Terms of Service

Effective: To be set on publication Last updated: May 26, 2026

Draft notice. This document is in active drafting and not yet in effect. The currently-effective interim Terms of Service remain at tableread.com/terms. This draft will replace the interim version once finalized and reviewed by counsel.

1. Introduction — what these terms cover

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are the agreement between you and Tableread. They describe what you can expect from us when you use Tableread, and what we expect from you. By creating a Tableread account, or by visiting or using the service without an account, you agree to these Terms.

Tableread is a creative community platform for media reviews, creator content, video, and professional collaboration. We provide the service at tableread.com and through any related apps or integrations we offer.

In these Terms:

"Tableread," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the company described in Section 2 below.
"You" and "your" refer to the person agreeing to these Terms. If you are accessing Tableread on behalf of an organization, you are agreeing on that organization's behalf, and "you" includes that organization.
"The service" means the Tableread website, any apps or interfaces we publish, any APIs we make available, and any features or content we provide through them.
"Content" means anything you or other users post to the service — text, images, video, audio, lists, reviews, comments, messages, profile information, and similar.

These Terms work together with the documents we incorporate by reference below — most importantly the Privacy Policy. When something in those documents specifically applies to a feature you're using, that more-specific document governs for that feature.

We've written these Terms in plain language wherever the law lets us. Some sections still contain formal legal phrasing because the law requires it (warranty disclaimers, liability limits, governing law). When formal phrasing appears in bold and uppercase, it's there because a statute or court ruling requires that prominence — not because we're shouting.

2. Who you are agreeing with

Tableread is operated by Tableread LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Our mailing address for general legal correspondence — including DMCA notices, privacy requests, and the legal correspondence described elsewhere in these Terms — is:

Tableread LLC [PO_BOX_ADDRESS]

For formal service of process, send to Tableread LLC's Registered Office of record with the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, available through the corporation search at corp.sec.state.ma.us.

For promptness and convenience, you may also send a copy of any legal correspondence to legal@tableread.com. We treat the physical mailing address as the authoritative legal channel; the email address is supplementary.

When these Terms refer to "Tableread," "we," "us," or "our," they mean Tableread LLC and any subsidiaries or successors of Tableread LLC that operate the service from time to time.

If Tableread LLC sells the service, is acquired, merges with another company, or otherwise transfers operation of the service to a different entity, that successor entity may step into Tableread LLC's role under these Terms. We'll give active users reasonable notice before a transfer affects how your data is handled, consistent with our Privacy Policy.

3. Who can use Tableread

To register a Tableread account or use the service, you must meet all of the following:

You are at least 16 years old. Tableread is not designed for children. We do not knowingly accept accounts from anyone under 16. When we learn that we have inadvertently received information from someone under 16, we delete the account and associated data. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child under 16 has created an account, contact us through contact.
You are at least 18 years old if you intend to use a paid feature — including paid subscriptions, the Marketplace as a buyer or seller, or identity verification through Stripe Identity. Some features may require identity verification regardless of your age.
You have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement under the law of the jurisdiction where you reside. If you are using Tableread on behalf of an organization, you must have authority to bind that organization to these Terms; in that case, "you" includes the organization throughout these Terms.
You are not located in, and you are not a resident or national of, a country subject to a comprehensive United States government embargo (currently Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine). You are not on any United States government list of restricted or prohibited parties — for example, the Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list or the Commerce Department's Denied Persons list.
You have not previously been suspended or permanently terminated from Tableread. If your prior account was terminated, you may not create a new account without our written permission. We may detect and remove accounts that we determine are being used to evade a prior suspension.
You register through Tableread's published signup flow, in person, without automation. Automated, scripted, or bulk account creation is prohibited. Each account must correspond to a real person actively completing the signup process.

If any of these conditions stops being true after you register — for example, you become subject to a sanctions designation that did not apply when you registered — you must stop using the service.

4. Your account

One account per person

You may create and maintain only one Tableread account. Tableread is built around one identity per person. If you want a creator presence, marketplace storefront, or any other public-facing identity, those are features you enable on your single account — not separate accounts. Accounts created in addition to your existing account, or to evade a prior suspension, may be removed.

Account security

You are responsible for your account and for any activity that happens through it. Specifically:

Keep your credentials private. Do not share your password with anyone, do not let other people use your account, and do not store your password where it can be accessed by others.
Enable available security features. When Tableread offers additional security features — such as two-factor authentication, login alerts, or device management — we strongly recommend you use them.
Use an email you actually control. We send account confirmation, password reset, security alerts, payment receipts, and legal notices to the email address on your account. If that email is wrong, abandoned, or shared with others, you may lose access to your account or miss notices you are legally entitled to receive.
Keep your contact information current. Update your account email if it changes. If the contact information on your account is out of date, you accept that important notices may not reach you.
Tell us if your account is compromised. If you suspect your account has been accessed without your authorization, contact us through contact immediately so we can help secure it.

If you sign in to Tableread using a third-party identity provider — currently Google or Discord — your relationship with that provider is governed by their terms and privacy policy, not by these Terms. We receive only the information described in our Privacy Policy from those providers. If you lose access to your provider account (for example, your Google account is closed), you may also lose access to your Tableread account.

Your account is personal to you

As between you and Tableread, your account belongs to you. Your account is personal — you may not sell, gift, lease, lend, or otherwise transfer your account, your username, your reviewer tier, your Spots balance, your Reels balance, or any other account-bound asset to another person. This includes co-managed accounts and accounts operated on behalf of others, except as described under organizational use in Section 3.

What lives on Tableread, and where private data lives

Tableread stores your public-facing profile data, your content, your reputation metrics, and your account credentials. Tableread does not store sensitive personal information that you have not chosen to make public. Specifically:

Payment instruments — credit cards, bank accounts, payout details — are held by Stripe. Tableread sees a Stripe customer or connected-account identifier and transaction metadata, never the underlying card or bank numbers.
Identity-verification documents — government ID and selfie — are held by Stripe Identity. Tableread receives only the pass-or-fail result, not the underlying documents.
Tax information — W-9, address, taxpayer ID — provided for IRS reporting is held by Stripe.

This split is intentional. Storing the minimum sensitive data on Tableread's servers reduces the harm that any single security incident on Tableread could cause to you. See the Privacy Policy for the full data-handling description.

5. Acceptable use

The rules in this section apply to everything you do on Tableread. They exist to keep the platform safe for other members and to protect the service itself from abuse.

When we determine that a user has violated these rules, we may remove content, suspend or terminate the account, withhold payouts, or take other actions described in Section 13.

