Terms of Service
Version Pilot · effective 1 September 2026
1. Who we are
Ains Reads is a digital reading, publishing, and marketplace platform operated by AinsoftEdge Ltd ("Ains Reads", "we", "us", "our"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of ainsreads.com, our Publish and Administrator web portals, and our official Ains Reads mobile and desktop applications (together, the "Services"). By creating an account, browsing, purchasing, publishing, or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
Reading purchased content happens only through our official Mobile app or PC desktop app. Our website is for browsing, account management, purchasing, and publishing tools only — it does not stream or display book content itself.
2. Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. Age is self-declared at signup; you are responsible for the accuracy of what you tell us. Our app store listings declare where content may be sexually explicit or otherwise mature, and it is the responsibility of whoever downloads the app to supervise any minor's use of a shared device. Content marked as explicit is additionally gated behind identity verification and a liveness check on both the author who published it and the reader who wants to access it, as described in Section 6. Titles with milder romantic content rely on your own self-declaration at signup instead.
You are responsible for all activity on your account, whether you signed in through our Microsoft-powered secure sign-in system or a fallback password. Do not share your login credentials. We may suspend or terminate any account that violates these Terms, attempts to evade a prior suspension or ban (including by creating new accounts or new devices), or is found to have submitted false verification information.
Ains Reads distinguishes several account roles — Reader, Author, Press, Publisher, Transport, Moderator, Customer Care, and Administrator. Business accounts (Press, Publisher, Transport) are operated by people ("Business Operators") whose own personal reader/author accounts behave normally, but the business account itself is never granted the ability to read purchased content, regardless of who operates it.
3. Coins, purchases, and subscriptions
Coins are Ains Reads' internal virtual currency, used to unlock individual chapters of serialized titles, buy gifts, and pay for optional subscriptions. Coins have no cash value, cannot be redeemed for cash, are not transferable between accounts except through our built-in gifting feature, and — except where required by law — are non-refundable once spent to unlock content you have read or downloaded.
Standalone titles and box sets can also be bought outright for a fixed price in your local currency. Purchases made through our website, PC desktop app on Windows or Linux, or Publisher/business portals are processed by our third-party payment processor, Flutterwave; purchases made inside our Android mobile app (and, where available, other app-store-distributed builds) are processed through that store's own in-app purchase system and are subject to that store's separate terms and refund policy. Prices charged through Flutterwave may include a small addition on top of the item's listed reference price, to cover the processing fee our payment provider charges us — this is disclosed here rather than hidden in the number you see.
We offer optional recurring subscriptions (a general Reader subscription that unlocks age/business verification eligibility, AI-assisted reading features, and a Creator Pro subscription for authors and business accounts). Subscription pricing, billing period, and what each tier includes are shown at the point of purchase and may change over time; where a subscription auto-renews, you can cancel any time before the next renewal from your account settings or, for app-store subscriptions, through that store's own subscription management.
If your bank, card issuer, or an app store reverses a payment after you have already spent the coins or consumed the content it bought, we treat that as an abuse pattern: we will record a negative coin balance and a flag on your account, and repeated or serious cases may lead to a required identity/liveness check before you can purchase again, a temporary restriction, or a permanent ban.
4. Reading Ains Reads content; leaks and unauthorized distribution
Purchasing, unlocking, or otherwise gaining access to a title gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to read it for your own private use through our official apps. It does not transfer any copyright or ownership in the work, and it does not give you any right to copy, screenshot, record, redistribute, publicly perform, resell, sublicense, or otherwise make the content available to anyone else, in whole or in part, by any means.
To protect authors, publishers, and the rights holders whose work is on our platform, content you read is protected by encryption in storage and in transit, and every copy of a chapter's text or images that reaches your device carries a per-reader, per-session watermark — some of it visible, some of it invisible to the naked eye — that uniquely identifies your account and reading session. If a title, or any recognizable part of it, is later found being redistributed, shared, screenshotted, or leaked outside the platform, we and rights holders can use this watermarking to trace the leak back to the account it came from.
You agree that you are personally responsible and may be held liable — financially and, where applicable, legally — for any leak, screenshot, recording, redistribution, or other unauthorized reproduction of content that is traced back to your account, in addition to any other remedy available to us or to the rights holder, including but not limited to account termination, a permanent ban, referral to law enforcement, and a civil claim for damages. Our apps may detect and log attempts to screenshot or otherwise capture protected reading screens; when this happens we may immediately delete any offline copies of content stored on that device (you keep ownership and can re-download once your account is in good standing) and add a record to your account's risk history, which factors into future enforcement decisions.
