BookBooth Privacy Policy

BookBooth LLC (“BookBooth,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the BookBooth mobile application and the website bookbooth.app.

 

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you use BookBooth.

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BookBooth is operated by BookBooth LLC, a Georgia, United States limited liability company.

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For privacy questions or requests, contact: admin@bookbooth.app

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1. Information We Collect

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Account Information

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When you create a BookBooth account, we may collect:

• Email address

• Username

• Display name

• Password

 

Passwords are not stored in readable form. BookBooth stores a cryptographic hash of your password.

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Profile Information

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You may choose to provide:

• Profile photo/avatar

• Biography

• Other information you add to your BookBooth profile

 

Content and Social Activity

 

When you use BookBooth, we may process and store information including:

• Posts and written content

• Photos and videos you upload

• Books associated with posts

• Reading lists

• Likes

• Follows

• Blocks

• Direct messages

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Posts may be visible publicly or to other users depending on how the applicable feature operates.

 

Direct messages are intended to be private between participants but are not end-to-end encrypted. If a participant reports a message, information from the reported message may be made available to BookBooth moderators for safety and moderation purposes.

 

AI-Powered Book Recommendations

 

BookBooth provides an AI-powered Librarian feature to help users discover books based on their interests, moods, preferences, and other search criteria. When you use the Librarian, the text you enter, selected refinement options, and information needed to avoid repeating previously suggested titles may be sent from BookBooth's servers directly to OpenAI for the purpose of generating book recommendations.

 

BookBooth does not include your name, email address, username, BookBooth user ID, device identifier, or client IP address with the Librarian request sent to OpenAI. BookBooth does not store the text of your Librarian searches or maintain a history of your Librarian prompts. If you choose to save a recommended book to your shelf or otherwise interact with it through BookBooth, that separate activity may be stored as part of your account.

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OpenAI processes these requests as a service provider supporting the Librarian feature. OpenAI processes this information on BookBooth's behalf to provide the Librarian feature. OpenAI's processing of this information is governed by the applicable agreements and data-processing terms between BookBooth and OpenAI.

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Librarian Usage Information

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To enforce BookBooth's daily Librarian search allowances, we maintain limited usage information associated with your BookBooth account. This includes the applicable date and the number of Librarian searches used during that daily period.

BookBooth uses these counters to determine the number of included searches remaining for Free and BookBooth Plus users and to manage purchased additional searches. These usage records do not contain the text of your Librarian searches.

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Do not include sensitive personal information in requests to BookBooth's AI recommendation features.

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Advertising Information

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If you purchase advertising through BookBooth, we may collect:

• Advertisement image

• Headline

• Description

• Destination URL

• Advertising package

• Campaign status

• Campaign dates

• Impression and click information

• Purchase and transaction information

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Advertising purchased through the native BookBooth application is processed through the Apple App Store or Google Play.

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BookBooth does not receive or store your full credit card or bank account information from these purchases.

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BookBooth may retain transaction identifiers, purchase amounts, currency, and related records for payment verification, accounting, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and legal obligations.

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Advertisements are reviewed by BookBooth before they are permitted to run.

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If BookBooth rejects an advertisement before its advertising campaign begins, the advertiser may be eligible for a refund of the applicable advertising purchase, subject to the applicable Apple App Store or Google Play refund process.

 

Subscriptions and In-App Purchases

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BookBooth offers certain digital purchases, including BookBooth Plus subscriptions, additional Librarian searches, and advertising products. Purchases made through the iOS or Android applications are processed by Apple or Google through their respective in-app purchasing systems.

 

BookBooth does not receive or store your complete payment card information for purchases processed by Apple or Google. We may receive and store information necessary to verify purchases, provide purchased features, prevent transaction replay or fraud, restore eligible purchases, and maintain appropriate financial records. This may include the purchase platform, product purchased, transaction or purchase identifiers, subscription status, expiration information, purchase verification status, and related timestamps.

 

For BookBooth Plus, we maintain information necessary to determine whether your subscription entitlement is active. For purchased Librarian search packs, we maintain the verified purchase record and your remaining purchased-search balance. Purchased Librarian searches remain associated with your BookBooth account until used.

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Reports and Moderation

 

If you report content, a message, or another user, BookBooth may collect:

• The reason for the report

• Additional information you provide

• A snapshot of the reported content

• Information necessary to identify the relevant content or account

• Your IP address for report-abuse prevention

 

BookBooth moderators may review reports and may warn users, remove content, suspend accounts, or delete accounts when appropriate.

 

Server and Technical Information

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Our servers may automatically process standard technical information such as:

• IP address

• Requested server path

• Request timestamps

• Other standard server-log information

 

BookBooth currently does not use third-party behavioral advertising networks or analytics SDKs and does not collect advertising identifiers such as IDFA or AAID for behavioral advertising.

 

BookBooth does not currently collect precise device location, contacts, health information, or calendar information.

 

2. How We Use Information

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We use information to:

• Create and maintain BookBooth accounts

• Provide feeds, profiles, reading lists, messaging, and other BookBooth functionality

• Generate AI-powered book recommendations

• Process and verify advertising purchases

• Review and operate advertising campaigns

• Provide password resets and account support

• Prevent fraud and abuse

• Enforce our Terms of Service

• Investigate reports and moderate content

• Protect users and the BookBooth service

• Maintain security and reliability

• Comply with tax, accounting, legal, and regulatory obligations

 

3. Service Providers and Third Parties

 

We use third-party providers to operate portions of BookBooth.

