name: Terms of Service slug: terms version: 2.0.0 effective_date: TBD-pre-publication last_updated: 2026-05-09
Terms of Service
Effective Date: [EFFECTIVE_DATE] Version: 2.0.0
Plain-English Summary (not a substitute for the full agreement below): By using ShareFree, you agree: (1) you are 18 or older; (2) you are solely responsible for screening the people you meet, the items you accept, and the risks you take; (3) you assume the risks of any in-person meetup, pickup, or event; (4) ShareFree provides the Service "AS IS," disclaims warranties, and caps its total liability to you at the greater of $100 or fees you paid to ShareFree in the prior 12 months; (5) disputes will be resolved by binding individual arbitration in Texas under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules; and (6) you waive your right to participate in class actions (you have a 30-day window to opt out of arbitration after first acceptance).
Table of Contents
- Definitions
- Acceptance, Modification, and Re-Acceptance
- Eligibility
- Account Registration, Security, and Termination
- License Grant from ShareFree to You
- License Grant from You to ShareFree (User Content)
- Description of the Service
- USER-SCREENING RESPONSIBILITY
- MEETUP & PICKUP — ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND RELEASE
- Acceptable Use and Prohibited Listings
- User Content — Rules, Ownership, and Removal
- Claims, Transactions, and In-Person Pickup
- Ratings, Reviews, and Reputation
- Communities, Roles, and Volunteer Moderators
- In-App Messaging and Consent to Scanning
- Payments, Credits, and In-App Purchases
- Advertising and Sponsored Content
- Artificial Intelligence Features
- Reports, Sanctions, and Appeals
- Intellectual Property
- Third-Party Services and Links
- DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
- INDEMNIFICATION
- Dispute Resolution; Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver
- Governing Law
- Force Majeure
- General Provisions
- Notices
- App Store Terms (Apple and Google)
- Export Control and Sanctions
- State-Specific Addenda
- Effective Date, Version, and Change Log
1. Definitions
For purposes of these Terms of Service ("Terms"):
1.1 "ShareFree," "we," "us," or "our" means the operator of the ShareFree platform, a Texas-based service offering the Service described herein.
1.2 "Service" means the ShareFree websites at the domains we operate (including share-free.org and sharefree.org), our iOS and Android mobile applications, our APIs, and any related software, content, or functionality we make available.
1.3 "User" or "you" means any natural person who accesses, downloads, registers for, or uses the Service, including without limitation Givers, Takers, community admins, moderators, advertisers, and visitors.
1.4 "Content" means any text, image, audio, video, link, code, data, file, metadata, listing field, message, rating, comment, ad creative, location, or other material transmitted to, through, or by the Service.
1.5 "User Content" means Content that is created, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available by a User through the Service.
1.6 "Listing" means any post a User publishes through the Service, including free items offered, items wanted, posts, events, jobs, services, professional offerings, and business offerings.
1.7 "Giver" means a User who creates a Listing offering an item, service, event, or other Content for free or otherwise.
1.8 "Taker" means a User who initiates a Claim against another User's Listing.
1.9 "Claim" means an in-Service request by a Taker to receive an item, attend an event, or engage with a Listing, including its lifecycle states (pending, giver-confirmed, completed, canceled, disputed).
1.10 "Meetup" means any in-person interaction between Users arranged in connection with a Listing, Claim, or community event, including porch pickups, in-person handoffs, and event attendance.
1.11 "Community" means a hyperlocal group within the Service, typically organized around a geographic area, governed in part by community admins or moderators acting as Users.
1.12 "Credits" means the in-Service unit of account that may be purchased through Apple StoreKit or Google Play in-app purchases and used to pay for boosts, sponsored ad campaigns, and other Service features. Credits are a limited license to use Service features, not money, currency, securities, or property.
1.13 "Ad" or "Sponsored Content" means any Content that promotes a User, Listing, business, professional, or third party in exchange for Credits or other consideration.
1.14 "AUP" means the Acceptable Use Policy located at /acceptable-use, incorporated by reference into these Terms.
1.15 "Community Guidelines" means the document located at /community-guidelines, incorporated by reference into these Terms.
1.16 "Privacy Policy" means the document located at /privacy, incorporated by reference into these Terms.
1.17 "Safety Policy" or "Meetup Safety Policy" means the document located at /safety, incorporated by reference into these Terms.
1.18 "EULA" means the End User License Agreement located at /eula, applicable to the mobile applications and incorporated by reference into these Terms.
1.19 "Effective Date" means the date listed at the top of these Terms or the date of any subsequent material modification accepted by you, whichever is later.
1.20 "Applicable Law" means all federal, state, local, and foreign laws, regulations, ordinances, and court orders that apply to a User's use of the Service.
2. Acceptance, Modification, and Re-Acceptance
2.1 Acceptance. By accessing, registering for, or using the Service, by clicking a button or check-box indicating acceptance, or by any other affirmative act communicating assent, you agree to be bound by these Terms, the AUP, the Community Guidelines, the Privacy Policy, the Safety Policy, the EULA, the Payments Terms (/payments-terms), the Advertising Terms (/advertising), the AI Notice (/ai-notice), the DMCA Policy (/dmca), and the Cookies Notice (/cookies). If you do not agree to all of these documents, you must not use the Service.
2.2 Modification. We may modify these Terms at any time. We will give notice of material changes by posting the updated Terms at the address above and updating the "Effective Date" and "Version" fields, and, where reasonably practicable, by in-app banner, email to the address associated with your account, or push notification.
2.3 Re-Acceptance on Material Change. For material changes (changes affecting your rights, obligations, fees, dispute-resolution provisions, or liability allocations), continued use of the Service thirty (30) days after notice constitutes acceptance. We may also require affirmative re-acceptance through an in-app prompt. If you do not accept a material change, your sole remedy is to stop using the Service and close your account under §4.
2.4 Version History. A change log is maintained at §33 and on our website. The version number and effective date appearing at the top of these Terms are dispositive in the event of any inconsistency with marketing or summary materials.
2.5 Conflict Order. In the event of conflict among the documents incorporated by reference, the order of precedence is: (a) these Terms; (b) the EULA (for issues related to mobile-app use); (c) the Payments Terms; (d) the AUP and Community Guidelines; (e) all other policies. Section-specific provisions control over general provisions.
3. Eligibility
3.1 Age. The Service is intended exclusively for individuals 18 years of age or older. If you are under 18, you are not permitted to register for, access, or use the Service for any purpose. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18, and any account discovered to belong to a minor will be terminated.
3.2 Capacity. You represent and warrant that you have full legal capacity to enter into a binding contract and that your use of the Service will not violate any agreement to which you are a party.
