Terms of Service
This is an archived version. The current Terms are at terms.html.
1. Agreement
By accessing or using ShelfMapper (“Service”), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. The Service
ShelfMapper helps you photograph bookshelves, detect book spines, look up titles, and organize your library on a map. Features and limits may differ between Free and Premium plans and may change over time.
3. License to use the Service
Subject to these Terms and the limits of your plan, ShelfMapper grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own household or internal library-management purposes.
Except for Your Content (defined below), ShelfMapper and its licensors own all right, title, and interest in the Service, including software, interfaces, branding, documentation, and related intellectual property. This license does not sell or transfer ownership of the Service to you.
You may not (and may not allow others to): copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, rent, or publicly perform the Service; reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law; remove proprietary notices; or use the Service to build a competing product using non-public aspects of the Service.
We may update, suspend, or discontinue features. Your license ends when your account is closed or these Terms terminate.
4. Accounts
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for activity under your account. Provide accurate information and notify us promptly of unauthorized use.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to misuse the Service, including by attempting to disrupt it, reverse engineer it except as permitted by law, scrape it excessively, upload unlawful content, or infringe others’ rights.
6. Your content and license to ShelfMapper
You retain all ownership rights in the photos, titles, notes, map placements, and other content you submit to the Service (“Your Content”).
To operate the Service for you, you grant ShelfMapper and its operators a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable license to host, store, transmit, reproduce, process (including OCR and similar analysis), display, and create technical derivatives of Your Content solely as needed to:
- provide the Service to you and people you authorize (for example, via share links you create);
- maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and support your account; and
- comply with law or enforce these Terms.
This license does not transfer ownership of Your Content to us. We will not sell Your Content. We will not use Your Content to train general-purpose machine-learning models for third parties without your separate permission. When you delete Your Content or your account, we will stop active use of that content except for limited residual copies in backups or logs retained for a reasonable period for security, disaster recovery, or legal compliance.
You represent that you have the rights needed to upload Your Content and that doing so does not violate law or others’ rights.
7. Subscriptions, billing, cancellations, and refunds
Paid plans may include a free trial (currently 7 days for first-time Premium subscribers, unless we state otherwise). After the trial, billing renews automatically at the then-current rate for your chosen interval (monthly or yearly) until you cancel. Fees are charged through our payment processor (Stripe). Prices and plan features may change; changes apply to later renewal periods as disclosed at checkout or in the Service.
Cancellation. You may cancel renewal at any time through the billing portal linked from your account. Cancellation stops future charges; it does not end access immediately. You keep Premium features until the end of the current trial or paid period, then your account returns to Free (or another plan we offer). Deleting your ShelfMapper account does not by itself cancel Stripe billing—cancel in the billing portal as well, or contact us if you need help.
Trials. During a free trial you may cancel before it ends and you will not be charged, unless you keep Premium past the trial end. If you have already used a trial on your account, a new trial may not be available.
Refunds. Except where required by law, all fees are non-refundable, including partial periods, unused time, downgrades, or failure to cancel before renewal. We may, in our sole discretion, issue a goodwill refund or credit in limited cases (for example, clear duplicate charges or billing errors). Request refunds by emailing legal@shelfmapper.com within a reasonable time after the charge and include your account email and the charge details.
Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, we may retry the charge, suspend Premium features, and/or cancel the subscription until payment succeeds.
Chargebacks and payment disputes. If you have a billing concern, contact us first so we can help resolve it. Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute with your bank or card issuer for a legitimate ShelfMapper charge may result in suspension or termination of your account and Premium access while the dispute is pending. We may contest improper chargebacks and share relevant account and billing records with the payment processor. If a chargeback is reversed in our favor, or you reopen a subscription after a dispute, past-due amounts may remain payable.
Taxes, currency conversion, and processor fees (if any) are your responsibility where applicable, except where we are required to collect tax at checkout.
8. Third-party services
The Service may rely on third parties such as authentication, cloud storage, book metadata, OCR, and payment providers. Their terms and privacy practices apply to their services.
9. Copyright complaints (DMCA) and intellectual property
ShelfMapper respects intellectual property rights. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice that substantially complies with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent:
ShelfMapper Copyright Agent
Email: copyright@shelfmapper.com
Your notice should include: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; and (f) a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.
If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). We may disable or terminate accounts that repeatedly infringe.
For other intellectual-property concerns (for example, trademark), contact legal@shelfmapper.com with a description of the issue and the material involved.
10. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Book detection and metadata may be incomplete or incorrect. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, ShelfMapper and its operators are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits, or goodwill arising from your use of the Service.
12. Termination
We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms or if we discontinue the Service. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time, subject to applicable retention needs. Upon termination, the license in Section 3 ends immediately, except for rights that by their nature should survive (including Sections 9–11 and 13).
13. Changes to these Terms or the Privacy Policy
We may update these Terms or the Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated version with a new version ID and dates, add the prior version to the Terms archive (and the Privacy archive when Privacy changes), and send you notice—typically by email to the address on your account, or another notice method we make available in the Service.
Except where a longer period is required by law, changes become effective on the stated effective date. If you continue using the Service after the effective date, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and cancel any paid subscription before the effective date.
14. Governing law, venue, and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable United States federal law.
Before filing a formal claim, you agree to contact us at legal@shelfmapper.com and try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
If the dispute is not resolved, it will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will take place in Wilmington, Delaware, or by video/phone if the rules allow. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
You and ShelfMapper may each bring an individual action in small-claims court if the claim qualifies. You and ShelfMapper waive any right to participate in a class, consolidated, or representative action. Either party may seek provisional injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or unauthorized access to the Service pending arbitration.
If a court finds the arbitration agreement unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Wilmington, Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms: legal@shelfmapper.com. Copyright notices: copyright@shelfmapper.com.