Terms of Service

You Agree That This Site May Fail and You Will Not Hold Anyone Accountable

AuthorsEngine (AE) provides its service on this website as is, with no warranties or guarantees. The service is a working prototype in a testing phase and it has defects.

As a user, you realize that AE may not perform as intended and that the rules of payment may change at any time.

You agree that payments to you, an author, may fail.

You agree that your payments directed to authors for books may fail.

You agree that the governmental authorities in your home country may shut down the service capriciously or for good cause and that, in these cases, all your money may be frozen or lost.

You agree to assume all the risk for using this website and will not seek compensation or damages from AE or related companies or related persons for any failure of this website, or for any loss of funds for any reason, including any government confiscation of funds.

Permitted Activities

Gifters may only use this site to give an author a gift for a specific book.

Authors may only use this site to receive gifts for specific books they have written.

Any other use of this site will result in your funds being confiscated.

Note that every transfer of gifts to an author for a book is supervised by a human who will check that the book is bona fide. Gifts must be for books that are bona fide, in the view of AE's management.

If any illegal intent behind a gift is detected, the gift will be confiscated.

Privacy Policy

Gifters: AE does not store information about you. The information you enter into AE's credit card form is held by Stripe, which has world class security.

Authors: AE stores contact information about you to pay you. AE will not share author information with a third party, unless it's essential to enable an author to get paid. And, AE will not cooperate with government requests for author information if those governments have a history of persecuting authors or other speakers.