5.1 Toward other members

You may not:

Harass, threaten, intimidate, stalk, or doxx other members or Tableread staff.
Post content that infringes copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or other intellectual property rights.
Post content that violates another person's privacy, including non-consensual intimate imagery and unauthorized publication of private information.
Impersonate another person, including impersonation of Tableread staff or moderators.
Engage in coordinated harassment, brigading, or mass-reporting designed to drive someone off the platform.
Solicit personal information from minors, or interact with users under 16 in ways inappropriate for adults.

5.2 Toward the platform

You may not:

Spam, scrape, or run automated tools against Tableread — including crawlers, scripts, browser plugins, headless browsers, or any other automated means of accessing the service — except for personal-use API access if and when Tableread publishes a documented API with an explicit allowance.
Attempt to bypass rate limits, technical controls, paywalls, tier gates, identity verification, or any other security or access control.
Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of any non-open-source Tableread component.
Introduce malware, viruses, worms, or any other harmful code, or attempt to compromise other users' accounts.
Frame, mirror, embed, or modify the appearance of Tableread, or insert content into the rendered service, except as expressly permitted by an API or feature we publish.
Place an unreasonable load on the service, including denial-of-service attempts and abuse of search, recommendation, or feed endpoints.
Use Tableread content (your own or others') to train, fine-tune, or build datasets for machine learning or generative-AI models, except as expressly permitted by a separate written agreement with Tableread.
Use information obtained from Tableread to create a derivative service that competes with Tableread, including republishing, redistributing, selling, or licensing Tableread data. Your own content remains yours, but bulk data extracted from the platform is not yours to take.
Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell, or otherwise monetize Tableread access or accounts.

5.3 Content integrity

Tableread is a community built on honest opinion and authentic creative work. You may not:

Post fake or paid reviews, including reviews you did not write, reviews of work you did not experience, or reviews exchanged for compensation beyond a normal review copy.
Manipulate Helpful votes, follower counts, list inclusion, Spots, tier progression, or any other reputation or recommendation signal — including coordinated voting rings, vote-buying, vote-trading, and self-voting through alternate accounts.
Misrepresent AI-generated content as human-created. If you publish content created in significant part by a generative-AI tool, you must label it accurately when Tableread offers a labeling mechanism. When no mechanism exists, you must not pass the work off as human-authored if asked directly.
Engage in commercial activity that misuses the Marketplace, including selling counterfeit goods, fraudulent products, or services you do not intend to deliver.
Create or distribute content designed to defraud Tableread or other members, including fake fundraising appeals, fake transactions, fake disputes, or any scheme to extract money, Spots, or Reels from the platform under false pretenses.

5.4 The law

You may not use Tableread:

To violate any applicable law, including United States federal and state law and the laws of the jurisdiction where you reside.
To distribute content involving the sexual exploitation of minors, content depicting actual or threatened violence against identifiable people, or any content illegal under United States federal law.
To distribute sexually explicit content.
To violate United States export-control or sanctions law, as described in Section 3.
To violate any third party's contractual rights, including non-disclosure agreements, employer policies, or terms of service of other platforms whose content you bring to Tableread.

5.5 Reporting violations

If you believe another user is violating these rules, report it through the in-platform reporting tools or through contact. Do not misuse the reporting system — filing duplicative, fraudulent, or harassing reports is itself a violation of these rules.

6. Your content and the license you grant

Ownership stays with you

You own what you create and post to Tableread. Tableread does not claim ownership of your reviews, lists, comments, videos, profile content, marketplace listings, or any other content you post. To the extent your content is protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights, those rights remain yours.

The license you grant Tableread

When you post content to Tableread, you grant Tableread a license to use that content for the limited purposes of running the service. The terms of that license are:

Scope. Worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, and transferable to the limited extent described below.
Rights. To host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, transmit, perform publicly, and modify your content. "Modify" includes format conversion (image resizing, video transcoding, audio normalization), transcription, translation, thumbnail generation, and the technical changes required to deliver your content reliably.
Sublicense rights. Tableread may sublicense the rights above to:
- Other users, to the extent needed for sharing, reposting, embedding, search, and feed delivery to work as designed.
- Service providers and contractors that operate Tableread's infrastructure — including (but not limited to) Supabase (database and storage), Mux (video hosting and streaming), Vercel and Vercel Blob (application hosting and file storage), Cloudflare (network security and CDN), Resend (email delivery), and Stripe (payments). Each provider operates under its own privacy and security commitments and is bound to use your content only for the operation of Tableread.

What this license is for

Tableread may use your content under this license only to:

Operate the service — render pages, deliver feeds, run search, send messages, encode video, route notifications, and otherwise perform the functions you expect when you use Tableread.
Improve the service — diagnose bugs, monitor performance, detect spam and abuse, and improve recommendations and feed quality.
Promote the service — Tableread may quote, screenshot, or feature public content (reviews, lists, public profile elements) in marketing material that promotes Tableread itself. We will not include your content in advertisements for third parties without your separate consent. Where reasonably possible, we will identify you by username when we feature your content.

What this license is not for

No AI training. Tableread will not use your content to train, fine-tune, or build datasets for machine learning or generative-AI models, nor license your content to any third party for those purposes. This commitment is reciprocal with the user-side prohibition in Section 5.2.
No third-party advertising targeting. Tableread will not sell or license your content to advertisers, ad networks, or data brokers, and will not use your content to target third-party ads.
No claim to your ownership rights. This license does not transfer copyright, trademark, or any other intellectual property right to Tableread. Tableread holds only a license to use your content within the scope above; you remain the owner.

What the license does not cover

The license above applies only to content protected by intellectual property rights. It does not cover:

Factual information — for example, the identifying information about a piece of media you are reviewing (title, release year, creator credits). Factual information is freely usable.
Feedback and suggestions you provide to Tableread about the service itself. By submitting feedback or suggestions, you agree Tableread may use them freely, without compensation, attribution, or any obligation to act on them.

Project pages carry an additional contribution license

Some areas of Tableread — currently Project pages in the Development pipeline (also called Project Whiteboards) — are collaborative development spaces where members contribute to a shared creative work. When you contribute to a Project, your contribution is also covered by the Project Contribution License, which applies in addition to, and consistently with, the license in this Section 6.

Project contributions are public and collaborative. What you post in a Project is visible to the project and the wider community — it is not private. By contributing, you allow the project and Tableread to use the ideas you share to develop the work. You cannot later claim that an idea you contributed is yours alone, or stop the project or Tableread from using it. Ideas, once shared in a Project, are open for the project to build on.

This does not strip you of ownership of your own expression. As with everything else you post, you keep ownership of the specific words and material you write — copyright protects your expression, not the underlying ideas, and the Project Contribution License does not transfer your copyright or any other ownership right to Tableread or to the project. What you give up is the ability to treat a contributed idea as exclusively yours or to block its use within the project: you grant the project and Tableread a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use your contribution in developing that project, without further obligation or compensation unless separately agreed.

