Terms of use · Readstow

About these Terms

1.1 The website at readstow.com (the Site) and the Readstow read-it-later service, including the Readstow app for iPhone (the Service), are owned and operated by DexWorks Pty Ltd (DexWorks, we, us or our).

1.2 These Terms of Use (Terms) govern your use of the Site and the Service. By accessing or using the Site or the Service, or by clicking "I agree" where that option is presented, you agree to these Terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

1.3 You must be at least 18 years old to use the Site or the Service. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Site or the Service.

1.4 Some features may be subject to additional guidelines or rules published on the Site. Those are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

1.5 Please read clause 4 carefully. It sets out your responsibilities for the content you save, which is the most important obligation you take on under these Terms.

Accounts

2.1 Creating an account. Some features require you to register for an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information and to keep it up to date. You can close your account at any time by following the instructions on the Site.

2.2 Account security. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity under your account, whether or not you authorised it. You must notify us immediately at contact@readstow.com if you suspect any unauthorised access. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from unauthorised use of your account, and you remain liable for all activity under it until you have notified us and we have had a reasonable opportunity to act.

2.3 Authorised users. If you allow others to use the Service under your account, you are responsible for their compliance with these Terms.

Access to the Site and the Service

3.1 Licence. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Site and the Service for your own internal business or personal purposes.

3.2 Restrictions. You must not:

(a) license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute or commercially exploit the Site or the Service, or make either available to any third party except as permitted by these Terms;

(b) modify, create derivative works from, disassemble, reverse-compile or reverse-engineer any part of the Site or the Service;

(d) use any automated means to scrape, crawl or extract data from the Site or the Service;

(e) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Site or the Service, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to either; or

(f) copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, display, post or transmit any part of the Site or the Service except as expressly permitted by these Terms.

3.3 You must keep all copyright and proprietary notices intact on any copies you are permitted to make.

3.4 Changes to the Site and the Service. We may modify, add to, suspend or discontinue the Site or the Service, or any part or feature of either, at any time and at our discretion. We will give notice where practicable, but we are not obliged to. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable to you for any modification, suspension or discontinuation.

3.5 Availability. We do not guarantee that the Site or the Service will be available at any particular time. We give no uptime commitment and we may suspend access for maintenance, security or any other operational reason, with or without notice.

3.6 Ownership. All intellectual property rights in the Site and the Service, and in our content, software and documentation, belong to DexWorks or our licensors. These Terms do not transfer any ownership rights to you other than the limited licence in clause 3.1. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

3.7 Your content. You retain all rights in the links, notes and other material you add to the Service, and in the organisation of your library (Your Content). Content you save from third-party sources remains owned by its authors and publishers, and nothing in these Terms gives you or us any rights in it. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transmit and display Your Content, and the copies of content you save, to the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and to comply with the law. How we handle Your Content is described in our Privacy Policy.

3.8 Feedback. If you send us feedback or suggestions about the Site or the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use it for any purpose without attribution or payment. Please do not send us feedback you consider confidential.

Saved Content and Lawful Use

4.1 This is the most important clause in these Terms. The Service fetches and stores copies of the web pages, posts and feeds you choose to save or follow, so that you can read them on your devices, including offline. That content belongs to its authors and publishers.

4.2 For your own reading. You may use the Service to keep copies of content for your own reading. You must not use the Service to republish, redistribute, sell or publicly share content you do not have the right to share.

4.3 You are responsible for what you save. You are solely responsible for ensuring that saving, storing and reading content using the Service is lawful, and complies with any terms of the source that apply to you, including copyright law.

4.4 Third-party platforms. Content from platforms such as X remains subject to that platform’s own terms. Content that is later deleted or made unavailable at its source may remain in your library as the copy you saved.

4.5 Prohibited use. You must not use the Service:

(a) to save or store content that it is unlawful for you to hold;

(b) to overload, attack or scrape at scale any website or feed, or to get around a website’s access controls or paywall;

(d) for harassment, stalking, monitoring an individual without their knowledge, or any other unlawful purpose.

4.6 Complaints about content. If you believe content held in the Service infringes your rights, contact us at contact@readstow.com. We may remove content or restrict access to it where we reasonably believe that it is unlawful.

