Privacy Notice

There is no account here, so there is no profile of you here. This page says what little we do handle.

What we do not collect

We do not ask for a name, an email address or a password to use the library, and nothing here connects what you read or listen to with you as a person.

What reaches us anyway

• Ordinary server and network logs. Serving a page means our provider and our network handle your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, and your browser's user-agent string. This is how any website works.
• Your country. Our network tells us which country a request came from, on every request, the way it does for any site behind it. We use it on a few titles only: some works are in the public domain in some countries and not in others, and there it decides whether we may offer the recording. It is used for that and not stored against you.
• Whatever you type into the contact form. If you write to us we have what you wrote, so that we can answer it. Your address is used for the reply and is not added to the mailing list.

The mailing list

The one place this site asks for anything is the mailing-list box on the home page, and it is optional. Using the library needs nothing from you.

• What we keep: your email address. Not your name, not what you listened to, not what you read.
• What we do with it: write to you about new audiobooks. Those emails sometimes carry recommendations and offers as well, and we may earn a commission if you buy through one. We do not sell your address, rent it, or hand it to anybody to use for their own purposes: the offers come to you from us, not your address to them.
• Where it goes: to Kit, which holds our mailing list on our behalf and works on our instructions. Kit first emails you a link to confirm, so nobody can sign up your address without you.
• Leaving: use the unsubscribe link at the foot of any email we send, or reach out to us here, and the address is deleted. You do not have to say why.

Counting visits: Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to see which books and pages people use, so we know what to make next.

• What it records: the pages you view, how far down them you scroll, links you follow off this site, files you download from a link (a plain-text copy of a chapter, for instance), your rough location, and the kind of device and browser you use. It does not record which recordings you play.
• What it does not keep: your IP address. Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. We have also told it to remove anything that looks like an email address before it is stored.
• Cookies: it sets cookies whose names begin _ga, which last up to two years, so that a returning visitor can be told from a new one.
• In the UK, the EU, the EEA and Switzerland: nothing from Google loads at all unless you choose Accept. If we cannot tell where you are, we ask too.
• Everywhere else: it runs when you visit.
• Changing your mind: use Cookie settings at the foot of any page. Choosing No thanks stops it and removes its cookies from this site.
• Google: the data is processed by Google under its own privacy policy. We use it to count, not to identify anybody, and we do not use it for advertising.

Counting visits: Cloudflare Web Analytics

Cloudflare delivers this site, and it counts visits too. It is switched on in our Cloudflare account, and it adds a small script to each page as the page is sent to you, so it arrives from them rather than from anything on this site.

• What it records: the pages viewed, the site or search that sent you to them, the kind of device, browser and operating system you are using, the country you are in, and measurements of how quickly the pages loaded.
• What it does not do: set any cookie, store anything in your browser, or recognise you from one visit to the next. Cloudflare states that it does not identify people by IP address, browser string or anything else of that kind. It counts visits, not visitors, and builds no picture of a person.
• Cookie settings: because it sets no cookies and cannot tell one visit from another, it is not part of the choice offered there, and it runs wherever you are. Choosing No thanks stops Google Analytics; it does not stop this, because there is nothing about you to stop.
• Cloudflare: the data is processed by Cloudflare under its own privacy policy.

Donations and sponsorships

Payments are taken by Stripe, on Stripe's own page. Your card or bank details go to Stripe and never reach us. Stripe tells us your name, your email address, the amount and how often, which we keep for our accounts and to send a receipt or answer a question about your payment. Stripe handles your details under its own privacy policy.

Advertising and affiliate links

There is no advertisement network here: no banners sold by anybody, no advertisement chosen for you, and none of the watching across other sites that usually comes with them. When that changes, this page will say what is in use and what it collects before it starts rather than afterwards.

There are affiliate links, and they are marked. Each book's page offers links to buy a printed copy, and at the foot of it a short list of things under Continue the Experience. Both carry (paid link) beside them, and we earn a commission if you buy through one.

• What decides what you see: the book, and nothing about you. Those suggestions are chosen when the page is built, so two people reading the same book are shown the same two things, whoever they are.
• What we learn: Google Analytics counts a link followed off this site, as described above, and that is all. We are not told what you looked at or what you bought.
• What the shop learns: that you arrived from us, because our link carries a tag that says so. What happens after you arrive is theirs, under their own privacy policy, and Amazon's is the one that applies to most of these links.

Children

The library includes books written for children and is meant to be usable by them. Since we collect nothing and require no account, a child can use it without giving anything up.

The mailing list is the one exception, and it is not meant for children. If you are under 13, please do not sign up. If a parent tells us their child's address is on the list, we delete it straight away.

Your rights, and how to use them

Please reach out to us here and a person will read it. If you have written to us and want that correspondence deleted, say so and it will be.