5. What happens when a title is no longer for sale
An author or publisher may choose to stop offering a title for new purchases at any time — for example, taking it off active sale, or pulling a serialized title mid-run. When this happens, the title simply stops appearing to new readers and can no longer be newly purchased or unlocked by anyone who does not already own it; it does not remove access for readers who already bought or unlocked it before that point. If you already own a title or chapter, you keep the ability to read what you paid for, even after it is withdrawn from sale to new readers.
The one exception is a legal takedown — removal ordered because the content itself is found to infringe someone's rights or otherwise cannot legally remain available. A legal takedown removes the content completely, including for readers who already owned it, because the whole point of a legal takedown is that the content cannot legally continue to exist on the platform in any form. Where a legal takedown affects a physical copy you already purchased and paid to have printed and shipped, we will offer a reasonable physical-copy remedy consistent with our print/fulfillment terms below, but no continued digital access to the removed content can be offered.
6. Age-restricted and mature content
Content that our genre system marks as explicit is hidden entirely from anyone who has not completed both an identity verification and a liveness (real-person) check. This applies to the author who published it and to any reader who wants to see or read it — both sides of an explicit-content transaction must be verified. Titles with milder romantic or suggestive content do not require this and rely on your own age self-declaration at signup instead. We do not attempt to comply with every jurisdiction's own age-verification law; our app store listings declare where content may be explicit, and store age-ratings are the primary gating mechanism for what a given download is allowed to contain. Whoever installs the app on a device is responsible for supervising anyone underage who may also use that device — our content password-lock feature exists specifically to let an account holder lock individual books or chapters on a shared device.
7. Identity and business verification (KYC/KYB)
Certain activities on Ains Reads — starting a Reader subscription, reaching a business/author verification milestone, accessing explicit content, registering a Press, Publisher, or Transport business, and other cases described in the app — require you to complete identity verification (for individuals, "KYC") or business verification ("KYB") through one of our verification partners. We currently use Dojah for Nigeria and Kenya, Smile ID for other African countries Smile ID supports, and Shufti Pro for every other territory and as a fallback whenever Dojah or Smile ID is unavailable. Which partner handles a given verification depends on your declared location and each partner's own service availability at the time. See our Privacy Policy for what these partners see and retain.
Submitting false or fraudulent verification information — including someone else's identity documents, a manipulated document, or a liveness check performed by someone other than the account holder — is a serious violation of these Terms and may result in immediate suspension, a permanent ban, forfeiture of pending earnings, and referral to law enforcement where fraud is involved.
8. Authors, publishers, and uploaded content
If you publish a Title on Ains Reads — as an individual author or through a linked Publisher account — you confirm that you own the content you upload or have all the rights necessary to publish, host, distribute, scan, and display it to readers through our Services, and you grant Ains Reads the rights needed to do so. This includes any images you place inside a chapter (maps, illustrations, photographs, and similar) — you are responsible for those images the same way you are for text, and they receive the same automated screening, encryption, and entitlement protection as the surrounding chapter.
All uploaded text and images pass through an automated content-screening process (currently using a third-party AI system, xAI's Grok) before or after publication, checking for legal and platform-guideline violations and producing a general "human / AI-assisted / AI-generated" signal for the content. You are required to honestly declare which of these categories your work falls into; the automated signal is advisory, not a determination we treat as final on its own. Content found to violate our guidelines, or found to be unlawful, may be removed, unpublished, or subjected to the legal-takedown process in Section 5, at our discretion.
Where a Publisher account is involved, both the author and the publisher are recorded against the title regardless of who actually uploaded it or where payment flows; whoever performed the upload is the party who earns from sales unless the parties have separately agreed and configured otherwise in the app. If the real author already has an Ains Reads account, a Publisher must link that real account rather than entering free text — a linked author gains visibility into their own book's readership ranking, but no payout share, no control over the listing, and no moderation rights, unless separately agreed outside the platform.
Current commission rates, payout thresholds, and maturity/hold periods are shown in your Author or business dashboard and may be updated by Ains Reads from time to time; material changes will be reflected the same way any other change to these Terms is — through a newer published version with a stated effective date.
