Terms of Service
1.Agreement
By using Comicwell you agree to these terms and to Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/). Where they conflict for the app itself, Apple’s EULA applies.
2.The service
Comicwell is a comics reading app and website operated by Comicwell, for readers 16 and over. Signed-in readers can also rate, review and comment on comicwell.com (see 7a).
3.Your account
You can read without signing up; we create a guest account on your device. Use “Save your account” (Sign in with Apple) to keep your coins and unlocks if you change or reset your phone. A guest account that is signed out, or whose app is deleted, can’t be recovered.
On comicwell.com you can read free chapters without an account, and sign in with Apple, Google or Microsoft to use the same account, coins and subscription as in the app. You can link sign-ins to one account; we never merge accounts by email. Coins bought in the app or on the website go into the same balance.
4.Coins
Coins are bought through Apple in the app, or on comicwell.com (below), and used to unlock chapters, story paths and novels. The first 20 chapters of every series are free; each later chapter costs 20 coins, or 80 coins for a bundle of the next 5.
Coins are a limited licence to use content in Comicwell. They have no cash value and can’t be sold, transferred or exchanged for money. Coin purchases are non-refundable except as required by law or as Apple decides under its refund policy. If Apple refunds a coin purchase, we remove those coins; your balance can go below zero, and you can’t unlock chapters until it’s positive again. Chapters you unlocked stay unlocked. Unused coins are forfeited when you delete your account. We may change how many coins a chapter costs; the price shown before you confirm is the price you pay.
On comicwell.com. You can also buy coin packs on the website: 330 coins for $4.99, 800 coins for $9.99 and 1,800 coins for $19.99 (USD, plus any tax shown at checkout). Each novel is sold as a whole book, for $6.99 or 400 coins, and is read on comicwell.com; Comicwell Unlimited includes reading every book there. A book you buy can also be downloaded as an ebook (EPUB) for reading offline; the download is for buyers, not included in Unlimited. Each copy carries your account’s email address and is for your own personal reading: please don’t share, upload or resell it. Payment is taken by our payment processor, Stripe, when you confirm; your card details never reach our server. On your card statement the charge shows COMICWELL after the name of our payment account. Coins bought on the website work in the app and on comicwell.com, on the same account. Web purchases are non-refundable except as required by law; to ask about one, email support@comicwell.com. If we refund a coin pack, or you dispute its payment, we take back that pack’s coins not yet spent; your balance never goes below zero, and chapters you already unlocked stay unlocked. If we refund a book, or you dispute its payment, the book is removed from your account. Purchases made in the app are refunded by Apple, not by us.
5.Comicwell Unlimited
A monthly subscription that unlocks every paid chapter while it’s active. Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. When a subscription ends, subscription access ends; chapters you unlocked with coins stay unlocked.
On comicwell.com. You can also subscribe to Comicwell Unlimited on the website for $9.99/month (USD, plus any tax shown at checkout). Payment is taken by our payment processor, Stripe, when you confirm, and the subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel. On your card statement it shows as COMICWELL. Cancel any time from Account › Manage subscription; you keep access to the end of the period you paid for, and no further payments are taken. Payments already made are not refunded except as required by law. It is the same Unlimited as in the app: one subscription opens every chapter and story path in both places, so you never need both. If your payment fails we may keep your access for a short grace period while it is retried. Deleting your account cancels a web subscription at once.
6.Content
The comics belong to their creators and licensors. You may read them in the app for your own non-commercial use. Don’t copy, redistribute or scrape them. We may add, change or remove series or chapters, including for rights or legal reasons.
7.Acceptable use
Don’t misuse the service, interfere with it, or try to get paid content without paying.
7a.Reviews, ratings and comments
On comicwell.com, signed-in readers 16 and over can rate and review comics and novels, and comment on chapters they can read. You post under a reader name you choose; your email and sign-in name are never shown.
Your posts stay yours. You keep ownership of what you write. By posting it, you give Comicwell a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store it and show it on Comicwell, for as long as it stays posted. This licence ends when your post is deleted, except for copies in backups, which roll off within 30 days. We don’t pay for posts, and we don’t use them in ads. You can delete your own reviews and comments at any time from Your posts on your Account page, except posts a moderator removed: those are kept for an appeal, and support@comicwell.com deletes them on request. Deleting a review keeps your star rating until you remove it too (“Remove my rating”), and a comment others replied to stays as “Comment removed”, without your name or text.
You are responsible for what you post. Post only what you wrote yourself, or have the right to share. Follow the community rules: be kind; no harassment, hate or threats; no spoilers outside the spoiler box; no ads, links or self-promotion; no personal information; stay on the story. Posts are not reviewed by a person before they appear (an automatic filter rejects some offensive words), and posts are the views of the readers who wrote them, not of Comicwell.
Moderation. Any reader can report a review or comment. When 3 different readers report the same one, it is hidden until a moderator looks at it. We may hide or remove any review or comment that breaks these terms or the community rules, or that we have to remove by law. A removed comment that others replied to shows as “Comment removed”. If we hide or remove your post, you see a notice the next time you are signed in on comicwell.com, on your account page and on the page the post was on, with the reason. A ban (section 9) hides all your posts at once and is not shown as a notice for each post. If you think we got it wrong, email support@comicwell.com and we will look again.
8.Disclaimers and liability
The service is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, Comicwell isn’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
9.Ending
You can stop using Comicwell and delete your account at any time. We may suspend accounts that break these terms. If you break the community rules badly or again and again, we may stop your account from rating, reviewing, commenting, liking and reporting (a ban). You can still read, and you keep the chapters, books, coins and subscription you paid for.
10.Changes
We may update these terms; we’ll post the new version here with its effective date.
11.Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without affecting rights you have under the law where you live.