LocalKit Business Terms

These LocalKit Business Terms (the Business Terms) are an agreement between Vechron LLC, an Alabama limited liability company that operates LocalKit and LocalSpecials (LocalKit, we, us), and the business, organization or person that uses LocalKit's tools (you).

They cover everything a business does with us: a business account and dashboard; a page or website at localkit.net or localspecials.net, or on your own domain; listings on LocalSpecials; online booking; tickets, cover and Skip the Line passes and VIP tables; packages, memberships, gift cards and orders; donations and giving; menus, TV screens and the specials widget; and any paid plan or add on (together, the Services).

You agree to these Business Terms when you tick the box to agree while creating an account or when we ask you to in your dashboard, and each time you use the Services after that. If you don't agree, don't use the Services.

If you agree for a company, a nonprofit, a church or another organization, you confirm that you have the authority to bind it, and "you" means that organization as well as you. You must be at least 18 years old.

Team members you invite use the Services under your account and these Business Terms. You're responsible for what they do with the access you give them.

These Business Terms sit on top of our general Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy, which also apply to you. Where they say different things about a business's use of the Services, these Business Terms win. The fees and plan details on our Pricing page and in your dashboard are part of this agreement.

Give us accurate information about yourself and your business, and keep it up to date: your business name, address, contact details, and who owns or controls the business.

Keep your sign in details private. Use a strong password, and turn on two step verification when we ask for it (we require it for some roles and for money, team and billing actions). Tell us right away at business@localspecials.net if you think someone else has got into your account.

You may only claim or add a business you own or are authorized to manage. We may ask for proof, and we may refuse, undo or transfer a claim if we believe it was made without authority.

You choose who is on your team and what each person can do. Remove people who leave. Anything done through your account or by your team counts as done by you.

One person or organization may have more than one business or location under an account, within the limits of its plan.

We provide software: tools to publish your information and to take bookings, sell tickets and other things, and accept donations online. We don't provide your services, run your events, employ your staff, or check your customers at the door. We aren't a party to the sale between you and your customer.

We work to keep the Services running and improving, and we may add, change or remove features. If we remove a paid feature you're paying for, you can cancel, and we'll refund the unused part of what you prepaid for that feature.

Some features are marked as new, beta or a preview. They may change or stop, and they're provided as they are.

The assistant and other automated tools can make mistakes. They suggest text, changes and imports; you're responsible for checking what they produce before you confirm or publish it.

We may contact you about your account, your sales, changes to the Services and these Business Terms by email, in your dashboard, and by text message where you've given us your number for that purpose.

We give your business a page address, such as localkit.net/your-name for a salon or barbershop, or an address on localspecials.net for a venue, a promoter, a nonprofit or a church. Addresses are ours to assign. We may refuse, change or take back an address that is reserved for our own pages, misleading, offensive, confusingly like someone else's name or trademark, or left unused, and we'll tell you if we change one that's in use.

If you rename your page, the old address forwards to the new one for a limited time, and you can only rename it a few times a month. After that the old address may be given to someone else.

If you connect your own domain, you're responsible for owning it, renewing it and pointing it at us. Your own domain is a paid feature; if the plan that includes it ends, we may disconnect the domain, and your site stays available at its LocalKit or LocalSpecials address.

Pages on a free plan show LocalKit or LocalSpecials branding, and pages that take bookings, sell tickets or accept payments show that they're powered by LocalKit. Don't hide or remove it unless your plan allows that.

By default a venue that uses LocalKit is also shown in the LocalSpecials directory, and its bookable or ticketed pages are linked from its listing. You can turn the directory listing off in your dashboard. A venue listing that existed before you claimed it (from public information or our own research) may remain, and you can ask us to correct it.

You may not use your page or website to send visitors somewhere that would break these Business Terms, or to make it look like it belongs to someone else.

Your content is everything you or your team put into the Services: your name, logo, photos, descriptions, menus, specials, hours, services and prices, events, staff names and photos, replies to reviews, and anything you import. You keep ownership of it.

You give us a worldwide, royalty free, non exclusive license to host, copy, format, display, publish, distribute and promote your content, on LocalKit, on LocalSpecials, in search results and share previews, on your TV screens and widgets, in emails and messages we send for you, and in our own marketing of the Services (for example, showing your page as an example). The license for our marketing ends when you ask us to stop or close your account; the rest ends when the content is removed, apart from copies in backups and in records we must keep.