Where a Project requires it, you will be reminded of this each time you contribute, and may be asked to acknowledge it.

Duration and what happens when you remove content

The license lasts as long as your content is on Tableread. When you delete content, the license to that specific content ends prospectively, with two practical exceptions:

Already-shared content. If your content has been shared, reposted, or quoted by other users before you deleted it, those copies may persist where the receiving user controls them, consistent with the receiving user's own license under this Section 6.
Backups. Deleted content may remain in encrypted backups and abuse-investigation snapshots for up to 30 days after deletion, after which it is purged. Tableread does not use backup-resident copies to display, distribute, or promote deleted content during that window.

When you close your account, the license to all of your content ends prospectively under the same terms.

Your profile content is public by default

Your Tableread profile — including your username, display name, avatar, bio, and the content you post under your account — is public by default. Anyone on the internet, including search engines, can view it. We provide controls in settings to restrict visibility for individual reviews, lists, and similar content; profile fields themselves remain public.

Because profile data is public, do not place sensitive personal information in profile fields. Examples of what not to put in your bio, location text, or other public fields:

Your full home address.
Your phone number, unless you intend it to be publicly contactable.
Government identification numbers.
Financial account information.
Any information about another person they have not consented to share.

The architectural split between public profile data on Tableread and sensitive data held by Stripe is described in Section 4.

You are responsible for what you post

You are solely responsible for the content you post and for the consequences of posting it. By posting, you confirm that:

You have all the rights necessary to post the content under these Terms, including any required licenses, releases, and permissions from people identifiable in the content.
The content does not violate any law or any third party's rights.
The content complies with Section 5 (Acceptable use) and any Community Guidelines we publish.

If a third party asserts that your content infringes their rights, Tableread will follow the procedure in Section 17 (DMCA / copyright complaints). You may be required to defend Tableread against any claim resulting from your content, as described in Section 16 (Indemnification).

7. Additional terms for specific features

Some Tableread features have additional terms that apply when you use that feature. Examples include (and we expect to add more as the platform grows):

Subscription Terms — additional terms that apply when you have a paid subscription.
Marketplace Terms — additional terms that apply when you buy from, sell on, or otherwise transact through the Tableread Marketplace.
Creator Agreement — additional terms that apply when you monetize content as a creator, including revenue share, payout obligations, and content responsibilities.
Community Guidelines — published guidance that interprets Section 5 (Acceptable use) in more day-to-day detail.
API Terms — additional terms that apply when Tableread offers a developer API and you use it.

When additional terms apply to a feature:

You accept them by using the feature. Tableread will make the additional terms accessible before you use the feature for the first time — typically through a link, a checkbox during sign-up, or an in-product notice. Continuing to use the feature constitutes your acceptance of its additional terms.
They govern over these Terms for that feature, where they conflict. If a Creator Agreement clause conflicts with these master Terms regarding creator payouts, the Creator Agreement controls — but only for creator-payout matters. All other matters, including the content license you grant Tableread under Section 6, continue to be governed by these Terms.
They cannot expand obligations beyond the relevant feature. Additional terms cannot retroactively change Tableread's data-handling commitments under the Privacy Policy, nor override the indemnification or liability provisions of these Terms for matters outside the feature in question.
Section 5 is the floor. The acceptable-use rules in Section 5 apply to every feature. Community Guidelines or other additional policies may elaborate or be more specific, but cannot reduce or override Section 5's protections for other users.

Additional terms, when they apply, are part of the agreement between you and Tableread. They are not separate contracts; they are addenda to these Terms.

8. Subscriptions and payment

Tableread offers paid subscriptions that give you access to additional features. This section describes how subscriptions work, how billing works, and what your rights are around them.

Pricing

Subscription prices are displayed in your local currency where possible at the point of sign-up. The price shown during checkout is the price you will be charged for the first billing period. Prices may differ between countries based on local taxes, exchange rates, and platform pricing decisions.

Billing cycle and auto-renewal

Tableread subscriptions are auto-renewing. When you sign up for a paid subscription:

Tableread will charge your payment method at the start of each billing period (monthly or annually, depending on the plan you chose) for the upcoming period.
Your subscription continues until you cancel it.
We display the next renewal date and price in your account settings, and (where required by law) we will send reminder notices before charging the next period.

By starting a paid subscription, you authorize Tableread, through Stripe, to charge your payment method on a recurring basis for as long as your subscription remains active.

Cancelling a subscription

You can cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings. Cancellation:

Takes effect at the end of your current billing period.
Lets you keep access to paid features until that period ends. You do not receive a partial refund for time remaining when you cancel.
Prevents future automatic charges. No further charges occur after cancellation unless you re-subscribe.

If you cancel within 14 days of starting a new subscription and you have not made significant use of the paid features during that period, contact us through contact and we will consider a full refund. We try to be fair about accidental renewals and impulse sign-ups.

Refunds

Refunds are handled case-by-case. We will issue a full or partial refund when:

You were charged in error.
You cancelled before the renewal date but were charged anyway because of a system error.
A paid feature you specifically subscribed to was unavailable for a substantial portion of your billing period because of a problem on Tableread's side.

For other refund requests — including general dissatisfaction, change of mind after the 14-day window, or mid-period cancellation — refunds are at Tableread's discretion. We try to be reasonable, but we don't guarantee a refund outside the categories above.

If you dispute a charge with your card issuer (a chargeback) without first contacting us, your account may be suspended while we review the dispute. We prefer to resolve billing issues directly when possible.

Payment method and stored payment information

Tableread does not store credit card numbers, bank account numbers, or other payment instrument details. Stripe stores this information on our behalf, under Stripe's PCI-DSS-compliant systems. To Tableread, your payment method appears as a Stripe identifier and basic descriptive metadata (card brand, last four digits, expiration).

You authorize Tableread, through Stripe, to:

Store your payment method for use in future subscription renewals.
Continue charging your primary payment method past its nominal expiration date. Stripe may auto-update card numbers when issuers reissue cards; Tableread relies on Stripe's account-updater service to maintain billing continuity.
Attempt secondary payment methods you have provided. If your primary payment method fails, Tableread may attempt a secondary payment method on file (if any) before treating the renewal as failed.

You can update or remove your stored payment method at any time through settings.

Failed payments

If Tableread is unable to charge your payment method on the renewal date:

We will retry the charge for a reasonable period (typically up to seven days) following Stripe's standard retry schedule.
During the retry window, your subscription remains active.
If all retries fail, your subscription will be paused. You will lose access to paid features, but your account itself remains active.
You can resolve the failed payment by adding a valid payment method through settings.

Tableread does not refer subscription debts to collection agencies. A failed payment results in loss of paid access, not in collections activity.

