Terms of Service

Welcome to Spellbinder. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Spellbinder's website, applications, content, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is provided by Spellbinder LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company ("Spellbinder," "we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using the Service, or by creating an account, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Spellbinder is an independent Magic: The Gathering resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast LLC.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, and our Cookie Policy explains cookies and browser storage. Agreeing to these Terms does not itself provide consent to optional marketing or other processing that requires separate consent.

1. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 13 to use Spellbinder. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Spellbinder only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who can form a binding agreement and agrees to these Terms on your behalf. Otherwise, you must be able to form a binding agreement yourself.

If you create an account, you are responsible for safeguarding your account and connected login methods, and for activity you authorize, including activity by applications you connect to it (see Section 5).

When you create or maintain an account, you agree to provide accurate information and keep it reasonably up to date. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your authentication credentials and for notifying us if you believe your account has been compromised.

Usernames are provided on a first-come basis. We may reclaim, reserve, or require you to change a username that impersonates a person or brand, violates these Terms, or has been inactive. A reclaimed username may be reassigned to the person, organization, or brand it refers to, and we may ask for reasonable proof of identity before doing so.

2. What Spellbinder provides

Spellbinder provides tools and content for browsing Magic: The Gathering cards, decks, tournament results, player data, metagame information, prices, and related materials. Spellbinder also offers account-based features, including profile pages, deck building and playtesting, deck version history, deck sharing and collaboration, collection and wishlist tracking, a camera-based card scanner, binders, deck boxes, bookmarks, imports and exports, connections for third-party applications such as AI assistants, notifications, and account settings.

We may add, remove, suspend, or change features, subject to our commitments for paid plans in Section 3 and your rights under applicable law. We do not guarantee that any feature will remain available indefinitely, or that any data, ranking, deck classification, card pricing, tournament information, or saved content will always be complete, current, available, or error-free. We encourage you to export important content periodically.

3. Subscriptions, billing, and refunds

Some Spellbinder features require a paid plan. Paid plans are billed in U.S. dollars through our payment processor, Stripe, on a monthly or annual cycle, and renew automatically until canceled. Prices exclude any applicable taxes unless we say otherwise. You can change your plan or cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings, which open Stripe's secure billing portal.

The price, billing cycle, and applicable charges are shown before you confirm a purchase. By subscribing, you authorize the recurring charges disclosed at checkout. Cancel before your next renewal to avoid the next charge. If you cannot access the billing portal, contact support@spellbinder.gg for help canceling.

When you cancel, you keep full access to your paid plan until the end of the current billing period, after which your account moves to the free plan. Your content is not deleted when you downgrade or cancel, but features and limits of the free plan will apply: content above a free plan limit stays viewable and editable, but you cannot add more until you are under the limit, and some paid-only features (such as saved views, pinned decks, and public view layouts) stop applying or displaying until you subscribe again. Their settings are kept.

If a payment fails, we may provide a limited grace period while Stripe retries the charge. Paid access may end if payment remains overdue. If payment cannot be collected, your subscription is canceled and your account moves to the free plan.

30-day refund policy. If you are unhappy with any charge for any reason, including a renewal, contact us at support@spellbinder.gg within 30 days of the charge and we will refund it in full, no questions asked. Refunded subscriptions are canceled at the time of the refund.

Deleting your account cancels any active subscription immediately, and remaining paid time is not refunded automatically. The 30-day refund policy above still applies on request.

Our refund policy is in addition to any cancellation, withdrawal, refund, or other consumer rights that applicable law gives you. It does not limit those rights.

