In short
Edhar Older is the data controller for Talevara. Talevara processes information to provide free reading, story creation and publication review, account services, support, safety, security, and privacy rights. Community interactions, advertising, paid checkout, subscriptions, and creator payouts are not currently offered.
1. Data controller
The controller for Talevara personal data is Edhar Older, an individual in the European Union trading as Talevara. Contact: [email protected] or the linked privacy support route. Talevara has not appointed a data-protection officer.
2. Scope
This policy covers the Talevara website, Explore and Reader, Creator Studio, Account and Settings, support, story reports, moderation, and related services. Community features are not currently available. If the way we process personal information changes materially, we will update this policy and provide any notice required by law.
3. Information Talevara may process
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Account & profile | Email address, display name, sign-in details, account settings, and age-rating confirmations. A birth date entered for a story-rating check is evaluated in your browser and is not sent to or stored by Talevara. |
| Reading activity | Saved stories, reading progress and completion status, and Reader preferences. Community features such as follows, comments, and reviews are not currently available. |
| Creator activity | Draft and published story content, story details, content labels, cover-review submissions, publishing history, and Creator settings. |
| Story reporting & safety | Reports, report details, moderation decisions, and related notices or appeal records. |
| Technical & security | IP address, device/browser data, log events, timestamps, crash information, authentication and security signals. |
| Support & legal | Messages to support, privacy requests, rights-holder notices, illegal-content notices, appeal records, supporting files you choose to provide. |
| Cookies & similar tech | Authentication/session data, preferences, consent records, and optional analytics only where the user chooses them and the feature is configured. |
| Commerce data | Talevara does not offer checkout, subscriptions, refunds, creator payouts, or advertising, and does not request payment-card or tax-verification details. |
4. Why Talevara may use information
| Purpose | Typical legal basis where GDPR applies |
|---|---|
| Provide accounts, libraries, reading, publishing, and creator tools | Performance of a contract / steps requested before a contract. |
| Secure the service, prevent abuse, maintain logs, and investigate fraud or misuse | Legitimate interests; legal obligation where applicable. |
| Moderate content, handle reports and appeals, and comply with lawful orders | Legitimate interests, contract, and/or legal obligation depending on the action. |
| Personalize discovery and recommendations | Explore uses public story details, reader-selected filters, and editorial controls. It does not use your account reading history to rank stories. |
| Send service, support, security, and optional product emails | Contract, legitimate interests, legal obligation, or consent depending on the message. |
| Optional analytics technologies | Consent where required for access/storage on a user’s device and for subsequent processing. |
| Commercial processing | Not used: Talevara does not offer payment, tax-verification, payout, or advertising services. |
Talevara does not ask you to consent to all data processing. We use information where needed to provide the service, protect users, or meet legal obligations. We ask for your choice before optional story metrics are collected. Withdrawing that choice does not stop processing that is necessary for your account, security, or legal obligations.
5. Sources of information
We receive information from you when you use Talevara, from service providers that help operate the service, and from other users who submit a story report or other support request.
6. Public content and creator visibility
Approved public stories can be read and shared. Approved stories without age restrictions may appear in external search results. Age-restricted stories are not intended for public search indexing. Drafts and unpublished work are visible only to their creator, except when submitted for authorized review.
7. Recommendations and profiling
Explore uses public story information, reader-selected filters, and editorial controls. Talevara does not use individual reading history for personalized story ranking and does not make solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on a person.
8. Sharing information
We share information with service providers that help host Talevara, store stories, provide sign-in, support users, and protect the service. These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services to Talevara and under the applicable data-protection terms.
Talevara does not currently offer payment, advertising, or creator-payout services. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect people or the service, or when you ask us to do so.
9. Story metrics
If optional first-party story metrics are enabled and a reader opts in, Talevara records daily event counts grouped by public story: story opens, reading starts, chapter reads, and completions. These are event counts, not unique-reader or completion-rate estimates. The metrics do not include account, session, route, chapter identifier, story text, reading-choice, or demographic fields. Creators can see counts only for their own published stories; administrators can see platform-level story counts. These aggregate counts do not show an individual reader’s activity and cannot be linked to a reader account or session. Withdrawing consent stops future collection. Counts are kept for no more than 30 days. If an account is deleted while an approved public story is retained, aggregate counts for that story may remain. Your separate account reading progress is described above and is available to you in Reader.
10. International transfers
Talevara is operated from the European Union, but service providers may process data in the United States or other countries. Where a provider processes information outside the EEA, UK, or another region with transfer restrictions, we use safeguards required by applicable data-protection law.
11. Retention
We keep personal information only for as long as needed to provide the service, meet legal obligations, protect users, and resolve disputes. Account and creator data are normally kept until you delete the account or relevant content, unless a legal, safety, security, or dispute reason requires longer retention. Technical and security logs are kept for the limited period needed to operate and protect Talevara; provider retention periods may vary.
Support, privacy, legal, copyright, moderation, and safety case records are retained while the request is handled and for the period needed to preserve evidence, manage repeat abuse, comply with law, or defend legal claims. Consent records are retained for as long as needed to prove and honor the choice. Aggregated or anonymized statistics may be retained after they can no longer reasonably identify a person.
12. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing, receive portable data, withdraw consent, and complain to a supervisory authority. Where GDPR applies, requests are generally handled without charge and within the statutory timeframe, subject to permitted extensions or identity checks.
In Settings, you can export your data, manage privacy choices, or request account deletion. Deletion is irreversible and offers three choices: close sign-in access while keeping your data and works; delete personal data and unpublished work while keeping published stories; or delete the account, data, and all works. If you keep published stories, you can retain your public pen name or replace it with “Deleted creator”; anonymization is the default. You can also contact Privacy Support to request correction, restriction, or review of how information is handled.
13. Cookies and similar technologies
See the Cookie Policy. Optional story metrics are collected only when the feature is available and you opt in. When enabled, they consist of daily counts per public story for opens, reading starts, chapter reads, and completions, retained for no more than 30 days. Talevara does not use advertising or marketing trackers. Your account reading progress is separate and is not used for personalized ranking.
14. Children and teenagers
Anyone eligible to use Talevara under applicable law may create an account and use Creator Studio. Mature (16+) and Adult (18+) stories each require a separate account-based age confirmation. The birth date entered for this story-access check is evaluated in your browser; Talevara does not receive or store it. This is a self-attestation, not identity verification. Talevara does not ask for a birth date during ordinary registration.
Talevara does not offer advertising or creator payouts. We handle information relating to children and teenagers in accordance with applicable law and the privacy choices and age controls described above.
15. Security
We use access controls, secure sign-in, and other safeguards designed to protect information. No online service can guarantee absolute security.
16. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when our data practices materially change and explain significant changes. The effective date above shows when the current version took effect.
17. Contact and complaints
Privacy requests, controller questions, complaints, and representative inquiries can be submitted through the linked privacy support route or by email to [email protected]. Where GDPR applies, you may also complain to the supervisory authority for your country or habitual residence. Talevara will publish country-specific regulator and representative details if they become legally required for the operating model.
Questions about this policy?
Use the privacy support case form. The case system records the request and its history; support and statutory notice routes are available through the linked support forms.