Terms of Service

By creating an account or using Aleph, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. These terms are between you and PLACEHOLDER — legal entity name — referred to here as "we", "us" or "Aleph".

You must be at least PLACEHOLDER years old to use Aleph, and you must be able to form a binding contract where you live. If you use Aleph on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms for it.

You are responsible for your account, for keeping your credentials secure, and for what happens under it. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access. Give us accurate information when you sign up and keep it current.

Aleph lets you log reading sessions, keep a library of what you have read and are reading, set goals, build streaks, follow other readers, join book clubs, and generate share cards when you finish a book. It can record sessions from e-readers and log audiobook listening.

The numbers Aleph shows you — pace, projections, page-equivalents for audiobooks, progress percentages across differing editions — are estimates produced from the data you log. They are useful, but they are not exact measurements, and you should not rely on them for anything consequential.

Your reading data, your library, your captions and your club messages remain yours. We claim no ownership of them.

To operate the service we need permission to use that content in limited ways: to store it, to display it back to you, and to show it to the people you have chosen to share it with — your followers, your clubs, or anyone you send a share card to. This licence is worldwide and royalty-free, exists only so that Aleph can function, and ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies already in routine backups or already shared elsewhere by others.

Aleph has feeds and clubs, so it needs rules. Do not use Aleph to:

• Harass, threaten, impersonate, or abuse other readers.
• Post content that is unlawful, or that infringes someone else's copyright or other rights.
• Upload or distribute the contents of books you do not have the right to distribute. Aleph tracks reading; it is not a place to share copyrighted text.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract data from the service, or access it through automated means we have not authorised.
• Attempt to break, overload, or circumvent the security of the service, or access another person's account or private data.
• Falsify session data in order to gain standing in clubs, leaderboards or any other shared context.

We can remove content and suspend accounts that break these rules.

Book metadata — titles, authors, page counts, cover images — may come from third-party catalogues and from other readers. We do not guarantee it is accurate or complete, and you can correct records in your own library.

Where our website names other products in order to compare Aleph with them, those names and trademarks belong to their owners. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them, and referring to them does not imply otherwise.

You may import a CSV from another service or a spreadsheet, provided you have the right to that data. You may export your full library and session history as CSV at any time, and you may delete your account and its contents. How we handle your data is described in our Privacy Policy.

Aleph is currently free to download and use. We may introduce paid features in future; if we do, we will make clear what is paid before you are charged, and we will not start charging for something you are already using without telling you first. Purchases made through the App Store are also subject to Apple's terms, and refunds for them are handled by Apple.

We may add, change or remove features. If we plan to remove something you depend on, we will give reasonable notice and, where it matters, a way to export what you would otherwise lose. The service may also be unavailable at times for maintenance or reasons outside our control.

You can stop using Aleph and delete your account whenever you like. We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the service — and other than in cases of serious abuse, we will give you notice and an opportunity to export your data first.

Aleph is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that the figures it produces will be accurate.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, and nothing here removes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data or lost goodwill, arising from your use of Aleph. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or PLACEHOLDER.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You agree to indemnify us against claims, damages and reasonable costs arising from content you post, from your breach of these terms, or from your violation of someone else's rights.

These terms are governed by the laws of PLACEHOLDER, and disputes will be resolved in the courts of PLACEHOLDER, without affecting any right you have to bring proceedings in your country of residence where local law guarantees it.

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will give notice in the app or by email before it takes effect, and update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use Aleph after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Questions about these terms: PLACEHOLDER — contact email and postal address.