The short version

With your consent, we measure how the reading room is used — which pages, searches and shelves people reach for — so we can improve it. It’s anonymous: we don’t know your name, we don’t store your IP address, and we never keep the name of the child you’re shopping for. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

Who we are

One More Book (“we”, “us”) runs onemorebook.co.uk and is the data controller for the information described here. For any privacy question or request, email privacy@onemorebook.co.uk.

What we collect

With your consent — analytics

If you accept cookies, we record, against an anonymous device id:

• pages you view and the type of page (a book, a shelf, a search, the discover flow);
• searches you run and which results you open;
• which books, series and shelves were shown to you and which you clicked;
• coarse choices from the discover flow — a child’s age band, the occasion, the kinds of stories you’re after. These are non-identifying categories, never free text.

Without identifying you — operational counts

Whether or not you accept, we keep some plain, device-free tallies of overall use (pages served, searches run). These carry no id, no session and no IP address, so they don’t identify anyone.

What we deliberately don’t collect

• The child’s name, or any free text you type. The “who’s it for” field can take a name; that name never leaves the page as data. We only ever record that the field was filled in.
• Your IP address. We never write it into our analytics.
• Any third-party advertising profile. We don’t run ad tracking.

Cookies

The full list of cookies, what each is for and how long it lasts is in our cookie policy. Nothing non-essential is set until you accept.

Why we’re allowed to (lawful bases)

• Consent for everything in the analytics set above. You give it through the cookie banner and can withdraw it any time via Cookie preferences in the footer.
• Legitimate interests for the anonymous, device-free operational counts — a minimal, non-identifying measure that lets us keep the site working well.

Who we share it with

We don’t sell your data. We use a small number of trusted providers to run the service:

• Vercel — hosting and content delivery, plus privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics: anonymous page views and site performance (Core Web Vitals). No cookies and no cross-site identifiers.
• Neon — our database (hosted in the UK/EU), where the anonymous analytics are stored.
• Sentry — error monitoring, hosted in the EU. When something breaks it receives the technical details of the fault (the page, browser and a stack trace), which may include your IP address. We use it only to find and fix problems.
• Google Analytics — only if you accept cookies. We never send Google your name, the child’s name, or any identifier that points back to you, and Google Signals is switched off.

How long we keep it

Raw analytics are kept for 14 months, then deleted or reduced to anonymous aggregates. Your cookie choice is remembered for 6 months, after which we ask again.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask us to give you a copy of, correct, or delete your data; to restrict or object to how we use it; and to withdraw consent at any time. Because the analytics are anonymous we may need you to help us identify the relevant records. Email privacy@onemorebook.co.uk and we’ll help. You also have the right to complain to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

Children’s data

One More Book is for the grown-ups choosing books — a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, family friend or teacher. Any details about a child are entered by an adult, the child’s name is never stored, and the category choices we do keep (age band, the kinds of stories) don’t identify the child.

If we add accounts later

We may one day let you save things and come back to them. If you create an account, your earlier anonymous activity on that device may be linked to it — we’ll tell you again clearly when you sign up, and Google Analytics is never given that link. Deleting your account unlinks that history again.

Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or why, we’ll update this page and, where it matters, ask for your consent afresh.

Get in touch

Email privacy@onemorebook.co.uk with any question or request about your data.