Terms of Service

The service

SparksSimple connects to photos you select from Google Photos, screens and curates them (automatically or with your manual input, depending on your settings), lays them out into a photo book, and has that book printed and shipped to you on the cadence you choose.

Your account

• You must provide accurate account and shipping information.
• You're responsible for keeping your login credentials secure.
• You must have the right to use any photos you select — don't select photos you don't have permission to use.
• You're responsible for content moderation decisions you make when using manual curation mode, on top of the safety floor SparksSimple applies automatically.

Subscriptions, billing, and gifts

• Subscriptions renew automatically on your chosen cadence (monthly, every two months, or quarterly) until you pause or cancel.
• You can pause or cancel anytime from your dashboard — no long-term contract.
• Gift purchases provide the recipient a fixed number of book credits, redeemable via a gift code; they are not subscriptions and do not auto-renew.
• All payments are processed by Stripe. We don't receive or store your full card details.
• Because each book is custom-printed once approved, charges for books that have already entered production are non-refundable, except where required by law or where we made an error.

Automatic curation and printing

By default, books are curated and sent to print automatically once a cycle's photos are collected, with no approval click required. You can turn on manual review in your preferences if you'd rather approve each book, or switch to manual photo selection instead of automatic curation. Either way, the same safety screening (no explicit content, no screenshots, no sensitive documents, no obvious blur) always applies and cannot be turned off.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the service to print or distribute content you don't have rights to.
• Attempt to bypass or disable the safety screening applied to selected photos.
• Use the service in a way that violates any applicable law.
• Interfere with or attempt to disrupt the service's infrastructure.

Third-party services

SparksSimple relies on third parties to operate — including Google Photos, Stripe, and a print fulfillment partner. Your use of those integrations is also subject to those providers' own terms. We're not responsible for outages or changes on their end, though we'll do our best to keep things running smoothly around them.

Disclaimers and liability

SparksSimple is provided "as is." We work hard to get curation and printing right, but we don't guarantee the service will be uninterrupted or error-free. To the extent permitted by law, our liability for any claim related to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim arose.

Changes

We may update these terms as the product changes. If we make a material change, we'll update the "last updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you directly. Continuing to use SparksSimple after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@sparkssimple.com