Bookly (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. Bookly is owned by SC TWODOOR GAMES SRL a Limited Company based in Romania.
Protecting your privacy is really important to us. Accordingly, we’re providing this Privacy Policy to explain our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information that we receive through the Bookly mobile application known from now on as the Bookly app. This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to any third-party websites, services or applications, even if they are accessible through our Bookly app. Also, please note that, unless we define a term in this Privacy Policy, all capitalised words used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service. So, please make sure that you have read and understand our Terms of Service.
Any information that is collected via our Bookly app is covered by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we’ll update the “Last Updated Date” at the bottom of the page to indicate when those changes have become effective.
The information we collect is done automatically through out your usage of the Bookly app. This information is collected through third party services and used to improve the features we offer and your experience in the app.
Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve our Bookly app, to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate our Bookly app. All information we collect is anonymous and can’t be used to identify you. Information is used and collected as follows:
On Bookly for iOS:
In order to use the Bookly app we do not need or ask for any account informations. You don’t have to log in or provide any personal information. To fully benefit from the Bookly app you can use your iTunes Account as well as your iCloud Account, both of which are subject to Apple’s Privacy Policy and we do not have access to any information from those accounts, we do not track or store any details from these account nor the contents of them. Your iCloud Account is private and can be accessed only by you. We also do not have access to your iTunes and iCloud id’s those are private only to you.
On Bookly for Android:
In order to use the Bookly app we do not need or ask for any account informations. You don’t have to log in or provide any personal information. To fully benefit from the Bookly app features like across device synchronisation, you must register to Bookly with an e-mail and password, the account created is used to identify your Bookly data and sync it between your devices. We do not use this data for anything else and you can delete it at any time.
In order to offer you the best possible service, we track anonymous Device Information like operating system, device type, and system performance information. This helps us identify bugs and better understand how they appear in regards to those Device characteristics. We store this information using third party mobile technologies as described below( in the “Third party mobile technologies tracking” section).
We also may partner with certain third parties to collect, analyse, and use some of the information described in this section. For example, we may allow third parties to use an application software development kit (SDK) to collect information. An SDK is a section of code that we embed in our mobile app to allow third parties to collect information about how users interact with the app. The information collected by third parties using these technologies may be used for a variety of purposes, including analytics and targeted interest-based advertising, as discussed below (see the section entitled “Third party mobile technologies tracking”).
In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Bookly App, we may conduct research on our end users’ demographics, interests and behaviour based on the anonymous information provided to us. This research does not identify you personally. We may share this de-identified data with our affiliates, agents and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics (which also do not identify you) in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Bookly app uses GDPR compliant third-party technologies to automatically gather anonymous information about your activity within the app in order to improve the service by detecting bugs and app improvement opportunities as well as for marketing and statistical information. Information gathered by these technologies are not stored in any way by the Bookly app only by the third-party services used. The shared aggregated information and non-identifying information with third-party services is for industry research and analysis, demographic profiling and other similar purposes. All the third-party services used in the app as well as their purpose are described below:
On Bookly for iOS:
On Bookly for Android:
While our Bookly service is accessible only through the Bookly app, you can find out more information about the service by accessing the Bookly presentation website www.getbookly.com. The website uses cookies to gather user preferences information. We ask for your consent before gathering any information and you can opt out at any time.
Bookly allows user to share their data on social media using the Apple / Android “Share” feature. This feature may collect your internet protocol address, which page you are visiting, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Once you share your content on third party social media services like Facebook or Twitter, your interactions with these will be governed by the privacy statement of those companies.
Bookly does not store the anonymous information collected. The non-identifying information is stored on the third-party services described above (see the section entitled “Third party mobile technologies tracking”) according to the Privacy Policy of each technology.
You may be aware that a new European Union law, called the General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR” gives certain rights to individuals in relation to their personal data. Accordingly, we have implemented additional transparency and access controls in our More page to help users take advantage of those rights. As available and except as limited under applicable law, the rights afforded to individuals are:
Starting with version 1.7.3 of our iOS Bookly app we ask for your consent to gather the app usage information described above (under the “Information we might collect from you” section), this will give you more control as you can opt out or opt in at any time.
While we do not collect identifying information that could help identify you, we do use third parties services that collects and stores that information that you can delete. If you want your info to be deleted, please email us at support@getbookly.com and we will walk you through the process of doing that in a reasonable time frame. For the data you add in the app such as books, quotes, thoughts, etc. you are at liberty to delete that data at any time.
On Bookly for iOS:
To delete Bookly related data you must go to your iCloud account in the Settings app on your device and delete all Bookly data there.
On Bookly for Android:
In the ‘More” page under the Cloud Sync tab, you can find a delete button that will allow you to delete all the data you added in Bookly.
While we do not ask for your e-mail in order for you to use the Bookly app, you do have the option to e-mail our Support in order to ask for information or to share your thoughts about the app with us. These unsolicited e-mails are securely stored in our e-mail client and can be removed at any time given you inform us to do so. For Android where you need an e-mail address to create an account, you can delete your Bookly account in the Bookly app, thus deleting that email address associated with that account.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us via email at support@getbookly.com
This Privacy Policy was Last Updated on March 20th, 2024.
