Terms of Service

1. Eligibility and Family Use

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract to create or own a Blurtable account. Children may participate in a family book project only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who owns and manages the account. Children under 13 may not create an account or submit personal information directly. The adult account owner is responsible for a supervised minor's use of the Services and for ensuring that all submitted content is appropriate and lawful.

The Services are currently offered only in the United States.

2. Accounts and Account Security

You agree to provide accurate account information, keep it current, safeguard your login credentials, and promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity conducted through your account, except to the extent caused by Blurtable's failure to use reasonable security measures. You may not share credentials in a way that compromises account security or impersonate another person.

3. The Blurtable Service

Blurtable helps users collect, transcribe, organize, edit, format, preview, share, and print stories, notes, recipes, photographs, recordings, videos, and related materials. Features, formats, page limits, availability, and technical requirements may change as the Services evolve. Some features may be identified as beta, preview, or experimental and may be modified, interrupted, or discontinued.

During the current beta, users may create, edit, and preview books without an upfront creation fee and pay when ordering printed copies. Blurtable does not currently charge a subscription fee. We may introduce or change prices, plans, limits, or paid features in the future. Current prices and terms presented at checkout control each order. Where appropriate, we will provide advance notice of material changes affecting existing users.

4. Your Content and License to Blurtable

You retain ownership of the original content you submit to the Services ("User Content"). User Content includes text, stories, recipes, photographs, images, audio, video, transcripts, captions, book files, and instructions.

You grant Blurtable a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, store, reproduce, process, transcribe, modify, format, display, transmit, and create technical derivatives of User Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Services; carry out your instructions; enable collaboration or sharing you request; produce previews; and manufacture and deliver ordered books. This license continues only for as long as needed to provide the Services and satisfy legitimate backup, security, legal, and recordkeeping requirements.

Blurtable will not use private User Content in public marketing or promotional materials without your permission. Feedback or suggestions you voluntarily provide about the Services may be used without restriction or compensation, provided we do not publicly identify you without permission.

5. Your Responsibilities for Content

You represent and warrant that:

• you own User Content or have all permissions necessary to submit and use it;
• our processing, printing, and delivery of User Content at your direction will not infringe copyrights, trademarks, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights;
• you have permission to provide personal information, images, recordings, or stories about other people; and
• User Content and your use of the Services comply with applicable law and these Terms.

You are responsible for maintaining your own backup copies of important User Content. Blurtable is not a permanent archival or backup service.

6. Acceptable Use

You may not use the Services to:

• create, upload, distribute, or request content that is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, threatening, harassing, exploitative, or invasive of another person's rights;
• upload sexual content involving minors, content that exploits or endangers a child, or other illegal sexual content;
• infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or confidentiality rights;
• introduce malware, interfere with security, probe vulnerabilities, scrape the Services, or attempt unauthorized access;
• reverse engineer or circumvent technical limits except where applicable law expressly permits it;
• misrepresent identity, affiliation, authorship, or the source of content; or
• use the Services to violate law or help another person do so.

We may investigate suspected violations and may remove or restrict content, refuse to print a project, suspend access, preserve information, or make legally required reports. We are not obligated to monitor all User Content.

7. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Features

The Services use automated and AI-powered tools to transcribe, organize, edit, analyze, format, or generate content and layouts based on your submissions and instructions. Automated output may be incomplete, inaccurate, offensive, or unsuitable. It is not professional, legal, medical, financial, or historical advice.

You are responsible for reviewing and correcting all text, images, captions, layouts, names, dates, recipes, instructions, and other output before sharing or ordering a book. Your approval of a preview or placement of an order confirms that you have reviewed the project and accept its content and layout, subject to the damaged or defective product policy below.

8. Collaborators, Shared Links, and QR Content

You may be able to invite collaborators or share content through links or printed QR codes. You control whom you invite and which links you distribute. Anyone with access to a shared or public link may be able to view the associated content. You are responsible for collaborator permissions and for sharing links only with intended recipients. Removing a collaborator or disabling a link does not retrieve copies previously downloaded or recorded by another person.

9. Prices, Payment, and Taxes

Prices, product configurations, page limits, shipping charges, regional surcharges, discounts, and availability are shown on the pricing page or at checkout and may change. You authorize Blurtable and its payment processor, Stripe, to charge the amount shown at checkout. You are responsible for applicable taxes, duties, customs charges, and other government assessments unless checkout expressly states they are included.

