Terms of Use

The short version: tabbd is a beta, so expect changes. What you add stays yours. Be decent to the people you add. We remove abusive content and abusive users.

The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and the team that makes tabbd ("tabbd", "we"). They cover the tabbd iOS app and this website. By creating an account or using the app, you accept them. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your data.

A beta, provided as is

tabbd is in beta and comes through Apple's TestFlight. Features will change, move or disappear, and the service may sometimes be down without warning. We work hard not to lose data, but please don't make tabbd the only record of something you can't afford to lose. The service is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, as far as the law allows.

Who can use tabbd

You must be at least 13 years old. Where the law sets a higher age for agreeing to the use of personal data (up to 16 in parts of the EU), you need a parent's or guardian's consent. You may not use tabbd if the law where you live forbids it, or if we have removed you before.

Your account

You sign in with Apple or Google; we don't hold a password for you. Keep that account secure, because you are responsible for what happens under yours. One account per person.

Your @username and display name must not pretend to be someone else or be offensive. We may change or reclaim a username that breaks these terms or someone else's rights.

Your content

Everything you put into tabbd stays yours. That includes shelves, rankings, diary entries, lists, page photos, co-reading messages and photos, your profile photo and status. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, process and display it only as needed to run tabbd. Concretely, that means syncing it to your devices, working out scores and cards, and showing it to the people your privacy settings allow. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other people already received from you, such as images you shared.

A book's community score is an anonymous average that includes your scores. It changes when you re-rank, and your scores leave it when you delete your account.

You are responsible for what you add. Only upload photos you have the right to use. Don't upload photos of other people without their agreement. Quotes and page photos are for your personal reading notes. The text belongs to its authors and publishers, so respect their rights when you share quote cards outside tabbd.

We don't sell your content, and we don't use it to train AI models.

Acceptable use

tabbd has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Content includes usernames, display names, profile photos, status lines, notes about books, list titles, cover photos and reactions. You must not:

• harass, bully, threaten or stalk anyone, or keep contacting someone who blocked or declined you;
• post content that is hateful, sexually explicit, violent or discriminatory, or that encourages self-harm;
• post anything involving the sexual exploitation of minors (we report it to the authorities);
• pretend to be another person or organisation;
• post other people's personal information or photos without permission;
• post content that infringes copyright or other rights, or that is illegal where you or we are;
• spam, scam, or use tabbd to advertise;
• break, probe, overload, scrape or automate the service, or try to reach data that isn't yours.

Blocking. On a friend's page, open the … menu and choose Block. That ends the friendship, and the person can no longer find you or send you requests. You can also decline any friend request.

Reporting. On a person's page, open the … menu and choose Report: it opens an email to us with their @username filled in. You can also email gettabbd@gmail.com with the subject "Report". Include the person's @username, what happened and, if you can, a screenshot.

What we do. We review every report within 24 hours. If content breaks these terms, we remove it. We suspend or permanently remove the account that posted it, and we may keep a record to stop that person coming back. Where the law requires, we report to the authorities.

Books, covers and third-party data

Book details and cover images come from third parties such as the Google Books API, Open Library and Apple. They belong to their owners. We show them to help you find and recognise books, without any claim to own them and without guaranteeing they are accurate or complete. Scores in tabbd, including community scores, are readers' opinions, not facts or endorsements.

tabbd also relies on Apple, Google and Supabase to work. Their own terms apply to your use of their services, such as Sign in with Apple or Google.

Paid features

tabbd is free during the beta, and nothing in the app costs money. We may introduce paid features later, such as a "Pro" plan. Any purchase will go through Apple's App Store under Apple's terms. We will publish its own terms before anything goes on sale.

Feedback

If you send us ideas or feedback, including through TestFlight, we may use them freely and owe you nothing for them.

Ending

You can stop using tabbd at any time. To delete your account, tap your photo, then the gear icon, then Account → Delete account. Deletion removes your data as described in the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if we end the beta or the service. If we shut tabbd down, we'll give reasonable notice where we can. Sections that by their nature should survive (ownership, disclaimers, liability) continue after your access ends.

Disclaimers and liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, lost profits or loss of goodwill arising from your use of tabbd. tabbd is free, and we have received nothing from you.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, it also includes your mandatory rights under the law of the country where you live.

Apple-specific terms

tabbd is distributed through Apple. Because of that, these points apply, and they take priority over anything in these terms that says otherwise:

• These terms are between you and us, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for tabbd and its content.
• Your licence is to use tabbd on Apple devices you own or control, as Apple's Usage Rules allow.
• Apple has no duty to provide maintenance or support for tabbd.
• If tabbd fails to meet a warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if there was one. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for any claims about tabbd. That includes product liability claims, claims that tabbd fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer-protection, privacy or similar claims.
• If someone claims that tabbd infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, will handle that claim.
• You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting". You also confirm that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use tabbd, such as your mobile carrier's.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

Changes

We may update these terms as tabbd changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using tabbd after that, you accept the new terms.

Contact

Questions, reports and privacy requests: gettabbd@gmail.com.