Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Book Rion Ltd ("Book Rion", "the Company", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, stores, processes, shares, protects, transfers, and otherwise handles personal data in connection with the Book Rion platform.

1. Introduction

This Policy applies to all users and participants within the Book Rion ecosystem, including readers, young readers, parents, guardians, authors, publishers, bookstores, sellers, and any other person or entity that accesses or uses Book Rion's products, services, applications, websites, portals, dashboards, APIs, or related systems.

By accessing, registering on, browsing, using, uploading content to, purchasing from, leasing through, exchanging through, listing on, or otherwise participating in the Book Rion platform, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy.

2. Categories of Personal Data We Collect

Book Rion may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

• Identity Data: Full name, username, profile name, date of birth, age bracket, gender, account type, and verification information.
• Contact Data: Email address, phone number, billing address, shipping address, delivery address, and other communication details.
• Account Data: Account credentials, user profile information, subscription plan, account settings, reading preferences, saved books, wishlists, and library selections.
• Device and Technical Data: IP address, device identifier, mobile device ID, operating system, browser type, app version, and technical usage information.
• Transaction and Payment Data: Purchase history, lease history, exchange history, order details, delivery status, payment confirmation, invoices, and refunds.
• Profile, Reading, and Usage Data: Reading history, books accessed, reading time, reading streaks, reading goals, notes, highlights, reviews, ratings, and engagement patterns.
• Location Data: Delivery location, shipping location, bookstore proximity data, and location selected by the user.
• Uploaded Content: User-uploaded PDFs, notes, summaries, reading lists, documents, and other files stored in personal libraries.

3. How We Collect Personal Data

Book Rion may collect personal data directly from you when you register, create an account, subscribe, upload content, list books, make purchases, provide delivery details, or contact support. We also collect data through your use of the platform, including browsing, reading, reviewing, rating, saving, purchasing, and engaging with community features.

We may also collect data through automated technologies such as cookies, pixels, analytics tools, device logs, and tracking technologies, as well as from third-party service providers including payment processors, logistics partners, and analytics providers.

4. How We Use Personal Data

Book Rion may use personal data for account registration and management, platform operation and service delivery, payment and billing, book discovery and personalisation, reading habit support, marketplace fulfilment and logistics, customer support and dispute resolution, security and fraud prevention, marketing and communications, legal and regulatory compliance, and product improvement and research.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Book Rion may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enable platform functionality, remember user preferences, authenticate users, analyse usage patterns, improve performance, support security and fraud detection, and measure marketing performance.

Users may disable cookies through browser settings where available. However, certain features may not function properly where cookies are disabled.

6. Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Data

Book Rion may share personal data with internal personnel, payment and financial service providers, logistics and delivery partners, technology and infrastructure providers, content providers and marketplace participants, professional advisers, and regulatory and legal authorities where required by law.

Book Rion does not sell or rent personal data to advertisers or unrelated third parties.

7. Children's Privacy and Young Rion

Young Rion is intended to provide a curated reading environment for children and young readers under appropriate adult oversight. Book Rion does not knowingly collect personal data from children in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable law.

Child or young-reader accounts must be created, authorised, supervised, or managed by a parent, guardian, educator, or authorised adult. Parents or guardians may contact Book Rion to request access, correction, restriction, or deletion of a child's personal data.

8. Data Security

Book Rion shall implement reasonable technical, organisational, and administrative measures designed to protect personal data against accidental loss, unauthorised access, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Such measures may include encryption, access controls, authentication procedures, secure hosting, monitoring, and audit logs.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no digital platform, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for safeguarding their account credentials and for promptly reporting suspected account compromise.

9. Data Retention

Book Rion shall retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including service delivery, account management, legal compliance, accounting, audit, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, and enforcement.

Where personal data is no longer required, Book Rion may delete, anonymise, archive, or securely destroy it. Where a user requests deletion, Book Rion may retain certain information where required by law or necessary for legitimate business purposes.

10. Your Data Protection Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to your personal data, request correction of inaccurate data, request deletion, request restriction of processing, object to processing, withdraw consent, request data portability, object to direct marketing, or lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.

To exercise any of these rights, you may contact Book Rion at hello@bookrion.com

11. Third-Party Links and Services

The Services may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every site you visit.

12. Changes to this Policy

Book Rion may amend, revise, or replace this Policy from time to time. Any updated version shall take effect from the date stated in the revised Policy or upon publication on the platform. Continued use of the platform after publication of changes shall constitute acknowledgement of the updated Policy.

13. Contact Details

For privacy enquiries, data protection requests, complaints, or concerns, please contact Book Rion through: hello@bookrion.com

Registered Address: NOVABASE, ADMIRALTY WAY, LEKKI PHASE 1, ETI-OSA, LAGOS STATE.