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Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-09-25. Version 1.0.

These terms govern the optional sync account offered at novelscraper.com. They do not govern the NovelScraper application itself, which is free software licensed separately (see section 3).

1. What this service is

A sync service. Signed in on more than one device, it keeps your library metadata in step between them: which novels you have, where you are in each, what you have read, your categories and ratings, and which source extensions you have installed.

That is all it does. It does not host, store, supply, index, search, stream, or provide access to any novel, chapter, image or other work. It stores references to things stored on your own devices.

The service is provided free of charge. There is no payment, no subscription, no advertising, and no paid tier.

2. The account

Registration requires a username and a password, and may require an invite code. No email address is collected, which has a consequence you should understand before you start: a forgotten password cannot be reset, and the account and everything synced under it will be unrecoverable. Keep your password somewhere safe.

You are responsible for keeping your credentials secret and for what happens under your account. Tell contact@novelscraper.com if you believe it has been used by someone else.

You may delete your account at any time, from Settings in the application. It asks for your password, then removes the account and everything held for you, immediately and irreversibly. It does not touch the novels on your own devices: your library stays where it is and works without an account.

One exception: the last remaining administrator of a server cannot delete their own account, because nobody would be left able to administer it.

3. The application is separate

The NovelScraper application is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. Your rights in the software come from that licence, not from these terms, and nothing here limits them. These terms apply only to the hosted sync service.

The application runs entirely on your device and works fully without an account. You never have to agree to these terms to use it.

4. Sources, and what you read

The application ships with no sources and no repositories configured. It provides no catalogue and no search across sites. Any source extension is one you choose to add, from a repository address you supply, and once installed it connects from your device directly to the website it targets.

It follows that:

• The operator of this service does not select, supply, host, endorse, control or review the sites any extension reads, or anything obtained from them.
• You are responsible for ensuring that your use of any source is lawful where you are, including under copyright law. Many works available on the internet are published without the rights holder’s permission. Using this software does not make that lawful, and nothing here should be read as encouraging it.
• Neither the service nor the application is intended as a means of infringing copyright, and using it for that purpose is not permitted under section 5.

If you are a rights holder, see the Copyright Policy in this folder.

4a. Donations

Donations are not asked for or accepted on this site or in the application. They may be accepted through an outside platform (GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi), reached from the project’s source repository, and are handled entirely by that platform under its own terms. No payment passes through this service.

What a donation is, and is not:

• It is voluntary support for the development of the software. Nothing is sold, and nothing is promised in return.
• It buys nothing. It grants no access, no feature, no capacity, no priority, no support commitment, and no influence over what gets built. Everything the application and the sync service do is available to everyone who donates nothing, and always will be.
• It is not linked to any account. Donating does not change an account, and holding an account does not change a donation.
• It creates no contract for the supply of a service between you and the operator, and the warranties and liability sections above are unaffected by it.
• It is not refundable by the operator, who does not hold the money. Anything a consumer may be entitled to under mandatory law is unaffected, and refund requests go to the platform that took the payment.

Because a donation buys nothing, there is no subscription to cancel here and no service to lose by stopping. Stopping changes nothing about what you can use.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the service to store, transmit or reference material that is unlawful where you are or where the service is operated;
• use it to infringe anybody’s intellectual property rights;
• attempt to gain access to another account, or to any part of the system you have not been given access to;
• probe, scan, overload, disrupt or attempt to disable the service, or send automated traffic beyond what the application itself generates in normal use;
• resell, rent out, or offer the service to others as if it were your own.

The account limits enforced in software, such as the size and number of records one request may carry, are part of these terms. Working around them is a breach.

6. Availability, changes and termination

This is a small service run by one person, on one rented server, as a hobby. There is no service level, no uptime commitment and no promise of support. It may be slow, unavailable, or interrupted for maintenance without notice.

The service, or any part of it, may be changed or discontinued. If it is to be discontinued permanently, 30 days’ notice will be given on this site and in the application’s release notes, so that you can continue using your devices without it. Your library lives on your devices and does not stop working if this service does.

An account may be suspended or deleted if section 5 is breached, or if a legal obligation requires it. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, you will be told why and given a chance to respond.

7. Warranties

The service is provided free of charge and as is, without any warranty that it will be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or that data synced through it will be preserved. Keep your own copies of anything you care about. The application can export your library to EPUB files on your own device, and doing so from time to time is sensible.

Nothing in this section excludes any warranty that cannot lawfully be excluded for a service provided free of charge to a consumer, in particular under the mandatory consumer protection law of your country of residence.

8. Liability

Liability is accepted without limit for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for intent and gross negligence, for fraudulent misrepresentation, and in any other case where liability cannot lawfully be limited.

Otherwise, and because the service is free, liability for ordinary negligence is limited to damage that was foreseeable and typical for a service of this kind, and is excluded for loss of data, loss of profit, and indirect or consequential loss. Liability under the GDPR and under mandatory national data protection law is unaffected.

You remain responsible for any claim arising from your use of the service in breach of section 5, to the extent the law allows.

9. Law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the law of Spain.

If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you are habitually resident (Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, Rome I), and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country, and may only be sued there (Articles 17 to 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, Brussels I recast).

There is no obligation, and no intention, to participate in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board.

10. Changes to these terms

Changes will be published here with a new version and date. Material changes will be announced at least 30 days before they take effect, on this site and in the application’s release notes. If you do not accept a change, ask for your account to be deleted before it takes effect; continuing to use the account afterwards indicates acceptance.

11. If part of this is invalid

If any provision is or becomes invalid, the rest stays in force. An invalid provision is replaced by what the parties would reasonably have agreed had they known, or failing that by the applicable statutory rule.

12. Contact

Mateu Gili
contact@novelscraper.com

Correspondence is by email. If you need a postal address in order to bring or serve a claim, ask and it will be provided.