4.7 Indemnity for content claims. You indemnify us against any loss, liability, penalty, fine or reasonable legal cost we incur arising out of a claim, investigation or proceeding alleging that content you saved, stored or shared using the Service was unlawful or infringed a person’s rights. This indemnity does not apply to the extent the loss was caused or contributed to by our breach of these Terms, our negligence or our wilful misconduct.

4.8 Suspension for unlawful use. If we reasonably believe you are using the Service unlawfully, or in breach of this clause 4, we may suspend your access immediately and without notice while we investigate.

Fees and Payment

5.1 Free and paid access. Some features of the Service are available at no charge. Others require a paid subscription (a Plan). This clause 5 applies only if you are on a paid Plan or a free trial.

5.2 Fees. The fees, features, billing period and currency for each Plan are as published on the Site or in the Service at the time you subscribe. By subscribing, you agree to pay the fees for the Plan you select.

5.3 Billing. Fees are payable in advance for each billing period. We bill you when you subscribe and, if your Plan renews under clause 5.5, at the start of each renewed period.

5.4 Payment processing. We use Stripe to process payments. Your payment is subject to Stripe’s own terms and privacy policy, and you authorise us and Stripe to charge your nominated payment method for all fees payable. Full card details are collected and stored by Stripe, not by us. You must keep your payment details current, and you warrant that you are authorised to use the payment method you provide.

5.5 Renewal is opt-in. Your Plan will not renew automatically unless you have expressly chosen to turn on recurring billing. If you have turned it on:

(a) your Plan renews at the end of each billing period at the then-current fee for that Plan;

(b) we will show you the renewal date and amount in your account settings at any time; and

(c) you may turn off recurring billing at any time through your account settings, which takes effect from the end of your current billing period.

5.6 Cancelling. You may cancel your Plan at any time through your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and you keep access to the paid features until then.

5.7 Refunds. Except where a Non-Excludable Right requires otherwise, fees are non-refundable. In particular, we do not give refunds or credits for change of mind, for a billing period you have partly used, or for periods where you did not use the Service.

5.8 Failed payments. If a payment fails, we may retry it and will take reasonable steps to let you know. If the fee remains unpaid, we may suspend your access to paid features until it is paid, and may downgrade or close your account if it remains unpaid for a reasonable period after we have notified you.

5.9 Changes to fees. We may change our fees. Any change takes effect from your next billing period, and we will give you at least 30 days’ notice before it applies to you. If you do not accept the new fee, you may cancel under clause 5.6 before it takes effect.

5.10 Free trials. If you are on a free trial, you may use the Service on the terms of that trial for the trial period. We will tell you the length of the trial and what happens at the end of it when you sign up. A trial will not convert into a paid Plan unless you expressly choose to subscribe.

5.11 Taxes. Fees are exclusive of taxes unless we state otherwise. You are responsible for all sales tax, goods and services tax, value added tax, withholding tax and similar taxes, duties and charges imposed on your purchase by any authority, other than taxes on our income. Where we are required to collect a tax from you, we will add it to your fees and you must pay it. Where you are required to withhold an amount from a payment to us, you must pay us the additional amount needed so that we receive the full fee.

5.12 Card disputes. If you believe you have been charged incorrectly, please contact us at contact@readstow.com first so we can look into it. Raising a chargeback with your card issuer without contacting us first may result in suspension of your account while the dispute is resolved.

Privacy

6.1 Your use of the Site and the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use and store it, when we disclose it, and how long we keep it.

6.2 Handling of personal information. By using the Site and the Service, you acknowledge that you have read our Privacy Policy and that we will handle personal information in accordance with it. If there is any inconsistency between these Terms and the Privacy Policy about the handling of personal information, the Privacy Policy prevails.

6.3 Personal information of other people. Content you save may contain the personal information of other people, such as its authors. You are responsible for your own use of that information. We store it on your behalf and in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

6.4 Cookies and tracking. The Site uses cookies and similar technologies. For details on what we use, what they collect and how to manage your preferences, see our Privacy Policy and Cookie Notice.

