Terms of Service

By using ShowReco you agree to these terms. ShowReco is operated by [OWNER: legal entity / operator name]. If you don't agree with these terms, please don't use the service.

You need an account to use ShowReco. You must be at least 13 years old. Keep your login secure; you're responsible for activity under your account. Your recommendations are personal to you, so please create your own account rather than sharing one.

ShowReco is free to use with generous limits. Because some features cost real money each time they run (AI calls in particular), the free tier has caps (for example, a daily limit on chat messages), and free chat may run on a different, faster AI model than the one supporters get. We may adjust free-tier limits over time as costs and usage change. We'll try to keep the free tier genuinely useful.

Supporting ShowReco unlocks the paid features (like unlimited chat on the smarter AI model and on-demand queue refreshes). The mechanic:

• You buy months. Each purchase adds a number of months to your balance: one for the monthly price, twelve for the yearly price.
• Months roll over indefinitely.Unused months sit in your balance until you use them. They don't expire.
• A month is consumed lazily and covers 30 days.One month is deducted from your balance the first time you use a paid feature with no month already active, and it then covers the next 30 days. Just browsing, rating, or reading your queue doesn't spend anything.
• Monthly support auto-renews, but only when used. Buying a month at the monthly price saves your card with Stripe (with the consent shown at checkout) and turns on auto-renew: when your balance is empty and your last 30 days have run out, the next paid feature you use charges your saved card the same amount you paid at checkout, for one more 30-day month. If you don't use a paid feature, nothing is charged, that month or ever. You can turn auto-renew off any time on the support page, which stops all future charges immediately.
• If a renewal charge fails (an expired or declined card), we pause renewals, tell you in the app, and typically grant the month it was covering free of charge. Buying a new month saves a fresh card and turns renewals back on.
• If you have no months left and auto-renew is off, paid features simply pause until you buy more; your data stays put.

During launch we may offer a Founding Member pack: a one-time purchase that adds 24 months to your balance and gives your account a permanent founding-member badge. It follows the same month-consumption rules above. If the offer is retired, purchases already in flight are still honored.

Because months don't expire and are only consumed when you use them, our default policy is simple: unused, unactivated months are refundable on request within [OWNER: refund window, e.g. 14 days] of purchase.Once a month has been activated (you've used a paid feature that month), that month isn't refundable, but any remaining unused months in your balance still are, under the same window. To request a refund, send us a message.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Your card details are handled by Stripe and never reach our servers. See the Privacy Policy for what payment data we do keep.

ShowReco shows you where to watch or buy a title, and links out to streaming providers and book retailers. Some of those outbound links may earn ShowReco a commission when you use them.

Commissions never influence what we recommend or how we rank it.The part of ShowReco that decides what to suggest has no knowledge of which links are monetized; it's a hard separation in the code. We recommend what fits your taste, full stop. When you click an outbound link we count it only as an anonymous, per-service tally to understand outbound volume; we don't track who clicked (see the Privacy Policy).

The notes, ratings, and other content you create are yours. To run the service, you grant us a limited license to store and process that content, including sending relevant parts to our AI provider, for the purposes of operating the service: generating your recommendations, maintaining your taste profile, providing support, keeping the service secure, and improving how well it works. The Privacy Policydescribes who can access your content and why. We don't claim ownership of your content and we don't use it to train our own models.

You agree not to:

• Abuse, overload, or try to circumvent rate limits or free-tier caps (including automated scraping or hammering the AI).
• Use ShowReco to break the law or infringe others' rights.
• Attempt to access other users' data or interfere with the service's operation or security.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that abuse the service.

ShowReco's recommendations, predicted ratings, and taste analyses are generated by AI and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or just plain wrong. They're for your entertainment and convenience, not professional advice. Use your own judgment about what to watch or read.

ShowReco is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We don't guarantee the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that recommendations will meet your expectations. Third-party data (availability, ratings) can be out of date or incorrect.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, ShowReco and its operator won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service. Where liability can't be excluded, it's limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

These terms are governed by the laws of [OWNER: governing law (state / country)], without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

We may update these terms from time to time. When we make a meaningful change, we'll update this page and the “last updated” date and give notice in the app. Continuing to use ShowReco after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Questions about these terms? Send us a message. You'll need to be signed in, which is also how we know who is asking.