कथा Privacy Policy

• Where you stopped in each piece, so a serial you are halfway through opens where you left it.
• Which pieces you have finished, liked, disliked or saved.
• What you listened to recently, for the shelf that offers to carry on.
• Whether the next part should play on by itself, and which language the app is read in.
• Every piece you have played, kept as an audio file in the app’s private folder so it plays without a network afterwards.

None of this is backed up by us, synced by us, or readable by us. It is deleted when the app is uninstalled. Downloaded pieces are kept in Application Support rather than a cache folder on purpose, so that the phone does not quietly delete a story on the night you meant to listen to it.

• A request for the list of stories, and for each story’s audio the first time you play it.
• When a piece is played, liked, disliked or downloaded: the piece and a random number made on your phone when the app was first opened, so one phone is counted once. It is not your phone number, name, email or advertising ID.
• Anonymous usage counts — that the app was opened, how long a screen was open, and named taps such as “shared” — to our own server. Nothing you type is ever sent.

These go to our servers on Cloudflare. They are not sold, not shared with anyone and not used for advertising.

The app shows ads from Google AdMob: a banner above the tabs, sometimes one full-screen ad before a story starts (never in the middle of one), and a video you can choose to watch to turn ads off for 24 hours. The app asks AdMob for non-personalised ads. AdMob itself collects the device’s advertising ID, IP address and ad interactions to serve and measure ads and prevent fraud; that is governed by Google’s policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. You can reset or delete the advertising ID in your phone’s settings.

• Internet and network state — to fetch stories, send the counts above and load ads.
• Foreground service and media playback — so a story keeps playing with the screen off, with the usual controls on the lock screen.
• Wake lock — so the phone does not sleep in the middle of a piece.
• Advertising ID — added by the AdMob SDK, for ads.

Nothing is sold in the app today. If a paid plan is added it will be bought through Google Play or the App Store, which handle the payment; we never see card or bank details.

The app is not directed at children under 13 and asks nothing of them. Some of the shelf — the hauntings in particular — is written for adults.

Uninstalling the app removes everything it kept on the phone, including the random number used for counting. The counts already sent are not linked to any person, so there is nothing to find by name; write to us if you have a question about them.

Axpertz Labs — cacssuraj78@gmail.com. If something here does not match what the app actually does, tell us: this document is written against the source and we would want to correct it.