Seyr is a reading app. Seyr does not collect, sell or share any personal information. It has no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no in-app purchases, and we run no server of our own.
To show you what you read, Seyr asks Wikimedia’s public servers for it directly. This policy explains what stays on your device, what those requests contain and who receives them. It covers Seyr for iPhone and for Android.
What stays on your device
Seyr saves these things on your device only:
- What you keep in the Treasury: articles, quotes and couplets, and journeys with your notes.
- The journey you’re on, so you can pick it up where you left off.
- Your reading languages and interests.
- A few things it has already looked up, like the list of Hafez’s ghazals and the last verse of the day, so they still show without a connection.
This data doesn’t leave your device unless you share it. Deleting the app deletes all of it. If your device backs up to iCloud, Google or a computer, the backup may include it, as with any app; we never see it.
What Seyr asks Wikimedia for
Everything you read in Seyr comes from Wikimedia Foundation projects: Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The app requests it straight from their public servers (such as fa.wikipedia.org or upload.wikimedia.org). Nothing passes through us.
Those requests contain only what’s needed to answer them:
- the titles of the articles, quotes, poems and pictures being loaded;
- what you type in Search, and a word you tap to look up;
- your reading languages, which decide which language’s Wikipedia is asked.
Like any web request, they also carry your device’s IP address, and they name the app (Seyr, its version and our contact address), not you. They include no account, no advertising identifier and nothing else that identifies you. Wikimedia handles them under its own privacy policy.
Links such as “Keep reading” open the full article in your browser, which then handles it under its own terms.
The Hafez of the day widget
The home-screen widget asks Persian Wikisource for the day’s ghazal in the same way, and keeps the last couplet on your device for when you’re offline.
Permissions
Add to Photos (iPhone)
When it’s used: When you tap Save to Photos on a poster or story picture.
What happens to the data: iOS asks first. Seyr only adds the one picture you chose and can’t see your library.
On Android 10 and later, saving a picture needs no permission; it goes to Pictures/Seyr on your phone.
Seyr asks for nothing else: no location, camera, microphone, contacts or notifications.
Sharing
Seyr only shares when you ask it to. When you send a poster, a picture card or a journey, you choose where it goes with your device’s share sheet. Copied and shared text carries its source and a link, as the free licenses ask.
Children
Seyr collects no personal information from anyone, including children. What it suggests on its own is filtered to stay gentle, but it shows encyclopedia content, and Search is not filtered.
Third parties
Seyr contains no third-party SDKs for analytics, advertising or tracking. Its only outside connections are the Wikimedia requests described above.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email [email protected].