Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract to use the Services. The Services are intended for users in the United States and are not directed to children.

You may not use the Services if applicable law prohibits you from doing so.

2. Your account

You agree to provide accurate, current information and keep it updated.

Yard Eaters uses passwordless email authentication. You are responsible for protecting access to your email account and any sign-in link sent to you. Contact us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.

You may not share a paid account outside your household, impersonate another person, create accounts to obtain repeated trials, or use another person's information without permission.

3. What Yard Eaters provides

The Services may provide:

• Garden planning tools and educational guidance
• Suggested planting, care, and harvest timing
• Property, grow-space, sunlight, weather, and rain-planning features
• Plant, harvest, meal, task, journal, and photo records
• Personalized Planner recommendations
• Optional Personal Setup assistance
• Beta, testing, complimentary, or preview features

Features may change as the product improves.

4. Our gardening promise and its limits

Yard Eaters provides planning tools and educational guidance to support your gardening decisions.

We do not guarantee that any seed will germinate, any plant will survive, your garden will produce a harvest, a particular harvest quantity or date will occur, an ingredient or meal will become available, or harvested food will be safe to eat.

Results depend on factors outside our control, including weather, microclimates, soil, sunlight, water, pests, disease, plant quality, timing, materials, maintenance, animals, and your actions.

Planting dates, maturity dates, yields, task timing, weather information, and meal readiness are estimates, not promises.

5. Maps, property information, and weather

Addresses, coordinates, satellite imagery, property outlines, lot sizes, grow-space dimensions, weather, rainfall, frost dates, climate information, and hardiness zones may be incomplete, delayed, outdated, or inaccurate.

Property outlines and measurements are planning estimates. They are not legal surveys, title records, engineering plans, utility-location services, or determinations of property ownership.

Yard Eaters may provide map tools for personal garden planning. Those tools do not grant you rights in Google Maps imagery or other third-party map content. Your use of map features and content remains subject to the applicable provider's terms.

Nearby weather stations and radar do not prove what happened at your exact yard. Do not rely on Yard Eaters for emergency weather information. Consult official weather alerts and inspect conditions where you grow.

Before digging, building, applying treatments, or changing property, you are responsible for verifying:

• Property and rental boundaries
• Utility locations
• Local laws and permits
• Homeowner association or rental rules
• Product, seed, fertilizer, and pesticide labels
• Safe tool and equipment use

6. Personal Setup

Personal Setup is an informational planning service based on the information you provide. It is not an on-site inspection, land survey, landscape architecture service, engineering service, or guarantee of garden performance.

You are responsible for providing accurate information about your property, preferences, availability, accessibility needs, and growing conditions.

Any timing, rescheduling, cancellation, or refund terms shown at purchase or agreed to in writing are part of these Terms.

7. Subscriptions, trials, and payments

Paid Planner access is processed through Stripe Checkout and Stripe Billing.

Before you start a subscription, review the price, billing frequency, trial length, amount due that day, and available purchase disclosures. Stripe Checkout may also show applicable taxes and other transaction details. By starting a subscription, you authorize Stripe to charge the selected payment method when the trial ends and at each renewal until cancellation.

Unless the checkout says otherwise:

• A trial automatically converts to a paid subscription if it is not canceled before the trial ends.
• If you cancel a trial before the displayed deadline, no first subscription charge will be made.
• Trials are limited to one per person or account.
• Subscriptions automatically renew at the displayed monthly or annual interval.
• You may cancel online through the Planner's Billing settings or Stripe customer portal when those options are available.
• Cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period.
• Deleting a shortcut, closing a browser, or simply stopping use does not cancel a subscription.
• Subscription charges are not prorated or refundable except where required by law or expressly stated at purchase.

If you cannot sign in or reach the online cancellation tools, submit a cancellation request through our contact form before the deadline and include the email address used for the subscription.

If a payment fails, Stripe may retry it. Yard Eaters may keep access active during the retry period, but may suspend or end access if payment remains unresolved.

We may change future prices after reasonable advance notice. A price change will not retroactively change an already-paid billing period. We will provide renewal and material-change notices when required by law.

If you believe a charge was made in error, use our contact form promptly.

8. Complimentary and beta access

Complimentary, beta, testing, and preview access may be limited, changed, or ended at any time. Features may contain errors, change without notice, or be unavailable.

Do not rely on beta or testing data as your only record of important information.

9. Your content

You retain the rights you already hold in content you independently create and submit, including garden plans, grow-space details, photos, notes, preferences, feedback, and Personal Setup responses.

