Terms of Use
Last updated: 30 August 2026
These terms are the agreement between you and Spinwax, operated by Artem Osetrov, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States (“we”), for the Spinwax iOS app and the spinwaxs.com website. Installing or using the app means you accept them. If you do not, do not use the app.
How we handle your data is a separate document: the Privacy Policy. It forms part of this agreement.
What Spinwax does
You photograph a record — its centre label or its sleeve. The app reads what it can from the photo, looks the pressing up in the Discogs database, and shows you an estimate of what copies of that pressing have been selling for. It keeps what you scan in your personal collection.
The estimate is an estimate
Spinwax is not an appraisal service. Prices come from Discogs marketplace history for the pressing the app believes it identified. Two things can go wrong, and both do: the app can identify the wrong pressing, and the market price for the right one can differ from what anyone will actually pay you for your copy, in its condition, today.
Condition grades are yours to set — the app does not inspect the record. Do not rely on a Spinwax number alone for an insurance claim, an estate valuation, a sale, or a purchase. Check the pressing yourself before money changes hands. We are not liable for what a record turns out to be worth.
Your account
- The app creates an anonymous account on first launch so your collection has somewhere to live. Adding an email is optional and is what makes the collection survive a lost or replaced phone.
- You are responsible for the email account you attach and for anything done through your Spinwax account.
- One person, one account. Do not share credentials.
- You may delete your account and everything in it at any time by writing to the address at the bottom of this page. It is removed within 30 days.
Subscription
Scanning is the paid part. Everything else — your collections, every record you have already scanned, its photos and its values — stays available whether or not you subscribe.
- New accounts get a set number of free scans. The number is shown in the app and we may change it for new accounts.
- Spinwax Pro removes the scan limit. It is sold as an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. The current price, currency and any introductory offer are shown on the subscription screen inside the app before you buy, and depend on your App Store region.
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase.
- The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends.
- Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings — Settings → your name → Subscriptions. We cannot cancel it for you.
- If an introductory free period is offered, any unused part of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under the terms of the App Store, not by us. Write to Apple Support to request one.
What you may not do
- Scrape, bulk-export or resell the pricing data the app shows you, or use the app to build a competing database.
- Upload photographs you have no right to use, or anything unlawful, infringing or obscene.
- Reverse-engineer the app, attack the service, or work around the scan limit, the subscription check or any other restriction.
- Use automated tools to send scans at a rate a person could not.
We may suspend or close an account that does these things.
Your content stays yours
The photos you take and the notes you write remain your property. You grant us only the permission needed to run the service: to store them, to send a scanned image to our identification provider for that single request, and to show them back to you. We do not use them for advertising and we do not sell them. Deleting a record deletes its photos with it.
What is ours
The app, its design, name and logo belong to us. Record data, cover images and price history come from Discogs and belong to Discogs and its contributors; Spinwax is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Discogs, Apple, or any record label or artist named in the app.
Availability
The app depends on services we do not control — Discogs, our identification provider, Apple. It can be unavailable, slow, or unable to identify a record. We do not promise uninterrupted service and we may change or discontinue features. If we discontinue the service entirely, we will give notice in the app and time to export your collection.
Liability
The app is provided “as is”, without warranties beyond those that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or lost data, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot be limited by law. Consumers keep their statutory rights.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes and the app will point you here before the change applies to you. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept the new terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of Broward County, Florida have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, the UK or another place whose law gives you the right to your local courts and consumer protections, that right is unaffected.
Apple
Apple is not a party to this agreement and has no obligation to provide support for the app. Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these terms and may enforce them against you.
Contact
Questions about these terms, account deletion, anything else: osetrov.artem@gmail.com