This page explains how Okuzeka handles account, reading, uploaded content, AI request, support, and billing-related privacy data, including KVKK/GDPR rights and retention rules.
Last updated: May 1, 2026. Operator / company name: Okuzeka. Contact email: okuzeka@gmail.com. Business address: Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa Mah. 1992 Sokak Vetrocity Kat:3, No:88, 34515 Esenyurt/Istanbul, Turkiye. If a separate legal company name is shown on an invoice, checkout page, or official registration document, that entity may also act as the relevant contracting or billing party for that transaction.
This Privacy Policy explains how Okuzeka collects, uses, stores, and deletes personal data in connection with the app and website. It covers account data, uploaded reading content, reading progress, notes, cards, and support communication. Where payments are processed by Apple or Paddle, the payment provider also processes certain billing and transaction data under its own privacy terms.
We may collect your name, email address, password hash, account status, selected plan, reading progress, uploaded book metadata, extracted page text, selected lookup words or phrases, short sentence context, generated meanings/translations, notes, saved cards, and support messages. We may also process basic technical data such as IP-related request logs, device/browser information, page views, session events, referrer information, and session cookies or local storage identifiers needed to operate and improve the service.
We use personal data to create and secure your account, provide reading and AI assistance features, save your library and progress, enforce plan limits, respond to support requests, prevent abuse, understand how users navigate the product, identify common language-learning needs from lookup patterns, prioritize improvements, and improve product reliability. Okuzeka does not sell personal data, share personal data with data brokers, or use personal data to track users across third-party apps or websites for advertising. We only use data where we have a valid operational, contractual, legal, or legitimate-interest reason to do so.
Files and related reading data are processed so we can display your content, extract text, provide word meanings and sentence translations, generate study cards, and restore your place in a book. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to upload and use any file you submit through the service.
To deliver contextual meanings and translations, Okuzeka may send limited request data such as the selected word, surrounding sentence, and language settings to AI providers. We also use infrastructure and email providers where necessary to operate the service. We aim to send only the minimum data required for the requested feature.
If you buy a paid plan on iOS, payment is handled by Apple's in-app purchase system. If you buy through the website, checkout, billing, invoicing, tax handling, charge handling, and some transaction support functions may be handled by Paddle as Merchant of Record. In those cases Apple or Paddle may collect and process billing details, payment identifiers, purchase history, and transaction records under their own buyer-facing legal and privacy frameworks.
Okuzeka uses essential cookies and local storage to maintain login state, restore reading position, keep cards and notes synchronized with your session, and preserve core interface state. Okuzeka also uses first-party analytics identifiers and event logs to measure visits, sessions, navigation patterns, and product usage so the service can be operated and improved. These mechanisms are used for product improvement, security, and reliability, not for third-party advertising or cross-app tracking.
We keep personal data only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purposes below. Actual retention may be shorter where deletion is requested and no legal, security, tax, fraud-prevention, billing, or dispute reason requires continued retention.
| Data category | Typical purpose | Typical retention |
|---|---|---|
| Account profile and login data | Account operation, authentication, security, and support | For the life of the account, then deleted or anonymized after account deletion unless retention is legally required |
| Uploaded books and extracted reading content | Reading, conversion, text extraction, contextual meanings, notes, and progress | For the life of the account or until the user deletes the related book/account, subject to backup and legal retention limits |
| Word lookups, flashcards, notes, and progress | Learning history, review cards, quota enforcement, reader continuity, and aggregated learning/product statistics | Saved learning data is kept for the life of the account or until deleted by account/book deletion where supported; first-party lookup analytics are typically kept up to 365 days unless aggregated or needed for security, fraud, or legal reasons |
| Billing and transaction records | Invoices, taxes, fraud prevention, subscription management, and legal compliance | As required by Paddle, payment providers, tax rules, accounting obligations, and applicable law |
| First-party product analytics | Understanding page views, sessions, navigation patterns, and product usage so the service can be improved | Typically up to 180 days unless aggregated or needed for security, fraud, or legal reasons |
| Security logs and abuse-prevention records | Fraud prevention, rate limiting, investigation, and service protection | For a limited operational period unless needed for security, dispute, or legal reasons |
| Support messages | Responding to requests and maintaining support history | For as long as needed to handle the request and maintain reasonable support records |
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict some personal data, or to object to certain processing. You can manage some account information directly inside the product. For app privacy requests, contact okuzeka@gmail.com. For payment and transaction privacy requests handled by Paddle, Paddle's privacy channels may also apply.
If you are in Turkiye, rights under KVKK may include requesting information about processing, correction, deletion or destruction where applicable, notification of third parties, objection to certain results, and compensation requests where legally available. If you are in the EEA/UK, GDPR rights may include access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority. To exercise rights related to Okuzeka app data, contact okuzeka@gmail.com with enough information to verify the account.
Okuzeka is not designed specifically for children and does not knowingly target children with the service. If a minor uses Okuzeka, a parent or legal guardian should supervise the account and the uploaded reading material. If you believe a child provided personal data without appropriate consent, contact okuzeka@gmail.com so the issue can be reviewed.
Okuzeka may use infrastructure, email, AI, and billing providers that process data in countries different from your own. Product analytics are handled as first-party product analytics for operating and improving Okuzeka. Where required, we rely on applicable safeguards, provider terms, contractual protections, or legal bases suitable for the service being provided.
For privacy questions about Okuzeka, contact okuzeka@gmail.com. For billing-related privacy information or Paddle-managed transaction questions, review the Paddle legal links below.
