Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 28, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how WikiPortal (the "Application") handles information. WikiPortal is a client for browsing third-party, MediaWiki-powered wiki sites that you choose to add, such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any Miraheze-hosted or self-hosted wiki.

        In short: WikiPortal has no backend server of its own. It
        does not use analytics or advertising SDKs, does not require an account,
        and does not collect, transmit, or have access to your personal data. The
        app talks directly to whichever wiki you browse, the same way a web
        browser would, and keeps everything else on your own device.
    

Information We Do Not Collect

We have no servers of our own, so there is nothing for us to collect. Specifically, WikiPortal does not:

Require you to create an account or provide any personal information to use it
Use any analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDK
Transmit your browsing activity, saved pages, or history to us or to any third party we operate
Access your contacts, camera, microphone, or location

Information Stored On Your Device

WikiPortal keeps the following locally on your device, in the app's own storage, so it can function without a network connection and remember your setup between sessions:

The wikis you've added, and any folders you've organized them into
Pages you've explicitly saved for offline reading
Your recent reading history within the app
Open tabs, so they're there when you come back
App preferences, such as your chosen skin per wiki

None of this is sent anywhere. You can clear your history and remove saved pages from within the app at any time, and uninstalling the app removes all of it.

Network Requests

When you browse a wiki, WikiPortal loads it directly from that wiki's own servers, the same as opening it in a web browser. To show what's currently popular on a wiki you follow, the app also fetches that wiki's own public page-view statistics (aggregate counts of which pages are being read, not information about you individually). No request from the app passes through a server operated by us, because none exists.

Third-Party Wikis

Once you're viewing an actual wiki inside the app, you're interacting with that wiki directly, and its own privacy policy and terms apply. If you log in to a wiki from within WikiPortal, that login is handled entirely by the wiki itself; WikiPortal does not see, store, or manage your wiki credentials. Any session cookies for that login are kept by the standard in-app browser component, the same as they would be in any mobile browser, and are specific to that wiki's own domain.

App Logs

Settings includes an "App logs" screen intended for troubleshooting, aimed at people who want to see what the app has been doing when something goes wrong. These logs:

Stay on your device; nothing is sent anywhere automatically
Are automatically screened to mask things like login tokens, session identifiers, email addresses, and IP addresses before they're ever stored or shown on screen
Only leave your device if you deliberately choose to copy or export them yourself, in which case you choose where that export goes

Children's Privacy

WikiPortal is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, adults and children alike, since it does not collect personal information from any user.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a revised "Last Updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be raised as an issue on the GitHub repository.