Orders outside supported formats, quantities, page counts, or destinations may require manual review and a separate quote. We may correct pricing or configuration errors before accepting an order. If we cannot fulfill an order after payment, we will provide an appropriate refund.

10. Printing, Fulfillment, and Delivery

Printed books are personalized products manufactured and shipped by our fulfillment provider, Lulu. To fulfill an order, Blurtable provides Lulu with the approved print files and the recipient, address, telephone, shipping, and order information reasonably necessary to manufacture and deliver the book.

Production and delivery dates are estimates, not guarantees. Delays may result from printing issues, carrier delays, weather, address problems, supply limitations, or events outside our reasonable control. You are responsible for entering a complete and accurate delivery address. Risk of loss passes to you upon delivery to the address supplied with the order, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

Printed colors, image cropping, paper, binding, and other physical characteristics may vary reasonably from an on-screen preview because of device displays and manufacturing tolerances. Low-resolution or poorly exposed source images may reproduce imperfectly.

11. Cancellations, Returns, Replacements, and Refunds

You may request cancellation only before the order is submitted to Lulu for production. Because printed books are custom-made, an order cannot be canceled, returned, or refunded after production submission except as stated below or required by law.

If a book arrives damaged, has a manufacturing defect, or is materially different from the preview you approved, contact us within 14 days after delivery at tglochau@comcast.net. Include the order number, a description of the problem, and clear photographs showing the issue. After review, Blurtable may provide a replacement or refund, as appropriate. We may require reasonable cooperation or return of the defective item where permitted.

Replacement or refund eligibility does not cover customer-approved typos, factual errors, low-resolution images, intentional design or layout choices, ordinary manufacturing variation, an incorrect address supplied by the customer, or damage occurring after delivery.

12. Blurtable Intellectual Property

The Services, including their software, design, branding, interfaces, workflows, templates, and other materials supplied by Blurtable, are owned by Blurtable or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited right to use the Services under these Terms, no rights are transferred to you. You may not use Blurtable's names, logos, or branding without written permission.

13. Third-Party Services

The Services depend on third parties, including Base44, Stripe, Lulu, email providers, AI providers, authentication providers, and hosting or storage providers. Their products and services may be governed by their own terms and privacy notices. Blurtable is responsible for its own obligations but does not control third-party systems and is not responsible for outages, acts, or omissions outside Blurtable's reasonable control.

14. Suspension, Termination, and Inactive Accounts

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or terminate access, remove content, or refuse an order if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, failed to pay amounts due, or used the Services in a harmful or fraudulent manner. Where reasonable, we will provide notice and an opportunity to correct the issue.

Blurtable accounts and projects that have been inactive for six months may be deleted after advance notice is sent to the account email address. To preserve an inactive project, follow the instructions in the notice or sign in before the stated deletion date. We may retain limited information as required for transactions, security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or backups. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, payment obligations, warranty disclaimers, liability limitations, indemnification, and dispute provisions.

15. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available." Blurtable disclaims all express or implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, noninfringement, accuracy, availability, and that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Blurtable and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities; or the cost of substitute services, arising from or related to the Services or these Terms.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Blurtable's total liability for all claims arising from or relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you paid to Blurtable during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

17. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Blurtable and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal expenses arising from your User Content, your violation of these Terms, your unlawful use of the Services, or your infringement of another person's rights. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from Blurtable's own unlawful conduct.

18. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the Services must be brought exclusively in a state court located in Pinellas County, Florida, or the federal court with jurisdiction over Pinellas County, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts. Nothing in this section prevents either party from bringing an eligible individual claim in small-claims court or seeking emergency relief to protect intellectual-property or confidential rights.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as the Services or law changes. We will post revised Terms here and update the effective date. If a change is material, we may provide additional notice. Changes apply prospectively unless law permits otherwise. Your continued use after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance; if you do not agree, you must stop using the Services.

20. Electronic Communications

You consent to receive agreements, notices, receipts, order updates, and other communications electronically. Electronic communications satisfy legal writing requirements to the extent permitted by law. You are responsible for keeping your account email address current.

21. General Terms

These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement concerning the Services unless a separate written agreement applies. If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will remain effective. Blurtable's failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; Blurtable may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganization, financing, or sale of assets. Headings are for convenience only.

22. Contact Us

Blurtable is a DBA of The Content Collaborator, LLC.

Email: tglochau@comcast.net
You may also use our support page.