Terms & Conditions

Last updated 12 September 2026

Agreement to these terms

We are Mihai Ruscanu, doing business as Self: Read to Rise ("Company," "we," "us," "our"), established in Romania.

We operate the mobile application Self: Read to Rise (the "App"), our website at selfreadrise.com, and any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

Self: Read to Rise is a mobile app for iPhone and Android that turns ideas from books into small, concrete actions. You browse a feed of principles distilled from non-fiction books, choose one to act on, and mark it complete, building a record of your progress over time — statistics, milestones, and shareable proof cards. The App is free to use, with an optional paid subscription called Self+. A free registered account includes the full idea feed, the pre-written actions, a complete progress history, and one AI-personalised action with the completion text that goes with it. Self+ adds AI-personalised actions, the ability to photograph a highlighted passage in one of your own books and turn it into an action, full statistics, growth insights, and premium proof cards. You can sign in with Apple or Google, or use the App as a guest.

You can contact us by email at hey@selfreadrise.com or by post at Bucharest, Romania.

These Legal Terms are a legally binding agreement between you and Mihai Ruscanu, covering your access to and use of the Services. By using the Services you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to them. If you do not agree with these Legal Terms, please do not use the Services.

We may change these Legal Terms from time to time — for example when the App changes, or when the law does. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. If a change materially affects your rights, or affects a Self+ subscription you already hold, we will tell you inside the App or by email before it takes effect, and you will be free to stop using the Services or to cancel your subscription. Continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Legal Terms. We keep earlier versions and will send you one on request.

We recommend that you save or print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

Table of contents

1. Our Services
2. Who may use Self
3. Your account, and guest sessions
4. Intellectual property
5. Books and attribution
6. Your content, and the permission you give us
7. AI-generated content
8. Photographs and captured text
9. Your free personalised action
10. Fair use and service limits
11. Self+ subscriptions: billing and renewal
12. Free trial
13. Cancelling, refunds, and your right to withdraw
14. What you may not do
15. Mobile application licence
16. Third-party links and content
17. Managing the Services
18. Privacy
19. Copyright complaints
20. Term and termination
21. Changes to the Services
22. Corrections
23. If Self+ does not work as it should
24. Disclaimer
25. Limitation of liability
26. Indemnification
27. Your data and backups
28. Electronic communications
29. Governing law
30. Resolving disputes
31. Miscellaneous
32. Contact us

1. Our Services

We make the App available through the Apple App Store and Google Play in the countries where we have chosen to publish it. We do not represent that the Services are appropriate or available anywhere else, and if you use them from somewhere we have not published them, you do so on your own initiative.

The Services are provided to you for your own personal, non-commercial use.

2. Who may use Self

The Services are intended for people aged 18 or over. By using the Services you confirm that you are at least 18, that you have the legal capacity to agree to these Legal Terms, and that you will use the Services only for lawful purposes.

We do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to hold an account. If you become aware that a person under 18 has created one, contact us at hey@selfreadrise.com and we will deactivate it and delete the data, as described in our Privacy Policy. If you are a parent or guardian and a minor uses Self on your device or through your account, you remain responsible for that use.

You also confirm that any information you give us is true and accurate, that you will keep it up to date, and that you will not access the Services by automated means such as a bot or script.

3. Your account, and guest sessions

Signing in. Self does not use passwords. You sign in with Apple or with Google, and those providers handle authentication. Keeping your Apple or Google account secure — and the device you use it on — is therefore how you keep your Self account secure. You are responsible for activity that happens through your account. If you think someone else has access to it, secure your Apple or Google account first, then contact us.

Using Self without an account. You can use Self as a guest. A guest session is tied to the device it was created on, and that session is the only route back to the history built up in it. On Android, uninstalling the App clears the session, and reinstalling starts a new one. On iPhone and iPad the session is held in the Apple Keychain, which survives an uninstall, so reinstalling usually restores it. Either way, changing device — or signing in with an Apple or Google account that already belongs to another Self account — means losing access to that history. Treat guest history as something you can lose: create an account to keep it. Guest accounts do not receive the free personalised action described in section 9.

