Terms of Service

Our Bulletin is a small app for sharing your children’s events and schedules with the family members you invite. These terms cover what you can expect from me and what I expect from you. The privacy policy covers what happens to your data, and it is part of this agreement. I have written both the way I would explain them out loud, because terms nobody reads protect nobody.

Who you are agreeing with

Our Bulletin is built and run by one person, not a company. When these terms say I, that is me, Corey Leichty, and you can reach me at coleichty@gmail.com.

By creating an account, accepting an invitation, or using Our Bulletin, you are agreeing to this version of these terms and to the privacy policy. If you do not agree with them, please don’t use the app. If you set up a family, you are the one agreeing to these terms and the only one who pays. Everyone you invite agrees to these same terms when they accept an invitation, but they never owe me anything.

Who can use it

You need to be at least 18 to create an account or accept an invitation. Children are not users of Our Bulletin. They do not sign in, and there is nothing here for them to log into. This is an app for the adults in a family to coordinate with each other.

What Our Bulletin is

Our Bulletin is a private place to keep your family’s schedule. You add events, choose who sees them, and the people you invite find out when something changes. It is not a general calendar, a messaging app, an emergency notification system, or a place to keep anything you cannot afford to lose. It is a small operation, still in public beta, and things occasionally break. When they do, tell me through the in-app feedback form and I will fix what I can.

Please do not let Our Bulletin be the only place something important is written down. Notifications fail, phones are on silent, and apps built by one person have outages. Keep a backup for anything that actually matters.

What you put in, and who owns it

Everything you add to Our Bulletin is yours. Your events, your notes, your photos, your children’s information: I do not claim ownership of any of it and I never will.

To actually run the app, I need your permission to handle it. By adding something to Our Bulletin, you give me permission to store it, copy it, back it up, resize photos so they load, and show it to the specific people you have chosen to share it with, including in the notifications and emails I send them. That permission exists only so I can run Our Bulletin for you. I will not use your photos or your family’s information to advertise Our Bulletin, sell anything, or train an AI model, and I will not show them to anyone you have not invited. The permission ends when your data is deleted, apart from backup copies that roll off on their normal schedule.

A note on images. They are there for the logistics: a field layout, a parking diagram, a screenshot of the schedule. Our Bulletin is not a photo album and I would rather it never became one, so please don’t attach photos of children or of other people. If you do anyway, you are telling me the image is yours to share and that everyone identifiable in it is fine with it being here. I may remove images that don’t belong.

When you add a child to your family, you are telling me that you are that child’s parent or legal guardian, or have their parent or guardian’s permission. If someone else has a say in what gets shared about your child, please work that out with them rather than with me. I have no way to know what your family has agreed to, and I am not in a position to settle it.

The plan and the price

One family, one plan. It costs $8 per month, or $70 per year, which works out to about $5.83 per month.

One plan covers your whole family, every parent and editor included. Grandparents and followers are always free, forever.

Only the person who set the family up is ever charged.

The free trial

Every new family starts with a 14 day free trial, and I do not ask for a card to start it. There is nothing to forget to cancel and no surprise charge at the end. If the trial runs out and you have not subscribed, you are simply not charged. Your family goes read-only instead, which I explain below.

Renewing and canceling

If you subscribe, the plan renews on its own, monthly or yearly depending on which you chose, until you cancel. I will show you the price, the billing period, and the fact that it renews before you enter a card, and you will get a receipt from Stripe each time you are charged.

You can cancel yourself at any time from inside the app, in your billing settings (currently under Me, then Manage billing). There is no email to send and nobody to talk you out of it. Cancelling online will always be at least as easy as signing up was. When you cancel, you keep full access through the end of the period you have already paid for, and you are not charged again.

Refunds

I do not give prorated refunds as a rule. You can try Our Bulletin free for 14 days without a card, and when you cancel you keep what you paid for through the end of the period, so a refund is usually not the thing you actually need.

That said, this is one person running a small app, not a policy department. If you were charged when you should not have been, or you meant to cancel and the timing caught you, or the app let you down, write to me and I will try to make it right. That is me choosing to, case by case, rather than a rule you can hold me to. But I would rather be generous about it than argue with someone over eight dollars.

There are three situations where a prorated refund is not up to my discretion and you are simply owed it: if I close your paid account for a reason that is not your fault, if I shut Our Bulletin down, or if you cancel because you do not accept a change to these terms. Each is described in its own section below.

If your subscription ends

Nothing is deleted when your subscription ends. Your family’s bulletin becomes read-only: everyone can still see every event and every schedule, but nobody can add or change anything until there is an active subscription again. You can subscribe again whenever you like, and everything picks up exactly where you left off.

If a family stays read-only for a long stretch, I may archive it. Archiving hides the bulletin from the app but does not destroy anything, and I can restore it in full if you come back. Archived data is kept for 12 months and then permanently deleted, which is the same retention the privacy policy describes.

