Legal
Terms of Service
This is a structural draft written for design review, not final legal text. The headings and topics are real; the exact wording will be reviewed by a lawyer before launch (Build Plan, P4.2).
Contents
Acceptance of these terms
[Draft] By creating a StoryBook, contributing a memory, or viewing one, you’re agreeing to these terms. If you’re contributing on behalf of someone else — for example, sending in a memory at someone’s request — these terms still apply to you.
Accounts and guest contributors
[Draft] You can use StoryBook with a full account (sign-in by email one-time code, Google, or Apple — no passwords), or as a guest contributor via an invite link or email, without creating an account at all. If you later sign in with the same email address, your guest contributions become part of your account.
Your content and the Contributor Grant
[Draft] You keep ownership of what you contribute. By uploading or emailing in a photo, video or story, you confirm you have the right to share it, and you grant the StoryBook’s Owner, and us, a licence to store, copy, and reuse it for the purpose of building and preserving that StoryBook — including creating derived versions like thumbnails, printed books, or export packs. This is the Contributor Grant, and it’s not a transfer of ownership.
Acceptable use
[Draft] StoryBook is built for genuine, personal memories. You agree not to upload content you don’t have the right to share, content that infringes someone else’s rights, or anything unlawful, and not to use the service to harass or harm another person.
Storage and plans
[Placeholder — storage limits, quotas and any paid plans will be confirmed and added here before public launch. See the Build Plan’s free-tier decision, P4.6.]
Suspension, termination and deletion
[Draft] The Owner of a StoryBook can delete it at any time. Deletion is genuine and permanent, with a 30-day grace window in case it was a mistake — see our Privacy Policy for the full detail. We may suspend access if a StoryBook is used in a way that breaks these terms.
Disclaimers and liability
[Placeholder — standard service disclaimers and limitation-of-liability language will be drafted with legal review before launch, appropriate to a service holding irreplaceable personal memories.]
Governing law
[Draft] These terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand, regardless of where you or your StoryBook’s contributors are located.
Changes to these terms
[Draft] If we make a material change to these terms, we’ll tell StoryBook Owners before it takes effect.
Contact us
[Draft] Questions about these terms can be sent to hello@thestorybook.io (placeholder address, to be confirmed before launch).