Acceptance
By creating an account or using Otium you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the app.
The service
Otium is a personal tool for tracking your reading. We provide it on a best-effort basis and may change or improve features over time.
Accounts & access
There are two ways to access Otium. Lifetime access — a one-time purchase that stays yours for as long as the service runs (access tokens bought earlier can still be redeemed when you create your account). Or a subscription — billed monthly or yearly through our payment provider, giving you access for as long as it stays active.
Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel anytime and keep access until the end of the period you already paid for; see the Refund Policy for details.
Keep your token and login private — you’re responsible for activity on your account. Don’t share, resell or attempt to bypass access tokens.
Payments, subscriptions & trials
Subscription purchases are processed by Paddle, which acts as the Merchant of Record (the authorized reseller) for these transactions. Your purchase is therefore also subject to Paddle’s buyer terms, “Paddle” (or “Paddle.com”) may appear on your statement, and any applicable taxes are handled by Paddle.
Paid plans are offered monthly or yearly and renew automatically at the then-current price until you cancel. By subscribing you authorize these recurring charges.
A free trial (currently 7 days) may be offered. If you don’t cancel before the trial ends, the subscription starts and the first payment is charged automatically. You can cancel anytime from your account or via the payment provider; cancelling stops future renewals and you keep access until the end of the current paid period.
We may change subscription prices; any change applies from your next renewal, with reasonable notice. Refunds are described in the Refund Policy.
Acceptable use
Don’t misuse the app: no illegal use, no attempts to break, overload, reverse-engineer or disrupt the service or other users.
Your content
Your library and notes are yours. You grant us the limited permission needed to store and process them so we can provide the app to you.
Some things you add can be seen by others when you choose to share them — a public shelf, wishlist or collection, a buddy read, a share card, or a spine photo you add to the community spines. For those, you also allow us to show that content to the people it is shared with, for as long as you keep sharing it.
Only add what you have the right to use. Don’t upload images, text or other material that infringes someone else’s copyright or other rights.
Copyright & takedown (DMCA)
We respect the rights of authors, artists and publishers, and we respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and similar laws, including the EU Digital Services Act.
To report material on Otium that you believe infringes your copyright, email hello@otium-library.com with the subject “Copyright notice” and include: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) the copyrighted work you say is infringed; (3) the material on Otium you want removed, with a link or enough detail for us to find it; (4) your name, postal address, phone number and email; (5) a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.
Our designated agent for these notices is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office’s DMCA Designated Agent Directory (registration DMCA-1084086): Copyright Agent, hello@otium-library.com.
When we receive a complete notice we remove or disable the material promptly and let the person who added it know.
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with: your signature; the material removed and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address, phone number and email, with your consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate courts and to accept service from the person who sent the original notice. We forward it to them and may restore the material after 10–14 business days unless they tell us they have started court action.
We close the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe others’ rights. Knowingly false notices or counter-notices may make the sender liable for damages.
The same address can be used to report any other content on Otium you believe is illegal; we will review it diligently and tell you what we decided.
Demo
The demo is for trying the app. Its sample data is not saved and may be reset at any time.
No warranty & backups
The app is provided "as is", without warranties. We aren’t liable for lost data — please keep your own backups (use the CSV export).
Limitation of liability
To the extent allowed by law, Otium is not liable for indirect or incidental damages arising from using (or being unable to use) the app.
Termination
You can stop using Otium anytime. We may suspend access that breaks these Terms.
Changes
We may update these Terms; continued use means you accept the changes. Effective 25 October 2026.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of Georgia.
Contact
Questions: hello@otium-library.com.