Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Bibliofile ("we", "our", or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us.

When you visit our website and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy in clear terms to explain what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, or otherwise when you contact us.

• Personal Information Provided by You: We collect names, email addresses, usernames, passwords, and profile pictures.
• User-Generated Content: We collect information about the books you read, your reviews, ratings, custom lists, and reading progress.
• Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the website. This includes your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, referring URLs, device name, country, location, and information about how and when you use our website.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information collected via our website for a variety of business purposes described below:

• To facilitate account creation and logon process.
• To provide and manage the core services (e.g., saving your library, calculating statistics, showing rankings).
• To deliver targeted advertising to you (see the Google AdSense section below).
• To protect our website and users (e.g., fraud monitoring and prevention).
• To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

5. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising

We may use Google AdSense Advertising on our website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet.

• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

6. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

7. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. You can review and change your personal information by logging into the website and visiting your account profile page.