Privacy
Privacy Policy
This policy explains how your Reader Club account works on books.elizabethannwest.com, what information is connected to your account, and the choices you have as a reader.
Information collected
Your Reader Club account stores your email address, subscription consent, login/session records, mature-content confirmation when applicable, reader name and avatar color if you choose them, chapter ratings you leave, and limited reading events such as book started, chapter read, audio played, or store link clicked.
Why it is collected
This information provides free subscriber chapter access, sends book-update emails, protects Rated R content, saves your reading progress, remembers your Reader Club profile, improves the site, and helps recommend related books or direct editions.
Who processes it
Email subscription and transactional email are handled through Brevo. The reader website and secure reader database are hosted through HostGator. When direct editions are available, Curios handles direct sales.
What is not collected
Reader Club does not collect passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, or unnecessary personal details. Reading activity is limited to what helps your account work and keeps the site useful.
Reader choices
You can view your access status and turn off personalization from the reader account page. You can change your reader name and avatar color there too. Marketing emails include an unsubscribe option. You can also contact Elizabeth Ann West to ask about access, correction, or deletion.
Chapter ratings
Chapter ratings are available only when you are logged in. They help Elizabeth understand which scenes readers respond to without requiring public comments or review moderation.
Security
Login uses email links instead of passwords. Private security keys are stored outside the public website. Protected chapter text and protected audio are kept outside the public web folder.