Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 2026.
The Story Nook (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is an independent neighborhood bookstore and tea café in Greenwood, Indiana. We have kept this policy short because our website is simple: it is an informational site that tells you about the shop and points you to a few outside services. This policy explains what that means for your information.
The short version
This website does not collect personal information about you. There are no accounts to create, no sign-up or contact forms, no shopping cart, and no advertising or tracking. Anything you buy, and any social activity, happens on third-party services that we link to — each with its own privacy policy.
Information we collect
Through this website we do not ask for or store personal details such as your name, address, or payment information. We do not use analytics or advertising trackers, and we do not set our own cookies to follow your activity across the site.
Links to other services
Our site includes buttons and links that take you to services run by other companies. When you follow one, you leave our website and that company’s privacy policy applies to what you do there. These include:
- Bookshop.org — book browsing and purchases, including our shop page and our book club list. Orders and payments are handled entirely by Bookshop.org, under their privacy policy.
- Facebook — our Facebook page, operated by Meta under Meta’s privacy policy.
- Google Maps — our address and “Get Directions” links open Google Maps, under Google’s privacy policy.
- Café menu (PDF) — our menu opens as a document alongside this website.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these outside services, and we encourage you to review their policies to understand how they handle your information.
If you email us
If you choose to email us at info@thestorynook.shop, we will receive whatever you include in your message, such as your name and email address. We use that information only to reply to you and help with your question. We do not sell it or share it with anyone else.
Website hosting
Like most websites, our site is kept online by a hosting provider that may automatically record standard technical information — for example, IP addresses and browser type — in routine server logs used to keep the site secure and running. We do not use that information to identify individual visitors.
Children’s privacy
Our website is intended for a general audience. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through this site.
Changes to this policy
If the way our website works changes, we may update this policy and will revise the “last updated” date shown above.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this policy, please email info@thestorynook.shop or visit us at 221 W Main St, Greenwood, IN 46142.