Any rights in a property outline or other material created while viewing third-party map content remain subject to the map provider's rights and terms. These Terms do not transfer any rights in Google Maps content to you or Yard Eaters.

You grant Yard Eaters a limited, nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, format, process, display, and transmit that content only as reasonably necessary to operate, support, secure, and improve the Services.

This license ends when the content is deleted, except for reasonable backup periods and records we must retain by law.

You represent that you have the right to provide the content and that it does not violate another person's privacy, intellectual property, or other rights. Do not upload unlawful, harmful, deceptive, infringing, or malicious content.

Feedback and product suggestions are not confidential. We may use them without payment or obligation to you.

10. Acceptable use

You may not:

• Access another person's account or private information
• Scrape, harvest, or bulk-extract data
• Reverse engineer or interfere with the Services
• Circumvent access, payment, or security controls
• Introduce malicious code or overload the Services
• Use the Services for unlawful, deceptive, or abusive activity
• Copy or commercially exploit Yard Eaters content without permission
• Remove or obscure copyright, trademark, map, or provider attribution
• Extract, copy, or build a separate dataset from Google Maps content

We may investigate violations and suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary.

11. Yard Eaters intellectual property

The Services, software, designs, recommendations, text, graphics, trademarks, and other Yard Eaters materials belong to Yard Eaters or its licensors.

We grant you a limited, personal, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use the Services for your household's noncommercial gardening activities.

No other rights are granted.

12. Third-party services

The Services rely on third parties for hosting, authentication, payment processing, maps, address matching, satellite imagery, weather, climate information, email, analytics, security, and embedded content.

Third-party services may change, become unavailable, or operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Yard Eaters is not responsible for third-party services outside its control.

The Services include Google Maps features and content. Your use of those features and content is subject to the then-current Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.

We may restrict or suspend your access to Google Maps features if your use violates those terms.

13. Safety and professional advice

The Services provide general educational and planning information. They are not professional agricultural, horticultural, landscaping, engineering, surveying, legal, medical, nutritional, pesticide, construction, or food-safety advice.

You are responsible for independently verifying recommendations and using reasonable judgment.

You are also responsible for identifying plants correctly, checking allergies and toxicity, washing and preparing food safely, following treatment labels, supervising children and animals, and deciding whether harvested food is safe to consume.

14. Service changes and availability

We may improve, modify, suspend, or discontinue features. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, permanent storage, or compatibility with every device.

We may perform maintenance or respond to security, legal, provider, or technical issues without advance notice.

15. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. Subscription cancellation remains subject to Section 7.

We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create security or legal risk, fail to pay, misuse third-party services, or use the Services in a way that could harm Yard Eaters or others.

Termination ends your right to use the Services. Sections that logically should continue, including intellectual property, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limitations, and dispute terms, will survive.

16. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available."

Yard Eaters disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, noninfringement, accuracy, availability, and results.

We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, complete, or suitable for every garden, property, climate, person, or purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or right that applicable law does not allow us to exclude.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Yard Eaters and its owners, employees, contractors, and providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost crops, failed plants, reduced yield, property damage, missed tasks, unavailable meals, or decisions based on the Services.

Yard Eaters' total liability arising from the Services will not exceed the greater of:

1. The amount you paid Yard Eaters during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
2. $100.

These limits do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot legally be limited.

18. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend and indemnify Yard Eaters from third-party claims, losses, and reasonable expenses resulting from your unlawful misuse of the Services, your violation of these Terms, or content you provide that violates another person's rights.

Yard Eaters will provide reasonable notice of an indemnified claim and allow you to participate in the defense.

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by Georgia law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

Before filing a lawsuit, you and Yard Eaters agree to try in good faith for 30 days to resolve the dispute informally. Use our contact form with a description of the issue and the resolution requested.

If informal resolution fails, disputes may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Georgia, unless applicable law requires another location.

These Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration or waive any class-action right.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms when the Services, laws, or business practices change. We will post the revised version and update the effective date.

For material changes, we will provide reasonable notice through the Services or through account communications when appropriate. Continued use after the revised Terms take effect means you accept them.

21. General terms

If part of these Terms is unenforceable, the remaining terms remain effective.

Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them as part of a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale of the business or Services.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the entire agreement concerning the Services unless a separate written agreement applies.

Neither party is liable for delay caused by events reasonably outside its control.

22. Contact

Yard Eaters LLC is based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Use our contact form for questions about these Terms or the Services.