Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 20, 2026
Book Drop Central respects the privacy of its readers, authors, and visitors.
This Privacy Policy explains what information Book Drop Central may collect, how it may be used, and the choices available to users.
Information You Provide
Depending on how you use Book Drop Central, you may provide information such as:
name, email address, account credentials, author profile information, book-submission information, book covers, descriptions, author biographies, retailer URLs, contact-form messages, newsletter signup information, and other information you choose to provide.
Passwords are handled through the site’s WordPress authentication system and are not stored by Book Drop Central in readable plain-text form.
Reader Accounts
When you create a reader account, Book Drop Central may store information such as your name, email address, account information, and books saved to your wishlist.
This information is used to provide and manage reader-account features.
Author Accounts
When you create an author account or submit a book, Book Drop Central may store information needed to manage your account, process submissions, display approved listings, provide submission-management features, and report retailer-click activity.
Wishlist Information
Logged-in readers may save books to a wishlist.
Wishlist information is associated with the reader’s Book Drop Central account so saved books can be displayed again when the reader returns.
Retailer Click Information
When a visitor follows a retailer link from Book Drop Central, the site may record information such as the book, retailer, date, and number of outbound clicks.
This information may be used for analytics, site operation, promotional reporting, and statistics provided to authors.
Book Drop Central’s retailer-click system is intended to count outbound activity and is not designed to record the contents of a reader’s transaction with the retailer.
Cookies and Login Information
Book Drop Central and WordPress may use cookies necessary for account login, session management, security, preferences, and site functionality.
Security, caching, analytics, form, and other WordPress services or plugins may also use cookies or similar technologies where necessary to provide their functions.
You can control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling necessary cookies may prevent account or site features from working correctly.
Email Communications
If you create an account, request a password reset, update certain account information, contact Book Drop Central, or subscribe to email updates, we may send messages related to those activities.
If you subscribe to promotional newsletters or book-discovery emails, you may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe option provided in those emails.
Transactional or security-related messages may still be sent when necessary to operate your account.
How Information Is Used
Book Drop Central may use collected information to operate and maintain the website, authenticate users, manage reader and author accounts, process book submissions, display listings, maintain wishlists, send requested communications, provide click statistics, prevent abuse and fraud, improve site functionality, troubleshoot problems, enforce policies, and comply with legal obligations.
Information Shared With Service Providers
Book Drop Central relies on third-party technology providers to host and operate portions of the website.
Information may be processed by service providers involved in areas such as hosting, email delivery, website security, backups, form processing, caching, analytics, payment processing, or other necessary site functions.
These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services or as permitted by their own applicable agreements and privacy policies.
Retailers and External Websites
When you follow a link from Book Drop Central to a retailer or other third-party website, that website may collect information according to its own privacy practices.
Book Drop Central does not control the data practices of Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, or other external websites.
You should review the privacy policy of the applicable third-party service when appropriate.
Affiliate Links
Some outbound retailer links may contain Book Drop Central affiliate tracking.
If you follow an affiliate link, the retailer or affiliate network may use cookies or other tracking mechanisms to determine whether a qualifying transaction occurs.
Book Drop Central does not receive the retailer’s complete private transaction records merely because an affiliate link was used.
Payments
Book Drop Central offers optional paid Featured and Premium promotional services. Payment information may be handled by third-party payment processors.
Book Drop Central does not need to store complete payment-card numbers when payments are processed directly by an authorized payment provider.
The payment processor’s own privacy policy will apply to information processed through its service.
Security
Book Drop Central uses reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect account and site information.
However, no website, transmission method, or electronic storage system can guarantee absolute security.
Users are responsible for choosing appropriate passwords and protecting their login credentials.
Data Retention
Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to provide accounts and services, maintain records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or abuse, and maintain backups.
Some information may remain temporarily in backups after deletion from the active site.
Your Choices
You may update certain reader or author account information through the account tools provided by Book Drop Central.
You may also contact Book Drop Central to ask questions about personal information associated with your account or request appropriate changes or deletion, subject to information we may need to retain for legal, security, transactional, or administrative purposes.
Newsletter subscribers may unsubscribe from promotional email communications.
Children’s Privacy
Book Drop Central is a general book-discovery website and is not intended to collect personal information directly from children under 13.
If Book Drop Central becomes aware that personal information has been collected from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, reasonable steps will be taken to remove it.
Sale of Personal Information
Book Drop Central does not sell users’ personal information to advertisers or data brokers.
Information may still be processed by service providers necessary to operate the website as described in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated as Book Drop Central adds or changes features, services, or legal requirements.
The current version will be posted on this page with its effective date.
Contact
Questions or privacy-related requests may be submitted through the Book Drop Central Contact page.