You, your data & Readerly

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Readerly does not show or host any advertisements, and therefore does not share your data with advertisers or publishers.

Privacy

You have the option to make the books you save, rate, hide or mark as read as private, except for two instances, which are always public by their nature:

If you create a Gist for the book, you’ll either be sharing it publicly or with others in a group that you select. This includes how you rated the book and the contents of your Gist.

If you save a book because of another user’s Gist (you use the "save" button on their Gist), your username and profile will appear alongside that Gist’s list of saved users.

Data usage

To explain how your data is used, we've divided all data into three sections: private, anonymously aggregated, and public.

Private

Private data is only seen by you. It's not shared in any form, or ever aggregated. We use the following:

Email address, password, and the provider you signed up with (Apple, Google, Facebook etc)
We use this information to identify your account, provide you services and support, and send you marketing communications (unless you opt-out). We may also use this data internally (anonymously aggregated) to aid product development, such as measuring feature usage.

IP address, device/browser type, operating system, pages you've visited on our site, and actions taken
We use this data primarily for personalization, specifically book recommendations, but also group matching and other personalizations that are aimed at improving your user experience. We may also use this data internally (anonymously aggregated) to aid product development, such as measuring feature usage.

Anonymously aggregated

We collect some of your data (such as book ratings) and bundle it into an anonymously calculated average or percentage. We make sure to never identify you personally.

Saving and rating books
We'll use these actions to create percentages to show to other users, such as "82% of users recommend this book."

Actions on books and our site
Many actions, such as saving a book or making a purchase, are used in aggregate to train our recommendation engine models.

Public

Public data is information that other users can see.

Your name, username and badge
Your profile includes the username you selected on sign up, a name you can choose and an optional "badge" such as "bookseller" or "author".

Saving book from Gists
When you save a book from a Gist’s save button, other users can see that you saved the book. They can’t see the current status of the book (so if you’ve since hidden, read or unsaved it, they won’t know).

Your Gists
Similarly, all of the content of your public Gists are available publicly to other Readerly users. When you create a Gist, you allow Readerly to show it publicly alongside that book and to credit you using your name. If you choose to only share a Gist with select groups, only those groups can see the Gist and its contents.

Saved, read and hidden lists
Lists and the books within them are public by default, but you may wish to make them private.

Comments in groups
Groups are community discussions that include other users, so posts here will be seen by anyone with access to the discussion.

Our full privacy policy

Last Updated: May 18, 2021

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We are a Data Controller of your information.

The legal right for Readerly, Inc. to collect and use the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends upon the kind of personal information we collect and is tied to following terms:

• Readerly, Inc. has performed a contract with you
• You have given Readerly, Inc. permission to do so
• Processing your personal information is in Readerly, Inc. legitimate interests
• Readerly, Inc. is in compliance with the law

Readerly, Inc. will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
• The right of rectification.
• The right to object.
• The right of restriction.
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent

Log Files

Readerly follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log users' visits to our website. All hosting companies do this and it forms a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and web beacons

Like any other website, Readerly uses cookies, which store information including visitors' preferences and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the visitor's experience by customizing our web page content to the visitors' browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies."

Children's Information

We are concerned for the protection of children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Readerly does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, please contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.