3.3 Sanctions and Prohibited Persons. You represent and warrant that you are not (a) located in, ordinarily resident in, or a national of any country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions (including, as of the Effective Date, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine); (b) listed on any U.S. government list of restricted parties, including the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Denied Persons List, the Entity List, or the Unverified List; (c) otherwise the subject of any U.S. or applicable foreign sanctions; or (d) acting on behalf of any such person.
3.4 No Prior Ban. You represent and warrant that you have not previously been suspended, banned, or otherwise removed from the Service, and that you are not creating an account to evade any prior sanction. Circumventing a prior sanction is itself a material breach of these Terms.
3.5 Authority for Entities. If you use the Service on behalf of a business, professional practice, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity, and "you" refers to both you individually and that entity, jointly and severally.
3.6 Geographic Scope. The Service is operated from the United States. We make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available for use outside the United States. Users who access the Service from other jurisdictions do so on their own initiative and at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with local law.
4. Account Registration, Security, and Termination
4.1 Registration. To use most features of the Service you must register an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information, and to keep that information up to date.
4.2 Account Security. You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials (including any third-party identity provider tokens such as Apple, Google, or magic-link email tokens), for any activity that occurs under your account, and for promptly notifying us at security@sharefree.org of any unauthorized access. We are not liable for any loss arising from your failure to secure your account.
4.3 One-Account Rule. Each User may maintain only one personal account. Operating multiple accounts, sharing an account with another person, transferring an account, or creating a new account after suspension or termination is prohibited and is grounds for immediate termination and forfeiture of any associated Credits.
4.4 Suspension. We may suspend your account, any Listing, any Claim, any Ad, or any specific feature at our sole discretion, with or without notice, including for suspected violation of these Terms, suspected fraud, threat to the safety of Users or the Service, legal process, or operational necessity. Suspension does not require prior warning and does not entitle you to refund of Credits, except as required by Applicable Law and as further described in §16 and §19.
4.5 Termination by ShareFree. We may terminate your account at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice. On termination: (a) your license to access the Service ends immediately; (b) pending Claims are canceled; (c) Ad campaigns are paused or canceled; (d) unspent Credits are handled under §16 and §19; (e) the license you granted to us in §6 over previously posted User Content survives in accordance with its terms.
4.6 Voluntary Deletion; 30-Day Grace Period. You may close your account at any time through in-app settings or by emailing support@sharefree.org. Upon request, your account enters a 30-day grace period during which you may rescind the deletion request. After 30 days, the deletion is processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy and Applicable Law. Some Content (including aggregated, anonymized, transactional, fraud-prevention, audit, dispute, or legally required records) may be retained.
4.7 Effect of Closure on Counterparties. Closure of your account does not relieve you of obligations to other Users that arose before closure (for example, an open Claim you committed to fulfill).
4.8 Survival. §§5–6, 8–11, 13, 16 (in part), 19–34 survive termination.
5. License Grant from ShareFree to You
5.1 Subject to your continuing compliance with these Terms, ShareFree grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use, except that registered Givers may use the Service in connection with their own Listings and registered advertisers may use the Service in connection with their own Ads as described herein.
5.2 You will not, and will not permit any third party to: (a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive source code from the Service except to the extent permitted by mandatory law; (b) bypass, disable, or interfere with any security, rate-limit, content-moderation, or access-control feature; (c) scrape, crawl, harvest, or otherwise extract data from the Service without our written consent (general-purpose search engine indexing of public web pages excepted); (d) use the Service to build a competing product; (e) remove or alter proprietary notices; (f) use any robot, bot, automated tool, or AI agent to interact with the Service except as expressly permitted; or (g) use the Service in violation of Applicable Law.
5.3 The license terminates automatically upon termination of your account or breach of these Terms.
6. License Grant from You to ShareFree (User Content)
6.1 Ownership. As between you and ShareFree, you retain all ownership rights you have in your User Content. We claim no ownership.
6.2 License Grant. You grant ShareFree a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, modify (for formatting, resizing, translation, accessibility, moderation, indexing, and similar operational purposes), create derivative works of, and otherwise use your User Content for the purpose of operating, providing, improving, promoting, and developing the Service. This license is irrevocable for User Content you have posted to the extent reasonably necessary to maintain backups, audit logs, fraud-prevention records, dispute records, and legally required records, and to permit Content shared with other Users (such as messages already received) to remain accessible to those recipients.
6.3 Right of Publicity / Likeness. Where your User Content includes your name, photograph, voice, or likeness, the license in §6.2 includes the right to use those for the operational purposes above, including in moderation outputs, search results, marketing of the Service that features you in your User capacity (such as a leaderboard or highlighted community), and similar uses. We will not use your name or likeness as a paid endorsement of a third party without your separate consent.
6.4 AI Training Carve-Out. We will not provide your User Content to a third-party large-language-model or generative-AI provider for the purpose of training that provider's foundation models without your separate, opt-in consent. This restriction does not limit (a) operational use of third-party LLMs to perform inference on your User Content (for example, to moderate an image, generate listing copy at your direction, or scan a message for policy violations), where your Content is processed transiently as part of the inference request; (b) our use of aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data for our own analytics or model improvement; or (c) compliance with legal process. The third-party LLM providers we use as of the Effective Date are described in the AI Notice and Privacy Policy.
6.5 Representations. You represent and warrant that (a) you own or have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to grant the licenses in this §6 for all User Content you post; (b) your User Content does not infringe any third party's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other right; (c) your User Content complies with Applicable Law and these Terms; and (d) where your User Content depicts identifiable third parties, you have their consent where required by Applicable Law.
6.6 Feedback. If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas to us, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to use that feedback for any purpose without obligation to you.
7. Description of the Service
7.1 Current Feature Set. As of the Effective Date, the Service includes: hyperlocal community feeds; Listings (free items offered, items wanted, posts, events, jobs, services, professional, and business offerings); a Claim workflow with two-phase pickup confirmation; in-app messaging; ratings and reviews; favorites; community membership and verification levels; community-admin and moderator roles; AI-assisted listing/ad copy generation and AI-assisted image moderation; in-app purchase of Credits via Apple StoreKit and Google Play; sponsored ad campaigns; boosts; leaderboards; trust and safety controls (block, report, appeal); multi-language interface and translation; and account, profile, and notification management.
7.2 Right to Modify. We may, at any time and at our sole discretion, add, modify, suspend, deprecate, or discontinue any feature, Listing type, community, region, language, payment method, or other component of the Service, with or without notice and without liability. Where we discontinue a paid feature you have already purchased Credits to use, we will provide a reasonable transition (which may include refund, substitution, or extension), as further described in §16.
