Dog-Ear Terms of Service
Last updated: October 6, 2026
These terms are an agreement between you and Marie Glow Studio, ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using Dog-Ear ("the app") you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
1. What Dog-Ear is
Dog-Ear is a reading journal. You can keep a library of books, track what you are reading, write notes and journal pages, decorate pages with stickers, and look at your reading stats. It runs in your web browser and can be added to your phone's home screen.
2. Your account
- You need an account to use the app. You must give a real email address and keep your password to yourself.
- You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission.
- You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at hello@marieglowstudio.com if you think someone else got in.
3. Price, payment and "lifetime access"
- Access is a one-time payment of the price shown when you buy. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
- "Lifetime access" means access for as long as Dog-Ear is offered. It does not mean we promise any particular feature forever. If we ever stop offering Dog-Ear we will tell you at least 60 days ahead and give you a way to download everything you saved.
- Optional extras (such as sticker packs) are sold separately and the price is shown before you pay.
- We may offer subscriptions or new paid features in the future. Those would be optional and would never take away what you already paid for.
- Refunds: if you ask within 14 days of buying and you are not happy, we will refund your payment. After that, payments are not refundable unless the law says otherwise.
- Taxes: the price may include or add sales tax or VAT where the law requires it.
4. Your content belongs to you
You own what you put into the app: your book list, notes, journal pages, ratings, photos and any cover pictures you upload ("your content").
You give us a limited permission to store, copy and display your content only to run the app for you (for example, saving it, backing it up, and showing it back to you on your devices). We do not sell your content or use it for advertising.
Shared covers. If you upload a cover picture for a book, you give us permission to offer that cover to other readers who add the same book, so they do not see an empty cover. We only share the cover image and the book's title, author and ISBN. We do not share your name, your notes, your reading history or any other account detail with the cover. You can turn this sharing off in settings and ask us to remove a cover you uploaded.
5. What you promise
When you upload anything you promise that:
- you took it or you have the right to use it, and that it does not break anyone's copyright, privacy or other rights;
- it is not illegal, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit involving minors, or malicious;
- you will not try to break, overload or reverse-engineer the app, get into other people's accounts, or use bots to copy data out of it.
We may remove content or close an account that breaks these rules. For serious or repeated problems we may do this without warning.
6. Book covers, book information and copyright
- Book titles, cover art and descriptions belong to their authors and publishers. The app gets book information and cover images from Open Library and similar public sources, and shows them to help you recognize your books.
- If you believe something in the app infringes your copyright, email hello@marieglowstudio.com with: what the work is, where it appears in the app, your contact details, and a statement that you are the owner or authorized to act for them. We will review it promptly and remove it where appropriate. Repeat infringers' accounts may be closed.
- Links to online stores (for example "Open on Amazon") are for convenience. We may earn a commission from some links. Where we do, we say so near the link.
7. Your data and leaving
- You can export your data at any time from the app.
- You can delete your account at any time. We delete your content from our systems within 30 days, except for backups, which are cleared within 90 days, and records we must keep by law (such as payment records).
- Storage limit: each account includes 1 GB of storage for photos and uploads. If you go over, we will ask you to remove some files.
8. The app is provided "as is"
We work hard to keep Dog-Ear running and your data safe, and we keep backups. But software has bugs and servers have problems. The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without promises that it will always be on, error free, or that nothing will ever be lost. Please keep your own export of anything you cannot afford to lose.
9. Limits on our responsibility
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect or consequential losses (such as lost data, lost profits, or lost time). Our total responsibility to you for anything connected to the app is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the problem. This does not limit anything the law does not allow us to limit.
10. Ending things
You can stop using the app at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the app or other people at risk. If we close your account without a rule being broken, we will refund the unused part of what you paid as described in section 3.
11. Changes
We may update these terms. If a change matters (for example it affects what you pay or how your data is used) we will tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept the new terms.
12. Governing law and contact
These terms are governed by the laws of Kansas, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Courts in Sedgwick County, Kansas will handle disputes, except where the law gives you the right to go elsewhere.
Contact: hello@marieglowstudio.com