Privacy Policy
BOOKS ARE FUN: CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT
Last Updated: April 3, 2026
This California Consumer Privacy Statement supplements the Books Are Fun Privacy Policy and applies solely to personal information collected about California consumers, such as our contributors, visitors to our websites, job applicants, and representatives of business partners. This Statement does not apply to our personnel.
This California Consumer Privacy Statement uses certain terms that have the meanings given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing regulations, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “CCPA”).
Notice of Collection and Use of Personal Information
We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Statement) the following categories of personal information about you:
- Identifiers: identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; telephone number and other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers), online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, and other similar identifiers
- Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80: such as credit card number, debit card number, state identification card number, and education information
- Protected Classifications: characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as, age
- Commercial Information: commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
- Online Activity: Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites, applications, or advertisements
- Geolocation Data
- Employment Information: professional or employment-related information such as résumé information, occupation details, education details, certifications and professional associations, previous employment details, emergency contact information, and pre-employment screening and background check information, including criminal records information
- Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, and behavior
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information with the purpose of inferring characteristics about California consumers covered by this Statement.
To the extent we process deidentified information, we will maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information unless permitted by applicable law.
We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Statement) your personal information for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy and for the following business purposes specified in the CCPA:
- Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, or providing similar services
- Providing advertising and marketing services to you, except for cross-context behavioral advertising (which is addressed in the “Sale or Sharing of Personal Information” section of this Statement)
- Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions
- Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us
- Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes
- Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
- Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
- Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us.
Retention of Personal Information
We will retain your personal information for the period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in our Privacy Policy and this Statement, or any other notice provided at the time of collection, taking into account applicable statutes of limitation and records retention requirements under applicable law.
Sources of Personal Information
During the 12-month period prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Statement, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you, such as when you interact with our Online Services
- Your devices, such as when you use our Online Services
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Vendors who provide services on our behalf
- Business partners
- Online advertising companies
- Social networks
- Recruiting and talent agencies
- Job references, such as your employers
- Data brokers, such as public databases, credit bureaus, credit reporting service providers, and background check services
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary compensation. We may disclose your personal information by allowing certain third parties (such as online advertising services) to collect personal information via automated technologies on our Online Services for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. Under California law, these kinds of disclosures may be considered a “sale” when the personal information is exchanged for non-monetary consideration, or “sharing” when the personal information is disclosed for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. You have the right to opt out of these types of disclosures of your information.
We may sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes (and may have sold or shared during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement) the following categories of personal information about you to online advertising services:
- Identifiers
- Commercial Information
- Online Activity
- Inferences
- Vendors who provides services on our behalf
- Professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms
- Business partners
- Online advertising services
- Data analytics providers
- Internet service providers (“ISPs”) and operating systems and platforms
- Social networks
- Data brokers, such as credit bureaus, credit reporting service providers, and background check services
- Vendors who provides services on our behalf
- Professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms
- Internet service providers (“ISPs”) and operating systems and platforms
- Data brokers, such as credit bureaus, credit reporting service providers, and background check services
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Vendors who provides services on our behalf
- Professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Vendors who provides services on our behalf
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Online advertising services
- Data analytics providers
- Internet service providers (“ISPs”) and operating systems and platforms
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Data analytics providers
- Internet service providers (“ISPs”) and operating systems and platforms
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Vendors who provides services on our behalf
- Professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms
- Our affiliates and subsidiaries
- Vendors who provides services on our behalf
- Online advertising services
- Data analytics providers
We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
Disclosure of Personal Information
During the 12-month period prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Statement, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
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Identifiers |
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Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80 Law |
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Protected Classifications |
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Commercial Information |
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Online Activity |
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Geolocation Data |
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Employment Information |
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Inferences |
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In addition to the categories of third parties identified above, during the 12-month period prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Statement, we may have disclosed personal information about you to government entities (e.g., in response to a request from law enforcement authorities).
California Consumer Privacy Rights
You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.
- Access: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold or shared about you, including the categories of personal information collected, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
- Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.
- Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.
- Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
How to Submit a Request. To submit an access, correction, deletion, please, email us at bbsupport@booksarefun.com or call us at 833-425-7736. If you email your request, please include “Personal Information Request” in the subject line and provide full details about your request, including the type of request you are making to bbsupport@booksarefun.com. To opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, use our “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or use the Global Privacy Control signal (“GPC”). Like with other types of browser-specific controls, if you use the GPC, we will process it for your browser, but it will not apply outside of that browser to your device, or account. After using the GPC, if you clear your cookies in your browser, you will need to use the GPC again for us to process your opt-out request for that browser. For more information about the Global Privacy Control, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
Verifying Requests. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. If you have an account with us, we may verify your identity by requiring you to sign in to your account. If you do not have an account with us and you request access to, correction, or deletion of your personal information, we may require you to provide certain information in our records, such as: e-mail address, recent order information if applicable, name, phone number, and zip code. In addition, if you do not have an account and you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we may require additional confirmation that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, correction, deletion, or opt-out of sale or sharing request on your behalf, (a) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (b) for access, correction, and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us (as described above).
Additional Information. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request. This Statement is available in alternative formats upon request. If you have any questions about this Statement or our information practices, or to request this Statement in an alternative format, please contact us as described in the “Questions and Contact Information” section of the Books Are Fun Privacy Policy.