PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE ("AGREEMENT" OR "TERMS OF USE") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WEBSITE, MOBILE APPLICATIONS, AND SERVICES OFFERED BY PROBASE, LLC AND ANY AFFILIATES AND/OR SUBSIDIARIES (COLLECTIVELY, "PROBASE" OR "COMPANY"). THIS AGREEMENT SETS FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE AT PROBASEAPP.COM, MOBILE APPLICATIONS, AND SERVICES PROVIDED BY COMPANY (COLLECTIVELY, THE "SERVICES").
By using the Services in any manner, including but not limited to visiting or browsing the Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. This Agreement applies to all users of the Services. If you are a service professional who opts into receiving job opportunities through Company's affiliated marketplaces, you will also be required to agree to supplementary terms governing your participation in the Marketplace. These additional terms can be found at https://www.probaseapp.com/marketplace-agreement. By using the Services offered herein, including our software and/or mobile application and the Marketplace, you understand and agree that you are solely responsible for charging, collecting, remitting and filing all required taxes and statements with any federal, state or local governmental in connection with your use of the Services and Marketplace and your income derived from such usage. If you are accepting this Agreement on behalf of a corporation or other entity, you represent and warrant that you have the necessary right and authority to enter into this Agreement on behalf of such corporation or entity and to bind such corporation or entity to this Agreement.
Company's direct competitors (or third-party agents acting on behalf of such direct competitors) are prohibited from accessing the Services without Company's express written permission. By accessing the Services, you represent and warrant that you are not a competitor of Company or any of its affiliates, or acting on behalf of a competitor of Company in using or accessing the Services.
If you have any questions, please refer to the help section of the Services or contact us at support@probaseapp.com.
1. ProBase is a Software Platform
ProBase is a business management software application ("Application") designed to help home service and outdoor professionals manage their operations, including scheduling, customer management, route optimization, invoicing, and related business functions. The Services are provided as a tool to assist you in running your business.
You acknowledge that ProBase is an online Application only. ProBase does not provide, perform, or guarantee any home services or outdoor services. ProBase is not responsible for the services you provide to your customers, the quality of your work, your business decisions, or the accuracy of information you input into the Application. You are solely responsible for your business operations, compliance with applicable laws, and interactions with your customers.
Your use of the Services is at your own risk.
Marketplace Participation
ProBase may also provide access to job opportunities from affiliated marketplaces operated by Company and its brands (including LawnStarter, Lawn Love, and Home Gnome) (the "Marketplace"). If you choose to participate in the Marketplace, you will be required to agree to the ProBase Marketplace Services Agreement available at https://www.probaseapp.com/marketplace-agreement, which governs your receipt and performance of jobs obtained through the Marketplace as well as the terms of service for any specific affiliated marketplace of ProBase. The Marketplace Services Agreement is incorporated into this Agreement by reference for users who opt into Marketplace participation.
2. Registration and Account
General Registration
You must provide your full legal name, a valid email address, and any other information requested in order to complete the signup process and access certain features of the Services. If you choose to register for the Services, you agree to provide and maintain true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by the registration form. Any personal information provided by you as part of the sign-up process will be used and stored in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Account Ownership
If you register for the Services on behalf of a business organization, that business organization will be the legal and beneficial account owner. For the purpose of this Agreement, regardless of whether you register for an account as an individual or on behalf of an organization, the billing contact person will be the default account owner (the "Account Owner"). The Account Owner will have certain rights within the account, including the right to cancel the account, delete information from the account, and appoint administrators.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, you acknowledge and agree that the term Account Owner does not convey or connote ownership rights or any other property interest in an account or the Services or Marketplace, and you further acknowledge and agree that all rights in and to your account are and shall forever be owned by and inure to the benefit of Company.
In the event of a dispute regarding entitlement to access an account, we reserve the right to request documentation to determine or confirm account ownership. Documentation may include, but is not limited to, a scanned copy of your business license, government issued photo ID, the last four digits of the credit card on file, or any other information that Company may reasonably request in its discretion. Company retains the right to determine, in our sole judgment, who the rightful Account Owner is and may transfer an account to the person we consider is the rightful Account Owner. If we are unable to reasonably determine the rightful Account Owner, Company reserves the right to temporarily disable an account until resolution has been determined between the disputing parties and/or permanently disable an account if the disputing parties are unable in a timely manner to resolve the dispute.
