Privacy Policy

Information You Provide

Information may include:

• Name and account information
• Email address
• Date of birth
• Gender where provided
• Location
• Profile information
• Language and interest preferences
• Published content
• Comments and interactions
• Private messages
• Verification applications
• Professional information and supporting evidence
• Information submitted to Bookween Support

Verification Information

When applying for verification, you may provide evidence relating to your profession, work, portfolio, publications, credentials, professional registration, institutional affiliation, or established standing.

Verification evidence is used to evaluate eligibility, prevent fraud, maintain verification integrity, conduct re-verification, and handle appeals.

Verification documents are not automatically public. Only verification information intended for public display, such as verification category, badge, or approved professional information, should appear publicly.

See our Verification Policy.

Information Collected Through Use

Bookween may process technical and activity data such as:

• IP address
• Browser/device information
• Operating system
• Login and session activity
• Pages and articles viewed
• Reading progress
• Search activity
• Reactions
• Comments
• Saves/bookmarks
• Follows
• Referral information
• Error/performance information
• Security events

How Information Is Used

Information may be used to:

• Operate Bookween
• Authenticate users
• Protect accounts
• Process verification
• Enable publishing
• Personalize feeds and recommendations
• Improve search and discovery
• Deliver messages and notifications
• Prevent spam, fraud, impersonation, and abuse
• Moderate content
• Investigate reports
• Improve platform reliability and features
• Meet applicable legal obligations

Content Moderation

Bookween may use automated systems, trusted service providers, and human reviewers to assist with moderation.

Submitted content may remain private while moderation is pending.

Moderation may involve processing article text, uploaded images, links, profile information, comments, or relevant activity required to evaluate a policy concern.

See the Moderation Policy.

Public Information

Information you intentionally make public may include:

• Display name
• Profile image
• Biography
• Verification category
• Public professional information
• Published articles
• Comments
• Public interactions
• Public follower/following information where supported
• Public pages and articles may be indexed by search engines.

Private Messages

Private messages are not public content.

Bookween may process message data as technically necessary to deliver messages, secure the service, detect abuse, investigate properly reported activity, or comply with applicable legal requirements.

Personalization

Bookween may use interests, language, location, follows, reading behaviour, saves, interactions, and other relevant signals to personalize recommendations and discovery.

See Your Data & Controls.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Bookween may use cookies or similar technologies for authentication, session management, security, preferences, analytics, and performance.

Where legally required, appropriate choices should be provided for non-essential tracking.

Service Providers

Bookween may rely on infrastructure, storage, email, moderation, analytics, security, monitoring, and other technology providers.

Providers should receive only the information reasonably necessary to perform their services and are expected to process it according to applicable contractual and legal requirements.

Advertising

If Bookween uses advertising, information may be processed to deliver, limit, secure, or measure advertising in accordance with applicable law.

Bookween does not provide advertisers access to private messages or private verification documents merely because advertising exists on the platform.

See Advertising & Sponsored Content Policy.

Legal and Safety Disclosures

Information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to valid legal process, investigate serious abuse, protect users, protect Bookween, or enforce platform rules.

Data Security

Bookween uses technical and organizational safeguards designed to reduce unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or loss.

No online service can guarantee absolute security. See Security.

Retention

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods based on account operation, verification integrity, fraud prevention, dispute handling, security, backup cycles, and legal obligations.

Account Deletion

Users may request account deletion. Bookween may delete, anonymize, or otherwise remove associated personal information where appropriate, subject to legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute, and backup-retention requirements.

Privacy Rights

Depending on applicable law and user location, rights may include access, correction, deletion, objection, restriction, portability, or withdrawal of consent. Identity verification may be required before completing certain privacy requests.

International Processing

Bookween may use infrastructure or providers operating in different countries. Where required by law, appropriate safeguards should be used for international transfers.

Children

Bookween should not knowingly process personal information from users below the applicable minimum digital-consent age in violation of law.

Third-Party Links

Bookween content may link to third-party websites. Bookween is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of external services.

Changes

This policy may be updated as Bookween evolves. Material changes may be communicated through appropriate Bookween channels.

Contact

Privacy questions and requests can be submitted through Bookween Help & Support.