Ending your account. You can stop using the Services at any time, and you can delete your account and its data from inside the App: Profile, then the gear icon, then Account Settings, then Delete Account — shown as "Delete All My Data" if you are using Self as a guest. Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. If you can no longer sign in, email us from your account's address and we will verify the request before acting on it; our Privacy Policy explains that route and what survives deletion. Deleting your Self account does not cancel a Self+ subscription; see section 13.

4. Intellectual property

What we own

We own or licence everything that makes up the Services: the source code, databases, functionality, software, designs, text, graphics, audio, and video (the "Content"), together with the trademarks, service marks, and logos in them (the "Marks"). The Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark law in Romania and internationally.

What you may do with it

As long as you keep to these Legal Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Services and to download or print a copy of Content you have properly accessed — in each case for your own personal, non-commercial use.

Proof cards and share text are meant to be shared. You may post the proof cards and share text the App generates for you on social media or send them to other people. That is the one thing in the App designed to leave it, and you are free to use it that way.

Apart from that, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, publicly displayed, translated, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited commercially without our prior written permission. If you would like permission, write to hey@selfreadrise.com. If we grant it, you must identify us as the source and keep any copyright or proprietary notice visible.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

5. Books and attribution

The ideas in the feed are our own paraphrases of principles found in non-fiction books, written in our own words. They are drafted with the help of AI and then checked and edited by us before we publish them — see section 7. We do not reproduce text from those books. Books and authors are named so that you know where an idea came from — that is attribution, nothing more. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any author, publisher, or rights holder, and their names and titles are used only to identify the works they refer to.

If you are an author, publisher, or rights holder and you believe we have gone further than fair attribution and paraphrase, please write to hey@selfreadrise.com and we will look at it promptly.

6. Your content, and the permission you give us

Self is not a social product. Nothing you put into the App is published by us, shown to other users, or made public. There are no public profiles, no comments, no feeds of other people, and no user-to-user features of any kind.

You keep ownership of everything you write, capture, or record in the App — your saved actions, your notes, the passages you photograph, and the text extracted from them. We do not claim ownership of any of it.

The permission you give us. So that we can run the features you have asked for, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to: store your content; send it to our AI provider so that it can be processed; generate content from it — the text read from a photograph you take, an action written or rewritten for you, your completion and share text, Growth Insights, and translations of those into the App's other language; and keep those results in your account so you can see them again.

That permission exists only to deliver the features you use. It lasts only for as long as we hold the content, and it ends when you delete the item or your account. We do not sell your content, publish it, share it with anyone other than the providers that run Self, or use it to train AI models. Our AI provider processes what we send it in order to answer that request, under its own terms and its own retention period, which deleting your account does not reach. How we handle your information, who processes it, and for how long, is set out in our Privacy Policy.

What you are responsible for. You confirm that you have the right to use whatever you put into the App, that it does not infringe anyone else's rights, and that it is not unlawful. You must not use the App to store or process material that is illegal, or that you have no right to use.

Sharing it yourself. If you share a proof card or anything else out of the App, you are the one sharing it, not us, and what happens to it afterwards is outside our control.

Feedback. If you send us a suggestion, comment, or idea about Self, you allow us to use it to improve the Services without owing you payment or credit. You keep any rights you have in it, and we do not ask you to give those up. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential.

7. AI-generated content

Parts of the App are generated by artificial intelligence provided by a third party (currently Anthropic). This includes: the text extracted from a photograph of a book page; actions written or rewritten for you; the completion and share text shown when you finish an action; Growth Insights; and translations of that content into the App's other language.

AI-generated content is produced automatically and is not reviewed by a person before you see it. We do not guarantee that it is accurate, complete, or suitable for your circumstances. Text extracted from a photograph may be misread, so check it before saving.

The ideas in the feed are also drafted with the help of AI, but they are different in kind: they are written in advance, checked and edited by us before we publish them, and they are the same for everyone. Section 5 explains how we write them.

Growth Insights are an interpretation of the actions you have recorded in the App. They are written to be encouraging and may describe you in terms of qualities or patterns. They are not an assessment of you, a diagnosis, or a measurement of anything, and should not be treated as one.

