Your reading, your privacy

Beta privacy notice · Updated 31 October 2026

Litavela is operated by Hovhannes Boyakhchyan, an individual developer and the controller of the personal information described here. Contact contact.litavela@gmail.com about privacy or your data. This notice covers the app, its hosted reading service and these support pages.

What we use and why

Account information: your email, account identifier, sign-in session and verification status let you sign in and protect access. Supabase manages authentication; support never needs your password.
Reading library: stories, illustrations, adapted editions, saved words and characters, reading positions, preferences, quiz attempts, level assessments and learning history support reading, progress and account backup. Assessment results are advisory, not a qualification or official language certificate.
Preparation requests: story ideas, character descriptions, relevant chapter text, language and difficulty choices, illustration prompts and generated results are processed when you ask for new content or allow automatic preparation.
Beta sharing: invitation codes, test-point transactions and gift records support the optional referral and gift features. A gift recipient’s email is used to match a private in-app voucher to their verified account. The beta does not send gift emails or make real purchases.
Service operation: authentication events, request identifiers, coarse country information, usage counters and error information help secure the service, enforce supported-country access and control quotas. These pages do not add analytics or advertising trackers.

AI providers and your choice

Hosted OpenAI builds ask for permission before sending the content needed for writing, review and translation to the OpenAI API. Illustration prompts are sent to Cloudflare Workers AI. Supabase stores the private account backup separately. Personal computer-assisted testing uses the connection configured on that computer instead.

You can decline AI preparation and read already prepared material. Withdrawing permission stops new preparation and requests a server stop for hosted work. A provider request already received may finish. Withdrawal does not erase saved chapters or images; deletion is a separate choice. Do not put sensitive personal information about yourself or others in story prompts.

For information about their own processing, see OpenAI, Cloudflare, Supabase and Google, which provides our support inbox. Hosting and provider processing may occur outside your country, including in the United States. The beta has no advertising SDK, real payment processing or sale of personal information.

Private libraries and reusable content

Your private library is scoped to your account. Other readers do not receive it merely because you enabled backup. Reviewed classic-book adaptations and prepared translations can be reused between readers. Distribution of a reader’s private original stories as a shared catalog is disabled in this beta.

Retention and deletion

Your local library stays on your device until you remove it. Cloud libraries remain associated with your account until deletion is completed. Temporary preparation requests and intermediate results are scheduled for cleanup after seven days once the work is no longer active. The cleanup runs periodically; a paused job may need a fresh request after its temporary copy expires. Saved library chapters, pictures and reading positions are separate and are not removed by that cleanup.

Reader-linked operational usage records are removed during account deletion or scheduled for removal after seven days. Anonymous spending totals remain so that cleanup cannot reset the service budget. Minimal deletion markers are retained to reject late background writes and retried requests for a deleted account; they do not contain story text or pictures.

OpenAI’s standard API abuse-monitoring records may be retained for up to 30 days, subject to its policies and applicable exceptions. Provider security records and backups can have separate retention periods. Contact us for the current retention details or a deletion request. Deleting a cloud account does not remotely erase exported files or another device’s offline copy.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or an export of your data, object to certain processing, withdraw consent and complain to your data-protection authority. We verify ownership before releasing private data. In France, you can contact the CNIL.

Where European data-protection law applies, account and requested reading/backup services rely on performing our service agreement; optional AI sharing relies on your permission; limited security and abuse prevention rely on legitimate interests; legally required records rely on legal obligations. We do not use learning scores for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

Beta audience and changes

The invited beta is intended for adults aged 18 or older. Report a child’s account or unintended personal-data collection to the contact above. We will update this notice as the service changes and request new permission for material changes to optional AI processing.