Terms of use

What Illus. is

Illus. is a free app to judge Pokémon cards on their artwork, keep a collection and compare taste with friends. Illus. is run by BISTUA NOVA SOLUTIONS, the Netherlands, which is the party you make these terms with.

Name

BISTUA NOVA SOLUTIONS

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Illus. is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc. or The Pokémon Company. Illus. contains affiliate links, and the operator may earn a commission (see “Affiliate links” below).

Using Illus.

You may use Illus. for yourself, for fun. Please do not resell Illus. or its data, or use them for your own business. You can use Illus. without an account.

You must be 16 or older, or have permission from a parent or guardian.

Your account

You can sign in with an email link or with Google. Keep access to your email and Google account safe: what happens through your account counts as done by you.

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. That deletes your account and the data stored under it. See the Privacy policy.

We may close an account that breaks these rules. We will say why, unless the law says we may not.

What you put in

Your verdicts, favourites, grades and notes are yours. You allow Illus. to store and process them only to run the service for you.

They are private. The only things others can see are what you choose to share with friends: your display name and the parts you tick. Anyone who has your link and is signed in can read that. Share the link only with people you trust, and stop sharing when you want it to end.

Choose a display name you are happy for friends to see. Do not use someone else’s name, or a name that insults or misleads.

Acceptable use

Please do not:

• try to break, overload or get around the security of Illus., or to reach data that is not yours;
• collect data from Illus. in bulk with scripts or bots;
• use the sharing, the display name or the help form to harass, mislead or spam others;
• use Illus. for anything that is against the law.

Cards, images, prices and trademarks

Pokémon and Pokémon card names and artwork are trademarks and copyrights of Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc. and The Pokémon Company. Illus. is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Card data and images come from TCGdex. The TCGdex card database is open source under the MIT License, copyright (c) 2021 TCGdex. The card images remain the property of their rights holders. Some images, for cards TCGdex has no image of, come from the Pokémon TCG API (pokemontcg.io). The licence texts are in the file THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md of the project.

Rights holders: if you want an image of yours removed from Illus., write to support@illuscards.com. We read every such message and take the image off our own hosting where the request is justified. Please do not use Illus. to copy or redistribute the images, other than to share the duels and posters you make in the app.

Prices are market prices from TCGplayer, in US dollars, as shown by TCGdex. They are a guide, can be out of date or wrong, and are not an offer. Euro amounts are estimates from a daily exchange rate.

Affiliate links

Illus. is run as a business. Some links to TCGplayer are affiliate links, through TCGplayer’s partner programme (run by Impact). If you buy something after clicking, the operator may earn a commission. The price for you stays the same. Illus. says so next to such links.

The shop is run by someone else. Your purchase is a deal between you and the shop, under its own terms.

Availability and changes

Illus. is a free service. It is offered as it is, and we may change it, interrupt it or stop it. Where practicable, we give reasonable notice in the app of a big change or of an end, and time to download your verdicts first.

Keep your own copy: Settings lets you download your verdicts, favourites, grades and notes.

Warranty and liability

We do our best, but we cannot promise that Illus. is always available, free of errors, or that data is never lost. Prices and card details may be wrong.

To the extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for damage caused by using Illus. or by not being able to use it, such as lost data, or by wrong prices or card details.

This does not apply to damage caused by intent or gross negligence, or to anything else that the law does not allow us to exclude or limit, such as death or personal injury. Nothing in these terms takes away rights that you have as a consumer by law.

Privacy

How Illus. handles your data is explained in the Privacy policy.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms, for example when Illus. changes. The date and version at the top show which text is current. For a big change, we tell you in the app before it applies. If you do not agree with a change, you can delete your account.

Governing law

Dutch law applies, and disputes go to the Dutch courts, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer rights you have. If you are a consumer in another country, you keep the protection that the mandatory rules of your own country give you, and you may also go to the court where you live.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@illuscards.com, or the Help & ideas page. We try to answer as soon as we can.