1. About these terms
Tanko Vault is an online manga discovery, release-tracking and collection service operated by TechManPat. These Terms & Conditions form an agreement between you and Tanko Vault when you access the site, create an account or use its features.
By creating an account and selecting the acceptance checkbox, you agree to these terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. Returning users are asked to accept again only after a material policy update. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use account-based features.
2. Eligibility and adult content
You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you are under 18, you may only use Tanko Vault with permission from a parent or legal guardian. Titles classified as sexually explicit may appear in release and catalogue listings, but their cover artwork is blurred for signed-out visitors. Adults aged 18 or older may intentionally access the cover artwork through a signed-in account, and any visitor may hide 18+ titles using the content filter.
Age and content labels are provided as general guidance. They may be incomplete or differ from official classifications in your location.
3. What Tanko Vault provides
Tanko Vault helps readers discover manga, view publisher and bibliographic information, publish selected profile and collection information, follow readers, vote on comments, create lists, track personal collections, ask the Vault Assistant manga expert and use AI-assisted cover recognition. Catalog data may come from publishers, public bibliographic sources, community submissions and automated systems.
Tanko Vault does not sell or publish manga, provide professional advice, guarantee availability, or represent any publisher unless expressly stated. Release dates, covers, credits, ratings, synopses, classifications and AI-generated matches or answers may contain errors, change without notice or be incomplete. You should confirm important information with the relevant publisher or retailer.
4. Accounts and security
You are responsible for providing accurate account information, maintaining the confidentiality of your password and all activity under your account. You must notify us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission. You may not impersonate another person, create accounts for abuse, bypass usage limits or attempt to access another user’s data.
5. Uploads, profiles, scans and community content
You may submit cover photographs, profile details, public collection information, ratings, comments, votes and catalog information. You retain ownership of content you own. You give Tanko Vault a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to process, reproduce, format and display that content only as reasonably required to operate, secure, moderate and improve the service. This license ends when the content is deleted, except for copies we must retain by law or that have been incorporated into anonymized or verified catalog data.
New accounts start with the reader profile and supported sharing sections enabled. You can make the profile private or disable any individual section in Profile settings. Public profile information and comments can be viewed without an account, and blocking cannot prevent a signed-out visitor from viewing information that remains public. Email addresses, purchase notes, insurance data, CSV records and individual purchase prices are never included in the public profile.
You must have the right to upload the content. Cover scanning is for identifying individual manga volumes, not for uploading full books, internal pages or copyrighted works for distribution. Photographs submitted to the scanner are processed temporarily, sent to our AI service provider for analysis and deleted by Tanko Vault after analysis. Extracted metadata and the match decision may be retained.
6. Prohibited and inappropriate content
You must not upload, post or submit anything that is unlawful, abusive, threatening, defamatory, deceptive, harassing, privacy-invasive, infringing, malicious or unrelated to the purpose of Tanko Vault. This includes child sexual exploitation material; sexualized material involving minors; non-consensual intimate imagery; instructions promoting serious wrongdoing; malware; stolen personal information; and content that infringes copyright, trademarks or other rights.
Do not upload personal documents, faces, addresses, payment information or other sensitive material. Do not use the scanner for pornography, explicit personal imagery or photographs of people. You must not use Vault Assistant for unrelated requests, prompt-injection attempts, extracting system instructions, bypassing limits, automated querying or attempts to access another reader's or administrator's information.
7. Moderation, suspension and deletion
We may review catalog submissions, extracted metadata, Vault Assistant conversations, public profiles, comments, reports, follows, votes and account activity for support, safety, quality and compliance. Private Vault Assistant conversations may be accessed only through the full-admin management tool, and those views and actions are audited. We may reject or remove content, apply a cooldown, invalidate abusive votes, freeze voting, disable social interactions, limit features, suspend an account or permanently terminate an account where we reasonably believe these terms have been breached or action is needed to protect Tanko Vault, its users, rights holders or the public.
Votes express community opinion and do not determine whether content is lawful or acceptable. A negative score does not automatically remove a comment, and vote identities are not publicly displayed.
