Glysten Books Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-09-25

1. What this agreement is

This is the agreement between you (the "Customer", "you") and Glysten Technologies, LLC, an Oregon limited liability company that makes Glysten Books (the "Provider", "we", "us"), covering your use of the Glysten Books software and any hosted service we provide with it (together, "Glysten Books").

By installing Glysten Books, creating an account, or using it, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use it.

If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, partnership, or other organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation as well as yourself.

2. Who may use Glysten Books

You must be at least 18 and able to enter into a binding contract. You may not use Glysten Books if we have previously terminated your account, or if you are barred from doing so under the export-control or sanctions laws that apply to you.

3. What Glysten Books is, and the two ways it is deployed

Glysten Books is bookkeeping and accounting software. Your books live in a PostgreSQL database. Where that database runs depends on which deployment you have, and several obligations below differ between the two:

Self-Managed Deployment. You install and run Glysten Books on infrastructure you control — your own computer, your own server, or a cloud account of your own. We do not host, store, receive or have access to Your Data, and we cannot recover it for you.
Hosted Deployment. We run Glysten Books for you on cloud infrastructure we control (for example DigitalOcean). Your Data is stored on that infrastructure, and Section 10 sets out what we undertake in respect of it.

Your order or invoice says which deployment you have. Where a section is marked as applying to one deployment, it does not apply to the other. Glysten Books does not send usage analytics or telemetry to us in either deployment. Beyond that, your books leave the installation only through features you choose to use: a bank connection (Section 9), and the AI features and any AI app you connect (Section 13).

4. Your account, and keeping it secure

You are responsible for your account credentials and for everything done through your account. Specifically:

Keep your password confidential, and use a distinct one.
Turn on two-factor authentication. Glysten Books supports it. If you switch it off, you accept the additional risk that follows.
Glysten Books can hold a sign-in from an address your books have not seen before, for the account owner to approve. Approving a sign-in you do not recognise is your decision and your risk.
Tell us promptly if you believe your account or credentials have been compromised. In a Hosted Deployment we will help you secure the account; in a Self-Managed Deployment the systems are yours and the response is yours.

We are not liable for loss arising from someone else using your credentials, except to the extent it results from our own failure to meet our obligations under Section 10.

5. People you give access to

Glysten Books is multi-user. An account owner may add people and grant each of them access to particular entities, at a view, edit or own level. Owning an entity lets a person manage who else has access to that entity; matters that concern the whole account, such as adding people or approving sign-ins, stay with the account owner.

You are responsible for who you let in and what they do. Their acts and omissions in your account count as yours for the purposes of this agreement.
Grant the narrowest access that does the job, and remove it when someone no longer needs it. Access you granted stays in force until you revoke it.
If you give access to an accountant, bookkeeper or other adviser, you are responsible for their use of Glysten Books, and their relationship with you is theirs and yours, not ours.
Glysten Books keeps an audit log of actions taken in your books. It is a record for your benefit; we do not warrant that it is complete for any legal or evidentiary purpose.
Before you grant access to anyone, put them under confidentiality obligations at least as protective as Section 28. Where an entity has other owners or partners, its books are their financial affairs as well as yours.

6. Licence

Subject to your compliance with these terms and payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Glysten Books for your own bookkeeping and that of entities you own or are authorised to keep books for. Your plan may limit how many entities that is, and you agree to stay within the plan you bought.

You may not:

Resell, sublicense, rent, lease, or offer Glysten Books to third parties as a hosted or managed service, without our written permission.
Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or attribution notices.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any compiled component, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by applicable law.

We and our licensors keep all right, title and interest in Glysten Books itself, including the software, its design, and its documentation. Nothing here transfers ownership of any of it to you.

You may modify your own Self-Managed installation for your own use. You do so at your own risk, and Section 21 (No warranty) and Section 22 (Limitation of liability) apply with full force to any installation you have modified. We are not obliged to support a modified installation.

