Privacy policy

Last updated October 31, 2026.

What we store

Your book files are backed up privately to your account, deduplicated by content hash, and never shown to other members. We do not sell or share personal data with advertisers.

• Account: a display name, a handle, the worm you build, and the identifier Apple gives us when you sign in with Apple. If you hide your email from us, we only ever see Apple's relay address.
• Clubs and sessions: club names, membership, invite codes, the books each session is about (title, author, fingerprint), waiting-room messages, checkpoints and recaps.
• Reading positions and presence: where you are in a book, expressed as a chapter and a percentage, and whether you are reading right now. Members of the same session can see these.
• Notes: your highlights, comments, thoughts, reactions and replies, each anchored to a short quoted passage so it can be placed in other members' copies. Notes are visible only to the club they were left in.
• Reading log and shelf: when and how long you read each book, from where to where, the sentences you stopped at with your own notes, and the Market books on your shelf. Only you can see these.
• Reports and blocks: the reports you send (what, why and your note) and the members you block.
• Purchases: capacity packs and tips are handled by Apple. We keep the transaction identifier, product and date so we can honor what you bought and process refunds.
• Device tokens: if you allow notifications, a push token so we can tell you about replies, nudges and sessions starting.
• Usage analytics: anonymous events such as "page turned" or "club created", with device type and app version, so we can see what works. Analytics never include book text or your notes.

Services we rely on

Wormies runs on the Google Cloud Platform and other software services (authentication, database, notifications, crash reports and analytics) in the United States, and on Apple's App Store for sign-in and purchases. These providers process data on our behalf under their own terms.

Your choices

• The Marks toggle controls which notes you see; the Spoiler Shield hides notes ahead of you by default.
• You can block members and report content from inside the app.
• You can turn off every notification type in Settings.
• You can turn book backup off in Settings; books already backed up stay until you remove them.
• You can delete your account in the app (Me → Account & privacy). We remove your profile, memberships, reading log, shelf, book backups and devices within 24 hours and anonymize your notes, replies, messages and surprises so club conversations still make sense. Remaining purchased capacity is forfeited.

Children

Wormies is rated 12+ and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from them.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to support@wormies.app.