9. Marketplace: printing, publishing, and delivery partners
Where enabled, Ains Reads can connect independent, verified businesses — printing presses, publishers, and transport/delivery providers — to readers who want a physical copy of a title, and to authors who want it printed and distributed. These businesses are verified (KYB) before they can participate, and none of them — including any individual staff member acting only in that business's capacity — is ever granted the ability to read the digital content that passes through their part of the order; a printing business only ever handles the print job, never the book's text or images in reading form.
If you place an order that requires physical delivery, we share the minimum shipping details necessary (such as your delivery address) with the specific press and/or transport provider fulfilling that order, and you can see in your order dashboard and in these Terms which parties received that information for which order. You choose your own press and transport provider at checkout, including a cross-border option if you want one; where you choose a cross-border delivery, you — not Ains Reads — are responsible for any import duties, customs clearance, and related costs or delays, and checkout will flag this before you confirm the order.
Physical fulfillment disputes (non-delivery, damage, wrong item) are handled through a dedicated escrow-and-confirmation process described in your order dashboard; where a dispute cannot be resolved in the reader's favor through the fulfilling business, Ains Reads' default position is to refund the reader and treat the business's own remedy, if any, as a matter between us and that business, not something the reader has to fight for directly.
10. Reviews and comments
Readers may leave a star rating and written review on titles they own, and comments on individual chapters and paragraphs. Comments display the commenter's actual role (author, publisher, moderator, admin, or unbadged reader) and cannot be spoofed. An author and a linked publisher cannot delete each other's comments, and neither can delete a moderator's or administrator's comment; moderators and administrators can moderate any comment, including an author's or publisher's own. Anyone can remove their own comment or review at any time. Where we remove a comment on someone else's behalf, the removal record shows who actually removed it.
Print orders separately support order-linked reviews of the printing press and the transport provider, rated and reviewed independently of each other.
11. Refunds
Purchases are generally non-refundable once a chapter or title has been unlocked, downloaded, or otherwise consumed, except where required by applicable law or expressly stated otherwise for a particular purchase type. In-app-purchase refunds are handled by the relevant app store under that store's own refund policy; where a store processes a refund after content has already been consumed, Section 3's abuse-handling provisions apply. For physical print/delivery orders, see Section 9's dispute process.
12. Account termination and deletion
You may stop using Ains Reads and delete your account at any time from your account settings. When you delete your account in good standing, we genuinely delete your active personal data; consistent with tax and accounting law, we keep anonymized financial records with nothing that identifies you, and we do not retain anything that would let a returning account be linked back to your old one. If your account carries an unresolved financial obligation or an active fraud/abuse flag at the time you try to delete it, we retain a hashed identifier (such as a hashed email or verification reference) together with the flag, on a fraud-prevention and financial-obligation basis, specifically so that a later attempt to return under a new identity can still be recognized as connected to the unresolved matter — we do not retain this for accounts in good standing. Where the law gives you a right to erasure that overrides this, we honor it and retain only anonymized financial records as required by law; a genuinely new account created afterwards is treated as a new identity with no reach-back to the erased one.
We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, for violating these Terms, for fraud, for repeated abuse flags, or where we are required to by law. If you are an author or publisher with pending or matured earnings at the time of a for-cause termination, those earnings are handled according to our standard payout rules and any specific findings of the enforcement action, and are never simply forfeited to cover unrelated matters.
13. Authors that Ains Reads cannot reach
If we are unable to reach an author (for payout-related or other account matters) after repeated attempts by email, SMS, and login checks, we will attempt to contact a trusted person the author has optionally designated for exactly this situation — that person is notified only, and is never given access to the author's account, content, or money. If an author remains genuinely unreachable, we may delist their titles and hold any dormant balance pending contact; we describe this internally and to you as "unreachable," never as a presumption about the author's wellbeing.
14. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The Services are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, except where the law does not allow such a limitation. We do not guarantee that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at all times. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ains Reads and AinsoftEdge Ltd are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Services, including loss of data, loss of profits, or loss of access to purchased content due to circumstances outside our reasonable control.
Nothing in these Terms limits your liability to us, or a rights holder's ability to pursue you directly, for unauthorized distribution or leaking of protected content as described in Section 4.
15. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, except where a mandatory local consumer-protection law in your own country gives you rights these Terms cannot override.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Every published version is kept on record and remains referenceable; a version, once published, is never edited in place — any change is published as a new version with its own effective date. When we publish a materially updated version, we email every account holder, and that email states the new version's effective date. Continuing to use the Services after a new version takes effect means you accept it.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@ainsreads.com.
