Overview
Book Guru is owned and operated by Nerdy Executive Labs Inc. In this policy, "Book Guru," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Nerdy Executive Labs Inc. and the Book Guru app and service.
Book Guru is a reading companion that helps you manage your library, understand your taste, scan bookshelves, rate books, keep notes, join book circles, and receive personalized recommendations.
We collect the information needed to provide those features, keep your account secure, sync your data across devices, and improve recommendation quality. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your reading data for cross-app advertising tracking.
Information You Provide
Account information may include your name, email address, authentication provider identifiers, and preferences such as email or reminder settings.
Waitlist information may include your name, email address, and the reading need you select. We use it to manage early access invitations and Book Guru updates you consent to receive. You can leave the waitlist at any time by contacting us.
Reading information may include books in your library, statuses, ratings, progress, notes, taste preferences, recommendation feedback, declined or saved recommendations, circles, invites, and book club activity you choose to create.
Camera and photo input may include bookshelf photos or camera scans used to identify books. Photos are processed only for book recognition and library features; avoid scanning images that contain private information you do not want processed.
Support and deletion requests may include information you provide when requesting help, exporting data, or requesting account deletion.
Information Collected Automatically
The app may process basic technical information needed for app functionality, security, diagnostics, sync, subscriptions, and service reliability.
Book Guru may store recommendation history, feedback, and generated model signals so the recommendation engine can avoid repeats and improve over time.
Apple may process purchase and subscription information through App Store systems. Book Guru receives subscription status needed to unlock premium features, but does not receive your full payment card details.
How We Use Information
We use your information to authenticate you, sync your library, generate fit scores and recommendations, recognize scanned books, show book details, provide circles and sharing features, manage subscriptions, send reminders or emails you opt into, prevent abuse, debug issues, and process data export or deletion requests.
AI features may send the minimum task-relevant portions of your taste profile, library, ratings, notes, book metadata, feedback, or bookshelf image to OpenAI to produce summaries, fit explanations, recommendations, or book-recognition results. Requests are configured not to be stored by the model provider where that option is available. Generated output can be imperfect, so use it as guidance rather than a guarantee.
Sharing and Service Providers
Our primary service providers include Supabase for authentication, database, storage, and server functions; OpenAI for AI processing; Apple for sign-in, app distribution, and subscriptions; FormSubmit for delivering website waitlist entries by email; Google Books, Open Library, ISBNdb, and The New York Times for book metadata; and Amazon when you choose an affiliate retailer link. Provider availability can change as the service evolves.
We require service providers that process user information for Book Guru to protect that information in a manner consistent with this policy and applicable privacy requirements.
When you open external retailer or book-source links, those third-party sites may collect information under their own policies. Book Guru is not responsible for third-party websites or stores.
If you join or create a circle, information you choose to share with that circle may be visible to other circle members according to the circle's settings.
Your Choices
You can edit taste preferences, library entries, ratings, notes, reminder settings, and email preferences in the app.
You can export your reading data, clear declined recommendations, or delete your account from Profile > Settings > Delete Account or Data & Privacy.
You can disable camera, photo library, or notification permissions from iOS Settings. Some features may not work without those permissions.
Retention and Security
Core account, library, note, taste, circle, and recommendation data is retained while your account is active. Short-lived operational and recommendation audit records are periodically pruned. Purchase records, abuse-prevention records, and limited security logs may be retained longer where necessary for legal, accounting, fraud-prevention, or dispute purposes. When you delete your account, Book Guru removes active account data and user-owned bookshelf images; encrypted provider backups may persist only until their normal backup rotation expires.
Waitlist information is retained while we manage early access or until you ask us to remove it. FormSubmit may retain delivered form submissions for up to 30 days in its submission archive.
We use technical and organizational safeguards such as authenticated access and database row-level security. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we design the app to limit collection and protect user data.
International Processing and Regional Rights
Our service providers may process information in Canada, the United States, and other countries where they operate. Where required, transfers are protected using contractual and legal safeguards provided by those processors.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, delete, restrict, or object to processing of personal information, or to withdraw consent for optional processing. You may exercise these rights using the in-app controls or the contact address below. You may also complain to your local privacy regulator.
Children
Book Guru is not intended for children under 13. Do not create an account or submit personal information if you are under 13.
Changes and Contact
We may update this policy as Book Guru changes. If changes are material, we will update the effective date and provide notice where appropriate.
For privacy questions, data requests, or deletion requests, use the in-app Data & Privacy controls or contact Nerdy Executive Labs Inc. at admin@nerdyexecutive.com.