Terms of service
Effective August 19, 2026. Tiny Photo Books is a service of Runbear, Inc., 128 King St., San Francisco, CA 94107 ("Runbear," "we," "us"). Written to be read — the plain-English summaries are part of the agreement, not decoration.
1. The agreement
These terms govern tinyphotobooks.com, the Tiny Photo Books iOS app, and the subscription. By signing up or subscribing you accept them, along with the privacy policy. If you don't accept them, don't use the service.
2. Eligibility
You must be 18 or older and able to form a binding contract. The service requires an iPhone on iOS 26.1 or later; we currently ship books within the United States.
3. The service
Tiny Photo Books is a subscription: each month we select photos of the people you chose, lay out a printed book (A5 softcover, 24 pages, 20–30 photos), and mail it to you. You get a preview by email 72 hours before printing; you can swap photos or do nothing, and silence means it prints. A month with too few photos rolls forward into the next book, and you are not charged for the skipped month. We may improve how selection and layout work over time; the deliverable — a printed monthly book — stays the deal.
4. Your account
Keep your account email accurate and your credentials to yourself; you're responsible for activity under your account. Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.
5. Price and billing
- $29 per month, free US shipping. Payment is processed by Stripe.
- Your first book is free for early-access signups; your first charge happens when your second book arrives.
- The subscription renews monthly. We email you before every renewal charge. There are no expiring credits.
- If the price ever changes, we'll tell you at least 30 days ahead and you can cancel before it applies. No surprise increases.
- Failed payments: we retry and email you; if payment can't be collected, we pause the subscription rather than accrue debt.
6. Cancelling
One click on the web, effective immediately, no phone call and no chat. You keep every book you've received, all future charges stop, and every photo we hold is deleted within 30 days (see the privacy policy). We may also terminate or suspend accounts: for a material breach of these terms, immediately and without refund; without cause, only with 30 days' notice and a prorated refund of anything you've prepaid.
7. Refunds and reprints
If a book arrives damaged, defective, or wrong, tell us within 30 days and we'll reprint it or refund that month — your choice. EU/UK consumers: you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal from subscribing; because each book is made to order from your photos, that right ends for a given book once we begin printing it with your consent, but it fully applies before then and to any month not yet in production.
8. Your photos and content
Your photos are yours. You grant Runbear a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, lay out, print, and ship them — solely to provide the service to you — and that license ends when you cancel, subject to the deletion timeline in the privacy policy. You're responsible for having the right to print the photos on your account and for the people in them; don't upload content that's unlawful or infringes someone else's rights.
9. Acceptable use
Don't use the service to violate the law, don't interfere with or probe our systems, don't reverse engineer the app except where law permits it regardless of this clause, and don't resell the service. We may refuse or cancel orders that violate this section.
10. Our property
The app, site, selection and layout software, and the Tiny Photo Books and Runbear names and logos belong to Runbear, Inc. These terms give you no license to them beyond using the service. If you send us feedback, we can use it without obligation — thank you.
11. Third-party services
The service depends on things we don't control: Apple's iOS and its background-upload behavior, Stripe, our print partner, and shipping carriers. We choose and manage them with care, but their outages or changes aren't breaches of these terms; our remedies in sections 6–7 still apply to any affected book.
12. Disclaimers
Except for the express commitments in these terms and the privacy policy, the service is provided "as is" and we disclaim implied warranties, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability or that photo selection will match your taste every month — that's what the preview and swap are for. Nothing in this section overrides the express promises we make in these pages.
13. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows: neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, and our total liability is capped at the amounts you paid us in the six months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't legally be limited (like fraud, or gross negligence where your jurisdiction says so). Some jurisdictions don't allow some of these limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
14. Indemnification
If a third party brings a claim against Runbear because you uploaded content you had no right to use or otherwise materially breached these terms, you'll cover the resulting costs. This works both ways in spirit: we stand behind our express commitments above.
15. Consumer rights
Nothing in these terms limits statutory rights you have as a consumer under the law of the place you live, and where the law gives you more than these terms do, the law wins.
16. Force majeure
Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events outside reasonable control — natural disasters, epidemics, war, labor disputes, internet or utility failures. We'll tell you if one affects your book, and section 3's roll-forward applies rather than charging you for nothing.
17. Electronic communications
The service runs on email — previews, renewal reminders, notices under these terms. You consent to receive them electronically, and electronic notices and signatures satisfy any legal writing requirement.
18. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by Delaware law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Talk to us first — [email protected] — most problems are a reprint or a refund, not a lawsuit. Failing that, disputes go to the state or federal courts of Delaware, each party on an individual basis, and claims must be brought within one year of arising. Nothing here removes a consumer's right to sue in their home jurisdiction where the law guarantees it.
19. Miscellaneous
These terms plus the privacy policy are the entire agreement. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. We may assign these terms in a merger or acquisition (your protections travel with them); you may not assign your subscription. Our not enforcing a provision isn't a waiver of it.
20. Changes to these terms
If we materially change these terms, we'll email you at least 14 days before the change takes effect, and the effective date above will change. If you don't accept a change, cancel before it applies — that's always one click.
21. Contact
[email protected] or [email protected] · Runbear, Inc., 128 King St., San Francisco, CA 94107.