Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 4, 2026

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how BookScroll, operated by Kodea ("we", "our", "us"), collects, uses, and protects personal data when you use www.bookscroll.net (the "Service").

BookScroll gathers what BookTube creators say about books in their public YouTube videos, so you can find books through their reviews, keep a library and lists of your own, and follow the creators and authors you like.

2. Data We Collect

We collect only data necessary to operate the Service.

When you sign in with Google

  • Your name, email address, and profile picture from your Google account
  • The sign-in tokens Google issues, which link your Google account to your BookScroll account

We ask Google only for your basic profile and email address. We do not request access to your Gmail, Google Drive, contacts, YouTube account, or any other Google data.

When you use your account

  • Your profile: display name, handle, and bio
  • Your library: the books on your shelves, and your ratings and notes
  • Your lists, the creators and authors you follow, and the creators you hide
  • Your votes on reviews and the reviews you report
  • Your feedback on recommendations and the recommendations you open
  • When you first and last used the Service
  • The IP address and browser type of each signed-in session

When you browse, signed in or not

  • The pages you visit, the site that referred you, and your browser and device type, collected by our analytics provider
  • Server logs recording your IP address and the pages requested

3. How We Use Data

We use data for:

  • Account creation, authentication, and login
  • Showing your library, lists, follows, and profile
  • Suggesting books based on the contents of your lists, while respecting hidden creators, dismissed suggestions, and low ratings
  • Understanding how the Service is used and improving it
  • Keeping the Service secure and preventing abuse
  • Complying with legal obligations

We do not use your data for advertising, and we do not send marketing emails.

4. Google User Data

BookScroll's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

We use your Google name, email address, and profile picture only to sign you in and to set up your BookScroll profile, which you can edit. Your email address is never shown to other users. We do not sell Google user data, use it for advertising, or share it with anyone except the service providers listed in section 9 that we need to run the Service. People at Kodea do not read it unless you ask us to, we need to for security, or the law requires it.

5. Legal Basis

Depending on context and applicable law, we process data on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Performance of a contract
  • Legitimate interests
  • User consent
  • Legal obligations

6. What Other People Can See

Your profile is public by default. Anyone can see your display name, handle, profile picture, bio, the books on your shelves, and the lists you make public. Your ratings, notes, follows, votes, reports, and email address are not shown to anyone.

You can make your profile private in Settings, and you can make any list private.

7. Creators on BookScroll

BookScroll shows information from public YouTube videos: channel names and pictures, video titles and thumbnails, and short quotes and summaries of what creators say about books, taken from the videos' public transcripts. If you are a creator and want your channel or a review corrected or removed, email us at the address in section 15.

8. Data Storage, Security, and Retention

We use industry-standard security measures, including encrypted connections, access controls, and secure servers.

We keep your account data until you delete your account. When you delete it in Settings, we delete your profile, library, lists, follows, hidden creators, votes, reports, recommendation feedback, and sessions immediately. Copies in our backups are overwritten as the backups are replaced.

Server logs are kept only as long as needed for security and troubleshooting.

9. Data Sharing

We share data only as needed to operate and provide the Service, and only with trusted third parties under confidentiality and data protection obligations, such as:

  • Cloud hosting and infrastructure providers
  • Analytics providers (OpenPanel)
  • Google, to sign you in
  • Professional advisers where required
  • Public authorities where disclosure is legally required

Some content on our pages loads directly from other services, which receive your IP address and browser type when it does. These include video thumbnails and creator pictures from YouTube, book covers from Open Library, and videos you play, which are embedded through YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. These services handle that data under their own privacy policies, including Google's Privacy Policy for YouTube.

We do not sell personal data or disclose it for independent marketing or commercial purposes.

10. International Transfers

If data is transferred outside your country, we apply appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law.

11. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

  • Access your data
  • Correct your data
  • Delete your data
  • Restrict processing
  • Data portability
  • Withdraw consent

You can edit your profile and delete your account yourself in Settings. Other requests can be sent to support@bookscroll.net. You can also remove BookScroll's access in your Google account settings.

12. Cookies and Local Storage

  • An essential cookie keeps you signed in
  • Your browser stores your display preferences, such as the view you picked, and whether you completed setup. Previously saved reader-class choices may remain stored while that feature is unavailable
  • Our analytics provider counts page views

We do not use advertising or marketing cookies. A YouTube video you play may store data in your browser under YouTube's own policies. You can control cookies and stored data through your browser settings.

13. Children

The Service is not intended for children under 16.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we change the date at the top of this page.

15. Contact

Email: support@bookscroll.net

Address: Kodea, Szlak 65/204, 30-011 Kraków, Poland