7.3 No Storage Service. The Service is not a backup, escrow, archival, or storage service. You are responsible for retaining copies of any User Content you wish to preserve.
7.4 Beta Features. Features designated as "beta," "preview," "experimental," or similar are provided AS IS, may be unstable, and may be modified or removed at any time without notice and without compensation.
8. USER-SCREENING RESPONSIBILITY
8.1 YOU — AND ONLY YOU — ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DECIDING WHO TO INTERACT WITH ON THE SERVICE, WHAT TO ACCEPT, WHAT TO OFFER, WHAT TO BELIEVE, AND WHETHER TO PROCEED WITH ANY MEETUP, PICKUP, EVENT, JOB, SERVICE, OR TRANSACTION.
8.2 No Verification. ShareFree does NOT verify the identity, age, criminal history, employment history, professional licensure, residence, immigration status, sex-offender status, financial condition, or trustworthiness of any User. Account verification badges, community membership levels, ratings, reputation indicators, leaderboard standing, and similar signals are user-generated, automated, or community-administered; they are not endorsements, recommendations, or background checks, and you must not rely on them as such.
8.3 No Inspection. ShareFree does NOT inspect, test, appraise, or authenticate any item, service, event, or other Listing. Photographs, descriptions, condition representations, professional credentials, and price representations are made by the User who posted them. We make no representation regarding the safety, condition, value, fitness, allergens, recall status, ownership, or legality of any Listing.
8.4 Your Due Diligence. Before initiating, accepting, or completing any Claim, Meetup, transaction, job, service engagement, or event, you should: (a) review the counterparty's profile, ratings, and Listing history; (b) communicate through the in-app messaging system to confirm details; (c) ask for additional photographs, documentation, or proof of professional licensure where relevant; (d) meet in a public place during daylight where possible; (e) bring another adult; (f) inspect any item before accepting it; (g) decline any interaction that gives you concern, for any reason or for no reason at all; (h) report and block any User who behaves in a way that concerns you; and (i) contact local law enforcement for any criminal conduct.
8.5 No Recommendation. No Listing, profile, ranking, search-result placement, push notification, in-app surfacing, AI-generated suggestion, or community-admin verification constitutes a recommendation, endorsement, or guarantee by ShareFree. Listings appear in your feed because of algorithmic matching, geography, recency, paid boosting, and similar signals — not because we vouch for them.
8.6 Professional and Business Listings. Where a Listing offers a service that requires a professional license under Texas or other Applicable Law (legal, medical, dental, real-estate, financial, regulated trades, etc.), it is the User's responsibility — not ours — to verify licensure before engaging. We do not verify licenses.
8.7 Acknowledgement. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SERVICE IS A NEUTRAL VENUE THAT FACILITATES INTRODUCTIONS BETWEEN INDEPENDENT USERS, AND THAT WE ARE NOT A PARTY TO ANY TRANSACTION, MEETUP, EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP, SERVICE ENGAGEMENT, OR EVENT.
9. MEETUP & PICKUP — ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND RELEASE
9.1 Incorporation by Reference. The Meetup Safety Policy at /safety is incorporated into these Terms. Any safety recommendation contained in that policy is a non-binding suggestion only and does not create a duty of care owed by ShareFree to any User.
9.2 Voluntary Participation. Every Meetup, pickup, event attendance, in-person service engagement, in-person job interaction, and other physical-world activity arising out of or in connection with the Service is undertaken voluntarily and at your own risk.
9.3 ASSUMPTION OF RISK. YOU EXPRESSLY ASSUME ALL RISK ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY IN-PERSON INTERACTION WITH ANOTHER USER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION:
(a) personal injury, bodily harm, disability, or death; (b) damage to or loss of personal property; (c) communicable disease, including without limitation COVID-19, influenza, RSV, norovirus, measles, monkeypox, tuberculosis, and any future epidemic or pandemic pathogen, whether or not declared by a public-health authority; (d) theft, robbery, burglary, fraud, scam, identity theft, and confidence schemes; (e) assault, battery, sexual assault, harassment, stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, hate-motivated violence, hate speech, threats, intimidation, and domestic violence; (f) food-borne illness, foreign objects in food, cross-contamination, and undisclosed allergens (including peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, eggs, gluten, shellfish, soy, sesame, and others); (g) injury or damage caused by pets or other animals; (h) defective, recalled, counterfeit, or unsafe products; (i) exposure to toxic, hazardous, or carcinogenic substances; (j) accidents arising out of travel to, from, or during the Meetup, including motor-vehicle accidents and slip-and-fall; (k) interaction with minors of the counterparty, third parties present at the location, neighbors, or bystanders; (l) any other foreseeable or unforeseeable harm.
9.4 RELEASE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU HEREBY RELEASE, WAIVE, DISCHARGE, AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE SHAREFREE, ITS AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, INVESTORS, INSURERS, AND SUCCESSORS (THE "RELEASED PARTIES") FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, ACTIONS, CAUSES OF ACTION, JUDGMENTS, LIENS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS, AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS' FEES) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY MEETUP, PICKUP, EVENT, OR OTHER PHYSICAL-WORLD INTERACTION ARRANGED THROUGH THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN AT THE TIME OF RELEASE.
9.5 No Duty of Care. Nothing in these Terms, the Safety Policy, the Community Guidelines, our moderation actions, our communications, or our marketing is intended to create — and nothing shall be deemed to create — a duty of care owed by ShareFree to a User regarding the safety, suitability, conduct, or trustworthiness of any other User.
9.6 Address Sharing Modes. When you elect to share an address (porch pickup, meetup point, or none), you do so voluntarily and at your own risk. You retain control over which mode you select for each Listing or Claim. We do not share addresses without your in-app election.
9.7 No-Shows; Disputes. Disputes between Users regarding no-shows, misrepresented items, partial pickups, missing parts, condition complaints, or similar matters are between the Users. We may, at our sole discretion, assist with informal resolution but are not obligated to do so and are not a party to the dispute.
9.8 Children. If you bring a minor to a Meetup, you do so at your sole risk and are solely responsible for the minor's safety. The Service is not intended for use by minors and is not designed with child-safety verification.
10. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Listings
10.1 Acceptable Use Policy. Your use of the Service is governed by the AUP at /acceptable-use, which is incorporated into these Terms. Violations of the AUP are violations of these Terms.
