Privacy Policy

• Your email address and your name, from your Google account when you sign in.
• An optional display name and library bio, if you set one.
• Your date of birth, to confirm you’re 18 or older.
• The library location you set — used to show your shelf to nearby neighbors.
• The book inventory you list.
• Messages you send through the app.
• A push-notification subscription for each device where you turn push notifications on.
• If you joined through a neighbor’s invite link, which member invited you — so we can thank them with extra holds.

We use this information to:

• Run your account and sign-in.
• Power nearby search, so neighbors can discover your shelf.
• Enable messaging between members about a book request.
• Send push notifications you’ve opted into — push is per-device and opt-in, and you can switch it off any time at your profile.
• Email you a single kind of warning: if your library is hidden because a book request went unanswered while your account was inactive. That’s the only email Literashare sends.
• Review reported content as part of moderation.
• Keep the community safe — preventing fraud, abuse, and policy violations.

Showing your library’s approximate location to nearby neighbors is the core function of Literashare — it’s how people discover shelves within a radius of up to 3 miles. Neighbors see distance and general area, not your exact address.

We never sell your location data to anyone.

Messages are private, 1:1 threads tied to a specific book request — not public, and not visible to other members. If a message is reported, our moderators can review it as part of investigating that report. Moderation actions (warnings, suspensions, bans, content removal) are logged.

• Active-account data — kept while your account is active, to operate the product (your listings, messages, and preferences).
• Reported-content evidence — if a message or listing is reported, we retain a snapshot of it for up to 1 year (365 days) to support moderation review and appeals.
• Legal holds — if data is subject to a legal preservation request, it’s retained until the hold is released, regardless of the schedules above.
• Underage accounts — if we discover an account belongs to someone under 18, we suspend it and delete the associated personal data.

We use a small set of service providers to run Literashare. They process data on our behalf, under their own security and privacy terms:

• Supabase — database and file storage.
• Vercel — application hosting.
• Resend — delivers the inactivity-warning email described above.
• Google — sign-in, Maps for location features, and Google Books for catalog data.
• Stripe — optional contributions and paid extras. Your card details go directly to Stripe and never touch our servers.

We don’t sell your personal information to data brokers or other third parties, and we don’t use your data for ad targeting.

You can:

• Access what we hold about you — email team@literashare.com.
• Correct inaccurate information — much of this you can edit yourself at your profile.
• Delete your account and data yourself, from your profile page — or email team@literashare.com and we’ll do it for you. This is subject to the legal-hold and reported-content retention rules described above.

We may update this policy as Literashare grows. If we do, we’ll update the effective date at the top of this page.

Questions about this policy, or a privacy request? Write to team@literashare.com.