Terms & Conditions – booksellr.com

Effective Date: September 8th, 2025

Last updated: May 10th, 2026

Company: SIELAY Ltd, registered in the United Kingdom

1. Definitions

Site – the booksellr.com website and related services.
Visitor – a person browsing the Site without registering.
Agent – an automated system, including AI agents or bots, that crawls or accesses the Site.
User – a registered account holder.
Content – books, series, artwork, or other material uploaded by Users or sourced from the public domain.
Payment Processor – a third-party provider (e.g. Stripe) handling payments on behalf of Users and the Site.

2. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the Site, Visitors, Users, and Agents agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the Site.

3. User Responsibilities

Users must ensure they have the legal rights to upload and share Content.
Users are solely responsible for any legal or financial consequences of their Content.
Users must not upload unlawful, harmful, infringing, or abusive material.

4. Content Rights

By uploading Content, Users grant the Site a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide licence to host, process, display, and generate derivative works (such as summaries, images, or analytics).
The Site will not share original uploaded Content outside the platform without the User’s opt-in.
Original Content may be monetised through access fees. Payments will be processed via the Payment Processor, with commission retained by the Site based on the User’s account type. Users are responsible for their own taxes.

5. Marketplace Links, Affiliate Codes & Agents

The Site may display links to external marketplaces (e.g. Amazon, Bookshop.org) for Content.
Default behaviour (all plans): outbound marketplace links are rewritten to include the Site's own affiliate / associate codes. Any referral commission earned through such links belongs solely to the Site (SIELAY Ltd) and funds the free tier of the service.
Paid plans: Users on a paid plan may configure their own affiliate / associate codes per supported network (for example, an Amazon Associates ID per locale, or a Bookshop.org affiliate ID). Where a User has configured a valid code for a given network, links on that User's pages will be rewritten with the User's code instead of the Site's, and commission for those links will accrue directly to the User via that network's payout mechanism. Networks for which the User has not configured a code continue to fall back to the Site's default code.
Users are responsible for their own compliance with each affiliate network's operating agreement, including disclosure obligations and tax reporting on commissions they earn directly. The Site does not collect, hold, or reconcile commissions earned via a User's own affiliate codes.
If a User's paid plan lapses or is cancelled, links revert to the Site's default codes from the next page render onwards.
Agents and third parties must not alter, bypass, or strip whichever affiliate code is applied to a link at render time, whether that code belongs to the Site or to a User. Agents must not follow marketplace links on behalf of their users; they must display them as-is.

6. Mailing Lists & Communications

The Site may enable Users to build and manage mailing lists.
Users own their mailing lists and may export or delete them.
By subscribing to a User’s mailing list, Visitors also subscribe to Site communications.
The Site may send its own communications and include promotional content or advertising in emails sent on behalf of Users.
Fair use of email sending. Each plan includes a monthly fair-use cap on the total number of emails the Site will dispatch on a User's behalf, plus a daily rate limit to protect deliverability. Current caps are published on the Plans page and may be adjusted with reasonable notice. Indicative figures: Free is self-capped through the campaign limit (around 2,000 emails per month); Pro permits up to 25,000 emails per month and around 10,000 per day; Publisher is configured per agreement. Paid plans do not impose a separate fixed cap on the number of campaigns — instead, the number of campaigns a User can send is bounded by the total email allowance for the month.
Sending that exceeds the cap may be paused until the next billing period, throttled, or — in cases of repeated abuse, deceptive content, unsolicited bulk mail, or breaches of the operating rules of the underlying email infrastructure — suspended. The Site reserves the right to refuse to send any specific message or campaign that would, in its reasonable judgement, harm the deliverability or reputation of shared sending infrastructure.
Users must comply with applicable anti-spam and electronic communications laws, including obtaining valid consent from recipients and honouring unsubscribe requests promptly.

7. Accounts & Plans

Users may register for free or paid accounts.
Features and quotas differ depending on plan type and are described at https://booksellr.com/plans.
The Site may change plans and pricing with reasonable notice.

8. Payments

All payments are handled by the Payment Processor.
The Site does not store payment card information.
Refunds, if applicable, will be managed according to the plan’s terms and Payment Processor rules.

