What we store
To run your account we keep: your email address and a hashed password (we cannot see the password itself), your profile (display name, username, optional photo, bio, pronouns, language), and your reading preferences — genres, tropes, and any content you asked us to avoid showing you.
As you use Booklabria we also store what you create and do here: your shelves and reading progress, reviews and ratings, posts and comments, follows, ARC applications, and — for authors — books, series, campaigns and pen-name details.
Photos you upload
An avatar, a profile cover or a book cover you upload is re-encoded on our servers before it is stored: it is resized to three sizes, and every embedded tag — location, camera, timestamps, software — is removed, so a photo never carries where or when it was taken. Uploads are limited to ten a day. Anyone can report a photo; while a report is open the photo is shown to nobody but moderators, and a moderator may remove it and restore the default, in which case you are told. Removed photos are not shown again.
Books that are not published here
Your shelves can hold books no Booklabria author has published. Their title, author, ISBN and cover come from Open Library (openlibrary.org), an open catalogue; we look them up from our servers when you search or import, keep a copy of the record and the cover so the book stays on your shelf, and never send Open Library anything about you — not your account, not your address, not what you shelved. A library export you upload (Goodreads, StoryGraph) is read for titles, authors, ISBNs, shelves, ratings and dates only; reviews and notes in the file are not read. You can remove an import from your list at any time.
E-mail you share with an author
An author cannot see your e-mail address. If you choose to share it with them — the “Let … e-mail me” button on their page — nothing happens until you confirm from your inbox: we send you one message with the exact words you agreed to, and only the link in it completes the sharing. Once confirmed, that author can export your address, with the date and the words you agreed to, and write to you from their own tools. Booklabria never sends anything on an author's behalf, never shares your address with an author you did not choose, and keeps a record of every export an author makes (who, when, how many addresses). You can withdraw at any time in Settings › Notifications or on the author's page; from that moment your address is left out of every export they make. What an author does with an address they have already exported is between you and them, under their own law — the export tells them so on its first lines.
Push notifications and the installed app
If you turn on push for a device, your browser gives us an address for that device and two keys that let only that browser read what we send; we store them with your account and show you the list of devices in Settings › Notifications, where any of them can be removed. A push carries only what the bell in the app would show — a title and one line — and follows the same category choices; it never carries your data or a sign-in. When a device stops accepting pushes we stop sending to it and say so. The installed app keeps only its own icons and an “offline” notice on your device — never a copy of a page.
Analytics without raw IP addresses
We measure Booklabria with our own first-party events, not third-party trackers. There are no advertising pixels and no data brokers. Analytics events never store your raw IP address; visitor counting uses a hash that is re-salted daily, so it cannot be joined across days to build a long-term profile of you.
Who can see your activity
You control visibility per area: your library, reading progress, activity and follower lists can each be public, followers-only, or private — and your whole profile can be limited to followers. Blocking someone hides you from each other entirely, in both directions.
- Reviews you publish are public alongside the book, under your name.
- Posts carry the audience you chose at publish time: Public, Followers, or Only me.
- Authors see aggregate reader metrics (like monthly readers), never a list of who read what — beyond the ARC delivery records described below.
ARC files and delivery records
Advance copies are delivered through signed links that expire after fifteen minutes, with a per-application download limit. Every download is logged — which application, when, and how many times — because that log is the author's protection for an unreleased manuscript. The author of a campaign can see your application, your compatibility score, your delivery status and your ARC reliability history; they cannot see the rest of your private library.
What we never do
- We do not sell or rent your data to anyone.
- We do not run advertising and do not build ad profiles from your reading.
- We do not collect payment details — payments are disabled platform-wide during the closed beta.
- We do not read direct measurements of you off-platform; everything above is data you gave us or created here.
Your controls
You can edit or delete your profile details, posts, comments and reviews at any time, and deleted content is removed from view immediately. You can download a copy of your data yourself from Settings › Privacy, and delete your account from Settings › Account. Deleting your account hides your profile, posts, comments and reviews immediately and signs you out. Thirty days later the account is permanently deleted: every row that was yours, and every file you uploaded — photos, data exports, manuscripts — is removed. Within those thirty days support can restore the account if you write to us; after them nothing can. What we keep is a one-line record that an account was deleted (a hash of the address, the date, counts of what was removed — no name), the moderation trail with your account id removed from it, and financial history, which names no person. A reading circle you founded passes to its longest-standing member rather than closing with you. If you are an author, your books stay in the catalogue as a record under your pen name — readers who shelved or reviewed them keep that — while your campaigns, manuscripts, analytics and everything you posted are removed. For anything else, including a question about what we hold, email support@booklabria.com.
Closed beta caveats
Booklabria is in closed beta. Some screens show clearly fictional demo books and profiles while features are completed, and features may change between visits. If a change affects what we store about you, we will update this policy and move the date at the top — we will not change the substance quietly.
Questions
Write to support@booklabria.com for anything privacy-related, or see the Help center for how-to questions. A human answers both.