The Fiction Shelf

Novels worth clearing your evening for

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 1, 2026

The Fiction Shelf (“we”, “our”) is published by Smart Fuse. This page explains what information we collect when you visit this site or receive our emails, and how we use it.

What we collect

When you visit this site, we collect:

  • Standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested, timestamps).
  • Aggregate analytics on page views and referring sources. We do not set cross-site tracking cookies for advertising.

When you subscribe to our email newsletter, we collect:

  • Your email address (required to send you the newsletter).
  • The date you subscribed and the source of the subscription (which page or link).
  • Engagement signals from your interactions with our emails (opens and clicks), used only to improve which content we send and to remove your address from lists you have unsubscribed from.

How we use it

  • To deliver the newsletter you subscribed to.
  • To keep the site running, secure, and free of abuse.
  • To understand which content is most useful to readers.

What we do not do

  • We do not sell your email address.
  • We do not rent your email address to third-party mailers.
  • We do not embed third-party advertising trackers on this site.

Third-party services

We use standard email-sending infrastructure to deliver our newsletter and standard web hosting to serve this site. These providers process technical data (email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps) on our behalf under their own privacy commitments.

Your rights

You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter, or by visiting our unsubscribe page.

To request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we hold about you, email editors@floppygroup.com and we will respond within 30 days.

Changes

If we update this policy, we will change the “last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes will be announced in the newsletter.

Contact

Smart Fuse
1050 E Flamingo Road, s107 1136, Las Vegas, NV 89119
editors@floppygroup.com

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