You promise that you own your content or have permission to use it this way, that it's accurate and not misleading, and that it doesn't break the law or anyone's rights, including copyright, trademark, privacy and publicity rights. Only upload photos of people who have agreed to that.

We may review, edit for format, decline or remove content that we believe breaks these Business Terms or the law, or that could harm us or others. Copyright complaints are handled under the DMCA policy in our Terms of Service.

Reviews. Reviews on a booking page come only from clients whose appointment took place. You may reply publicly. You may not write or pay for reviews of your own business, offer anything in exchange for a good review, or pressure a client to change one. A review can't be edited by you or by us. We take a review down only for spam, threats or harassment, hate speech, personal information, or because it isn't about the visit, never because it's negative.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely, without owing you anything.

You are the seller. When someone books, buys or gives through your page, the contract is between you and them. You're the merchant of record, and you're responsible for delivering what you sold.

You're responsible for:

• the quality, safety and legality of your services, products and events;
• holding every license, permit, registration and insurance your business needs (for example cosmetology, barbering, massage, food, alcohol, entertainment and event permits) and following the rules that come with them;
• your prices, and showing them truthfully. The price a customer sees, including any fee we add, must be the price they pay;
• your cancellation, no show, deposit and refund policies, which must be clear, lawful and shown before the customer pays;
• honoring what you sold: bookings, tickets, passes, tables, packages, memberships, gift cards and orders, for as long as the law and your own terms require, even if you stop using LocalKit;
• checking age and ID where the law or your event requires it, and refusing service where the law requires you to;
• answering your customers' questions and complaints promptly.

Events, tickets and passes. Describe each event accurately: the date, time, place, lineup, age limit and what a ticket includes. If you cancel an event, or change it in a way that matters, you must refund buyers. You must have the venue's permission to hold and sell tickets for an event there. Don't sell more tickets than the place can safely and lawfully hold.

Bookings. Keep your calendar, services, prices and staff up to date, and honor the appointments you accept. A no show or late cancellation fee may only be charged to a client's saved card if your policy was shown to the client before they booked and the charge follows that policy.

Packages, memberships and gift cards. Prepaid sessions, memberships and gift cards are your promises to your customers. You're responsible for following the laws that apply to them, including rules on expiry, fees, automatic renewal and cancellation, and unclaimed balances. Don't make it harder for a member to cancel than it was to join.

Promoters and venues working together. When a promoter books a venue's night or space through LocalKit, the agreement about that night is between the promoter and the venue. We aren't a party to it, and we don't guarantee either side's performance.

Taxes. You're responsible for working out, collecting, reporting and paying every tax that applies to what you sell and what you earn, including sales, use, amusement, lodging and income taxes. We don't file or pay your taxes for you. Where a tool adds sales tax (for example on pickup orders), it uses the rate you set, and you're responsible for that rate being right. Nothing we show you is tax advice. Stripe or we may send tax forms about your sales where the law requires it.

Payments on LocalKit are processed by Stripe. To take payments you connect or create your own Stripe account. Payment processing services for businesses on LocalKit are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (together, the Stripe Services Agreement). By agreeing to these Business Terms or continuing to take payments through LocalKit, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as Stripe may change it from time to time.

As a condition of our enabling payment processing through Stripe, you agree to give us accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorize us to share it, and information about your transactions, with Stripe.

Your customers' payments are charged on your Stripe account and paid out to your bank by Stripe, on Stripe's schedule. We don't hold your sales money and we aren't a bank or a money transmitter. Our fee is taken from each payment as it's made, or charged separately to the customer on our own Stripe account where the product works that way (for example, the booking fee on a card on file booking).

Stripe decides whether to open your account, what information it needs, and when to pay out, hold or reserve funds. We can't release money Stripe is holding. For some accounts, such as new promoters, we set payouts to wait until after each event and limit how much can be sold per event until the account has a track record. Your dashboard shows when a payout hold applies to you, and we'll tell you your sales limit if you ask.

You authorize us to give instructions to Stripe on your account that the Services need: to create charges your customers approve, to charge a saved card under your posted policy, to issue refunds you or these Business Terms call for, to collect our fees, and to set your payout schedule as described above.

Customer card details are collected and stored by Stripe. You may use a customer's saved card only for the purpose the customer agreed to. Don't ask customers for card numbers outside the checkout, and don't use LocalKit to process payments that aren't for your own genuine sales.

