1. Acceptance of Terms
These Terms of Use form an agreement between you and Singularity Mutual Entertainment Culture Media Limited, which operates SimpleNovel. They govern your access to and use of simplenovel.com, our reading experience, account tools, chapter access, checkout flows, support channels, and related services.
By accessing or using SimpleNovel, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. We may update these Terms from time to time, and your continued use after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.
2. Eligibility and Accounts
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to use SimpleNovel. Some features may require an account.
You agree to provide accurate account information, keep it current, protect your login credentials, and accept responsibility for activity under your account.
3. Service Description
SimpleNovel provides digital fiction discovery and reading features. Depending on the current product version, features may include:
- Story discovery, search, ranking, library, bookmark, and reading history features.
- Chapter access, free previews, memberships, promotions, and checkout flows.
- Account settings, support messages, notices, product experiments, and service updates.
4. Reader Content and Feedback
If you submit ratings, reviews, comments, support messages, feedback, or other materials, you are responsible for that content and must have the rights needed to submit it.
You grant SimpleNovel a limited license to host, store, process, display, and use submitted content as needed to operate, improve, secure, and support the service.
5. Coins, Memberships, Payments, and Refunds
SimpleNovel may offer membership plans. Prices, billing periods, renewal terms, membership benefits, taxes, cancellation methods, and other checkout details will be shown before purchase.
Payments may be processed by third-party payment service providers. Refund policies applicable to paid services will be clearly stated at the time of purchase.
6. Promotions and Free Access
Free chapters, discounts, bonuses, trials, daily gifts, promotional credits, and limited offers may be changed, limited, revoked, or discontinued at any time.
Promotional items may have different expiration, transfer, eligibility, and usage rules from paid items or other access rights.
7. Prohibited Conduct
You agree not to:
- Use SimpleNovel for illegal, harmful, abusive, deceptive, infringing, or unauthorized purposes.
- Bypass payment requirements, chapter access controls, account limits, security controls, or rate limits.
- Copy, scrape, crawl, resell, reverse engineer, or misuse the service or its content.
- Upload malware, disrupt the service, impersonate others, or violate third-party rights.
8. Intellectual Property
The SimpleNovel service, including software, design, user interface, brand assets, systems, and technology, is owned by SimpleNovel or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws.
Stories, covers, metadata, and other content may be owned by authors, publishers, partners, or licensors. You may access content only through the features we provide and only for permitted personal use unless we state otherwise.
9. Third-Party Services
SimpleNovel may rely on third-party services for hosting, authentication, analytics, payment processing, email, customer support, security, and infrastructure monitoring.
Your use of third-party services may be subject to their own terms, policies, and privacy practices.
10. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how SimpleNovel collects, uses, stores, and shares information. By using SimpleNovel, you acknowledge that policy.
11. Service Changes and Availability
We may add, remove, modify, suspend, or discontinue features, content, promotions, pricing, or availability at any time.
We do not guarantee that every story, chapter, feature, plan, price, promotion, or service region will remain available.
12. Disclaimers
The SimpleNovel service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, content availability, accuracy, compatibility, or that the service will meet your expectations.
13. Limitation of Liability and Indemnification
To the maximum extent permitted by law, SimpleNovel and its affiliates, service providers, licensors, officers, employees, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or loss of profits, data, goodwill, or use.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless SimpleNovel from claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses arising from your use of the service, your submitted content, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law, or your violation of third-party rights.
14. Suspension and Termination
You may stop using SimpleNovel at any time. We may suspend or terminate access, remove content, disable features, or restrict accounts if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, caused harm, failed to pay where payment is required, or used the service abusively.
After termination, your right to access the service ends immediately. We may retain or delete account information and service records according to our Privacy Policy, legal obligations, backup practices, and operational needs.
15. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law
If a dispute arises, you agree to contact us first and try to resolve it informally.
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory consumer protection rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.
16. Contact Information
If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at support@simplenovel.com.
Operator: Singularity Mutual Entertainment Culture Media LimitedRegistered Address:Office K, 15/F, MG Tower,No. 133 Hoi Bun Road,Kwun Tong, Kowloon,Hong Kong.Website: simplenovel.com