1 - Terms of use
22 November 2022
Please read carefully the following terms and conditions and the documents incorporated by reference therein (collectively, the “Terms of Use”) before you begin using the Thorium Reader application (the “Application”).
By using the Application, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, which are incorporated herein by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use our Application.
Access to the Application
We reserve the right to withdraw or modify the Application and any service we provide on it. We will not be liable if, for any reason, all or part of the Application is inaccessible at any time or during any period.
Continuous Agreement
We may change the Terms of Use from time to time. We will notify you by posting the revised Terms of Use on this page and the date on which the last changes were made will be noted at the top of the page. You should review these Terms of Use regularly as you will be bound by any revisions. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable laws, rules, regulations and requirements (collectively, “Applicable laws”), you understand and agree that your continued access or use of the Application following the posting of changes to the Terms of Use constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Ownership and Use of the Application
EDRLab is the owner of the Application, including all copyrights, trademarks, trade names, logos, patents, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights relating thereto. EDRLab may license third parties for the use or operation of the Application.
In any case, the user does not have and will acquire no rights in the Application, other than the right to use it under the Terms of Use. Nothing in the Application or the Content may be interpreted as conferring on you any right, title, interest or other license in the software integrated into the Application or the Content or that can be downloaded into the Application, including, in particular, any intellectual property rights in the software making up the Application and its components, except the right to use it according to the Terms of Use. In addition, you may not rent, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or transfer the Application in whole or in part. You may not use any device, software or routine to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Application in whole or in part.
You may use the Application only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. Without limiting the scope of the foregoing, you agree not to use the Application in any way that violates any local or international law or regulation, to impersonate or attempt to impersonate the identity of another person or to adopt any other conduct that restricts or hinders the use or enjoyment of the Application by anyone.
In the event that you have authorized a minor to use the Application and its Content, you acknowledge that you are responsible for: i) their behavior online; ii) to control their access and use of the Application and its Content; and iii) the consequences of any misuse of the Application and its Content on its part. You acknowledge the Application may import Content that is inappropriate for a minor. We recommend that you exercise reasonable supervision over the use of the Application and its Content by minors in your care.
Intellectual Property of the Content
Contents imported in the Application can be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Contents, as well as of all the elements that compose them, does not violate any intellectual property right or any other right.
Confidentiality
By using the Application, you accept the terms of the privacy policy relative to the Application. This policy is incorporated into these terms of use by reference and explains EDRLab’s privacy practices.
Links to Other Sites or Resources
You may integrate in the Application links to third-party services or resources not operated by EDRLab, including Library data feeds. EDRLab has no control over such third-party sites or resources and is not responsible for their availability, security, Content or resources. The inclusion of such links does not imply an endorsement or a recommendation by EDRLab of the third-party service or resource in question. EDRLab is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on any Content, information, products, goods or services available on or through any third party service.
Limitation of Warranty
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE APPLICATION AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE” AND WITHOUT CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARISING BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, UNINTERRUPTED OPERATION, FREEDOM FROM ERROR, ACCESSIBILITY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY, PUNCTUALITY, LEGALITY, PRIVACY, COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, QUALITY, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NO WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OR MOBILE DEVICE AND SOFTWARE THAT MAY BE REQUIRED AS A RESULT OF VIRUSES, ERRORS OR OTHER PROBLEMS OF ANY KIND THAT YOU MAY EXPERIENCE AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION.
Without limiting the foregoing, EDRLab makes no representation as to the availability of the Books, the libraries’ compliance with lending conditions and the libraries’ compliance with the licensing conditions of the Books from the publishers, and cannot incur any liability in this regard.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BRAND, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARY AND AFFILIATE COMPANIES AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS, LICENSEES AND ASSIGNS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “EDRLAB PARTIES”) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE APPLICATION OR THE CONTENT, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR UNDER ANY OTHER THEORY OF LAW ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR OPERATION OF THE CONTENT, THE APPLICATION OR THE INFORMATION ACCESSED FROM OR RELATED TO THE APPLICATION. THE PARTIES ASSUME NO LIABILITY, EVEN IF THEY OR ONE OF THEIR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SUCH DAMAGES MAY INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES OR INJURY RESULTING FROM ANY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, LINE FAILURE, OR FROM ANY COMPUTER VIRUS, WORM, TROJAN HORSE OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENT.
Some applicable laws may not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Therefore, some of the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. In all cases of exclusion, direct and indirect damage is limited to the price paid to obtain the right to use the Application.
You acknowledge that the EDRLab Parties have no obligation to monitor any Content accessible through the Application. However, you acknowledge that the EDRLab Parties have the right to monitor the use of the Application, at its sole discretion, and to disclose any information necessary to comply with any law, regulation or government request, in order to be able to operate the Application adequately or in order to protect itself or its users under the “Privacy Policy”.
Compensation
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless the EDRLab Parties from and against any and all claims, actions or proceedings of any nature whatsoever and all damages, judgments, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses (including those incurred to enforce this provision), arising out of your use of the Application, the Content, any actual or alleged breach by you of these Terms of Use, or any violation by you of any applicable law or the rights of any other person or entity.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. The Terms of Use shall be construed to the greatest extent possible so as to give the closest possible effect to the invalid provision, within the bounds of legality.