None of this content is professional advice of any kind, including medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice. The App may suggest that you do things; you are solely responsible for deciding whether any suggestion is appropriate and safe for you, and for what you choose to do. If you need professional guidance, consult a qualified professional. If you are in distress or in an emergency, contact your local emergency services or a qualified professional — Self is not a crisis or support service.

8. Photographs and captured text

Self+ subscribers can photograph a highlighted passage in one of their own books, or choose an existing photo from their library, and have the text extracted from it.

The photograph is sent to our AI provider to read the text. We never store it: no image is saved to our servers at any point, and the App deletes its temporary copy from your device once the image has been prepared. If an image is refused before it can be prepared — because it is far larger than any real photograph of a book page — that temporary copy stays in the App's cache until your device clears it.

The extracted text is different. You can edit it before saving, and once saved it is kept with the resulting action until you delete that action or your account. A copy is also held briefly on our servers — about 24 hours — so that repeating the same request does not cost you twice, and a one-way hash of the passage is kept, until you delete your account, to count how many actions have been generated from it.

You are responsible for having the right to photograph and use the passages you capture. Capture is for short passages from books you own, for your own use. Do not use it to reproduce a substantial part of any book or other work.

9. Your free personalised action

A registered account receives one AI-personalised action at no charge, together with the completion and share text that goes with it. It applies to a single idea and is granted once per account. Guest accounts do not receive it.

To stop the same offer being claimed repeatedly, when a registered account is deleted and our records show — or cannot rule out — that the free action was used, we keep a one-way hash of its email address for 12 months. This cannot be reversed into your address and is deleted automatically. This is explained in full in our Privacy Policy.

10. Fair use and service limits

Features that use AI — personalised actions, capturing from your own books, the action written from a capture, reshaping an action, completion and share text, Growth Insights, and translations — are subject to daily limits, and most are also subject to limits on how quickly requests can be made. These limits protect the service against misuse and keep it affordable to run. They are set at a level intended to be generous for normal personal use. We do not describe any feature as unlimited.

Most limits reset on their own, and the App will usually tell you when you have reached one. Reshaping an action is the exception: that limit is counted per captured passage and does not reset.

We may adjust these limits. If we change them in a way that reduces what a Self+ subscription gives you by more than a minor degree, section 21 says what we will do and what you can do about it.

11. Self+ subscriptions: billing and renewal

Who sells Self+. Self+ is bought inside the App through the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. Apple or Google is the seller and merchant of record for that purchase, takes the payment, and holds your payment details. We never see, receive, or store your card number or billing details, and we never charge your payment method ourselves. Your purchase is also subject to the terms of the store you bought it from.

Price and currency. The price of Self+ is the price shown to you in the App Store or Google Play at the moment you subscribe, including any taxes the store adds. You are charged in the currency of your store account's country. We do not set exchange rates, and stores may price differently in different countries.

Plans and renewal. Self+ is offered as a monthly or an annual subscription. Your subscription renews automatically for the same period unless you cancel it, and the store charges your payment method for each renewal. Renewal is handled entirely by the store: under Apple's and Google's rules your account is charged within 24 hours before the current period ends, and a subscription renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before that point. You can turn auto-renewal off at any time in your store account settings — see section 13. Deleting your Self account does not stop billing; you have to cancel in the store.

Lifetime purchases. Self+ was previously offered as a one-time "lifetime" purchase. That plan is no longer sold. If you bought it, it does not renew and you are not charged again, and it stays active for as long as we operate the App. If we ever discontinue the Services, section 21 says what happens. The parts of these Legal Terms about renewal and cancellation do not apply to it.

Price changes. We may change the price of Self+ in future. A price change never applies to a period you have already paid for. We will not raise the price of a subscription you already hold without telling you in advance and giving you a clear chance to cancel before the new price applies. If you do not want the new price, your subscription simply will not renew.

12. Free trial

A free trial of Self+ may be offered on the annual plan, for 7 days, to people who have not had a trial for Self+ before. The monthly plan does not include a free trial.