7. Acceptable use

You may not use Glysten Books to:

Break any law, or record or facilitate transactions you know to be unlawful, including money laundering, tax evasion, or sanctions evasion.
Keep books you have no right to keep, or enter data you have no right to use.
Gain unauthorised access to any account, system or data, whether ours or anyone else's, or interfere with the operation or security of a Hosted Deployment or another customer's use of it.
Transmit malware, or use Glysten Books to attack or overload any system.
Misrepresent your identity or your authority to act for an entity.
Encourage or help anyone else do any of the above.

8. Your data is yours

You retain all right, title and interest in the financial records, documents and other content you enter into or import into Glysten Books ("Your Data").

We do not sell Your Data, share it for advertising, or use it to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models. In a Hosted Deployment we access Your Data only where necessary to operate the service, to fix a fault, or to give you support you have asked for, or where the law requires it. We take no licence to Your Data beyond what those purposes need. In a Self-Managed Deployment we do not receive Your Data at all.

When you use an AI feature, the part of Your Data it needs is sent to the AI provider that answers it. Section 13 says what is sent, when, and on what terms.

You are responsible for the accuracy, legality and completeness of Your Data, and for having the right to enter into Glysten Books anything you import from a third party.

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

9. Third-party services

Glysten Books can connect to services operated by other companies. These are optional and are not provided by us:

Plaid, used to connect bank accounts and retrieve their balances and transactions. If you connect a bank through it, you sign in to your bank on Plaid's pages or your bank's own, never ours, and your bank data is transmitted through Plaid's infrastructure under Plaid's own terms and End User Privacy Policy, not ours. By connecting, you authorise us and Plaid to access your account information at your bank and transmit it to Glysten Books for that purpose. Disconnecting the bank in Glysten Books ends that access.
SimpleFIN Bridge, used to retrieve bank transaction data. If you enable it, your bank transaction data is transmitted through SimpleFIN's infrastructure under SimpleFIN's own terms and privacy policy, not ours. You are responsible for reading them and for the credentials you supply.
Any backup destination you configure, including cloud storage. Data you copy there is governed by that provider's terms.
AI providers, when you use Glysten Books' AI features, and AI apps you connect to your books. Section 13 covers both.

We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, security, or acts of any third-party service, and their failures are outside our control. If one stops working or changes its terms, Glysten Books' connection to it may stop working, and that is not a breach of this agreement.

10. Hosted Deployment: what we undertake

This section applies only to a Hosted Deployment. None of it applies where you run Glysten Books yourself.

Where your data lives. Your Data is stored on cloud infrastructure in the United States operated by our hosting provider. We may change hosting providers or regions, and will not move Your Data outside the United States without notice to you.
Subprocessors. We use third parties to provide the hosted service, including our cloud hosting provider. They act on our instructions and are bound to protect Your Data. A current list is available on request.
Security. We will use commercially reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect Your Data against unauthorised access, including encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and restricting staff access to those who need it. No system is perfectly secure, and we do not warrant that Your Data cannot be accessed unlawfully.
Security incidents. If we become aware of unauthorised access to or disclosure of Your Data, we will notify you without undue delay and tell you what we know and what we are doing about it.
Backups. We take routine backups of the hosted database. This is a service-continuity measure for our benefit and yours; it is not a promise that any particular data can be recovered at any particular point in time. Section 17 still applies, and you should keep your own exports.
Availability. We aim to keep the hosted service available, but we do not commit to any uptime level unless we have agreed one with you separately in writing. We may take the service down for maintenance, and will try to give notice where we reasonably can.
Getting your data out. You may export Your Data at any time using Glysten Books' own export features. On request while your subscription is current, we will provide a copy of Your Data in a machine-readable format.
What happens on termination. For thirty days after your subscription ends you may ask us for a copy of Your Data and we will provide it. After that period we may permanently delete Your Data from the hosted environment, and from backups in the ordinary course of their rotation. Ask before the thirty days are up if you want a copy.
Suspension. We may suspend the hosted service if your account is materially overdue, or if your use threatens the security, integrity or availability of the service or another customer's data. Where circumstances allow, we will warn you first and give you a chance to put it right.

11. Import from other accounting software

Glysten Books can read data files you export from other accounting products, including QuickBooks Online.

You are responsible for your relationship with those providers. You must have the right to export and use the data you import, and your use of their products remains governed by your agreement with them. Glysten Books reads only files you supply. It does not connect to, sign in to, scrape, or otherwise access any other provider's service on your behalf.

Import produces a proposal that you review and approve. You are responsible for checking that what lands in your books matches your prior records before you rely on it.

12. Bank feeds: nothing posts by itself

If you connect a bank feed, transactions are staged for your review. Glysten Books does not post anything to your journal on its own. Categorisation rules only pre-fill a suggestion; an entry reaches your books when you click Post.

Glysten Books applies several checks intended to catch duplicates, and flags rather than discards what looks like one. These are aids, not guarantees. You are responsible for reviewing every transaction before you post it, and for reconciling your books against your bank statements.

13. AI features

Glysten Books includes features that use an artificial-intelligence model run by a third party (an "AI provider") — today Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini where an installation is set up for it. Using them sends information to that provider. What is sent, and when, depends on the feature:

Help, without your books. A question to the Help assistant sends Glysten Books' own help text and what you typed. In this mode it cannot see your books.
Help, reading your books. Only where your installation offers it, and only once you turn it on for yourself (Account, AI Connections). It is off until you do, and it is each person's own choice, not the account owner's. With it on, the assistant reads the books you can see — never more than your own access allows — and the entries, figures, names and notes it reads are sent to the AI provider to answer you.
Pictures and documents you attach to a question are sent with that question.
Teaching Glysten Books a statement layout. When an account owner asks Claude to find the figures on a statement Glysten Books could not read, an outline of the page is sent in which names, addresses, account numbers and transaction descriptions are blanked out. Figures, dates and the statement's own headings are sent as printed.
AI apps you connect. You can give your own AI app — Claude or ChatGPT, for example — a read-only key to your books (Account, AI Connections). It sees no more than you can, cannot change anything, and stops working the moment you revoke it. What it reads goes to that app's provider under your agreement with them, not ours.

Taxpayer identification numbers recorded from W-9s are held apart from the books and are never sent to an AI provider or to an AI app. Anything you type into an entry, a memo or a note, however, can be read by the assistant when it is reading your books — so keep identification numbers out of free text.

It proposes; you decide. The assistant can draft a journal entry, suggest how to code bank lines, suggest a note about a book, or propose a change to something already in your books — an entry, a reconciliation, a bank match, an account, or a year's close. Each is shown to you, and nothing reaches your books until you approve it yourself, one step at a time. Its own access to your books is read-only.

It can be wrong. An AI model can misread a figure, pick the wrong account, or say something confidently that is not so. Check what it tells you against your records and read every proposal before you approve it. A change you approve is your change. Nothing it says is advice; Section 16 applies to it in full.

The AI provider's terms.

In a Hosted Deployment we use an AI provider's paid, commercial service, under terms that do not permit the provider to train its models on what we send. We do not train models on Your Data either (Section 8).
In a Self-Managed Deployment you choose the provider and supply the key, and what you send is governed by your agreement with that provider. Some free tiers — Google's free Gemini tier among them — say they may use what they are sent to improve their products and that people may read it. Glysten Books warns you when books reading is on with a provider that may be one; do not use such a tier with books you need to keep confidential.

We are not responsible for an AI app you connect or, in a Self-Managed Deployment, for the AI provider you choose.

Limits. AI features are subject to usage limits, per person per day and per account per month, which we may change. When a limit is reached, the feature stops until the limit resets, unless your plan says otherwise. AI features depend on the provider being available, and may be slow, unavailable or withdrawn.

What is kept. The conversation itself stays in your browser. Glysten Books keeps how many questions were asked and what they cost, and each person's choice about reading the books. The Privacy Policy has the detail.

14. Tax features — read this one

Glysten Books includes features that compute figures from your books and populate federal and state tax forms, including Forms 1065, 1120-S, Schedule K-1, 4562 and 8825, and Oregon and Portland returns, and that prepare Forms 1099 for the people you pay.

These are bookkeeping tools, not tax preparation or tax advice. Specifically:

We are not a tax preparer, CPA, enrolled agent, attorney, or financial adviser, and no part of Glysten Books creates such a relationship.
Glysten Books does not file anything. It does not e-file, transmit to the IRS or any state authority, or submit returns or information returns. Filing is entirely your own act.
Forms 1099. Glysten Books prepares them from your books and the W-9 details you record, and produces a file for you to upload to the IRS IRIS Taxpayer Portal yourself. It is not a transmitter and does not file 1099s with the IRS or with any state — including Oregon, which requires 1099 filers to file with it electronically. You are responsible for collecting correct W-9s, for the accuracy of every name, taxpayer identification number and amount, for giving each recipient their copy, and for filing on time. Any penalty for a late, missing or incorrect 1099 is yours. Glysten Books keeps a permanent record of each file it prepares.
The "Mark as filed" feature records a snapshot of computed figures for your own reference. It is a bookkeeping convenience. It is not evidence of filing, not confirmation that a return was accepted, and not a record the IRS or any authority recognises.
Forms populate from figures Glysten Books computes from data you entered. Tax law changes, varies by circumstance, and depends on facts Glysten Books does not know.
You must have every return reviewed by a qualified tax professional before you file it, and you are solely responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of anything you file and for any tax, interest or penalty assessed.

15. Printing checks, loan figures, and closing a year

Checks. Glysten Books prints the payee, amount, date and memo onto check stock you supply, at positions you align to your own printer. It does not print the bank details or the MICR line — your stock carries those — and it does not hold your bank account or routing numbers for the purpose. Print an alignment sheet before using real stock, and check every printed check before you sign or send it. You are responsible for your check stock, for who may print and sign checks, and for any check that is misprinted, lost, altered or used fraudulently.
Loans. Unless you set a loan up with its exact terms, the interest Glysten Books records between statements is an estimate — the balance times the rate, a month at a time — and it is corrected to the lender's figures when you record the next statement. Until then your books carry an estimate, not the lender's number. The lender's statement is the authority.
Closing a year. Closing a year locks its entries against change inside Glysten Books. It is a bookkeeping control, not a filing, a certification or an audit, and a closed year can be reopened.

16. No professional advice

Glysten Books produces reports, computations, suggested categorisations, and answers and drafts from its AI features. None of it is accounting, tax, legal, investment, or financial advice. Automated suggestions — including bank-feed matching rules and account categorisation — are conveniences that require your review. You remain responsible for the correctness of your books.

17. Backups and data loss

Keeping your own backups is your responsibility in either deployment.

Hardware failure, disk corruption, accidental deletion, a failed upgrade, or a mistake in your own use of the software can destroy your books permanently. You should keep tested, restorable copies, stored separately from wherever Glysten Books is running, and you should verify that you can actually restore from them — an untested backup is not a backup.

Self-Managed Deployment. Your data is on your own infrastructure and we hold no copy of it, so we cannot recover, restore, reconstruct or produce Your Data under any circumstances. All of it is on you.

Hosted Deployment. We take routine backups as described in Section 10. That reduces the risk; it does not remove it, and it is not a guarantee that a particular version of your books can be recovered at a particular moment. Keep your own exports as well.

18. Subscriptions, fees and cancellation

Trial. Where we offer a free trial, it runs for the period stated at sign-up and requires no payment card. At the end of it, your access stops unless you have started a paid subscription. We may change or withdraw trials for future customers at any time.
Plans and billing. Fees, the billing period, and any limits on entities or users are those stated at the time of purchase. Subscriptions are billed in advance, monthly or annually as you choose.
Automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically for another period of the same length unless you cancel before the current period ends. You may cancel at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for.
AI features are subject to the usage limits in Section 13.
Price changes. We may change prices for a renewal term. We will give you at least thirty days' notice before a change takes effect, and you may cancel before renewal if you do not accept it. We will not change the price of a period you have already paid for.
Refunds. Fees are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise or we agree in writing. Cancelling part-way through a period does not entitle you to a partial refund.
Questioning a charge. If you think we have billed you wrongly, tell us within ninety days of the invoice or the charge, whichever is earlier, and we will look into it. We would rather fix a billing mistake than argue about one, so raise it early; after ninety days a charge is treated as accepted, except where the law gives you longer.
Non-payment. If a payment fails or is materially overdue, we may suspend the service under Section 10 and ultimately terminate under Section 25. An amount still unpaid thirty days after it fell due may carry interest at 1.5% per month, or the highest rate the law allows if that is lower.
Taxes. Fees exclude sales, use, VAT and similar taxes. You are responsible for those, other than taxes on our net income.
Payment processing is handled by a third-party processor under its own terms. We do not store your full payment card details.

