Effective October 20, 2026. This BookFrame Privacy Policy covers the BookFrame plugin on your WordPress site, and BookFrame Plus when you install it. The policy for grandslambert.com accounts and checkout is at https://grandslambert.com/privacy-policy/. Use the company policy for purchases and accounts. Use this page for what the plugin stores and sends on your own WordPress site.
BookFrame Privacy Policy
Keep the two policies separate while you read. The company page describes grandslambert.com accounts and checkout. This BookFrame Privacy Policy describes the copy of the plugin on your WordPress site. A person browsing your public pages is not performing an administrator save in the Dashboard, and an administrator save is the action this page talks about when a request leaves the site.
If you need to ask a question about this policy, use the contact form. Do not publish a license key on a public page. If this plugin has no license key, there is nothing to publish. The sections below name what stays in your database and what, if anything, an administrator request can send.
Books stay on your site
Books, authors, covers, and descriptions you publish stay in your WordPress database. Visitors browsing your library do not send that content to GrandSlambert. Reading a book page on your site uses the copy you already saved. It does not start a new search at Google Books or Open Library.
Import and search are administrator actions. After a book is saved, BookFrame keeps that record on your site. Existing books keep the source they were imported from. Visitors do not send titles, ISBNs, or author names to those services by browsing the library.
Google Books
Google Books is optional. It runs when an administrator searches, imports, or tests a connection under Books. BookFrame sends the search text (a title or an ISBN) to https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes. The API key is sent in a request header. The request also includes a User-Agent that contains your site URL. Visitors do not trigger this request.
Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. The API key you enter belongs to your Google account. A search or import does not send your other posts, comments, or visitor accounts. If Google Books is not the selected source, BookFrame does not send that search.
Open Library
Open Library needs no API key. When it is the selected source, an administrator search or import sends the title, ISBN, or author name to https://openlibrary.org/. Cover images may load from https://covers.openlibrary.org/. The User-Agent includes your site URL. Visitors do not trigger these requests.
Open Library API: https://openlibrary.org/developers/api. Open Library is not a GrandSlambert account. BookFrame does not add an API key for it. The site URL in the User-Agent identifies the WordPress site making the administrator request.
Downloading BookFrame Plus
Books → Get Plus runs only when an administrator submits a license key. That request goes to https://grandslambert.com/wp-json/gs-ls/v1/package. It sends the license key and the product name. It does not send your content, media, or visitors. The plugin then asks you to activate Plus yourself.
Downloading Plus does not activate it. You activate BookFrame Plus yourself in WordPress. Visitors browsing the site do not start Get Plus. The download request is an administrator action, and it is separate from later license checks.
After BookFrame Plus is active, license activation and update checks send the license key, your site URL, and a site instance ID to the GrandSlambert license server. Those checks do not include the content stored on your site.
BookFrame Plus on this site
After Plus is active, reading lists, read status, and visitor ratings stay on your site. Read status is want to read, reading, or read. Ratings are a 1 to 10 score. Those features require a logged-in WordPress user. Guests cannot save a list or leave a rating. That data is not sent to GrandSlambert, and BookFrame Plus does not call Google Books or Open Library.
Contact
Questions about this BookFrame Privacy Policy can be sent through the contact form. GrandSlambert, Inc. also publishes https://grandslambert.com/.