NOVALY Digital Library

Privacy

What this site records, and what it does not.

No accounts, no tracking cookies

There is no sign-up, and the site sets no cookies for advertising or cross-site tracking. Your layout preference (grid or list) is kept in your own browser's local storage and never sent to us.

What is recorded

  • The page requested, the response status, and whether the device looked like a phone or a desktop.
  • The referring domain, if you arrived from another site.
  • Search terms, and how many results they returned.
  • A visitor identifier that is a salted hash of your IP address and browser, rotated every day. It cannot be reversed, and it cannot be used to link your visits across days.

What is not recorded

  • Raw IP addresses.
  • Names, accounts or profiles.
  • Any identifier that persists beyond a single day.

Email

If you subscribe to new-arrival updates we store your address and the genre you chose, nothing else. Confirmation is required before anything is sent, every message carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing deletes the record.

Other services

Downloads open on an external file host, which is a separate company with its own privacy policy. Web fonts are served by Google Fonts. We do not share anything with either of them beyond what your browser sends by making the request.

Retention and requests

Analytics rows are pruned after about a year. To ask what is held about you or to have it removed, email Not configured yet. Set CONTACT_EMAIL and DMCA_EMAIL in .env before this site goes public. — though with no account and a daily-rotating identifier, there is usually nothing to look up.

Last updated August 2026.