A short, honest note about your data.

Pagebird collects only what your book club needs to work, treats it carefully, and shares almost nothing. This page is the long version — what we hold, who sees it, and what you can ask of us.

iWhat we collect

When you sign up, we collect the email you give us. We also ask — and you can decline any of these — for your name, an age band, the city where you read, and an avatar.

When you use Pagebird, we collect the things you create inside it: the clubs you join or start, the books your club picks, the threads and replies you post, your RSVPs and what you're bringing to a meetup, your private bookmark position, the reading format you've chosen for the current book (audiobook / ebook / physical), and any highlights you save.

From your device, your browser tells us your timezone once, so meetup times render in your local clock instead of the server's.

If you sign in with Apple or Google instead of a magic link, we receive your verified email and, the first time only, your given name. Apple's "Hide my email" relay is honored — we never see your real address in that case.

iiWhat we don't

• No third-party trackers, no advertising cookies, no analytics scripts.
• No reading history from outside Pagebird — not from Goodreads, Storygraph, or your Kindle — unless you ask us to import it.
• No friend graph beyond the clubs you've joined.
• No precise location. Just the city you typed in, if you did, and the timezone your browser reports.
• No phone number.

iiiWho sees what

Your club's members see the threads, replies, RSVPs, meetups, and book picks that happen inside your club. They see your name, avatar, and the reading format you're using for the current book.

Only you see your bookmark progress (kept private even from other club members on purpose — we don't want leaderboard dynamics), your highlights, your founding-flock number if you have one, and the age band and city you set during sign-up.

Pagebird sees aggregate statistics for understanding how the app is being used — counts of sign-ups, RSVPs, messages, but never their content — and any note you send through the in-app feedback form.

Nobody else. We don't sell, swap, rent, or hand your data to anyone for marketing.

ivAI features

We use Anthropic's Claude for three small features: drafting open-ended discussion questions for the host, writing spoiler-safe catch-up summaries when you're behind, and suggesting two or three books your flock might love next.

What we send in those calls: the book's title and author, the chapter range your club is discussing, and — for catch-up — the chapter you've read up to.

What we never send: the contents of your threads, the body of any book, your personal data, or anyone else's data.

Anthropic does not train on inference-API inputs by default, and we don't opt in. We cache the responses so the same inputs don't round-trip twice.

vThird-party services we rely on

• Supabase — our database, authentication, realtime, and file storage (where your avatar lives).
• Vercel — where the app is hosted.
• Resend — transactional email: magic links, RSVP reminders, your-up-next nudges, and replies to the notes you send us.
• Kit — the 6-day welcome email you receive after signing up.
• Hardcover — book metadata, when you or your host searches for a book to pick.
• Apple and Google — only if you choose those sign-in methods instead of magic links.
• Anthropic — AI inference for the features in section iv.
• Cloudflare — DNS for the marketing site at pagebird.ai.
• Bookshop.org, your public library system, and Libro.fm — for the buy-or-borrow links we'll add to book pages. Nothing is sent to them unless you click.

viHow long we keep it

As long as your account exists, we keep what you've created: club memberships, threads, RSVPs, your bookmark, your highlights, your meetup history.

If you delete your account, we delete that data within thirty days. Your founding-flock number, if you have one, is not recycled — the seat is the promise — but no other personal information is kept.

We don't run a recovery window beyond those thirty days. If you change your mind, you'll need to start a new account.

viiYour rights

You can ask to see what we have on you, correct it, export it, or delete it. Write to [email protected], or use the feedback form inside the app. We respond within five business days.

If you're in the EU, UK, or California, you have the rights granted by GDPR, UK GDPR, or CCPA respectively. We honor them everywhere.

viiiChanges to this page

If we change anything meaningful, we'll update the date at the top and email everyone on the list. This page is versioned in git — the diff is the changelog. No surprise rewrites.

Pagebird is built by a small team in Tampa, FL.
Questions, requests, or just hello — [email protected].