Listing a business, the dashboard and selling through LocalKit are free to set up. Our fees on sales are shown on the Pricing page and in your dashboard where you turn a feature on (together, the Fee Schedule). The Fee Schedule in effect when a sale is made applies to that sale.

Fees on sales. For most sales (tickets, passes, tables, bookings, packages) we add a service or booking fee on top of your price, paid by the buyer and shown before they pay. For donations, our fee is a percentage of the gift, which the donor can choose to cover. A few fees come out of what you receive instead: our share of a no show or late cancellation fee you charge to a client, and our fee on a donation when the donor chooses not to cover it. A promoter pays the fee for booking a venue's night. Your dashboard shows which applies before you switch a feature on.

Card processing. Stripe's own processing fees are separate from ours and come out of your payout, including on refunds and disputes where Stripe charges them.

When our fee is returned. The customer gets our fee back when you cancel an event, a night, a table, a pass order or a booking, when you refund an unused gift card, and in proportion when you refund a pickup order or an in person payment at a venue. A refund you choose to give on a ticket, a pass or a salon payment returns your price but not our fee, and a refund you make directly in Stripe (for example of a donation, a package or a membership payment) doesn't return it either. Otherwise our fees on a sale aren't refundable, to you or to the customer, as the Pricing page and our Terms of Service explain.

Changing fees. We may change the Fee Schedule. We'll give you at least 30 days' notice, by email or in your dashboard, before a change that raises what you or your customers pay. A change doesn't apply to sales already made. If you don't accept a change, you can stop using the feature or close your account before it takes effect. The prices of paid plans and advertising change as the section on paid plans below says.

Our fees don't include taxes. If a tax applies to our fees, we may add it.

If you owe us money (fees, a negative balance, or amounts under the section on refunds and chargebacks below), we may take it from later payments processed through LocalKit, charge the payment method on your account, or send you an invoice due in 15 days.

Refunds to your customers are your decision and your cost, under your own posted policies and the law. A refund you issue comes out of your Stripe balance. When an event or booking is canceled by you, the customer must be refunded in full.

You authorize us to issue a refund from your Stripe account on your behalf where your policy, these Business Terms or the law requires it, and where our support team reasonably decides one is due after a customer's complaint. We'll tell you when we do.

A chargeback is when a customer disputes a payment with their bank or card company. You're responsible for every chargeback on your sales: the disputed amount, and any fee Stripe charges for it, are taken from your Stripe account. We don't decide who wins a chargeback; the card company does.

If you ask, we'll share the records we have (such as the booking or ticket, the policy shown and check in times) to help you answer a chargeback, and you agree to answer promptly and honestly. We may answer one for you where we have the evidence, but we don't have to.

If your Stripe account can't cover a refund or chargeback and we end up paying it, you owe us that amount.

An unusual number of chargebacks, refunds or complaints is a sign that customers are being let down. If we see that, we may pause your sales, set your payouts to wait, limit what you can sell, or close your account.

Questions and complaints from your customers about what they bought go to you first. If a customer comes to us, we may share the complaint with you and may give the customer your business contact details.

Paid plans and add ons (for example a website on your own domain, LocalKit Pro, the QR menu, ad free TV, the No client fee add on, extra team seats, and featured placement on LocalSpecials) are billed in advance each month (or each year, where a yearly option is offered), to the payment method you give us.

They renew automatically at the price then in effect until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in your dashboard. Canceling stops the next renewal: the plan stays on until the end of the period you already paid for, and we don't refund or credit part of a period, except where the law requires it or these Business Terms say otherwise.

Add ons priced per person, per screen or per seat are billed for the number you have, and the bill changes when that number changes.

We may change the price of a plan. We'll tell you before your next renewal at the new price, and you can cancel before it applies.

If a payment fails, some paid features may switch off until it goes through. We may try again, and if it still fails the plan ends: paid features switch off, your own domain may be disconnected, and branding returns. Your free page and your data stay.

Featured placement and other advertising on LocalSpecials is month to month, isn't refunded for time already shown, and is subject to our approval of what's shown. Positions and prices can change with demand; we don't promise results, traffic or sales.

Work we do for you (optional setup and done for you services) is paid upfront at the price shown when you order. It's refundable in full only until we start the work. Turnaround times are estimates.

TV screens with ads. If you run our free TV screens, we choose the ads shown, and you earn the share of ad revenue shown in your dashboard, paid as described there. We don't promise any amount of ad revenue, and we may change or end the ad program.

