Terms of Service

Last updated: 23.06.2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Libroo website at libroo.app and the hosted Libroo application at app.libroo.app, operated by us on Cloudflare infrastructure (together, the "Service").

Libroo is a private, physical-first library management system for cataloging books, organizing shelf locations, tracking reading state, and managing lending records.

This document is a draft intended for legal review before public launch.

1. Provider

The Service is provided by:

Email:

2. Agreement to These Terms

By creating an account, accepting an invitation, signing in, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

If you use the Service on behalf of another person or organization, you confirm that you are authorized to accept these Terms for them.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

3. Scope of the Service

Libroo lets users maintain a private catalog of physical books and related information. Depending on the current feature set and configuration, this may include:

• Book records created manually or through ISBN lookup.
• Book metadata and cover images obtained from third-party sources such as Open Library.
• Shelf, room, box, or other physical location data.
• Notes, ratings, tags, reading progress, and other personal library data.
• Lending records, borrower names or email addresses entered by users, due dates, and borrower invitation links.
• Account, authentication, invitation, role, and administrative functions.
• CSV import and export features for library transfer.

The Service is a recordkeeping tool. It does not create, prove, enforce, transfer, or settle ownership, lending, borrowing, sales, rental, copyright, or other legal rights in physical books.

4. Hosted Cloudflare Service

These Terms apply only to the hosted Libroo Service that we provide and operate on Cloudflare infrastructure.

These Terms do not apply to independently operated copies of Libroo, including any version someone downloads, modifies, or hosts outside the official hosted Service. Those activities are outside the Service covered by this document.

5. Accounts and Access

You may need an account to use the hosted application. You agree to provide accurate account information and to keep your login credentials confidential.

You are responsible for activity under your account unless the activity results from our failure to apply reasonable security measures.

The Service may support public registration, invite-only registration, email verification, password reset, and administrative user management. We may refuse, suspend, restrict, or terminate access where reasonably necessary to protect the Service, other users, legal compliance, or security.

You must notify us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

6. User Content and Library Data

"User Content" means information that you enter, upload, import, generate, or manage through the Service, including personal library records, notes, tags, locations, reading progress, borrower details, manual book metadata, and uploaded cover images.

You retain your rights in your User Content. You grant us a limited right to host, store, process, display, transmit, back up, and otherwise use your User Content only as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, improve, and support the Service, comply with law, and enforce these Terms.

You are responsible for the User Content you provide. You must have the rights and permissions needed to upload or enter it into the Service, especially where it includes personal data about another person, copyrighted cover images, or other third-party material.

Do not use the Service to store or share unlawful, abusive, infringing, harmful, or security-sensitive content.

7. Borrower and Lending Information

Libroo includes lending features that may let a book owner record borrower names, borrower email addresses, loan dates, due dates, returned status, and public borrower invitation links.

If you enter another person's personal data, you are responsible for having an appropriate basis to do so and for using the data respectfully and lawfully.

Borrower invitation links may expose limited information about a loan, such as the book title, author, cover, and owner's displayed name. Treat invitation links as sensitive and share them only with the intended recipient.

Libroo does not mediate lending disputes, guarantee returns, collect debts, verify identities, or enforce agreements between book owners and borrowers.

8. Third-Party Metadata and Services

The Service may use third-party sources or infrastructure, including book metadata and cover information from Open Library and hosting, database, storage, email, security, or analytics providers.

Third-party metadata may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, unavailable, or subject to separate rights and licenses. You should verify important book information yourself before relying on it.

The Service may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for third-party websites, services, policies, content, or availability.

9. Acceptable Use

You must not:

• Use the Service for illegal, harmful, abusive, deceptive, or infringing purposes.
• Interfere with, overload, scan, attack, reverse engineer, or disrupt the hosted Service or its infrastructure, except where reverse engineering cannot be prohibited by applicable law.
• Attempt to bypass authentication, authorization, rate limits, bot protection, or other security controls.
• Access, use, export, scrape, or disclose another user's data without authorization.
• Upload malware, malicious code, or content designed to compromise systems or data.
• Use automated registration, credential stuffing, spam, or similar abusive behavior.
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation.
• Use the Service in a way that violates applicable law or another person's rights.