Ains Reads is a digital reading, publishing, and marketplace platform operated by AinsoftEdge Ltd ("Ains Reads", "we", "us", "our"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of ainsreads.com, our Publish and Administrator web portals, and our official Ains Reads mobile and desktop applications (together, the "Services"). By creating an account, browsing, purchasing, publishing, or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
Reading purchased content happens only through our official Mobile app or PC desktop app. Our website is for browsing, account management, purchasing, and publishing tools only — it does not stream or display book content itself.
2. Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. Age is self-declared at signup; you are responsible for the accuracy of what you tell us. Our app store listings declare where content may be sexually explicit or otherwise mature, and it is the responsibility of whoever downloads the app to supervise any minor's use of a shared device. Content marked as explicit is additionally gated behind identity verification and a liveness check on both the author who published it and the reader who wants to access it, as described in Section 6. Titles with milder romantic content rely on your own self-declaration at signup instead.
You are responsible for all activity on your account, whether you signed in through our Microsoft-powered secure sign-in system or a fallback password. Do not share your login credentials. We may suspend or terminate any account that violates these Terms, attempts to evade a prior suspension or ban (including by creating new accounts or new devices), or is found to have submitted false verification information.
Ains Reads distinguishes several account roles — Reader, Author, Press, Publisher, Transport, Moderator, Customer Care, and Administrator. Business accounts (Press, Publisher, Transport) are operated by people ("Business Operators") whose own personal reader/author accounts behave normally, but the business account itself is never granted the ability to read purchased content, regardless of who operates it.
3. Coins, purchases, and subscriptions
Coins are Ains Reads' internal virtual currency, used to unlock individual chapters of serialized titles, buy gifts, and pay for optional subscriptions. Coins have no cash value, cannot be redeemed for cash, are not transferable between accounts except through our built-in gifting feature, and — except where required by law — are non-refundable once spent to unlock content you have read or downloaded.
Standalone titles and box sets can also be bought outright for a fixed price in your local currency. Purchases made through our website, PC desktop app on Windows or Linux, or Publisher/business portals are processed by our third-party payment processor, Flutterwave; purchases made inside our Android mobile app (and, where available, other app-store-distributed builds) are processed through that store's own in-app purchase system and are subject to that store's separate terms and refund policy. Prices charged through Flutterwave may include a small addition on top of the item's listed reference price, to cover the processing fee our payment provider charges us — this is disclosed here rather than hidden in the number you see.
We offer optional recurring subscriptions (a general Reader subscription that unlocks age/business verification eligibility, AI-assisted reading features, and a Creator Pro subscription for authors and business accounts). Subscription pricing, billing period, and what each tier includes are shown at the point of purchase and may change over time; where a subscription auto-renews, you can cancel any time before the next renewal from your account settings or, for app-store subscriptions, through that store's own subscription management.
If your bank, card issuer, or an app store reverses a payment after you have already spent the coins or consumed the content it bought, we treat that as an abuse pattern: we will record a negative coin balance and a flag on your account, and repeated or serious cases may lead to a required identity/liveness check before you can purchase again, a temporary restriction, or a permanent ban.
4. Reading Ains Reads content; leaks and unauthorized distribution
Purchasing, unlocking, or otherwise gaining access to a title gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to read it for your own private use through our official apps. It does not transfer any copyright or ownership in the work, and it does not give you any right to copy, screenshot, record, redistribute, publicly perform, resell, sublicense, or otherwise make the content available to anyone else, in whole or in part, by any means.
To protect authors, publishers, and the rights holders whose work is on our platform, content you read is protected by encryption in storage and in transit, and every copy of a chapter's text or images that reaches your device carries a per-reader, per-session watermark — some of it visible, some of it invisible to the naked eye — that uniquely identifies your account and reading session. If a title, or any recognizable part of it, is later found being redistributed, shared, screenshotted, or leaked outside the platform, we and rights holders can use this watermarking to trace the leak back to the account it came from.
You agree that you are personally responsible and may be held liable — financially and, where applicable, legally — for any leak, screenshot, recording, redistribution, or other unauthorized reproduction of content that is traced back to your account, in addition to any other remedy available to us or to the rights holder, including but not limited to account termination, a permanent ban, referral to law enforcement, and a civil claim for damages. Our apps may detect and log attempts to screenshot or otherwise capture protected reading screens; when this happens we may immediately delete any offline copies of content stored on that device (you keep ownership and can re-download once your account is in good standing) and add a record to your account's risk history, which factors into future enforcement decisions.