Absence of Waiver
The fact that EDRLab does not require the execution of any part of these terms of use does not constitute a waiver of its rights hereunder for past or future actions on the part of anyone.
Applicable Laws and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use and any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws in force in France, without reference to its conflict of law rules. Any action, suit or proceeding arising out of these Terms of Use (whether for breach of contract, wrongful conduct or otherwise) shall be brought exclusively in France, as the case may be, located in Paris, and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of such courts for any action, suit or proceeding arising out of these Terms of Use.
All questions, comments or requests regarding these terms of use should be sent to EDRLab at: contact@edrlab.org.
2 - Credits for Thorium Reader
Thorium Reader is currently developed by:
- Daniel Weck, lead developer.
- Pierre Leroux, developer.
- Arthur Le Meur, developer
The UX and UI of Thorium 3 was designed by Mylène Boyrie
Several other developers have helped making Thorium what it is today:
- Simon Le Roux, UI designer.
- Cyrille Lebeaupin, CEO of noop.fr, senior developer.
- Jiminy Panoz, creator of Readium CSS.
- Léo Stéfani, node.js, React developer.
- Manuel Lagrand, intern, node.js developer.
Who is financing this app
EDRLab is a non-profit organization. Our budget essentially originates
from our members. EDRLab started in France, but is now counting 60 members
from Europe, North America, South America and Asia.
This project would have not seen the light without:
1- The financial implication of our founding members: Editis, Hachette
Livre, Magrigall, Media-Participations, Cercle de la Librarie, Syndicat
national de l'Edition. They understand that financing open-standards and
open-source is the best way to energize an open and innovative market for
the publishing industry.
2- Financial grants from the following French public organizations:
- CNL (Centre National du livre)
- Ministère de la Culture
3- Additional grants from EDRLab members interested by the addition of
specific features:
- Fênix Editorial, Brazil
- Canadian Electronic library, Canada
- MLOL / Horizons Unlimited, Italy
- Lyrasis, USA
3 - Privacy Policy
22 November 2022
Owner of the application
European Digital Reading Lab
14 rue Alexandre Parodi
75010 Paris
France
Types of data collected
The application does not collect Personal Data from its users.
The application sends two kinds of non-personal data to servers:
1/ Generic usage data: a notification is sent to an EDRLab telemery server each time the application is started. This information is for analytics only and not accessed by any third party. It is used to get information about the evolution of the number of installs of the application per operating system, the evolution of usage sessions and the main locales in use.
Parameters of such notification are:
- a timestamp,
- the version of Thorium Reader,
- the operating system of the device and its version,
- the locale of the application at the time it is started,
- if this is the first start of Thorium Reader after a fresh install.
The IP address of the device is not stored along with the above information.
It is not possible to opt-out from this notification.
2/ Readium LCP DRM information: a notification is sent to an LCP Server each time a protected publication is open. This is required by the LCP specification for checking if the license of use of the publication has been updated. There is not centralized LCP Server, each server is operated by the distributor of the protected publication acquired by the user.
Parameters of such notification are:
- a device identifier, automatically generated at the install of the application.
- a device name, automatically generated at the install of the application.
The codebase of Thorium Reader is open-sourced and can therefore be fully inspected, with the exception of a small software library used as core for the Readium LCP DRM, which does not store or send any data.
Updates
We may change the Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on this page and the date on which the last changes were made will be noted at the top of the page.
4 - Accessibility policy
EDRLab is a non profit developpement laboratory and places accessibility as a core requirement of it’s actions. That include the developpement of Thorium Reader.
However, the core aspect of innovation and experimentation of our work may affect accessibility at some points.
Funding limitations may also affect our action and will to provide the best reading experience for all readers.
These are the main reasons why we cannot, at this moment, afford a full accessibility testing cycle at each release.
Any identified blockers are publicly informed and searchable via a dedicated Label Accessibility on our Issue tracker that are treated as priority by the development team.
## understanding all and each users’ needs
We capture feedback about customers’ experiences from an accessibility perspective thru different channels:
* Developpement Issue tracker dedicated Label Accessibility
* Email contact form
* Indivdual feedback collected by our members organisations dedicated to serving people with disabilities
## Thorium Reader accessibility features are informed
When an accessibility feature is introduced, we make that information public thru
- the version change log
- a short mention on the website landing page
- listed for reference in this website ressources section, accessibility page
- all accessibility related explanations are available in the documentation, not in a separate chapter or place.
Support for assistive technology
A specific attention is given to non visual access thru screen readers.
As much as possible we intend to maintain a similar access path between visual and non visual access. Whenever necessary, we use dedicated technologies like ARIA-Role.
New functionalities are tested with screen readers.
Accessibility testing
* Community testing thru [epubtest.org](https://epubtest.org/)
5 - Licence for Thorium Reader
The Thorium-reader application is open-source, released under a BSD 3 license. It is based on the open-source Readium Desktop toolkit Licensed to the Readium Foundation under one or more contributor license agreements.
BSD 3-Clause License
Copyright (c) 2017, EDRLab
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS”
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.