Effective: September 29, 2026
External actions remain visible
Retailer purchase links open Amazon for your review. Direct purchase actions open Stripe Checkout with the selected editions and final charge. Email links open a draft for you to review and send. GoodNovels.org does not autonomously buy a book, send a message, book an appearance, or make a payment for you.
Reviews, gifts, and saving
Publishing a review requires explicit consent to display the submitted text and chosen public name. An email verification, purchase, gift claim, or saved book does not create marketing consent. A previous private gift link requires an explicit claim after email verification; opening it alone does not claim the gift. Public short novel pages can be shared without a gift claim and provide complete access every day. The complete Providence audiobook is paid every day. Save for later adds only a book reference to the current browser.
First Look email
First Look requires a checked consent statement and a clear submission. The request remains pending until you choose the confirmation action in the private email. The preference link provides direct controls for frequency, topics, unsubscribe, data access, and deletion. Unsubscribe and deletion choices take effect in the site database before any retry to the email provider.
Author conversations
The site currently provides a plain email link. It does not collect or store a booking request, and an email does not confirm an appearance.
Optional reading measurement
Public reading and discovery measurement is off unless you choose it above. The choice applies to this browser and respects Do Not Track. Consenting event counts describe actions such as opening a story, seeing a recommendation or reaching the narrative ending; they do not establish unique readers or comprehension. We do not send search text, email addresses, full page addresses, query strings or raw referrers with these events. Approved referral codes are stored only after this choice. You can withdraw it here; this clears optional attribution and experiment identifiers.
Essential payment, consent, access and delivery records remain separate. Reading position, display settings and saved books stay on your device so these features work without optional measurement. An active experiment may use a random identifier on consenting devices to keep the same version; it is unrelated to your account or email.
Reading and listening access
The complete Short Novel Collection is available at no charge every day, without an account, payment details, email verification or newsletter subscription. Read every chapter in your browser or keep the EPUB and PDF.
The complete English Providence audiobook is USD 3.99 every day. The Prologue and complete Part One remain available every day without an account. The free audio opening covers the Prelude and all of Part One. The approved written Prologue is also available.
Reading position and display preferences may be saved in this browser; clear site data to remove them. Saving a position does not create an account or a purchased library entitlement.
Purchases and private access
My Books uses an essential secure session cookie for access to purchased editions. Existing checkout return links use a separate short lived proof tied to the order. Basket and interface language choices stay on the device. A purchase or access link does not subscribe you to First Look, and newsletter consent remains separate. The complete Short Novel Collection, approved Providence samples do not require Stripe Checkout. Paid audiobook purchases use Stripe; marketing consent remains separate.