Terms of Service
By using Submarine (the "Service"), on the web or in the iOS app, you agree to these terms.
The Service
Submarine is a submission-tracking platform for writers. It helps you record and manage your submissions to journals, agents, publishers, and contests, and provides a community-maintained Library of venue reading windows and guidelines.
Your account and your data
- You retain full ownership of everything you enter — submissions, notes, work titles, and venue rules. We claim no rights over your content.
- You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure.
- You may delete your data or account at any time (see the Privacy Policy).
The community Library
- You may optionally contribute public facts about venues (reading windows, submission guidelines) to the shared Library. By contributing, you confirm the information is factual and publicly available, and you grant other users a license to view and import it into their own private rules.
- Contributions appear under your first name. You may remove them at any time.
- Never share private correspondence, submission responses, personal notes, or anything a venue has asked to keep private. We may remove contributions that violate this.
Subscriptions and billing
- Submarine Pro is a paid subscription (monthly or annual) purchased through Stripe on the web or through the App Store on iOS. One subscription covers both surfaces when you use the same account.
- Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time in your Stripe customer portal (web) or in iOS Settings → Subscriptions (app); you keep Pro until the end of the paid period.
- Prices may change with 30 days' notice before your next renewal.
- The free plan is offered as-is with feature and storage limits described in the app.
Acceptable use
You agree not to misuse the Service: no scraping the Library in bulk, no attempting to access other users' accounts or data, no uploading unlawful content, and no using the Service to spam venues.
Accuracy disclaimer
Reading windows and guidelines — including those in the Library — are provided for convenience and may change without notice. Always confirm a venue's current guidelines on the venue's own website before submitting. We are not responsible for missed deadlines or rejected submissions.
Limitation of liability
The Service is provided "as is." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages, lost data caused by your own device or browser (particularly on the free plan, where data may live only locally), or decisions made by journals, agents, publishers, or contests.
Changes
We may update these terms; material changes will be announced in the app with a new date above. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.