 

These may include:

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AI providers and infrastructure. OpenAI — BookBooth uses OpenAI to provide the AI-powered Librarian recommendation feature. Librarian request text and related recommendation instructions may be processed by OpenAI to generate recommendations. BookBooth does not include your BookBooth account identity with these requests.

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Apple and Google. Apple and Google process native in-app purchases and provide BookBooth with information necessary to verify purchases.

 

Stripe. BookBooth's infrastructure supports Stripe for certain payment and payout functionality. Stripe may collect payment, identity, banking, or Know Your Customer information directly when its services are used. BookBooth does not receive full bank or card details from Stripe-hosted processes.

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Resend. BookBooth may use Resend to deliver transactional emails such as password-reset messages. This requires processing the recipient's email address and the applicable transactional email.

 

Database and hosting providers. Our infrastructure providers process information stored by BookBooth as necessary to host and operate the service.

 

OpenLibrary and content-delivery services. BookBooth may retrieve book-cover images and related book information from third-party sources. When your device requests content from a third-party server, that provider may receive technical information such as your IP address.

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4. Advertising and Tracking

 

BookBooth's in-app advertising system is operated by BookBooth.

 

We do not currently use third-party behavioral advertising networks in the BookBooth application.

 

BookBooth advertisements are not currently targeted using advertising identifiers or behavioral profiles.

 

We may count advertisement impressions and clicks to measure campaign performance.

 

5. External Links

 

BookBooth may contain links to third-party websites and services, including retailers such as Amazon.

 

When you leave BookBooth and visit another service, that service's privacy practices apply.

 

BookBooth currently does not append an affiliate referral tag to its Amazon search links and does not currently receive affiliate commission from those links.

If this changes materially, we may update this Privacy Policy.

 

6. Data Retention

 

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing BookBooth, maintaining security, resolving disputes, and meeting legal and financial obligations.

 

Current retention practices include:

• Account information: while your account remains active, subject to deletion rights described below

• Direct messages: up to 3 years

• Resolved moderation reports: up to 2 years

• IP addresses associated with report submissions: approximately 90 days

• Standard server logs: approximately 30 days

• Advertising purchase and other applicable financial records: up to 7 years

• Password-reset tokens: until used or approximately 30 minutes after creation

• Residual anonymized account-deletion records: up to 90 days

 

BookBooth uses automated retention processes to enforce applicable retention periods.

 

7. Account Deletion

 

You can delete your BookBooth account from within the app.

 

Go to:

Profile → Profile Settings → Account → Delete Account

 

You may also request account deletion without having access to the installed application by visiting:

bookbooth.app/delete-account

 

or emailing:

admin@bookbooth.app

 

We may verify your identity before processing an external deletion request.

 

When an account is deleted, BookBooth removes or anonymizes personal account information.

 

Some information may remain where necessary to preserve other users' content, prevent fraud, maintain records, or comply with legal obligations.

 

For example:

• Public posts may remain but will be attributed to “Deleted User” without a link to your former account.

• Messages may remain in another participant's conversation history with your identity removed and message content handled according to BookBooth's deletion process.

• Financial and advertising transaction records may be retained for up to 7 years.

• Moderation records may be retained for the applicable retention period with identifying information removed where appropriate.

 

More information is available at bookbooth.app/delete-account.

 

8. Security

 

BookBooth uses administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information.

 

Current measures include:

• TLS encryption for information transmitted over the internet

• Cryptographic password hashing

• Authentication-token revocation

• Rate limiting

• Server-side media validation

• Administrative access controls

• Administrative audit records

• Automated data-retention enforcement

 

No internet-connected system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

 

9. Your Privacy Rights

 

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

 

These may include rights to:

• Access personal information we hold about you

• Correct inaccurate information

• Request deletion

• Request restriction of certain processing

• Object to certain processing

• Request a portable copy of applicable personal information

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

• Submit a complaint to an applicable data-protection authority

 

BookBooth does not currently provide an automated data-export feature. You may request access to or a copy of applicable personal information by contacting admin@bookbooth.app.

 

We may need to verify your identity before completing a privacy request.

 

European Users

 

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction providing similar rights, BookBooth processes information as necessary to provide the service and perform our agreement with you, to pursue legitimate interests such as security, fraud prevention and moderation, and to comply with applicable legal obligations.

 

Where applicable, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection supervisory authority.

 

10. International Data Processing

 

BookBooth LLC is based in the United States.

 

If you use BookBooth from Europe or another country outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States and other countries in which our service providers operate.

 

Those countries may have data-protection laws different from those in your country.

 

Where required by applicable law, BookBooth and its service providers will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

 

11. Children

 

BookBooth is not designed or directed specifically toward children.

 

We do not knowingly design BookBooth for the purpose of collecting personal information from children.

 

BookBooth does not currently collect users' dates of birth.

 

If you believe a child has provided personal information in circumstances that violate applicable law, contact admin@bookbooth.app.

 

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

 

We may update this Privacy Policy as BookBooth changes or as legal requirements evolve.

 

When appropriate, we may notify users of material changes through BookBooth, by email, or through our website.

 

The effective date of this policy is September 1, 2026, which indicates when this version became effective.

 

13. Contact Us

 

For questions, privacy requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact:

BookBooth LLC
Georgia, United States
admin@bookbooth.app
bookbooth.app