Privacy Policy

What this covers

This policy is for the Manhwawi app for Android. The app adds AI-generated narration and synchronized scrolling to supported comic chapters. The browser extension has its own policy: https://manhwawi.com/privacy/. Both use the same account.

Your account

Supabase runs sign-in. We receive an account ID and your email, and, depending on how you sign in, your display name, picture and identity provider. A password goes to Supabase over HTTPS, and we never see it. Your sign-in session is kept on your phone in storage protected by the Android Keystore.

Chapters and delivery

When you open a chapter with narration, its address goes to our service, which checks your plan and sends the narration. We keep delivery records, usage counts and security decisions linked to your account. To prevent abuse we store a hash of a coarse part of your network address, not your full IP address. Hosting and sign-in providers receive ordinary request information, including your IP address, and may keep it under their own policies.

What stays on your phone

Your listening history and progress, saved series, settings and language stay on your phone. Signing out doesn't erase them. Uninstalling the app does, and so does deleting your account.

Cloud backup

If you press Sync history in You, a copy of your progress goes to our database, linked to your account: for each series, its name and cover, the chapters you finished, where you stopped, and whether you saved it. The same press merges that copy with what's on your phone, for example on a new phone. Nothing is sent until you press the button, and it isn't updated by itself. It's kept until you delete your account.

Sites you browse in the app

The app has a browser for supported comic sites. Those pages come straight from the sites, which have their own privacy policies and may use cookies, ads and trackers. Any cookies or login stay in the app's browser on your phone. The app reads the page's address to know when a chapter is open and to mark narrated series. We don't collect your browsing history, and the only chapter addresses we receive are the ones you open with narration.

Feedback

Likes, dislikes, the reasons you choose, anything you type with them and the panels you flag as faulty wait on your phone and are sent about once a week to our analytics service. Each batch carries a random installation ID, the app version and the chapter it's about, but not your account. Cloudflare works out the country a batch came from, and the IP address isn't stored with it. Raw batches are kept for 90 days and totals for 365 days. Don't type personal details into a feedback note.

Ads

Free accounts see ads from Google AdMob while a chapter is prepared. Premium accounts see none, and the ad service isn't started for them. Google and its partners may collect your advertising ID, device and app information, IP address and how you interact with ads, to show, measure and personalize ads and to prevent fraud. Where the law requires it, for example in the EEA and the UK, Google's consent form asks for your choice first. Ads are limited to content rated Teen and below. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings. We don't send your account details or the chapters you read to advertisers. Google's policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Crash reports

If the app crashes, it may send a technical report to Sentry, our crash-reporting provider: the error, the app version, and the phone's model and Android version. It carries no account details and no list of what you were reading. Provider policy: https://sentry.io/privacy/.

YouTube videos

Discover can show YouTube Shorts using YouTube's own player, which sends information to Google under its privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Payments

Paddle.com, our reseller and Merchant of Record, handles checkout, payment details and sales tax. We keep subscription identifiers, status, renewal dates, prices, and your refill and gift purchases, which we need to manage your access. Refund records can include a card's brand, last 4 digits and expiry, which we use to review repeated refunds.

How long we keep data

We keep account, delivery, usage and billing records while your account exists. Security logs are kept for 30 days, resolved security flags for 90 days, and rate-limit counters for 48 hours.

Deleting your account

In the app, open You → Delete account. You can also ask without the app: https://manhwawi.com/delete-account/. Deleting removes your account and the data linked to it. A few things remain:

• Paddle keeps its own transaction records, as tax and payment rules require.
• Security logs stay, with your account removed, until their 30 days are up.
• Feedback already sent stays until its retention ends, because it isn't linked to your account.
• Gift codes you paid for keep working for whoever has them, with your account removed.

Your choices and rights

You can use the app with Premium to avoid ads, and change your ad consent where the form applies. To ask for a copy of your data or to correct it, email privacy@manhwawi.com. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights, including the right to complain to a data protection authority.

Children and changes

You must be at least 13 to use Manhwawi. We update this policy when our data handling changes, and we'll tell you in the app about material changes.

Contact

Privacy questions and data requests: privacy@manhwawi.com.