9. Disclaimers

Some Content, including images, summaries, and analytics, may be generated by AI. Such Content may contain errors or inaccuracies.
The Site provides no guarantee regarding the accuracy, reliability, or fitness of Content.
Use of the Site is at your own risk.

10. Limitation of Liability

The Site and SIELAY Ltd are not liable for:
- Losses arising from Content uploaded by Users.
- Errors in AI-generated materials.
- Third-party links, services, or payments.
Liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by UK law.

11. Termination

The Site may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or applicable law.

12. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

13. Founding Authors Lifetime

This section applies only to Users who have purchased the Founding Authors offer (a one-time payment of £79 for lifetime access to the Pro tier, sold while limited stock lasts). It is in addition to the rest of these Terms, which continue to apply.

13.1 What is included

Access to Pro-tier features under the caps published on the Plans page at the date of purchase: 3 author profiles, up to 10,000 newsletter subscribers, up to 25,000 emails per month (subject to the same fair-use rules in §6), and the Pro feature set as described at that date.
Free updates to existing Pro features.
The same 5% per direct sale on the User's own sales as every other plan.

13.2 What is not included

Tiers, features, or quotas introduced after the User's purchase date that the Site chooses to make available only to higher-priced or newer plans (for example, a future Growth tier, raised email caps, or new add-on services).
Any service or third-party cost the Site does not control (for example, payment processor fees, the User's own affiliate network payouts).

13.3 Per-author export pledge if the Site closes within 12 months

If the Site is permanently discontinued and unreachable to all Users for ninety (90) consecutive days, with no public statement of resumption from SIELAY Ltd, within twelve (12) months of the User's purchase date, the Founding Authors User may request a per-author export package containing only the material associated with their own account, namely:

Their book, author, and series page templates rendered as static HTML and/or MDX;
Their uploaded manuscripts and other assets they have provided;
Their published blog posts and the structured data backing them;
Their newsletter subscriber list, in their capacity as data controller under §6;
The minimal page-rendering code required to host the above as a standalone site.

The export is explicitly not the booksellr.com platform source code, the multi-tenant application, the worker pipeline, or anything that would enable a third party to re-launch a competing service. Excluded items include, without limitation: other Users' content; SIELAY Ltd's marketing site, dashboard, billing, or admin tooling; payment processor, AI provider, or analytics integrations; third-party API keys, secrets, or credentials; and any code, libraries, or assets the Site does not have the right to redistribute.

The User is responsible for hosting the export themselves. SIELAY Ltd provides no continuing service or support after the discontinuation event. The User must arrange and pay for their own infrastructure — including (without limitation) Stripe or another payment processor, AWS SES or another email sender, Vercel or another hosting provider, a domain registrar, and a Postgres database — and absorb all costs of running it.

Licence: a non-exclusive, non-transferable, personal-use licence to operate the export package solely for the User's own author and publishing activity. The User may not publish the rendering code, sell or sublicence it, fork it commercially, or operate the export as a public service available to third parties. Copyright and ownership of the rendering code remain with SIELAY Ltd. No transfer of intellectual property is implied.

The pledge in §13.3 expires automatically twelve (12) months after the User's purchase date and cannot be triggered after that point.

13.4 What is not a trigger of §13.3

For the avoidance of doubt, none of the following constitute a "permanent discontinuation" that triggers §13.3:

Acquisition of SIELAY Ltd, Booksellr, or its assets by another entity, where the service continues under any name or owner.
A merger, rebranding, or migration of the service onto another platform where Founding Authors retain access to substantially equivalent functionality.
Discontinuation of the Free tier or of any individual feature or integration, while the Pro tier remains available.
Planned maintenance, temporary outages, or interruptions of fewer than 90 consecutive days.

13.5 Cooling-off and payment timing

The Founding Authors offer uses a delayed-charge model designed around the 14-day statutory cooling-off period under UK consumer law. At the point of reservation, the User provides a payment method, but no charge is taken. The card is charged 14 calendar days after the reservation date.

Within the 14-day window, the User may cancel at any time by emailing contact@booksellr.com. No charge will be taken and the seat returns to the available pool.
On day 15, the £79 charge is taken from the supplied payment method. From that point the offer is non-refundable, save where required by law.
If the day-15 charge fails (insufficient funds, expired card, declined for any reason) and is not resolved within 7 days, the reservation lapses and the seat returns to the available pool.