Effective Date: June 6, 2025
At EzRead PDF, your privacy and the security of your data are our highest priorities. This Privacy Policy explains how the EzRead PDF application (the "App") handles your information, with a strong emphasis on our commitment to safeguarding your private files. By using EzRead PDF, you agree to the practices outlined in this policy.
We understand that the documents you view on your device are often personal and sensitive. EzRead PDF is fundamentally designed to be a local-first application. This means:
To provide and improve EzRead PDF, we collect a very limited amount of non-personal information. This data helps us ensure the app runs smoothly and efficiently.
Device Information: We automatically gather basic data about your device, such as its type, operating system version, unique identifiers (like your device ID or advertising ID), screen resolution, and language settings. This helps us ensure the App runs smoothly on various devices and optimize its performance.
Usage Data: We collect anonymous, aggregated data about how you interact with the App's features. This includes which app functions you use (e.g., opening a PDF, using search within the app), the duration of your sessions, and any technical issues or crashes that occur. This data helps us understand general user behavior and identify areas for app improvement. This data never includes information about the content of your PDF files or their filenames.
Advertising Identifiers: We use advertising identifiers (like your Android Advertising ID or IDFA) to help facilitate personalized advertisements within the App. These identifiers also allow us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and support the App's free-to-use model.
Log Data and Analytics: Our systems may automatically record certain technical information when you use the App, such as your app version and timestamps of your activities. We may also utilize third-party analytics services (e.g., Google Analytics for Firebase, if applicable) to gather aggregated, non-personally identifiable data about App usage. This helps us analyze trends and improve the App without linking information to individual users.
The limited information collected by EzRead PDF is used strictly for purposes directly related to providing and enhancing your PDF viewing experience.
App Functionality and Maintenance: We use your information to ensure EzRead PDF operates correctly, provides you with its core PDF viewing features, and receives necessary updates and maintenance.
App Improvement: By analyzing anonymous usage data, we can understand general user preferences and identify opportunities to improve the App's design, stability, and performance.
Troubleshooting: Collected technical data assists us in diagnosing and resolving any issues or crashes you might encounter, ensuring a smooth and reliable experience.
Supporting the App through Advertising: Displaying relevant advertisements within EzRead PDF helps support the App's development and operational costs, allowing us to offer it free of charge.
Your privacy is paramount. We share information only under very specific and limited circumstances, primarily to support app functionality and its free operation.
Advertising Partners: We may share your advertising identifiers and aggregated, anonymous usage data with advertising networks. This enables them to serve personalized ads within EzRead PDF and helps us evaluate the success of our advertising efforts. No information about your PDF files is ever shared with advertising partners.
Analytics Providers: Aggregated and anonymous usage data is shared with third-party analytics services. This helps them analyze how users interact with EzRead PDF and improve its overall performance. This data does not personally identify you. Again, no information about your PDF files is ever shared with analytics providers.
Service Providers: We may work with third-party service providers (such as hosting providers for our app updates or crash reporting services) who assist us in operating the App. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and can only use it for the specific services they perform for us.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information if legally required to do so by law, court order, or government request. This also applies if we believe it's necessary to protect our rights, property, or the safety of our users or others.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of EzRead PDF's assets, the limited non-personal information we collect may be transferred as part of that business transaction. We will provide notification of any such change in ownership or information use through a prominent notice within the App or via other appropriate means.
You have control over certain aspects of your information within EzRead PDF.
Advertising Preferences: You can manage how your advertising identifier is used directly through your device settings. Look for options like "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS or "Opt out of Ads Personalization" on Android. Adjusting these settings may reduce the personalization of ads you see in EzRead PDF.
Data Access and Deletion: Depending on your location, you may have the right to request access to or deletion of certain non-personal information we hold about you. To exercise these rights, please refer to the support section within the EzRead PDF App or use the official contact channels provided in the App Store/Google Play listing. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.
EzRead PDF is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately so we can take steps to remove that information from our systems.
The limited information we collect may be processed and stored in countries outside your country of residence, which may have different data protection laws. By using the App, you consent to the transfer of your information to these countries. We will take reasonable steps to ensure your information is protected according to this Privacy Policy.
EzRead PDF may contain links or integrations with third-party websites or services (such as embedded ads) that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make significant changes, we will notify you by posting the new policy within the App or through other appropriate communication methods. Your continued use of EzRead PDF after the new policy's effective date signifies your acceptance of the changes.