Legal
Terms of use
Draft, still subject to review by the owner’s adviser before launch. The selling entity is named below (owner decision, 2026-09-21).
Who you are dealing with
The seller is 1544650 Alberta Ltd., operating as HummingRead, an Alberta corporation. HummingRead is its registered trade name. Our address for notices and our support address is hello@hummingread.com.
Payment for a membership is taken by our payment provider, which acts as the merchant of record and is the seller of record for that transaction: it charges you, it collects and remits the tax that applies where you live, and it issues refunds. The reading service itself is provided by 1544650 Alberta Ltd., operating as HummingRead.
The membership
A Family membership is for one immediate household: the adults in the home and up to eight reader profiles. It renews until cancelled; you can cancel from your account before the renewal date and keep access to the end of the period paid for.
Refunds
Monthly: cancel anytime; access continues to the end of the month you paid for. Annual: a full refund within 14 days of purchase or renewal; after that, access continues to the end of the year and is not refunded.
Using HummingRead
A membership is for use by one household. Readers may be printed and shared within the household and, for group plans, within the group named on the plan. They may not be resold, republished, shared outside the household or group, collected by automated means, or used to train artificial-intelligence systems.
Your copy
Readers, worksheets and Quick Checks are licensed to your household for its own use, on screen or printed. Please don’t share files outside the household; a co-op or classroom licence is the right door for that.
Sources and rights
Stories are adapted from public-domain works. The adaptations, pictures and learning materials are HummingRead’s and are protected by copyright. Public-domain status is checked for the market each reader is sold in.
Where the library may be used
Each book is offered only in the countries where the original work is no longer under copyright. (Our retellings, pictures and materials are HummingRead’s own; see above.) We decide which books your household can open from the country your membership is billed in. For a free account, or a membership whose billing country we don’t have, we use the country you connect from. When we can’t tell, we show only the books whose originals are out of copyright in every country we serve.
Your household agrees to use the library only where a book is open to you, and not to share, send or post a book, a printout or a file to anyone in a country where that book is not open.
If you hold rights in a work, or believe a book should not be offered where it is, write to hello@hummingread.com or use Report a concern on the Provenance page. We take the book down in the countries concerned as soon as we’re told, while we look into it, and we tell you what we found.
Corrections and withdrawals
A reader reported for an error or a concern is withdrawn while it is checked and returned when it is fixed. Your shelf shows the current state of every reader.