Terms of use

These terms are the agreement between you and [TODO: company legal name], the company that runs this site. Its full identity, address and registration details are on the legal notice. Using the site means accepting them; if you do not accept them, do not use the site.

What this service is

Wishlist does two things. It suggests gifts for occasions — birthdays, weddings, Christmas, a new baby — and it lets you write a wishlist for your own occasion and share it, so that the people who want to give you something can reserve a gift without telling you and without two of them buying the same thing.

We do not sell anything. Every gift on the site is sold by somebody else: a shop, a marketplace, a maker. When you follow a link out of here you are on their site, under their terms, and the purchase is between you and them. Some of those links earn us a commission, which is how the site is paid for, and is explained in full on the affiliate disclosure.

Your account

You need an account to own a wishlist. You sign in with your email address and a code we send to it, so there is no password to lose; keep access to that mailbox, because whoever can read it can sign in as you.

You must be at least 16 to create an account. Below that age, do not create one — ask an adult to create theirs and manage the list with you.

One account belongs to one person. Give us an email address you actually read: it is where sign-in codes, reminders and any notice about your account go.

You can delete your account at any time, and everything attached to it goes with it — including the wishlists you have shared, whose links stop working for the people you sent them to.

What you write and upload

Your lists, the gifts on them, the words you write about them and the pictures you upload stay yours. We do not claim ownership of any of it.

To show it to the people you share a list with, we need your permission to do the technical things showing it involves: to store it, display it, resize and re-encode your pictures, and draw the preview image that appears when your link is pasted into a message. You grant us that permission — a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence, for as long as you keep the content on the site and only for the purpose of running this service. Delete the content or the account and the licence ends with it.

You are responsible for what you put on the site. By uploading a picture you confirm you have the right to use it — your own photograph, or the shop's product picture used to illustrate the gift it is a link to, not a photograph somebody else owns.

Do not put on the site: anything unlawful; anything that infringes somebody else's copyright or trademark; anything that identifies or exposes another person without their agreement; sexual content involving minors, in any form; threats, harassment or hate speech; malware or links to it; other people's personal data.

Remember what a shared list is, and write accordingly. A wishlist is readable by anyone who has its link, so it is not the place for an address, a phone number, a document or anything else you would not hand to a stranger who has been forwarded your message.

Sharing a list

A list is shared by link. The link is the key: anyone who has it can open the list, see what is on it and reserve a gift, without an account and without being invited. It is not protected by a password, and we cannot tell who received it from whom.

That is the trade the site is built on — nobody you invite has to sign up — and it is yours to make. If a link has gone somewhere you did not intend, you can delete the list.

Reservations

Reserving a gift holds it on the list. It orders nothing, pays nothing and guarantees nothing: whoever reserves it still has to buy it themselves, from the shop, using the link on the page.

Someone who reserves without an account is remembered by a token stored in their own browser, which is what lets them cancel later. Clearing the browser's storage loses it; a reminder email we send about that reservation carries its own signed link instead, so cancelling or confirming stays possible from another device.

The owner of a list is not shown who reserved what — that is deliberate, and it also means we cannot arbitrate between two people who disagree about a reservation.

Prices, availability and the shops we link to

Prices, stock and product details shown here come from the shops and can change at any moment, including between the moment we read them and the moment you look. We make a serious effort to keep them right: we refresh what we show, say when a price was read where we show one, and correct or remove anything reported as wrong as soon as we reasonably can. Write to [TODO: contact@domain] if you find a mistake.

What the shop's own page says at the moment you buy is what counts. We are not the seller, we are not a party to your purchase, and we cannot help with an order, a delivery, a return or a refund — that is between you and the shop, under their terms and your statutory rights against them.

Content that is partly written by a machine

Some of what you read here — a gift description, a suggestion, part of an article — is produced with the help of an AI model, from the shop's own page or from our brief. We review what goes out and correct what is reported, but a machine-written sentence can still be wrong or out of date. Treat a description as an indication, and the shop's page as the fact.

Reporting content, and appealing our decision

If something on this site is unlawful or breaks the rules above, tell us at [TODO: abuse@domain]. Say what the problem is, where it is (the exact address of the page), and — if you are reporting an infringement of your own rights — who you are and what right you hold. We look at every report, remove or block what has to go, and tell you what we decided.

If we remove or block something of yours, or suspend your account, we tell you why and you can contest it by replying to that message. A person reads it, not a filter. If we were wrong, we put it back.

Using the site fairly

Use the site as a person uses a website. Do not scrape it, crawl it beyond what a normal visit involves, hammer it with automated requests, resell access to it, try to reach data that is not yours, or work around a limit or a security measure. We may rate-limit, suspend or block anything that does.

Availability, changes and suspension

The service is free. We do not promise it will always be available: it can be down for maintenance, for a failure, or because something upstream is. We may change how it works, add and remove features, and — if it comes to it — stop running it, in which case we will give you what notice we reasonably can so that you can copy your lists out.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, with notice wherever giving notice is possible and immediately where the content is plainly unlawful or is doing harm. You can close yours whenever you like, for any reason, without telling us why.

Our responsibility, and its limits

We answer for our own faults, under French law, and nothing here limits your statutory rights or our liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or gross negligence.

Within that, and because the service is free: we are not responsible for what a shop does or fails to do; for a purchase that went wrong; for what somebody who had your list's link did with it; for content another user wrote; or for what you lose because the site was unavailable. We keep no copy of your lists for you beyond the service itself — if a list matters, keep your own note of it.

Our own content

The site itself — its name, its design, its code, the articles and editorial text we write — belongs to us or to the people we license it from. Read it, link to it, quote it with attribution; do not copy it wholesale or republish it as your own.

Personal data

What we collect, why, who processes it for us and how to have it deleted is in the privacy policy.

Changes to these terms

We can change these terms — a new feature, a new rule, a change in the law. If a change matters to you, we will say so by email or on the site before it takes effect, and the date at the top of this page always says when the current version was written. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting it; if you would rather not, delete your account.

Law and disputes

French law applies, and these terms are written in French and in English; the French version prevails if the two disagree.

Write to us first at [TODO: contact@domain] — nearly everything ends there. If that fails, the courts of [TODO: city of the registered office] have jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer you keep the right to bring the matter before the courts of the place where you live.