Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 19, 2025
Welcome to Random Book Generator. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Random Book Generator is a website that provides book recommendations based on user-selected genres or completely at random. This privacy policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, such as which genres you select, which books you view, and which features you use.
- Technical Data includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Email Address if you choose to subscribe to our newsletter.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your email address by subscribing to our newsletter.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
- Third parties. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties such as Google Analytics.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To provide you with book recommendations based on your selected genres.
- To save your book preferences and reading list if you choose to use these features.
- To send you our newsletter if you have subscribed to it.
- To improve our website and user experience.
- To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
5. Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
6. Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies to personalize the advertisements you see. No personally identifiable information is collected by these advertisements.
We also use affiliate links for book retailers such as Amazon. When you click on these links and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
10. Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
11. Children's Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by subscribing to our newsletter and replying to any email you receive from us.