Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 22, 2025
We care about your privacy. Here is how we handle your data.
1. Information Collection
We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you create an account, update your profile, or communicate with us. This may include your name, email address, and other contact or identifying information. We also automatically collect certain information when you use the Service, such as your IP address, device type, browser type, and usage data.
2. Use of Information
We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, to develop new ones, and to protect BookVillage and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads. Specifically, we use data to: (a) Process your registration and manage your account; (b) Provide customer support; (c) Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events; (d) Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Service.
3. Information Sharing
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of BookVillage except in the following cases: (a) With your consent; (b) For external processing by trusted service providers who process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures; (c) For legal reasons, if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
4. Data Security
We work hard to protect BookVillage and our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold. In particular: (a) We encrypt many of our services using SSL; (b) We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to systems; (c) We restrict access to personal information to BookVillage employees, contractors, and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
6. Your Data Rights
You have the right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. You may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, to ask us to restrict processing of your personal data or to request portability of your personal data.
7. Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@bookvillage.pub.
