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Terms of Use
Effective date: [EFFECTIVE_DATE]
Welcome to RomanceBookGuide.com. These terms explain the basic conditions for using the website and its reading-preference tools, editorial content, forms, and links.
Romance Book Guide is operated by [LEGAL_OPERATOR_NAME] (“we,” “us,” or “our”). By using this website, you agree to these terms to the extent permitted by applicable law. If you don’t agree, please stop using the site.
What this website does
Romance Book Guide is an informational and editorial website about romance books and reader preferences. We may also feature original books published by our business when those books become available.
The descriptions, definitions, editorial observations, and reading-brief tool are intended to help you make your own reading choices. They are not promises that a particular book will be suitable for every reader or free of all content you may prefer to avoid.
Book information and availability
We try to make book-related information accurate and useful. However, authors, publishers, retailers, and readers may use genre labels differently. Prices, editions, release dates, Kindle Unlimited availability, formats, retailer policies, and other details can change without notice.
We may rely on published descriptions, retailer data, and other sources for some details. Where this matters, we’ll explain whether information has been independently reviewed, sampled, reader-reported, or not confirmed. Please check the retailer or publisher for current purchasing and availability details before deciding to buy or borrow.
We do not guarantee that a book meets every personal preference or that any recommendation will be enjoyable for every reader.
The reading-preference tool
The reading-brief tool organizes the preferences you choose and creates a short summary you can use when looking for books. It is not a professional assessment, and at launch it does not claim to return a catalog of personally verified matching titles.
You remain responsible for deciding what you would like to read and reviewing any content information that matters to you.
Book purchases and other websites
At launch, we do not sell books directly through this website. If a link takes you to a retailer, the retailer—not Romance Book Guide—handles the transaction, payment, fulfillment, subscriptions, returns, refunds, and customer service under its own terms.
Third-party links are provided for convenience or context. We do not control those websites or guarantee their continued availability, information, accessibility, or security.
Some future links may earn us commissions; some books may be published by us. We’ll disclose those relationships as explained in How we make money.
Our original words and artwork
Unless stated otherwise, the original writing, design, graphics, and other material we create for this website belong to us or are used with permission. Book titles, author names, publisher names, logos, and cover images belonging to others remain the property of their respective owners.
You may read, link to, and share this site for ordinary personal, noncommercial use. You may quote limited excerpts with appropriate credit where the law allows. You may not reproduce, republish, or commercially exploit substantial original site content or automated collections without permission, except as permitted by law.
Messages and book suggestions
You may use our contact form to suggest books, report errors, ask questions, or make privacy requests. Please provide information you have the right to share. Do not send confidential manuscripts, payment card data, or information about another person without authorization.
You retain any rights you have to original material you send. You give us permission to receive, store, review, and respond to your message for the purpose for which you submitted it. Sending a book suggestion does not create an obligation to feature, review, publish, or respond to it.
We may remove spam, abusive or unlawful submissions, and we may restrict misuse of our forms or website.
The Next Chapter newsletter
If you voluntarily subscribe to our email newsletter, we’ll send the types of emails described at signup. You can unsubscribe from marketing messages using the link included in those emails.
Your use of signup and contact forms is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
Responsible use
Please don’t attempt to interfere with website security, abuse our forms, collect other visitors’ personal information, impersonate someone else, or use automated methods that place an unreasonable burden on our systems. These terms do not limit lawful activities or rights that cannot be restricted by contract.
Availability and changes
We may add, update, correct, reorganize, suspend, or remove website features or content. The website is offered on an “as available” basis. We’ll make reasonable efforts to operate it reliably, but we cannot promise uninterrupted access or error-free operation.
Liability and legal rights
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for losses arising from your reliance on inaccurate third-party retailer information, interruptions outside our reasonable control, or problems with websites and services we do not operate.
Nothing in these terms removes rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful.
Applicable law
These terms are governed by the laws of [JURISDICTION], except where mandatory consumer-protection rules or other applicable law require otherwise.
Updates to these terms
We may revise these terms if the site or its services change. The date at the top shows when the current version took effect. Continuing to use the site after an update means the revised terms apply to later use, to the extent permitted by law.
Contact
Operator: [LEGAL_OPERATOR_NAME]
Email: [PUBLIC_CONTACT_EMAIL]
Questions about the site or these terms? Contact us.