Price changes

Subscription prices may change. When they do:

Price changes apply only prospectively — they take effect for billing periods that begin after the change, not retroactively.
Advance notice. We will provide reasonable advance notice of any price change, generally at least 30 days, before the new price takes effect for your subscription.
Your choice. If you do not agree to the new price, you can cancel before the new price takes effect. Your subscription will end at the conclusion of your current period without being charged the new price.

Invoices

You can access invoices for your Tableread subscriptions through your account settings. Stripe is the system of record for billing transactions; Tableread provides access to invoices for your convenience.

Taxes

Subscription prices may not include tax. Where applicable, Tableread (through Stripe) will calculate and add applicable sales tax, VAT, GST, or other consumption taxes to your billing based on the billing address and other information you provide. You are responsible for providing accurate billing information for tax-calculation purposes.

Stripe as payment processor

Payments and stored payment data are handled by Stripe, Inc. By using Tableread's paid features, you also agree to Stripe's Services Agreement for the payment portion of your relationship. Tableread and Stripe each handle the parts of the transaction described in our respective terms; neither acts for the other beyond what is described here and in the Privacy Policy.

9. Marketplace

The Tableread Marketplace lets creators sell digital goods, services, and custom work to other members. The Marketplace is currently in early access and may not be available to all users at all times.

Tableread's role

In a Marketplace transaction, Tableread is the platform that facilitates the transaction — it is not the seller of any item listed by another user. When you buy from a creator on Tableread, you are entering into a transaction directly with that creator. Tableread provides the infrastructure — listings, payment processing through Stripe Connect, dispute mediation — but the seller is responsible for the goods or services being offered.

Tableread takes a platform fee on Marketplace transactions to cover the costs of operating the Marketplace, payment processing, and dispute support. The current platform fee is 10% of the transaction value, with applicable payment-processing fees passed through from Stripe. We may change the platform fee with reasonable advance notice; fee changes apply only to transactions started after the new fee takes effect.

What sellers can list

Sellers on the Marketplace may list:

Digital goods — downloadable files (PDFs, source files, art assets, audio, video), license keys, content-access codes, and similar.
Services — coaching, consulting, custom commissions, editing, beta-reading, mentorship, and similar.
Custom work — bespoke deliverables produced by the seller for the buyer.

Sellers may not list anything that violates Section 5 (Acceptable use), including infringing content, illegal goods, counterfeit items, or services they do not intend or are not equipped to deliver.

Seller obligations

If you list items on the Marketplace, you agree that:

You have the right to sell what you list. You own the intellectual property or have all necessary licenses to sell each item, including any required releases from third parties.
Your listings are accurate. Title, description, scope of work, deliverable format, and turnaround time match what you actually intend to deliver.
You deliver what you sell. For digital goods, Tableread handles automatic delivery once payment clears. For services and custom work, you are responsible for delivering as promised within the timeframe stated in the listing.
You handle your own income taxes. Tableread issues 1099-K forms (through Stripe) for payouts above IRS-required thresholds. You are responsible for reporting and paying any income, self-employment, or other taxes that apply to your Marketplace earnings.
You comply with applicable law. Marketplace activity is subject to consumer-protection law, sales-tax obligations, professional-licensing requirements where applicable, and any other rules that apply to the goods or services you sell.

You must also accept the Stripe Connected Account Agreement before receiving Marketplace payouts. Tableread cannot pay you out until Stripe has verified your information and accepted you as a connected account.

Buyer protections

When you buy from a creator through the Marketplace:

Digital goods are delivered automatically. If automatic delivery fails or the file is unusable, contact us through contact for a refund.
Services and custom work are delivered by the seller. Tableread does not perform these services; the seller does. We expect sellers to deliver as promised, but the seller — not Tableread — is the party providing the work.
Dispute mediation is available. If a seller fails to deliver, delivers something materially different from what was listed, or violates Tableread's rules in connection with the transaction, you can open a dispute through Tableread's dispute process within 30 days of the transaction.
Chargebacks should be a last resort. Disputing a charge with your card issuer (a chargeback) before opening a Tableread dispute may result in suspension of your account, as described in Section 8.

Tableread's discretion over the Marketplace

Tableread reserves the right to:

Remove listings that violate these Terms, Section 5, or any future Marketplace Terms.
Suspend or terminate seller access for repeated violations, persistent low-quality delivery, high dispute rates, or fraud.
Withhold payouts pending dispute resolution or fraud investigation.
Refuse to process transactions that appear fraudulent or that would violate applicable law.

Sales tax and marketplace facilitator obligations

Where required by law, Tableread (through Stripe) collects and remits sales tax, VAT, GST, or similar consumption taxes on Marketplace transactions, acting as a marketplace facilitator for those taxes. Buyers see applicable tax added at checkout. Sellers remain responsible for any tax obligations not handled by the marketplace facilitator framework, including income tax on Marketplace earnings.

Future Marketplace Terms

As the Marketplace grows, Tableread will publish separate Marketplace Terms covering specific aspects of buyer-seller transactions in more detail — dispute procedures, refund eligibility windows, seller account requirements, payout schedules, and prohibited-goods specifics. Those Marketplace Terms, when published, become additional terms under Section 7 of these Terms.

10. Changes to the service and feature sunsets

Tableread is an actively developed platform. We add features, remove features, change how features work, and adjust the service in response to user needs, technical realities, legal requirements, and our own decisions about what Tableread should become.

Routine changes

Day-to-day improvements — bug fixes, performance tuning, UI updates, copy changes, accessibility improvements, internal-tool changes, and similar — happen continuously without separate notice. These changes do not require amendment of these Terms.

Material changes that affect your use

Some changes meaningfully affect how you use Tableread. Examples include:

Removing a feature you actively use.
Raising the eligibility requirements for a paid feature.
Changing how a feature works in a way that affects content you have already created.
Reducing the storage, upload, or usage limits of a tier you have already paid for.
Restricting a previously-open feature to subscribers.

For material changes that negatively affect your use of the service, we will provide reasonable advance notice — generally at least 30 days — through email, in-product notice, or both. The notice will describe the change, when it takes effect, and what your options are, including any data-export options.

Urgent changes

Some changes cannot wait for advance notice. We may make immediate changes — without prior notice — to:

Prevent or respond to security incidents, abuse, or fraud.
Comply with legal requirements, court orders, or regulatory directives.
Address operational emergencies (outages, vendor disruptions, infrastructure failures).
Take down content or features that we are legally required to remove.

When we make an urgent change, we will provide notice as soon as it is reasonably possible to do so.

