Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the GridCollector mobile application and website (together, the “Service”), operated by Acacia Labs Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (“we”, “us”, “our”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. The Service

GridCollector is a collection-tracking tool for Formula 1 trading card collectors. The Service lets you browse a catalogue of cards, log the cards you own (including your own photos of them), build collections around the sets, drivers, or variants you are chasing, track your progress towards completing them, view a collection as a digital binder, flag cards you are hunting, mark spare copies you intend to pass on, and share cards and lists from the app. We may update, modify, or discontinue features at any time, and will make reasonable efforts to notify you of significant changes.

As the Service evolves, we may change how your saved information is organised, for example by converting an older feature's data into its replacement's format. Where such a change restructures your data, our Privacy Policy describes what happens to it.

3. Accounts

You must create an account to use the Service. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure, and must not share your account or let anyone else access it. You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. You may delete your account at any time from the Profile screen in the app, or by following the steps at gridcollector.app/delete-account; when you do, your personal data is removed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

4. Your content

You retain ownership of any content you submit to the Service, including card photos (front and back), notes, and the arrangement of your collections and binder views (“Your Content”). By submitting Your Content, you grant us a limited licence to store, display, and process it as necessary to provide the Service to you. If you opt in to sharing card photos with the community catalogue, you grant us an additional licence to display those photos to other users, subject to our manual review process; you can change this preference at any time to stop new photos being shared. The lifecycle of community photos that have already been verified and published is described in our Privacy Policy.

You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to upload and share Your Content, and that it does not infringe the rights of any third party. You must not upload content that is illegal, infringes intellectual property rights, or contains malicious code. We may remove content we reasonably believe infringes rights, violates these Terms, or is otherwise inappropriate.

5. Catalogue data

The card catalogue (card names, set information, variant details) is provided for informational and collection-tracking purposes. We make reasonable efforts to keep it accurate but do not guarantee completeness or accuracy.

While individual facts about cards may be publicly available, the catalogue as a whole, including the selection, structure, arrangement, verification, and presentation of sets, categories, variants, cards, and associated data (the “Catalogue”), is compiled by us and represents a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying, and presenting its contents. The Catalogue is owned by Acacia Labs Ltd and is protected by copyright and database right under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (and any equivalent or successor laws).

For the avoidance of doubt, our rights cover only our compilation, verification, and presentation of the Catalogue, not the underlying card designs, images, names, logos, or trademarks, which remain the property of their respective owners. The purpose of these rights is to prevent the wholesale copying or scraping of the Catalogue we have built, not to claim ownership of the facts or intellectual property it describes.

You may access and use the Catalogue only through the Service's normal interface, for your own personal, non-commercial collection-tracking purposes. You must not extract or re-utilise the whole or any substantial part of the Catalogue (including by the repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts), nor use it to build, train, or operate any competing product or service.

Card names, team names, driver names, and related trademarks belong to their respective owners.

6. Not affiliated with Formula 1, the FIA, or card manufacturers

GridCollector is an independent collection-tracking tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Formula 1®, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), The Topps Company, Fanatics, Panini, or any other card manufacturer, or any associated teams, drivers, or athletes.

All trademarks, trade names, logos, team names, driver names, and brand names referenced in the Service are the property of their respective owners. They are used only for identification and descriptive (nominative) purposes, to let you catalogue the cards you own, and their use does not imply any affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship.

7. No valuation, authentication, or investment advice

GridCollector does not provide card valuation, authentication, grading, investment advice, or guarantees regarding rarity, print runs, market value, or authenticity. Catalogue information is for general informational and collection-tracking purposes only. You should not rely on it when making purchasing, selling, trading, or investment decisions, and we are not responsible for any losses you incur from acting on it.

8. User interactions and trades

GridCollector is a collection-tracking tool. We are not a marketplace, broker, auctioneer, payment intermediary, escrow service, or trading platform. Marking a card as a spare, or flagging a card in Hunt, records your own intent inside the app; it is not an offer for sale, an advertisement, or a listing, and sharing a Hunt or spares list outside the app does not make us party to anything that follows. Any transactions, trades, or arrangements between users are solely between those users. We are not responsible for disputes, losses, fraud, or misconduct arising from them, and have no obligation to mediate.

9. Reporting copyright or trademark infringement

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, email us at hello@gridcollector.app with the subject “IP Notice”, including: your contact details; a description of the work you believe has been infringed; a description and location of the material you claim is infringing; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorised; a statement that your notice is accurate and that you are authorised to act for the rights-holder; and your signature. We review valid notices promptly and may remove or restrict the material. We may share the notice with the user who uploaded the content, and may suspend or terminate repeat infringers.

These provisions mirror the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe-harbor framework where applicable and the United Kingdom's notice-and-takedown principles under the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (as retained in UK law).

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these Terms
• Attempt to access other users' accounts or data
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service
• Use automated scripts, bots, or scrapers to access the Service
• Extract or re-utilise the whole or any substantial part of the card catalogue
• Use the Service or its data to build, train, or operate a competing product or service
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with any rate-limiting, access control, or security measure
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure
• Upload content that is abusive, hateful, harassing, discriminatory, or deliberately misleading
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organisation
• Send spam or phishing, or promote scams or fraudulent schemes
• Offer for sale or distribute counterfeit cards, or post listings you know to be false or misleading
• Engage in any activity illegal under the laws of your jurisdiction or the United Kingdom

11. Feedback you provide

If you send us suggestions, feedback, or ideas about the Service, you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use and incorporate them into the Service or any future product without compensation or attribution. You are not required to send feedback, but if you do, you confirm you have the rights to share it.

12. Subscriptions and payments

The Service is currently free. We may introduce paid subscription tiers in future; if we do, payment will be handled through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, whose terms apply to all purchases (including refunds, cancellations, and renewals). Any subscription would renew automatically unless cancelled before the end of the billing period, and would be managed through your device's app store settings.

13. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. It may be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance, updates, or circumstances beyond our control. Some features may be experimental or subject to change, and we may modify or remove features at any time. We do not guarantee that any specific feature, or the Service itself, will remain available indefinitely.

14. Data loss and backups

You are responsible for maintaining your own backups of important information. We do not guarantee that Your Content or collection data will never be lost, corrupted, or unavailable.

We may delete inactive accounts or associated data after extended periods of inactivity, subject to our Privacy Policy.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind. We do not warrant that it will be error-free, secure, or always available. We shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, including loss of data, goodwill, collection information, or financial losses from reliance on catalogue information. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded under English law.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Acacia Labs Ltd, its directors, officers, employees, and agents from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) to the extent caused by your breach of these Terms or any law, by Your Content (including any claim that it infringes a third party's rights), or by your use of the Service in a way not authorised by these Terms. This does not apply to claims arising from our own gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or to any liability that cannot be limited under English law.

17. Termination and moderation

We may remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, or terminate access where reasonably necessary to protect the Service, comply with legal obligations, prevent abuse, or protect other users. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, and will make reasonable efforts to notify you except where prohibited by law or where immediate action is necessary. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top tells you when they were last changed. If we make significant changes, we will notify you through the app. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

19. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection laws that may apply in your jurisdiction.

20. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force, and the invalid provision will be replaced, so far as possible, with a valid one that most closely reflects the original intent.

21. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Acacia Labs Ltd regarding the Service, and supersede any prior agreements on the subject matter. No waiver of any term shall be deemed a waiver of any other term or a continuing waiver of that term.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at hello@gridcollector.app.