Terms of service

Who are you agreeing with?

BookPocket belongs to BookPocket LLC, a company in Washington State run by one person, R.J. LaCount. "We" on this page means BookPocket LLC. For any question about these terms, email support@bookpocket.app.

The privacy policy is part of this agreement. It says what we store, who can see it, and how to delete it.

Your account

• You need to be at least 13 to use BookPocket.
• Sign up with an email address that is yours. You confirm it before you can use BookPocket.
• One account is for one person. Keep your password to yourself, because you are responsible for what is done with your account.
• You can leave at any time. Open your profile and use Delete your account, and your data goes as the privacy policy describes.

What stays yours?

What you write is yours: your reviews, notes, tags and the sources you record. You let us store it and show it to you, and show your reviews on book pages, where anyone can read them. To hide your review of a book, press the lock on it. That permission ends when you delete what you wrote or your account.

The book catalogue is shared. When you add a book we don't have, or suggest a change that a librarian accepts, it becomes part of the catalogue everyone uses. It stays after you leave, without your name on it. Librarians are readers who offered to help, and you can apply to be one.

The people you record

BookPocket keeps who recommended each book, so you record details about other people. Only you can see them. Record people the way you would be comfortable telling them about.

• Only add a picture of someone if you have the right to use it.
• Send a book or an invitation only to people who would want it. Never to someone who has asked you to stop.

What you can't do

• Break the law with BookPocket, or help someone else do it.
• Write reviews that harass or threaten anyone, or that share someone's private information.
• Upload pictures or text you don't have the right to share.
• Put false information into the shared catalogue on purpose.
• Try to get into someone else's account or data, or into parts of BookPocket you weren't given.
• Overload BookPocket, for example by scraping it, signing up accounts automatically, or going around the limits we set.

If something breaks these rules, we may remove it, and ban or delete an account that keeps breaking them. A banned account can't sign in, and nothing from it is shown to anyone until the ban is lifted. Where we can, we tell you why first.

What does it cost?

BookPocket is free while it's in beta, and the core stays free. An optional Pro plan may come later. Nobody pays unless they choose it, and these terms will say how it works before it starts.

What we promise, and what we don't

We work to keep BookPocket running and your data safe, and we back it up every night. But BookPocket is small and in early testing, and we provide it as it is:

• It may be unavailable at times, and features may change or end.
• Data can be lost. To get a copy of yours at any time, email support@bookpocket.app.
• Book details come from Open Library, the Library of Congress and readers, and can be wrong. To fix one, suggest a change on the book's page.

As far as the law allows, we are not responsible for losses that come from using BookPocket or from not being able to use it.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms as BookPocket grows. If a change affects you, we email you before it takes effect. Using BookPocket after that means you agree to the new terms. If you don't, you can delete your account.