Whether a trial is available to you, how long it runs, and when billing starts are determined by the App Store or Google Play, which check your eligibility and show you the terms before you confirm. What the store shows you at the moment you subscribe is what applies — and if no trial is shown to you, none is being offered.

If you do not cancel before the trial ends, the subscription begins and the store charges you for the first period. Cancel during the trial and you will not be charged — section 13 explains how.

13. Cancelling, refunds, and your right to withdraw

Cancelling. Because Apple and Google take the payment, cancellation happens in the store you bought from, not with us:

• iPhone and iPad: Settings, then your Apple Account, then Subscriptions, then Self: Read to Rise, then Cancel Subscription.
• Android: Google Play, then your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions, then Self: Read to Rise, then Cancel.

If you have Self+, the App links you straight to the right place: Profile, then the gear icon, then Account Settings, then Manage Subscription.

What cancelling does. Cancelling stops your subscription from renewing. You keep Self+ until the end of the period you have already paid for, and your free account continues afterwards — your saved actions, progress, and history stay with you.

Deleting your account does not cancel your subscription. Cancel it in the store first, or the store will keep charging you.

Refunds. Because Apple and Google take the payment, their own support channels are usually the fastest route to a refund, and their policies apply there. On Google Play we can also issue a refund directly; on the App Store we cannot, because Apple does not give us that ability. Separately from any store policy, if Self+ has not worked as it should you have rights against us under Romanian and EU law — see section 23. If a store refuses a refund you believe you are entitled to, write to us at hey@selfreadrise.com; where we owe you money and the store will not process it, we will pay you directly.

Your right to withdraw. If you are a consumer in the EU, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract for digital content or services within 14 days. Whether it still applies in a particular case depends on the circumstances, and the law sets out exceptions. If you want to exercise it, contact Apple or Google — they took the payment and handle the refund — and tell us as well, so that we can help. Nothing in these Legal Terms limits that right.

The free version is a contract too. Using Self without paying is still an agreement between us, even though you pay nothing for it. You can end it at any time by deleting your account (section 3), and the same 14-day right to change your mind applies — though as nothing has been paid, ending it simply means deleting your account.

14. What you may not do

You may use the Services only for the purpose we make them available for. As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

• Retrieve data or content from the Services systematically, in order to build a collection, compilation, database, or directory, without our written permission.
• Use the Services in a way that breaks any applicable law or regulation, or for any unlawful purpose.
• Try to trick, defraud, or mislead us or anyone else, including any attempt to obtain another person's account information.
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with security features of the Services, or with features that enforce limits on the use of the Services or the Content.
• Use information obtained from the Services to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
• Harass, intimidate, or threaten anyone providing the Services or supporting them.
• Misuse our support channels, or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• Upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, or any other material that disrupts, impairs, or interferes with the Services or with anyone else's use of them.
• Use the Services through any automated system — a script, bot, scraper, spider, data-mining tool, or offline reader — or create accounts by automated means or under false pretences.
• Interfere with, disrupt, or place an undue burden on the Services or the networks and services connected to them.
• Impersonate another person, or use an account that is not yours.
• Remove any copyright or proprietary notice from any Content.
• Except where applicable law expressly permits it, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to derive the source code of the App.
• Resell, redistribute, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or the Content, or sell or transfer your account to anyone else.
• Frame the Services, or link to them in a way that suggests an association we have not agreed to.
• Abuse the AI generation service — for example by making excessive automated requests, or by trying to bypass usage limits.
• Capture or upload content you do not have the right to use, or reproduce a substantial part of any book or other work.
• Create multiple accounts, or delete and re-register an account, in order to claim the free personalised action more than once.

If you break these rules we may restrict or end your access to the Services, as described in section 20.

15. Mobile application licence

Use licence

We grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the App on wireless electronic devices that you own or control, and to use it on those devices strictly in accordance with these Legal Terms. You must not: (1) except where applicable law expressly permits it, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the App; (2) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from the App; (3) break any applicable law, rule, or regulation in connection with your use of the App; (4) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice — including any copyright or trademark notice — placed by us or by our licensors; (5) resell or redistribute access to the App, or use the App to build, or as an input to, a product or service that is substantially similar to or competes with it; (6) make the App available over a network or in any other environment that lets multiple devices or users access it at the same time; (7) use the App to send automated queries to any website, or to send unsolicited commercial email; or (8) use our proprietary information, interfaces, or other intellectual property in designing, developing, manufacturing, licensing, or distributing applications, accessories, or devices for use with the App.

Apple and Android devices

The following applies when you obtain the App from the Apple App Store or Google Play (each an "App Distributor"): (1) these Legal Terms are between you and us only, and not with the App Distributor; we alone, and not the App Distributor, are responsible for the App and its content; (2) the licence granted to you is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the App on a device running Apple iOS or Android, in accordance with the usage rules in that App Distributor's terms of service; (3) we, not the App Distributor, are responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the App, as set out in these Legal Terms or as required by applicable law, and you acknowledge that the App Distributor has no obligation to provide maintenance or support; (4) if the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the App Distributor, which may refund the purchase price of the App, if any, in accordance with its own terms and policies, and — to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law — the App Distributor will have no other warranty obligation with respect to the App, any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty being our responsibility; (5) we, not the App Distributor, are responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party makes relating to the App or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or privacy legislation; (6) if a third party claims that the App infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not the App Distributor, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling, and discharging that claim; (7) you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo, or designated by the US government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties — this confirmation is required by the App Distributor's own terms and appears here for that reason; (8) you must comply with the terms of any third-party agreement that applies when you use the App, such as your mobile data plan; and (9) you acknowledge that the App Distributors are third-party beneficiaries of this section, and that each App Distributor has the right to enforce it against you as a third-party beneficiary.

16. Third-party links and content

The Services may contain, or send you to, links to other websites ("Third-Party Websites") and content originating from third parties ("Third-Party Content") — for example a store page for a book, an app store, or one of our social media pages. We do not investigate, monitor, or check Third-Party Websites or Third-Party Content for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness, and we are not responsible for them, including their content, opinions, reliability, or privacy practices.

Including or linking to a Third-Party Website or Third-Party Content does not mean we endorse it. If you leave the Services, these Legal Terms no longer apply, and you should read the terms and privacy policy of wherever you have gone. Any purchase you make on a Third-Party Website is between you and that third party, and we are not a party to it.

17. Managing the Services

We may, but are not obliged to: monitor the Services for breaches of these Legal Terms; take appropriate legal action against anyone who breaks the law or these Legal Terms; restrict or remove content that is unlawful, that breaches these Legal Terms, or that places an excessive burden on our systems; and otherwise manage the Services to protect our rights and property and to keep them working properly.

Because nothing you save in Self is published or visible to anyone else, this section is about protecting the service and its other users — not about moderating a public space.

If we remove something you have saved, we will tell you and why, unless the law prevents us, and you can ask us to look at it again.

18. Privacy

We care about data privacy and security. Please read our Privacy Policy, which explains what we collect, why, who processes it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have. It is not a contract term and we do not ask you to agree to it — it tells you how we handle your information and what your rights are.

Please note that our servers are located in the United States, and that some of our providers process data in the European Union. Wherever you use the Services from, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in those places. The safeguards we use for those transfers — including the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses — are described in the Privacy Policy.

19. Copyright complaints

We respect other people's intellectual property rights. If you believe that material available in the App or on our website infringes a copyright you own or control, please tell us at hey@selfreadrise.com and include:

• identification of the work you say has been infringed;
• where in the Services the material is, in enough detail for us to find it;
• your name and contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement that the information you have given is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.

We will review the complaint promptly and remove or amend the material where that is appropriate. Please only send a complaint you genuinely believe to be well-founded; a knowingly false complaint may expose you to liability under the general law. If you are not sure whether material infringes your copyright, consider taking legal advice first.

20. Term and termination

These Legal Terms apply for as long as you use the Services.

You may stop using the Services at any time, and delete your account and data from inside the App, as described in section 3.

We may suspend or end your access to the Services, or delete your account, if you materially breach these Legal Terms, if you use the Services unlawfully, or if we are required to do so by law. Where we can, we will tell you why, and — unless the breach is serious or repeated, or telling you first would be unlawful or would defeat the purpose — we will give you the chance to put it right first.

If we end your access while you hold a paid Self+ subscription and you have not breached these Legal Terms, we will tell you, and we will refund the part of your subscription you have paid for but not received — arranging it through Apple or Google where we can, and paying you directly where we cannot. Nothing in this section affects any refund or remedy you are entitled to as a consumer under Romanian or EU law.

If we end your account, we will tell you before we delete your data and give you a reasonable chance to export it first, unless the law prevents us.

If we end your account for a serious breach, you must not register a new one — in your own name, in a false or borrowed name, or in anyone else's — without our agreement.

Sections that by their nature should survive the end of these Legal Terms do so, including Intellectual property, If Self+ does not work as it should, Limitation of liability, Governing law, and Resolving disputes.

21. Changes to the Services

Self is under active development, and we may change, add, or remove features. We make changes for a limited set of reasons: to keep Self secure and working, to comply with the law, because a provider we depend on has changed, or to improve the service without reducing what you already have.

If we change Self+ in a way that reduces what it gives you by more than a minor degree, we will tell you by email at least 30 days before the change takes effect. You may then end your subscription free of charge — within 30 days of us telling you, or of the change taking effect, whichever is later — and we will refund the part of your subscription you have paid for but not received.

If we discontinue the Services altogether, we will tell you at least 30 days in advance, give you time to export your data using the export described in section 27, and refund the part of any subscription you have paid for but not received. If you hold a retired lifetime purchase, we will make you a fair offer in good faith.

We cannot guarantee that the Services will be available at all times. We may have hardware, software, or connectivity problems, or need to carry out maintenance, and that can cause interruptions, delays, or errors. Subject to section 23 and section 25, we are not liable for any loss or inconvenience caused by the Services being unavailable. This does not affect your right to a price reduction, or to end your subscription and be refunded, if Self+ is unavailable for a significant period.

22. Corrections

There may be information in the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including in descriptions, pricing, and availability. We may correct any error, inaccuracy, or omission, and update the information in the Services at any time, without prior notice. If a price shown on our website is wrong, we will correct it; the price that applies to you is always the one Apple or Google shows you at the moment you subscribe.

23. If Self+ does not work as it should

Self+ is a digital service, and under Romanian and EU law — Directive (EU) 2019/770, implemented in Romania by OUG 141/2021 — it has to match what we have described here and on our website, and to work the way you can reasonably expect a service like this to work. We are responsible for that for the whole time your subscription runs, and if something is wrong during that time it is for us to show that it was not; you do not have to prove it. We will also provide the updates, including security updates, needed to keep it working.

If Self+ is not working as it should, write to us at hey@selfreadrise.com. We will put it right, free of charge and within a reasonable time. If we cannot, or do not, you can ask for a reduction in price for the period affected, or end your subscription and get back what you paid for the part you did not receive. Where the money went through Apple or Google we will arrange the refund with them; if they will not process it, we will pay you directly.

These rights are yours by law. Nothing in the sections that follow takes them away.

24. Disclaimer

We work hard to keep Self reliable, but we cannot promise that it will always be available, error-free, or uninterrupted, and we do not promise that any particular idea, action, or insight will suit you. To the fullest extent permitted by law, and without affecting section 23, we give no warranties beyond those the law requires.

We make no warranty about the accuracy or completeness of the Content, or of the content of any website or application linked to the Services. We do not control, and are not responsible for: bugs, viruses, or similar material transmitted to or through the Services by a third party; interruption of transmission caused by networks or devices outside our control; or the content of any third-party website or application. Our liability for the things we are responsible for is dealt with in section 23 and section 25.

We do not warrant, endorse, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party through the Services or any linked website, and we are not a party to, and will not monitor, any transaction between you and a third-party provider. As with any purchase, use your own judgement and exercise caution where appropriate.

Nothing in this section affects your statutory rights as a consumer, including the rights set out in section 23.

25. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Legal Terms excludes or limits our liability for: death, personal injury, or harm to your physical or mental health; loss we cause you intentionally or through gross negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; our obligations under section 23; or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including your rights as a consumer under Romanian and EU law, and any liability we have under applicable data protection law.

