Your reading life belongs to you. Athos has no accounts, analytics, ads, or library backend. Your data stays on your devices and, if enabled, in your private iCloud account.
Athos is built without a backend for your library. No Athos service tracks behaviour, stores books, or serves ads. Your books live on your devices and, if you choose, in your private iCloud account.
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Athos does not run servers that hold your library, collect personal data, use analytics, or sell ads. It talks to the internet for ISBN metadata lookups and optional iCloud sync.
Nothing. The people who make Athos receive no information about you, your library, your reading, your devices, or how you use the app. There is no Athos account or Athos library server.
Your library is stored on your device. If you turn on iCloud sync, a copy is kept in your private iCloud account — visible only to you, never to us.
| Category | Status |
|---|---|
| User accounts | None — no sign-up, no email, no password |
| Usage tracking | None — we don't measure how you use the app |
| Athos crash reporting | None — standard Apple diagnostics only |
| Advertising IDs | Not requested, not used |
| Code from outside companies | None — Athos contains nothing from anyone else |
| Marketing emails | None — we have no email list |
| Cookies and web trackers | None |
| Sale of data | None — we have no data to sell |
If you turn on sync, Athos keeps your library in step across your Apple devices using your private iCloud account. What that means:
For details on how Apple secures iCloud, see Apple's iCloud privacy documentation.
When you scan a barcode or type in an ISBN, Athos asks up to eight public book databases for the title, cover, author, and edition details. The databases we use:
Your device talks to those services directly; Athos does not proxy the request. Each lookup sends only the book number you scanned.
Each service has its own privacy policy for what it logs on its end. Athos itself keeps no record of which books you've looked up.
Athos has no analytics. We do not track feature use, session length, taps, or screens.
Feedback comes by email, not usage dashboards.
| Permission | Why | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Camera | Scanning book barcodes | Optional — only requested when you open the scanner |
| Calendar | Adding due-date reminders for active loans | Optional — only requested when you create a loan |
| Notifications | Optional alerts for sync completion and app activity you request | Optional — declined by default |
| iCloud | Syncing your library across devices | Optional — Athos works fine on a single device |
You can revoke any of these permissions at any time in iOS Settings, and Athos will continue to function (with the relevant feature disabled).
Athos integrates with three categories of third party:
Athos is not directed at children under 13 and collects no personal information.
Because Athos holds no data about you, access, correction, deletion, and objection requests generally apply to the copies on your devices and iCloud, not an Athos server.
For the data on your devices and in your iCloud:
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top and surface the change in the app on next launch. Athos will not start collecting data without notice.
Privacy questions or data requests: athos@lja.nz. For everything else, see contact.