DagWorld
Privacy policy

Privacy policy

Last updated 30 July 2026

DagWorld is a reading and listening app for the published work of Dag Heward-Mills. It is published by Benlottejnr Apps, East Legon, Ghana, the publisher of VerseUp and VerseFlash. This policy explains what the app collects, why, and how to get rid of it.

The app is not yet released. This policy describes the app as it will work at launch, and we will update it if anything material changes before then.

The short version

  • You can browse the library, search it and read quotes without an account. If you never sign in, we hold no personal data about you.
  • An account exists for one reason, to keep your own library in sync across your devices.
  • There are no advertising identifiers, no third-party ad networks and no third-party analytics trackers in the app.
  • We do not collect your location or your contacts, and we never see your payment card details.
  • Deleting your account removes the personal layer. See Delete account.

Using DagWorld without an account

Browsing the catalogue, searching, reading quotes and viewing book and audiobook details all work signed out. In that state the app does not create a profile for you, and nothing you do is tied to an identity on our servers.

Our servers keep ordinary web request logs when the app talks to the API, which include an IP address, a timestamp and the endpoint requested. These are operational records used to keep the service running and to investigate abuse, and they are not used to build a profile of you.

What we collect when you sign in

Signing in is done with Google or Apple. There is no password-based login, so we never receive, store or handle a password for you.

  • Account identity. From Google or Apple we receive your name, your email address and a stable provider id that lets us recognise you next time. If you use Apple's Hide My Email, we only ever see the relay address Apple gives us.
  • Reading and listening progress. Which book or audiobook you are in, and how far through it you are.
  • Your own annotations. Highlights, bookmarks and notes you create, along with the passage each one is attached to.
  • Saved quotes. Quotes from the catalogue that you save to your own collection.
  • Submitted quotes. Quotes you submit yourself, with the account that submitted them. A submitted quote is private to you until a moderator approves it. If it is approved it becomes part of the public catalogue, and it appears there as a quote from Dag Heward-Mills, not under your name.
  • A device token, only if you turn on the daily quote. Daily quote notifications are opt-in and off until you switch them on. If you switch them on we store a push token for that device and the time of day you chose, so the notification arrives when you asked for it.
  • Diagnostic and crash data. Basic technical information such as the app version, the device model, the operating system version and a crash stack trace when something fails. We use this to fix faults.

What we do not collect

  • No advertising identifiers, and no advertising at all in the app.
  • No third-party ad or analytics trackers, and no tracking of you across other apps or websites.
  • No location data, precise or approximate.
  • No contacts, photo library, microphone or camera access.
  • No payment card details. If you buy anything, the purchase goes through Apple's App Store or Google Play, and they never pass card details to us. We only learn that a purchase exists and what it entitles you to.

Why we collect it

  • To sync your own library across your devices. Progress, highlights, bookmarks, notes and saved quotes exist so that a book you left half read on a phone is half read on a tablet too.
  • To send the daily quote you asked for. Only if you opted in, and only at the time you chose.
  • To keep the service working. Diagnostics, crash reports and request logs let us find faults, stop abuse and keep the app stable.
  • To moderate submitted quotes. Quotes go to a human moderator before they can appear in the public catalogue.

Legal basis

Where UK and EU data protection law applies, we rely on the following bases.

  • Performance of a contract. Creating your account and syncing your library are the service you asked for, so we process that data to provide it.
  • Consent. Daily quote notifications are opt-in. You can withdraw consent at any time by turning notifications off in the app or in your device settings, and the stored device token is discarded.
  • Legitimate interests. Diagnostics, crash reporting, request logs and moderation of submitted quotes, so that the app works and the catalogue stays accurate. We balance this against your interests and keep the data to the minimum that serves the purpose.

Downloads and offline use

Books and audiobooks can be downloaded for offline reading and listening. Downloaded files are stored on your device and are not shared with anyone. Deleting a download, or deleting the app, removes those files from the device.

Who else is involved

We keep the list of third parties as short as we can. These are the only ones that touch your data.

  • Apple. Sign in with Apple, app distribution and any in-app purchase. Apple's own privacy policy governs what Apple does with the data you give Apple.
  • Google. Sign in with Google, app distribution and any in-app purchase, and push delivery through Firebase Cloud Messaging. Firebase Cloud Messaging receives the device token and the notification payload so that the daily quote can reach your device.
  • Our hosting provider. The servers, database and file storage that run the DagWorld API and hold the catalogue and your account data.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers. We may disclose data if we are legally required to, for example in response to a valid legal order.

Where your data is held

DagWorld's servers and storage are located in [TO CONFIRM]. Where data is transferred out of the UK or the European Economic Area, we rely on the safeguards permitted by data protection law, such as standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

Your account data, progress, annotations and saved quotes are kept for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account they are removed, subject to the exceptions below. Diagnostic, crash and server log records are kept for a limited operational period and then deleted, currently [TO CONFIRM]. Backups roll off on their own cycle, currently [TO CONFIRM], so a deleted record can persist in a backup for a short time after deletion before that backup expires.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account from inside the app, or by writing to us. Deleting your account removes the personal layer: your identity, your reading progress, your highlights, bookmarks and notes, your saved quotes and any stored device token. Full instructions, including what survives deletion, are on the Delete account page.

Two things do not come back with you. A quote you submitted that a moderator has already approved stays in the public catalogue, because it is then part of the shared library rather than part of your account, and it never carried your name. Records we are required to keep for legal or accounting reasons, such as a purchase receipt, are also retained.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive it in a portable form. You can exercise any of these by emailing privacy@benlottejnr.org. We will respond within the time limit set by the law that applies to you, which is one month in the UK and the EEA.

If you are in the UK or the EEA and you think we have handled your data badly, you can complain to your data protection regulator. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office.

Children

DagWorld is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, write to privacy@benlottejnr.org and we will delete it.

Security

Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit. Access to the production database is restricted to the people who run the service. No system is perfect, but we keep the amount of data we hold small, which is the most reliable protection there is.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change materially affects how we handle your data, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

For anything about privacy or your data, email privacy@benlottejnr.org. For everything else, email support@benlottejnr.org.

Benlottejnr Apps, East Legon, Ghana. Registered details: [TO CONFIRM]. We have not appointed a data protection officer; privacy enquiries go to the address above.

The content in DagWorld is the copyright of Dag Heward-Mills and is used with permission.