Free families

Some families use Our Bulletin for free: early testers, and families I have chosen to cover myself. If yours is one of them, none of the billing above applies to you. No trial clock, no wall, no charge, and nothing you need to do. If I ever need to end a free arrangement, I will give you at least 30 days’ notice first, and you will never be charged without agreeing to it.

Google Calendar

If you connect Google Calendar, Our Bulletin adds and updates events there on your behalf. Two things worth knowing. Events that sync to a calendar live in that calendar, on Google’s systems, under Google’s terms. If you later delete something here, you may need to delete it there too. And once an event has synced to someone else’s calendar, I cannot reach into their calendar and take it back.

Using it responsibly

Use Our Bulletin for your own family’s schedule. Do not upload anything illegal, do not use it to harass or impersonate anyone, do not upload images of people who have not agreed to be here, do not try to reach another family’s data, and do not attempt to break, scrape, overload, or resell the service. If you do, I will close the account. That is the whole of it, and I would rather have written nothing here at all.

If I have to close an account

If someone breaks the rules above, or if I am required to by law, I can suspend or close an account. Where I reasonably can, I will tell you first, explain why, and give you a chance to get your data out. If I close a paid account for a reason that is not your fault, I will refund the unused part of what you paid.

If I ever have to shut Our Bulletin down

I hope not to. But I am one person, and you deserve to know the plan. If I ever stop running Our Bulletin, I will give you at least 60 days’ notice by email and in the app, give you a way to export your family’s events and images before it closes, and refund the unused portion of anything you have paid. I will not simply switch it off one day and leave you to find out.

I can also change how Our Bulletin works, add features, or retire ones that are not working. If a change would take away something you rely on, I will tell you before it happens.

What I don’t promise

I want to be honest about this part rather than bury it.

I built Our Bulletin carefully and I use it for my own family. But I cannot promise it will always work, that notifications will always arrive, that they will arrive on time, that events will always sync correctly, or that nothing will ever be lost. One person cannot promise that, and anyone who does is not telling you the truth.

OUR BULLETIN IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. I SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

Some states do not allow certain warranties to be disclaimed. If yours is one of them, this section applies as far as your state’s law allows and no further.

What I’m responsible for if something goes wrong

To the fullest extent the law allows, my total liability to you for everything arising out of or relating to Our Bulletin is limited to the greater of (a) what you actually paid me in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) $100.

I am not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, missed events, or missed appointments, even if I was told they were possible.

This is not me trying to be careless with your family’s information. The privacy policy describes what I actually do to protect it, and I take that seriously. It is me being clear that an $8-a-month app run by one person cannot carry unlimited risk, and that if that risk were unlimited the app would not exist for you to use.

Nothing here limits liability for anything that cannot be limited under your state’s law, including fraud, willful misconduct, or personal injury caused by my negligence. Some states do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential damages; if yours is one, the exclusions above apply as far as your state’s law allows.

If you cause a problem for someone else

If you use Our Bulletin in a way that breaks these terms or the law and someone brings a claim against me because of it, you agree to cover my reasonable costs of dealing with it, including legal fees. I will tell you promptly if that ever happens and let you take the lead on handling it. This is aimed at the person who uploads something they had no right to upload, not at ordinary use of the app.

Privacy

The privacy policy explains what I collect and what I do with it. It is part of this agreement, and reading it is worth the five minutes.

Changes to these terms

I will update these terms as the app changes. If a change matters to you, I will tell you in the app and by email rather than quietly editing this page, and I will give you at least 30 days before a material change takes effect. If you keep using Our Bulletin after that, the new terms apply. If you would rather not accept them, you can cancel and I will refund the unused part of what you paid.

If I ever change the price, I will give you at least 30 days’ notice before it takes effect, and it will not apply until your next renewal. You will never find out about a price change from a charge on your statement.

The legal odds and ends

Every agreement needs a few of these. Here are mine, kept as short as I can make them.

Which law applies. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Where disputes go. If we ever end up in court, it will be in the state or federal courts in Hancock County, Ohio, and we both agree those courts can hear it. Before that, please just email me. Nearly everything is fixable that way, and I would much rather solve your problem than have a dispute with you.

If part of this is unenforceable. If a court decides some part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still stands, and that part is narrowed to whatever the law does allow rather than thrown out entirely.

If I don’t enforce something right away. If I let something slide, I have not given up the right to enforce it later.

Transferring this agreement. You cannot transfer your account or this agreement to someone else without asking me. I can transfer it if Our Bulletin is ever sold or merged into something else. If that happens, I will tell you before it takes effect so you can leave and take your data with you if you would rather not come along.

The whole agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the entire agreement between us about Our Bulletin, and they replace anything I said before.

What survives.These sections stay in effect after your account ends: “What you put in, and who owns it,” “What I don’t promise,” “What I’m responsible for if something goes wrong,” “If you cause a problem for someone else,” and “The legal odds and ends.”

Contact

Questions about these terms, your subscription, or a charge you do not recognize: coleichty@gmail.com. It reaches me directly.