Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Next Read Club ("we" or "us") handles your information when you use https://nextreadclub.org (the "Site"). Next Read Club is the public name of an independent project run by an individual. It is not an incorporated company and has no company registration.

Who is responsible for your information

The individual who operates Next Read Club is responsible for the information described in this policy. Questions, requests and complaints about your information are handled by the operator. You can reach us at alejogonzalezworks@gmail.com. See "Your rights and choices" below for how to make a request.

The Site is intended for people in the United States and Canada. Accounts are for people who state that they are at least 16 years old.

What we collect

If you just browse (no account).

• Your browser requests pages from our hosting provider, Hostinger, which delivers the Site and keeps standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested). We do not control how long our hosting provider keeps these logs.
• Your browser loads some book cover images directly from Google Books and Open Library. Those services can see your IP address and browser details when they do.
• If you use "I want to read this" without an account, the list is saved only in your browser's local storage. We don't receive it.
• We do not currently run analytics on the Site.

If you create an account.

• Account details: your email address and a password. We do not store your password ourselves; it is handled by our authentication provider. When you register, we ask you to tick a box confirming that you are at least 16 years old. This is a statement you make yourself. We do not verify your age, and we do not store your date of birth or a record of that confirmation.
• Profile: a username, and optionally a display name, a short bio, a favorite quote and its source, a profile photo, and your privacy settings.
• Reading activity: the books you add to your library, their status (want to read, reading, read, did not finish), favorites, and start and finish dates.
• Reviews and ratings: star ratings, optional review text, spoiler flags, and the "likes" you give to other readers' reviews. Reviews appear on book pages in a section labelled "Reading Journal." That section is public; it is not a private diary.
• Social: who you follow and who follows you, and activity entries created when you add, start or finish a book or post a review.
• Reports: if you report a review, the report and its reason.
• Technical data: a sign-in session stored in your browser's local storage so you stay signed in, and technical information (such as IP address and device details) processed by our providers to deliver the Site, keep it secure and prevent abuse.

If you email us. We keep your email address and your message.

What other people can see

In short: your profile and your library are both public by default. You can change either one at any time in Settings → Privacy, and the choice is saved with your account.

• Profile: public by default. Other readers can see your username, display name, bio, favorite quote, profile photo and activity. A private profile hides your profile, display name, bio, photo, activity and follow relationships from other users. It does not hide the reviews you publish (see "Ratings and reviews" below).
• Library: public by default, but only while your profile is public. Other readers can then see your books, their status, your favorites and your reading activity. You can make your library private at any time. If your profile becomes private, your library becomes private too; if you make your profile public again, your library stays private until you choose to share it.
• Reading history: making your library or profile private does not delete anything. Your books and your past and present reading history are kept, and they become visible again if you share your library again.
• Profile photo: stored privately and shown only through temporary links, and only while your profile is public. When your profile becomes private, the photo file is renamed so earlier links stop working. We cannot remove copies that someone has already saved.
• Ratings and reviews: public. Anyone can read the ratings and reviews you publish, with or without an account, and your ratings count towards a book's average. A review shows your username, your star rating, its text, its date and a spoiler mark; if your profile is public it also shows your display name and photo. A private profile does not automatically hide your published reviews. You can edit or delete a review at any time on the book's page, and deleting your account deletes your reviews.
• Reader counts: the "readers" numbers on book pages count only public libraries and are shown only when at least three public readers are included.
• Follows and activity: visible according to your profile and library settings.
• Never public: your email address, your password, and the reports you file.

How we use information

• To provide accounts, your library, reviews, profiles and the social features;
• To suggest books. Recommendations are generated from the choices you make in the quiz (mood, genre, pace and length). They do not use your reading history or ratings;
• To keep the Site safe: preventing spam and abuse, enforcing our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines, and handling reports;
• To send necessary account emails (confirmation, password reset and security notices). We do not send marketing emails;
• To operate the Site and respond to your messages.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.

Who processes data for us

We use these providers. Each handles data under its own terms and privacy policy.

• Supabase — database and authentication. Our production project is hosted in Oregon, USA.
• Hostinger — website hosting and content delivery.
• Resend — sends our transactional emails (confirmation, password reset and security notices). It receives your email address and the content of those messages, and keeps its own delivery records.
• Cloudflare Turnstile — a security check that helps block automated activity. It loads when you use forms that need verification, such as signing up, signing in, resetting or changing a password, resending an email, or deleting your account. Cloudflare may process technical information about your browser and connection under its own policies.
• Google Books and Open Library — book cover images.
• Amazon — when you click an Amazon link, you leave our Site and Amazon's own policies apply (see our Affiliate Disclosure). Amazon may collect information about you when you use those links.

Information handled by these providers may be processed in the United States and in other countries where they operate.

Data retention

• Account data is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account in Settings, we delete your profile and profile photo, library and reading history, reviews and ratings, likes, follows, activity entries and reports from our live database, and we delete your account record. This applies only to the information we hold in our own systems; see the next point for copies held by our providers.
• Copies and logs kept by providers. Our providers may keep technical logs or copies under their own policies, and deleting your account does not guarantee that they are removed. We do not currently have retention periods to report for them, and we do not promise automatic backups of your data.
• Reports are deleted when the person who filed them deletes their account, or when the reported review is deleted. We do not apply a fixed time limit.
• Local storage stays on your device until you clear it.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete your personal information, to object to or restrict some uses of it, or to ask for a copy of it. Where mandatory privacy rights apply to you under the law of your country, state or province, they apply regardless of which law governs our Terms.

• Correction: you can edit your profile at any time.
• Deletion: use "Delete my account" in Settings. This is permanent.
• Anything else: email alejogonzalezworks@gmail.com. We do not currently offer a self-service data export tool. If you ask about a copy of your information, we will review your request under the laws that apply to you. We may need to confirm that the request comes from the email address on the account. We will answer as soon as we reasonably can.

You can also clear local storage and manage cookies in your browser settings (see the Cookie Policy).

Security

We use access rules enforced in the database, and the Site connects to our providers over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we learn of a breach that affects you, we will notify you as required by law.

Children's privacy

Accounts are for people who state that they are at least 16 years old, and the Site is not directed to children. We do not verify age. This requirement is a condition of use; it is not a determination about what the law of your country requires for someone your age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe someone under 16 has created an account, email us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We will post updates here and change the "Last updated" date. For material changes that affect accounts, we may also notify account holders by email or with a notice on the Site.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? See Contact Us or email alejogonzalezworks@gmail.com.