Effective Date: August 7, 2026
Welcome to Midnight Chapters, a reading journal web application owned and operated by Lodestar Books & Designs, LLC.
By creating an account or using Midnight Chapters, you agree to these Terms of Use.
Eligibility
You must be 18 years of age or older to create an account or use this application.
Personal Use Only
Midnight Chapters is licensed for personal, non-commercial use only.
You may not:
- Share your account with others.
- Share, resell, copy, or redistribute your Reader Key.
- Copy or recreate any part of the application.
- Use the application for unlawful purposes.
Restrictions on Use
To keep Midnight Chapters fair, safe, and sustainable for everyone, the following activities are not permitted. These restrictions apply equally to manual and automated activity, and they continue to apply after a Reader's account is cancelled or terminated, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
You agree that you will not:
- Share, transfer, sell, or otherwise provide another person with access to your individual account or login credentials.
- Copy, reproduce, clone, or substantially imitate the Midnight Chapters interface, visual designs, proprietary features, graphics, layouts, or original content.
- Scrape, crawl, harvest, systematically extract, or use automated methods to collect content, data, designs, or information from Midnight Chapters.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, attempt to discover the source code, or otherwise attempt to reconstruct the underlying technology — except where such restrictions are prohibited by applicable law.
- Create, distribute, or commercially exploit unauthorized derivative works based on Midnight Chapters' protected original content, designs, graphics, or other proprietary materials.
- Use Midnight Chapters, its content, screenshots, designs, data, or proprietary features to develop, train, assist in developing, or create a competing or substantially similar commercial product or service — to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Violating these Terms may result in content removal, suspension, or immediate and permanent termination of your account and Reader Key, without refund. Where a violation involves copyright infringement or other unlawful conduct, we may also pursue legal remedies to the fullest extent permitted by law, including claims for damages.
Reader Keys
Reader Keys are provided only to legitimate customers.
Sharing, selling, or distributing Reader Keys or attempting to bypass access restrictions may result in:
- Immediate account termination
- Revocation of Reader Keys
- Loss of future access without refund
Digital Products
- Midnight Chapters is a digital product.
- All sales are final.
- No refunds are offered unless required by law.
User Content
You are responsible for everything you enter into your private journal, and for anything you share with other readers through the Midnight Book Society.
You agree not to upload, store, or share:
- Illegal content
- Malware or harmful code
- Content that infringes on another person's copyright
- Material intended to harass, threaten, or harm others
Readers may report Whispers shared in the Midnight Book Society. Violating our Community & Acceptable Use Policy may result in content removal, suspension, or immediate and permanent termination of your account and Reader Key without refund.
Where reported content involves credible threats, sexual content involving minors, stalking, doxxing, or other unlawful conduct, we may preserve relevant records and report the matter, along with associated account information, to law enforcement or other authorities as required or permitted by law.
Service Changes
We may improve, update, modify, or discontinue features at any time.
Limitation of Liability
Midnight Chapters is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind.
Lodestar Books & Designs, LLC shall not be liable for any loss of data, interruption of service, or damages resulting from the use of the application.
Acceptance
By using Midnight Chapters, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Use.