Terms of use

The service

Book Wheel is a free app for keeping a list of books you want to read and spinning a wheel to choose the next one. It is a personal, non-commercial project shared with friends and family. There is no charge, no subscription and no advertising. We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop running the site at any time. If we plan to shut it down, we will try to give notice so you can export your library first.

Who can use it

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• Accounts are created by invitation from the site’s administrator. Your account is for you alone: do not share your password or let others use your account.
• You are responsible for keeping your password safe and for what happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has used it.

Your content

The books and other information you add stay yours. You give us permission to store, copy and display them only as needed to run the app for you (for example, to show your library and to keep backups). Make sure you have the right to anything you add, such as cover images from a web address.

Acceptable use

Please use Book Wheel the way it is meant to be used. You agree not to:

• break the law, or use the site to harass, threaten, impersonate or harm anyone;
• add content that is hateful, sexually explicit, violent, or that infringes someone else’s rights;
• send spam or use the site to advertise;
• try to get into accounts or data that are not yours, probe or test the site’s security without our permission, or get around its limits (such as rate limits or sign-in lockouts);
• overload, disrupt or attack the site, or scrape or harvest data from it with automated tools;
• copy, resell or re-host the site or its code.

If you see content or behavior that breaks these rules, or content that infringes your rights, please report it (see Contact). We will look into it and may remove the content.

Suspension and closing accounts

We may remove content, or suspend or close an account, if it breaks these terms, puts the site or other users at risk, or if we are required to by law. Where it is safe and reasonable, we will tell you why. You can ask us to close your account at any time (see Contact).

Book information from other services

Titles, authors and cover images found by book lookup come from outside services (Open Library, Google Books and Hardcover). We do not control that information, it may be incomplete or wrong, and it belongs to its respective owners. Cover images and book details are shown to help you recognise your books, not for any other use.

No warranty

The site is provided free and “as is”. We do our best to keep it running and to protect your data, but we do not promise that it will always be available, secure, error-free or that data will never be lost. Keep your own copy of anything important; you can export your library from the app at any time. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data or lost profits, arising from your use of the site. Because the service is free, our total liability for any claim relating to it is limited to US$0, or the smallest amount the law allows if that is higher. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Where the site is run, and governing law

• The site is operated from the United States and is intended for use in the United States. If you use it from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for following your local laws.
• These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.
• The app is available in English, Spanish and Polish. Spanish is offered because it is widely used in the United States; Polish demonstrates the app’s language support and does not mean the site is aimed at Poland or the European Union. Translations may contain mistakes. These terms and the privacy policy are in English only, and the English text is the one that counts.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the date at the top and add a line to the change log below. If you keep using the site after a change takes effect, the new terms apply. For significant changes, we will let users know in advance where we reasonably can.

Change log

• November 11, 2026: first version.

Contact

Email jasonkryst+legal@gmail.com.

Use this contact for questions about these terms, privacy requests, reports of abuse or infringing content, and security problems.

Third-party notices

Book Wheel includes or uses the following third-party material. We are grateful to their authors.

• SecLists (common-password list) — used to reject very common passwords. Copyright (c) 2018 Daniel Miessler. Licensed under the MIT License. github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists
• ZXing-wasm (barcode scanner) — used to read ISBN barcodes in browsers without built-in barcode support. Copyright (c) 2023 Ze-Zheng Wu. Licensed under the MIT License. It is built from zxing-cpp, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. github.com/Sec-ant/zxing-wasm
• Have I Been Pwned — the breached-password check uses Pwned Passwords by Have I Been Pwned, created by Troy Hunt.
• Book information: book details and covers come from Open Library, Google Books and Hardcover.

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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SOFTWARE.