Terms of Use

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Keeping Family Ties ("KFT," "we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of the KFT mobile application, website, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

Acceptance of these Terms

By selecting the agreement control, creating or using an account, or otherwise accessing the Service after these Terms are presented, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy and Notice at Collection. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. We may keep an electronic record of the versions accepted, date and time, account, platform, and related technical information.

Eligibility and family accounts

You must be legally capable of entering this agreement. A person under the age of legal majority may use KFT only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian and as permitted by applicable law. The parent or guardian is responsible for the minor's use. You may participate only in families and content for which you are authorized. You may not bypass permissions, access another person's account, misrepresent your identity, or misuse invitations.

User content, privacy, and copyright

You remain responsible for content you upload, import, publish, or share. You must own it or have all permissions, licenses, consents, and other legal rights needed to use and share it. You agree not to publish another person's content or personal information in a way that violates privacy, publicity, copyright, intellectual-property, confidentiality, or other restrictions under applicable law.

You must not upload unlawful, infringing, malicious, deceptive, abusive, threatening, exploitative, or unauthorized content. You grant KFT a limited, nonexclusive license to host, copy, process, transmit, and display your content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, support, and improve the Service and provide features you request. You retain ownership of your content.

Third-party and public information

The Service may help you access or import information from third parties or public sources, such as contacts you select, photo providers, recipe sources, and directories. Availability through KFT does not transfer ownership or permission to republish content. You are responsible for source terms, licenses, attribution requirements, privacy rights, and applicable law.

Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to violate law or another person's rights; harass, threaten, exploit, or impersonate anyone; distribute malware; interfere with the Service; probe or defeat security controls; scrape or harvest information without authorization; or use KFT content or systems to develop an unauthorized competing dataset or service.

Subscriptions and purchases

Pricing, renewal, cancellation, trials, grace periods, and refunds are governed by the purchase terms shown at sale and applicable platform rules. Purchases made through Apple are also subject to Apple's applicable terms and billing policies.

Availability, backups, and changes

The Service may change, be interrupted, or contain errors, and uninterrupted availability is not guaranteed. Maintain independent copies of especially important records. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features and may update these Terms. If changes are material, we will provide notice when appropriate and may require acceptance of a new version.

Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied. Nothing in the Service is legal, medical, financial, tax, emergency-response, or other professional advice. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so some may not apply to you.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, KFT and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, service providers, licensors, successors, and assigns will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, loss of data, profits, or goodwill arising from the Service. KFT's aggregate liability will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid KFT during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law.

Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless KFT and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, service providers, licensors, successors, and assigns from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, penalties, settlements, and reasonable legal costs arising from your content, violation of these Terms or law, infringement of another person's rights, misuse of the Service, fraud, negligence, or willful misconduct. This does not transfer responsibility that cannot lawfully be transferred.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using KFT and request account deletion. We may restrict, suspend, or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect users or the Service, investigate misuse, comply with law, or address a material or repeated breach. Provisions that by nature should survive termination will survive.

Governing law and international consumer rights

These Terms are governed by California law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, disputes must be brought in the state courts located in Placer County, California, or, when federal jurisdiction is exclusive, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Eligible individual claims may be brought in small claims court in Placer County.

Nothing in these Terms limits non-waivable consumer, privacy, cancellation, warranty, court-access, or other rights that apply where you live. If a local mandatory law conflicts with these Terms, that law controls only to the extent of the conflict.

General terms

These Terms and incorporated documents are the entire agreement concerning the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remainder continues. Failure to enforce is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without written consent; KFT may assign them as part of a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, or transfer of the Service.

Contact

Questions may be submitted through the KFT contact form or mailed to:

Keeping Family Ties
11879 Kemper Road, Suite 1
Auburn, CA 95603
United States