10. Administration and Moderation

Hosted Libroo may include administrator roles. Administrators may be able to invite users, manage user status, assign roles, ban accounts, and review administrative audit information.

We may investigate suspected misuse and may remove content, disable links, restrict features, suspend accounts, or terminate accounts where reasonably necessary to protect users, the Service, security, or legal compliance.

Where practicable and appropriate, we will try to give affected users notice. We may act without prior notice where delay could create security, legal, operational, or user-protection risks.

11. Service Changes and Availability

Libroo may be offered as a beta or evolving service. Features may change, be added, be limited, or be removed.

We aim to operate the hosted Service with reasonable care, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or permanent availability. Maintenance, security incidents, provider outages, software defects, migrations, abuse prevention, or force majeure events may affect availability or data access.

You should keep your own exports or backups of important library data. CSV export or other transfer features may help you keep a copy of your records.

12. Fees

Unless a separate paid plan, order form, or pricing notice applies, the hosted Service is currently provided without a subscription fee.

If paid features or subscriptions are introduced, we will provide the applicable price, billing interval, cancellation rules, tax information, and any required consumer notices before charging you.

13. Account Deletion and Data Export

You may be able to export your library data from the application.

You may delete your account through the application settings where the feature is available. Account deletion is intended to remove your account, sessions, personal library records, owned loans, borrowed-loan associations, user-specific uploaded assets, and related data according to the Service's deletion process. Deletion may not immediately remove data from backups.

Some data may remain where necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, accounting, backup retention, or legitimate records belonging to another user, for example a lender's own lending record containing borrower text they entered.

For more detail about personal data processing, see our Privacy Policy.

14. Intellectual Property

We and our licensors retain all rights in the hosted Service, including software, branding, designs, text, graphics, and other materials, except for your User Content and third-party materials. This provision does not limit or override any rights granted under separate open-source software licenses regarding the underlying code components of the Service.

You may not use the Libroo name, logo, branding, or confusingly similar marks without permission, except as allowed by law.

15. No Professional Advice

The Service provides organizational and recordkeeping tools. It does not provide legal, financial, tax, accounting, insurance, archival, valuation, or professional advice.

You are responsible for decisions you make based on information stored in or generated through the Service.

16. Warranty Disclaimer

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available."

We do not promise that the Service will meet every requirement, remain available at all times, preserve all data in every circumstance including failures caused by third-party infrastructure providers, or be free from errors, defects, vulnerabilities, interruptions, or third-party inaccuracies.

Statutory rights that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law remain unaffected.

17. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body, or health, guarantees expressly given by us, claims under mandatory product liability law, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

In cases of ordinary negligence, we are liable only for breach of essential contractual obligations. Essential contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfillment makes proper use of the Service possible and on whose compliance users may regularly rely. In such cases, liability is limited to typical and foreseeable damage.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect losses, lost profits, lost savings, business interruption, loss of goodwill, loss of physical books, lending disputes, third-party metadata errors, or data loss where the damage could have been avoided through reasonable user-side backups or exports.

18. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you may be liable to us for reasonable losses, costs, and claims resulting from your unlawful use of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or User Content that you provide without the necessary rights or legal basis.

This does not apply where you are not responsible for the breach or claim under applicable law.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect feature changes, legal requirements, security needs, or operational changes.

For material changes, we will provide reasonable notice where practicable. If you continue using the Service after updated Terms become effective, the updated Terms apply to your continued use.

If you do not agree to updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account.

20. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account where account deletion is available.

We may suspend or terminate your account or access if you materially breach these Terms, misuse the Service, create security or legal risk, or if we discontinue the hosted Service.

Termination does not affect rights and obligations that by their nature should continue, including intellectual property provisions, liability limits, payment obligations if any, and provisions needed to resolve disputes.

21. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding conflict-of-law rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer and mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence gives you additional rights, those rights remain unaffected.

Where legally permitted, the courts at our place of business have jurisdiction.

22. Consumer Dispute Resolution

We are not obliged and not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

23. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to: