1. The Service

Shelvibe is a bookshelf website for animated books (lotion animations):

• Readers can read the books on the shelf, scrub to any second, and draw highlights, leave comments and add reactions on screen. These collaborative notes are visible to other readers too.
• Creators can upload animated books they made (html or zip), generate them with the site's AI Studio, or have their own AI agents publish them through MCP, a personal API token or OAuth. Books can be set to public or private.

Features of the Service may change at any time; the features actually provided are those presented on the site at the time.

2. Accounts

• When registering, please provide an accurate email address that can receive mail, and keep your password and API tokens safe. When two-step verification becomes available, we recommend enabling it.
• Actions taken through your account, your tokens or apps you have authorized are deemed to be your own actions. If you find your account has been compromised, change your password, revoke your tokens and notify us immediately.
• As a rule, each person should use their own account. You may not impersonate others, or buy, sell or transfer accounts.
• Minors should use the Service only after their legal guardian has read and agreed to these terms.

3. Your content and license

The books, assets, comments and notes you upload or create (“Your Content”) remain the property of you or the original rights holders; we do not acquire ownership of them.

To provide the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use Your Content to the extent necessary to provide, maintain and improve the Service, including to:

• Store, back up, copy and transmit it.
• Display and play it on the site; books set to public are visible to all visitors.
• Generate covers and thumbnails, export videos, transcode and convert formats.
• Perform automated or manual checks for review and security purposes.

This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for records that must be retained by law and data in backups not yet purged on schedule, for as long as they are retained.

You warrant that you have the right to upload Your Content and license it as described above, and that it does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, portrait rights, privacy or other rights.

4. AI-generated content

• The AI Studio and generation features call third-party AI services (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, fal.ai) to generate text, code, images and audio. Your instructions and materials are sent to these services for processing.
• Ownership of AI-generated content depends on each AI provider's terms and applicable law. We claim no rights in such content, and we do not guarantee that you can obtain or assert any particular rights.
• AI-generated results may be inaccurate, resemble existing works, or be unsuitable for a particular purpose. Before publishing or using them commercially, please verify for yourself that the content is accurate, the use is lawful, and it does not infringe the rights of others.
• When using AI features, you must also comply with each AI provider's usage policies; requests that violate those policies may be refused.

5. AI agents, API and MCP

• You can authorize AI agents (e.g. Claude Code, ChatGPT) to act on your behalf through MCP, a personal API token or OAuth. You are responsible for the actions agents take (such as publishing or editing books, or using generation features that consume credits).
• Give agents only the permissions they need, and revoke them on your account page when no longer needed.
• You may not disrupt the Service with excessive automated requests, or use the API to circumvent the restrictions of these terms. We may set usage limits on the API.

6. Prohibited content and conduct

You may not upload, generate or publish the following content on the Service, or engage in the following conduct:

• Content that violates the laws of the Republic of China (Taiwan) or of your place of residence.
• Content that infringes others' copyright, trademark, portrait, privacy or other rights, or that discloses others' personal data without consent.
• Pornographic or adult content, and any content involving the sexual exploitation of children or minors.
• Content that promotes violence, terrorism or self-harm, or hateful and discriminatory content based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or similar characteristics.
• Harassing, threatening or bullying other users, including in comments and highlights.
• Malicious code: putting code in a book that steals data, mines cryptocurrency, phishes, tracks readers, attacks other websites, or tries to break out of the isolated environment.
• Fraud, impersonating others or organizations, or spreading clearly false information that may cause harm.
• Interfering with or disrupting the Service, such as unauthorized access to others' accounts or systems, circumventing review or credit billing, flooding comments or spamming content.

7. Review, reports and enforcement

• Published books go through automated review, including code pattern checks and content moderation; some content may be sent to third-party moderation services (e.g. OpenAI's moderation API). Automated review may make mistakes and cannot catch all violating content.
• Readers can report books or comments; administrators review reports and decide how to handle them.
• When we find or reasonably believe that content or conduct violates these terms or the law, we may, without prior notice and depending on the circumstances, take the following actions: refuse publication, make a book private or take it down, delete comments, restrict features, or suspend or terminate accounts.
• If you believe an action was taken in error, you can email us with an explanation and we will review it again.
• Where required by law or to protect the rights of others, we may retain relevant records and provide them to the competent authorities.

We are not obligated to review all content in advance. Users are solely responsible for the content they upload, and it does not represent our views.

8. Credits and payment

Paid options on the Service include credits deducted by usage and subscription plans that may be introduced in the future (such as a monthly fee for advanced features). Charges apply when:

• Using generative AI features to create animations (credits are deducted based on actual usage).
• Viewing animated content that a creator has set as paid (credits are shared with the creator).
• Using other advanced features, which may be offered for credits or by subscription. For any paid feature, we will always tell you the price and payment method before you use it.

We will notify you before introducing new paid plans or changing how we charge. Regarding credits:

• Credit prices, how credits are obtained, their validity period and the credit cost of each feature are as announced on the site at the time.
• Credits are not currency; they cannot be exchanged for cash or transferred to other accounts.
• Refunds of unused credits are handled according to the refund policy announced at the time and applicable law; used credits are non-refundable.
• We may adjust credit prices or the credit cost of features. Adjustments apply only to purchases and usage after they take effect and do not affect the number of credits already in your account.
• If your account is terminated for violating these terms, unused credits will be handled according to the announced policy and applicable law.

Subscription prices, contents, renewal and cancellation will be announced separately when plans launch. The revenue share and settlement method for creators' paid content will be announced separately when that feature becomes available.

9. Our intellectual property

The rights to the Service's website design, code, trademarks, logos and the content we provide belong to us or the original rights holders. Except as permitted by these terms or with our written consent, you may not copy, modify, distribute or use them for other purposes.

10. Changes to and suspension of the Service

• We may add, modify or discontinue some features, or suspend the Service for maintenance, outages, force majeure or other reasons.
• If we decide to discontinue the Service entirely, we will announce it a reasonable period in advance so that you have time to download or back up your content.
• You may stop using the Service at any time, and request deletion of your account as described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Disclaimer

Except as expressly promised in these terms, the Service is provided “as is”. To the extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee:

• That the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or meet your particular needs.
• The accuracy, completeness, legality or usability of user content and AI-generated content.
• That your content will not be lost due to failures; please keep your own backups of important work.

Disputes between you and other users are to be resolved by the parties themselves; we can assist by providing information that may be provided under the law.

12. Limitation of liability

• To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss of profits, revenue or data, or for indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages.
• To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for claims relating to the Service is limited to the amount you actually paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.
• We are not liable for losses that could not reasonably have been foreseen.
• These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as damage caused by our intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

13. Changes to these terms

• We may revise these terms because of changes in the law or the Service. Revisions will be posted on this page and the “Last updated” date will be updated; you will also see a notice when you use the Service after an update.
• Revisions take effect 14 days after they are posted, but revisions made for new features or required by law may take effect immediately upon posting. Continuing to use the Service after revisions take effect means you agree to the revised terms.
• If a specific feature has additional terms, those additional terms prevail where they conflict with these terms.
• If any part of these terms is held invalid, the remaining parts remain in effect.
• Our failure to immediately exercise a right under these terms does not constitute a waiver of that right.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of China (Taiwan). For any dispute arising from these terms or the Service, both parties agree that the Taiwan Taipei District Court shall be the court of first instance, unless mandatory provisions of law provide otherwise (such as the jurisdiction rules of the Consumer Protection Act), in which case those provisions apply.

15. Contact us

If you have any questions about these terms, or wish to report infringing content, please contact:

• Operator: PlotDB Ltd. (見聞科技有限公司)
• Email: [email protected]