Terms of use
The deal, in plain words.
waxid identifies records from photographs. These terms say what you can expect from it, what you cannot, and the few conditions that come attached to the data it shows you. They are short on purpose. Where a clause exists because somebody else requires it, we say so.
1. Who you are dealing with
waxid.app is a service of Business Information Technology Services Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 14154728. In these terms "we" and "us" mean that company, and "you" means the person using the app.
By creating an account you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not create one.
2. This is a private beta
Accounts are by invitation only and the service is free. Nothing here is a paid product yet, and there is no payment clause in these terms because there is nothing to pay.
Being a beta means the honest things it usually means: features change, things occasionally break, and we may change or withdraw the service. We may close the beta, or your account in it, at any time. If we close the service down we will tell account holders by email first.
3. Your account
An account is for one person — you. Keep your password to yourself and turn on two-factor authentication if it is offered to you. Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you think somebody else has got into your account.
You are responsible for what happens under your account. You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live — in the UK, 18.
4. What the app does, and what it cannot promise
You photograph a record, or paste a link to one for sale, and waxid tries to tell you which exact pressing it is. That is the whole promise, and it is deliberately a modest one: we will name it if we can, tell you honestly how sure we are, and ask you for the one look that would settle it.
It gets things wrong. Identification is a judgement made from photographs against a catalogue built by other people, and both halves can be wrong: the photo may not show the detail that matters, and the catalogue entry for your pressing may be incomplete — or may not exist at all. This is why the app shows you a confidence figure and tells you what it could not read. Treat those as the honest signal they are meant to be, not as decoration.
So: the app's answer is information, not a guarantee. Check anything that matters to you against the record in your hands before you act on it. If the app says it is unsure, it is unsure.
5. Prices and valuations are estimates
Where the app shows what a record might be worth, that figure is an estimate assembled from public listings and from sales data you supply. It is not a valuation, not an appraisal, not an insurance figure, and not financial or investment advice. We are not authorised to give financial advice and we are not giving any.
Record prices move, condition drives them enormously, and two copies of the same pressing can be worth very different sums. Do not buy, sell, insure or decline anything solely because of a number this app printed. The decision, and its consequences, are yours.
6. eBay content — a condition we are required to pass on
When you paste an eBay listing, the app may show you photographs and details from it. That content belongs to the seller and reaches you through eBay under a licence eBay grants us. eBay require us to pass three conditions on to you, and by using the app you agree to them:
- you are bound by eBay's own user agreement and API terms in respect of any eBay content the app shows you;
- eBay is a third-party beneficiary of these terms. eBay Inc. and its group companies may enforce this section directly against you under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, even though they are not a party to this agreement; and
- the permission you get to view that content is revocable — by us or by eBay — and ends when the listing is no longer publicly available.
Practically, that means eBay listing photos are for looking at, here, while the listing is live. They are shown in their own section of the page and kept separate from everything else, which is also a licence condition. You must not copy, save, republish or reuse them — and in particular you must not put a seller's photographs into a listing of your own. If you are selling a record, photograph your own record.
7. Discogs data
Record data comes largely from Discogs' openly published catalogue dump, contributed by collectors. Data provided by Discogs. This application uses Discogs’ API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. Discogs is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.
If the app ever asks you to connect your own Discogs account, anything it fetches on your behalf is fetched under your Discogs login and your own agreement with them. Their terms apply to you directly for that, and we cannot vary them.
8. Your photographs and what you type in
Your photographs stay yours. We claim no ownership of them.
To run a scan we need permission to use them for that: by uploading a photo you give us a licence to store and process it, and to send it to our identification provider, for the purpose of answering your scan and improving how the app reads records. Nothing more. We do not sell your photographs and we do not publish them.
Only upload photographs you took or are entitled to use, and do not paste in anything unlawful. Your images and your account data are covered by the privacy notice, which says what is kept and for how long.
9. Using it fairly
Use the app as a person using an app. Please do not:
- share your account, or resell access to it;
- scrape it, script it, or run it in bulk against automated traffic;
- try to extract the underlying catalogue wholesale, rather than looking up records you are actually interested in;
- attempt to break, overload or get around the security of the service; or
- use it to break the law, or somebody else's rights.
If you do any of that we may suspend or close your account without notice.
10. Ending it
You can stop at any time — email [email protected] and we will close your account, which deletes it and your saved scans (the privacy notice explains the one 90-day technical log that is the exception).
We can end your access too: for breaking these terms, or simply because the beta is ending. Since the service is free, there is nothing to refund.
11. What we are and are not responsible for
The app is provided as it is. We do not promise it will always be available, always be right, or be fit for any particular purpose you have in mind — see sections 4 and 5, which are the honest description of what it can actually do.
We are not liable for losses that follow from you relying on what the app told you — a record that turned out to be a different pressing, a price that turned out to be wrong, a sale you made or did not make. Nor for indirect or consequential loss, or lost profit.
Two things we do not exclude, and cannot: liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, and liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Nothing in these terms limits either, or affects any right you have under UK consumer law that cannot be signed away.
Because the service is free, where liability cannot be excluded it is limited to £100.
12. Changes to these terms
These terms are version 1.0. When we change them we give the new text a new version number, and we record which version you agreed to when you signed up — that is why the record exists, so that "what did I actually agree to" has an answer. If we make a change that materially affects you, we will tell account holders by email and ask you to accept the new version.
13. Law, and getting hold of us
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the UK, you keep the right to bring proceedings in your own local courts.
Anything at all: [email protected].
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