Read My Coffee Privacy Policy
Version 2026-11-11
Effective date: 11 November 2026
1. Who is responsible
Prezlo Technologies Ltd, Israeli company no. 517356127 ("we", "us"), decides how the information described here is used. In data protection law we are the "controller". This Policy covers the Read My Coffee mobile application (the "App"), our web pages at readmycoffee.app, and messages you send us.
Privacy requests: legal@readmycoffee.app. Support: support@readmycoffee.app. Service address: 21 Homa U'Migdal Street, Holon, Israel.
The App is for people aged 13 and over. Section 10 explains how we treat users under 18.
2. The main point: your information stays on your phone
The details you enter, your cup photos and your readings stay on your phone. The App does not send them to us or to anyone else, and we cannot see them. The App has no account, no server of ours, and no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting tools.
Today the App does not save your answers at all: it keeps them in your phone's memory while the App is open, and they are gone when you close it.
Some technical information does leave your phone: to Apple, when you download the App and subscribe; to our app-update provider, when the App checks for updates; and to us, when you write to us. Section 6 explains.
3. What the App uses
You are not legally required to give us any information. The App needs your birth date and a photo of your cup to make a reading. Without them, it cannot give you one. The other questions are optional or do not change your reading.
| Information | Required? | What it is used for | Where it is kept and for how long |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth date | Required | To work out your sun sign, which shapes your reading | In your phone's memory while the App is open. Not saved, not sent |
| Birth time and birth place | Optional | To show your moon sign on the welcome screens. They do not change your reading. The birth place is a place name you choose from a list or type, not your location | In your phone's memory while the App is open. Not saved, not sent |
| Answers to the opening questions: gender, what you hope to get from the App, how you feel at a full moon, what wears you out, and whether you trust your gut | Optional or for fun | To shape the welcome screens. They do not change your reading | In your phone's memory while the App is open. Not saved, not sent |
| Cup photo | Required for a reading | To check that the photo shows a cup, to find the mark in it and the side facing you, and to set what the reading is about | Processed on your phone and not sent anywhere. It stays in the phone's memory while the App is open, and as temporary files in the App's cache, which your phone's operating system clears from time to time. The App never saves it to your photo library |
| Motion sensors | Used automatically while the camera is open | To help you hold the phone flat and steady over the cup, and to take the photo when it is | Read on your phone while the camera is open. Not saved, not sent |
| Your reading | Created by the App | To show you your reading | Not saved. The same cup photo on the same day gives the same reading |
| Subscription status | Needed for paid access | To unlock readings while you have a subscription or trial | Apple holds your purchase. The App checks your status with Apple on your phone |
4. What we do not collect
- Location. The App does not ask for location permission and does not use GPS. The only place it knows is a birth place you choose.
- Contacts, microphone and photo library. The App asks only for the camera. It does not access your contacts or your photo library, and its microphone access is switched off.
- Name, phone number and email address. The App does not ask for them.
- Faces. The App does not detect or recognise faces, identify people or create face templates. On your phone, it uses Apple's image tools to label what is in the photo and to outline the cup, so that it can find the cup, the mark in it and the handle.
- Advertising and tracking. The App shows no ads, does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and does not use your device's advertising identifier. We do not sell information and do not share it for targeted advertising. We do not send marketing messages.
5. How your reading is made
The App chooses your reading automatically, on your phone, by fixed rules. The rules use your sun sign, the moon's sign and phase on the day (calculated on your phone, without a server), where the mark sits in your cup, the cup's handle or the side facing you, and the date. The sentences were written in advance. No AI service receives your information.
This is automated personalisation of the service you asked for. It does not assess your abilities or worth, does not learn from your behaviour, and is not used for any decision with legal or similarly significant effects on you, such as decisions about credit, work or insurance.
6. Who receives information
Apple distributes the App and handles purchases, payment, subscription management and refunds, under Apple's own privacy policy. We do not receive your card number, name or email address from a purchase. Apple gives us sales and subscription reports that do not identify you by name. If you have chosen in your iPhone settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple also gives us crash reports and usage statistics about the App.
Our app-update provider, Expo (650 Industries, Inc., United States). When you open the App, and when you return to it, the App asks Expo's servers whether a newer version of its content is available. Each check sends technical information: the App's version and update channel, your phone's platform, a random identifier for the App's installation, and your IP address. It does not include your answers, your photos or your readings.
Our email providers, Cloudflare, Inc. (United States), which receives the messages sent to our readmycoffee.app addresses and forwards them, and Google LLC (United States), whose Gmail service holds those messages and our replies.
The host of our web pages, Cloudflare, Inc. (United States), through its Cloudflare Pages service, receives standard request information, such as your IP address and browser details, when you open these pages. The pages use no cookies and load nothing from other companies.