10.2 Prohibited Conduct (non-exhaustive). You will not: (a) violate Applicable Law; (b) infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights; (c) impersonate any person or entity; (d) misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity; (e) harass, threaten, defame, dox, stalk, or sexually harass any User; (f) post hate speech or content inciting violence or discrimination; (g) post sexually explicit Content; (h) attempt to defraud another User; (i) use the Service to launder money or evade taxes; (j) interfere with the Service's operation; (k) attempt to access another User's account; (l) circumvent rate limits, paywalls, or moderation tools; (m) post spam, repetitive Content, or off-topic Content; (n) post or solicit Listings prohibited under §10.3; (o) coordinate or solicit reviews, ratings, or reports in a manner that misrepresents organic User feedback; (p) operate competing scraping, data-resale, or alternative-frontend products; (q) circumvent a prior sanction.
10.3 Prohibited Listings — Schedule. The following are prohibited from being listed, offered, requested, traded, or exchanged on the Service, even when offered free of charge, even between consenting adults. This list is non-exhaustive; we may remove any Listing at our sole discretion.
- Alcohol — beer, wine, spirits, and alcoholic beverages (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code; PACT Act platform exposure).
- Tobacco, vapes, e-cigarettes, nicotine, cannabis (including CBD, THC, hemp, kratom, delta-8, delta-9, delta-10, and similar cannabinoids regardless of state-level status).
- Firearms, ammunition, gun parts (including frames, receivers, magazines, suppressors, NFA items, and 3D-printed firearm files); tasers and stun guns where restricted; pepper spray above legal limits (federal Gun Control Act; Texas Penal Code Chapter 46).
- Gambling, sports betting, lottery tickets, raffle tickets, casino chips, gambling devices, "skill-game" machines, and sweepstakes entries for value (Texas Penal Code Chapter 47).
- Illegal drugs, controlled substances, prescription medications, drug paraphernalia, research chemicals, and nitrous oxide for inhalation.
- Hazardous materials — explosives, fireworks above Texas Class C consumer limits, bulk flammables, radioactive material, asbestos, lead paint, and mercury.
- Live animals, animal parts, ivory, and endangered species (Lacey Act; Endangered Species Act).
- Stolen goods; recalled products (CPSC); counterfeit and replica branded items.
- Human remains, body parts, blood, organs, breast milk, used medical devices, prescription contact lenses or glasses, and hearing aids (FDA).
- Adult content, sexual services, escort services, "sugar" or companionship-for-value arrangements, used underwear and intimate items (FOSTA/SESTA).
- Restricted weapons — switchblades, brass knuckles, ballistic knives, and other items where restricted by Texas or federal law.
- Government IDs, passports, social-security cards, currency, financial instruments, gift cards above the limits permitted under the Payments Terms, cryptocurrency, securities, and lottery scratchers.
- Personal data, mailing lists, account credentials, cookies, sessions, and "verified" accounts.
- Hacking tools, malware, surveillance equipment (hidden cameras, GPS trackers without consent), descramblers, and jailbreak services.
- Pyramid and multi-level-marketing recruitment, payday loans, debt collection, and credit-repair services.
- Professional services requiring Texas licensure when the offeror is unlicensed — legal services, medical or dental services, real-estate brokering, financial advice, and regulated trades.
- Multi-level, pyramid, and chain-letter schemes, "investment opportunities," and crypto-mining contracts.
- Political campaign material constituting a regulated contribution under the Texas Election Code or FEC rules.
- Anything illegal under federal, Texas, or local law.
10.4 Right of Removal. We may remove any Listing or other Content at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, including for suspected violation of §10.3, the AUP, or these Terms.
10.5 Tax and Regulatory Responsibility. You are solely responsible for all tax, regulatory, and licensing obligations arising out of your use of the Service, including reporting income from services or sales.
11. User Content — Rules, Ownership, and Removal
11.1 Your Content, Your Responsibility. You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting it.
11.2 No Pre-Screening Obligation. We have no obligation to monitor, pre-screen, or review User Content. Where we do monitor (manually or via automated tools, including AI moderation), we do so for our own purposes and at our discretion, and that activity does not create a duty to any User.
11.3 Removal Rights. We may remove, edit, refuse to publish, demote in ranking, label, blur, or otherwise restrict any User Content at our sole discretion, including for suspected violation of these Terms, the AUP, or Applicable Law; suspected fraud; reports from other Users; legal process; or operational reasons.
11.4 Backups. We may but are not obligated to retain backups, audit copies, or moderation copies of User Content after you delete it.
11.5 §230 Status. Where ShareFree provides a venue for User Content, we are an "interactive computer service" within the meaning of 47 U.S.C. § 230, and we claim the protections of § 230(c)(1) and § 230(c)(2). Nothing in these Terms is intended to waive any statutory immunity.
12. Claims, Transactions, and In-Person Pickup
12.1 Two-Phase Pickup. A Claim moves through states (pending → giver-confirmed → completed/canceled). The two-phase confirmation flow is a record-keeping convenience, not an escrow service, not a guarantee of fulfillment, and not a contract by ShareFree.
12.2 Claim Limit. A User may have at most three (3) active Claims at any given time, as enforced server-side by the create-claim RPC. Limit denials are not appealable absent a system error.
12.3 Cancellation Penalty. Cancellation of a giver-confirmed Claim by the Taker (or by the Giver in retaliation against a Taker) may result in a trust-score penalty, as described in the Service.
12.4 No-Show. If a counterparty fails to appear at a scheduled Meetup, the affected User may cancel the Claim and report the no-show through the in-app reporting system. We do not adjudicate no-show disputes.
12.5 Item Condition. Items are accepted "as is" between Users. ShareFree makes no warranty regarding condition, fitness, completeness, recall status, or legality. Disputes about condition are between the Users.
12.6 Address Sharing. Users may select an address-sharing mode (porch pickup, meetup point, or none) for each Listing or Claim. ShareFree does not share precise addresses absent an affirmative in-app election. Even when an address is shared, you remain responsible for choosing whether and how to use it.
12.7 Not a Party. ShareFree is not a party to any Claim, transaction, employment relationship, service engagement, or event. ShareFree is not a broker, dealer, escrow agent, common carrier, employment agency, professional staffing agency, or talent agency.
13. Ratings, Reviews, and Reputation
13.1 User-Generated, Unverified. Ratings (1–5 stars) and reviews are User-Generated Content. ShareFree does not vet ratings, does not verify the underlying transaction, and does not endorse the opinions expressed.
13.2 Not a Recommendation. A high rating or favorable review is not a recommendation by ShareFree, and a low rating or unfavorable review is not a warning issued by ShareFree. Reputation signals reflect the views of individual Users.
13.3 Good-Faith Review of Reports. ShareFree may, at its discretion under 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(2)(A), remove ratings or reviews that violate these Terms. Such action is taken in good faith and does not waive § 230 protection.
