Privacy Policy

Information you provide

The public site currently has no user accounts, comments, newsletter signup, checkout, or contact form. It does not ask you to provide a name, email address, postal address, payment information, or profile.

When you use the catalog search, the words you enter are sent to the server in the page URL so matching books can be returned. The application does not intentionally save those searches in its database. Search terms may still appear in your browser history and ordinary web-server logs.

Cookies and analytics

Indie BookSellers does not currently set its own advertising, analytics, personalization, or account cookies, and no first-party analytics service is built into the site.

The site links to third parties and displays some book-cover images hosted by external book-data providers. Those services receive normal request information when your browser requests their content, and they may apply their own cookies or tracking technologies under their own policies.

Server logs

Like most websites, the hosting provider and web server may automatically record technical information such as an IP address, browser type, requested URL, timestamp, referring page, and error details. These logs are used for security, reliability, abuse prevention, and troubleshooting.

Retention and access controls for hosting logs depend on the production hosting provider. The catalog application does not combine those logs with user profiles because it does not maintain user accounts.

Book covers and external services

Book-cover files may be loaded from Google Books, Open Library, or another metadata source. Loading a remote image allows that provider to receive the IP address and browser information normally included in an internet request.

Following a print or audiobook link takes you away from this site to Bookshop.org, Libro.fm, an affiliate network redirect, or another disclosed destination. Purchases, accounts, cookies, payments, and personal information entered there are governed by that service’s privacy policy and terms.

Affiliate links

Some outbound URLs contain an affiliate identifier. The destination retailer or affiliate network may use cookies or similar technology to attribute a qualifying purchase to this site. Indie BookSellers may receive a commission, but it does not receive your payment-card details from those links.

Affiliate links are marked in the page code as sponsored. You may browse the catalog and use its book information without following an affiliate link.

Children’s privacy

The catalog includes books for different age groups but is not designed to collect personal information from children. Because the public site has no accounts, comments, or submission forms, it does not knowingly request personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when the site adds a new feature, hosting service, analytics tool, form, or other data practice. The revision date on this page will change when the policy changes materially.