Privacy
PoliReads is built to need as little of your data as possible. There is no account, no tracking, and nothing about your reading is sent to us. Here is exactly what that means.
The short version
- • No account, and no sign-up — every feature is free and anonymous.
- • No tracking cookies, and therefore no cookie-consent pop-up.
- • Your saved routes, reading progress, and notes stay in your own browser and are never uploaded to a server.
- • Visitor analytics are cookieless and aggregated — never tied to you.
What's stored — and where
When you save a route, mark a book as read, write a note, or review an idea, that information is written to your browser's local storage — a private store on your own device, tied to this site. It is never transmitted to PoliReads or anyone else. It stays until you clear it.
Because it lives in one browser on one device, it does not sync automatically to your other browsers or phones. To move or back it up, use the Export and Import buttons in My Library. To erase it, clear this site's data in your browser settings, or delete individual saved routes from the library.
Cookies
PoliReads does not set advertising or tracking cookies, and does not build a profile of you across the web. That is why you are not asked to accept cookies when you arrive — there is nothing non-essential to consent to.
Analytics
To understand roughly how many people use the site and which pages are visited, PoliReads uses Vercel Web Analytics. It is privacy-friendly by design: it uses no cookies, does not collect personally identifiable information, and does not track you across other sites. The data is aggregated — counts of page views, not a record of any individual.
Links to booksellers
Book pages link out to retailers and libraries so you can find each book. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy and cookies apply — PoliReads has no control over them. Some purchase links may be affiliate links. PoliReads recommendations stay deterministic and are never ranked by monetization.
Your control
Because PoliReads keeps no server-side account and never receives your library, there is no personal profile for us to look up, hand over, or delete — you already hold all of it, in your own browser, and can export or erase it at any time. The only third party involved is the cookieless analytics described above.
Changes
If this notice changes, the updated version will be posted here. Last updated: June 2026.