Last Updated: January 2025
VENTROUS LABS INC. ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") operates the DustyShelves website and book club platform. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our services.
We collect information you provide when creating an account, joining book clubs, posting notes and comments, and using our contact forms. This may include your name, email address, display name, avatar selection, and any content you create within the platform. We also automatically collect certain information about your use of our website through Google Analytics, including your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, time spent on pages, and how you arrived at our website. This information helps us understand how visitors use our site and improve our services.
We use the information we collect to provide and improve our book club services, facilitate discussions, track reading progress, send notifications about your book clubs, and respond to your inquiries. We use analytics data collected through Google Analytics to understand website usage patterns, improve user experience, and optimize our platform. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
Content you post in book clubs, including notes, comments, and reactions, is visible to other members of those book clubs. We store this content to maintain the discussion history and reading progress tracking. You can delete your own content at any time.
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to collect and analyze information about how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and time spent on our website. This information is transmitted to and stored by Google. You can learn more about how Google uses data from Google Analytics at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We use industry-standard encryption and security practices. Information collected by Google Analytics is subject to Google's privacy policy, which can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
If you are in the European Union, you have certain data protection rights under GDPR. You may request to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You may also object to or restrict our processing of your data, or request data portability. You can manage your account settings and delete your content through the platform. You can also opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the methods described in section 5 above.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics is a third-party service that collects information independently. The data collected by Google Analytics is governed by Google's privacy policy. We do not have direct control over how Google uses this data, but we use it only in aggregated, anonymized form to improve our services.
You may delete your account at any time through your account settings. When you delete your account, we will remove your personal information and account data. However, content you've posted in book clubs may remain visible to other members unless you delete it before closing your account. Note that analytics data collected by Google Analytics may be retained by Google according to their data retention policies.
We may update this 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. For significant changes, we may also notify you via email.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our website's contact form or at data@ventrous.com.
