Terms of use

Bervet is run from New South Wales, Australia. By using the site you agree to these terms.

Your account

You need to be 16 or older. One account per person, with a real email address. Keep your password to yourself; you're responsible for what's posted from your account. You can delete it any time from your account page.

What you post

Forum posts, reviews, messages, book listings, chapter previews and advance copies stay yours. You give Bervet permission to show them on the site (an advance copy only to the readers you let in), in the weekly email, and in link previews and search results that point to the site, for as long as they're up. Don't post anything you don't have the right to post.

Everything you post has to follow the community rules. Bervet can hide or remove anything that doesn't, and suspend or close accounts that keep breaking them. Authors can hide posts that break the rules in their own threads. If something of yours is hidden you'll be told which rule, and you can appeal; a moderator decides, and the decision is final.

Listing a book

Any member can list a book they wrote, or hold the rights to, for free. Listings are for books, fiction and non-fiction (novels, novellas, story collections, memoir, history and the like), that are on sale, or coming soon with their release day (they're on the Coming soon shelf until then, and come off it if the day passes with nowhere to buy them). Books for adults, sexually explicit ones included, are welcome when the listing says so (their page asks readers to confirm they're adults first, and an explicit cover or description isn't shown anywhere else); low-content books (journals, planners, colouring or puzzle books) aren't. One listing per book. Listings are checked automatically and can be reported by readers; Bervet can remove any listing at any time. Bervet doesn't pick, review or vouch for the books listed here. Store links you add are shown through Bervet: we remove any affiliate or tracking codes from them and may add our own, and a short link (like amzn.to) is saved as the full address it points to.

Chapter previews

If you add a chapter preview, you confirm that you wrote it, that you're free to share it here, and that the ebook isn't enrolled in Kindle Unlimited (KDP Select). Whether sharing it breaks an agreement you have with a store or publisher is your responsibility. You can remove a preview whenever you like.

Advance copies

If one of your copies leaks: report it from the copy's page. If we find whose copy it was, we may give you that reader's name and email address. Use them only to act on the leak (asking for it to be taken down, or a legal claim), keep them safe, and don't pass them on to anyone else. A copy's mark says whose copy it was, not who shared it.

If you give them out: you confirm you wrote the book or hold the rights, and that you're free to share it here. Whether that breaks an agreement you have with a store or publisher is your responsibility: in particular, KDP Select asks for the ebook to be exclusive to Amazon while it's enrolled, so close the advance copy before you enrol. Don't ask readers for a review in return, or for a good one. Bervet can close any advance copy at any time.

If you read one: it's for you to read, here. Don't copy it, screenshot it for sharing, or pass it on. If the author allows a download, it's for your own devices only. Each reader's copy is marked so a leak can be traced, and leaking one gets your account closed. If a copy made for you is found shared without permission, Bervet may give your name and email address to the book's author, publisher or rights holder so they can act on it (our privacy policy says how). A review is never required; if you write one, make it your honest opinion and say you had a free advance copy wherever that's expected.

Reviews

Reviews must be your honest opinion of a book you've read. Don't review your own book, a book you have a stake in, or a book you were paid or rewarded to review. Don't swap reviews with other authors. Bervet removes reviews that break these rules.

No third-party services

Bervet is for readers and authors, not for selling to them. You may not use the site to offer, advertise or solicit paid services of any kind (covers, editing, formatting, marketing, ghostwriting, reviews and the like). Accounts that do are suspended.

Emails

Bervet emails you about your account, and about the things you've switched on in your email settings. You can switch any of them off from your account page or with the link in the email.

Copyright

If something here uses your work without permission, tell us and Bervet will act quickly.

Your work and backups

Bervet Studio (the app) and the tools on this site work on your own device: your manuscripts, covers, designs and files are kept there, not on Bervet's servers. Keeping copies of your work is up to you. Back it up regularly: in Bervet Studio, Settings, Back up every book, and keep the backup somewhere else as well (another drive, or a cloud folder). Bervet isn't liable for any loss of, or damage to, your work or files, however it happens, including through a fault in the app or the tools.

The app itself comes with its own licence agreement.

No guarantees

Bervet works hard to keep the site running and accurate, but it's provided as it is. Bervet isn't responsible for other people's posts, listings, previews, reviews or messages, or for the stores it links to. Nothing here removes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

Changes

These terms may change. If a change matters, it's announced on the site before it takes effect.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales, Australia.

Questions: hello@bervet.com