Privacy Policy
Read Cash Ltd (British Virgin Islands) · Last updated 19 August 2026
1Controller and scope
1.1 Read Cash Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (the "Company", "we", "us"), determines the purposes and means of the processing described in this Policy and is the controller in respect of it.
1.2 This Policy applies to personal data processed in connection with the website at read.cash and the services made available through it (the "Service"). It forms part of the Terms of Service.
1.3 Enquiries under this Policy are to be addressed to hello@read.cash.
1.4 The applications published for iOS and Android under the name read.cash (the "Applications") are published by OWL Development Center (FZE), Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, licence number 2367 (the "Publisher"), as described in clause 1.4 of the Terms of Service. The Publisher does not determine the purposes or means of the processing described in this Policy and is not a controller in respect of it. Personal data processed through the Applications is processed by the Company, on the bases set out in this Policy.
2Categories of data processed
2.1 Account data. The electronic mail address supplied on registration, and the authentication codes issued to it.
2.2 Profile data. Handle, display name, profile image, biographical text and any links supplied by the User.
2.3 Content. Posts, comments, reactions, ratings of other Users and the explanations accompanying them, and any other material submitted to the Service.
2.4 Direct messages and any images contained in them. Such messages are exchanged between the participating Users and are stored on the Company's servers. No member of the Company's personnel reads them for the purpose of ascertaining their contents. The exception is the automated processing described in clause 6, which reads a first message sent to a recipient who has not previously corresponded with the sender, and images.
2.5 Uploaded images. Embedded camera metadata, including any location recorded by the capturing device, is stripped before storage.
2.6 A Bitcoin Cash address, where a User elects to register one. Such an address is public by its nature.
2.7 Technical records. Each request to the Service produces a log entry containing the originating network address, the resource requested and the time of the request.
2.8 Notification preferences and, where a User enables push notifications, the endpoint supplied for that purpose by the User's browser.
3Information published by the Service
3.1 The Service is a public publication. Posts, comments, profile information, tips sent and received, the public balance of an Account and the trust ratings a User gives to other Users are accessible to any person, whether or not signed in, and to search engines.
3.2 Trust ratings are attributed. A User who rates another User is identified as the author of that rating, together with its content.
3.3 Electronic mail addresses are not disclosed to other Users.
4Information not accessible to the Company
4.1 A User's wallet recovery phrase and the private keys derived from it are generated and retained within that User's browser and are not transmitted to the Company. The Company cannot read them, cannot effect any transaction with them, and cannot recover them.
4.2 The Company stores only the public address a User elects to register.
5Purposes and legal bases
5.1 Personal data is processed for the following purposes:
- (a) to operate the Service, including publication of Content, delivery of messages and accounting for tips, which is necessary for performance of the contract constituted by the Terms of Service;
- (b) to authenticate Users and to protect Accounts against unauthorised access, which is necessary for performance of that contract and for the Company's legitimate interest in the security of the Service;
- (c) to deliver notifications and correspondence which a User has requested or has not disabled;
- (d) to detect and prevent spam, abuse and material contravening the Site Rules, which is necessary for the Company's legitimate interest in maintaining the Service; and
- (e) to comply with legal obligations to which the Company is subject.
5.2 Personal data is not used to construct advertising profiles, is not sold, and is not disclosed for the purposes of any third party's advertising.
6Automated processing by external services
6.1 Material submitted to the Service is read by automated services outside read.cash. A User should treat anything submitted to the Service as material which may be transmitted to such a service.
6.2 This includes, without limitation, posts and edits to them, comments, uploaded images, the first message you send to a recipient who has not previously corresponded with you, the explanation accompanying a rating, requests submitted to the Company, and the names given to places.
6.3 The purposes of that processing are confined to the operation of the Service and include, without limitation: assessment of Content against the Site Rules; determination of the group to which a post relates and the groups to be suggested to a User; scoring of the explanation accompanying a rating for its usefulness, which the Company retains; and the preparation of summaries displayed by the Service. No output of that processing is used for advertising, and no material submitted to the Service is sold.
6.4 Fault reports. When something fails in a User's browser, the Service records the technical description of that failure — the error text, the code location, the build of the Service, and the kind of browser. Such a report is made only for a signed-in User, is stripped in the browser of recognisable information before it is sent, and is deleted within fourteen days of the first such report.
8Retention
8.1 Account data and published Content are retained for so long as the Account subsists.
8.2 Direct messages are deleted thirty (30) days after they are sent, each message on its own clock, together with any images they contain. A conversation continues; it holds no more than its last thirty days.
8.3 Authentication codes are deleted shortly after they expire.
8.4 Content deleted by a User is removed from the Service, and the associated files are deleted thereafter. Copies may persist in backups for a period.
9Rights of the data subject
9.1 A User may request confirmation of the personal data held about them, its rectification, its erasure, a copy of it in a portable form, or the restriction of, or objection to, its processing.
9.2 Requests are to be addressed to hello@read.cash.
9.3 A User resident in the United Kingdom or the European Union may in addition lodge a complaint with their supervisory authority.
10Minors
10.1 The Service is not offered to persons under the age of sixteen (16).
11Amendment
11.1 This Policy may be amended. The amended Policy takes effect on publication at this address bearing a revised date, and material amendments will be notified on the Service.
12Contact
12.1 Read Cash Ltd, British Virgin Islands. Correspondence concerning this Policy, including any request under clause 9, is to be sent to hello@read.cash.