Privacy
bookanear collects what it needs to match books, and nothing else.
What we keep
Your email address, so you can sign in. A username you choose. The books you list, and the books you want. A town if you give one, and a coordinate if you let your browser share it.
What other people see
Your username, your town, and the books you're offering. That's all. Your email address is never shown to anyone.
Your reading list is private
It is not readable by other members — not through the site, not through the API. Matching runs inside the database and returns only the books that actually matched, never the list itself.
Where you are
If you use “near me”, your browser sends a coordinate rounded to about a hundred metres. Listing coordinates live in a separate table that no member can read; the site can ask how far away something is, and gets back a distance, never a position.
Shelf photographs
A photo you scan is read once and discarded. It is never stored. Photos you deliberately attach to a listing are stored, and deleted with the listing.
Who else is involved
Supabase stores the database. Open Library and Google Books answer book lookups — they receive a title or an ISBN, never anything about you. OpenAI reads shelf photographs and listing notes for moderation. Resend delivers email. Vercel serves the site.
Deleting your account
Email us and it goes, along with your listings, your reading list and your messages.