Kept is a web app for scanning, pricing and keeping trading cards, run by Larry Reedy, one person, as a side project. The code and the database still call it Card Vault; the two names mean the same thing on this page. [lawyer review: whether a business entity or a place of business must be named here]
Questions go to lreedy3@gmail.com, or to report a problem at the top of the app, which reaches the same person.
When you create an account you tick a box saying you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, and the account records the date and which edition you agreed to. Accounts created before this page existed were not asked; if that is you, we will ask the next time the terms change in substance, and using the service in the meantime is on these terms. [lawyer review: whether continued use by a pre-existing account is enough, or a one-time acceptance must be collected before the account can do anything]
You must be at least 13 years old to make an account, and at least 18 to buy credits or a plan, or to connect an eBay account, because Stripe and eBay each require an adult. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian who agrees to these terms must be the one to buy or to connect. [lawyer review: the parental-consent wording, and whether 13 is the right floor wherever the user lives]
Everything you put in: photos, the fields you type or correct, notes, listings, messages, problem reports. It stays yours. You give us permission to store it, make smaller copies of photos for the screen, send it to the services named in the Privacy Policy for the feature you used (the AI for a scan or a write-up, eBay for a price or a listing, Stripe for a payment), and show it to the people your settings allow, for as long as you keep it in the service. We claim no other right to it and do not use it to advertise. [lawyer review: the licence wording]
You confirm that you have the right to upload what you upload: your own photos of cards you hold, or photos you may use. Do not upload other people's photos, or photos of things that are not trading cards and their packaging.
Some of what the service learns is shared by design, and carries nothing of yours: a checklist you import becomes part of the shared library every collector files against; a box's packaging facts read from your photos become a shared record for anyone opening the same product; a card's "story" is written once and served to every collector who holds that card. These stay in the library when you leave, with your name removed. Your corrections to the scanner's reading of a printed signature are yours alone and shape only your own scans.
A problem report sends us a snapshot of the page exactly as you saw it, which can include cards other people shared into your view, and whatever was typed into the page's fields at that moment. Only admins read reports, and every read is logged.
A scan is a vision model's reading of a photograph. It can misread a year, a set, a parallel, a serial number or a grade, call a reprint genuine or a genuine card a reprint, and give a confidence it does not deserve. Every field can be corrected in the editor, and should be checked before you rely on it.
A value is the model's estimate for the copy in the photos, bounded and sometimes replaced by a summary of what sellers are currently asking on eBay for that card, which is a ceiling, not a sale price. "Refresh price" re-reads the same evidence. None of this is an appraisal, a valuation for insurance, tax or sale, or an authentication, and none of it is advice to buy, sell or hold. A card with an authenticity warning should be treated as unverified until a person has looked at it. If you sell on the strength of a number here, that decision and its consequences are yours.
The checklists in the library come from publishers, hobby references and other collectors' imports. They can be incomplete or wrong, and a card can be filed on the wrong row. Please tell us when you find one.
Every card is private until you say otherwise. If you set a card to Friends, the people who accepted your friend request can see it; Public means anyone who has your handle or your share link, with or without an account, can see it, and search engines may find a public page. Whatever you share, other people see the card and its photos, never what it is worth to you, what you paid or your notes. Card identity is itself a signal of value to anyone who knows the market: share what you are comfortable with strangers knowing you own.
A share link is a key: anyone holding it can open your page at the tiers they already qualify for. Links leak through browser history, screenshots and chat previews. Rotate it in Settings and every copy dies at once.
A rip party is a table. Joining one is consent: while it is open, everyone at it sees every card scanned there including its value, and the recap afterwards keeps everyone's counts and totals and the best pull. Joining also makes you friends with everyone at the table, which leaving does not undo. Do not share a party code with people you would not share your pulls with.
A trade in Kept is a record, not an escrow. The app matches an offer to an answer and records that both of you said the swap happened. No card moves between accounts in the app, no money is handled, and the swap and any difference are settled between the two of you, off the app, at your own risk.
The show board is public. An RSVP shows your name to signed-in users; visitors without an account see counts only.
Do not:
Blocking someone is quiet and mutual: it ends a friendship, stops offers and requests, and hides each of you from the other's search.
You can stop using Kept at any time, delete any card, disconnect eBay, and ask us to close and erase the account. Export your cards first (Sell → Export CSV) if you want them.
We may close an account that breaks these terms, that is used abusively, that charges back a purchase, or that we are required to close. Closing is a door, not an eraser: sign-in is refused and the public page disappears, but nothing is erased until the account is expunged, which gives an honest mistake a way back. The Privacy Policy says exactly what erasing removes and what remains (the admin log, backups for a while, shared library rows with your name removed).
Kept is a side project run by one person. We may change it, add or remove features, change prices for future purchases, or stop running it. If we stop, we will say so in the app with time to export your cards. [lawyer review: the notice period, and whether unused pack credits are refunded if the service shuts down]
Kept is provided as it is and as it is available. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that an identification or value is correct, that a listing will sell, that a photo or a record will never be lost, or that a card someone else shares with you is what it says it is. We keep backups and try hard, and we say in the Privacy Policy what those backups are and are not. [lawyer review: disclaimer of warranties, including implied warranties, in the form the governing law allows]
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for money lost on a card bought, sold, traded or insured on the strength of a value or an identification shown here, for a sale or dispute on eBay, for a trade that went wrong, for lost data, or for any indirect or consequential loss; and our total liability to you for anything arising from the service is limited to [lawyer review: the amount, for example what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or a fixed sum]. Nothing here limits what cannot lawfully be limited.
These terms are governed by the law of the State of Rhode Island, and disputes go to the courts of Rhode Island. [lawyer review: confirm the venue, and any arbitration, small-claims carve-out or class-action wording]
When these terms change in substance we will change the effective date at the top, add a line below, and ask you to read and accept the new edition the next time you sign in. Your account records which edition you agreed to. [lawyer review: notice period and whether continued use may count as acceptance]