Terms & Conditions

1. About these terms and who we are

CarzBox is a service that helps families track a shared toy-car (diecast) collection. These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and CarzBox ("CarzBox", "we", "us", or "our"), and they govern your access to and use of the CarzBox website, apps, and related features (together, the "Service"). CarzBox is operated by Carzbox LLC, a Delaware limited liability company registered at 8 The Green STE B, Dover, DE 19901.

These Terms include our Privacy Notice, which is incorporated by reference and explains how we handle personal information. Please read both. If a translated version of these Terms conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.

By creating an account, or by accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms and the Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You may use the Service only if you are at least 18 years old (or older, if the age of majority where you live is higher) and are able to enter into a binding contract with us. The Service is intended for adults — for example, parents and family members who manage a collection on behalf of a household.

The Service is not directed to children, and children may not create accounts or use the Service. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us at info@carzbox.com and we will take appropriate steps.

3. Your account

To use most features you need an account. You can sign in using Google or an email magic link. You are responsible for maintaining access to, and the security of, the sign-in method and email address associated with your account, and for all activity that occurs under your account.

Please provide accurate information and keep it up to date. Notify us promptly at info@carzbox.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your authorization. We are not responsible for losses caused by unauthorized use of your account that results from your failure to keep your sign-in method secure.

You may own collections and invite other people to them. Members you invite can view, and — depending on the role you give them — add to or edit content in that collection. You are responsible for who you invite and for the roles you grant.

4. License to use the Service

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own non-commercial, personal and family use.

The Service is currently offered free of charge and is in an early (beta) stage. This means features may be added, changed, limited, or removed, and the Service may be unstable or unavailable at times. We may introduce paid features in the future; if we do, we will make the terms of any paid features clear before you are charged.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of the content you create or upload — including collections, cars, statuses, notes, and photos of your collection or of store shelves ("Your Content"). These Terms do not transfer any ownership of Your Content to us.

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, back up, and make technical modifications to Your Content (for example, resizing or creating thumbnails and previews) as needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service. This license also allows us to display Your Content to the members of the collections you share it with and, for store shelf photos that an administrator approves, to display those photos in the community feed to other users of the Service.

This license is limited to the purpose of operating and providing the Service. It includes the right to allow our service providers to process Your Content on our behalf solely to run the Service. It does not include the right to sell Your Content or to use it for advertising. The license lasts only as long as Your Content is on the Service, and it ends when Your Content is deleted — except that we may retain backup copies for a limited period, and approved shelf photos already shared in the community feed and content reassigned as described in Section 14 may remain.

You are solely responsible for Your Content. You represent and warrant that: you own Your Content or have all rights and permissions needed to upload it and grant the license above; Your Content does not infringe or violate anyone’s intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights; and Your Content does not violate these Terms or any applicable law. If a photo shows other people or their property, you are responsible for having any consent required to upload and share it.

6. Shared collections and the community feed

Content you add to a shared collection is visible to the other members of that collection. Be thoughtful about what you upload to a shared collection and who you invite.

When you submit a store shelf photo for the community feed, it is reviewed by an administrator before it may appear. Approval is at our discretion, is not an endorsement, and does not make your content our content. We are under no obligation to publish any submission, and we may decline, remove, or stop displaying content at any time — with or without notice — if we believe it violates these Terms or is otherwise objectionable. If we remove your content, you can contact us at info@carzbox.com to ask why.

The Service lets you see content created by other users. That content is the responsibility of the users who provide it, not us. We do not endorse, and are not responsible for, content posted by other users, and any reliance on it is at your own risk.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to do any of the following, and not to help or permit anyone else to: upload or share content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, or that depicts or exploits minors; upload content you do not have the right to share, or that violates anyone’s intellectual-property, privacy, or publicity rights; upload personal information about other people without a lawful basis or their consent; impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation; upload malware or interfere with, disrupt, or place undue load on the Service or its infrastructure; attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other accounts, or our systems or data; scrape, harvest, or bulk-collect content or data from the Service except as expressly permitted; reverse engineer or attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law; use the Service to build a competing product or to resell the Service; or use the Service in any way that violates applicable law or these Terms.

We may investigate and take appropriate action against violations, including removing content and suspending or terminating accounts, as described in Section 14.

8. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers to function — for example, Google (sign-in), and our infrastructure and operations providers such as Supabase (database, authentication, and file storage), Vercel (hosting), Resend (email), and Sentry (error monitoring). Your use of a third-party service through the Service (such as signing in with Google) may be subject to that third party’s own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for third-party services.

The Service may reference stores, products, brands, or other information from third parties. We do not control that information, it may be incomplete or inaccurate, and referencing it does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by those third parties.

9. Our intellectual property

The Service itself — including the CarzBox name and logo, the software, design, text, graphics, and other materials we provide (but excluding Your Content and other users’ content) — is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited license in Section 4, we grant you no rights in the Service, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service, or use our name, logo, or branding, without our prior written permission, except as applicable law allows.

10. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or other feedback about the Service, you agree that we may use it without restriction or obligation to you, and you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and incorporate that feedback into the Service. Please do not send us feedback you consider confidential or that you are not free to share.

11. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that catalog, store, or other information available through the Service is accurate, complete, or current. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of content that is important to you.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any warranty or right that cannot be excluded or limited under the law that applies to you, including any statutory rights you have as a consumer. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of the above may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Service.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the total amount you paid us to use the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or USD 100. Because the Service is currently free, amounts paid may be zero.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. If you are a consumer, these limitations apply only to the extent permitted by the law of your country of residence, and they do not affect your mandatory statutory rights.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless CarzBox and the people who operate it from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to Your Content, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. This section does not apply to the extent a claim results from our own violation of these Terms or applicable law, and, if you are a consumer, it applies only to the extent permitted by the law of your country of residence.

14. Term, suspension, termination, and account deletion

These Terms apply while you use the Service. You may stop using the Service at any time, and you can delete your account yourself from your profile.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, or remove content, at any time if you violate these Terms or applicable law, if needed to protect the Service or other users, or if we stop offering the Service. Where reasonable and lawful, we will try to give you notice.

When your account is deleted, the collections you own and the content within them are removed, along with your personal profile data, as described in our Privacy Notice. Content you contributed to collections owned by other people may be reassigned to that collection’s owner so their collection stays intact. Sections that by their nature should survive — including Sections 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 17 — will survive termination.

15. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

We may change, suspend, or discontinue the Service, or any part of it, at any time. Because the Service is free and in beta, we may do so without liability to you, though we will try to avoid unnecessary disruption.

We may also update these Terms from time to time. If we make important changes (ones that affect your rights or how you use the Service), we will take reasonable steps to let you know before they take effect — for example, by email or a notice in the Service — and we will update the "last updated" date above. Changes apply going forward and do not apply retroactively. If you continue to use the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms; if you do not agree, you should stop using the Service and may delete your account.

16. Governing law and disputes

We would like to resolve any concern quickly and informally, so please contact us first at info@carzbox.com.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and we do not require binding arbitration or waive your right to bring a claim in court.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection laws, nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence or of your right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence. EU/EEA consumers can also use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

17. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Notice, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and replace any prior agreements on that subject.

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest of the Terms will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. We are not responsible for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

18. Contact and notices

You can reach us with questions about these Terms at info@carzbox.com. Where these Terms allow us to give you notice, we may do so by email to the address associated with your account or by a notice within the Service, and such notice is effective when sent or posted.