What We Collect.
Fond Books does not ask you for anything. There are no accounts, no logins, no newsletter, and no forms that collect personal information. You can read every page on this site without telling us who you are.
Analytics
We use Umami, hosted on our own server, to understand which pages people read. It is a browser script that sets no analytics cookies. Umami records page paths, referring sites, browser and device information, and approximate country and city. It processes your IP address to estimate location and distinguish visits. Visitor counts are estimates, not named reader accounts.
Umami also counts clicks on the buttons that leave this site: the Amazon, Bookshop.org and AbeBooks buy buttons, the library link, and the links to a free full text. What it records is which button was pressed and the page it was pressed on, plus, for a free text, which of the two libraries it points to. It is a count of clicks, not a trail: it is tied to no identifier for you, and it tells us only what our own pages already show.
We exclude page URL search parameters and fragments from Umami. We do not record sessions, capture forms, or use advertising identifiers.
We previously used Google Analytics and removed it in August 2026, because it set cookies and sent data to a third party for a service we only ever used to count page views.
Advertising
There are no ads on this site and no advertising trackers. We ran Google AdSense briefly and removed it in August 2026. Nothing on these pages is now serving or measuring advertising.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies. Until September 2026 it set one: the software the site then ran on gave every visitor a session cookie named _fond_books_session, which held a token that protected forms from cross site request forgery. It never identified you, and it went when the site moved to plain pages that have no forms to protect.
Our analytics sets no cookies, and no third party sets a cookie on any page of this site. Bookshop.org, Amazon and AbeBooks set their own once you click through to them, which is described below.
Until September 2026 that was not quite true. The home page carried a book recommendation card served by Bookshop.org, and because it loaded from their servers rather than ours it set two Bookshop cookies as the page opened, before you clicked anything. We replaced it with a card built from our own catalog. The Umami script described above is now the only thing any page loads from outside this website.
Bookshop, Amazon and AbeBooks Links
When a book page links you to Bookshop.org or Amazon, those links carry an affiliate code. Where we have found no Bookshop edition, the page offers a used copy from AbeBooks instead, through the Impact affiliate network. If you buy something, the retailer pays us a small commission at no extra cost to you. Clicking through means Bookshop, Amazon or AbeBooks sets its own cookie so it can attribute the sale, and from that point their privacy policy applies rather than ours. The library link on a book page opens WorldCat, carries no affiliate code, and does not ask for or receive your location. The search box in our footer is ours, not theirs: it searches this site and contacts nobody else.
Fonts
Page typefaces are served from this website. Until September 2026 they loaded from Google Fonts, which meant Google received your IP address as part of serving the file; they no longer do, and no request for a font leaves this site.
What We Never Do
We do not sell analytics data, run email tracking, or share data with advertisers or data brokers. The book catalog lives in plain text files in this site's source code. Umami statistics are stored separately on our own server.
Changes
If we add or remove a service that touches your data, we will update this page and change the date below.
Questions
Ask us at contact@fondbooks.com, or see the contact page for what else we can help with.
Last updated 29 September 2026.