Beta and experimental features

Tableread regularly introduces new features in early-access, beta, or experimental form. These features are clearly labeled — for example, as "Beta," "Preview," "Early access," or "Experimental" — and:

May be removed, restricted, or substantially changed at any time without notice.
May not work as expected.
May not be supported by Tableread customer support.
Are not subject to the advance-notice obligation described above for material changes.

When you use a beta or experimental feature, you accept that the feature may stop working or stop existing. We label features as beta or experimental specifically to set this expectation.

Service discontinuation

If Tableread discontinues a service, a feature, or the platform as a whole:

Substantial advance notice. For discontinuations affecting active users, we will provide notice substantially in advance — generally at least 90 days for paid features and 60 days for free features — through email and in-product notice.
Data export. Where reasonably possible, we will provide a way to export your content (reviews, lists, profile data, video uploads where applicable) before the discontinuation takes effect. The export will be in a reasonable, machine-readable format.
Subscriptions. If you have a paid subscription affected by a discontinuation, we will issue a pro-rated refund for the portion of your current billing period that you cannot use because of the discontinuation.
Marketplace transactions. Pending Marketplace transactions affected by a discontinuation will be completed where possible, or refunded where completion is not possible.
Spots and Reels balances. In the event the Spots and Reels economy is discontinued, we will provide reasonable transition options consistent with applicable tax law and the limits described in Tableread's Spots and Reels documentation. Spots and Reels are not cash equivalents and are not refunded as cash.

Service availability

Tableread is not a guaranteed-always-available service. We may limit feature availability by country, region, subscription tier, or other category for legal, business, or technical reasons. Where we limit availability based on your specific category, we will tell you why where we are able.

11. Recommendations and automated processing

Tableread uses automated systems to deliver and improve the service. This section describes what those systems do and what your rights are around them.

What we use automation for

Tableread uses algorithmic and machine systems to:

Order content in your feeds — your home feed, search results, the reviewer directory, the catalog browse pages, and Marketplace listings — based on relevance, recency, engagement, and your preferences.
Recommend content and people — suggest reviews, lists, creators to follow, and titles you might want to review.
Weight reputation signals — calculate Helpful-vote weighting, follower-count aggregation, and content-quality ranking.
Calculate Spots and tier progression — award Spots for activities, calculate Spots balances, and determine eligibility for reviewer-tier promotions.
Triage moderation and abuse signals — detect spam, fake-review patterns, harassment, and coordinated abuse, and route flagged content to human moderators.
Detect fraud and security threats — identify suspicious payment activity, account takeovers, and bot-like behavior.

What we do not use automation for

Tableread does not use automation to:

Train, fine-tune, or build datasets for machine learning or generative-AI models from your content. See Section 6.
Target advertising to you. See Section 6.
Make permanent termination decisions affecting your account without human review. See Section 12 for the appeals process.

Your controls

Where Tableread offers controls over how automation affects you, those controls are accessible from your account settings. Examples include visibility settings for your reviews, lists, and profile; messaging-privacy settings; and email-notification preferences.

We add controls as the platform expands. When a new feature introduces meaningful automated decisions affecting your experience, we add corresponding controls where it makes sense to do so.

Disclosure for users in the EU, UK, and similar jurisdictions

If you are located in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with comparable automated-decision-making protections:

You have the right to know when automated systems are making significant decisions about you.
You have the right to request human review of an automated decision that significantly affects you.
The most significant automated decisions on Tableread are: account suspension or termination, payout withholding, and Marketplace dispute outcomes. All of these decisions include human review — either before they take effect (for terminations) or on request through the appeals process described in Section 12.

For other questions about automated processing affecting you, contact us through contact.

Recommendation accuracy

Recommendations are not guaranteed to match your interests, identify your preferred content, or surface every piece of relevant content. Recommendation algorithms reflect a combination of signals — many of which you do not directly control — and may produce results you disagree with. We continually improve recommendation quality, but we do not promise any particular outcome.

12. Termination, appeals, and data export

These Terms remain in effect for as long as you have a Tableread account or use the service.

Closing your account

You can close your Tableread account at any time through your account settings or by contacting us through contact. When you close your account:

Your access to the service ends.
Your public content (reviews, lists, comments) is removed from public view within a reasonable time.
Your data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy and Section 6 of these Terms.
Active paid subscriptions are cancelled at the end of the current billing period unless you request immediate cancellation, in which case refund handling follows Section 8.

When Tableread may suspend or terminate your account

Tableread may suspend or terminate your account, restrict your access to specific features, or take other enforcement actions described in Section 13, when:

You materially breach these Terms, including Section 5 (Acceptable use) or any applicable additional terms.
You repeatedly breach these Terms, even when individual breaches are not material on their own. See Section 17 for DMCA-specific repeat-infringer treatment.
Tableread is required to do so by law, court order, or regulatory directive.
Your conduct creates legal, security, or reputational risk to Tableread, its other users, or its service providers.
You attempt to evade a prior suspension or termination, as described in Section 3.
Your account becomes legally ineligible to use Tableread — for example, you relocate to a sanctioned country.

For most enforcement actions, we will give you advance notice and an opportunity to address the issue. For severe violations — fraud, child sexual abuse material, harassment of identifiable victims, security attacks against Tableread or its users — suspension or termination may be immediate.

Effect of suspension or termination

When Tableread suspends your account:

You temporarily lose access to the service or specific features.
Your content remains in place but may be hidden from other users pending resolution.
Subscriptions continue to be billed unless we explicitly pause them.
Marketplace transactions in progress will be completed or refunded as appropriate.

When Tableread terminates your account:

Your access to the service ends.
Your public content is removed from public view within a reasonable time, except where retention is required by law or for documented abuse-response purposes.
Active paid subscriptions are cancelled. Refunds for unused portions are handled case-by-case, generally consistent with Section 8.
Marketplace transactions in progress will be completed or refunded as appropriate; payouts may be withheld pending dispute resolution.
Spots and Reels balances are forfeited and not refunded as cash. If your termination is later reversed through appeal, your balances will be restored where reasonably possible.

Appeals

If your account has been suspended, terminated, or had content removed by Tableread, you may appeal:

How to appeal. Submit an appeal through contact. Include your account identifier, a description of what happened, and any context you want us to consider.
Timeframe. Appeals should be submitted within 30 days of the action. We will consider appeals submitted later when circumstances warrant.
Our response. We aim to respond to appeals within 14 days. Complex cases may take longer; we will tell you when to expect a response if more time is needed.
Outcomes. An appeal may result in reversal of the action and restoration of your account or content; modification of the action (for example, reducing a permanent termination to a temporary suspension); or confirmation of the original decision.
Final review. When we deny an appeal, the decision is final unless new material information becomes available.

Appeals are reviewed by a Tableread team member, not by an automated system.