When people book, buy or give through your page, you receive information about them (such as their name, email, phone number, what they bought and their appointment history). Between you and us, your customer list is yours. Many of your customers also have their own relationship with us, under our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and we may keep serving them.

You may use customer information only to provide what the customer asked for, to run your business with them, and for marketing they've agreed to. You must:

• follow the privacy, marketing and consumer protection laws that apply to you, including the rules for email and text marketing (get consent, identify yourself, honor opt outs);
• have your own privacy notice where the law requires one, and keep it consistent with how you actually use the information;
• keep customer information secure, and give access only to team members who need it;
• not sell customer information, and not use it to harass, discriminate against or retaliate against anyone, including for a review or a chargeback;
• tell us promptly at business@localspecials.net if customer information from LocalKit is lost, stolen or accessed without permission.

When you import clients, contacts or appointments (from a spreadsheet or another booking system), you confirm that you have the right to bring that information to LocalKit and to contact those people.

We send some messages to your customers on your behalf, by email and, where the customer gave a mobile number and texting is switched on for your account, by text: for example confirmations, reminders, receipts, waitlist and order notices, and review requests. You authorize us to send them in your name, and you confirm your customers gave you their details for these purposes. Marketing messages you send through the Services go only to people who agreed to receive them from you.

We use and protect the information we handle as our Privacy Policy describes, and we use it to provide, secure and improve the Services, to prevent fraud, and to meet legal duties. We may use information that doesn't identify you or your customers (for example, totals and trends) for any purpose.

The Services aren't built for sensitive health records, and you shouldn't store them here. We aren't your business associate under HIPAA. Don't collect more personal information than you need, and don't collect government ID numbers, full payment card numbers or passwords from customers through forms or notes.

You can export your customer list and sales records from your dashboard while your account is open. After you close your account we keep records as long as the law, tax rules, open disputes and our Privacy Policy require, then delete or anonymize them.

You may not use the Services for anything illegal, deceptive or harmful, or for a business that Stripe doesn't allow (see Stripe's restricted businesses list). In particular, you may not use the Services to sell or promote:

• illegal drugs, or cannabis and other controlled substances where their sale isn't lawful for you;
• weapons, ammunition or explosives;
• sexual services, escort services or pornography;
• gambling, raffles, lotteries or sweepstakes, unless they're lawful where you are, properly licensed, and approved by us in writing;
• counterfeit or stolen goods, or tickets you don't have the right to sell;
• medical treatments, prescription products or health claims that require a license you don't hold;
• investment schemes, loans, pyramid or get rich quick offers, or cash advances on a card;
• events, services or fundraisers that don't exist or that you don't intend to deliver.

You also may not:

• impersonate another business or person, or claim a business that isn't yours;
• post false, misleading, defamatory, hateful, harassing or sexually explicit content;
• discriminate against customers in a way the law forbids;
• advertise one price and charge another, hide mandatory charges, or add your own charge described as our fee;
• create fake bookings, sales, reviews, accounts or traffic, or buy from yourself to move money;
• send spam, or message people who haven't agreed to hear from you;
• break into, overload, scrape, copy or reverse engineer the Services, get around their limits or security, or resell them without our written agreement;
• upload viruses or anything else designed to cause harm;
• use the Services to compete with us by copying them, or to gather information about our other customers.

Alcohol, tobacco and vape products, and events for adults, are allowed only where they're lawful for you, you hold the licenses, and you check ages as the law requires. We may ask for proof.

We may investigate suspected breaches, and we may share information with Stripe, card companies, law enforcement and regulators where the law allows or requires it.

To accept donations you must be a real nonprofit, church or other organization allowed to ask the public for gifts, and you must pass our verification. Verification is a check for our own purposes; it isn't a statement by us about your organization to anyone else.

You, not LocalKit, are responsible for: registering to fundraise wherever the law requires it; how gifts are used; honoring any restriction a donor placed on a gift; whether a gift is tax deductible; and the receipts and acknowledgments the law requires. The receipts we send for you are a convenience. They show the gift and, when the donor covered it, our fee separately.

Describe each fund, campaign and fundraiser honestly, and use the money for the purpose you stated. Refunds of donations are up to you. Recurring gifts continue until the donor stops them, which they can do at any time from their receipt.

Tell us if your tax status or your right to fundraise changes. We may pause giving if we can't confirm either.

