Koodos, Inc., which provides the Shelf mobile app, respects your privacy. Koodos, Inc. (“Shelf,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) provides the Privacy Policy to describe how we collect, use, and share the information of individuals who visit our website at https://www.shelf.im/, the Shelf mobile app, or any other sites or online properties that link to this Privacy Policy (the “Service”). Additionally, this Privacy Policy provides information about the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
In short, we built our service to protect your rights and give you more control over your digital life. Shelf enables you to harness information about you and your preferences so that you can unleash that information how you want across the digital ecosystem. We start by allowing you to connect the third-party accounts you want so that we can access on your behalf the information you are authorized to access and view, including other data created by your activity and use of these services, from those connected accounts. You may also provide information about you and your preferences by manually entering it to your Shelf. We then use and share that information according to the preferences you set and instructions you give us, allowing you to establish your own privacy persona.
You can read more about our stance on data rightshere.
If you're looking for our Terms of Service, it's here.
Lots of legal talk here, but if you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at: support@koodos.com.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information in connection with your use of the Service:
Account Information: When you create an account with us, you may provide information such as your name, username, phone number, email address, profile picture, social media links, and other information you choose to provide. If you consent to providing access to your contact list, we may also obtain contact information from the contacts in your mobile device. You may provide additional information about yourself and your preferences when you use certain account features, such as when you enter your gender or sexual orientation to generate recommendations. You may also provide payment or billing information when you make in-app purchases using your Shelf account.
Information Collected from Connected Third-Party Accounts: Our Service may allow you to export or otherwise share with us personal information about you from the third-party services you choose to connect, such as streaming services, gaming providers, or reading trackers. If you use our Service to export Information Collected from Connected Third-Party Accounts or otherwise provide such information to us, we will store and use Information from Collected Connected Third-Party Accounts in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may need to provide your user credentials, such as a username or password, to access content from connected third parties. Depending on the third-party services you have chosen to connect, we may collect information such as your name, unique personal identifiers, online identifiers, email address, account names, login information, information about your transaction or purchase history, information about your viewing habits and preferences (including information about specific media you consume), inferences about your profile and preferences, and any other information related to your interactions with the connected third party that may be collected in accordance with the third party’s privacy practices and your account settings.
Feedback or Correspondence: When you contact us with questions, feedback, product reviews, or otherwise correspond with us online, we collect information including your full name, email address, telephone number, and the content of your communications.
User Submitted Content: Certain portions of the Service may allow you to submit unstructured data, text, messages, files, images, videos, or other content to Shelf. For instance, you may manually provide information, such as information about your interests and preferences on a third-party service with which you cannot or have chosen not to sync with your Shelf. We collect personal information from you to the extent your submissions to Shelf contain personal information and we will only use such personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Automatic Data Collection: We and other entities may automatically collect information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with our Services, our communications and other online services, such as browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Service, device type, time and date of visit, and other information collected through the use of cookies and similar technology. See the “Digital Analytics” section of this Privacy Policy to learn more about the use of this information and the choices available to you.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use personal information for any lawful purpose, including the following:
To provide and operate our Service and our business, including to allow users to participate in interactive features, to generate personalized insights and to provide data storage services.
To communicate with you about our Service, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
To provide support, and respond to requests, questions, and feedback.
To provide products, services, and information you request from us.
To facilitate transactions made at your direction including on third-party platforms or services, including to track referrals when you direct purchases using affiliate links or to direct and manage AI agents to take custom actions on your behalf.
To analyze, personalize, and improve the Service and to develop new products and services, including for analytics purposes.
If you have signed up or otherwise elected to receive marketing communications, to send you direct marketing communications via email, including, but not limited to, notifying you of offers or account updates. You may opt out of our marketing communications as described in the “Opt out of marketing communications” section below.
To comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
To protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims), enforce the terms and conditions that govern our Service, and protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
To create deidentified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect, including by restructuring it or removing information in a way that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use information that has been deidentified or aggregated without limitation.
With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is collected.
How We Share Your Personal Information
We may share the information we collect with other parties, including the following:
With third-party service providers who process information on our behalf, such as payment processors, data hosting services, and email service providers, or with our legal or business advisors.
With any affiliates or joint venture partners that we may have in the future.
With third-party services when you choose to connect your third-party accounts or select your sharing preferences using your account settings.
As part of a corporate sale, merger, or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets, including as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
Pursuant to a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, or other legal process or as otherwise required by law, to protect our rights or the rights of third parties, or to protect the safety or security of any person or entity.
With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.
We may share information that has been deidentified or aggregated without limitation.
The Service may offer interactive features that you can use to communicate with other Service users or to submit and post your own content. If you disclose information in one of these forums, this information can be viewed, collected, and used by others.
Digital Analytics
We may work with third parties that collect information about your use of the Service and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. We use Google Analytics and other third-party services to help us better understand how people engage with the Service, to improve the performance of the Service, and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information on Google Analytics, click here. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here. You can opt out of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Most browsers offer tools to limit the use of or to delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. If you use these tools, our Service may not function as intended. If you delete your cookies or use a different browser or mobile device, you may need to renew your choices.
Privacy Choices
You have the following choices regarding our collection and use of your personal information:
Access or update your Shelf Account Information. You may review and update your Shelf Account Information by logging into your account.
Opt-out of marketing communications. You can opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the emails you receive from us. If you do so, you will continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails until you cease using our services linked to those service updates.
Privacy rights. You have the right to submit requests about your personal information, depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our Service as described in the “U.S. Privacy Rights” and “International Privacy Rights” sections below.
