Privacy Policy

• Your email address, which we use to create your account and send sign-in codes.
• Payment details you enter at checkout. These go directly to our payment provider — we receive only a confirmation and limited billing information, never your full card number.
• Anything you send us, such as a support request.

• Reading activity, such as which stories and chapters you open and how far you have read, so we can sync where you left off across devices.
• Basic device and usage data — approximate location from your IP address, browser type, and pages viewed — used for security, analytics, and showing prices in your local currency.

We use the information above to:

• provide the service and remember your reading progress;
• process subscriptions and prevent fraudulent payments;
• send sign-in codes and important account or service messages;
• understand how the service is used so we can improve it;
• meet our legal, accounting, and tax obligations.

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on the performance of our contract with you (to run the service and process payments), our legitimate interests (to secure and improve the service), your consent (for optional analytics and marketing cookies), and legal obligation (for accounting and compliance).

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with service providers that help us operate, under agreements requiring them to protect it:

We may also disclose data where the law requires it or to protect our rights and our users.

We use cookies and similar storage to keep you signed in, remember your preferences, and measure how the service performs. You can control non-essential cookies through your browser or any consent controls we provide; blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the service from working.

We keep account and reading data for as long as your account is active and for a reasonable period afterwards. Billing records are kept for as long as tax and accounting rules require. When data is no longer needed, we delete or anonymise it.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your data, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent. To exercise any of these, email us and we will respond within the time the law allows. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority.

We protect your data with encryption in transit, access controls, and trusted infrastructure providers. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to guard against unauthorised access.

Some of our providers may process data outside your country. Where we transfer data internationally, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.

Desire Novels is intended for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has given us data, contact us and we will remove it.

We may update this policy as the service evolves. We will change the date at the top and, for significant changes, provide a more prominent notice.