Employee Users
Depending on your subscription plan, the Account Owner may be able to create additional accounts allowing other authorized people, such as their employees ("Employee Users"), to access their business' account. Employee Users will be invited by the Account Owner or other authorized individual to create an account. Each Employee User will be required to provide their full legal name and a valid email address, and such other contact information as Company may reasonably require from time to time. Account Owners and administrators can set the permissions and level of access for each Employee User in its account.
The Account Owner is: (a) responsible for ensuring its employees, or other authorized agents or third parties, comply with this Agreement; (b) liable for any breach of this Agreement by its employees, or other authorized agents or third parties; and (c) responsible for ensuring Employee User access is up to date and reflects any changes to the status of authorized individuals. The Account Owner and all Employee Users are each "users" of the Services and are bound by this Agreement.
User accounts are intended for one user only and are not to be shared by multiple users.
Account Security
Keep your password secure. You are fully responsible for all activity, liability and damage resulting from your failure to keep your password confidential. You agree to immediately notify Company of any unauthorized use of your password or any breach of security. You also agree that Company cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to keep your password secure. You agree not to provide your username and password information in combination to any other party other than Company without Company's express written permission.
You must keep your account information up-to-date and accurate at all times, including a valid email address.
Marketplace Registration
If you choose to participate in the Marketplace, you may be required to provide additional information as part of the Marketplace approval process, including your Social Security Number, insurance information, driver's license(s), work history, and other information as described in the Marketplace Services Agreement and our Privacy Policy.
3. Membership Eligibility
Services are available only to, and may only be used by, individuals who are 18 years and older who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old and that all registration information you submit is accurate and truthful. Company may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer access to or use of the Services to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time, for any reason and without recourse by you. This provision is void where prohibited by law and the right to access the Services is revoked in those jurisdictions.
Individuals under the age of 18 must at all times use the Services only in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who is at least 18 years of age. In all cases, the adult is the user and is responsible for any and all activities.
You agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content. In addition, you must abide by Company's policies as stated in the Agreement and the Company's Privacy Policy, as well as all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time on the Services by Company, each of which is incorporated herein by reference and each of which may be updated by Company from time to time without notice to you.
In addition, some services offered by Company may be subject to additional terms and conditions issued by Company or a third party. Your use of those services is subject to the additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into this Agreement by this reference. This includes, without limitation, the Marketplace Services Agreement for users who participate in receiving job opportunities through Company's affiliated marketplaces.
Services are not available to temporarily or permanently banned users. Company reserves the right, in Company's sole discretion, to cancel duplicate, unconfirmed and/or inactive accounts. Company reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, at any time.
4. Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing Activities
You are solely responsible for your conduct and activities on and in regards to the Services and any and all information that you submit, post, upload, and display on the Services.
Your use of the Services will not: be false, inaccurate or misleading; infringe upon any third-party's intellectual property rights or rights of publicity or privacy; violate this Agreement, any website policy or community guidelines, or any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation; be defamatory, libelous, unlawfully threatening, unlawfully harassing, impersonate or intimidate any person (including Company staff or other users), or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person; take any action that may undermine online reviews or feedback; be obscene or contain child pornography; contain or transmit any code of a destructive nature that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the Services; collect or store personal information about other users except where the Services are clearly intended and designed for collection and/or storage of such information; or circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade, or thwart any of the content protections or geographic restrictions on any content available on or through the Services.
If you are blocked by Company from accessing the Services (including by blocking your IP address), you agree not to implement any measures to circumvent such blocking (e.g., by masking your IP address or using a proxy IP address or virtual private network).
5. License Grant & Restrictions
The Company hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, right to use the Services, solely for your own internal business purposes, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by the Company and its licensors.
You will not: (i) license, sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, assign, distribute or otherwise commercially exploit or make available to any third party the Services in any way; (ii) modify or make derivative works based upon the Services; (iii) create Internet "links" to the Services without Company's prior written consent; (iv) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Services except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law; (v) access the Services in order to (a) build a competitive product or service, (b) build a product using similar ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Services, or (c) copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Services; or (vi) launch an automated program or script, including, but not limited to, web spiders, web crawlers, web robots, web ants, web indexers, bots, viruses or worms, or any program which may make multiple server requests per second, or unduly burdens or hinders the operation or performance of the Services.
6. Your Data
You retain all rights to the data, information, and content you input into the Services ("Your Data"). You grant Company a non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, copy, store, and process Your Data solely to provide and improve the Services.
