Terms of Use
Last updated: August 2026
These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Black Box Code LLC ("we", "us") governing your use of the ReadLens app and website (the "Service"). By downloading or using ReadLens you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. You must be at least 13 years old to use ReadLens.
1. License
We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use ReadLens for your own non-commercial purposes on devices you own or control, subject to these Terms and the rules of the app store you downloaded it from.
2. App store terms
These Terms are between you and Black Box Code LLC only, not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC. Apple and Google have no obligation to provide maintenance, support, or warranties for ReadLens and are not responsible for addressing any claims relating to it (including product liability, regulatory compliance, consumer protection, or intellectual property claims). Your use must also comply with the Apple Media Services or Google Play terms that apply to your download. Apple, Google, and their subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
3. Your content
You keep all rights to the photos you capture and the text extracted from them ("Your Content"). You grant us a limited license to host, process, and transform Your Content (for example running OCR, translation, and text-to-speech) solely to provide the Service to you. You are responsible for Your Content: only snap material you own or are permitted to use for personal reading and accessibility purposes, and do not use the Service to redistribute, republish, or commercially exploit copyrighted works.
4. Copyright complaints (DMCA)
We respect copyright and respond to notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content stored through the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice containing: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work; (c) identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it; (d) your contact information; (e) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are authorized to act for the copyright owner.
Send notices to our Designated Copyright Agent (registered with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory): Copyright Agent, Black Box Code LLC, 22295 Woodspring Dr, Boca Raton, FL 33428, USA, phone +1 (954) 477-7717, email [email protected]. We will remove or disable access to material identified in valid notices, may terminate repeat infringers, and will forward counter-notices as the DMCA provides.
5. Subscriptions and billing
ReadLens Premium is an auto-renewing subscription sold through Apple's App Store or Google Play. The price and billing period are shown before purchase. Where a free trial is offered, the subscription automatically converts to a paid subscription at the displayed price when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings; deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. Prices may change prospectively; changes never apply retroactively to a period you already paid for.
6. AI, OCR, and translation accuracy
ReadLens uses automated text recognition, machine translation, and synthetic speech. These systems make mistakes: words can be misread, translations can be imprecise, and audio can mispronounce. The Service is provided as a reading convenience and accessibility aid, not as a source of verified information. Do not rely on ReadLens alone for content where errors could cause harm, such as medication instructions, legal documents, financial terms, or safety warnings; always verify the original text.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to: use the Service for unlawful purposes; infringe others' intellectual property or privacy; attempt to probe, disrupt, or reverse engineer the Service or its security; resell or provide the Service to third parties; or use automated means to access the Service beyond its intended app interfaces.
8. Termination
You can stop using ReadLens at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 6 and 9 through 12) survive termination.
9. Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that recognized text or audio will be accurate.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Black Box Code LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or USD $50. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
11. Indemnification
You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Black Box Code LLC and its officers, members, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from Your Content, from your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, or from your violation of any law or third-party right (including intellectual property rights). We may assume the exclusive defense of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense.
12. Dispute resolution: arbitration and class action waiver
Please read this section carefully; it affects your legal rights.
Talk to us first: before starting arbitration or any lawsuit, the party raising the dispute must send the other a written description of the dispute and the relief sought (to us: [email protected]), and both parties will try in good faith to resolve it informally for 30 days. Applicable statutes of limitations are paused during this period.
If informal resolution fails, you and Black Box Code LLC agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual property infringement. The arbitration will be conducted in English, remotely or in the county where you live.
Class action waiver: disputes must be brought on an individual basis only. Neither you nor we may participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action, and the arbitrator may not consolidate claims of multiple parties.
Coordinated filings: if ten or more arbitration demands raising similar issues are filed against us by the same or coordinated counsel, the parties agree the demands will be resolved in staged batches: five representative cases proceed first while the rest are paused, followed by good-faith mediation of the remaining claims informed by those outcomes, then further batches of ten if needed. Limitation periods are paused for claims while paused under this process.
Jury waiver: if any claim proceeds in court rather than arbitration, both you and we unconditionally waive any right to a trial by jury.
Time limit: any claim arising out of the Service or these Terms must be filed within one year after it arose or it is permanently barred, except where that limit is prohibited by law.
Opt-out: you may reject this arbitration agreement without penalty by emailing [email protected] with the subject "Arbitration opt-out" within 30 days of first accepting these Terms.
13. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA, excluding its conflict-of-law rules, and where applicable the Federal Arbitration Act.
14. General
If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remain in effect. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets; you may not assign them without our written consent. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service and supersede prior agreements. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. We will post updates on this page and update the date above; material changes will be announced in the app. Continuing to use ReadLens after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.
Contact
Questions about these Terms? [email protected]