Privacy Policy

Effective November 11, 2026

Quiet Floor is an app for the books you own. It has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your library stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and we never see it.

This policy explains what the app keeps, where it goes, and what you can do about it. “We” means Daniel Kozlowski, who makes Quiet Floor.

What the app keeps, and where

• Your library: the books you add, your reading sittings, books you’ve lent out (the borrower’s name, and a phone number or email if you picked them from your contacts), saved lines, saved sound mixes and your settings.
• On your device: all of it is stored on your iPhone.
• In your iCloud: if you’re signed in to iCloud, the app syncs your library through your private iCloud database, and your settings through iCloud key-value storage, so they follow you to your other devices. That data belongs to your Apple Account. We can’t read it. Apple’s privacy policy covers iCloud.
• Imports: when you import a library exported from Goodreads or StoryGraph, the file is read on your iPhone and isn’t uploaded anywhere. The app then looks up details for the imported books as described below.
• Exports: when you choose “Export everything”, the app writes a CSV file for you to share or save. The app deletes its temporary copy when you leave Settings and the next time it starts.

We don’t run servers that receive your data. We don’t collect usage statistics, crash reports or device identifiers. Apple may give developers anonymous crash and usage reports from people who have chosen to share them with app developers in iOS Settings.

When the app goes online

The app connects to the internet for two things only.

• Looking up books. When you scan a barcode or search for a book, the app sends the ISBN or your search words to Open Library, run by the Internet Archive. If Open Library doesn’t find it, the app asks Google Books. Like any website, they receive your IP address along with the request. The app identifies itself to them with its name and our contact address, never anything about you. Their own privacy policies apply: the Internet Archive’s and Google’s. Once a book is on your shelf, the app doesn’t look it up again.
• Buying a library card. Purchases go through Apple. The app learns only whether you hold a card. We never see your payment details.

The app contains no third-party code that collects data: no advertising, analytics or tracking libraries.

Permissions

• Camera: used only to read the barcode on a book, or to copy a line of text from a page when you ask it to. Both are read on your iPhone; images are never stored or sent anywhere.
• Contacts: when you check a book out to someone, you can pick them from your contacts. The app receives only the person you pick, never your address book, and keeps their name and one phone number or email, so you can ask for the book back. Asking opens a message you write and send yourself; the app never contacts anyone.
• Notifications: the “Still reading?” check, due-back reminders and the optional reading reminder are scheduled on your iPhone. No notifications are sent from a server.
• Location: not used. The Sunset theme switches at fixed hours.

While a sitting runs, the book’s title shows on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Anyone who can see your iPhone can see it there.

Your choices

• Change or delete anything in the app: edit a book, strike a sitting, or remove a book from your shelf.
• Take everything with you with Settings → Your data → Export everything.
• Delete it all: delete the app. To remove the iCloud copy, go to iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage → Quiet Floor.
• Turn off iCloud sync for Quiet Floor in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud.

This website

quietfloor.app counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, so we know how many people come by. It sets no cookies, doesn’t follow you to other sites and doesn’t identify you: it records the page you viewed, the site you came from, your country and the kind of browser. The website and the app share nothing; your library never touches the site.

Children

Quiet Floor isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone. The app sends us nothing.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change affects what happens to your data, we’ll say so in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]