Privacy Policy
Ditch Scroll is a reading app. This page says exactly what it keeps, who else ever sees it, and how to get rid of it. It describes what the software actually does today, not what we might do later.
Who holds it
Ditch Scroll is operated by Mehar Usama Waheed, an individual trading as Ditch Scroll, in Pakistan, and that is who decides what happens to your data. This policy is governed by the laws of Pakistan.
We give every reader the same rights regardless of where they live: see what we hold, correct it, export it, or delete the account and everything attached to it. We do not offer a thinner version of this to people whose country has weaker law. Ask at hello@ditchscroll.com and we will do it.
What we store
Your account
Your email address, a display name if you set one, your language and time zone, and a scrambled version of your password. We never store the password itself — it is put through scrypt with a random salt, which cannot be reversed. Nobody at Ditch Scroll can read your password, including us.
Your books and your reading
- Books you add from our shelf, and files you upload yourself.
- The text we extract from those files, split into pages and chapters, and the numerical index that makes search work.
- Where you are in each book, the spot you bookmarked, which pages you have finished, and how far through a chapter you have listened.
- Your highlights and any notes attached to them.
- Questions you ask about a book and the answers you get back, including which passages each answer was drawn from.
- Flashcards made from your books, and how you scored on them.
Running the service
Which days you were active, which feed cards you have already been shown, your plan, and a record of each AI request with what it cost us. Sessions and one-time codes for signing in, verifying your email and resetting your password.
Who else sees it
Three companies, each for one job.
When you ask a question about a book, the passages that answer it and your question go to Google’s Gemini API. When you upload a scanned book with no text layer, images of those pages go to the same place to be read. Nothing else is sent, and your identity is not attached — Google receives the text, not your name or email.
Paddle
Paddle handles payment and is the seller of record for subscriptions. They receive what they need to take payment and issue an invoice. Card details go to Paddle directly and never touch our servers, so we could not see them if we wanted to.
Hostinger
Delivers the handful of emails we send: verify your address, reset your password. They see your email address and the message.
That is the complete list. We do not sell anything to anyone, and nothing is shared for advertising.
What does not happen
This section is here because these are the things people reasonably assume an app does.
- No trackers or analytics. No advertising pixels, no third-party analytics, no cross-site tracking. There are no such libraries in the app at all.
- Your uploads stay yours. Anything made from a file you upload — the search index, narration, answers — is used for your account only and is never shown to another reader. That is enforced where the data is read, not left to convention.
- Search and audio are built on our own machines. The models that index your books and read them aloud run on our server. Your books are not sent to a search provider or a voice provider.
- App blocking never leaves your phone. On Android, if you turn on the feature that interrupts a distracting app, the list of apps you chose and what it observes stay in that phone’s private storage. It is excluded from Android’s backup, so it does not travel to a new device either. None of it reaches us.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account from Settings. It is a real deletion, not a flag: your account row is removed, and everything attached to it goes with it — your highlights, your reading position, your questions and answers, your flashcards, your uploads. Books nobody else is reading are removed from storage too.
This is immediate and cannot be undone. Ordinary database backups may hold a copy for a short period before they age out.
Getting a copy of your data
Email hello@ditchscroll.com and we will send you everything stored against your account. There is no self-service export button yet; we do it by hand.
Children
Ditch Scroll is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep data about them. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we will remove it.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or who receives it, we will email you before it takes effect. The date at the top always reflects the current version.