Privacy

Who we are

Snag a Book is a free reader–author matching site run by County Wide Web / Jason Burch (Graham, Texas). Contact us at Contact or the email you used when you signed up.

What this site does

We help authors list books for readers who opted into a genre shelf. Readers can snag books (up to 12 a month, 3 out at a time), mark them finished, or release them. Amazon reviews are welcome if you want — never required, never scored, never paid by us.

Accounts

You have one account (one email, one password) that can be a reader, an author, or both. Passwords are stored hashed on our Cloudflare auth service. We do not see your password in plain text.

Password-reset emails are sent only when you request a reset.

What we collect

• Account info — email, password hash, display name (readers), name (authors), shelf preferences, and the “keep my activity private” setting.
• Book listing info — title, author name, ASIN, cover image, description, and related fields you submit when listing a book.
• Activity — snags, downloads/fetches, finishes, releases, and points/tier progress used for My reading and the leaderboard.
• Contact messages — whatever you send on the Contact form (including whether you are a reader or an author).
• Technical basics — standard server logs (IP, browser type, timestamps) needed to run and secure the site.

Where data lives

• Accounts — Cloudflare Workers + D1 (separate from this Netlify website).
• This website — hosted on Netlify (pages and forms such as Contact).
• Browser storage — some snag/points demos still use your browser’s localStorage until everything is fully server-backed.
• Book files (PDFs/EPUBs) — not stored on Netlify. Delivery uses short-lived signed links (Cloudflare R2 planned). We do not leave book files as permanent public downloads on snagabook.com.

How we use information

• Run your account, snags, finishes, and points.
• Show your book to readers who picked matching shelves.
• Answer contact messages.
• Keep the site secure and working.

We do not sell reader or author lists. We do not run paid review programs. We will not send marketing email campaigns to readers without Jason’s explicit approval.

Leaderboard and activity

If you turn on Keep my activity private, you stay out of the public leaderboard and activity ticker. You can still snag, read, and finish books the same way.

Cookies and sessions

We use a session cookie (and/or a browser token) so you stay logged in. The session cookie is HttpOnly and sent only over HTTPS.

Third parties

We use infrastructure providers to host the site and accounts (including Netlify and Cloudflare). They process data only to provide those services. We do not hand your list to advertisers.

Kids

Snag a Book is not directed at children under 13. Don’t create an account for someone under 13.

Your choices

• Update display name and privacy settings in your reader flow as those controls roll out.
• Request a password reset from the login screens.
• Ask us to delete or correct account data via Contact (say whether you are a reader or an author).

Changes

If this policy changes in a material way, we’ll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about privacy → Contact.