Terms of Service

These terms are an agreement between you and Cottage Companion covering your use of the Cottage Companion app and cottagecompanion.app. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

You need an account to use Cottage Companion. You may sign in with an email address and password, or with Google or Apple. Give us accurate information and keep your sign-in details secure; you are responsible for activity that happens through your account.

You are also responsible for the people you invite to a property and for the role you give them. If you use the app for a property on behalf of someone else, you confirm you are allowed to do so.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Cottage Companion.

Cottage Companion has a free plan and paid plans. Paid plans are billed through Stripe. Prices and what each plan includes are shown in the app before you subscribe.

Paid plans start with a 14-day free trial. When the trial ends, your subscription begins and renews automatically, monthly or yearly depending on the billing period you chose, until you cancel. By subscribing you authorize us and Stripe to charge your payment method on each renewal.

You can cancel any time from your billing screen. When you cancel, your paid access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and it does not renew after that. Extra properties beyond your plan's allowance may carry an additional charge, shown in the app before you add them.

Prices may change. If they do, we will tell you before the change applies to your subscription, and you can cancel first. Except where the law requires it, payments are not refundable.

You agree not to:

• Use the app for anything unlawful, or to store or share content that infringes someone else's rights.
• Access an account or property you have not been given access to, or try to get around the app's permissions.
• Copy, scrape, resell or redistribute the app or its checklist content, or use it to build a competing product.
• Upload viruses or other harmful code, or interfere with the app's operation.
• Enter another person's personal information without their permission, or use the app to send unwanted messages.
• Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the app's source code, except where the law allows it.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules.

The properties, checklists, notes, photos, contacts, expenses, documents and other content you add belong to you. You give us permission to store, copy, display and back up that content, and to share it with the members you invite, only so that we can run the app for you.

You confirm you have the right to upload what you upload, including photos and other people's contact details. We do not review your content, but we may remove content that breaks these terms or the law. You are responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

The checklist tasks, guidance and how-to text in the app are general information to help you plan and record property care. They are not professional, legal, engineering, safety or building-code advice. You decide what work to do and how to do it, and you are responsible for doing it safely, following local codes, permits and manufacturer instructions, and hiring qualified professionals where needed.

The app itself, including its design, software, starter checklists and written guidance, belongs to Cottage Companion and is protected by law. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the app for your own properties while your account is active. You may print or export your own property records for your own use.

The app is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, and we do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error free, or that data will never be lost. You use the app at your own risk, and you remain responsible for the condition and care of your property.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Cottage Companion is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data or property damage, arising from your use of the app. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app will not exceed the amount you paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You can stop using the app and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the app. If we discontinue the app, we will give you reasonable notice so you can export your records.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that is not resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Texas, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction.

We may update these terms as the app changes. When we do, we will post the new version here and update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app or by email before it applies. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Questions about these terms: support@cottagecompanion.app.