Terms of Service

1. Agreement, acceptance, and order of precedence

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Stephan Kilgore d/b/a Announce Ready (“Announce Ready,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to Announce Ready’s websites, applications, subscriptions, generated materials, Brand Studio services, and related support (collectively, the “Service”). By clicking acceptance, creating an account, joining a workspace, starting a trial, buying a service, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

If an order form, checkout page, or written agreement expressly says it overrides these Terms, that document controls only for the conflict. Otherwise, these Terms control. You may not alter these Terms through a purchase order, email, or other document unless we sign a written agreement that specifically identifies the change.

2. Eligibility, authority, and electronic records

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract. If you use the Service for a church, ministry, business, or other organization, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to bind that organization and that it is responsible for every person who uses its workspace. You must provide accurate, current, complete account and payment information and promptly update it.

You agree that account notices, checkout confirmations, invoices, policy updates, support communications, and records of your electronic acceptance may be provided electronically and satisfy any legal writing or notice requirement. Keep your email address current. You may retain these Terms by printing or saving this page.

3. Accounts, workspace owners, and security

Each workspace owner controls billing, team access, account deletion, and organization settings. The owner is responsible for selecting and supervising authorized users, their permissions, and their use of shared workspace allowances. Do not share credentials, MFA codes, or access links. You are responsible for activity through your account unless caused solely by our breach of these Terms, and you must promptly notify us at hello@announceready.com of suspected unauthorized access.

We may require identity, ownership, payment, or organization verification before creating, restoring, modifying, transferring, or deleting an account. We are not responsible for loss caused by an unauthorized request that reasonably appears to come from an authorized owner or user.

4. Limited license and Announce Ready intellectual property

Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use the Service for your organization’s internal ministry or business communications during your active access period. Announce Ready and its licensors retain all rights in the Service, its software, workflows, prompts, templates, branding, documentation, analytics, and underlying technology, except for your Customer Content as described below.

You may not copy, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, distribute, scrape, frame, reverse engineer, decompile, attempt to discover source code, defeat usage limits, use the Service to build a competing product, or use automated means to access the Service except through an interface we expressly authorize. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

5. Trials, subscriptions, payment, renewal, and cancellation

A payment method is required to begin the standard 14-day trial. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, you authorize Announce Ready and its payment processor, Stripe, to charge the payment method on file for the plan, taxes, and recurring interval displayed at checkout. Monthly and annual plans automatically renew until canceled. The checkout page is the controlling source for the plan price, trial length, renewal date, allowances, and other material commercial terms presented for that purchase.

You can cancel through the account billing controls or Stripe Customer Portal before your next renewal. Cancellation stops future renewal charges and normally takes effect at the end of the current paid period; access continues through that date. A scheduled switch from monthly to annual billing takes effect at the next monthly renewal without mid-cycle proration. Do not use a chargeback as a substitute for contacting support about a billing question. We will provide a reasonable way to cancel and will honor a valid cancellation request in accordance with applicable law.

Except where required by law or expressly stated at checkout, fees, completed charges, partially used periods, and consumed or purchased credits are nonrefundable. You are responsible for all applicable taxes, duties, levies, and similar governmental charges, excluding taxes based on our net income. If a payment fails, is reversed, or is disputed, we may retry payment, suspend access or credits, recover reasonable collection costs where permitted by law, and correct the affected balance.

An invited founding-beta church may receive the 30-day trial and founding rate displayed on its private checkout. That offer is limited to the named owner and workspace, is nontransferable, may not be sold or combined with another offer, and creates no public eligibility. The rate remains available only while the original church subscription stays continuously active and in good standing. Cancellation, a failed payment, fraud, transfer, material breach, or termination may end that eligibility.

6. Allowances, credits, and fair use

Subscription communication-kit and standard graphic allowances reset on the applicable monthly allowance date and do not roll over unless a checkout offer expressly says otherwise. Purchased top-up credits are shared by the workspace and remain available only while the workspace remains accessible under these Terms. Credits are a limited, revocable license to request the designated Service feature; they are not money, stored value, property, transferable, refundable, or redeemable for cash.

One communication-kit credit creates one coordinated script, email campaign, social-caption set, and message strategy. An editable-layout graphic uses one graphic credit for each newly generated native size. A complete AI-designed graphic uses five graphic credits for each newly generated native size. Additional sizes are optional. Editing tool-added text, colors, logo placement, QR settings, or layout on an existing editable visual does not use another credit. Downloading a size that has already been generated does not use another credit. We may correct balances affected by billing errors, fraud, reversals, abuse, technical duplication, or a violation of these Terms.

7. Your content, permissions, and feedback

“Customer Content” means content you or your authorized users submit, including names, text, logos, photographs, PDFs, reference materials, URLs, QR destinations, prompts, and event details. You retain your rights in Customer Content. You grant us and our service providers a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, adapt, display, transmit, and create technical derivatives of Customer Content solely to provide, secure, support, maintain, and improve the Service and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy.

You represent and warrant that you have every permission, consent, and right necessary for our use of Customer Content and any requested output, including rights relating to copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, minors, confidentiality, and contract. You will not submit information that is unlawful or that the Service is not designed to process, including confidential counseling notes, protected health information, payment-card information, or regulated records, unless we have first signed a separate written agreement permitting that use.

If you provide ideas, suggestions, ratings, or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free right to use, reproduce, modify, and incorporate it into the Service without restriction, attribution, or compensation. Do not provide feedback you want treated as confidential.

8. AI output and your publication responsibility

The Service is a drafting and design-assistance tool, not legal, tax, trademark, copyright, theological, accessibility, editorial, or professional-design advice. Generative systems can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, visually flawed, similar to existing material, or unsuitable for your audience. Outputs may not be unique, available for exclusive use, protectable by intellectual-property law, or free from third-party rights.

