transfers of personal information in accordance with the law.

(II) Sharing

As a general principle, we will not share your personal information with any other company, organization, or individual, except in the following circumstances:

  1. where we have obtained your express consent or separate consent as required by law;
  2. where disclosure is required by applicable laws or regulations or lawfully requested by an administrative or judicial authority;
  3. where sharing is necessary to perform a contract to which you are a party;
  4. where sharing necessary information with an entrusted service provider within the minimum necessary scope is required to provide a service that you actively use; or
  5. in other circumstances permitted by applicable laws and regulations.

For the primary third parties with whom personal information is shared and the types of personal information involved, please refer to the Readify AI Personal Information Sharing List.

(III) Entrusted Processing

To provide cloud services, speech synthesis, format conversion, AI processing, message push services, data analytics, crash analysis, and customer service, we may entrust partners to process necessary personal information.

We will enter into legally compliant arrangements with such entrusted parties specifying the purpose, duration, and method of personal information processing, the types of personal information involved, protective measures, and the rights and obligations of both parties, and we will supervise their personal information processing activities.

(IV) Transfer

If personal information needs to be transferred due to a merger, division, acquisition, asset transfer, restructuring, or other transaction, we will inform you of the name and contact information of the recipient in accordance with the law and require the recipient to continue fulfilling the obligations of a personal information processor.

If the recipient changes the original processing purpose or method, it shall obtain your consent again as required by law.

(V) Public Disclosure

We will publicly disclose your personal information only under the following circumstances:

  1. after obtaining your separate consent in advance;
  2. where required by applicable laws and regulations or lawfully requested by a competent authority; or
  3. in other circumstances permitted by applicable laws and regulations.

IV. How We Protect Your Personal Information

1. We will implement technical and organizational measures consistent with industry practices and appropriate to our business risks to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, public disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss.

2. Depending on the circumstances, we will implement data transmission protection, access controls, permission management, security audits, identity authentication, secure development practices, and other reasonable protective measures.

3. We will strengthen employee training regarding information security and privacy protection and will control and manage access by personnel who handle personal information in accordance with the law.

4. The Internet environment is not absolutely secure.

Please properly protect your account, password, verification codes, and other identity credentials and do not disclose them to others.

5. If a personal information leakage, tampering, or loss incident occurs or may occur, we will immediately take remedial measures in accordance with the law.

Where we are legally required to notify you, we will inform you through push notifications, in-app messages, email, telephone, public announcements, or other appropriate means of the basic circumstances of the security incident, its potential impact, measures already taken or planned, risk mitigation measures you may take, and relevant contact information.

Where applicable law requires us to report the incident to competent authorities, we will do so in accordance with applicable requirements.

V. Your Rights to Control Your Personal Information

(I) Access, Correction, and Supplementation

You have the right to access, correct, or supplement your personal information in accordance with the law.

For information that can be directly viewed and modified through the Readify AI application or web application, you may do so through the relevant page.

For information that cannot be directly managed through the product, you may contact us using the contact information provided in this Policy.

(II) Deletion

Under circumstances prescribed by applicable laws and regulations, you have the right to request deletion of your personal information, including where:

  1. the processing purpose has been achieved, cannot be achieved, or processing is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose;
  2. we stop providing the relevant product or service, or the retention period has expired;
  3. you lawfully withdraw your consent;
  4. we process personal information in violation of applicable laws, regulations, or our agreement with you; or
  5. other circumstances prescribed by applicable laws and regulations apply.

(III) Withdrawal of Authorization

You may manage and withdraw permissions previously granted for the camera, microphone, photos, files, and notifications through your operating system or the applicable Readify AI settings.

After you withdraw authorization, we will stop collecting the relevant personal information based on that authorization.

For personal information previously collected based on such authorization and your consent, where there is no longer a necessity to continue processing it, we will delete the information in accordance with the law.

However, content that you actively uploaded, imported, or instructed us to continue retaining, as well as information required by applicable laws and regulations to be retained, will not automatically be deleted merely because you withdraw a device permission.

You may delete such information using the applicable function or contact us to request deletion.

If you withdraw an authorization necessary to provide a particular function, you will no longer be able to use that function, but other functions described in this Policy will not be affected.

(IV) Account Deletion

You may submit a request to delete your account through the account deletion feature provided by Readify AI.

Readify AI currently supports online account deletion requests through:

Me → Account → Delete Account

After your account is deleted, we will stop providing services associated with that account in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and will delete or anonymize personal information associated with the account in accordance with the personal information retention provisions under Section III, “Storage and External Provision of Your Personal Information,” except where applicable laws and regulations provide otherwise or another lawful basis for processing exists.

Account deletion generally cannot be reversed. Please back up any information you wish to retain before deleting your account.

(V) Copying and Transferring Personal Information

You have the right to request a copy of your personal information in accordance with the law.

Where the conditions prescribed by applicable laws and regulations are met and it is technically feasible, you may request that your personal information be transferred to a personal information processor designated by you.

(VI) Restrictions on Automated Decision-Making by Information Systems

If we use personal information to conduct automated decision-making that has a significant impact on your personal rights and interests, we will ensure transparency in the decision-making process and fairness and impartiality of the results in accordance with the law and will provide the applicable safeguards for your rights as required by law.

(VII) Rights of Close Relatives

After the death of a natural person, the person’s close relatives may, for their own lawful and legitimate interests, exercise rights to access, copy, correct, or delete the deceased person’s relevant personal information in accordance with the law, unless the deceased made other arrangements before death.

(VIII) Responding to Your Requests

To protect account and personal information security, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

We will respond to reasonable requests within the time limits prescribed by applicable laws and regulations.

Under the following circumstances, we may be unable to respond to some of your requests in accordance with the law:

  1. where the request relates to national security or national defense security;
  2. where the request relates to public security, public health, or significant public interests;
  3. where the request relates to criminal investigations, prosecutions, trials, or enforcement of judgments;
  4. where there is sufficient evidence of subjective malice or abuse of rights;
  5. where responding to the request would cause serious harm to your lawful rights and interests or those of another individual or organization;
  6. where trade secrets are involved; or
  7. in other circumstances prescribed by applicable laws and regulations.

VI. How This Policy Is Updated

We may revise this Policy and related rules from time to time due to changes in national laws and regulations, regulatory requirements, product functionality, or service operation needs.

The revised content will be published through the Readify AI application, official website, or other appropriate means and will replace the previous applicable content.

For changes that may have a significant impact on your rights and interests, we will provide prominent notice in accordance with the law.

For personal information processing activities for which applicable law requires us to obtain your consent or separate consent again, we will obtain such consent again in accordance with the law.

If you do not agree to the updated content, you may stop using the relevant services and delete your account.

VII. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, complaints, or reports regarding this Privacy Policy, our personal information processing activities, or your personal information rights, you may contact us through the following methods:

Personal Information Processor: DeepReads LLC
Contact Email: support@readifyai.com

In-Product Feedback: You may submit questions, comments, suggestions, complaints, or reports through the “Feedback” entry in the Readify AI application and view historical feedback and customer service responses through the relevant pages.

We will verify and process your request in accordance with the law.

Please carefully read this Privacy Policy before clicking “Agree” and ensure that you fully understand its contents, particularly provisions concerning sensitive personal information and your important rights and interests.