Terms of service

01What Hori is

Hori (“we”) checks record shops and marketplaces in Japan for the records on your Discogs wantlist and tells you, on LINE and on the website, when one is listed for sale. These terms apply to horirecords.com, the Hori LINE account and My Finds.

Hori does not sell records. You buy from the shop or seller, on their site and under their own terms, at their price. Hori takes no commission on what you buy.

02Sources and record shops

Hori reads pages that shops and marketplaces publish for everyone to see, the way a visitor would: it does not log in to them and does not get around any access control, CAPTCHA or block. It checks each shop at a measured pace, about once a day, plus a look at a single listing when it is matched or when you open it.

What you pay for is the aggregation and the alerts: matching your wantlist against what is listed and telling you when something turns up. Hori does not sell records or the shops’ content. It keeps only what it needs to recognise a record (artist, title, label, catalogue number, price, availability and a thumbnail), shows it to the people looking for that record and links to the seller’s own page, where the sale happens.

Shop names and logos are used only to say where a record is. Hori is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the shops, marketplaces, Discogs or LINE.

Record shops: if you would rather Hori did not list your shop, or want something corrected, write to hello@horirecords.com; we will stop within a few days.

03Your account

You sign in with Discogs (Hori can only read your wantlist and your public profile) and can connect LINE to receive alerts. Keep access to these accounts to yourself: whoever can use them can use Hori as you.

You can stop using Hori at any time: block the LINE account and revoke Hori in your Discogs settings, or write to us and we will delete your account.

04Free finds and Hori Pro

Your first 5 finds (a record from your wantlist found for sale, counted once however many shops have it) come with the shop, the price and the link, for free. After that, Hori keeps searching and tells you what it found; Hori Pro shows where and for how much.

Hori Pro costs ¥1,000 a month or ¥10,000 a year, charged by card through Stripe at sign-up and then automatically on each renewal date until you cancel. Prices are shown before you pay; if they change, we will tell you before your next renewal.

You can cancel at any time from My Finds (Manage subscription). Pro stays on until the end of the period you paid for and is not renewed; periods already paid are not refunded. If a payment fails, Stripe retries it for a while; if it still fails, the account goes back to the free plan.

05Listings and alerts

Listings come from shops and marketplaces that Hori reads automatically. We check them every day and before alerting you, but a record can sell, change price or be described differently by the time you look. Always check the listing on the seller’s site before buying.

Matches are made on catalogue numbers and on artist and title; a reissue or another pressing can be matched to the release you want. The seller’s description is in every alert.

06Fair use

Use Hori for your own record hunting. Do not resell or republish what Hori finds in bulk, copy the website or the API automatically, or try to get around the free finds limit.

07Liability

Hori is provided as is. We do our best to keep it running and accurate, but we cannot promise it will find every listing, never miss one or never be down. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for purchases you make from sellers, for listings that turn out to be wrong, or for indirect losses; our total liability is limited to what you paid for Hori Pro in the last 12 months.

08Changes and law

We may update these terms; if the change matters, we will tell you on LINE or by email before it applies. These terms are governed by the laws of Japan, and the Tokyo District Court has jurisdiction for any dispute, without prejudice to the protections of the law of your country of residence.

Questions: hello@horirecords.com.