Privacy Policy

This policy covers bookly.live and the Bookly application.

Account information

• Google account email
• Google display name
• Google profile image
• Internal user identifier

Book and creative content

• Book titles
• Subtitles
• Author names
• Prompts
• Chapter ideas
• Generated chapters
• Edits
• Summaries
• Uploaded and generated cover images
• Export metadata

Usage information

• AI words generated
• Chapter rewrite usage
• Precision edit usage
• Cover generation usage
• Feature interactions
• Errors and diagnostic logs

Subscription information

• Plan
• Billing cycle
• Subscription status
• Renewal dates
• Paddle customer, transaction, and subscription identifiers
• Extra Set purchases and expiry dates

Bookly does not store complete payment-card details. Payment information is processed by Paddle.

Technical information

• IP address where logged by underlying infrastructure
• Browser and device information
• Session data
• Security logs
• Essential cookies or local storage

Support information

• Messages and information you send to support

• Operating accounts
• Saving your books and chapters
• Providing AI features
• Creating exports
• Enforcing plan limits
• Processing subscriptions
• Preventing fraud and misuse
• Troubleshooting
• Providing support
• Improving reliability
• Complying with legal obligations

Where applicable, we rely on:

• Performance of a contract
• Legitimate interests
• Consent
• Compliance with legal obligations

No single legal basis applies universally to all processing.

• Prompts, manuscript excerpts, chapter content, summaries, and editing instructions may be sent to OpenAI
• Only content reasonably necessary for the requested function should be sent
• You should avoid submitting highly sensitive personal information
• AI processing is subject to applicable agreements and provider policies

• Paddle acts as Merchant of Record
• Paddle processes payments, taxes, fraud checks, receipts, refunds, and subscriptions
• Paddle’s own privacy policy applies to payment processing
• Bookly does not receive or store full payment-card numbers

Paddle Privacy Notice: https://www.paddle.com/legal/privacy

• Google
• OpenAI
• Paddle
• Lovable Cloud
• Underlying database, authentication, hosting, storage, and infrastructure providers

• Bookly does not sell personal information
• Information may be shared with service providers needed to operate Bookly
• Information may be shared for transactions, legal compliance, security, lawful business changes, or requests you direct

Service providers may process information outside your country. Appropriate protections will be used where required by law.

• Account and book content may be retained while the account is active
• Billing records may be retained where legally required
• Security logs may be retained for reasonable periods
• Deleted data may remain temporarily in backups
• Paddle retains transaction records under its own obligations
• Retention varies according to legal, security, and operational requirements

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards. No online service can guarantee perfect security.

Subject to applicable law, you may request:

• Access
• Correction
• Deletion
• Restriction
• Objection
• Portability
• Withdrawal of consent

Some records may be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, or billing reasons.

Account-deletion requests may be sent to support@bookly.live. Bookly will verify the request. Paddle transaction records and other legally required billing records cannot always be deleted on request.

Essential browser storage is used for:

• Authentication sessions
• OAuth routing
• Onboarding state
• Checkout state
• Preferences
• Security
• Core application functionality

• Bookly is not directed to children under 13
• Purchasing requires legal capacity or the involvement of a parent or guardian
• Contact support if you believe information from a child was submitted improperly

The effective date may be updated and material changes may be communicated through Bookly or by email.

For questions about this Privacy Policy, contact support@bookly.live.