You are solely responsible for reviewing, editing, approving, and publishing every output and for confirming names, dates, times, prices, URLs, QR destinations, factual and theological statements, image suitability, permissions, and legal compliance before use. Automated quality checks, content history, design preferences, and approval records are convenience features only; they do not certify an output or replace human review. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for your reliance on, distribution of, or failure to review an output.

9. Acceptable use

You may not use Announce Ready to:

• violate law or another person’s rights, or create deceptive, defamatory, hateful, abusive, exploitative, sexually explicit, violent, discriminatory, or privacy-invasive material;
• impersonate another person or organization; misrepresent a relationship, endorsement, or emergency; or create political or fundraising communications that violate applicable law;
• upload malware; probe, scan, bypass, or interfere with security, access, rate, credit, or payment controls; use unauthorized automation; or disrupt the Service;
• resell, share, or commercially exploit access outside your authorized workspace; create repeated accounts; or use another identity or payment method to obtain extra trials or discounts; or
• submit sensitive personal information, information about children, or content you do not have permission to use.

10. Brand Studio and one-time services

Brand Starter, Professional Brand Guide, and Custom Logo System purchases are separate one-time services. The scope, price, delivery format, timeline, and included revision rounds shown at checkout control each order. A revision round is one consolidated request submitted through Brand Studio; unused rounds have no cash value, and additional revisions or new concepts may require a new purchase. Production may begin from your approved creative brief. Except where required by law or where we cannot deliver the purchased service, completed one-time service charges are nonrefundable.

Human review is a design-quality check, not legal clearance. You are responsible for name availability, trademark searches, registrations, licenses, and final adoption of any brand output. We do not promise that a logo or brand output is unique, registrable, non-infringing, or fit for a specific purpose.

11. Third parties, integrations, and service changes

The Service relies on third parties, including Stripe, OpenAI, fal.ai, Supabase, Resend, hosting, storage, monitoring, and security providers. We do not control those providers or their outages, rules, output, availability, or changes. Their terms may apply to your use of their services. Stripe, not Announce Ready, stores and processes payment-card details.

We may modify, replace, limit, suspend, or discontinue any feature, integration, model, allowance, or portion of the Service when reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, fraud prevention, third-party changes, service quality, or business operations. We will use reasonable efforts to give notice of material adverse changes to a paid Service when practicable. We do not guarantee that a particular feature, model, or output will remain available forever.

12. Suspension, termination, and data access

We may immediately restrict, suspend, or terminate access, credits, or an account if we reasonably believe there is an unpaid balance, security threat, suspected fraud, abuse, unlawful activity, infringement claim, excessive or automated use, or material violation of these Terms. We may preserve records, disable exports, or cooperate with lawful authorities when reasonably necessary. You remain responsible for accrued charges and obligations.

You may stop using the Service and delete an account through available controls. We may retain or delete information as described in the Privacy Policy, to the extent required or permitted by law. You are responsible for exporting content you need before access ends. We are not obligated to retain Customer Content after termination and are not liable for loss of content following an expiration, cancellation, suspension, or lawful deletion.

13. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE, OUTPUTS, AND ALL RELATED MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” ANNOUNCE READY DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, AND OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, SECURITY, AVAILABILITY, AND THAT THE SERVICE OR ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, UNIQUE, OR SUITABLE FOR A PARTICULAR RESULT.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STEPHAN KILGORE D/B/A ANNOUNCE READY, ITS PROVIDERS, AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY; OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO ANNOUNCE READY FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these limitations may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

15. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Stephan Kilgore d/b/a Announce Ready and its providers, officers, contractors, and representatives from and against all claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs arising from or relating to your Customer Content, your outputs or publications, your users, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of law or another person’s rights. We may assume the defense of a claim at your expense, and you will reasonably cooperate with that defense.

16. Informal resolution, arbitration, and class-action waiver

Before starting a claim, either party must send written notice of the dispute to hello@announceready.com and allow 30 days for a good-faith informal resolution. Except for a qualifying small-claims matter or a request for temporary or permanent injunctive relief to protect intellectual property, confidential information, security, or prevent unauthorized use, any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not by a judge or jury. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its applicable Consumer Arbitration Rules or Commercial Arbitration Rules, as appropriate, as modified by these Terms. It may be conducted remotely unless the parties agree otherwise or the AAA rules require an in-person hearing. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief available in court, but may not consolidate claims, hear a class, collective, representative, or private-attorney-general action, or award relief for anyone other than the individual party. Each party knowingly waives any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class, collective, representative, or private-attorney-general action, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days after first accepting these Terms by emailing hello@announceready.com with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out,” your name, account email, organization, and a clear statement that you opt out. Opting out does not affect your access to the Service. A court with jurisdiction may enforce this section or an arbitration award. If the class-action waiver is unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim must proceed in the state or federal courts serving Tarrant County, Texas, and the remaining claims will proceed in individual arbitration.

17. Governing law, venue, and Texas business location

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where federal law controls. For any matter not subject to arbitration, you and Announce Ready agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts serving Tarrant County, Texas. Announce Ready is operated from Arlington, Texas. Nothing in these Terms deprives you of any non-waivable consumer protection right that applies to you.

18. Miscellaneous

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or an account without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. We are not responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remaining Terms will remain in effect. These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us concerning the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive will survive termination.

19. Changes and contact

We may update these Terms as the Service or legal requirements change. Material changes will be posted with a revised effective date and, where appropriate, additional notice. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms. Questions or legal notices may be sent to hello@announceready.com.