Privacy Policy
Effective 10 November 2026
Plotborn keeps what it needs to show you stories, keep your place in them and know which ones readers finish. It has no advertising or analytics companies inside it, and it does not sell anything about you to anybody.
This policy covers the Plotborn app and this website. Plotborn is made by Enlomi LLC (“we”), which decides what is collected and is responsible for it. Write to [email protected] with any question about it.
What we collect
When you open the app
The first time you open Plotborn, the app makes up a random identifier for your phone and our server gives it a session. That is all it takes to start reading. The identifier says nothing about who you are; it is how the server knows that the chapter you read today and the one you read yesterday were read by the same person.
If you make an account
An account is optional. If you make one, we keep your email address, your password and, if you give one, your name. Your password is stored only as a one-way hash: we can check it when you sign in, but nobody here can read it.
What you read
We keep a record of your reading: which stories you open, which chapters you start and finish and how far into them you are, your bookmarks, when you reach a chapter that has to be unlocked, and how you unlock it. This is what lets the app put you back where you left off, and it is how we learn which stories hold readers and where they stop. Each record carries the time it happened.
We sometimes try variations of the app with different groups of readers, such as how many chapters are free. If you are in one of those groups, we record which version you were shown.
Sparks and purchases
Sparks are the app’s own currency. We keep a record of every spark you are given, buy or spend, and of what you unlocked with them. When Plotborn sells sparks, the purchase is made through Google Play or the App Store, and we keep the receipt the store sends us so that we can check the purchase is genuine. The store handles your payment; we never see your card or bank details.
Notifications
If you allow notifications, your phone gives us a token from Google’s or Apple’s notification service so that we can tell you when a new chapter is out, and we keep your time zone so that we do not do it in the middle of the night. We also keep a record of the notifications we send you. If you do not allow notifications, none of this is collected.
On your phone
The app keeps some things on your phone only: your reading settings (type size, spacing, typeface and page colour), copies of chapters you have opened so you can read without a connection, and reading records it has not sent yet. Removing the app removes them.
What we do not collect
Plotborn does not ask for or collect your location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera. It does not use your phone’s advertising identifier, and it contains no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting software from other companies. Our own servers do not record your IP address.
Why we use it
- To run the app: to show you stories, keep your place, sign you in, and give you the chapters you have unlocked.
- To keep an honest record of sparks and purchases, and to check that a purchase was real.
- To send the notifications you have agreed to.
- To understand which stories readers finish and where they stop, so that we can choose and improve the stories we publish. We look at this across readers, not to profile you.
Where the law asks for a legal basis: running the app and your account is necessary to provide the service you asked for; notifications rest on your consent, which you can withdraw in your phone’s settings at any time; understanding how stories are read is our legitimate interest in making the app better.
Who else sees it
We do not sell your information or share it for advertising. A few companies handle it on our behalf, only to provide the service:
- Cloudflare carries the connection between the app and our servers, and stores our encrypted backups. As with any network provider, it sees your IP address while traffic passes through it.
- Google and Apple deliver notifications if you allow them, and process purchases made through their stores.
The people who run Plotborn can see account and reading records when they need to, for example to answer a question you have written to us about. We will disclose information if the law requires us to.
How long we keep it
We keep your account and reading records for as long as you use Plotborn, or until you ask us to delete them. A session on a phone lasts a year from when it was last used. Our servers are backed up every night, encrypted; nightly backups are kept for about two weeks and monthly ones for about thirteen months, so something deleted from Plotborn can remain in an encrypted backup until that backup expires.
Deleting your account
You can ask us to delete your account and your reading history at any time; this page explains how and what is deleted. Records of purchases are kept, without your email address or name attached, for as long as tax and accounting law requires.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see the information we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to receive a copy of it, and to object to how we use it. You can do any of these by writing to [email protected]. We will answer within 30 days, and we may ask you to confirm the request from your account’s email address so that we know it is yours. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you may also complain to your data protection authority.
Children
Plotborn is meant for adults, and is not directed at children under 18. If you believe a child has made an account, write to us and we will delete it.
This website
plotborn.com sets no cookies and loads nothing from anyone else: its typeface is served from this site. Cloudflare, which serves the site, sees your IP address as it does so.
Changes
If we change what Plotborn collects or how we use it, we will change this policy first and update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will say so in the app.
Contact
Enlomi LLC · [email protected]