1. Who may use the app
You must be at least 13 years old to use PewPewScan, and at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to buy a subscription. If you are under 18, use the app only with a parent or guardian’s involvement and use their Apple ID for any purchase. By using the app you confirm you meet these requirements and that you are not barred from doing so under applicable law.
2. Licence
We grant you a personal, limited, non‑exclusive, non‑transferable, revocable licence to install and use PewPewScan on Apple‑branded devices you own or control, in line with the App Store Terms of Service Usage Rules. We keep all other rights. You may use the app for your own collection, including a collection you sell from, but not to run a scanning service for other people’s cards as a commercial offering.
3. Free scans and scan credits
New installs include 25 free scans. A scan is consumed when a unique card image is sent for recognition — regardless of the result. That means:
- A card that comes back unrecognised still uses a scan; scanning it again uses another.
- Duplicates already in your catalog, images rejected for quality before they are sent, and manual edits are free.
- Nothing is consumed if the recognition call never happened — no network, or a technical failure on our side. That is a failed charge, not a refund.
Scan counts are enforced on our server against your device identifier. Attempting to reset or multiply free scans — reinstalling to farm the free tier, tampering with the app, or automating requests — is a breach of these terms.
Paid plans are subject to a fair‑use ceiling on scans per year, which exists to stop bulk commercial abuse and is far above normal collector use. We will tell you before it affects you.
4. Subscriptions and billing
- Plans and prices are shown in the app before you confirm, in your local currency. Prices differ by App Store storefront and may change.
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. We never receive your payment details.
- Auto‑renewal: subscriptions renew automatically for the same period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Apple charges the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
- Cancelling: Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on your iPhone. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the paid period. You cannot cancel a period that is already running.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store’s policy, not by us. We have no ability to refund an App Store purchase; you can request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Price changes: if we raise the price of a running subscription, Apple will notify you and ask for your consent as its rules require; if you don’t consent, the subscription ends at the next renewal.
- When a subscription ends your catalog stays readable and exportable. What stops are the paid capabilities — further scanning beyond the free allowance and ongoing value updates.
5. Accuracy, values and no advice
This section matters more than any other in this document. Read it.
Recognition can be wrong. Cards are identified by machine vision against a third‑party catalog. Player, set, year, card number, parallel and finish may be misidentified — parallels and vintage cards especially. Always check a card’s identity yourself before acting on it.
Values are estimates. Prices shown are projections derived from third‑party sold‑listing data (for example eBay, Fanatics Collect and COMC) for a card matching that identity. They are not appraisals, not offers to buy, and not a guarantee that anyone will pay that amount. They do not account for the condition of your specific copy, centering, grading, authenticity, or what the market does tomorrow. A collection total is the sum of such estimates and carries all of their uncertainty.
Not professional advice. Nothing in the app is financial, investment, tax, insurance or appraisal advice. Do not rely on it as the basis for buying, selling, grading, insuring or declaring the value of anything. For those decisions, consult a qualified professional or a grading service.
We provide the app on the understanding that you accept this. If accurate valuation matters to you legally or financially, get an independent appraisal.
6. Your photos and your data
Your card photos and your catalog are yours. You keep all rights to them. You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty‑free licence to process the images you scan solely to operate the service — that is, to transmit them to our recognition provider and return the result to you. This licence exists only for that purpose and ends when the processing ends.
You confirm you have the right to photograph the cards you scan. Where a card’s artwork, logos or player likenesses are owned by someone else, your photo is a photo of your own property; we make no claim over those underlying rights and neither should you.
How data is handled is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.
7. Backups and data loss
Your collection is stored locally on your iPhone. There is no account and no server copy to restore from. Deleting the app, resetting the device or losing the phone deletes the catalog with it. Back up your iPhone, and export your catalog to CSV from time to time. We are not responsible for lost collection data.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- reverse‑engineer, decompile or modify the app, except where that right cannot be excluded by law;
- access our API other than through the app, or automate, script or scrape it;
- resell, sublicense or make the recognition service available to third parties;
- circumvent scan limits, subscription checks, rate limits or any other technical restriction;
- upload content that is unlawful, or that you have no right to submit;
- use the app to infringe anyone’s rights or to break the law.
9. Intellectual property
The app, its interface, code, design and the PewPewScan name and logo are ours and are protected by copyright and trademark law. These terms grant you no rights in them beyond the licence in section 2.
Card manufacturers, leagues, teams, players and marketplaces own their own trademarks and content. PewPewScan is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, Bowman, Fanatics, eBay, COMC, PSA, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL or any other rights holder. Their names appear only to identify cards and price sources.
10. Third‑party services and sources
The app depends on third parties — a card‑recognition provider, a card catalog, market price sources, Apple’s payment and distribution systems, and cloud infrastructure. Their availability, coverage and data quality are outside our control. If a provider changes its terms, its data or its prices, the app may change with it, and we may replace a provider without notice.
11. Availability and changes
We aim to keep the service running but do not promise uninterrupted availability. We may add, change, suspend or remove features, and may release updates that require a current iOS version or device. If we discontinue a paid capability entirely, we will give reasonable notice; if that materially reduces what you paid for, you may cancel through Apple as described in section 4. The app requires an internet connection to recognise cards and update values.
12. Disclaimer of warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non‑infringement, and any warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of card identifications or price estimates. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you; where consumer law gives you rights that cannot be excluded, those rights stand.
13. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost data, lost collection value, or losses arising from a decision you made in reliance on a card identification or a value estimate.
Our total liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the app in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) US $100. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud or death or personal injury caused by negligence.
14. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages and reasonable costs arising out of your misuse of the app, your breach of these terms, or your infringement of anyone else’s rights.
15. Termination
You can end this agreement at any time by deleting the app (cancel any subscription separately, through Apple). We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms — in particular sections 3 and 8 — or if we are required to by law. Sections 5, 6, 9 and 12–16 survive termination.
16. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction to be inserted], without regard to its conflict‑of‑laws rules, and the courts of that jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute — except that either party may bring a claim in small‑claims court, and that consumers in the EEA and the UK keep the protection of their home country’s mandatory law and may bring proceedings there.
Before filing anything, please write to us: most problems are faster to fix by email than in court.
17. Apple‑specific terms
These terms are between you and us only — not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Specifically:
- Your licence to use the app is limited to Apple‑branded products you own or control, under the App Store Terms of Service Usage Rules, including any Family Sharing or volume‑purchase provisions.
- Maintenance and support are solely our responsibility. Apple has no obligation to provide any support for the app.
- If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are solely our responsibility.
- Product claims — including product liability, failure to conform to legal requirements, and consumer‑protection or privacy claims — are our responsibility, not Apple’s.
- If a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
- You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as “terrorist supporting”, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- You must comply with any applicable third‑party terms when using the app.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third‑party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.
- Our contact for questions, complaints or claims about the app is our support page.
18. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the app changes. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version, and material changes will be announced in the app before they take effect. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the new terms; if you don’t, stop using the app and cancel any subscription.
