Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 31, 2026

Welcome to NovelCircle. Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://novelcircle.com (the “Site”), use our services, or interact with our content.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://novelcircle.com
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected].

2. Information We Collect

A. Personal Data You Provide to Us

Account Information: When you register on our Site, we collect personal information such as your username, email address, and password.
Profile & Content: If you customize your profile (e.g., uploading an avatar) or interact with the platform (e.g., saving novels to your library, bookmarking manga chapters, creating reading lists), this data is stored on our servers.
Comments & Interaction: When visitors leave comments, reviews, or ratings on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.

B. Automatically Collected Data

Log and Usage Data: We automatically collect certain information when you visit the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device information, and pages viewed.
Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your experience.
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- When you log in, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.

3. Media & Uploads

If you upload images to the website (such as profile pictures, user reviews, or user-generated content), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our novel and manga platform.
Improve, personalize, and expand our user experience (e.g., personalized reading recommendations).
Understand and analyze how you use our Site.
Process your transactions and manage paid subscriptions or coin purchases (if applicable).
Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages.
Detect, prevent, and mitigate fraudulent or illegal activities.

5. Third-Party Services & Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services for us, including:

Payment Processing: We partner with third-party payment processors (such as Stripe or PayPal) to handle secure payment tokenization. We do not store your credit card details on our servers.
Analytics: We may use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to monitor and analyze web traffic and user behavior.
Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (such as Akismet).
Gravatar Service: An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Their privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

6. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles, chapters, or posts on this Site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, social media widgets, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

7. Data Retention

Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
Registered Users: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile indefinitely. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. Security of Your Data

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures (including SSL encryption) to help protect your personal information. However, please be aware that no electronic transmission or digital storage method can be guaranteed 100% secure.

9. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)

Our Site and services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a child under the required age, we will take steps to delete the information from our files as soon as possible.

10. Your Data Rights

Depending on your location (such as the EU/EEA under GDPR, or California under CCPA), you may have the following rights regarding your data:

The right to access, export, or receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
The right to request the correction of inaccurate personal data.
The right to request the erasure of your personal data (“The Right to be Forgotten”), subject to legal or administrative retention obligations.
The right to object to or restrict certain processing activities.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]