19. Support, updates, and changes to Glysten Books

Any support, maintenance or updates are as separately described at the time of purchase. Unless we have agreed otherwise in writing, we are not obliged to provide updates, fixes, or support, or to maintain compatibility with any third-party service, file format, tax form, or version of any operating system or database.

Tax forms and rules change annually. We do not guarantee that Glysten Books is current with any tax year.

We may change, add or remove features. We will not make a change that substantially reduces the core functionality of a Hosted Deployment during a period you have paid for without giving you notice and, if you ask within thirty days, a pro-rata refund of the unused part of that period.

Features marked beta, preview or experimental are provided as-is, may change or disappear, and should not be relied on for anything that matters.

20. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, bug reports, or ideas, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you. This does not give us any right to Your Data, and nothing in it changes Section 8.

21. No warranty

Glysten Books is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that Glysten Books will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of defects, that computations or reports will be accurate or complete, that anything an AI feature says or proposes is correct, that it will meet any regulatory or accounting standard, or that defects will be corrected.

Accounting software can produce wrong numbers, and so can an AI model. You are responsible for verifying figures against your source documents — bank statements, invoices, receipts, and prior filed returns — before relying on them for any purpose, including filing a return, reporting to a lender or partner, or making a financial decision.

22. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost or corrupted data, business interruption, or the cost of substitute software or services, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if we were advised of the possibility.
We are not liable for tax, interest, penalties, fines, or assessments imposed by any authority.
Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to Glysten Books will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for Glysten Books in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty US dollars (US$50).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the above applies to the maximum extent permitted, and nothing here limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

23. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from Your Data, your use of Glysten Books, anything you file or report using figures Glysten Books produced, the acts of people you gave access to, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

24. Trademarks of others

QuickBooks®, QuickBooks Online® and Intuit® are registered trademarks of Intuit Inc. Dropbox® is a registered trademark of Dropbox, Inc. Claude and Anthropic are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. Gemini and Google are trademarks of Google LLC. ChatGPT and OpenAI are trademarks of OpenAI. DigitalOcean is a trademark of DigitalOcean, LLC. Plaid is a trademark of Plaid Inc. SimpleFIN is a trademark of its respective owner. All other product names, logos and brands are the property of their respective owners.

Glysten Books is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, certified by, or in any way officially connected with Intuit Inc. or any other company named in this software or its documentation. These names are used solely to describe compatibility and to tell you where in another product to find a file — that is, nominative reference, not a claim of association.

25. Term and termination

This agreement runs until terminated.

You may terminate by cancelling your subscription and ceasing to use Glysten Books.
We may terminate or suspend if you materially breach these terms and do not cure the breach within thirty days of notice; immediately if your use threatens the security or integrity of a Hosted Deployment or another customer's data; or if we discontinue Glysten Books entirely, in which case we will give you as much notice as we reasonably can and refund the unused part of any period you have paid for.

Dormant accounts (Hosted Deployment only). Books get looked at once a year in this line of work, so we do not treat a quiet account as an abandoned one. If nobody signs in to a hosted account for twelve months, we may email you to ask whether you still want it. If we hear nothing, we may deactivate it; and after a further sixty days' notice sent to the address on the account, we may delete the data. We will not delete your books without telling you first and giving you time to export them. Keeping a paid subscription current keeps the account active regardless of whether anyone signs in.

On termination, your licence ends and you must stop using Glysten Books and remove installed copies.

In a Self-Managed Deployment, Your Data stays with you — it is on your own infrastructure, and termination neither deletes it nor gives us access to it. In a Hosted Deployment, the thirty-day window in Section 10 applies: ask for a copy within it, because after that we may delete Your Data permanently.