We may change plan prices or features. A price increase for your existing subscription will apply no earlier than a future renewal after advance notice. We will email you before a price increase or other material change to your subscription takes effect, explaining the change, its effective date, and how to cancel. We will provide any additional notice or obtain any consent required by law. Promotional codes and complimentary access may have separate conditions disclosed when offered.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use Spellbinder in violation of any law or regulation;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service, including by probing, scanning, bypassing, or testing security measures without authorization;
• scrape, harvest, or systematically extract data from the Service in a way that imposes unreasonable load, circumvents rate limits, disregards our robots directives, or exceeds any permissions we provide;
• upload or submit unlawful, infringing, defamatory, harassing, abusive, or deceptive content;
• impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or organization;
• use the service to distribute spam, malware, or other harmful code;
• use bots, scripts, or other automated methods to access account-only or user-specific areas, except through the application connections we provide (see Section 5) or as we otherwise expressly allow;
• misuse reporting or other moderation features, including by submitting reports that are knowingly false, repetitive, or made in bad faith;
• attempt to access data that you are not authorized to access.

We may investigate misuse and may suspend or terminate access, remove content, or take other appropriate action.

5. User content, sharing, and connected applications

Some Spellbinder features allow you to submit or manage content, including deck titles, deck descriptions, decklists, deck versions, collection and wishlist data, notes, tags, binder and deck box details, profile information, avatars, social links, messages to other users, and messages sent through our contact, feedback, and support forms.

You retain any intellectual property rights you hold in content you submit. You grant Spellbinder a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, adapt as needed for technical operation, and display that content to provide and maintain the Service, consistent with your sharing settings. Our service providers may exercise these permissions as needed to operate the Service for us. This license does not give us permission to sell your private content or use it in advertising. It ends when your content is deleted from our systems, except for copies retained for the limited purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

Public content. If you mark a profile, deck, deck box, collection, wishlist, or binder as public, you understand that it may be visible to other users and to search engines or other crawlers that access public pages. Other users can view, copy, and export public and unlisted decks within Spellbinder. Public content may also be copied, cached, quoted, or reshared by others outside our control even after you later change or remove it.

Visibility settings. Unlisted content is accessible to anyone with its link; it is not private. Profile privacy and individual content settings work separately, so making your profile private does not make all your public or unlisted content private. Review each item's settings and our privacy and visibility guide before sharing sensitive information.

Collaboration. If you invite other users to collaborate on a deck, they may edit its contents, and each collaborator is responsible for their own edits. The deck remains yours unless you transfer ownership to another user, in which case the deck and its history belong to the new owner. If you delete your account, decks you own are deleted for your collaborators as well.

Connected applications. You may connect third-party applications, such as AI assistants, to your account through the authorization screen we provide. A connected application acts as you: it can read your decks, collection, wishlist, and profile and add to them, and anything it adds counts toward your plan limits. We rate limit application requests. You are responsible for the applications you connect and for what they do with your data, and the application provider's own terms and privacy policy govern its handling of that data. We may suspend an application's access if it disrupts the Service.

You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit your content and that your content does not violate these Terms of Service or any third-party rights.

If you send us feedback, feature ideas, or suggestions about Spellbinder, you permit us to use those ideas without compensation or attribution. This does not change how we protect personal information in those communications under our Privacy Policy.

Spellbinder provides tools to report content or users that you believe violate these Terms. We review reports, and submitting a report does not guarantee any particular outcome. To keep reporting useful, reports are rate limited, and we may disregard reports or take action against accounts that misuse the reporting system (see Section 4). You may also contact support to report a concern or ask us to review a moderation decision.

6. Intellectual property

Spellbinder and its original software, design, branding, and site content are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. We permit you to use the Service for its intended purposes in accordance with these Terms. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, the Service's sharing and export features, an applicable license, or law, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from our software, branding, or original site content. This restriction does not claim ownership over your content, third-party content, or facts about cards and tournaments.

Magic: The Gathering names, logos, card names, card images, and related intellectual property belong to their respective owners. Spellbinder uses third-party data and intellectual property subject to applicable permissions, licenses, and policies, including Wizards of the Coast's Fan Content Policy where applicable. Card data, prices, and tournament results come from the third parties listed on our Data Sources page, which also identifies our affiliate links.

