This Agreement was last revised on October 20, 2024.

Welcome to DeepRead.com, the website and online service of DeepRead LLC (together with its affiliates, “DeepRead,” “we,” or “us”). This page explains the terms by which you may use our service. By accessing or using the DeepRead services, website and software provided through or in connection with the service (“Service”), you agree on behalf of yourself and all members of your household and others who use this Service under your account (“you” or “your”) to be bound by this Terms of Use Agreement, the DeepRead Privacy Policy, and the other applicable rules, policies and terms posted on the DeepRead.com website or provided with the Service (collectively, this “Agreement”), whether or not you are a registered user of our Service.

We reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion by posting the revised Agreement on the DeepRead.com website. Your continued use of the Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Agreement. This Agreement applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service (“Users”).

1. Use of Our Service

DeepRead provides a place for you to discover, track, and talk about books with friends and our community.

You do not have to register in order to visit DeepRead. To access certain features of the Service, though, including creating “bookshelves” to organize what you’ve read, posting book reviews, and commenting on other members’ reviews, you will need to register with DeepRead and create a “Member” account. Your account gives you access to the services and functionality that we may establish and maintain from time to time and in our sole discretion.

You may never use another Member’s account without permission. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your account, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You agree to notify DeepRead immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

You may change the settings on your My Account page to control your profile and how other members communicate with you. By providing DeepRead your email address you consent to our using the email address in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and your payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make personal and non-commercial use of the Service. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any part of the Service, or its contents; any collection and use of any book listings, descriptions, reviews or other material included in the Service; any derivative use of any part of the Service or its contents; any downloading, copying, or other use of account information for the benefit of any third party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. All rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement are reserved and retained by us or our licensors, suppliers, publishers, rightsholders, or other content providers. No part of the Service may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of DeepRead without our express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing our name or trademarks without our express written consent. You may not misuse the Service. You may use the Service only as permitted by law. The licenses granted by us terminate if you do not comply with this Agreement.

In order to protect our members from unsolicited advertising or solicitation, DeepRead reserves the right to restrict the number of communications that a member may send to other members in any 24-hour period to a number that DeepRead deems appropriate in its sole discretion.

DeepRead may permanently or temporarily terminate, suspend, or otherwise refuse to permit your access to the Service without notice and liability for any reason, including if in DeepRead’ sole determination you violate any provision of this Agreement, or for no reason. Upon termination for any reason or no reason, you continue to be bound by this Agreement.

The Service is subject to scheduled and unscheduled service interruptions. All aspects of the Service are subject to change or elimination at DeepRead‘s sole discretion. You agree that DeepRead will not be liable to you for any interruption of the Service, delay or failure to perform.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other DeepRead Users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users. DeepRead shall have no liability for your interactions with other Users, or for any User’s action or inaction.

2. User Content

Some areas of the Service may allow Users to upload, publish, display, link to or otherwise make available (hereinafter, “post”) reviews, comments, questions, highlights, and other information including Users’ names, voices and likenesses (“User Content”). You are solely responsible for your User Content. You agree not to post User Content that is illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights (including publicity rights), or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable, and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam” or unsolicited commercial electronic messages. You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of content. You hereby represent that you are the owner of all the copyright rights with respect to, or that you have the legal right to post, your User Content, and that you have the power to grant the license granted below. DeepRead reserves the right to monitor, reject and/or remove any User Content at any time. For example, DeepRead may, but is not obligated to, reject and/or remove any User Content that DeepRead believes, in its sole discretion, violates these provisions.

DeepRead takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content that you or any other Users or third parties post or send over the Service. You understand and agree that any loss or damage of any kind that occurs as a result of the use of any User Content that you post is solely your responsibility. DeepRead is not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User Content. You understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree that DeepRead shall not be liable for any damages you allege to incur as a result of such User Content. DeepRead may provide tools for you to remove some User Content, but does not guarantee that all or any User Content will be removable.

3. License Grant

By posting any User Content on the Service, you expressly grant to DeepRead a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify DeepRead for all claims resulting from content you supply. If you submit User Content via the “My Writing” or “Ebook” features, our Terms of Use for Writers apply to that User Content.

4. Our Proprietary Rights

Except for your User Content, the Service and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music, and User Content (the “DeepRead Content”), and all intellectual property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of DeepRead and its licensors. Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such intellectual property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any materials or content accessible on the Service. Use of the DeepRead Content or materials on the Service for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

You may choose to or we may invite you to submit comments or ideas about the Service, including without limitation about how to improve the Service or our products (“Ideas”). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place DeepRead under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and/or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone. You further acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, DeepRead does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to DeepRead, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.