13.4 Defamation Safe-Harbor; User Responsibility. Reviewers are responsible for the truth of their reviews. ShareFree is not liable for defamatory User Content posted by Users, and you agree that any defamation, business-disparagement, or tortious-interference claim arising from User Content is between the User who posted it and the User who claims to be defamed.
13.5 No Reciprocal Obligation. Neither User is required to leave a rating or review. Coercion to rate ("rate me 5 stars or no item") is a violation of these Terms and may be reported.
13.6 Removal of Manipulated Ratings. We may remove or discount ratings we determine were procured through coordination, coercion, false transactions, sock-puppet accounts, or extortion.
14. Communities, Roles, and Volunteer Moderators
14.1 Communities. Users may join one or more Communities. Each Community has verification levels (unverified, member-verified, official) and may be administered in part by community admins or moderators.
14.2 Volunteer Status. Community admins and moderators are Users acting in a User capacity, not employees, agents, or contractors of ShareFree. Their decisions, communications, and actions are not attributable to ShareFree.
14.3 No Agency. Nothing creates an agency, partnership, joint-venture, fiduciary, or employment relationship between ShareFree and any community admin or moderator.
14.4 Admin Indemnity to ShareFree. Community admins and moderators agree to indemnify ShareFree as set forth in §24 for actions they take in their administrative capacity, including moderation decisions, suspensions of Community members, and content removals.
14.5 No Liability for Admin Actions. ShareFree is not liable for the acts or omissions of any community admin or moderator, including discriminatory or unlawful conduct, although such conduct may be reported and may lead to suspension or removal of the admin.
15. In-App Messaging and Consent to Scanning
15.1 Messaging Feature. The Service includes an in-app messaging system that allows Users to communicate regarding Listings, Claims, communities, and Service operations.
15.2 Consent to Scanning. YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE AUTOMATED AND, WHERE NECESSARY, MANUAL REVIEW OF MESSAGES YOU SEND OR RECEIVE THROUGH THE SERVICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETECTING AND PREVENTING POLICY VIOLATIONS, SPAM, FRAUD, ABUSE, CHILD-SAFETY VIOLATIONS, THREATS, AND OTHER PROHIBITED CONTENT. This consent is intended to satisfy the consent requirement of any applicable two-party-consent or all-party-consent communications-privacy law, including without limitation those of California (Cal. Penal Code § 632), Illinois (720 ILCS 5/14-1 et seq.), Massachusetts (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272 § 99), Pennsylvania (18 Pa. C.S. § 5701 et seq.), Washington (RCW 9.73), Florida (Fla. Stat. § 934.03), and any other jurisdiction in which all parties' consent is required.
15.3 Scope. Scanning includes automated keyword detection, hash-matching against known unlawful imagery, AI moderation of text and images, and human review of flagged messages. Messages are not used for advertising targeting beyond what the Privacy Policy describes.
15.4 No Confidentiality. Messages sent through the Service are not confidential, are not subject to attorney-client or other privilege, and may be reviewed, disclosed under legal process, used in moderation actions, or used in fraud-prevention.
15.5 Notice to Counterparty. You are responsible for notifying any third party with whom you communicate through the Service that messages are scanned and may be reviewed, where Applicable Law requires you to do so.
16. Payments, Credits, and In-App Purchases
16.1 Payments Terms. Payments are governed by the Payments Terms at /payments-terms, incorporated by reference.
16.2 Credits. Credits are a limited license to access paid features of the Service. Credits are not money, currency, securities, e-money, stored-value cards, or property. Credits cannot be redeemed for cash, transferred, sold, gifted, inherited, or used outside the Service. Unused Credits expire as set forth in the Payments Terms or upon termination of your account.
16.3 Pricing. Prices for Credits, boosts, and ads are set in U.S. dollars (USD). Apple StoreKit and Google Play apply local currency, taxes, and store-specific terms; those store terms control the purchase transaction itself.
16.4 Refunds. Refunds are governed by Apple's and Google's store policies for in-app purchases, by the Payments Terms, and by Applicable Law. ShareFree generally does not refund Credits that have been spent on a boost or ad campaign that has begun delivering. We may, at our discretion, issue Service credits in lieu of cash refunds.
16.5 Forfeiture. Unspent Credits may be forfeited if your account is terminated for fraud, chargeback abuse, prohibited-listings violations, or other material breach. In other suspension scenarios, Credits may be frozen pending appeal under §19.
16.6 Tax Responsibility. You are responsible for any sales, use, value-added, gross-receipts, income, or similar tax arising from your use of paid features or your earnings from any in-person transaction or service. ShareFree may collect sales tax where required by Applicable Law and may issue tax documents (such as IRS Form 1099) as required.
16.7 Chargebacks. Initiating a chargeback or payment-method dispute without first contacting support@sharefree.org is a material breach of these Terms and may result in account termination and forfeiture of Credits, in addition to whatever the payment processor or store imposes.
16.8 Apple/Google In-App Purchase Rules. Where these Terms conflict with the binding rules of Apple's StoreKit or Google Play in-app billing for a particular transaction, the binding store rule controls for that transaction.
17. Advertising and Sponsored Content
17.1 Advertising Terms. Sponsored Content is governed by the Advertising Terms at /advertising, incorporated by reference.
17.2 Disclosure. Where you publish Sponsored Content, you are solely responsible for compliance with the FTC Endorsement Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 255), state consumer-protection laws, and any platform-specific disclosure requirement. ShareFree may, but is not obligated to, label Content as "Sponsored," "Ad," or similar.
17.3 Ad Content Standards. Ad creative must comply with these Terms, the AUP, the Community Guidelines, and Applicable Law. We may reject or remove Ad creative at any time.
17.4 Pricing and Performance. Ad pricing and delivery are best-efforts. We make no guarantee of impressions, clicks, conversions, or return on investment.
17.5 Audit. We may audit Ad campaigns, including for click-fraud detection, bot traffic, and prohibited-targeting violations. Credits associated with fraudulent traffic may be voided.
18. Artificial Intelligence Features
18.1 AI Notice. AI features are described in the AI Notice at /ai-notice, incorporated by reference.
18.2 User Verification of AI Output. Any text, image suggestion, category recommendation, translation, or other AI-generated output is provided for your convenience only and may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or otherwise unsuitable. You are solely responsible for reviewing and verifying any AI-generated output before publishing it as your User Content, and you are responsible for the published User Content as if you had created it yourself.
18.3 Third-Party LLM Processing. AI features use third-party large-language-model providers, currently including OpenRouter (which routes to multiple underlying providers, including Google Gemini) and Google Gemini directly. Your inputs and the resulting outputs may be transiently processed by those providers under their respective terms. See the Privacy Policy for data flow.
