Data Retention Statement

This statement shows how long each kind of data held in Owlshelf is kept.

Data	Where	Retention period
Reading position, bookmarks, favorites, reading settings	Only on your device	Until you delete it (deleting the app is enough)
Downloaded book files (iOS)	Only on your device	Until you delete them or the book is withdrawn for rights reasons
Daily total downloads per book	Server	Indefinitely; statistics that cannot be linked to a person
Server access logs (IP, date, address, browser)	Server	30 days
Contact form messages (name, email, message)	Server	At most 1 year after the request is resolved; you can ask for deletion at any time
Content removal / copyright notices	Server	10 years, as a legal record
Owlshelf Plus subscription record (Apple transaction number, type, expiry)	Server	At most 1 year after the subscription ends
“Ask Owlshelf” counters (hashed random device identifier, month, book)	Server	At most 13 months
Admin panel audit logs (team members only)	Server	5 years
Database backups	Server	14 days, then deleted automatically

Because there is no account system, no identity, password or profile data about readers is kept.

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