Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the Terms) are an agreement between you and Rarex (we, us) covering the Rarex iOS app (the app) and this website (the site), together the Service. By downloading, opening or using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

1. Your licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on Apple devices that you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, in line with these Terms and with Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement. We keep every right not expressly granted here.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.

3. What Rarex is — and what it is not

Rarex identifies trading cards from photographs and shows market data supplied by a third-party card database. It is a tool for collectors, and it has limits you should understand before relying on it:

• Prices are information, not an appraisal. Values shown are third-party market estimates for a printing, not an offer to buy or sell, not a valuation of your individual copy, and not financial, investment or tax advice.
• Identification can be wrong. Recognition depends on the photograph, the print and the underlying database. The app reports its confidence and asks you to confirm when a match is uncertain — confirming a match is your decision.
• Condition is assessed by you. The app does not grade cards from photographs and makes no claim about authenticity, centering, grading outcomes or whether a card is counterfeit.
• Data can be incomplete. Some cards have no price data, some sets may be missing, and the third-party source can change or become unavailable.

Decisions you make about buying, selling, insuring, grading or trading cards are yours alone, and you should verify anything that matters through an independent source.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• copy, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract the source code of the app, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• use the Service to build or train a competing product, or to systematically extract, scrape or resell card data, prices or images obtained through it;
• interfere with, overload or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service or to any system it depends on, including automated or high-volume querying;
• remove or obscure any proprietary notice, or use the Service for anything unlawful or in breach of a third party's rights;
• use the Service to misrepresent a card's identity, condition or value to someone else.

5. Your content

Photographs, notes, purchase details and collection entries you create stay yours, and they stay on your device — we receive no copy and claim no licence over them. Because your collection lives only on your device, keeping a backup is your responsibility; deleting the app, resetting the collection or losing the device will lose the data unless you have an encrypted device or iCloud backup. You are responsible for making sure you have the right to use any image you import.

6. Third-party data and trademarks

Card information and pricing are provided by the Pokémon TCG API (pokemontcg.io) and remain subject to that provider's terms. We do not control that data and do not warrant it.

Rarex is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by The Pokémon Company International, Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc., Wizards of the Coast, Konami, or any other publisher or rights holder. Card names, images, set names, logos and other trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

7. Availability and changes

The Service is provided as it is today. We may add, change, suspend or discontinue features — including support for a particular game or data source — at any time, and features described as "coming soon" are statements of intent, not commitments. We are not liable to you for any modification, suspension or discontinuation of the Service.

8. Purchases

Rarex is free to use at the time of writing. If paid features or subscriptions are introduced, they will be sold through the App Store, billed by Apple to your Apple Account, and governed by Apple's terms. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in your Apple Account settings, and refunds are handled by Apple under its refund policy. Prices may change with notice for future billing periods.

9. Our intellectual property

The app, the site, their design, code, text, logos and the Rarex name are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. These Terms give you a licence to use the Service, not ownership of it.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy or uninterrupted availability. We do not warrant that card identifications, prices or price histories are accurate, complete or current, or that the Service will be error-free.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits consumer rights that cannot be waived under the law of your country of residence.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost collections, or losses arising from a transaction you entered into in reliance on information shown by the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 50.

We do not exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages and reasonable costs arising out of your misuse of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of the rights of a third party.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time by deleting the app. We may suspend or end your licence if you materially breach these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive — including sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16 — survive termination.

14. Apple-specific terms

These Terms are between you and us, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. You acknowledge that:

• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app;
• if the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app;
• we, not Apple, are responsible for any claim relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or privacy law;
• we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and resolving any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights;
• you comply with applicable export laws and are not located in an embargoed country or on a prohibited-party list;
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [Country / State], without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of [Country / State] have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections and any right to bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence.

16. General

If a provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them as part of a merger or sale of the business. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms; the date at the top of the page shows when they last changed. Material changes will be signalled in the app or its release notes. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@rarex.app.