Effective Date: September 8, 2026
Welcome to Shelf Care: Book Club with Friends ("Shelf Care," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application.
To provide you with a functional and social book club experience, we collect the following types of information:
We use your information solely to provide and improve the Shelf Care experience:
To operate the app securely and efficiently, we use trusted third-party service providers. Their processing also follows their applicable privacy policies:
When subscriptions are available, Apple or Google processes your payment. We do not receive your payment card details. RevenueCat receives your Shelf Care account identifier and store purchase records to validate purchases, restore access, prevent fraud, and report subscription performance. We store verified membership and expiry information. We do not send your private notes, reading lists, or discussion messages to RevenueCat.
The free plan may display advertisements served by Google AdMob. Our app requests non-personalized ads. Non-personalized advertising still involves data processing: Google may process IP addresses (including approximate location derived from them), device or app identifiers, interactions with ads, and diagnostics for ad delivery, measurement, and fraud prevention. We do not send your private notes, book lists, or club conversations as advertising targeting data.
Where required, Google’s User Messaging Platform presents privacy choices before ads may be requested. You can revisit available choices through Profile > Ad privacy choices. Ads are requested only after membership and consent eligibility are resolved. Active Plus and Extra subscribers have no ad placements in the app.
Read RevenueCat’s privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. Purchase records held by the stores or RevenueCat may be retained under their policies and applicable transaction-record requirements. Deleting your Shelf Care account does not cancel an app-store subscription; cancel it in the store’s subscription settings. For privacy or deletion requests concerning subscription records, contact us using the address below.
You have the right to request the deletion of your account and personal data at any time. We provide two ways to do this:
When you request account deletion, your account is immediately deactivated, and you will be logged out. Your profile will no longer be visible to other users. We hold your data in a "soft delete" state for 30 days in case the deletion was accidental or unauthorized. You can restore your account by logging back in using the mobile app during this 30-day window.
After the 30-day grace period, your account undergoes a permanent hard delete:
Note on manual sharing: If you manually typed personal information (such as your phone number or email address) directly into the text of a chat message, that specific text will remain visible as part of the anonymized message. Please refrain from sharing sensitive personal information in group chats.
We use industry-standard encryption to protect your data in transit and at rest. While we implement robust security measures, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please contact us at:
Quando as assinaturas estão disponíveis, a Apple ou o Google processa o pagamento. Não recebemos os dados do seu cartão. A RevenueCat recebe o identificador da sua conta Shelf Care e os registros de compras da loja para verificar compras, restaurar benefícios, prevenir fraudes e acompanhar o desempenho das assinaturas. Guardamos o plano verificado e sua validade. Não enviamos suas notas privadas, listas de livros ou conversas à RevenueCat.
O plano gratuito pode exibir anúncios do Google AdMob. Solicitamos anúncios não personalizados, que ainda envolvem tratamento de dados. O Google pode processar endereço IP e localização aproximada dele derivada, identificadores do aplicativo ou dispositivo, interações com anúncios e dados de diagnóstico para exibição, medição e prevenção de fraudes. Não enviamos suas notas, livros ou conversas para segmentar anúncios.
Quando necessário, a plataforma de consentimento do Google apresenta suas opções antes de solicitar anúncios. As opções disponíveis podem ser revistas em Perfil > Privacidade dos anúncios. Assinantes ativos do Plus e do Extra não veem anúncios no aplicativo.
Excluir a conta Shelf Care não cancela uma assinatura na loja. Cancele-a nas configurações de assinaturas da Apple ou do Google. Registros de compras mantidos pelas lojas ou pela RevenueCat podem permanecer conforme suas políticas e obrigações de retenção. Para solicitações de privacidade ou exclusão relacionadas à assinatura, escreva para shelfcare@massita.com. Consulte os termos da assinatura.