Last updated: November 28, 2025
At BooksWriter ("BooksWriter", "we", "us" or "our"), we are committed to protecting your privacy and keeping your information safe. BooksWriter processes information about you in a few different ways. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and keep information that can identify you ("Personal Information") when you create a BooksWriter account and use bookswriter.xyz (the "Site"), or our applications, to post content to the BooksWriter community, including stories you create (the "Services").
Note that our Terms of Service apply to this Privacy Policy. By creating an account with BooksWriter, using the Services, or submitting any Personal Information via the Services, you are acknowledging that we will collect, use and disclose your Personal Information as described below in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want your Personal Information to be used in these ways, please stop using the Services.
This is important; we hope you will take time to read it carefully.
"Personal Information" is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, age, and gender. Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our Services if that information is necessary to provide you with them or if we are legally required to collect it.
In order for you to create an account with BooksWriter and use our Services, we need to collect and process some Personal Information. Depending on your use of the Services, the Personal Information we collect about you may include:
Information that is necessary for the use of our Services:
Information we automatically collect from your use of our Services, including:
We use this Personal Information to:
We also may use your Personal Information to enforce this Policy or our Terms of Service, to defend our legal rights and to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies.
For more information on our use of cookies, please refer to Section 6 below.
Aside from your username can be fictitious and profile icon, we won't display your Personal Information on the Site or reveal it to other BooksWriter users (unless you choose to publicly display applicable information via your account settings) or rent or sell it to anyone unless the data has been anonymized.
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances, or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time the Personal Information is collected:
We may share your Personal Information with our subsidiaries and affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
We work with third-party service providers who help us operate our platform:
When we share data with third-party services that support our delivery of the Services, we require that they protect your Personal Information to the same standards we do. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and use it only for the services they provide to us.
We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to:
We may disclose your Personal Information if BooksWriter is involved in a merger, acquisition, debt financing, asset sale, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets. We may also disclose your Personal Information to our affiliated/related/parent companies. In such cases, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any Personal Information and give affected users notice before Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We are continuously implementing and updating physical, organizational, contractual and technological security measures to protect your Personal Information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. The only employees who are granted access to your Personal Information are those with a business "need-to-know" or whose duties reasonably require such information. On all BooksWriter platforms, we support encryption on all transmissions to protect Personal Information submitted on our Site.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our service.
Below is a detailed list of cookies we use on BooksWriter:
| Name | Purpose | Category |
|---|---|---|
auth_token |
Maintains your login session | Essential |
_pk.* |
Tracks site usage for analytics and improvements | Analytics |
CookieConsent |
Stores your cookie consent preferences (GDPR) | Essential |
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Fraud and abuse prevention | Essential |
If you wish to access any Personal Information that we hold about you, or request that we correct or delete the Personal Information that we hold about you, you may contact us via email at support@bookswriter.xyz. We will comply with such requests to the extent required by law or our policies, and subject to any limitations in our systems.
To protect your privacy and security, we require verification of your identity before processing requests related to your Personal Information, including requests for access, correction, deletion, or other privacy rights. You must provide clearly identifiable details that demonstrate you are the account owner or, in the case of minors, the parent or legal guardian of the account owner.
Acceptable methods of verification include:
Please note: We cannot process privacy requests based solely on username, email address provided in the request body, or other information that could be publicly available or easily guessed. The request must come from a verified source that demonstrates control of the account or legal authority over the account holder.
If you are a parent or legal guardian making a request on behalf of a minor, you must provide proof of your relationship to the minor and your legal authority to make such requests. We reserve the right to request additional documentation to verify guardianship or parental status.
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
To exercise these rights, please contact us at support@bookswriter.xyz. We will respond within 30 days. Please note that there are exceptions and limitations to each of these rights.
We take measures to delete your Personal Information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period. When determining the retention period, we take into account various criteria, such as the type of products and services requested by or provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, the impact on the services we provide to you if we delete some information from or about you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.
If you create an account with BooksWriter, we will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account remains active. If you close your account, it will first be deactivated for a period of six months. When your account is deactivated, while it is not viewable on BooksWriter, all of your public contributions and comments to the BooksWriter community will remain (except that they will be anonymized).
For six months after deactivation, it is still possible to restore your account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated, including re-associating your comments and contributions to your profile. After six months, we permanently delete your Personal Information from our systems, except that your anonymized comments and contributions will remain on the Service.
When you request deletion of your account and Personal Information, we retain a secure backup of your data for 30 days after the deletion request. This backup retention period serves important security and user protection purposes:
During this 30-day backup retention period:
After 30 days, all backups containing your Personal Information are permanently and irreversibly deleted from our systems. This deletion is automatic and cannot be reversed.
Children under 13 are not permitted to use BooksWriter, and so this Privacy Policy makes no provision for their use of BooksWriter Services.
If you are a parent or guardian and learn that your minor child has provided us with Personal Information without your knowledge or agreement, please contact us using the details below.
Our Services are mainly provided from our offices. However, Personal Information that you submit through the Services may be transferred to countries other than where you reside for processing and storage. In addition, our third-party service providers also may process or store your Personal Information on servers outside your country.
By using any of the Services, or submitting any Personal Information via the Services, you authorize BooksWriter and its authorized service providers to use and process your Personal Information in these countries. Please be aware that the privacy protections and the rights of authorities and Government agencies to access your Personal Information in some of these countries may not be equivalent to those in your country.
We comply with applicable legal requirements when transferring Personal Information to countries other than the country where you are located. If you are in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the UK, we rely on the following mechanisms to transfer your Personal Information internationally: (i) an EU Commission adequacy decision, Swiss government adequacy decision or UK adequacy regulation (as appropriate), (ii) contractual protections for the transfer of your Personal Information, (iii) another valid data transfer mechanism. For more information about how we transfer Personal Information outside of Europe, or to obtain a copy of the contractual safeguards we use for such transfers, please contact us as specified below.
We use email as an important way to communicate with you. You can manage your email notification preferences by adjusting your preferences in the Notifications section of your account Settings. You may also opt out or unsubscribe from any future email communications from within a link provided in each email we send you. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g., those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices from us.
Our service may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any information.
We do not make decisions that may have legal effects or similarly significantly affect you based solely on automated processing of your Personal Information. All decision-making processes related to the processing purposes described above are carried out with human intervention.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If you disagree with any changes in this Privacy Policy and do not wish your Personal Information to be subject to the revised Policy, you will need to close your account and/or stop using the Services. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy.
We will notify you of significant changes by:
Your continued use of BooksWriter after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Email: support@bookswriter.xyz
If you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the United Kingdom, BooksWriter is the entity responsible for the processing of your Personal Information as the controller.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, you have specific rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and equivalent laws. BooksWriter is committed to complying with GDPR requirements.
We process your Personal Information based on the following legal grounds:
Under GDPR, you have the following rights:
For questions about how we process your Personal Information or to exercise your GDPR rights, you may contact us at support@bookswriter.xyz.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your privacy concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. You can find contact information for EU data protection authorities at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides you with specific rights regarding your Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA rights and how to exercise them.
We collect the following categories of Personal Information as defined by the CCPA:
We use the categories of Personal Information listed above for the business and commercial purposes described in Section 3 of this Privacy Policy, including:
California residents have the following rights under the CCPA:
To exercise your right to know or right to delete, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
We will respond to verifiable consumer requests within 45 days of receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We will require written proof that the agent has been authorized to act on your behalf, and we may also require you to verify your identity directly with us.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Thank you for trusting BooksWriter with your creative work. We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing a secure platform for your storytelling.