Privacy
Last changed 1 October 2026.
Short version
You don't need an account to find spines, use the filters or save a story. An account keeps your shelves so you can open them again, and shows them on your profile: shelves are public unless you mark them private. We keep as little as we can, we don't show ads, we don't use trackers, and we never sell anything about you.
Who can have an account
Accounts are for people who are 18 or older. When you make one, you confirm that you are. If you're younger, you can still use everything on the site without an account.
What we keep
- From Google sign-in: your email address and a user id. Google also shows us your name; we only use it to suggest a username and don't store it. We never see your Google password.
- Your account: your username, when you made the account, and that you confirmed you're 18 or older.
- Your profile: the display name, bio and photo you add, and which shelf you feature. Before a photo is stored we make it smaller and draw it again, which removes its location and camera data.
- Your shelves: the caption, filter, background and layout you picked, and for each spine its title, author or director, year, and where its picture comes from.
- Pictures: a small picture of each saved shelf, and any spine or cover you cut or uploaded yourself, so the shelf looks the same when you open it again. With Pro, also the wall and the PNGs you put on a shelf, drawn again the same way before they're stored.
- Reports: if you report a profile or a shelf, who sent it, what it was about, the reason you give, and when.
If you choose to add a spine to the public archive, that spine picture (not your account) is kept there for everyone to use.
Where it's kept
- Account and shelf text: Supabase, in Mumbai, India.
- Pictures: Cloudflare, on our Worker and in its storage (R2).
- On your device: your sign-in, in this browser's storage, until you sign out.
Who can see it
Your profile and your shelves are public unless you mark them private. Anyone with the link can see your display name, username, bio and photo, and your public shelves with their spines, walls and PNGs.
- Mark a shelf Private (in My shelves, or under it on your profile) and only you can see it. On your profile it shows to you alone, and nowhere else.
- Tick Private profile in Edit profile and your whole profile, with all its shelves, shows only to you.
Your email address is never shown to anyone. Reports are read only by us.
Removing it
You can delete any shelf in My shelves at any time. When you remove your photo, a wall or a PNG, the picture is deleted from storage too, as soon as no shelf of yours uses it any more. Deleting your whole account from the site is coming soon; until then, email us from the address you signed in with and we'll delete your account, your shelves and their pictures within 7 days.
Contact
Questions or requests: hello@shelfstackd.com.