NetGalley's Cookie Policy

Last Updated: May 27, 2026

Welcome to our Cookie Policy! NetGalley, LLC ("NetGalley", "we", "us" or "our") operates this website, and we are committed to being transparent about how we use cookies and the technologies that underpin their collection and usage.

What Are Cookies

This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to enable us to provide our services. Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. Cookies help the website remember information about your visit, which can both make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you.

This policy describes what information we gather with cookies, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, although this may downgrade or limit certain elements of NetGalley's functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Please note that you may not be able to disable or block cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. We recommend that you enable all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a feature that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of the NetGalley website and many other websites that you visit. For this reason, we recommend that you do not disable cookies. When available, if you are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom ("UK"), you can also reject non-essential cookies in the Privacy Settings modal which you can access by clicking on the "Privacy Settings" link at the bottom of the website.

Cookies Used On This Website

We use the following cookies on this website:

Essential Cookies

We use essential cookies, some of which are "first party" cookies that NetGalley itself sets and are required for the regular operation of the NetGalley website. For example, we use cookies when you are signed into NetGalley so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to sign in every single time you visit a new page. This site also uses essential third party cookies, such as with our Cookie Consent Manager (currently provided by Usercentrics GmbH, Sendlinger Str. 7, 80331 Munich, Germany).

Optional Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use optional cookies provided by trusted third parties with your consent. The following details which optional third party cookies you might encounter through this site:

• This site uses Google reCAPTCHA (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) as a security service to detect and prevent automated abuse and spam on forms. This site also uses Google Tag Manager (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit. For more information on Google Tag Manager cookies, see Google's general privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy, as well as the section of our privacy policy about Google Tag Manager and the official Google Tag Manager page.
• NetGalley may provide Buy links to several retailer sites (such as Amazon, B&N, Bookshop.org, Kobo, Waterstones, or others) allowing members to easily purchase a book if it is no longer available through NetGalley. Affiliate tracking cookies allow our affiliate partners to see if users have come to their sites through NetGalley.
• We may also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. If you connect to a social media site (such as X [formerly Twitter], LinkedIn, TikTok, or Goodreads) through NetGalley, these social media sites will set cookies through our site. These cookies may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. For more detail on the information we may collect from social media sites, please see the section of our privacy policy about the use of social media platforms.
• NetGalley also uses Stripe (Stripe LLC, 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA) as a payment processing platform to securely process online transactions on the www.netgalley.com and www.netgalley.co.uk sites (but NetGalley does not use Stripe on the www.netgalley.fr, www.netgalley.de, or www.netgalley.jp sites).

These optional third party cookies identified above are set exclusively on the basis of your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by disabling cookies through your browser or through the Privacy Settings modal, when available, as described above in the "Disabling Cookies" section.

Legal Basis Under European Privacy Laws

If you are a user in an EU member state, or in the UK, essential cookies are used on the basis of Article 5 Paragraph 3 of the ePrivacy Directive or its respective national implementation, and the optional third party cookies identified above are set on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a of the GDPR (or the UK's implementation of the GDPR) and other applicable European privacy laws requiring data subject consent for non-essential cookies.

Your personal data may be transferred to third countries, in particular the USA, by individual partners and only on the basis of suitable safeguards pursuant to Articles 44 et seq. of the GDPR.

More Information

For more information, please contact NetGalley Support here, or email support@netgalley.com.