Privacy Policy
Last updated 2 November 2026
Novelush is a website for reading stories. This policy explains what we collect when you use it, why, and the choices you have. To contact us about your data, email chineduanya@gmail.com.
What we collect
- Your account: your name and email address, and a securely scrambled version of your password, never the password itself.
- Google sign-in: if you continue with Google, we receive your name, your email address and an ID that Google gives us for your account. We do not receive your Google password.
- Your reading: the books in your library, your place in each book, and the chapters you have read.
- Your purchases: which books you bought, the amount and the date. Flutterwave takes your card details, and we never see them.
- Security records: a scrambled version of your IP address, your browser type, and records of sign-ins, which help protect accounts and prevent abuse.
Your text size and page colour settings are stored only on your device.
Why we use it
- To run your account and keep your place across your devices.
- To send account emails, such as confirming your address.
- To take payment and unlock the books you buy.
- To keep the site secure and working properly.
We use your data to provide the service you asked for, and where we have a legitimate interest in keeping the service secure. We do not sell your personal data.
Who helps us
We use service providers to run the site, and they handle data for us: Railway hosts the site and its database, Cloudflare manages its web address, Resend delivers account emails, Flutterwave takes payments, and Google provides sign-in if you choose it. Some of these providers may process data outside the UK.
Cookies
We use one essential cookie to keep you signed in, and a short-lived one while you sign in with Google. We do not use advertising cookies. If that changes, for example when ads are added, we will update this policy first.
How long we keep it
We keep your account data while you have an account. Security records are kept for a limited time, and purchase records for as long as tax law requires. Ask us to delete your account and we will remove your personal data, unless the law requires us to keep part of it.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, delete or move your data, or object to how we use it. Email us and we will respond. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Children
Novelush is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its date.