Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At BookCast, we have a few fundamental principles:
- We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
- We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
- We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.
- We do not sell your user information for profit or share it with third-party advertisers. Our business model relies on providing value through our core service.
Information We Collect
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so – for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.
- Account Information: When you sign up, we collect basic information like your email address to create your account and allow you to log in. If you sign up via a third-party service (like Google or GitHub), we receive information from that service as necessary for authentication.
- Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services, such as the books you generate podcasts for. This helps us understand how our Services are being used, improve them, and manage resource usage (like generation limits).
- Book Information: Information about the books (title, author) you input is used solely for the purpose of generating the podcast content via our AI models. This data may be temporarily processed by third-party AI service providers strictly for this generation purpose under confidentiality agreements.
How We Use Information
- To provide, maintain, and improve our Services.
- To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services.
- To communicate with you, for example, through email, about account management, service updates, or support requests.
- To enforce generation limits and manage subscriptions.
Sharing Information
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of BookCast except in the following limited circumstances:
- With Your Consent: We may share information with your consent.
- For External Processing (AI Services): We may provide information like book titles/authors to our trusted AI service providers (like OpenAI or similar) based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, solely for the purpose of generating podcast content. They do not have the right to use this information for other purposes.
- For Legal Reasons: We will share personal information if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
Data Security
We work hard to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. We use appropriate security measures, including encryption and access controls.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at makerinnovationsco@gmail.com.
Last updated: 4/3/2025