18.4 No Warranty on AI. AI FEATURES ARE PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. We do not warrant accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, freedom from bias, or freedom from offensive output.
18.5 AI Moderation. AI-assisted moderation may reject or hide Listings, images, or messages that we (or the AI provider) believe violate these Terms. False positives may occur. The appeal process in §19 applies.
18.6 Prompt Injection and Adversarial Inputs. You will not attempt to manipulate, jailbreak, or extract system prompts from our AI features, nor use adversarial inputs to cause the Service to produce unlawful, abusive, or policy-violating output.
19. Reports, Sanctions, and Appeals
19.1 User Remedies (in order)
- Block. Blocking is immediate, unilateral, and persistent until you choose to un-block. Blocking hides the other User from your feed, prevents the other User from messaging you, and prevents the other User from claiming your Listings.
- Report. Reporting submits the issue to the moderation queue.
- Contact support@sharefree.org for issues that block and report cannot address.
- Law enforcement. For criminal conduct, call 911 or your local police directly. ShareFree does not relay reports to law enforcement except in response to valid legal process or where required by law.
19.2 Automatic Moderation Actions
- A Listing accumulating five (5) or more pending reports is automatically disabled pending human review.
- AI moderation may reject a Listing or message at the time of publication; the User is notified and may appeal.
- No automatic User suspension or ban is triggered by report count alone.
19.3 Discretionary Moderation Actions by ShareFree Staff
- ShareFree staff may, at their sole discretion, issue a warning, content removal, temporary suspension, or permanent ban, with or without notice.
- The default progressive ladder (which is not a contract and may be skipped at any time) is: Warning → 5-day suspension → Permanent ban, with skip-step authority for egregious conduct including fraud, threats of violence, illegal activity, sexual exploitation, repeat IP infringement, and prohibited-Listings violations.
- A Listing-level removal does not waive User-level sanctions, and a User-level sanction applies across all Listings, Claims, communities, ads, and Credits.
- On suspension or ban: pending Claims are canceled; ad campaigns are paused; unspent Credits are forfeited where the violation involved fraud, chargeback abuse, or prohibited Listings, and otherwise are frozen pending appeal.
19.4 Appeals
- One appeal per sanction is available through the in-app appeal form.
- Cooldown after a rejected appeal: 7 days for community-level sanctions; 30 days for platform-level sanctions.
- Where reasonably practicable, an appeal will be reviewed by an admin who did not issue the original sanction.
- Resolutions are: upheld, modified, or lifted. The resolution is final and binding internally; there is no further internal review.
- An appeal does not toll the deadline for any arbitration or judicial proceeding under §25.
19.5 Reporter Quality and False-Report Penalties
- Reports must be made in good faith based on first-hand observation.
- Each report is tagged on resolution as upheld, dismissed, or abusive.
- Trust-score adjustments: upheld +1; dismissed 0; abusive −2 (or up to −5 for retaliation or coordination).
- Score thresholds:
- ≤ −5: reporter probation — your subsequent reports queue for human review only and do not count toward the automatic Listing-disable threshold.
- ≤ −10: 30-day suspension from reporting.
- ≤ −20: permanent loss of reporting privileges (account remains active; Block remains available).
- Coordinated reporting (same fingerprint, IP, household, or referral cluster, against the same target, within a short window) is treated as abusive and may also trigger the §19.3 ladder.
- Egregious abuse of the report system may independently trigger the §19.3 ladder.
- Revocation of reporting privileges is itself appealable through §19.4.
- Reporter identity is confidential to the reported User but may be disclosed under valid legal process or in response to a defamation suit by the reported User against the reporter.
19.6 Indemnification Overlay for Moderation Actions
You waive any claim against ShareFree arising out of sanctions, content removals, denied appeals, lost Credits or ad placements, revoked reporting privileges, account closures, or other moderation actions, except where such waiver is prohibited by mandatory consumer-protection law (and even then, any liability is capped under §23).
19.7 Legal Process
For law-enforcement requests, civil subpoenas, court orders, and similar legal process, see /legal/law-enforcement.
20. Intellectual Property
20.1 Marks. "ShareFree," the ShareFree logo, and other ShareFree names, logos, slogans, product names, and graphics are trademarks, service marks, or trade dress of ShareFree. You may not use them without our prior written consent, except as required for nominative fair use (e.g., factually identifying the Service in news reporting or commentary).
20.2 Copyright. All Service software, design, look-and-feel, and aggregated content (excluding User Content) is © ShareFree, all rights reserved.
20.3 DMCA. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. To submit a takedown notice or counter-notice, see /dmca. Repeat infringers will be terminated.
20.4 User Trademark Concerns. Brand owners with trademark concerns may contact legal@sharefree.org.
21. Third-Party Services and Links
21.1 Third-Party Services. The Service interoperates with third-party services, including Apple App Store and StoreKit, Google Play, Apple Sign-In, Google Sign-In, Resend (email), Supabase (backend infrastructure), OpenRouter and Google Gemini (LLMs), and others described in the Privacy Policy. Use of those services is governed by their own terms.
21.2 Links. Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience. We do not control and are not responsible for those sites.
21.3 No Endorsement. Inclusion of a third-party service or link is not an endorsement.
21.4 Failure of Third Parties. We are not liable for the acts, omissions, downtime, security incidents, or policy changes of any third-party service, even where that third party is necessary to operate a feature of the Service.
22. DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES
22.1 AS IS; AS AVAILABLE. THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT, FEATURES, AI OUTPUTS, RATINGS, REPUTATION INDICATORS, MATCHING ALGORITHMS, AND ALL OTHER COMPONENTS, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY.
22.2 DISCLAIMED WARRANTIES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SHAREFREE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: (A) MERCHANTABILITY; (B) FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; (C) NON-INFRINGEMENT; (D) TITLE; (E) ACCURACY; (F) COMPLETENESS; (G) AVAILABILITY; (H) UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION; (I) FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR HARMFUL COMPONENTS; (J) THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (K) THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; (L) ANY WARRANTY ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE.
22.3 NO WARRANTY OF USER IDENTITY OR CONDUCT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE IDENTITY, AGE, BACKGROUND, CONDUCT, OR TRUSTWORTHINESS OF ANY USER. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE CONDITION, AUTHENTICITY, SAFETY, FITNESS, OR LEGALITY OF ANY LISTING. WE DO NOT WARRANT ANY OUTCOME OF ANY MEETUP, CLAIM, EVENT, JOB, SERVICE ENGAGEMENT, OR OTHER INTERACTION.
22.4 NO WARRANTY OF AI OUTPUT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, FAIRNESS, OR APPROPRIATENESS OF ANY AI-GENERATED OUTPUT.