Sections 6 (ownership), 8, 10 (data return and deletion), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28 survive termination.

26. Disputes

Talk to us first. If you have a dispute, contact us at the address in Section 29 and give us thirty days to try to resolve it informally. Most things end there, and neither of us should be paying lawyers over something a conversation would fix.

If that does not resolve it, the dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, and we each consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts. Either of us may still seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, to the extent the law allows a period to be agreed.

27. General

Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Entire agreement. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and your order, are the entire agreement between us about Glysten Books and supersede any prior discussions.
Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary, or severed, and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
Assignment. You may not assign this agreement without our written consent. We may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
No third-party beneficiaries. This agreement is between you and us, and gives no rights to anyone else.
Independent parties. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between us.
Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond reasonable control, including outages at a hosting or telecommunications provider, natural disaster, or government action. This does not excuse your obligation to pay.
Accepting electronically. Ticking the box to accept these terms, or otherwise clicking to agree, has the same effect as a signature on paper. You agree not to dispute the validity of this agreement on the ground that it was accepted electronically. We record which revision you accepted and when.
Notices and electronic communications. You agree we may communicate with you electronically. We will send notices to the email address on your account; you are responsible for keeping it current. A formal notice to us — a dispute under Section 26, or anything you need to be able to prove you sent — should go to the postal address in Section 29, with a copy by email; routine questions can go by email alone.
Changes to these terms. We may update these terms. For a Hosted Deployment, we will give at least thirty days' notice of material changes, and continued use after they take effect means you accept them; if you do not, you may cancel. For a Self-Managed Deployment, changes apply to versions released after the change. The "Last updated" date above tells you which revision this is, and we will keep prior revisions available on request.

28. Confidentiality

Two different things are confidential under this agreement, and they run in opposite directions.

What we disclose to you. Glysten Books itself — the software, its screens and workflows, its source where you can see it, its documentation, and anything we tell you about how it works, what it costs, or what is coming — is our confidential information, whether or not it is marked as such. You may use it to run your own books under the licence in Section 6, and for nothing else. In particular you may not publish it, demonstrate it to anyone building a competing product, or pass it to someone who is. This survives whatever else happens to your account.

What you disclose to us, and to the people you let in. Your books are confidential to you. Section 8 says your data is yours and Section 10 says what we may do with it on a Hosted Deployment; nothing in this section widens either.

People you give access to. If you grant access to anyone — an employee, a family member, an accountant, or a bookkeeper — you are responsible under Section 5 for what they do, and you agree to put them under confidentiality obligations at least as protective as this section before you grant it. That cuts both ways and both matter:

they must keep Glysten Books itself confidential on the terms above; and
they must keep the books they can see confidential — which is not only your information. Where an entity has other owners, partners or members, those books contain their financial affairs as well as yours, and you may owe them duties of your own. Grant the narrowest access that does the job, and remember that a person granted access to one entity should not be granted access to another merely because it is convenient.

What is not confidential. Neither of us owes any obligation over information that: is or becomes public without a breach of this section; was already known to the receiver, free of any duty, before it was disclosed; is received from a third party who was free to disclose it; or is independently developed without reference to the other's confidential information.

Required disclosure. Either of us may disclose confidential information where the law, a court, or a regulator requires it. Where you are permitted to do so, give the other reasonable notice first, so they have the chance to object or seek protection, and disclose no more than is required.

When it ends. These obligations last for three years after the information is disclosed, except for anything that qualifies as a trade secret, where they last as long as it remains one. On termination, and at the other's written request, each of us will delete or return the other's confidential information, except for copies kept in routine backups or required by law — which stay subject to this section for as long as they are kept.

Remedies. Money is unlikely to be an adequate remedy for a breach of this section, and either of us may seek an injunction or other equitable relief without posting a bond, in addition to anything else available.

Nothing in this section transfers ownership of anything. Section 6 governs who owns Glysten Books, and Section 8 governs who owns your data.

29. Contact

Questions, notices, and disputes under Section 26: [ADD CONTACT EMAIL AND POSTAL ADDRESS]