Terms of Use  This Agreement was last revised on Dec 6, 2017. We reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion by posting the revised Agreement on the Goodreads.com website. Your continued use of the Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Agreement.   You do not have to register in order to visit Goodreads.  You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your account, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You agree to notify Goodreads immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and your payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make personal and non-commercial use of the Service.  You may use the Service only as permitted by law.  Goodreads may permanently or temporarily terminate, suspend, or otherwise refuse to permit your access to the Service without notice and liability for any reason, including if in Goodreads' sole determination you violate any provision of this Agreement, or for no reason. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users. Goodreads shall have no liability for your interactions with other Users, or for any User’s action or inaction. You agree not to post User Content that is illegal commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam" or unsolicited commercial electronic messages.  3. License Grant  By posting any User Content on the Service, you expressly grant to Goodreads a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You may choose to or we may invite you to submit comments or ideas about the Service, including without limitation about how to improve the Service or our products ("Ideas"). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place Goodreads under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and/or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone. This Service is intended solely for Users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and any registration, use or access to the Service by anyone under 13 is unauthorized, unlicensed, and in violation of this Agreement. If you are under 18 years of age you may use the Service only if you either are an emancipated minor or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this Agreement, and to abide by and comply with this Agreement. No Refunds. You may cancel your Goodreads Account at any time. however, there are no refunds for cancellation. As permitted under the terms of this Agreement, Goodreads has the right at any time for any reason or no reason to suspend or terminate your Account, terminate this Agreement, and/or refuse any and all current or future use of the Service without notice, refund, obligation, or liability to you. In the event that Goodreads suspends or terminates your Goodreads Account or this Agreement, you understand and agree that you shall receive no refund or exchange for any unused time on a subscription, any license or subscription fees for any portion of the Service, any content or data associated with your Goodreads Account, or for anything else. You acknowledge that Goodreads has the perpetual and irrevocable right to delete any or all of your content and data from Goodreads's servers and from the Service, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and for any reason or no reason, without any liability of any kind to you or any other party. No Waiver. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and Goodreads' failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.   Updates   December 6, 2017: We have updated our terms of use agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully.   April 7, 2010: We added Terms of Use for Writers, which apply to works submitted to the Service via the "My Writing" or "Ebook" features.   October 16, 2008: We replaced our former terms of use agreement with a new agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully. 

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There is a date of the last update of the terms.  Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user . No need to register. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account. You must report to the service any unauthorized use of your account or any breach of security. This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially.. Users agree not to use the service for illegal purposes. The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason. The service can intervene in user disputes. This service cannot be held responsible for disputes that you may have with other users. Users agree not to submit illegal content. This service prohibits users sending chain letters, junk mail, spam or any unsolicited messages. This service can license user content to third parties. If you offer suggestions to the service, they become the owner of the ideas that you give them. This service is only available to users of a certain age. The service has a no refund policy. The service can delete specific content without reason and may do it without prior notice. Provides instructions on how to submit a copyright claim. The service informs users that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service. The service is provided 'as is' and to be used at the users' sole risk. This service does not guarantee that it or the products obtained through it meet the users' expectations or requirements. This service assumes no liability for any losses or damages resulting from any matter relating to the service. This service forces users into binding arbitration in the case of disputes. Failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such provision. This service provides archives of their terms of service so that changes can be viewed over time.