22.5 Jurisdictional Carve-Outs. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. To the extent any such warranty cannot be disclaimed, the disclaimer applies to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law and any such warranty is limited in duration to the minimum period permitted by Applicable Law.
23. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
23.1 EXCLUSION OF INDIRECT DAMAGES. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL SHAREFREE OR ANY RELEASED PARTY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF PROFITS; LOSS OF REVENUE; LOSS OF GOODWILL; LOSS OF DATA; LOSS OF USE; LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY; PERSONAL INJURY; EMOTIONAL DISTRESS; PROPERTY DAMAGE; OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
23.2 LIABILITY CAP. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SHAREFREE'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS AND THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100); OR (B) THE TOTAL FEES (IF ANY) YOU PAID TO SHAREFREE FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
23.3 Application. The cap and exclusion in this §23 apply on a per-User basis in the aggregate across all claims, however characterized, and apply even if any limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.
23.4 Jurisdictional Carve-Outs. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of certain damages. To the extent the law of your jurisdiction does not allow this limitation, our liability is limited to the smallest amount permitted by Applicable Law.
23.5 Essential Basis. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE FEES AND PRICING OF THE SERVICE REFLECT THE ALLOCATION OF RISK SET FORTH IN THIS §23, AND THAT WE WOULD NOT PROVIDE THE SERVICE WITHOUT THIS ALLOCATION.
24. INDEMNIFICATION
24.1 General Indemnity. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU WILL INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD HARMLESS SHAREFREE AND THE OTHER RELEASED PARTIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, ACTIONS, JUDGMENTS, LOSSES, LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, COSTS, AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COURT COSTS) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO: (A) YOUR USER CONTENT; (B) YOUR USE OF OR INTERACTIONS THROUGH THE SERVICE; (C) ANY MEETUP, PICKUP, EVENT, CLAIM, JOB, SERVICE ENGAGEMENT, OR OTHER PHYSICAL-WORLD INTERACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE; (D) YOUR BREACH OF THESE TERMS, THE AUP, THE COMMUNITY GUIDELINES, OR ANY APPLICABLE LAW; (E) YOUR ALLEGED OR ACTUAL INFRINGEMENT OR VIOLATION OF ANY THIRD-PARTY RIGHT, INCLUDING INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY, PRIVACY, PUBLICITY, OR OTHER RIGHT; (F) ANY ACT OR OMISSION BY YOU IN A COMMUNITY ADMIN OR MODERATOR CAPACITY; AND (G) ANY MISREPRESENTATION YOU MAKE.
24.2 Procedure. We will give you reasonable notice of any claim. We may participate in the defense with counsel of our choice at our expense. You will not settle any claim without our prior written consent where the settlement imposes any obligation on us.
24.3 Survival. This §24 survives termination.
25. Dispute Resolution; Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver
READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES YOU TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND LIMITS THE WAY YOU CAN SEEK RELIEF FROM SHAREFREE.
25.1 Informal Dispute Resolution. Before initiating any arbitration or lawsuit, you agree to first contact us in writing at legal@sharefree.org with a description of the claim, the relief sought, and your contact information ("Notice of Dispute"). The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for sixty (60) days following receipt of the Notice of Dispute.
25.2 Binding Individual Arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved informally within 60 days, all disputes between you and ShareFree arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved exclusively by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules in effect at the time, as modified by these Terms. The Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.) governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration agreement.
25.3 Seat and Venue. The arbitration will be seated in Dallas County or Collin County, Texas, at ShareFree's election. Hearings may be conducted by video where the AAA Rules permit.
25.4 Class-Action Waiver. YOU AND SHAREFREE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, MASS, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, including any private-attorney-general action, except as expressly permitted under §25.7. The arbitrator may award relief only on an individual basis and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the individual claim. Any class-, collective-, or representative-action waiver that is found invalid will be severed (and the remainder of the arbitration agreement enforced) before any such action proceeds.
25.5 30-Day Opt-Out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and class-action waiver by sending written notice to legal@sharefree.org within thirty (30) days of your first acceptance of these Terms. The opt-out notice must include your name, account email, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. A timely opt-out preserves your right to bring claims in court individually but does not affect any other provision of these Terms.
25.6 Small-Claims Carve-Out. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction in lieu of arbitration, so long as the claim remains in that court (no removal, no escalation, no consolidation).
25.7 Mass-Arbitration Protocol. If twenty-five (25) or more substantially similar arbitration demands are filed against ShareFree by or on behalf of Users represented by the same or coordinated counsel within a 60-day window, those demands will be administered as a batched proceeding under the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules or, if AAA declines or such rules do not exist, under the following protocol: (a) the parties will select up to ten (10) bellwether cases (five per side); (b) the bellwethers proceed first; (c) following the bellwethers, the parties will engage in good-faith global mediation for sixty (60) days; (d) thereafter, remaining demands proceed in batches of up to fifty (50). This protocol is intended to ensure efficient and fair resolution of mass filings, not to delay any individual claim beyond reason.
25.8 JURY-TRIAL WAIVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND SHAREFREE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY in any matter that is not subject to arbitration.
25.9 Filing Fees. AAA filing fees are governed by the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules. Where Applicable Law requires, ShareFree will pay any portion of the filing fee that exceeds what you would pay to file the same claim in court.
25.10 Equitable Relief. Notwithstanding §25.2, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction in Dallas County or Collin County, Texas, to protect intellectual-property rights, confidentiality, or to prevent unauthorized access pending arbitration.
25.11 Survival. This §25 survives termination.
26. Governing Law
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, exclusive of its conflict-of-laws principles, and (where applicable) the Federal Arbitration Act and other federal law. The U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
27. Force Majeure
We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused in whole or in part by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, weather events, fire, flood, earthquake, pandemic, epidemic, public-health emergency, war, civil unrest, terrorism, embargo, sanctions, labor dispute, supply-chain disruption, telecommunications or internet failure, cloud-service outage, third-party service failure, denial-of-service attack, governmental action, or any other event of force majeure.
28. General Provisions
28.1 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect, except that an unenforceable class-action waiver is handled under §25.4.
28.2 No Waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. A waiver is effective only if in writing and signed by an authorized representative of ShareFree.
28.3 Entire Agreement. These Terms and the documents incorporated by reference constitute the entire agreement between you and ShareFree regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements, negotiations, and communications.
28.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms or any right or obligation under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, change of control, financing, or by operation of law, without notice or consent.
28.5 Headings; Construction. Headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation. "Including" and "include" mean "including without limitation." The singular includes the plural and vice versa. Ambiguity is not construed against the drafter.