5. What happens when a title is no longer for sale
An author or publisher may choose to stop offering a title for new purchases at any time — for example, taking it off active sale, or pulling a serialized title mid-run. When this happens, the title simply stops appearing to new readers and can no longer be newly purchased or unlocked by anyone who does not already own it; it does not remove access for readers who already bought or unlocked it before that point. If you already own a title or chapter, you keep the ability to read what you paid for, even after it is withdrawn from sale to new readers.
The one exception is a legal takedown — removal ordered because the content itself is found to infringe someone's rights or otherwise cannot legally remain available. A legal takedown removes the content completely, including for readers who already owned it, because the whole point of a legal takedown is that the content cannot legally continue to exist on the platform in any form. Where a legal takedown affects a physical copy you already purchased and paid to have printed and shipped, we will offer a reasonable physical-copy remedy consistent with our print/fulfillment terms below, but no continued digital access to the removed content can be offered.
6. Age-restricted and mature content
Content that our genre system marks as explicit is hidden entirely from anyone who has not completed both an identity verification and a liveness (real-person) check. This applies to the author who published it and to any reader who wants to see or read it — both sides of an explicit-content transaction must be verified. Titles with milder romantic or suggestive content do not require this and rely on your own age self-declaration at signup instead. We do not attempt to comply with every jurisdiction's own age-verification law; our app store listings declare where content may be explicit, and store age-ratings are the primary gating mechanism for what a given download is allowed to contain. Whoever installs the app on a device is responsible for supervising anyone underage who may also use that device — our content password-lock feature exists specifically to let an account holder lock individual books or chapters on a shared device.
7. Identity and business verification (KYC/KYB)
Certain activities on Ains Reads — starting a Reader subscription, reaching a business/author verification milestone, accessing explicit content, registering a Press, Publisher, or Transport business, and other cases described in the app — require you to complete identity verification (for individuals, "KYC") or business verification ("KYB") through one of our verification partners. We currently use Dojah for Nigeria and Kenya, Smile ID for other African countries Smile ID supports, and Shufti Pro for every other territory and as a fallback whenever Dojah or Smile ID is unavailable. Which partner handles a given verification depends on your declared location and each partner's own service availability at the time. See our Privacy Policy for what these partners see and retain.
Submitting false or fraudulent verification information — including someone else's identity documents, a manipulated document, or a liveness check performed by someone other than the account holder — is a serious violation of these Terms and may result in immediate suspension, a permanent ban, forfeiture of pending earnings, and referral to law enforcement where fraud is involved.
8. Authors, publishers, and uploaded content
If you publish a Title on Ains Reads — as an individual author or through a linked Publisher account — you confirm that you own the content you upload or have all the rights necessary to publish, host, distribute, scan, and display it to readers through our Services, and you grant Ains Reads the rights needed to do so. This includes any images you place inside a chapter (maps, illustrations, photographs, and similar) — you are responsible for those images the same way you are for text, and they receive the same automated screening, encryption, and entitlement protection as the surrounding chapter.
All uploaded text and images pass through an automated content-screening process (currently using a third-party AI system, xAI's Grok) before or after publication, checking for legal and platform-guideline violations and producing a general "human / AI-assisted / AI-generated" signal for the content. You are required to honestly declare which of these categories your work falls into; the automated signal is advisory, not a determination we treat as final on its own. Content found to violate our guidelines, or found to be unlawful, may be removed, unpublished, or subjected to the legal-takedown process in Section 5, at our discretion.
Where a Publisher account is involved, both the author and the publisher are recorded against the title regardless of who actually uploaded it or where payment flows; whoever performed the upload is the party who earns from sales unless the parties have separately agreed and configured otherwise in the app. If the real author already has an Ains Reads account, a Publisher must link that real account rather than entering free text — a linked author gains visibility into their own book's readership ranking, but no payout share, no control over the listing, and no moderation rights, unless separately agreed outside the platform.
Current commission rates, payout thresholds, and maturity/hold periods are shown in your Author or business dashboard and may be updated by Ains Reads from time to time; material changes will be reflected the same way any other change to these Terms is — through a newer published version with a stated effective date.