U.S. Privacy Rights
We provide U.S. individuals with certain rights with respect to personal information we collect. This section of the Privacy Policy contains disclosures required by law and explains rights available to you.
Personal Information We Collect and Disclose.We collect and disclose the following categories of personal information:
Personal and online identifiers (such as first and last name, email address, or unique online identifiers)
Characteristics of legally protected classifications (such as gender)
Recordkeeping information (such as credit card number, debit card number, or other financial information)
Commercial or transactions information (such as records of services purchased, obtained, or considered)
Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as browsing history, search history, interactions with a website, email, application, or advertisement)
Geolocation information
Information about your viewing preferences and habits (such as books, music, videos, games, or other content you add to your Shelf manually or by connecting third-party services to your account)
Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences
Other information about you that is linked to the personal information above
We do not “sell” information about you beyond the purposes specified in this policy. For example, we may share personal information with specific third parties or categories of third parties as you direct through your account settings and preferences. To the extent any of this sharing may be considered a “sale” under applicable state privacy laws, you may opt out as described below. Additionally, we do not knowingly sell or share information of individuals under 16. We do not collect, use, or disclose “sensitive” information as defined by state privacy laws.
Categories of Sources. We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
You
Our affiliates and business partners
Our service providers
Third-party services that you request or connect to your account
Our Purposes for Processing Personal Information. We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our commercial and business purposes, as further described in the “How We Use Your Personal Information” section of this Privacy Policy.
We may use and share deidentified information to the extent permitted by applicable law. When we use deidentified information, we maintain and use the information in deidentified form and do not attempt to reidentify it, except to check whether our deidentification processes satisfy the requirements of applicable law.
Recipients of Personal Information. We disclose the categories of personal information designated above to the categories of third parties listed in the “How We Share Your Personal Information” section of this Privacy Policy for commercial and business purposes. We share personal information with third parties as you direct in your account settings. You may adjust your sharing preferences, including the specific third parties and categories of third parties with which you’d like us to share personal information, in your account settings or by opting out as described below.
Your Rights. You may be able to exercise the following rights regarding personal information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations in applicable state privacy laws:
The right to confirm whether we are processing personal information about you.
The right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you; the categories of sources from which we collected personal information about you; our purposes for collecting or selling personal information about you; the categories of personal information about your that we have sold or disclosed for a business purposes; and the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information.
For Oregon and Minnesota residents, the right to obtain a list of the specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal information.
The right to receive a portable and readily usable copy of the personal information that we have collected about you, to the extent feasible.
The right to correct inaccuracies in the personal information we have collected about you.
The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected about you.
The right to opt out of the sale of personal information. Please note that if you opt out of certain practices, we may be unable to provide you with some services.
The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the above privacy rights.
To make a request, please email us support@koodos.comand submit the required verifying information as further described below. You may also delete your account by selecting “Delete Account” in the settings page of the Shelf app.
Additionally, if you have submitted a request that we have not reasonably fulfilled, you may contact us to appeal our decision by sending an email with the subject line “Appeal” to support@koodos.com.
Verification Process and Required Information. We may ask for specific information from you to help us confirm your identity or understand the scope of your request. You will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled. We will require you to provide, at minimum, basic contact information like your name and email address.
Authorized Agent. You may also designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf by designating such an agent in writing or through a power of attorney. We will require authorized agents to provide us with proof that you have authorized the agent to make requests on your behalf prior to accepting requests from the agent.
International Privacy Rights
This section applies to individuals who access our Services from the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (“UK”).
Sometimes, we process personal information with your consent. On other occasions, we may process personal information when necessary to fulfill a contract or where required to do so by law. We may also process personal information when it is in our legitimate interests to do this (e.g., for customer service, customized content and recommendations, product development, or safety and security purposes) and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
Please be aware that the personal information we collect may be transferred and maintained on servers or databases located outside your country or other jurisdiction, where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your location. In such instances, we use appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, for such data transfers.
Individuals from the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK have the following rights:
To request access to the personal information we hold about you.
To request that we rectify inaccurate personal information about you.
To request that we erase personal information about you.
To request that we restrict the processing of personal information about you, under certain conditions.
To request that we transfer personal information about you to another, or directly to you, in a commonly used, machine readable format.
Where we previously obtained your consent to processing of personal information, to withdraw consent to processing such personal information.
To make a complaint to us if you believe there has been an infringement of these data rights.
To exercise these rights, contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. Please be aware that we may be unable to afford these rights to you under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us. To do so, contact the supervisory authority in your country of residence.
Third-Party Services
Our Service may provide links to websites, apps, and other online services operated by third parties. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites or apps, and they are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should review the privacy policies of other websites or apps that you use to learn about their data practices. We also encourage you to read the terms of use for any websites or apps that you connect to your Shelf account to learn more about permitted uses of the information you are authorized to access or view.
Our Service also includes integrated social media tools or “plug-ins,” such as networking tools offered by third parties. If you use these tools or integrations to share personal information or you otherwise interact with these features on the Service, those companies may collect information about you and may use and share such information in accordance with your account settings, including by sharing information with the general public.
Your interactions with third-party companies and your use of their features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide those features. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policies of any accounts you create and use.
Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as appropriate to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we process personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. Once the retention period expires and if not otherwise required to retain the information by law, we will delete or deidentify personal information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If our information practices change, we will post these changes on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates.
Contact Us
If you have questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
support@koodos.com Koodos Inc, 515 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013