Data export

You can request a copy of your Tableread account data at any time through contact. The export includes the personal data and content associated with your account, in a reasonable machine-readable format.

For users in jurisdictions with formal data-portability rights — including the European Union and California — this satisfies our obligation to provide your data in a portable format. We aim to respond to export requests within 30 days, consistent with GDPR Article 12 and CCPA timelines.

Data export can be requested at any point in the account lifecycle, including after account closure within a reasonable window.

Survival

The sections of these Terms that, by their nature, should continue after your account ends — including those related to content licensing for content already shared, intellectual property, indemnification, limitation of liability, governing law, and dispute resolution — continue to apply after termination. Section 19 (Survival) lists the specific sections that survive.

13. Enforcement actions and proportionality

When Tableread determines that a user has violated these Terms, the action we take is calibrated to the severity, intent, and pattern of the violation. This section describes the range of actions available to us.

Range of enforcement actions

We may take any combination of the following actions:

Notice or warning. For minor or apparently inadvertent violations, we may send a notice describing the issue and what to change, without removing content or restricting access.
Content removal. Specific reviews, comments, lists, profile fields, listings, or other content may be removed or hidden when they violate these Terms.
Content edits. In rare cases — for example, when only a portion of a piece of content violates the rules — we may edit content to remove the offending portion rather than removing the whole piece.
Feature restriction. Access to specific features (messaging, posting, Marketplace seller status, Spots earning, reviewer-tier privileges, video uploads) may be restricted for a defined period.
Visibility reduction. Content or accounts may be reduced in feed-ranking, search-result, or recommendation prominence without being fully removed.
Suspension. The account is temporarily disabled. The duration depends on the violation; typical suspensions range from 24 hours to 30 days.
Permanent termination. The account is closed permanently and the user is prohibited from creating new accounts.
Payout or refund withholding. For Marketplace, subscription, or Spots/Reels-related violations, we may withhold payouts, refunds, or balance disbursements pending resolution.

How we choose an action

We consider:

The severity of the violation.
Whether it was intentional, reckless, or inadvertent.
The user's history of prior violations.
The harm caused to other users or to the platform.
The user's response to prior notices or warnings, if any.
Legal obligations that constrain our choices.

Severe violations — including child sexual abuse material, credible threats of physical violence, identity theft, fraud, large-scale spam or scraping, security attacks against Tableread or its users, and creating accounts to evade prior terminations — typically result in immediate permanent termination without prior notice.

Repeat violations

Repeat violations of these Terms, even when individually minor, result in increasingly serious actions. A user who receives multiple warnings or temporary suspensions in a 12-month period may receive a permanent termination on the next violation, even if that violation would have been treated more leniently in isolation.

For copyright infringement specifically, the repeat-infringer policy described in Section 17 applies.

Notice

For most enforcement actions, we will notify you of the action, the reason, and (where applicable) the duration. Notice will be sent to the email address on your account and may also appear in your account when you next sign in.

In some cases — including those involving ongoing investigations, legal-process requests, child safety, or harm to identifiable victims — we may not be able to disclose the specific reason for an enforcement action.

How appeals work

Most enforcement actions are appealable through the process described in Section 12. Some actions are not subject to appeal:

Actions taken to comply with a court order or legal process. You may have separate legal remedies through the issuing court.
Actions taken in response to a criminal-law violation that we have referred to law enforcement.
Actions taken in response to a permanent termination that has already been appealed and confirmed.

Restoration after a successful appeal

When an enforcement action is reversed through appeal:

Your access is restored.
Removed content is restored where reasonably possible. Some restorations may be impossible — for example, if the underlying content has been irretrievably deleted or if restoration would re-introduce content that was removed for legal reasons not related to the appealed action.
Subscription billing resumes or, if appropriate, is adjusted for the suspension period.
Spots and Reels balances are restored where reasonably possible.
Marketplace payouts that were withheld are released.

Reasonable discretion

The categories and procedures in this section are not exhaustive. Tableread may take other actions reasonably necessary to address particular violations, protect users, or comply with law, provided that those actions are consistent with the proportionality framework described above.

14. No warranties

The law requires us to make parts of this section conspicuous, which is why they appear in bold and uppercase.

Tableread strives to provide useful, reliable service. For legal purposes, we must be clear about what we can and cannot promise about it.

As-is and as-available

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TABLEREAD AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS PROVIDE THE SERVICE "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against all threats, free of viruses or other harmful components, or that defects in the service will be corrected.

Implied warranties disclaimed

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TABLEREAD AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties; in those jurisdictions, the above disclaimer applies only to the extent permitted by law.

Catalog data and third-party content

Tableread integrates data from third-party catalogs — such as IGDB for games, and equivalent sources for other media types as they are added. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or currency of catalog metadata sourced from these third parties, including release dates, creator credits, descriptions, ratings, cover art, or other catalog content.

Reviews, comments, lists, and other user-generated content reflect the views and judgments of their authors, not Tableread. Marketplace listings reflect what sellers have chosen to offer, not Tableread's endorsement.

Recommendations and reputation signals

Recommendations, feeds, helpful-vote weighting, reviewer tier badges, Spots calculations, search results, and other algorithmic outputs reflect a combination of signals and may not match your preferences, identify the best content, or surface every piece of relevant content. See Section 11 for additional discussion of recommendation systems.

Not professional advice

Content on Tableread — including reviews, articles, creator content, and community discussions — is provided for informational and entertainment purposes. Tableread is not a substitute for professional advice in any field. If you are making a financial, legal, medical, or other significant decision, consult a qualified professional.

15. Limitation of liability

Like the preceding section, parts of this section appear in bold and uppercase because the law requires it.

Liability cap

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TABLEREAD'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, THESE TERMS, OR YOUR USE OF TABLEREAD WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID TO TABLEREAD IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$500).

This limit applies whether the claim is based on contract, warranty, tort, statute, or any other legal theory.

Excluded damages

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, TABLEREAD AND ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, GOODWILL, REPUTATION, DATA, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS — EVEN IF TABLEREAD HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

Carve-outs

The limitations in this section do not apply to:

Liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for gross negligence, fraud, willful misconduct, or violations of consumer-protection statutes that prohibit such limits.
Personal injury or wrongful death caused by Tableread's gross negligence or willful misconduct.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages or warranties. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted by law.

Basis of the bargain

The limitations in this section are essential elements of the agreement between you and Tableread. The pricing of Tableread's paid features, the broad free access to many parts of the service, and Tableread's willingness to operate the platform reflect these limitations. The limitations apply even if a remedy provided under these Terms fails of its essential purpose.

