Soda Buddhi Books is a small independent press based in Los Angeles. This page explains what we collect when you visit this site, join our mailing list, send us a submission or suggest a book through CrowdSlush, and what we do with it.
What we collect
If you sign up for our mailing list (from any sign-up box on this site, or the newsletter option on the CrowdSlush form), we keep your email address, the date you joined, the page you signed up from and, if you choose to give it, your name. We use this to send you news about our books. Our newsletter also records whether you open each email and which links you click. We use this to see what readers find useful and to improve the newsletter, never for advertising.
If you send us a submission, we receive what you enter in the form: your name, your email address, details about the work and any manuscript or sample you attach. We use this only to read and respond to your submission, and we send you one email confirming that it arrived.
If you suggest a book through CrowdSlush, we receive what you enter in the form: the book’s details, why you’re recommending it, any photo or excerpt you share, your email address and, if you’d like to be credited, the name you want us to use. We use this to consider the book for translation and to contact you about it, and we send you one email confirming that it arrived. We credit you in the book only if you tell us we may, and if you tick the newsletter box we add you to our mailing list.
Like most websites, Ghost, which hosts this site, records basic technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you view. We use this only to keep the site running and to understand, in aggregate, how it is used. These visitor statistics don’t use cookies.
Cookies
This site uses a small number of cookies needed for it to work, for example to remember that you have signed in as a member. The submission and CrowdSlush forms use Google reCAPTCHA to block spam, and it sets its own cookie. We do not use advertising cookies. Do Not Track signals from your browser don’t change how this site works, because we don’t follow you across other websites.
Who else sees your data
The site and mailing list run on Ghost, and emails are sent through Ghost’s email service. Submissions and CrowdSlush suggestions are collected through Tally, which hosts our forms, and are stored in our Notion workspace so we can review them. Tally uses Google reCAPTCHA to block spam and Sentry to catch errors. The confirmation emails are sent through Cloudflare and Resend. This site loads its fonts from Google Fonts. When a page loads, your browser asks Google’s servers for the fonts, which shares your IP address and browser type with Google. Each of these providers handles your data to provide its service to us, under its own privacy policy. We do not sell, rent or share your details with anyone else.
How long we keep it
We keep your mailing-list details until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. We keep submissions and CrowdSlush suggestions for as long as we need them to consider the work, and delete them sooner if you ask.
Children
This site isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has given us their details, write to us and we’ll delete them.
Your choices
Every email we send has an unsubscribe link. You can also ask us at any time to see, correct or delete the information we hold about you, or raise a concern about how we’ve handled it, by writing to hello@sodabuddhibooks.com.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update this page and note the date below.
Last updated 11 November 2026.