6.5 Data breaches. If we become aware of a data breach affecting your information that is likely to result in serious harm, we will notify you and any regulator we are required to notify, within the time required by the applicable law. Our notification process is described in our Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Services and Other Users

7.1 Third-party services. The Site and the Service may link to or fetch content from third-party services, including websites, feeds and platforms such as X (Third-Party Services). We do not control or endorse Third-Party Services and, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we accept no responsibility or liability for them, including for their availability, security, accuracy or handling of your data. Your use of a Third-Party Service is governed by that provider’s own terms and privacy practices, and you use it at your own risk. We may add, change or discontinue support for any Third-Party Service at any time without notice and without liability to you.

7.2 Other users. Your dealings with other users of the Service are between you and them. We are not responsible for any loss arising from those dealings, and while we may choose to help resolve disputes between users, we are not obliged to.

Consumer Rights and Disclaimers

8.1 Rights that cannot be excluded. Certain laws, including the Australian Consumer Law, may confer rights, guarantees or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified (Non-Excludable Rights). Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies a Non-Excludable Right. If a provision of these Terms would otherwise exclude, restrict or modify a Non-Excludable Right, that provision is to be read down so that it applies with the maximum effect the law allows without contravening that Non-Excludable Right, and is severed only if it cannot be read down. Every other provision of these Terms applies to the maximum extent permitted by law.

8.2 Other warranties excluded. Subject to clause 9.1, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Site and the Service are provided "as is" and "as available", and we exclude all other warranties, conditions and representations, whether express or implied. In particular, we do not warrant that the Site or the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, or that any saved copy will be accurate, complete or identical to the original.

8.3 Saved copies. The Service extracts text, images and posts from the content you save automatically. A saved copy may differ from the original, and the original may change or be removed. You are responsible for referring to the original source before relying on a saved copy. Nothing in the Service is legal, financial, medical or other professional advice.

8.4 Keeping your own copies. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of anything important to you. We are not a backup or record-keeping service, and we may delete data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Limitation of Liability

9.1 Non-Excludable Rights. Where you have a Non-Excludable Right and the law permits us to limit our liability for breach of it, our liability is limited, at our option, to:

(a) for services, supplying the services again or paying the reasonable cost of having them supplied again; and

(b) for goods, replacing or repairing the goods, or paying the reasonable cost of replacement or repair.

9.2 Loss we are not liable for. Subject to clause 8.1, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business or opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss or corruption of data, loss of saved content, business interruption, or any indirect, consequential, special or punitive loss, however arising.

9.3 Cap on liability. Subject to clause 8.1, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with these Terms, the Site or the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), equity, under statute or on any other basis, is limited to the greater of:

(a) AUD $100; and

(b) the total amount you have actually paid us for the Service in the 12 months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim,

whichever is higher.

9.4 The existence of more than one claim does not increase the cap in clause 9.3.

9.5 Loss caused by you. We are not liable for loss to the extent it was caused by your breach of these Terms, your unlawful use of the Service, your breach of clause 4, or your failure to keep your own copies of important data.

9.6 Proportionate reduction. Our liability is reduced to the extent your acts or omissions caused or contributed to the loss.

Indemnity

10.1 You indemnify us and our officers, employees and agents against any loss, liability, penalty, fine or reasonable legal cost we incur arising out of:

(a) your breach of these Terms;

(b) your use or misuse of the Site or the Service, including any breach of clause 4;

(c) any claim by a third party, including any author, publisher or rights holder, relating to Your Content, content you saved, or your use of the Site or the Service;

(d) any claim, investigation, penalty or fine arising from content you saved, stored or shared; or

(e) your breach of any law, including any data protection, intellectual property or consumer protection law.

10.2 This indemnity does not apply to the extent the loss was directly caused by our gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

10.3 We will notify you of any claim covered by this indemnity. We may, at our option, conduct the defence of the claim using lawyers of our choosing, and you must provide all assistance and information we reasonably request. You must not settle or compromise any such claim, or make any admission in relation to it, without our prior written consent. Nothing in this clause requires us to defend a claim, and our failure to give notice does not reduce your obligations under clause 10.1 except to the extent you are materially prejudiced by that failure.