If you upload or submit inappropriate, illegal, harmful or repeatedly irrelevant material, your account may be deleted without prior notice. Account deletion may permanently remove your profile, vault, collection records, lists, ratings, comments, follows, votes, assistant conversations, scan history and related account data. Deleted data may not be recoverable. We may retain limited records where reasonably required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance or dispute resolution.
8. Intellectual property
The Tanko Vault name, branding, design, software, original text and databases are owned by or licensed to Tanko Vault. Manga names, cover artwork, characters and publisher marks belong to their respective rights holders. Their appearance is for identification, commentary and catalog purposes and does not imply endorsement.
You may use Tanko Vault for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not scrape the service at scale, copy or republish its database, bypass technical controls, reverse engineer protected parts of the service or use Tanko Vault content to build a competing product without written permission.
9. AI and third-party services
AI cover recognition and Vault Assistant responses are probabilistic. They may misread, omit or incorrectly rank a title, detail, edition, language, ISBN, publisher or catalog fact. Recommendations are suggestions, not guarantees of quality, suitability or availability. You must review important information before relying on it. Tanko Vault is not responsible for a collection or purchasing error caused by an uncorrected AI suggestion.
Vault Assistant is limited to manga discovery and facts supplied from TankoVault's catalog. It does not have unrestricted access to the web, code execution, arbitrary database queries or private administrator systems.
Tanko Vault uses third-party hosting, email, AI and analytics providers and may link to publisher, retailer or other external sites. Those services have their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control and are not responsible for their content, availability or conduct.
10. Memberships, billing and disputes
The Free plan includes up to 50 owned physical volumes and five new Vault Assistant searches per calendar month during beta. Collector includes 50 new Vault Assistant searches per calendar month. A search may include up to five follow-up questions in the same conversation. Wishlists, reading progress and follows remain unlimited. Tanko Vault Collector is an optional subscription charged at $19.99 USD per year and renews annually until canceled. The current price, currency, billing period and included features are displayed before checkout. Existing free accounts are never charged automatically merely because they use Tanko Vault.
Vault Assistant allowances, models and beta availability may change to protect reliability and manage reasonable service costs. Failed and out-of-scope requests do not consume the monthly successful-search allowance, but short-term fair-use and safety limits still apply.
Stripe processes subscription payments and provides the secure billing portal for receipts, payment-method updates and cancellation. If you cancel, Collector access continues until the end of the paid billing period unless a refund, payment reversal, dispute, legal requirement or Stripe account state requires earlier restriction. Your collection data is preserved after downgrade, but new owned additions pause while the collection exceeds the applicable free limit.
Refund requests are assessed consistently with applicable consumer-protection law and the circumstances of the purchase. Chargebacks or payment disputes may temporarily pause Collector access while Stripe and the relevant financial institutions review the payment. Contact us first if you believe a charge is incorrect so we can investigate. Nothing in this section limits rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.
11. Availability and changes
We may add, change, limit or discontinue features, catalog sources or usage allowances. We aim to keep Tanko Vault available but do not guarantee uninterrupted, secure or error-free operation. Maintenance, provider outages, data loss and circumstances outside our reasonable control may affect the service.
12. Consumer rights and liability
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable law in your location.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tanko Vault is provided on an “as available” basis. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of opportunity, loss of data, purchasing decisions, missed releases, catalog errors, third-party conduct or your reliance on community or AI-generated information. Where liability cannot be excluded but can lawfully be limited, our liability is limited to resupplying the affected service or the cost of doing so.
13. Your responsibility
You are responsible for your uploads, comments, account activity and compliance with applicable law. You must reimburse Tanko Vault for reasonable loss or cost directly caused by your unlawful content, deliberate misuse of the service or infringement of another person’s rights, except to the extent the loss was caused by Tanko Vault.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms to reflect service, legal or safety changes. We will post the updated version and effective date. For material changes, we may provide an additional notice or require renewed acceptance. Continued use after the effective date means the updated terms apply.
15. Governing law
Because Tanko Vault is operated from Australia, these terms are governed by the laws of Western Australia and applicable federal Australian law. This does not limit any mandatory consumer rights or your right to bring a claim in another jurisdiction where applicable law permits it.
16. Contact
Questions, rights-holder notices or reports of prohibited content can be sent to admin@tankovault.com. Please include enough information for us to identify the relevant account, page or content.
Terms version: 2026-08-14.1