1. Who we are
Vyllo is a personal collection tracker for books, games, and films/series. The data controller is the entity operating Vyllo (contact: support@vyllo-app.com).
2. What data we collect
- Your collection content: titles, status, progress, ratings, notes and completion dates.
- Preferences and settings: theme, language, active categories, annual goals — stored locally on your device.
- SteamID (optional), only if you choose to connect your Steam account. It is stored with your account so your Steam hours and achievements can sync, including in the background while the app is closed. Disconnecting Steam deletes it.
- Usage events linked to your account, as described in section 3: which Premium screens you see and what you do there, and the first time you use some features.
- How you heard about Vyllo (optional): your answer to the question shown after you sign up, for example TikTok or a friend, or that you skipped it.
- If you use Vyllo Playtime for Windows: the games found on that PC and your play sessions, as described in section 6.
We do not collect your real name, address, phone number, or payment details within the app.
3. How and where we store your data
Your collection, settings, and goals are stored locally (on your device or the app's private server). We do not sell, share, or rent your personal data to third parties for advertising or commercial purposes.
Usage events. To understand how people find Vyllo and which features matter to them, the app records a few events in Vyllo's own database, linked to your account:
- When a Premium screen is shown and which feature opened it, the plan you select, and whether a purchase starts, completes (including the start of a free trial) or is restored.
- The first time you add an item (and its category: book, game or film), reach 5 items, add items in a second category (and which two), open the statistics, connect Steam, or share or save an image or your Wrapped.
- The first time a free-plan limit stops something you try to do (the item limit, the AI search limit or an import that doesn't fit).
- Purchases confirmed by the app store: the store, the plan, whether it was a purchase, the start of a free trial or a free trial turning into a paid one, and the store's reference for that purchase. The first time your account became Premium, and how.
- Whether you first used Vyllo on iOS or Android.
- The days on which you open the app (one record per day, not each time), and the first time you finish the welcome screens, search for a title, see search results and pick one.
- When a search finds nothing or fails: the category (books, games or films/series) and the day, at most once per day. Never what you typed.
Each event holds only your account ID, the name of the event, its date and the details listed above. It never includes the titles in your collection or anything you type. We use these events ourselves, to improve the app and to see which channels bring people to Vyllo. They are not shared with third parties, not used for advertising, and not combined with data from other apps or websites. We process them on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving Vyllo; you can object by contacting us. They are kept while your account exists and are deleted with it.
4. Third-party services
To fetch covers, titles, and metadata, the app queries third-party services: TheTVDB, TVmaze, RAWG, Steam (Valve Corporation), Open Library, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), and optionally TMDB. When you use AI search, an external service receives only the search term — never your account data. These services have their own privacy policies.
5. Premium subscription
If you purchase Vyllo Premium, payment is processed by the app store (App Store / Google Play). Vyllo does not store credit card data. Vyllo's server confirms the purchase and the subscription status with the store, and keeps the store's reference for the purchase with your account.
6. Vyllo Playtime for Windows
Vyllo Playtime is an optional Windows app, part of Vyllo Premium, that measures how long you play games on your PC and adds that time to your Vyllo collection. It does nothing until you link it to your account by approving a code in the Vyllo app. You can type the code or scan the QR code shown on the PC, which opens vyllo-app.com/link with that short-lived code; the code is only used to show you the PC to approve.
What it reads on your PC. To find your games, it reads the installed-games lists of Steam, Epic Games, Battle.net, GOG and Ubisoft Connect, and the game folders you choose. To measure playtime, it checks which programs are running and only looks at those inside the folder of a game it tracks. It does not record other programs, websites, keystrokes, screenshots, or anything you do outside your games.
What it sends to Vyllo.
- When you link the PC: the name you give the PC, the Windows version, and the app version.
- To identify a game: the launcher, the store's game ID (for example, the Steam AppID), and the game's name. For games you add yourself, only the name of the game's folder, the name of its executable, and the product name stored in that file.
- Which of your identified games are installed on that PC, so the Vyllo app can show them.
- For each play session: the game, when it started and ended, and why it ended (for example, the game was closed or the PC went to sleep).
It never sends full file paths, your Windows user name, your SteamID, the other programs installed or running on your PC, or the games you chose to ignore or remove.
What stays on your PC. Sessions are saved on the PC first, so no playtime is lost while you are offline, and are sent when there is a connection. Sent sessions are kept on the PC for 90 days and then deleted. Logs are kept for 7 days, without your personal folder names, and only leave the PC if you export them and send them to us yourself. The link to your account is stored in the Windows Credential Manager as a token that only works for Vyllo Playtime; there is no password on the PC.
Game covers. The app downloads game covers directly from IGDB (images.igdb.com, operated by Twitch), which, like any website, receives your IP address.
Updates. The app checks for new versions on GitHub (github.com, operated by Microsoft), from where it also downloads them. GitHub receives your IP address and the app version, nothing about your account.
Your control. You can ignore or remove any game in the Windows app, and unlink the PC at any time, from the Windows app or from the Vyllo app (Profile → PC Playtime). Unlinking revokes the PC's access immediately. Uninstalling removes the app; its local data (the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Vyllo\Playtime) stays on the PC until you delete it. Sessions already sent stay in your Vyllo account until you delete them or your account.
7. Your rights (GDPR)
If you reside in the European Economic Area, you have the right to access, rectify, export, and delete your data. You can export your entire collection at Settings → Data & Cloud, and delete items individually at any time. Deleting your account in the app (Profile → Delete account) permanently deletes your collection, your usage events and your answer about how you heard about Vyllo. For other GDPR matters, contact support@vyllo-app.com.
8. Children
Vyllo is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
9. Cookies and tracking
The app does not use tracking cookies, third-party analytics, or behavioral advertising, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
PC Gaming Playtime Toolkit. The questionnaire at vyllo-app.com/tools/pc-playtime works without an account. To learn which answers and results are common and whether the recommendations are useful, it records in Vyllo's own database: the steps you reach (opening the page, starting and finishing the questionnaire, seeing the recommendations, clicking the Vyllo Playtime or app store links), your answers as the fixed options shown, the result, and the campaign name in the link you followed (utm_source and utm_campaign), if any. These events are linked only to a random number created when the page opens and kept in the page's memory; nothing is stored on your device (no cookies), except the language you pick, if you change it, and we do not record your name, email, IP address, or anything you type. The events cannot be linked to you or to a Vyllo account, and we keep them for up to 24 months.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy. For material changes, we will notify you through the app. The revision date is shown at the top of this document.