9. Marketplace: printing, publishing, and delivery partners
Where enabled, Ains Reads can connect independent, verified businesses — printing presses, publishers, and transport/delivery providers — to readers who want a physical copy of a title, and to authors who want it printed and distributed. These businesses are verified (KYB) before they can participate, and none of them — including any individual staff member acting only in that business's capacity — is ever granted the ability to read the digital content that passes through their part of the order; a printing business only ever handles the print job, never the book's text or images in reading form.
If you place an order that requires physical delivery, we share the minimum shipping details necessary (such as your delivery address) with the specific press and/or transport provider fulfilling that order, and you can see in your order dashboard and in these Terms which parties received that information for which order. You choose your own press and transport provider at checkout, including a cross-border option if you want one; where you choose a cross-border delivery, you — not Ains Reads — are responsible for any import duties, customs clearance, and related costs or delays, and checkout will flag this before you confirm the order.
Physical fulfillment disputes (non-delivery, damage, wrong item) are handled through a dedicated escrow-and-confirmation process described in your order dashboard; where a dispute cannot be resolved in the reader's favor through the fulfilling business, Ains Reads' default position is to refund the reader and treat the business's own remedy, if any, as a matter between us and that business, not something the reader has to fight for directly.
10. Reviews and comments
Readers may leave a star rating and written review on titles they own, and comments on individual chapters and paragraphs. Comments display the commenter's actual role (author, publisher, moderator, admin, or unbadged reader) and cannot be spoofed. An author and a linked publisher cannot delete each other's comments, and neither can delete a moderator's or administrator's comment; moderators and administrators can moderate any comment, including an author's or publisher's own. Anyone can remove their own comment or review at any time. Where we remove a comment on someone else's behalf, the removal record shows who actually removed it.
Print orders separately support order-linked reviews of the printing press and the transport provider, rated and reviewed independently of each other.
11. Refunds
Purchases are generally non-refundable once a chapter or title has been unlocked, downloaded, or otherwise consumed, except where required by applicable law or expressly stated otherwise for a particular purchase type. In-app-purchase refunds are handled by the relevant app store under that store's own refund policy; where a store processes a refund after content has already been consumed, Section 3's abuse-handling provisions apply. For physical print/delivery orders, see Section 9's dispute process.
12. Account termination and deletion
You may stop using Ains Reads and delete your account at any time from your account settings. When you delete your account in good standing, we genuinely delete your active personal data; consistent with tax and accounting law, we keep anonymized financial records with nothing that identifies you, and we do not retain anything that would let a returning account be linked back to your old one. If your account carries an unresolved financial obligation or an active fraud/abuse flag at the time you try to delete it, we retain a hashed identifier (such as a hashed email or verification reference) together with the flag, on a fraud-prevention and financial-obligation basis, specifically so that a later attempt to return under a new identity can still be recognized as connected to the unresolved matter — we do not retain this for accounts in good standing. Where the law gives you a right to erasure that overrides this, we honor it and retain only anonymized financial records as required by law; a genuinely new account created afterwards is treated as a new identity with no reach-back to the erased one.
We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, for violating these Terms, for fraud, for repeated abuse flags, or where we are required to by law. If you are an author or publisher with pending or matured earnings at the time of a for-cause termination, those earnings are handled according to our standard payout rules and any specific findings of the enforcement action, and are never simply forfeited to cover unrelated matters.
13. Authors that Ains Reads cannot reach
If we are unable to reach an author (for payout-related or other account matters) after repeated attempts by email, SMS, and login checks, we will attempt to contact a trusted person the author has optionally designated for exactly this situation — that person is notified only, and is never given access to the author's account, content, or money. If an author remains genuinely unreachable, we may delist their titles and hold any dormant balance pending contact; we describe this internally and to you as "unreachable," never as a presumption about the author's wellbeing.
14. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The Services are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, except where the law does not allow such a limitation. We do not guarantee that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at all times. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ains Reads and AinsoftEdge Ltd are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Services, including loss of data, loss of profits, or loss of access to purchased content due to circumstances outside our reasonable control.
Nothing in these Terms limits your liability to us, or a rights holder's ability to pursue you directly, for unauthorized distribution or leaking of protected content as described in Section 4.
15. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, except where a mandatory local consumer-protection law in your own country gives you rights these Terms cannot override.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Every published version is kept on record and remains referenceable; a version, once published, is never edited in place — any change is published as a new version with its own effective date. When we publish a materially updated version, we email every account holder, and that email states the new version's effective date. Continuing to use the Services after a new version takes effect means you accept it.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@ainsreads.com.