Privacy

In short: you can read Bard's Bield without an account. Bard's Bield has no database of readers, sells nothing and shows no advertising. Most of what Bard's Bield remembers is kept only in your own browser.

Who is responsible

Bard's Bield is built and run by Suman Saurav. For anything on this page, write to suman@commsforacause.org.

What stays on your device

• Bookmarks, reading place and settings (scene, music, volume, language and voice) are saved in your browser's local storage.
• Books you add to My shelf (PDF or text) are read and stored only in your browser. They are never uploaded.
• The storyteller voice is downloaded once from Hugging Face, a model hosting service, and kept in your browser's cache. Narration is created on your device; the story text is not sent anywhere to be voiced.

You can erase all of this at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings, or by removing books from My shelf.

Visitor analytics

To understand how Bard's Bield is used, it uses Lovable's visitor analytics. It uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device, doesn't keep IP addresses and doesn't identify visitors. Lovable collects this data for us. Lovable's privacy policy explains how it handles it.

It records the pages visited, where visitors came from, their country, browser, operating system and device type, how long they stay, how fast pages load, errors, and which buttons and links are clicked. Detailed data is kept for 90 days and daily summaries for a year. Bard's Bield has no cookie banner, so this is recorded for every visitor, without cookies and without identifying anyone.

Services Bard's Bield connects to

• Google Translate: when you choose a language, the story passages you read are sent to Google to be translated. Nothing is sent while you read in the original language.
• YouTube and Spotify: if you play a music station or paste a link, that player loads from YouTube or Spotify, which may set their own cookies and apply their own privacy policies.
• Google Fonts: the typefaces load from Google, which sees your IP address as part of the request.
• Hosting: like any website, the servers that deliver Bard's Bield see your IP address and browser in routine logs.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the EU and UK GDPR and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act give you rights to access, correct or delete personal data and to object to its use. Because Bard's Bield keeps almost nothing about you, most of it is already in your hands. For anything else, write to suman@commsforacause.org. You may also complain to your data protection authority.

Children

Folk tales belong to everyone, including children. Bard's Bield asks for no personal details from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, it will be updated here. See also the terms of use.