Subject to that:

• we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business or business opportunity, loss of goodwill, or any loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you started using the Services;
• we are not liable for anything you decide to do, or not do, as a result of content the App shows you, including AI-generated content (see section 7); and
• our total liability to you for all claims arising in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid for Self+ in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim and (b) €500.

We provide the Services to you as a consumer for personal use. We are not liable for losses arising from any business use of the Services.

26. Indemnification

If someone brings a claim against us because of something you did in breach of these Legal Terms — for example content you captured that you had no right to use, or unlawful use of the Services — you are responsible for that under the general law, to the extent the claim was actually caused by you and not by us. We will tell you about any such claim as soon as we reasonably can, and we will not settle it in a way that admits fault on your behalf without asking you first.

27. Your data and backups

We keep the data you create in the App so that we can provide the Services, and we take regular backups of our systems. Even so, no service is immune to loss, and you should keep your own copy of anything you would not want to lose.

You can export your data at any time from inside the App — Settings, Account Settings, Download All Data — which gives you a file containing your profile, your saved actions, the personalised actions we generated for you, your onboarding answers, your Growth Insights, and your captured highlights. What the export contains is described in more detail in our Privacy Policy.

Subject to section 23 and section 25, we are not liable for loss or corruption of data, and we do not guarantee that any particular item can be recovered once it has been deleted. Deletion is immediate and designed to be permanent.

28. Electronic communications

Using the Services, emailing us, and completing forms on our website are electronic communications. You consent to receiving communications from us electronically — by email and inside the App — and you agree that agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we send you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing. This covers messages about your account, your subscription, and the Services. We will not send you marketing email unless you separately ask us to, and you can stop those at any time. This does not affect any right you have under applicable law to receive particular information on a durable medium.

29. Governing law

These Legal Terms are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Romania.

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU, you also keep the protection given to you by the mandatory provisions of the law of your own country of residence. Nothing in these Legal Terms takes those protections away from you.

You can bring a claim against us in the courts of Romania or in the courts of the EU country where you live, whichever you prefer. We will only bring proceedings against you in the courts of the country where you live.

30. Resolving disputes

Talk to us first. If something goes wrong, the fastest way to fix it is almost always to write to us at hey@selfreadrise.com, describing the problem and what you would like us to do about it. We will reply, and both of us will try in good faith to resolve it directly. We would like 30 days to do that — but this is a request, not a condition: you can contact a consumer protection authority or go to court at any time, and asking us first does not affect any time limit that applies to your claim. We will give you the same 30 days before starting proceedings against you.

Consumer redress. If we cannot resolve it between us, you can contact the Romanian National Authority for Consumer Protection (Autoritatea Națională pentru Protecția Consumatorilor — ANPC) at anpc.ro, including its alternative dispute resolution service. The European Commission also publishes information on consumer redress, with a list of dispute resolution bodies by country. We are not obliged to use, and have not committed to using, any particular alternative dispute resolution body, but we will consider a request in good faith.

Purchases. If your complaint is about a charge, a refund, or a subscription renewal, Apple or Google took the payment and their support channels are the right place to start — see section 13.

31. Miscellaneous

These Legal Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any policies or operating rules we publish in the Services, make up the entire agreement between you and us about the Services.

If we do not enforce a right or provision of these Legal Terms, that is not a waiver of it. If any provision is found to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, it is treated as severable and the rest of these Legal Terms continue in force.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Legal Terms to someone else — for example if the business is sold — provided that this does not reduce your rights. We will tell you if that happens. You may not transfer your rights or obligations without our agreement.

We are not responsible for any failure or delay in performing our obligations that is caused by something outside our reasonable control, for as long as that situation lasts.

These Legal Terms do not create any joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship between you and us.

32. Contact us

To resolve a complaint about the Services, or for more information about using them, contact us at:

Mihai Ruscanu
Bucharest
Romania
hey@selfreadrise.com

We aim to acknowledge every message within two business days, and to resolve complaints within 14 days. If we need longer, we will tell you why and when to expect an answer. For anything about your personal information, see our Privacy Policy.