Privacy statement

We care about your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy statement will inform you how we handle your personal data, your privacy rights and how the law protects you. Please read this privacy statement carefully before using our Services.

Services mean any products, services, content, features, technologies, or functions, and all related websites, applications, and services offered to you by us.

Platform means the websites, mobile apps, mobile sites or other online properties through which we offer our Services.

Sharedbooks.in is a web based social platform for selling of books by sellers and exchanging of books among users.

When you register as normal user, we may collect the following information about you:

if you register using your Google account: first name, last name,avatar and email address; if you register using your Facebook account: we collect first name and last name as appeared on your Facebook account and Facebook IDs. In the event you have provided permission to Facebook through their in-app privacy option (which appears just before you register on our Platform), we may collect your gender, age or email id depending on the permissions granted by you. ; and

if you register using our registration form we collect

  • your name;
  • e-mail address;
  • mobile number;
  • as mandatory fileds and also asks for validation of email and mobile number to avoid fake accounts.

    We use your e-mail address and mobile number (by SMS) to make suggestions and recommendations to you about our Services that may be of interest to you.

    Location information

    Adding location/address is optional. Depending on your device permission and accessing media, if you post an book or a request for a book on our Platform, we automatically collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address, GPS, Wi-Fi access points and mobile towers. Your location data allows you and others to see books near you/others.

    Adding location/address is optional. Depending on your device permission and accessing media, if you post an book or a request for a book on our Platform, we automatically collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address, GPS, Wi-Fi access points and mobile towers. Your location data allows you and others to see books near you/others.

    Client and Log data

    Technical details, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your device, time zone, and operating system. We will also store your login information (registration date, date of last password change, date of last successful login), type and version of your browser.

    Cookies and Similar Technologies

    We use cookies to manage our users’ sessions, to store your preferences language selection and deliver you relevant advertisements. "Cookies" are small text files transferred by a web server to the hard drive of your device. Cookies may be used to collect the date and time of your visit, your browsing history, your preferences, and your username. You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Services/Platform may become inaccessible or not function properly.

    How will we inform you about changes in our privacy statement?

    We may amend this privacy statement from time to time. We will post changes on this page and will let you know by e-mail or through our Platform. If you do not agree with the changes, you may delete your account by going to account setting and select delete account.

    Your right to request remove your data from our site

    You have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data.

    Communication and marketing

    We will communicate with you by email, SMS or in app notification in connection with our Services/Platform to confirm your registration, to inform you in case your book listing has become live/expired and for other transactional messages in relation to our Services. As it is imperative for us to provide you such transactional messages you may not be able to opt -out of such messages.

    You may receive marketing communications from us if you:

  • have requested such information from us;
  • use our Platform or Services;
  • provided us with your details when you entered a competition; or
  • registered for a promotion.
  • Who do we share your data with?

    We may share your data with our website admins who help us in providing business operation services such as product enhancements, customer support and fraud detection mechanism.

    Third Party Service Providers: We use third party service providers to help us deliver certain aspect of our Services for example, cloud storage facilities, Paytm wallet services.

    We conduct checks on our third-party service providers and require them to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow them to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

    Links to third-party websites

    Our Platform may contain links to third party websites or apps. If you click on one of these links, please note that each one will have its own privacy policy. We do not control these websites/apps and are not responsible for those policies. When you leave our Platform, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

    Why are ads appearing here?

    We want to keep this site free for users to promote building of social book hub for the benefit of every one. To do this we need some money to maintain this website. For this we are trying to get some money through this ads. Please don't block ads and support us.