Privacy policy

Readers' Choice is a small app for running book clubs: planning meetings, nominating and voting on books, and ranking the year's reads. It's available on the web at readers-choice.dehovitz.com, and soon as a mobile app. This page explains what it stores about you, who can see it, and how to have it deleted. There are no ads, no analytics or tracking, and your information is never sold.

What we store

• Your account: your name and email address. If you sign in with Google, also your Google account ID and profile picture. If you sign in with a password, a one-way hash of it (never the password itself).
• Your club activity: the clubs you belong to and your role in them, the books you nominate and any notes you add, the themes you suggest and upvote, your votes and ballot rankings, and your year rankings.
• Settings you choose: the public libraries you pick for checking book availability, and the private link for subscribing to a club's calendar.
• Sign-in sessions: on the web, a session cookie. In the mobile app, a sign-in token stored on your device, plus a record of the session (the device name, when it started and when it was last used) so it can be signed out.
• Abuse protection: to limit repeated sign-in and sign-up attempts, short-lived counters keyed by a one-way hash of your IP address or email address.

Who can see it

• Members of your clubs see your name, picture and email address, and your activity in that club: nominations, notes, themes, votes and rankings, as the club's pages show them.
• Anyone can see a club's name, description and number of members, so people can find a club to join. Members' names, pictures and email addresses are only shown to fellow members.
• Anyone with your calendar link can see that club's meeting schedule. You can reset the link at any time.

Services we use

These services process data on our behalf, or receive only what a lookup needs:

• Vercel hosts the app, and Supabase hosts its database. Your data is stored with them.
• Google, if you choose to sign in with Google. We receive your name, email address and profile picture from Google, and nothing else.
• Open Library and Google Books receive book searches and titles to find books, covers and descriptions. OverDrive (Libby) receives a library and a book title to check availability. These lookups contain no information about you, and never your library card.

Cookies

The website uses a cookie only to keep you signed in. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your account and club activity while your account exists. To delete your account and everything tied to it, email readerschoice@dehovitz.com from the address you signed up with, and we'll delete it within 30 days. You can leave a club at any time from its Members page, and we can delete a whole club on request. Abuse-protection counters hold only one-way hashes, never a readable IP or email address.

Children

Readers' Choice isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its date. Questions or requests: readerschoice@dehovitz.com.