Terms of Use

Effective Date: April 15, 2026
Last Updated: April 15, 2026

Welcome to BrewCard ("the Service"), operated by Ivan Surin ("I," "me," "my"). By accessing or using BrewCard at brewcard.app, you agree to these Terms of Use ("Terms"). If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

1. About BrewCard

BrewCard is a free web application that lets you create, customize, and share coffee recipe cards. No account or registration is required to use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use BrewCard. By using the Service, you represent that you meet this age requirement. If you are between 13 and 18, you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

3. How the Service Works

Creating recipes. You enter coffee recipe details such as brew method, dose, water, temperature, time, beans, tasting notes, and brewing steps. BrewCard generates a styled recipe card from your input.
Sharing recipes. You can share recipes in two ways:
- By link with server storage. BrewCard saves your recipe data to my servers and provides a short URL. Anyone with that link can view your recipe card.
- By encoded URL. Your recipe data is compressed and encoded directly into the URL. No server storage is involved.
Downloading cards. You can export your recipe card as a PNG image generated on your device.
Browsing the feed. Recipes stored on the server may appear on the public recipe feed if they are sufficiently complete.

4. Your Content

You retain ownership of the content you create using BrewCard, including recipe data, card exports, and any text you enter such as the "Brewed by" name, bean details, or roaster name.

You are free to use your recipe cards for any lawful purpose, including personal and commercial use.

By submitting a recipe through BrewCard's server-stored sharing flow, you grant me a limited, non-exclusive license to store, display, and serve that recipe data for operating the Service, including showing it on the public feed and generating social preview images. This license ends when your recipe data is deleted.

5. Recipe Data Retention

Recipes stored on BrewCard's servers are automatically deleted after 90 days from creation. URL-encoded recipes shared without server storage exist only in the URL itself and are not stored by BrewCard.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of applicable law;
submit content that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, or infringes the rights of others;
interfere with, disrupt, overload, probe, or bypass the Service or its infrastructure;
circumvent rate limits, access controls, or security measures;
use automated tools, bots, or scrapers to access or collect data from the Service without prior written permission; or
impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any entity.

I may remove content or restrict access to the Service if these Terms are violated.

7. Donations

BrewCard offers an optional "Buy me a coffee" donation link powered by Stripe. Donations are voluntary and do not unlock additional features or ownership rights. Payment processing is handled entirely by Stripe and is subject to Stripe's Terms of Service and Stripe's Privacy Policy. I do not collect, process, or store your payment information.

8. Third-Party Services

BrewCard relies on third-party services to operate, including:

Vercel — hosting and content delivery
Upstash — database services for recipe and email storage
Simple Analytics — privacy-friendly website analytics
Google Fonts / Google font tooling — font assets used through Next.js build tooling
Stripe — payment processing for donations

Your use of third-party services may also be subject to their terms and privacy policies where applicable, including:

9. Intellectual Property, Limited License, and Restrictions

Subject to these Terms, I grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Service for its intended purpose.

Except for:

the limited right to use the Service described above; and
your rights in your own content under Section 4,

no ownership, license, or other right is granted to you in or to BrewCard or any part of it.

The BrewCard name, logo, source code, interface, card layouts, themes, templates, design system, graphics, copy, and other original materials are my property or are used by me under applicable rights. Nothing in these Terms makes BrewCard open source or grants permission to reuse those materials outside the normal use of the Service.

Without my prior written permission, you may not:

copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, or otherwise exploit any non-user-owned part of the Service;
mirror, frame, white-label, resell, sublicense, lease, rent, or commercially exploit the Service or any part of it;
copy or reuse BrewCard's source code, UI, card templates, themes, layouts, design system, or other proprietary elements to build, market, support, train, or operate a competing or substantially similar product or service;
remove or alter copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices; or
use BrewCard branding except as allowed by the Trademark Notice.

Additional notice of rights and restrictions is available in the License Notice and the Trademark Notice.

Third-party open source packages, fonts, libraries, and other third-party materials remain subject to their own licenses and terms. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you may have directly under those third-party licenses.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. I do not warrant that:

the Service will be available at all times without interruption;
the Service will be free of errors, bugs, or security vulnerabilities;
any recipe data or brew instructions will produce desired results; or
your data will be preserved beyond the stated retention period.

Recipes are user-submitted and are not verified by BrewCard. You use the Service at your own risk.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, I SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

My total aggregate liability for claims arising from or related to the Service shall not exceed the amount you have paid me in the 12 months preceding the claim, which for a free service is zero unless you made a voluntary donation.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold me harmless from claims, damages, losses, or expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the Service or your violation of these Terms, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

13. Changes to These Terms

I may update these Terms from time to time. When I do, I will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

14. Termination

I may suspend or terminate access to the Service at any time, for any reason, without prior notice. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases immediately. Sections 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, and 17 survive termination.

15. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

If you are located in the European Economic Area, these Terms are governed by the laws of the EEA member state in which you reside, and disputes shall be submitted to the courts of that jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory consumer rights that apply to you.

For all other users, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any disputes shall be submitted to the state or federal courts located in California, subject to any mandatory law that applies and cannot lawfully be excluded.

16. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full effect.

17. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, License Notice, and Trademark Notice, constitute the entire agreement between you and me regarding your use of the Service as it relates to those subjects.

18. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact me at:

Ivan Surin
iv.d.surin@gmail.com