Spine Seek Terms of Use

1. The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and 13Beacons, LLC, a California limited liability company based in Yucaipa, California. They govern your use of Spine Seek, our app that reads the spines on a bookshelf and judges each book against your own reading. By using Spine Seek, you accept them. If you do not, please do not use it.

Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement governs your license to the app, and these terms add to it. The Spine Seek Privacy Notice explains how your information is handled and is part of this agreement.

2. Using Spine Seek

You may use Spine Seek for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not:

• Send images that are not of books, or that you have no right to share, through the recognition service.
• Use the recognition service in bulk or automatically, or try to reach it other than through the app.
• Reverse engineer, scrape, or interfere with Spine Seek or its services, or try to bypass their security.
• Use Spine Seek for anything unlawful.

3. Accounts

Spine Seek works without an account. If you create one, keep your sign-in details to yourself; you are responsible for what is done with your account. You can delete your account at any time in the app. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.

4. Your library and photos

Your library, your notes, and your photos remain yours. You allow us to process them only to provide Spine Seek: to read a shelf, to write a verdict when you ask for one, and to keep your library in sync when you sign in, as the Privacy Notice describes.

5. Recognition and recommendations can be wrong

Spine Seek reads shelves and writes verdicts with artificial intelligence. It can miss books, misread titles, give the wrong author or series, and occasionally list a book that is not on the shelf. Its verdicts are opinions based on your past ratings, not advice. Check a book before you buy it. We are not responsible for purchases made on the strength of a result.

6. Bookshops and other services

The buy button opens a third-party shop, such as Bookshop.org or Amazon. Those shops, and services such as Sign in with Apple, Google sign-in, Open Library, and Google Books, are run by others under their own terms. We do not control them and are not responsible for them.

7. Syncing your library

When you sign in, your library is kept with your account and synced between your phones, to make it easier to keep and move. We do our best to keep it safe, but we do not promise that a synced copy will never be lost or out of date.

8. Our content and names

Spine Seek's design, artwork, text, and code, and the names Spine Seek and 13Beacons, belong to 13Beacons, LLC and are protected by copyright and trademark law. Book titles, covers, and descriptions belong to their owners and are shown to help you identify books.

9. Changes to the app

We may add, change, or remove features, or stop offering Spine Seek, at any time. If we stop offering it, we will give you a reasonable chance to delete or move your library first.

10. No warranties

Spine Seek is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise that Spine Seek will be uninterrupted, error-free, or accurate.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, 13Beacons, LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of Spine Seek, including purchases made because of a recommendation. Our total liability for any claim relating to Spine Seek is limited to $50. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.

12. Governing law

California law governs these terms, without regard to conflict of law rules. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts in San Bernardino County, California. Before filing anything, email support@13beacons.com and give us 30 days to resolve it. If you live in a country whose law gives you rights these terms cannot remove, those rights still apply.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will post them here and change the effective date. If a change is material, we will tell you in the app and, where needed, ask you to agree again. Otherwise, continuing to use Spine Seek after the change means you accept it.

14. Everything else

If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Not enforcing something once does not waive it later. These terms, the Spine Seek Privacy Notice, and Apple's Standard EULA are the entire agreement between us about Spine Seek.

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