Privacy policy
Last updated 2026-09-19.
What we collect
Your email, display name and password hash when you sign up; the profile details you choose to add; your shelves, ratings, reviews, follows and edits; the pages you view (aggregated into daily counts); and payment references when you subscribe.
Why
To run your account across every country site, rank books and authors, show you relevant recommendations, pay partners for the clicks we send them, and send the emails you asked for (verification, password reset, notification digests, billing).
Cookies
A session cookie keeps you signed in on every country site. A preference cookie remembers your chosen country and language. In the EU, EEA and UK, advertising cookies are set only after you consent.
Sharing
We share data only with the providers that run the service: hosting in [hosting provider and region], [email provider] for email, Google AdSense for ads where you have consented. We never sell personal data.
Your rights
Export your shelves and reviews as CSV from your reading stats page. Ask [contact email] to correct or delete your account; deletion removes your personal details and keeps contributions under an anonymous name, as the terms allow.
Retention
Sessions expire after 30 days of inactivity. Moderator application documents are deleted 30 days after the decision. Affiliate click logs keep a hashed session identifier for 13 months for partner reconciliation.