Public Review Draft — Not Yet Effective This document is published for public consultation and product-governance review. It does not yet govern the use of Langa Library and is not the final statement of Langa Library's legal or data practices. Product behavior, retention periods, vendors, and feature-specific disclosures remain subject to verification. Send comments to langalibrary.dev@gmail.com. Do not submit passwords, private book files, payment-card details, identity documents, or sensitive personal information.

Legal Center — Commitments & Policies

Langa Library is built to help people discover, read, preserve, translate, discuss, and contribute to books and knowledge. This Legal Center gathers the rules, commitments, and contact routes that govern those activities.

Our core commitments

Reader-first access

We aim to make books and knowledge easier to discover and use while respecting copyright, privacy, attribution, cultural context, and the rights of other people.

Privacy of reading

Reading histories, private shelves, notes, searches, and personal books can reveal intimate intellectual interests. We treat them as private by default and do not sell private reading data to advertisers or data brokers.

Respect for intellectual work

Authors, translators, editors, illustrators, researchers, librarians, digitizers, metadata contributors, and community creators deserve proper credit and rights-aware treatment.

Transparent automation

Search ranking, recommendation, classification, metadata matching, translation, read-aloud, transcription, and other automated features may make mistakes. We identify automated or unverified outputs where practical and provide correction or review channels.

Proportionate governance

Rules should be applied consistently, with notice and an opportunity to appeal where circumstances permit. Urgent action may be necessary for serious legal, safety, privacy, security, or operational risks.

Long-term preservation

Preservation is a public-interest goal, but it does not eliminate copyright, privacy, confidentiality, attribution, cultural sensitivity, or security obligations.

Policies in this Legal Center

1. Terms of Service — the main agreement for using Langa Library.
2. Privacy Policy — what personal data is processed and how reader privacy is protected.
3. Cookie Notice — cookies, local storage, consent, and browser controls.
4. Copyright & Rights Policy — public-domain assessment, licenses, covers, uploads, notices, and takedowns.
5. Community Guidelines — standards for reviews, discussions, metadata corrections, translations, and public participation.
6. Contributor Terms — legal terms for people who submit public contributions.
7. Community Cover Rules — requirements for original community-created book covers.
8. Content Moderation & Appeals Policy — how reports, enforcement, notices, and appeals are handled.
9. Accessibility Statement — accessibility goals, known limitations, and feedback route.
10. Security & Responsible Disclosure Policy — how to report vulnerabilities safely.
11. Payments, Donations, Cancellations & Refunds Policy — applies only when paid functions are enabled.
12. Young Users & Child Safety Policy — age requirements and safeguards for younger users.
13. Automated Features & AI Notice — limitations and user responsibilities for automated outputs.
14. Legal Notice & Contact Information — operator identity and formal contact channels.

Which document controls?

The Terms of Service govern ordinary use of the Services. A feature-specific policy applies to that feature. If two documents conflict, the more specific provision ordinarily controls for the relevant feature, except that mandatory law always prevails.

Public review status

These drafts are public for consultation but are not yet effective. They must not be used as the final Chrome Web Store privacy disclosure or as binding Langa Library terms until product behavior, vendors, retention, operator records, and legal review have been completed. Feedback: langalibrary.dev@gmail.com.

Product-specific notices under development

Langa Translate Companion

Under development; product-specific notice not yet effective. A product-specific privacy notice and Chrome Web Store reviewer guide will be published only after the exact V1 package has passed manifest, network, storage, and runtime audits.