16. Indemnification

What you agree to indemnify Tableread for

To the extent allowed by applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Tableread, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and service providers from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) brought by a third party and arising from or relating to:

Your content — content you have posted, uploaded, or transmitted through the service.
Your use of the service — any way you have used or accessed Tableread.
Your breach of these Terms — any breach of Section 5 (Acceptable use), any applicable additional terms, or any other provision of these Terms.
Your violation of law or third-party rights — any violation of applicable law or of a third party's rights (including intellectual property, privacy, or contractual rights) in connection with your use of the service.

How indemnification works

If a third party makes a claim against Tableread that falls within your indemnification obligation:

We will give you prompt notice of the claim in writing, generally within 30 days of receiving notice of the claim ourselves.
We will control the defense. Tableread reserves the right to control the defense and settlement of any claim covered by this indemnification, using counsel of our choice. You agree to cooperate with our defense at our reasonable request.
You may participate in the defense at your own expense, using your own counsel, provided that your participation does not interfere with Tableread's control of the defense.
We will not settle in a way that admits your fault without your consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld. We may settle on any other terms we consider appropriate.

What is not included

This indemnification does not require you to indemnify Tableread for:

Claims arising from Tableread's gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Claims that applicable law prohibits us from requiring you to indemnify.
Claims arising from Tableread's modification of your content beyond the scope of the license you granted in Section 6.

17. DMCA / copyright complaints

Tableread respects intellectual property rights and complies with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512. This section describes how to submit a notice of claimed infringement, how to submit a counter-notice if your content has been removed, and how repeat infringement is handled.

Submitting a DMCA notice (takedown request)

If you believe content on Tableread infringes your copyright, you may submit a DMCA notice to our designated agent:

Tableread LLC — DMCA Designated Agent [DMCA_AGENT_NAME] [DMCA_AGENT_ADDRESS] Email: legal@tableread.com (with "DMCA Notice" in the subject line)

Your DMCA notice must include the following information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, for multiple works at a single site, a representative list of the works).
Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material — for example, the URL of the specific page on Tableread where the material appears.
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, including your address, telephone number, and email address.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Notices that do not substantially comply with the statutory requirements may not be effective.

What happens after we receive a DMCA notice

When we receive a compliant DMCA notice, we will:

Remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material in a timely manner.
Notify the user who posted the material of the takedown.
Forward a copy of the notice to that user, including the identifying information provided in the notice, which they may need to submit a counter-notice.

Submitting a counter-notice

If your content has been removed under a DMCA notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to our designated agent at the address above. Your counter-notice must include the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3):

A physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that has been removed, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
Your name, address, and telephone number; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, the judicial district where Tableread is located); and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notice or that person's agent.

What happens after we receive a counter-notice

When we receive a compliant counter-notice, we will:

Forward a copy of the counter-notice to the original complainant.
Inform the complainant that we will restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the complainant first files a lawsuit seeking a court order against the user who posted the material.
Restore the material at the end of that window if no lawsuit has been filed, consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2)(C).

Repeat-infringer policy

Tableread terminates the accounts of users who are repeat copyright infringers, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(i).

A repeat infringer is a user who has accumulated three or more valid DMCA strikes within a 12-month rolling period. A valid DMCA strike is recorded when a DMCA notice has resulted in removal of content posted by the user and the user has not successfully overturned the removal through a counter-notice or other appeal within the applicable period.

Strikes may result in:

After the first or second strike: warning and content removal.
After the third strike within a 12-month rolling window: permanent account termination, in addition to content removal.

Tableread may apply this policy more strictly when the violations are particularly egregious — for example, repeat uploading of clearly-infringing content after a warning. We may also terminate accounts immediately for repeated DMCA evasion or for serial fraudulent takedown filings against other users.

Misuse of the DMCA process

Both DMCA notices and counter-notices include statements under penalty of perjury. Knowingly submitting false claims of infringement or false counter-notices is a violation of federal law and may result in liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), in addition to being a violation of these Terms.

If you have a copyright concern that does not fall within the DMCA framework — for example, a question about fair use, a request for licensing clarification, or a dispute about a particular review's use of brief quotations — please contact us through contact rather than filing a DMCA notice.

18. Force majeure

Tableread is not responsible for any failure to perform, delay in performance, or other inability to provide the service when caused by events beyond our reasonable control. These events ("force majeure events") include but are not limited to:

Upstream service-provider failures. Outages, errors, security incidents, or service terminations affecting Supabase, Stripe, Mux, Vercel, Vercel Blob, Cloudflare, Resend, IGDB, or any other service provider Tableread depends on. As Tableread's service-provider list evolves, this protection extends to current providers.
Cyberattacks and security incidents. Denial-of-service attacks, distributed denial-of-service attacks, ransomware, supply-chain attacks against Tableread or its providers, or other malicious activity beyond Tableread's reasonable defensive measures.
Natural disasters and emergencies. Earthquakes, floods, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, severe weather, and other natural events.
Public health emergencies. Pandemics, epidemics, public-health orders, quarantines, and similar events that affect Tableread's ability to operate the service.
Infrastructure failures. Power outages, internet backbone failures, undersea cable cuts, satellite-link disruptions, and similar telecommunications or utility failures.
Government and regulatory actions. Court orders, regulatory enforcement, sanctions changes, sudden legal restrictions, or required compliance changes that affect Tableread's ability to provide the service.
Labor disputes. Strikes, lockouts, or labor stoppages affecting Tableread or its providers, including those of providers Tableread does not directly employ.
War, civil unrest, and acts of terrorism. Armed conflict, civil disorder, riots, or terrorist acts.

What force majeure does and does not excuse

Force majeure excuses Tableread's performance for the duration of the event, plus a reasonable recovery period. It does not excuse:

Tableread's gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Tableread's payment of refunds otherwise owed under these Terms for service interruptions.
Your obligations under these Terms — including your indemnification obligation under Section 16, your obligations regarding content licensing under Section 6, and your obligations regarding acceptable use under Section 5.

Notice and prolonged events

When a force majeure event affects Tableread's service, we will provide reasonable notice through email, in-product notice, or status-page updates when feasible. For prolonged force majeure events that materially affect the service for more than 90 consecutive days, you may cancel an active paid subscription without penalty and request a pro-rated refund for the unused portion.

Force majeure events are not the same as the changes described in Section 10 (Changes to the service). Section 10 covers changes Tableread chooses to make. Section 18 covers events Tableread does not choose and cannot reasonably prevent.