7. Copyright complaints

If you believe content on Spellbinder infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@spellbinder.gg that identifies the copyrighted work, the content you believe is infringing and where it appears on Spellbinder, your contact information, a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner, and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove or disable access to the content, notify the user who posted it, and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

8. Third-party services and links

Spellbinder relies on third-party services and data providers, including authentication, database, storage/CDN, email, payment, error reporting, hosting, infrastructure, marketplace, and card-data providers. Spellbinder may also link to third-party websites, including marketplace or retailer pages, and can import decks from other deck-building sites when you provide a link.

Those third-party services operate under their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control independent third-party websites, purchases, or connected applications. This does not limit our responsibilities under applicable law for providers we use to operate Spellbinder or process personal information on our behalf.

Some outbound purchase links may include affiliate or referral parameters. If you click those links and make a purchase, Spellbinder may receive a commission or attribution credit at no additional cost to you unless the third party states otherwise. Product availability, order fulfillment, pricing, returns, and customer support for those transactions are handled by the applicable third party, not Spellbinder.

9. Disclaimers

Spellbinder is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis to the fullest extent permitted by law. We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and accuracy.

Spellbinder is for informational and organizational purposes only. Card prices, collection values, tournament results, deck classifications, legality information, scanner results, purchase links, and other data may be delayed, incomplete, unavailable, or inaccurate. You are responsible for independently verifying any information you rely on. Bugs, downtime, broken links, or unintended data loss may occur.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Spellbinder LLC and its members, managers, employees, contractors, service providers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, goodwill, or business opportunity arising out of or related to your use of the Service.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the combined total liability of Spellbinder LLC and those persons for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of $100 USD or the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions or limitations of liability, so some of Sections 9 and 10 may not apply to you.

11. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify Spellbinder LLC and its members, managers, employees, and contractors against third-party claims and reasonable resulting costs, including attorneys' fees, caused by your unlawful content, intentional misuse of the Service, or violation of another person's rights. This does not apply to the extent a claim results from our own breach of these Terms, negligence, or misconduct. We will notify you promptly of a claim and allow you a reasonable opportunity to participate in its defense. You will not be responsible for a settlement that imposes an obligation on you without your consent, which must not be unreasonably withheld.

12. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to Spellbinder at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms of Service, created risk for users or the service, or if we discontinue the service.

You may stop using Spellbinder at any time and may delete your account from your account settings. Deleting your account cancels any paid plan immediately (see Section 3) and removes your profile and content, including decks you have shared with collaborators. Some information may remain in backups, logs, or records required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or legitimate operational needs, as described in our Privacy Policy.

If we permanently discontinue the Service, we will refund all unused prepaid subscription time, calculated from the date the Service ends. You do not need to request this refund, and the 30-day request window in Section 3 does not apply. We will also refund unused prepaid subscription time if we end your paid access for reasons unrelated to your violation of these Terms. Where reasonably possible, we will give you advance notice and an opportunity to export your content. This does not prevent immediate action needed for security, safety, or legal compliance.

Sections 3 (outstanding payment and refund obligations), 5 (only to the extent stated there), 6, 9, 10, 11, and 13 survive termination to the extent needed to give them effect.

13. General terms

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Minnesota, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, these provisions do not deprive you of mandatory protections under the laws where you live or of any right to bring a claim in your local courts that cannot be waived by agreement.

These Terms and any plan terms disclosed when you purchase are the agreement between you and Spellbinder about use of the Service. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy separately explain our data practices. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, provided your rights under these Terms are preserved. You agree that we may provide notices to you electronically, including by email to the address on your account or by posting on the Service, subject to any specific notice requirements in these Terms or applicable law. The persons protected under Sections 10 and 11 may enforce those sections; otherwise, these Terms create no rights for third parties.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time and will update the date above when we do. For material changes, we will give you advance notice by email or an in-product notice and state when the changes take effect, unless a change must take effect sooner for legal or security reasons. Subscription changes follow Section 3. Changes apply prospectively. Where permitted by law, your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance; where affirmative agreement is required, we will ask for it. If you do not agree, you may stop using the Service and cancel your subscription.

15. Contact us

If you have questions about these Terms of Service, contact us at support@spellbinder.gg.