Privacy

Last updated 9 November 2026

Forest Tales is made for families with young children. The app has no accounts, advertising, tracking or analytics, and it never asks for personal information about you or your child. This notice explains the little data that is processed when you use the Forest Tales app and this website.

Who is responsible

Byteflip UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Moorglockenring 2, 21149 Hamburg, Germany. Email: hello@byteflip.de. Further details are in the legal notice.

The Forest Tales app

Downloaded books, your reading position in each book and your settings, such as language, music and text size, are stored only on your device. They are not sent to us, and deleting the app removes them.

To show which books are available and to download them, the app connects to our server at api.forest-tales.com. Like any web server, it receives your IP address, the time of the request, the requested address and the app and system version your device sends. The requested address shows the selected language and which book is being downloaded. We use this only to deliver the books and to keep the service secure and working, as described under server logs below.

The app does not create a profile of you or your child, does not use advertising or device identifiers, and does not track you across other apps or websites. It contains no advertising, analytics or other third-party code. It has no chat, sharing or social features, and children are never asked to enter information.

This website

This website does not set cookies, does not use analytics or advertising, and does not load content from other providers. Its fonts and images are served from our own server.

Server logs and monitoring

When the app or your browser contacts our server, the server records your IP address, the time, the requested address and the app or browser information in server logs. We use these logs only to deliver the books and the website and to keep them secure and working. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in providing the app and the website securely and reliably (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The logs have a fixed size limit, and older entries are deleted automatically as new ones are written.

Our servers are operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany, who process this data on our behalf.

To find errors and slow responses, we use the monitoring service Honeybadger (Honeybadger Industries LLC, USA), which also processes data on our behalf. For each request it receives the requested page or address, its status and response time, without your IP address. If a request fails, it also receives technical details of the failed request. Transfers to Honeybadger in the USA are protected by the EU standard contractual clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR).

Your rights

You can ask us for access to, correction or deletion of your personal data and ask us to restrict its processing. You can also complain to a data protection supervisory authority.

You have the right to object at any time to processing based on our legitimate interest, for reasons arising from your particular situation.

To exercise these rights or ask a question about privacy, write to hello@byteflip.de.

Changes

We will update this notice before Forest Tales starts processing personal data in new ways, for example when new features are added.