The Services work with services run by others, such as Stripe, Google (sign in and Calendar), Meta, your domain registrar, point of sale systems and the booking or ticketing system you're moving from. Your use of those is under their own terms, and you're responsible for your accounts with them.

When you connect another service, you authorize us to exchange the information needed for the connection to work. We aren't responsible for what another company does with it, or for their outages, changes or decisions.

We own the Services: the software, the designs, the LocalKit and LocalSpecials names and logos, and the LocalSpecials directory and its data. These Business Terms give you a limited right to use the Services for your own business while your account is in good standing, and nothing more.

You may say that you use LocalKit and may link to us. Don't use our names or logos in a way that suggests we endorse, sponsor or are responsible for your business.

You can stop at any time. Cancel paid plans in your dashboard, and email business@localspecials.net to close your account. Closing an account doesn't cancel what you've already sold: you must still honor or refund upcoming bookings, tickets, memberships, packages and gift cards.

We may pause, limit or close an account, a page, a feature, sales or payouts, right away where we need to, if we reasonably believe that:

• you've broken these Business Terms, the Stripe Services Agreement or the law;
• your business, your content or your events put customers, the public, us or our payment partners at risk;
• the information you gave us is false, or we can't verify who you are or that you may run the business;
• there's fraud, an unusual level of chargebacks or complaints, or a sign that customers won't get what they paid for;
• you owe us money that's overdue;
• Stripe, a card network, a court or a regulator requires it.

Where we can, we'll tell you why and give you a chance to fix the problem first. We don't have to when the law forbids it or when waiting would put people or money at risk. To ask us to look again, email business@localspecials.net.

We may also close an account that hasn't been used for a long time, after emailing the address on the account, and we may end the Services as a whole on 60 days' notice.

When an account is closed: your pages go offline and your page address may be released; you remain responsible for sales already made, for refunds and chargebacks on them, and for fees you owe; money in your Stripe account stays with Stripe under its rules; and prepaid plan fees aren't refunded if we closed the account because you broke these Business Terms. If we close an account for another reason, we refund the unused part of any plan you prepaid.

The parts of these Business Terms that by their nature should continue after an account closes do so, including the sections on your content license for records, fees owed, refunds and chargebacks, customer information, what belongs to us, disclaimers, limits on liability, your responsibility for claims, disputes, and the general terms.

We provide the Services "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non infringement.

We don't promise that the Services will be uninterrupted, error free or secure, that listings, search placement or featured placement will bring you any number of customers or sales, that reminders and messages will always be delivered, or that information from others on the Services is accurate.

We don't vouch for your customers, for other businesses on LocalKit, or for the venues, promoters and organizations you deal with through it. Your dealings with them are your own.

You're responsible for keeping your own copies of records you need, such as client lists, sales reports and tax records.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Vechron LLC and its owners, employees and contractors will not be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost sales, lost customers, lost data or loss of goodwill, however caused and even if we were told they were possible.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for everything arising out of or relating to the Services and these Business Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the fees we actually earned from your account (our fees on your sales and what you paid us for plans) in the 12 months before the event that gave rise to the claim, and (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).

We aren't liable for what happens at your business or your events, including injury, illness, property damage, alcohol related harm, or disputes between you and your customers, staff, promoters or venues; for acts of Stripe, banks or card networks, including held or reversed funds; or for delays or failures caused by things outside our reasonable control.

These limits apply to every kind of claim (contract, tort including negligence, statute or otherwise) and apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They are a basic part of the bargain between us: our fees would be higher without them. Nothing in these Business Terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited.

You'll defend Vechron LLC and its owners, employees and contractors against any claim, demand, investigation or lawsuit brought by someone else, and pay the resulting losses, damages, fines, costs and reasonable attorneys' fees, to the extent it arises out of or relates to:

• your business, your services, products, events and premises, including injury, illness, damage or alcohol related harm;
• what you sold or promised through the Services, and your refunds, chargebacks, cancellations and no show charges;
• your content, including a claim that it infringes someone's rights or is false or misleading;
• your use of customer information, and messages sent to people at your request;
• your taxes, licenses, permits, employment and contractor relationships;
• your fundraising and use of donated money;
• your dealings with venues, promoters, vendors, performers or your own team;
• your breach of these Business Terms, the Stripe Services Agreement or the law.

We'll tell you about a claim promptly, and we may choose to run our own defense, in which case you'll cooperate and still cover the costs above. You won't settle a claim in a way that admits fault for us or puts obligations on us without our written consent.