28.6 Independent Contractors. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, employment, or fiduciary relationship.
28.7 Third-Party Beneficiaries. Except for the Released Parties (as beneficiaries of §§9, 22, 23, and 24), Apple Inc. (as beneficiary of §30 with respect to iOS use), and Google LLC (as beneficiary of §30 with respect to Android use), there are no third-party beneficiaries.
28.8 Survival. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including §§5–6, 8–11, 13, 16 (in part), 19–34 — survive.
29. Notices
29.1 Notices to ShareFree. Legal notices must be sent in writing to ShareFree's registered agent:
[REGISTERED_AGENT_NAME] [REGISTERED_AGENT_ADDRESS]
with a courtesy copy to legal@sharefree.org. Notices are effective on receipt.
29.2 Notices to You; Electronic Notice Consent. YOU CONSENT TO RECEIVE NOTICES FROM SHAREFREE ELECTRONICALLY, including by email to the address associated with your account, by in-app notification, by push notification, or by posting on the Service. Electronic notices are effective when sent (for emails and pushes) or when posted (for in-app or website notices). You are responsible for keeping your contact information current.
29.3 E-SIGN Consent. You consent to do business electronically and to the use of electronic records and signatures under the federal E-SIGN Act (15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.) and Texas's Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 322).
30. App Store Terms (Apple and Google)
30.1 Acknowledgement. This §30 applies in addition to the EULA. To the extent of conflict between this §30 and the EULA, the more protective provision (in favor of Apple or Google, as applicable) controls for the relevant store.
30.2 Apple Specific Terms.
(a) Relationship. These Terms are between you and ShareFree only, not between you and Apple Inc. ("Apple"). Apple is not responsible for the iOS application or its content.
(b) Scope of License. Your license to use the iOS application is limited to a non-transferable license to use the application on any Apple-branded products that you own or control and as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms.
(c) Maintenance and Support. ShareFree, not Apple, is solely responsible for any maintenance and support services. Apple has no obligation to furnish maintenance and support services.
(d) Warranty. ShareFree, not Apple, is solely responsible for any warranties with respect to the iOS application, express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. In the event of any failure of the iOS application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the application; to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty are the sole responsibility of ShareFree.
(e) Product Claims. ShareFree, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any User or third-party claims relating to the iOS application or your possession or use of it, including: (i) product-liability claims; (ii) any claim that the iOS application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer-protection or similar legislation, including in connection with health- or fitness-related features.
(f) IP Claims. In the event of a third-party claim that the iOS application or your possession and use of it infringes intellectual-property rights, ShareFree, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such claim.
(g) Compliance with Law. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
(h) Developer Contact. Questions, complaints, or claims with respect to the iOS application should be directed to support@sharefree.org.
(i) Third-Party Beneficiary. You acknowledge that Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms with respect to the iOS application, and that, on your acceptance of these Terms, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
30.3 Google Specific Terms.
(a) Relationship. These Terms are between you and ShareFree only, not between you and Google LLC ("Google"). The Android application is licensed under these Terms in addition to Google Play's Terms of Service. ShareFree, not Google, is solely responsible for the Android application and its content.
(b) Maintenance and Support. ShareFree, not Google, is solely responsible for any maintenance and support services.
(c) Warranty and Liability. ShareFree, not Google, is responsible for warranties (to the extent not disclaimed) and liability with respect to the Android application.
(d) Compliance with Law. Sanctions and export representations in §3.3 and §31 apply.
(e) Third-Party Beneficiary. Google is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms with respect to the Android application and may enforce these Terms accordingly.
31. Export Control and Sanctions
31.1 You agree to comply with all U.S. export-control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 15 C.F.R. § 730 et seq.) and OFAC sanctions regulations (31 C.F.R. ch. V), and with all applicable foreign export-control laws.
31.2 You will not (a) export, re-export, or transfer the Service to any embargoed country or restricted person; (b) use the Service in connection with any prohibited end-use, including weapons of mass destruction, missile, military, or nuclear end-uses; or (c) circumvent any export restriction.
31.3 You represent that you are not (and are not acting on behalf of) a person on any U.S. Government restricted-party list described in §3.3.
32. State-Specific Addenda
32.1 California Residents.
(a) CCPA / CPRA Notice. California residents have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA, including rights to know, access, correct, delete, and opt out of "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, and rights regarding the use of "sensitive personal information." Exercise these rights through the in-app privacy controls or by contacting privacy@sharefree.org. See the Privacy Policy for full disclosures.
(b) Cal. Civ. Code § 1789.3. California Users may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
(c) Auto-Renewal. No auto-renewal subscriptions are sold by ShareFree as of the Effective Date. Where introduced, they will comply with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17600 et seq.
32.2 New Jersey Residents. Provisions in §§22–24 that limit liability or exclude warranties do not apply to claims for negligence, intentional misrepresentation, or violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act to the extent prohibited by N.J. law. The remainder of those sections apply to the maximum extent permitted by N.J. law.
32.3 New York Residents. Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit liability for gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing to the extent such limitation is prohibited under New York law (e.g., N.Y. Gen. Oblig. Law § 5-322.1 in applicable contexts). New York consumer-protection rights under N.Y. General Business Law §§ 349 and 350 are preserved.
32.4 Texas Residents. Texas Users retain rights under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices–Consumer Protection Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code ch. 17) to the extent those rights cannot be waived. To the extent waivable, you waive DTPA claims that may be waived under Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 17.42.
32.5 Other Jurisdictions. If you are a resident of a jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer-protection laws conflict with these Terms, those mandatory provisions apply to the minimum extent necessary, and the remainder of these Terms remains in effect.
33. Effective Date, Version, and Change Log
Effective Date: [EFFECTIVE_DATE] Version: 2.0.0 Last Updated: 2026-05-09
Change Log
- 2.0.0 — [EFFECTIVE_DATE] — Comprehensive rewrite. Added: User-Screening Responsibility (§8); expanded Meetup Assumption-of-Risk and Release (§9); Prohibited-Listings Schedule (§10.3); Reports, Sanctions, and Appeals (§19) including reporter quality and false-report penalties; AAA Consumer Arbitration with Texas seat, 30-day opt-out, small-claims carve-out, and mass-arbitration protocol (§25); Apple/Google app-store terms (§30); export and sanctions (§31); state-specific addenda (§32); $100 / 12-months-of-fees liability cap (§23); broad indemnity (§24); AI features and consent to messaging scanning (§§15, 18); Credit forfeiture rules (§§16, 19); explicit AI-training carve-out in UGC license (§6.4).
- 1.0.0 — Original release.
End of Terms of Service.