Privacy
BookWanders asks you to meet strangers to hand over a book, so we want you to know exactly what we do — and don't do — with your information.
Your location
Your exact location is never stored. When you set up your account, we take your location once and shift it by a random distance of 150–300 metres in a random direction. Only that shifted point is kept — the real one is never saved, and the offset is never recalculated.
When someone else sees one of your books, they only ever see a rough distance, like “a few minutes away” or “under 1 km away”. Nobody sees coordinates or an address — yours or theirs.
What other people can see about you
Other members only see your display name, your neighbourhood label, your trust rating, and your token balance. That is the complete list — nothing else about your account is visible to them.
Messages
A message you send about a book request is visible only to you and the other person in that request. Nobody else can read it.
Photos
BookWanders does not host user-uploaded images. There is no photo upload anywhere in the app.
Signing in
You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email. There are no passwords to remember, and we don't use a phone number or a social-media login.
Removing your data
To have your data removed, email rights@bookwanders.app.