Please read this section carefully. It changes how disputes between you and us are resolved, and it includes a waiver of jury trials and class actions.

Talk to us first. Before starting any formal claim, the side with the complaint must send the other a written notice describing the dispute and what it wants. Send ours to business@localspecials.net with the subject "Dispute notice"; we'll send yours to the email on your account. We'll each try in good faith to settle it for 30 days after the notice is received. Any deadline to bring a claim is paused during those 30 days.

Arbitration. If we can't settle it, any dispute, claim or controversy between you and us arising out of or relating to the Services or these Business Terms (including whether this section applies or can be enforced) will be resolved by binding arbitration before one arbitrator, administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, and not in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

The arbitration will take place in Madison County, Alabama, or by phone or video if either side asks, and will be in English. The arbitrator may award the same remedies a court could award to one party under the law, limited by these Business Terms, and must give a written decision. A court with authority may enter judgment on the award. Fees are shared as the AAA rules provide, and each side pays its own attorneys' fees unless the law or these Business Terms say otherwise.

No class actions. You and we may bring claims against each other only as individuals, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not combine more than one party's claims or award relief to anyone who isn't a party. If a court decides this paragraph can't be enforced for a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) will be decided in court, and the rest stays in arbitration.

Exceptions. Either side may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies. Either side may go to court for an order to stop the misuse of its intellectual property or confidential information, or unauthorized access to the Services. We may use ordinary collection steps for undisputed fees you owe.

Jury waiver. To the fullest extent the law allows, you and we each give up the right to a jury trial for any dispute that ends up in court.

Your right to opt out. You can opt out of arbitration and the class action waiver by emailing business@localspecials.net within 30 days of first agreeing to these Business Terms, with the subject "Arbitration opt out" and the name and email of your account. Opting out doesn't affect any other part of these Business Terms, and we won't treat your account differently for it.

Time limit. To the fullest extent the law allows, a claim arising out of or relating to the Services or these Business Terms must be started within one year after the claim arose, or it is permanently barred.

These Business Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Services, are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, without regard to its rules on conflicts of law, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as described above.

For any dispute that isn't subject to arbitration, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Madison County, Alabama, and each give up any objection to those courts as a place to resolve it.

We may update these Business Terms as the Services and the law change. The date and version at the top of this page show which terms are current.

For a change that affects your rights or what you pay, we'll tell you by email or in your dashboard at least 30 days before it takes effect, unless the change is required sooner by law, by Stripe or a card network, or to protect customers. We'll also ask you to agree to the updated terms in your dashboard. Until an update takes effect you can keep working under the version you agreed to; from the date it takes effect, you'll need to agree to it to keep creating or managing a business.

If you don't agree to an update, you can close your account before it takes effect, and the earlier version applies to you until then. Using the Services after an update takes effect means you accept it.

A change to this section or to the disputes section doesn't apply to a dispute that either of us had already given written notice of before the change took effect.

Whole agreement. These Business Terms, with the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Fee Schedule and the Stripe Services Agreement, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Services, and replace earlier discussions about them.

Electronic agreement and notices. You agree to do business with us electronically. Ticking the box to agree has the same effect as a signature. We keep a record of when you agreed and to which version. We may send you notices by email to the address on your account or in your dashboard; you send us notices at business@localspecials.net. Keep your email address current: a notice sent to it counts as received.

Independent businesses. You and we are independent businesses. Nothing here makes us partners, joint venturers, employer and employee, or each other's agent, except that we act for you in the limited ways these Business Terms describe (such as sending messages and payment instructions you've authorized).

Transfers. You may not transfer this agreement or your account without our written consent, except to someone who takes over your whole business and agrees to these Business Terms. We may transfer this agreement as part of a merger, sale or reorganization of our business.

If part of this can't be enforced. If a court or arbitrator finds part of these Business Terms unenforceable, that part is changed as little as needed to make it enforceable, and the rest stays in effect, subject to what the disputes section says about the class action waiver.

No waiver. If we don't enforce a part of these Business Terms at some point, we can still enforce it later.

Things outside our control. Neither of us is responsible for a delay or failure caused by something outside our reasonable control, such as a natural disaster, an outage of the internet, power, a hosting provider or a payment network, a government action, or a labor dispute. This doesn't excuse a duty to pay money owed.

No one else has rights under this agreement, except the people named in the limits on liability and your responsibility for claims sections.

Headings and the summary at the top of this page are there to help you read it. They aren't part of the agreement.

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