Privacy

Last updated November 10, 2026.

Seánra is built for book lists, not people. Here's exactly what we handle.

What we collect

Your uploaded file and the sorted copy we make from it.
Your genre choices and, if you send one, your edited file with your corrections.
Account details, only if you create an account: your email address and a securely hashed password.
Payment is handled entirely by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. For purchase orders, the school name, contact name, billing email and PO number go to Stripe to send the invoice.
Basic server logs (IP address, time, page) to keep the service running and stop abuse.

Please don't upload student or patron information. Shelf lists don't need it, and we don't want it.

Stripe processes payments.
Open Library (Internet Archive) receives book titles and authors to look up public subject headings.
A third-party AI service receives titles, authors, subjects and your genre names to help sort them, as part of our sorting system. It doesn't receive your account details, school name or file name.
Cloudflare delivers the website.

We don't sell your information or use it for advertising.

Without an account: files and results are deleted 14 days after upload (unpaid uploads after 2 days).
With an account: kept until you delete the list or your account. Deleting your account deletes everything stored with it.
Book titles, authors and genre placements (not linked to you or your school) are kept to improve future sorting.

To see, correct or delete your information, email [email protected].