ReadOut Chinese

ReadOut Chinese: Privacy Policy

ภาษาไทย · Last updated: 18 October 2026

ReadOut Chinese (อ่านจีนออก) is a Chinese reading and dictionary app for iPhone and iPad. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.

The short version

• We do not collect your data. There is no account, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking.
• Your words, notes, books, photos and scans stay on your device. The app has no server of its own.
• Some optional buttons open other websites or apps (for example Google Translate or an AI app you choose). Only when you use them does the word, text or file you chose go to that service, under its own privacy policy.

What stays on your device

The app stores these only on your iPhone or iPad:

• words you save or add yourself, your notes, your review and game progress and your settings;
• book pages you scan, photos you choose, PDFs you open and stories you type or paste, and the text read from them;
• photos, text or web pages you send to the app from other apps (such as Photos or Safari) with the Share button (“Add to Story”). The Share screen keeps them in a folder that only this app can open, until you open the app.

We cannot see any of this. If your device backs itself up to iCloud or a computer, Apple’s backup may include this app’s data, under Apple’s privacy policy. If you make a backup file in the app and share it, you choose where that file goes.

Camera and photos

The app asks for the camera and your photos only so it can read the Chinese on a page you choose. Reading the text happens on your device. Your pictures are not uploaded anywhere by the app. You can turn this access off at any time in the iPhone Settings app.

Translation, reading aloud and Apple Intelligence

Translation uses Apple’s built-in translation, read-aloud uses the voices built into iOS, and some features use Apple Intelligence on your device. Apple may download language or voice files to your device the first time. These features are provided by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy; the app does not send your text to us.

Optional links to other services

These only happen when you tap them:

• Web dictionaries and search (such as Google, Google Translate, Bing Translator, Baidu, MDBG, YouGlish, Youdao, Sogou, Purple Culture, or a website you add yourself): the word you are looking at is sent to that website, which opens in Safari.
• “Translate on the web”: the Chinese text of your page is sent to Google Translate, which opens in Safari.
• “Ask AI myself” (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another app you pick): the app makes a file with your page’s or book’s Chinese text and opens Apple’s Share sheet. Only if you pick an AI app and send it there does that text go to that AI service, under its own terms and privacy policy. You bring the answer back yourself. We run no AI service and receive nothing.
• “Report a mistake” (on a word) and the support email (in Settings): open your email app with a message to us, or copy our address. If you send an email, we receive your email address and what you wrote, and use it only to reply and to fix the problem or the dictionary.

Those websites and apps have their own privacy policies and may use cookies. We do not control them and receive nothing from them.

Purchases

VIP (monthly, yearly or, when offered, lifetime) is bought through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles payment; we never see your card or Apple ID details. The app checks with Apple on your device whether you have VIP.

Children

The app is made for learners aged 12 and over and for parents who read Chinese books with their children; a younger child uses it together with a parent. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children. Before any purchase the app asks an adult to confirm, and Apple’s own purchase sheet follows, so parents can also use Screen Time and Ask to Buy. Parents may wish to supervise the optional website and AI links above.

Keeping and deleting your data

Because the app keeps your data only on your device, you control it directly: you can delete any item in the app, or delete the app to remove everything it stored. Laws such as Thailand’s PDPA, the EU and UK GDPR and Singapore’s PDPA give you rights over your personal data; if you emailed us, you can ask us to delete that email and we will.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.

Contact

Email: readoutchinese.support@gmail.com