Privacy Policy

Only two things generate personal data here: making an account, and placing an order.

Account

Your name, email address and — if you add one — a phone number and profile picture. If you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address and profile picture from Google; we never see your Google password.

Orders

Your delivery name, phone number, street address, city and province, plus what you bought and when. Cash on delivery means we never handle card or bank details at all.

Sign-in

A password, stored only as a bcrypt hash — we cannot read it — and a session cookie so you stay signed in. The session cookie is httpOnly, which means scripts on the page cannot read it.

Usage

If analytics are switched on, Google Analytics records which pages get visited, in aggregate. Reviews and questions you post are shown publicly under your display name.

To take payment on delivery, to hand the courier an address they can actually find, to show you your own order history, to reply when you write to us, and to keep the shop working. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not run ads.

A small number of services we depend on, each seeing only what their job requires. None of them are permitted to use your data for their own purposes:

• The courier — your delivery name, address and phone, so they can reach you.
• MongoDB Atlas — the database the shop runs on.
• Cloudinary — hosts book covers and profile pictures.
• Google — sign-in, and analytics where enabled.
• Our email provider — order confirmations and password resets.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data. We would only hand it to anyone else if the law required it.

Order records are kept as long as we need them for accounts and returns. Everything else lives for as long as your account does — close it and we delete your personal details, keeping only what we are legally obliged to retain against past orders.

Write to hello@bookstemplenepal.com and we will, within a reasonable time: send you a copy of what we hold, correct anything wrong, delete your account, or stop emailing you. You can edit your own details any time under account settings. You never have to make an account to buy — guest checkout asks only for a delivery address.

The shop is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them. If you believe a child has given us their details, tell us and we will remove them.

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top. Material changes will be announced on the site rather than slipped in quietly.

Books Temple Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal · hello@bookstemplenepal.com
Questions about any of the above are welcome through the contact page.