Privacy policy

Rabbitrail Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 12, 2026

Rabbitrail is an iPhone app for exploring Wikipedia articles. This policy explains what information the app uses and where it goes. The short version: your reading profile stays on your iPhone, there are no ads, there is no tracking, and we never sell your data.

Information that stays on your device

To pick articles you'll enjoy, Rabbitrail learns from how you use it. That includes the topics you choose, how long you spend on an article, how far you scroll, which links you follow, your thumbs up and thumbs down, and your saved articles, reading history and trails.

All of this is stored only on your iPhone. It is not sent to us or to anyone else. You can erase it at any time with Reset interest profile in the app, and it is removed completely when you delete the app.

Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Rabbitrail loads articles, images and facts directly from Wikipedia and Wikimedia's public services, which are run by the Wikimedia Foundation. To fetch content, the app sends Wikimedia the names of articles and topics it is looking for, which are based on your interests. Like any website, Wikimedia's servers also receive standard technical information such as your IP address. Wikimedia's handling of this is covered by the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy.

Article text is from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Rabbitrail is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Purchases and RevenueCat

Rabbitrail uses RevenueCat to manage access to Rabbitrail Pro. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID that is not linked to your name or email. It also receives your purchase and subscription status, the date you first downloaded the app (so early users keep Pro for free), and basic device and app information. This is used only to provide Pro features and restore purchases. See RevenueCat's privacy policy. Payments themselves are handled by Apple; we never see your payment details.

Notifications

If you turn them on, Rabbitrail sends up to three "rabbit hole" notifications a day. They are scheduled on your iPhone, and no notification server or account is involved. You can turn them off in the app or in iOS Settings.

What we don't do

• No advertising and no ad networks.

• No tracking across other apps or websites.

• No analytics or behavioral profiling on our servers. We don't have any servers that receive your reading data.

• No selling or sharing of personal information.

• No account or sign-in required.

If you share an article or share card, it goes only where you choose through the iOS share sheet. Links to sites outside Wikipedia open in Safari, and those sites have their own privacy policies.

Apple

If you have opted in through your iPhone's settings, Apple may share anonymous crash reports and app usage statistics with developers. Apple's privacy policy covers these.

Children

Rabbitrail is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the effective date above. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email gibgjs@gmail.com