Privacy Policy
Lector is built privacy-first. The self-hosted app keeps everything on your own hardware, and this website collects no personal data. Here's the full picture.
Short version. Self-host and we see nothing — your reading, vocabulary, and progress never leave your server. This site uses cookieless, privacy-friendly analytics. The cloud service (coming soon) will store only what's needed to run your account, with payments handled by Paddle.
The self-hosted app
When you run Lector on your own hardware, we collect nothing. Your books, vocabulary, cloze history, journal entries, and settings live in a SQLite file on your server. We have no access to it, no telemetry, and no accounts. Any translation or AI features you enable talk directly from your server to the provider you configure (the Claude API, or a local model) using your own keys — not through us.
This website
We use Plausible, a privacy-friendly analytics tool, to understand aggregate traffic (page views, referrers, rough country). It sets no cookies, collects no personal data, and doesn't track you across sites. We don't run advertising or third-party trackers.
The cloud service
The managed cloud service isn't available yet. When it launches, it will collect only what's needed to provide it:
- Account. Your email address and authentication details, so you can sign in and we can contact you about your account.
- Billing. Payments are processed by Paddle, our merchant of record. Paddle handles your payment details under its own privacy policy — we never see or store your card number. We receive only your subscription status and plan.
- Your content. Text you import or translate is stored to provide the service and may be sent to a translation provider (e.g. the Claude API) to return results. If you enable bring-your-own-key, that processing uses your keys. We don't use your content to train models and we don't sell it.
Your rights
You can request access to, export of, or deletion of your data at any time. If you cancel, your data is retained so you can export it or renew, and is deleted on request. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or the Australian Privacy Principles — we'll honour them.
Contact
Privacy questions or requests? Email [email protected]. Lector is operated by Luke Boyle.