Privacy Policy

What we collect

Account: if you sign in, we store your email address to identify your account. You can sign in with an email link or with Google.

Your library: the books, reading progress, notes, quotes and goals you add. On your device this stays local; if you turn on cloud sync (a Premium feature), it is also stored securely so it can sync across your devices.

Basic technical data needed to run the service, such as request logs used to keep the app reliable and prevent abuse.

What we do NOT do

We do not use third-party advertising or tracking analytics.

We do not sell or rent your personal data to anyone.

We do not read your notes or quotes for any purpose other than syncing them back to you, and they are never sent to AI services.

How your data is used

To provide the core features: saving your library, syncing it across devices, and showing your stats.

Book search results come from the Google Books API, which we call on your behalf; your search terms are sent to that service only to return results.

Reading suggestions (a Premium feature): when you ask for suggestions, we send the title, author, star rating, reading status and genre of the books in your library to OpenAI, which generates the suggestions on our behalf. Your notes and quotes are never sent. OpenAI does not use data received through its API to train its models and may keep it for a limited time (up to 30 days) only to monitor abuse. Each suggestion is then checked against Google Books by title and author. We keep the suggestions you received, and the ones you marked as "not interested", linked to your account so you can see them again and get better ones; they are deleted with your account.

Notifications: reading reminders are scheduled on your phone and nothing about them leaves it. If you use Friends, we store a notification identifier for your phone, linked to your account, so we can tell you about friend requests and reactions through Google Firebase Cloud Messaging. It is removed when you sign out or delete your account, and you can turn each kind of notification off in the app.

To keep the service secure and working, for example, rate-limiting to prevent abuse.

Where it is stored

Cloud data is stored with our infrastructure provider (Supabase) and protected so that only your account can access your own records.

Reading suggestions are generated by OpenAI, whose servers are in the United States, so the book data described above is processed there when you use that feature.

Your choices

You can use Bookery fully offline without an account; nothing leaves your device until you sign in and enable sync.

You can request deletion of your account and associated cloud data at any time by contacting us.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email us at [email protected].