Suspension and Termination

11.1 Term. These Terms apply for as long as you use the Site or the Service.

11.2 Your right to stop. You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time.

11.3 Termination or suspension by us. We may suspend or terminate your access:

(a) immediately and without notice, if:

(i) you breach these Terms;

(ii) we suspect your use of the Service may be unlawful;

(iii) we are required to do so by law;

(iv) it is necessary to protect the security or integrity of the Service or other users; or

(b) for any other reason, on at least 30 days’ notice to you.

11.4 Your data on termination. You are responsible for exporting Your Content before your account closes. Where we terminate other than for your breach or suspected unlawful use, we will use reasonable endeavours to allow you a reasonable period to export Your Content. We are not obliged to retain Your Content after termination and may delete it, subject to any retention obligation imposed on us by law.

11.5 Effect of termination. On termination your licence under clause 3.1 ends and you must immediately stop using the Site and the Service. Clauses 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.4, 12 and 13, and any other provision which by its nature is intended to survive, continue after termination. Termination does not affect any accrued right or liability of either party.

Dispute Resolution

12.1 Talk to us first. If you have a problem, please contact us at contact@readstow.com before taking any other step. Most issues can be resolved quickly and informally.

12.2 Good faith negotiation. If we cannot resolve the matter informally, the party raising the dispute must give the other written notice setting out the nature of the dispute and the outcome sought. The parties will then negotiate in good faith, including by meeting by phone or video, within 21 days of the notice. If the dispute is not resolved within 60 days of the notice, either party may commence proceedings.

12.3 Urgent relief. Nothing in clause 12.2 prevents either party from applying to a court at any time for urgent injunctive or other interlocutory relief, including to protect intellectual property rights or confidential information.

12.4 Governing law. These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, the Site or the Service, are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia.

12.5 Jurisdiction. You and DexWorks submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia and of any courts competent to hear appeals from them.

12.6 Your other rights are unaffected. Nothing in this clause prevents you from making a complaint to a regulator, or from bringing a claim in a court or tribunal that has jurisdiction to hear it, where the law gives you that right despite clauses 12.4 and 12.5.

General

13.1 Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material and adverse to you, we will give you at least 7 days’ notice before it takes effect, by email or by a prominent notice on the Site. Any other change takes effect when we post the updated Terms on the Site. We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of these Terms. If you do not accept a change, you may stop using the Service and close your account before it takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

13.2 Notices. We may give you notice by email to the address on your account, or by a prominent notice on the Site. You may give us notice at contact@readstow.com. Notice by email is taken to be received on the day it is sent unless the sender receives a delivery failure notification.

13.3 Electronic communications. You consent to receiving communications from us electronically, and agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing.

13.4 Sanctions and trade controls. You must not use the Site or the Service in breach of any sanctions or export control laws that apply to you, and you warrant that you are not a person or entity subject to such sanctions.

13.5 Accessibility. We aim to make the Site usable by everyone, and we work towards conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA. If you have difficulty accessing the Site, or suggestions for improving it, please contact us at contact@readstow.com and we will make reasonable efforts to assist.

13.6 Assignment. In relation to these Terms:

(a) you may not assign, novate or otherwise deal with your rights or obligations without our prior written consent, which we may withhold at our discretion; and

(b) we may assign, novate or subcontract any of our rights or obligations at any time, without your consent and without notice to you.

13.7 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, it is to be read down so far as necessary to make it valid and enforceable, and severed only if it cannot be read down. The remaining provisions continue in full force.

13.8 No waiver. A failure or delay by either party in exercising a right under these Terms is not a waiver of that right.

13.9 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies referenced in them, are the entire agreement between you and us about your use of the Site and the Service, and supersede all prior discussions, representations and understandings. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty that is not set out in these Terms, including any statement made on the Site, in marketing material or by any of our personnel.

13.10 Interpretation. In these Terms, "including" and "for example" are not words of limitation. References to legislation include that legislation as amended or replaced.

13.11 Copyright and trade marks. Copyright © 2026 DexWorks Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. All trade marks, logos and service marks on the Site are owned by DexWorks or by third parties, and you must not use them without the owner’s prior written consent.

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Email: contact@readstow.com