19. Survival

Some sections of these Terms continue to apply after your account ends, after the service is discontinued, or after these Terms otherwise stop governing your active use of Tableread. The following sections survive termination or expiration of these Terms:

Section 2 (Who you are agreeing with) — for the limited purpose of identifying the entity against which any surviving rights run.
Section 6 (Your content and the license you grant) — for content you shared, reposted, or that other users incorporated before termination, consistent with the duration provisions of that section.
Section 8 (Subscriptions and payment) — for refund, dispute, and chargeback obligations relating to transactions that occurred before termination.
Section 14 (No warranties).
Section 15 (Limitation of liability).
Section 16 (Indemnification) — for claims arising from your use of the service before termination.
Section 17 (DMCA / copyright complaints) — for unresolved takedown and counter-notice proceedings, and for repeat-infringer determinations relevant to a future re-registration request.
Section 19 (Survival) — this section itself.
Section 20 (Governing law and dispute resolution).
Section 21 (Severability).
Section 22 (No waiver).
Section 23 (Entire agreement).
Section 26 (Contact) — for any remaining communications between you and Tableread.

In addition, any obligation that by its nature should continue beyond termination — including ownership of intellectual property in Tableread's own materials, the irrevocability of feedback you have provided, and any rights or remedies that accrued before termination — continues to apply.

20. Governing law and dispute resolution

Governing law

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the service, are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Forum and venue

You and Tableread agree that any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the service will be resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. You and Tableread each consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts for that purpose, and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.

The exclusive-jurisdiction provision does not apply where exclusive federal jurisdiction is required by law — for example, claims under the United States Copyright Act, which must be brought in federal court regardless of forum-selection language. In such cases, the federal court in the District of Massachusetts is the agreed venue.

Time limit on claims

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the service must be filed within one (1) year after the claim arose. Claims filed later are permanently barred.

Equitable remedies

Notwithstanding the above, Tableread may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property, prevent unauthorized access to the service, or prevent serious harm to other users.

21. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable while preserving the parties' original intent as closely as possible. If modification is not possible, that provision will be severed from these Terms, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

The invalidity of one provision does not invalidate any other provision, and Tableread's failure to enforce a single provision in a particular case does not affect that provision's enforceability in other cases.

22. No waiver

Tableread's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision. A waiver of any provision must be in writing and signed by an authorized Tableread representative to be effective, and a single waiver is not a waiver of any subsequent breach.

No course of dealing, course of performance, or trade usage will modify these Terms or be deemed to operate as a waiver of any provision.

23. Entire agreement and interpretation

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any applicable additional terms published under Section 7 (Additional terms for specific features), constitute the entire agreement between you and Tableread regarding the service. They supersede and replace all prior agreements, representations, understandings, or communications — written or oral — between you and Tableread on the subject of the service.

Privacy Policy incorporated by reference

The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference. By accepting these Terms, you are also accepting the Privacy Policy. Where these Terms and the Privacy Policy address the same topic, the Privacy Policy governs for data-protection-specific matters, and these Terms govern for contractual rights and obligations otherwise.

No oral modifications

These Terms can only be modified by Tableread as described in Section 25 (Changes). No statement, representation, or communication from a Tableread employee, contractor, or other person — outside the change process described in Section 25 — modifies these Terms or creates any additional obligation on Tableread.

Interpretation

These Terms have been drafted to be read in plain language. Where the parties disagree about the meaning of a provision, the provision will be interpreted according to its ordinary meaning rather than strictly construed against either party. The drafter-construction rule does not apply.

Headings

Section headings in these Terms are provided for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

Independent contractors

You and Tableread are independent parties. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, or employment relationship between you and Tableread.

24. Electronic communications

By using Tableread, you consent to receive communications from Tableread electronically. We will send notices, agreements, disclosures, and other communications through:

The email address associated with your account.
In-product messages, banners, or other notices delivered through the service.
Push notifications, if you have enabled them.
Posted notices on tableread.com.

Electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that the communication be in writing. Notices we send electronically are deemed delivered when sent.

If you want to withdraw consent to electronic communications, you must close your Tableread account. We cannot operate the service for you while sending only paper notices, and continued use of the service is conditioned on your consent to electronic delivery.

This consent satisfies the requirements of the United States Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.) and the Massachusetts Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (M.G.L. c. 110G).

You are responsible for keeping your contact information current, as described in Section 4. If your contact information is out of date, you may not receive notices you are legally entitled to receive.

25. Changes to these Terms

Tableread may update these Terms from time to time. The reasons we update include changes to the service, changes in applicable law, changes in business practice, and clarifications or corrections.

Material changes

For changes that materially affect your rights or obligations under these Terms — for example, changes to the liability cap, governing law, dispute resolution, or fundamental restrictions on your use of the service — we will:

Update the "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms.
Provide at least 30 days advance notice before the changes take effect, through email to your account email address and/or in-product notice.
Describe the changes and their effective date in the notice.

After the effective date, your continued use of the service constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you should close your account before the effective date.

Non-material changes

Minor changes — including typographical corrections, formatting updates, clarifications that do not change the substance of an obligation, and updates to vendor names or contact information — take effect immediately when we update the "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms. We may also notify users of non-material changes through in-product notice or status updates, but we are not required to.

Where to find prior versions

You may request a copy of an earlier version of these Terms through contact. We retain prior versions for the period required by applicable law and for our internal record-keeping purposes.

Acceptance after changes

Once a change has taken effect, the updated version of these Terms governs your continued use of the service. Disputes arising from events after the effective date are governed by the version of these Terms in effect at the time of those events.

26. Contact

General questions and appeals

For general questions about these Terms, account help, appeals under Section 12, content removal questions, and similar matters:

Email: contact@tableread.com or use the form at tableread.com/contact.
We aim to respond to general inquiries within a reasonable time and to formal appeals within 14 days as described in Section 12.

Legal notices and service of process

For legal notices to Tableread, including service of process:

Mailing address (general legal correspondence):
Tableread LLC [PO_BOX_ADDRESS]
For formal service of process: send to Tableread LLC's Registered Office of record with the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, available through the corporation search at corp.sec.state.ma.us.
Email duplicate (supplementary, not authoritative): legal@tableread.com

DMCA notices

DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices go to Tableread's designated DMCA agent, as described in Section 17. Use "DMCA Notice" or "DMCA Counter-Notice" in the subject line.

Privacy and data-rights requests

GDPR, CCPA, and other data-protection-rights requests are handled as described in the Privacy Policy. Use tableread.com/contact and clearly identify your request as a privacy-rights inquiry.

Billing and Marketplace disputes

For billing disputes (subscription charges, refund requests, payment-method issues) or Marketplace transaction disputes:

Use tableread.com/contact and clearly identify the issue.
Open Marketplace transaction disputes through the in-platform dispute mechanism within 30 days of the transaction, as described in Section 9.
For chargebacks, please contact us first before disputing a charge with your card issuer (see Section 8).

Reporting violations

To report a violation of Section 5 (Acceptable use) by another user or to flag content for moderator review, use the in-platform reporting tools or tableread.com/contact. Do not misuse the reporting system, as described in Section 5.5.

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