EDGAR ALLAN POE

Privacy Policy

Edgar Allan Poe: Horror Tales (com.borzanti.poe) · Effective November 11, 2026

Edgar Allan Poe: Horror Tales is an interactive book of ten tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe. The whole story comes inside the app. There is no account and no login, and we run no server. Readers who don't buy the book can unlock each paid tale by watching a video ad; buying the book removes all ads. The app counts a few usage events, described below.

Stays on your device

  • Reading progress and choices
  • Tales read and unlocked
  • Sound, language and reading-pace settings

Saved only on the device.

Handled by Google Play

  • Payment for the full book
  • Proof of purchase

Under Google's own privacy policy.

Collected by us

  • Usage events
  • Advertising ID
  • Ads by Google AdMob, only for readers who didn't buy

No ads for buyers, no crash reporting.

01Who is responsible

This app is developed by RAFAEL BORZAN CONSULTORIA EM TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA, the data controller for the app. Privacy contact: admin@borzanti.com.

02Data we collect

Usage events. To understand how the book is read, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count a few events: the app being opened, a tale being started or finished, how far into a tale the reader got, which option was picked at a story choice, the purchase screen being shown and a purchase being completed. Each event comes with general information about the device (model, Android version, language, country) and a random identifier created for this installation of the app. We do not ask for your name, email, phone number, contacts or location. Reading works offline; events are sent when the phone is online. Google processes this data on our behalf under the Google Privacy Policy, and it is kept for up to 14 months.

Advertising ID. We may promote the app with Google Ads. Outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the events also carry your device's advertising ID, so that Google Ads can tell which of our ads led to an installation or to a tale being read. In our analytics it is used only to measure our campaigns, not to build ad audiences, and we do not sell it. Google AdMob also uses it to show ads, as described below. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the advertising ID is not used for this. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your phone's settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Privacy → Ads).

Ads. The free tales never show ads. After them, readers who don't buy the book can unlock the next tale by watching a video ad. These ads are served by Google AdMob, which receives the advertising ID, general device information, an approximate location derived from the IP address and how the ad was viewed, to show the ad, measure it and prevent fraud, under the Google advertising policies. The ad SDK only starts when you choose to watch a video. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent form appears first, and the ads respect your choice. Buying the book removes all ads.

Notifications. If you ask the app to tell you when the next tale can be unlocked, it schedules that reminder on your device. The app may also receive occasional news about the book through Firebase Cloud Messaging, which uses a random token for this installation. On Android 13 and later, notifications only appear if you allow them, and you can turn them off at any time in your phone's settings.

03Data stored on your device

To let you continue where you stopped, the app keeps on your device which tale you are reading, the choices you made, the clues you found, which tales you have finished or unlocked, whether you bought the book, and your sound, language and reading-pace settings. This saved state stays on your device; only the events described in section 02 are sent. It is erased when you clear the app's data or uninstall it.

04Purchases

The first tales are free. The full book is sold as a one-time in-app purchase processed entirely by Google Play. We never see your card or payment details. Google tells the app only whether the purchase is valid, so the book can be unlocked and restored on a new device. Google's handling of payment data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

05Permissions

The app uses the network to talk to Google Play about purchases, to load video ads when you choose to watch one and to send the usage events described above. It declares the advertising ID permission (AD_ID) for the campaign measurement and the ads described in section 02, and the notification permission for the reminders and news described there. It does not use the camera, microphone, contacts, location or storage outside its own folder. It may vibrate the phone briefly during frightening moments of the story.

06Children

The app tells horror stories and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information such as names or contact details from anyone.

07Your rights

Under the GDPR, the LGPD and similar laws you may request access to, correction or deletion of your data. Your reading progress lives only on your device, and the usage events are not linked to your name or account: clearing the app's data or uninstalling it resets the random identifier, and deleting the advertising ID in your phone's settings stops it from being sent. For any question, write to admin@borzanti.com; we reply within 15 days.

08Changes

If the app ever starts handling data differently, this page will be updated with a new effective date.

RAFAEL BORZAN CONSULTORIA EM TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA · admin@borzanti.com · Last updated November 11, 2026