We may also disclose information to advisers bound by a duty of confidentiality, to a buyer or successor in a business transaction, to authorities where the law requires it, or when you ask us to. Any such disclosure is limited to its lawful purpose.
A new provider that receives information about users is added to this section in the same release that adds it.
7. Our reasons for using information
| Use | Legal basis under the GDPR and UK GDPR |
|---|---|
| Making your reading from your birth date and your cup photo | Performing our agreement with you: providing the service you asked for |
| Checking for and installing updates to the App | Our legitimate interest in keeping the App working and secure |
| Answering your messages and requests | Our legitimate interest in supporting you, and our legal obligations when you use a privacy right |
| Keeping records needed for a claim, a refund dispute or a privacy request | Our legal obligations, and our legitimate interest in establishing or defending legal claims |
Under Israeli law, section 3 tells you which information is required and what happens if you do not give it. Information is used only for the purposes described in this Policy.
8. Information outside your country
The App does not send your answers, photos or readings from your phone. Information that reaches us, such as an email, is handled from Israel. The European Union and the United Kingdom recognise Israel as giving adequate protection to personal data. Our providers named in section 6 process information in the United States and elsewhere. Where a provider is in a country without such recognition, we rely on its certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension where it has one, or on standard contractual clauses, and on the safeguards that Israeli law requires for transfers abroad.
9. How long information is kept
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Your answers and your reading | In your phone's memory until you close the App |
| Cup photo | In memory until you close the App; as temporary files until the phone's operating system clears the App's cache, or until you delete the App |
| Update checks | Under Expo's own retention rules |
| Messages you send us | Three years after your last message, or seven years where it concerns a claim, a refund dispute or a privacy request |
| Information held by Apple | Under Apple's privacy policy |
A period may be extended where the law requires it, or while a claim, dispute or request about the record is open.
10. Children and teens
Under 13. The App is not for children under 13. If we learn that we hold information about a child under 13, for example from an email, we will delete it.
Ages 13 to 17. Users under 18 may use the App with the permission of a parent or guardian, as the Terms of Use explain. Readings are written for everyone aged 13 and over: they avoid subjects such as death, illness, pregnancy, accidents and promises of money, avoid fear and urgency, and never put a fixed negative label on you. The App shows no ads, and no information about any user goes to an advertising network.
Parents and guardians. A parent or guardian may ask us about information concerning their child, or ask us to delete or restrict it, by writing to legal@readmycoffee.app. Because the App keeps its information on the phone and does not save it, there is usually nothing for us to delete. We check authority in a proportionate way, respect the minor's own rights, and do not require a government ID by default.
11. Security
Keeping information on your phone means less information leaves it. Its protection then also depends on your phone's passcode and settings. We protect the information that reaches us with technical and organisational safeguards suited to it. No service is completely secure. We do not promise absolute security, and we will not hide a known material incident behind this statement. Any required notice of an incident will be given under the applicable law.
12. Your rights
Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have the right to access your information, to receive a copy, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to its use, and to withdraw a consent. To use a right, write to legal@readmycoffee.app and say what you want. You do not need legal wording.
The App does not save your answers, and closing the App clears them. Deleting the App also removes its temporary files. We will tell you whether we hold anything about you, which is usually only your messages to us. We will ask only for what we need to find the records and confirm that you are entitled to them. We will reply within 30 days, or within the shorter period the law sets, and explain any permitted extension or refusal. We will not treat you differently for using a right.
Deleting the App does not cancel your Apple subscription. See the Subscriptions, Cancellation and Refunds policy.
Israel. You may ask to see information about you held in a database and, where the legal conditions apply, ask to correct or delete information that is not correct, complete, clear or up to date. You may complain to the Privacy Protection Authority at the Ministry of Justice.
European Union, EEA and United Kingdom. You have the rights listed above under the GDPR or the UK GDPR, and the right to complain to the data protection authority where you live or work. In the UK, that is the Information Commissioner.
United States. Your rights depend on the law of your state. Where a state law applies, an authorised agent may make a request for you, subject to proportionate verification, and you may appeal a refusal by replying with "Privacy appeal". The App does not track you across other companies' apps or websites over time, and no third party collects such information through the App, so there is nothing for a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off.
Everywhere else. We apply the rights in this section to every user, and any additional right your local law gives you. You may contact a privacy regulator without writing to us first.
13. Changes to this Policy
Each version shows its version id and effective date. Before a material change takes effect, we will tell you prominently in the App and ask for permission again where the law requires it. We will not use information already collected in a new way without a lawful basis. A new feature that changes what the App collects changes this Policy in the same release.
14. Contact
Privacy: legal@readmycoffee.app. Support: support@readmycoffee.app. Prezlo Technologies Ltd, company no. 517356127, Israel. Service address: 21 Homa U'Migdal Street, Holon, Israel.