Terms of service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between you and Grid Down LLC (“Grid Down,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) governing access to and use of Gravity Books, including the website, progressive web app, and related features (the “Service”).

BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT, ACCESSING, OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THE SERVICE.

These Terms are intended to protect Grid Down LLC to the maximum extent permitted by law. If any rule of law would make a provision unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable, and the rest will remain in force.

1. The Service

Gravity Books is a personal library tool. It is provided free of charge, “AS IS,” and “AS AVAILABLE.” We may change, suspend, throttle, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, including catalog lookups, AI import, sync, and the entire product. We have no obligation to maintain, update, or continue the Service.

Free access does not create a paid subscription, fiduciary duty, or guaranteed future feature set.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 13 years old (or the age of digital consent where you live, if higher) and able to form a binding contract. You are responsible for your account, password, and all activity under it. Notify us promptly of unauthorized use. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate any account at our sole discretion, including for suspected abuse, legal risk, or operational reasons.

3. Your library and content

You retain whatever rights you already have in the photos, videos, screenshots, CSV files, cover images, and library entries you submit (“User Content”). You grant Grid Down LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, copy, process, transmit, display, and otherwise use User Content solely as needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service (including sending media to processors that read titles or fetch covers).

You represent and warrant that you have all rights needed to submit User Content, that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights, and that it is not unlawful. You are solely responsible for User Content and for backing it up. We are not a backup service, not a professional catalog, and not liable for lost, duplicated, or incorrect books.

We may remove User Content or limit processing without notice if we believe it creates risk, violates these Terms, or exceeds reasonable use.

4. Third-party data, AI, and catalogs

Book metadata, covers, ratings, and descriptions may come from third parties (including Open Library, Google Books, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, and AI vision providers such as xAI). We do not warrant that any match, cover, rating, description, or ISBN is complete, current, or correct. Catalog and AI features may fail, time out, misread spines, skip books, or return the wrong edition.

Those third parties are not our partners in a legal sense merely because we query them. Their terms and privacy policies govern their services. Your use of import and lookup features is at your sole risk.

5. Acceptable use

You will not, and will not allow others to:

• scrape, overload, reverse engineer, or probe the Service except as allowed by mandatory law;
• bypass technical limits, share accounts in a way that harms the Service, or create accounts in bulk;
• upload malware, illegal content, or others’ personal information without authority;
• use the Service to infringe copyrights or to build a competing catalog by systematically harvesting data;
• misrepresent the Service as a source of authoritative bibliographic or commercial inventory data;
• use the Service for any purpose that is illegal or that exposes Grid Down LLC to liability.

We may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate, including reporting to authorities.

6. Intellectual property

The Service, including its design, software, trademarks, and documentation, is owned by Grid Down LLC and its licensors. Except for the limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial library, we grant you no license. “Gravity Books,” related marks, and the look of the app are our property. Third-party book covers and metadata remain the property of their respective owners.

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle information. You consent to that processing. In a conflict about operation of the Service, these Terms control; in a conflict about privacy practices required by law, the Privacy Policy and applicable law control.

8. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT BOOKS, COVERS, COUNTS, OR SYNC WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK FOR LOSS OF LIBRARY DATA.

Some places do not allow certain disclaimers. In those places, our warranties are limited to the minimum required by law and last only as long as the law requires.

9. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GRID DOWN LLC AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR MULTIPLE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM (WHICH IS ZERO IF THE SERVICE IS FREE) OR (B) TEN U.S. DOLLARS (US $10).

These limits are a fundamental part of the bargain and apply regardless of the legal theory (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise) and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

10. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Grid Down LLC and its officers, directors, members, employees, agents, and licensors from and against any claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms or of law; or (d) your infringement of anyone else’s rights. We may assume exclusive defense at your expense; you will cooperate.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access immediately, with or without cause. On termination, your license ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 3, 6, 8–16) will survive. We may delete data associated with a closed or inactive account and have no duty to retain it.

12. Changes to the Terms

We may update these Terms at any time. The Effective date will change. Continued use after an update is acceptance. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

13. Binding arbitration and class waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT.

Except for claims that may be brought in small-claims court or claims for injunctive relief to protect intellectual property, you and Grid Down LLC agree to resolve any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms through binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

YOU AND GRID DOWN LLC WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. ARBITRATION MAY BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS.

You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing info@griddown.com with your name, account email, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other provision.

14. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the state in which Grid Down LLC is organized and, as applicable, the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs arbitration. Subject to the arbitration section, exclusive venue for any permitted court action is the state or federal courts in the county of Grid Down LLC’s principal place of business, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

15. Export and government

You will not use the Service in violation of U.S. export or sanctions laws. If you are a government user, the Service is commercial computer software provided with only those rights specified in these Terms.

16. Miscellaneous

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Grid Down LLC about the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject. We may assign these Terms; you may not assign them without our written consent. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect. There are no third-party beneficiaries except as stated in the limitation and indemnity sections. Headings are for convenience only. You and Grid Down LLC are independent contractors.

Contact: info@griddown.com. Grid Down LLC.