Terms of Service

The Book Care monitors the web for pirated copies of books you register, gathers evidence of infringement, and prepares and dispatches DMCA takedown notices to hosts, registrars, and search engines on your behalf. It is a monitoring and enforcement tool; it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.

By registering a book and enabling enforcement, you appoint The Book Care as your authorized agent for the limited purpose of issuing and managing DMCA takedown notices (and equivalent notices under other jurisdictions' laws) for that work, including receiving responses and counter-notices addressed to those notices.

If a recipient files a counter-notice, we forward it to you promptly. Deciding how to respond to a counter-notice — including whether to pursue the matter further — is yours, with your own counsel.

You warrant that you own the copyright in each work you register, or are expressly authorized by the owner to act for it, and that the information you provide about each work is accurate. Takedown notices are sent based on your attestation, made under penalty of perjury, that you hold those rights.

Knowingly misrepresenting ownership or infringement exposes you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). We may suspend enforcement for any work whose ownership we cannot reasonably verify, and we may decline to send any notice our review flags as unreliable (for example, likely fair use).

Paid features are consumed via plan allowances and credits as described on the pricing page inside the app. Credits fund scans and enforcement actions; a failed scan attributable to our systems is not charged. Fees are otherwise non-refundable except where required by law.

You may not use the service to target content you do not hold rights to, to harass site operators, to send notices you know to be false, or to probe or disrupt the service itself. We may suspend or terminate accounts that do.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless The Book Care, its operator, and its personnel from any claim, demand, damages, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from a breach of your warranties in Section 3 — in particular, from any takedown notice sent in reliance on an ownership attestation that was inaccurate, or from your registration of a work you did not hold rights to. This includes claims brought under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) by recipients of such notices.

Piracy enforcement is adversarial and no outcome can be guaranteed: some hosts ignore valid notices, some sites reappear under new domains, and search de-indexing is at the search engine's discretion. The service is provided "as is", and to the maximum extent permitted by law our aggregate liability for any claim arising from the service is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

The Book Care is operated by {{LEGAL_ENTITY_NAME}}, {{REGISTERED_ADDRESS}} ("we", "us"). That entity is the party to these terms, the authorized agent appointed in Section 2, and the issuer of any invoice for the service. Questions and notices to us go to support@thebookcare.com.

The service is offered to publishers, authors and rights-holders acting in the course of business. You must be at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract, and if you use the service for an organisation you confirm you are authorised to bind it. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure and for everything done under your account, including by collaborators you add.

Each notice is sworn by a named person under penalty of perjury. Only a person who actually holds the rights, or is expressly authorised by the holder, may make that attestation.

These terms apply from the moment you create an account and for as long as it exists. Paid plans run for the period bought and renew only where you have chosen a renewing plan; you can stop renewal at any time from Billing, and the plan then runs to the end of the period already paid for.

You may close your account at any time from the account deletion page. We may suspend enforcement for a work, or suspend or terminate an account, if you breach Section 3 or Section 5, if a notice sent on your attestation is shown to be false, if payment for a plan fails, or if required by law — and we will tell you why unless the law prevents it. Sections 3, 6, 7, 11 and 12 survive termination.

Before you close your account, download what you want to keep: the notice record for each case and your enforcement reports from the Removals page, and your invoices from the billing history on the Pricing page. Evidence and reply correspondence cannot be exported in bulk from the app today; if you need a copy, ask support@thebookcare.com before you close the account. After closure your account, books, scan history and settings are deleted within 30 days, as the Privacy Policy describes.

The record of each notice actually sent — the exhibit it was sworn on, the attestation behind it, and any reply or counter-notice — is a legal declaration we may have to produce in a dispute. It is kept for at least three years after dispatch, moved to an archive keyed by a pseudonymous identifier and no longer linked to your account.

These terms and any dispute arising from the service are governed by {{GOVERNING_LAW}}, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The courts of {{VENUE}} have exclusive jurisdiction, and each party submits to it — save that nothing prevents either party seeking urgent injunctive relief in any competent court, and nothing removes protections that the law of your country of residence gives you and does not allow to be excluded.

Before starting proceedings, write to support@thebookcare.com describing the dispute; we will try to resolve it with you within 30 days.

You may not assign these terms without our written consent; we may assign them to a successor of the business on notice to you. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, the Privacy Policy and the DMCA Policy are the entire agreement between us about the service and replace any earlier version.

We may update these terms as the service evolves; material changes will be announced in-app or by email before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.