Terms of Service

1. What you are agreeing to

These terms are the contract between you and [TODO], [TODO] ("we"), for the tarot~ink app, this website (tarotink.com) and everything they connect to (together, "the service"). You accept them by creating an account or by using the service. If you do not agree, do not create an account.

The Privacy Policy says what we keep about you and why. It is part of the deal too. Our full provider details are in the legal notice (Impressum).

2. What the readings are, and are not

tarot~ink is for reflection and entertainment. You draw cards, you sit with a question, and the app writes a reading that builds on what you have asked before. That is the whole product.

Decisions you make after a reading are yours. We are not liable for them, within the limits in section 11.

3. How readings are made

Every reading carries this line in the app: "Written by AI". No person reads for you, no person paints your cards, and no person listens to a live reading. This is the disclosure Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires. The language model is run by OpenAI; card art, the camera scanner and the live reading run on Google's Gemini models. The Privacy Policy says what each receives.

Because the words are generated, you accept that:

• a reading can be wrong, flat, or off in a way no one checked. Read it as a prompt to think, not as a finding;
• a reading may call back something you said earlier. If it gets that wrong, the controls in section 7 remove it;
• the scanner may misread a card. You can correct it before the reading starts;
• two people with similar questions and cards can get similar readings. Nothing in a reading is unique to you except what you brought to it;
• generated card images carry a machine-readable mark that says they were generated. Removing it is not allowed.

4. Your account

• You must be 16 or older.
• One account per person. Give a real email, or sign in with Apple or Google.
• Keep your sign-in to yourself. What happens under your account is yours to answer for; tell us at once if someone else got in.
• During the beta, accounts are opened by invitation. An account without an invite can sign in but cannot read.

You can delete the account at any time from Profile, and the Privacy Policy lists exactly what that removes.

5. What it costs

Nothing, today. There are no purchases or subscriptions in the app. Card generation is metered by credits that the service grants; running out is a limit, not a bill.

If we introduce paid features, drawing cards, journaling and learning tarot stay free. Paid terms (price, renewal, cancellation, refunds) will be added here and shown in the app before you can buy anything, and buying will go through the App Store or Google Play under their rules.

6. Your readings, your decks, your scans

What you write and photograph

Your questions, follow-ups, threads, notes, deck descriptions, reference images, avatar and camera scans are yours. You give us a licence to store, process and show them back to you, and to send the relevant parts to the providers named in the Privacy Policy, for the sole purpose of running the service for you. The licence ends when you delete the content or the account, except for the copies section 10 of the Privacy Policy says remain for a while.

What the app generates for you

Readings and card images generated at your request are yours to keep, share, print and use for your own practice and for personal, non-commercial purposes. We claim no ownership of them. Because they are generated, we cannot promise that a card image is free of resemblance to someone else's work, and copyright may not protect it in your country; we make no warranty either way. Selling generated cards or readings, or passing them off as hand-made, is not allowed under these terms.

Camera scans

A scan is a photo of your spread. Keep faces, documents and other people's property out of the frame. We keep scans and your corrections to improve the scanner, as the Privacy Policy explains, and you can object to that use.

7. Memory and threads

The app keeps what you asked, in your words, and what came up, so that later readings can build on it. You control it:

• Don't remember this reading, on the reading, removes what the memory drew from it.
• Hold a thread in Your Story to cut it. Cut means deleted.
• Delete the account drops the whole memory.

The memory is for your readings only. It never words a notification and it is never shown to another user.

8. Friends and referrals

Other users can find you by handle and see your display name and avatar. Friends see nothing from your readings unless you show them yourself, outside the app. A friend request can be declined or removed at any time.

A referral code is for inviting people you know. Posting it in bulk, buying accounts with it, or creating accounts to claim your own referrals gets the referrals reversed and can close the account.

9. What you must not do

• Use the service to break the law or to harm someone.
• Pretend to be someone else, or run more than one account.
• Use a deck description, a question or a scan to make the models produce content that is illegal, sexualises minors, harasses a real person, or breaks the providers' usage policies.
• Probe, overload, scrape or reverse engineer the service.
• Sell, resell or bulk-redistribute readings or generated card art, or strip the generated mark from a card image.
• Put another person's private facts into the app in a way that person would not want, or photograph people or documents in a scan.

Reporting content

Some things in the service can be seen by other people: handles, display names and avatars, and card images, which load from a public link. If you think something there is illegal or breaks these terms, email hello@tarotink.app with the subject "Report". Say where it is (a handle or the image link), why you think it is illegal or against these terms, and your name and email, unless the report concerns child sexual abuse material, where you can stay anonymous. We confirm that we got it, look at it promptly and without bias, and tell you what we decided.

If we remove your content or restrict your account, we tell you what we did, why, and which rule or law it rests on. You can reply to that email to have the decision looked at again by a person. This follows Articles 16 and 17 of the EU Digital Services Act.

10. Our content

The app, the website, the name tarot~ink, the design, the writing in the guides, the preset decks and their artwork, and the code belong to us or to the people who licensed them to us. You can use them inside the service. You cannot copy the preset artwork out of it, sell it, or build another product on it.

11. What we promise, and where that stops

We promise to run the service with care and to keep your data the way the Privacy Policy says. We do not promise that the service is always up, that a reading is accurate or fitting, that the scanner reads every card, or that a generated image looks the way you hoped. Provider outages, model changes and our own mistakes will happen.

Where our liability is unlimited

• Intent or gross negligence.
• Injury to life, body or health.
• Claims under the Product Liability Act.
• A defect we hid on purpose, or a guarantee we gave in writing.
• Anything the law says cannot be limited.

Where it is limited

For a breach of an obligation the contract depends on, caused by ordinary negligence, we are liable for the damage that was foreseeable and typical when you created the account. For other ordinary negligence we are not liable. We are not liable for decisions you make after a reading, as section 2 explains.

Your side

If a claim is brought against us because you broke section 9 or another person's rights, you cover the cost, as far as the law allows and not where the fault was ours.

12. Ending things

You can end the contract at any time by deleting the account in the app (Profile, Delete account). It takes effect at once.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks section 9, abuses referrals or limits, or puts other users or the service at risk. Where we can, we tell you first and give you a chance to fix it. If we close the service itself, we give at least 30 days' notice and a way to take your data with you.

Sections 6, 10, 11 and 14 keep applying after the account is gone, for the things that happened while it existed.

13. Changes to the service and to these terms

The service is early and it will change. We can add, alter or remove features. If we remove something central to your practice, we tell you at least 30 days ahead in the app or by email.

If these terms change in a way that matters to you, you get the same 30 days' notice. Keep using the service after that date and the new terms apply; delete the account before it if you disagree. The log below says what changed and when.

• October 17, 2026: named the operator as a person, set German law with your home country's consumer protection kept, added how to report content and how we handle reports under the Digital Services Act, said we do not take part in consumer arbitration, and linked the legal notice.
• September 5, 2026: rewritten in plain language. Reading model named as OpenAI, not Gemini. Added the Article 50 disclosure sentence, crisis lines, the memory and thread controls, camera scan rules, the beta invite, referral abuse, the "nothing costs money today" section, and a 16+ age line. Removed the link to the EU online dispute resolution platform, which closed on 20 July 2025.
• March 18, 2026: first version.

14. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by German law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer and live in another country, this choice does not take away the protection that the mandatory rules of your country give you (Article 6(2) of the Rome I Regulation). As a consumer you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.

We are not obliged to take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board, and we do not take part (section 36 of the German VSBG). [TODO]

If a part of these terms turns out to be invalid, the rest stands, and the invalid part is replaced by what the law provides.

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