5. Eligibility

This Service is intended solely for Users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and any registration, use or access to the Service by anyone under 13 is unauthorized, unlicensed, and in violation of this Agreement. If you are under 18 years of age you may use the Service only if you either are an emancipated minor or possess legal parental or guardian consent and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this Agreement, and to abide by and comply with this Agreement.

6. Paid Services

Billing Policies. Certain aspects of the Service may be provided for a fee or other charge. These fees and charges, if any, are described on the website. If you elect to use paid aspects of the Service, you agree to the pricing, payment and billing policies applicable to such fees and charges, posted at the website. DeepRead may add new services for additional fees and charges, or amend fees and charges for existing services, at any time in its sole discretion.

No Refunds. You may cancel your DeepRead Account at any time; however, there are no refunds for cancellation. As permitted under the terms of this Agreement, DeepRead has the right at any time for any reason or no reason to suspend or terminate your Account, terminate this Agreement, and/or refuse any and all current or future use of the Service without notice, refund, obligation, or liability to you. In the event that DeepRead suspends or terminates your DeepRead Account or this Agreement, you understand and agree that you shall receive no refund or exchange for any unused time on a subscription, any license or subscription fees for any portion of the Service, any content or data associated with your DeepRead Account, or for anything else. You acknowledge that DeepRead has the perpetual and irrevocable right to delete any or all of your content and data from DeepRead’s servers and from the Service, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and for any reason or no reason, without any liability of any kind to you or any other party.

Free and Paid Plans
DeepRead offers both free and paid plans for its users. The following conditions apply:

• New users start with a 14-day trial of the paid version, which includes privacy options for controlling visibility of their content.
• After the 14-day trial, users must choose to sign up for the paid plan to maintain privacy controls over their content.
• If a user does not opt for the paid plan after the trial period, all their content will become public and visible to all DeepRead users.
• Users on the free plan agree that all their content will be publicly available to other DeepRead users.
• Paid plan users can control privacy settings for their entire profile, individual books, or specific highlights.

7. Copyright Complaints

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and is accessible via the Service, please send us the following information:

1. An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;
3. A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Service;
4. Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law; and
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying DeepRead and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

8. Third-Party Websites, Advertisers or Services

DeepRead may contain links to third-party websites, advertisers, or services that are not owned or controlled by DeepRead. DeepRead has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. If you access a third-party website from DeepRead, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that this Agreement and DeepRead’ Privacy Policy do not apply to your use of such sites. You expressly relieve DeepRead from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website or services or third party owned content.

Additionally, your dealings with or participation in promotions of advertisers found on DeepRead, including payment and delivery of goods, and any other terms (such as warranties) are solely between you and such advertisers. You agree that DeepRead shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort relating to your dealings with such advertisers.

We encourage you to be aware of when you leave the Service, and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any third-party website or service that you visit.

9. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless DeepRead and its subsidiaries, agents, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Service, including any data or content transmitted or received by you; (ii) your violation of any term of this Agreement, including without limitation your breach of any of the representations and warranties above; (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any right of privacy, publicity rights or intellectual property rights; (iv) your violation of any law, rule or regulation of the United States or any other country; (v) any claim or damages that arise as a result of any of your User Content or any that are submitted via your account; or (vi) any other party’s access and use of the Service with your unique username, password or other appropriate security code.

10. Disclaimers of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

The service and all information, content, materials, products (including software) and other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the service are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, unless otherwise specified in writing. DeepRead makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the service, or the information, content, materials, products (including software) or other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the service, unless otherwise specified in writing. You expressly agree that your use of the service is at your sole risk.

To the full extent permissible by applicable law, DeepRead disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. DeepRead does not warrant that the service, information, content, materials, products (including software) or other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the service, DeepRead’s servers or electronic communications sent from DeepRead are free of viruses or other harmful components. DeepRead will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the service, or from any information, content, materials, products (including software) or other services included on or otherwise made available to you through the service, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages, unless otherwise specified in writing. Certain state laws do not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws apply to you, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions, or limitations may not apply to you, and you might have additional rights.

Assignment. This Agreement, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by DeepRead without restriction.

No Waiver. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and DeepRead’ failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement.