Privacy Policy

Welcome to Yomika. This Privacy Policy explains how Yomika (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information when you access or use our websites, applications, reader interfaces, creator tools, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

This policy applies to all individuals who interact with the Service, including registered readers, independent creators, community contributors, and unregistered visitors. Additional notices or supplementary terms may apply to specific features, promotions, or creator monetization programs.

We organize the information we collect into three general categories depending on how you interact with the Service:

We process personal information for legitimate business and operational purposes, including to:

• •Create, authenticate, and manage user accounts
• •Provide reading, chapter navigation, and discovery features
• •Operate and display public creator profiles
• •Store, process, and publish creator manuscripts and artwork
• •Process social interactions (follows, likes, bookmarks, and comments)
• •Deliver transactional updates and release notifications
• •Provide user assistance and customer support
• •Detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud, spam, and platform abuse
• •Moderate content to enforce community safety rules
• •Monitor service performance, stability, and system security
• •Process creator royalties and payments when available
• •Comply with applicable legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service

You may register for and authenticate your Yomika account through supported authentication methods:

• Email and Password: When you register directly with an email address, your password is encrypted using cryptographic hashing before storage. We never store or view raw plaintext passwords.
• Third-Party OAuth Providers (Google, Apple if configured): When you sign in using a third-party authentication provider, that provider shares basic account details (such as your verified email address and public name) required to create or authenticate your Yomika account.

When you establish a creator profile on Yomika, certain information is publicly visible to readers and other platform members to foster discoverability and reader-author connections.

Public creator information includes:

• Display name, unique @username, avatar, and banner artwork
• Public biography and external social media links
• Published novels, comics, chapters, episodes, and story descriptions
• Public follower counts, story ratings, likes, and community engagement metrics

Participation in creator monetization programs may require additional verification and tax/payout details, which are handled confidentially and processed through authorized payment infrastructure.

Yomika enables creators to upload and publish diverse creative formats, including novels, manga, comics, webtoons, illustrated novels, images, manuscripts, and PDF files.

To deliver a seamless reading experience across devices, Yomika processes activity data related to your platform interactions:

• Chapters, episodes, and stories accessed
• Reading progress, scroll position, and font/theme display preferences
• Bookmarks, personal library collections, and reading history
• Comments, chapter reactions, reviews, and story ratings
• Creators followed and release notification preferences

This information allows us to resume your reading where you left off, send alerts when followed authors publish new chapters, and generate relevant recommendations.

We use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to provide core functionality, maintain authenticated user sessions, and remember reader preferences (such as dark mode, typography settings, and reading progress).

• Essential Cookies: Required for secure authentication, session management, and routing.
• Preference Storage: Stores custom reader settings, language selection, and theme modes.
• Performance & Analytics Storage: Used to understand general platform performance where active.

For detailed information on how we utilize cookies and how you can manage them, please review our Cookies Policy.

We may collect aggregated and technical usage metrics to monitor platform health, diagnose software errors, enhance user experience, and protect platform infrastructure against automated threats.

Where external analytics services are engaged, technical metrics are evaluated in aggregate without selling individualized personal data. Service providers are bound by strict data handling obligations ([ANALYTICS PROVIDER, IF USED]).

When monetization, coin purchases, paid chapters, or creator subscriptions are enabled:

• Payments and financial transactions are processed by PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment processors.
• Yomika does not collect or store full credit card or debit card numbers on its servers.
• Yomika receives transaction confirmations, order identifiers, and settlement statuses necessary to fulfill purchases and update account balances.
• Creators receiving earnings or payouts may be required to complete identity verification and submit payout details directly to authorized payout partners.

For terms governing refunds and digital content transactions, please see our Refund Policy.

We may engage trusted third-party service providers to facilitate and support core infrastructure functions. These providers process information solely on our instructions:

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We disclose personal information only in the limited circumstances described below:

• Service Providers: With contractors and service vendors who need access to perform technical, operational, or infrastructure tasks on our behalf under confidentiality agreements.
• Legal & Regulatory Compliance: When required by law, subpoena, legal process, or lawful request by public authorities.
• Safety, Rights & Security: To enforce platform agreements, investigate violations, detect fraud, and protect the rights, property, and safety of Yomika, our users, or the public.
• Business Transfers: In connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.

Yomika operates a global storytelling service. Information we collect may be transferred to, stored, and processed in jurisdictions other than your country of residence, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where cross-border data transfers occur, we implement reasonable and legally recognized administrative, contractual, and technical safeguards to protect your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We retain personal information for as long as your account remains active or as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, provide the Service, resolve disputes, maintain accurate financial records, detect and prevent fraud, and comply with applicable statutory obligations.

You may request or initiate the deletion of your account and associated personal profile information:

Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws (such as GDPR in Europe or CCPA/CPRA in California), you may have specific statutory rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: Request a copy of personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to Deletion: Request erasure of your personal information.
• Right to Portability: Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to Object / Restrict: Object to or restrict certain processing activities.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Revoke previously granted consent at any time.

Note: Your rights depend on the laws that apply to you. To exercise your privacy rights, please submit your request to [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL].

Yomika is not directed to children under the age of [YOMIKA MINIMUM AGE POLICY TO BE FINALIZED]. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children in circumstances where applicable law prohibits such collection.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that a child has provided us with personal information without required authorization, please contact us at [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL]. We will promptly take steps to delete such information from our records.

We implement reasonable technical, organizational, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage system is completely secure. While we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee absolute security against all unforeseen threats.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our operational practices, technological developments, or applicable legal requirements.

When updates occur, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this document. For material updates, we will provide additional notice where appropriate (such as platform announcements or direct email notices).

If you have questions, inquiries, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us: