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Terms of Service

Last updated: September 17, 2026 · Effective: September 17, 2026

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Jonathan Ng d/b/a Slipcased ("Slipcased," "we," "us," or "our"), which operates the Slipcased website at slipcased.com and related services (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, clicking "I agree" (or a similar button), or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy and Content Policy, each of which is incorporated here by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and Age Requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use the Service. The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian.

Certain content on the Service is intended for adults only. Access to mature or explicit material is subject to the additional age and access rules in our Content Policy, which may require you to be 18 or older to view or submit such material. By using those features you represent that you meet the age requirement stated there.

You also represent that you are not barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, and that your use complies with all laws that apply to you.

3. Your Account

  • Registration. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep it current. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.
  • Security. Keep your credentials confidential. Notify us promptly at support@slipcased.com of any unauthorized use of your account.
  • One person per account. Accounts are for individual, personal use. You may not share, sell, or transfer your account.
  • Our access. We may suspend or terminate your account as described in Section 12.

4. The Service; Changes

Slipcased is a personal tool for cataloging and tracking special-edition and collectible books, including features that let you record your collection, upload photographs, and contribute book-cover images and metadata to a shared catalog.

We are actively developing the Service and may add, change, or remove features at any time. Any future resale, trading, or marketplace functionality, if we offer it, will be subject to additional terms presented to you at that time, and your use of any such feature will constitute acceptance of those additional terms. Nothing in these Terms obligates us to offer any such feature.

5. User Content

"User Content" means anything you submit, upload, or post to the Service, including collection photographs, book-cover images, reviews, notes, lists, and other text or images.

5.1 You keep ownership

You retain all ownership rights you have in your User Content. These Terms do not transfer ownership of your User Content to us.

5.2 License you grant to us

You grant Slipcased a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, resize, reformat, and display your User Content solely for the purposes of operating, providing, securing, and improving the Service and, where you have made content public or contributed it to the shared catalog, displaying it to other users as part of that functionality.

This license exists only so we can run the Service. It:

  • is limited to the purposes described above;
  • does not permit us to sell your User Content or license it to third parties for their independent commercial use;
  • includes the right to make backup and technical copies and to use trusted service providers (such as hosting and content-delivery vendors) to store and serve your content on our behalf; and
  • ends when you delete the User Content or your account, except that (a) we may retain residual copies in backups for a commercially reasonable period, and (b) content you contributed to the shared catalog or shared publicly may remain where others have relied on it, in de-identified or catalog form, to the extent permitted by law and our Privacy Policy.

You grant no other license and waive no moral rights beyond what is necessary for us to display your content as you have directed.

5.3 Your responsibility for what you upload

You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting it. We do not endorse, and are not responsible for, any User Content.

6. Rights Warranty (Copyright and Cover Art)

This section is important. Slipcased lets users contribute book-cover images, much of which is copyrighted artwork owned by publishers, artists, or authors.

You represent and warrant that, for every item of User Content you submit:

  1. you either own it or have obtained all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit it and to grant the license in Section 5.2;
  2. your User Content, and our use of it as permitted by these Terms, does not and will not infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or privacy, or any other right of any person or entity, and does not violate any law;
  3. any person depicted in a photograph you upload has consented to that use to the extent required by law;
  4. if you organise a group order or pickup run, you have that person’s permission to enter their name, contact or payment handle, and order details, and to send them a link that displays them; and
  5. your User Content does not contain material you are contractually or legally prohibited from sharing.

Do not upload copyrighted cover art or other material you do not have the right to share. The fact that an image is publicly available online does not mean you have the right to upload it. If you are unsure whether you have the rights to a cover image, do not submit it.

You acknowledge that we rely on these representations, that they are a material part of this agreement, and that your indemnity in Section 10 applies to any breach of them.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to, and not to upload User Content that:

  • infringes or misappropriates any intellectual-property or other right of anyone (see Section 6 and our DMCA process in Section 8);
  • is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, threatening, or hateful, or that promotes violence or illegal activity;
  • is sexual content involving minors, or depicts, describes, or sexualizes any person who is or appears to be a minor — this is strictly prohibited and will be reported to authorities as required by law;
  • violates our Content Policy, which governs mature, suggestive, or explicit material (including romance/romantasy cover art), how it must be labeled, and who may view it. Where these Terms and the Content Policy address the same subject, the Content Policy controls for that subject.
  • contains malware, or attempts to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other accounts, or our systems;
  • scrapes, crawls, or harvests data from the Service except as we expressly permit, or uses automated means to access the Service in a way that burdens our infrastructure;
  • impersonates any person or misrepresents your affiliation; or
  • interferes with, disrupts, or circumvents any security or access control of the Service.

We may, but are not obligated to, review, moderate, remove, or restrict access to any User Content or account at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including suspected violation of these Terms.

8. Copyright — DMCA Notice and Takedown

We respect the intellectual-property rights of others and comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512. We respond to valid notices of claimed copyright infringement and, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

8.1 Reporting infringement (takedown notice)

If you believe your copyrighted work has been used on the Service in a way that constitutes infringement, send a written notice to our Designated Copyright Agent that includes all of the following (as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

  1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
  2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
  3. identification of the material claimed to be infringing and enough information for us to locate it (for example, the URL or a description of where it appears on the Service);
  4. your contact information — name, address, telephone number, and email address;
  5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  6. a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Designated Copyright Agent:
Jonathan Ng (d/b/a Slipcased)
Mailing address pending — until it is posted, send notices to dmca@slipcased.com.
Email: dmca@slipcased.com

Note: Under the DMCA, knowingly making a material misrepresentation that content is infringing may make you liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

8.2 Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe it was removed in error or that you have the right to post it, you may send a counter-notice to the Designated Agent containing the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), including your identification of the removed material, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to jurisdiction as required by the statute. We may restore the material as permitted by law.

8.3 Repeat-infringer policy

We have adopted and will reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. We may also remove content and terminate accounts for infringement at our discretion, with or without notice.

9. Disclaimers

The Service and all User Content are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE," without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that data (including collection records or uploaded images) will not be lost, or that catalog information, cover images, or metadata contributed by users is accurate, complete, or reliable. You are responsible for maintaining your own copies of anything important to you.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Slipcased and its owner, operators, contractors, and service providers from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content; (b) your breach of these Terms, including the rights warranty in Section 6; (c) your violation of any law or of any right of any third party; or (d) your use of the Service. We may assume the exclusive defense of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with us.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • Slipcased will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or collection records, arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
  • Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100).

These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory and are a fundamental basis of the bargain. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Service at any time, with or without notice or cause, including if we believe you have violated these Terms, the Content Policy, or the law, or to protect the Service or other users. On termination, the license you granted in Section 5.2 ends as described there, and Sections 5.1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14 survive.

13. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable U.S. federal law (including the DMCA and the Copyright Act). You and Slipcased agree that any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Utah, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date and take reasonable steps to notify you (for example, by email or an in-app notice). Changes are effective when posted, or on a later effective date if we specify one. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account.

15. International Users

We operate the Service from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with your local laws. We make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available in all locations. The Service is not directed at, or specifically marketed to, individuals in the European Union or European Economic Area; if that changes, additional terms and privacy disclosures will apply.

16. General

  • Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Content Policy are the entire agreement between you and Slipcased regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
  • Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary.
  • No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them, for example in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
  • No agency. These Terms do not create any partnership, agency, or employment relationship.
  • Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@slipcased.com
Copyright / DMCA notices: dmca@slipcased.com (see Section 8)