You are solely responsible for the accuracy, quality, integrity, and legality of Your Data and the means by which you acquired Your Data. You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights and permissions to input Your Data into the Services, including any customer information, and that your use of the Services complies with all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
Company will maintain reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of Your Data. However, Company is not responsible for any unauthorized access to or alteration of Your Data resulting from your failure to maintain the security of your account credentials.
7. License of Your Data to Company
By submitting, posting, or displaying Your Data on or through the Services, you grant us (and our agents) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, fully paid license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, modify, transmit, display, and distribute Your Data: (a) to the extent necessary to provide the Services; (b) to create aggregated and anonymized market research statistics and insights in respect of the customers and industries that use the Services; and (c) to otherwise use de-identified data for the purpose of improving the Services.
Company will not be responsible or liable for any use of Your Data in accordance with this Agreement. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any data that you submit.
8. Data Retention and Export
During the Term
During the term of this Agreement, you may extract Your Data using the export functionality available within the Services, if any, or by contacting support@probaseapp.com.
Upon Termination
Upon termination of your account, Company may retain Your Data for a reasonable period to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Following termination and upon your request, Company will make commercially reasonable efforts to export and provide to you in electronic format the data in your account. Company makes no representation as to the integrity, completeness or timeliness of any data so exported.
Company is not obligated to retain Your Data for greater than sixty (60) days after any termination (the "Export Period"). After such Export Period, Company has no obligation to maintain or provide any of Your Data and shall be entitled to delete Your Data by deleting your account; provided, however, that Company will not be required to remove copies of Your Data from its backup media and servers until such time as the backup copies are scheduled to be deleted, and provided further that in all cases Company will continue to protect Your Data in accordance with this Agreement.
You are responsible for ensuring that you maintain backups of Your Data at all times.
9. Payment Terms
ProBase is currently offered as a free service. Company reserves the right to introduce paid features, subscription plans, or other fees in the future. If Company introduces fees for any portion of the Services, Company will provide you with advance notice and the opportunity to accept or decline the paid services.
If paid services are introduced and you elect to use them, any fees will be due as specified at the time of purchase and are non-refundable unless otherwise stated. Company reserves the right to change pricing at any time with reasonable notice to you. All fees are exclusive of all taxes, levies, or duties imposed by taxing authorities, and you shall be responsible for payment of all such taxes, levies, or duties.
10. Intellectual Property Ownership
The Company alone (and its licensors, where applicable) will own all right, title and interest, including all related intellectual property rights, in and to the Services. This Agreement is not a sale and does not convey to you any rights of ownership in or related to the Services, or any intellectual property rights owned by the Company. The ProBase name, the ProBase logo, and the product names associated with the Services are trademarks of the Company or third parties, and no right or license is granted to use them.
11. Third-Party Services and Integrations
Third-Party Services
The Services may provide links or other access to services, sites, technology, and resources that are provided or otherwise made available by third parties (each a "Third-Party Service"). Your access and use of Third-Party Services may be subject to additional terms and conditions, privacy policies, or other agreements with such third party, and you may be required to authenticate to or create separate accounts to use Third-Party Services on the websites or via the technology platforms of their respective providers.
Certain Third-Party Services will provide us with access to certain information that you have provided to third parties, including through such Third-Party Services, and we will use, store and disclose such information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Third-Party Integrations
The Services may make it possible for you to elect to use third-party services in conjunction with the Services where such third-party service providers have integrated with the Services ("Third-Party Integrations"). If you install or enable a Third-Party Integration for use with the Services, you grant us permission to allow the applicable third-party provider to access Your Data and other materials and to take any other actions as required for the interoperation with the Services. Any exchange of data or other materials or other interaction between you and the third-party provider, including the terms on which you are permitted to use the Third-Party Integration and the provider's privacy policies, is solely between you and such provider.
No Endorsement or Warranty
Company does not control and is not responsible for Third-Party Services or Third-Party Integrations, including with respect to the accuracy, availability, reliability, or completeness of information or content generated or shared by, or made available through, such services, or on the privacy practices of such services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties prior to using such services.
You, and not Company, will be responsible for any and all costs and charges associated with your use of any Third-Party Services or Third-Party Integrations. We enable these services merely as a convenience and the integration or inclusion of such services does not imply an endorsement or recommendation. Company makes no representations or warranties regarding any such Third-Party Services or Third-Party Integrations. Any dealings you have with third parties while using the Services are between you and the third party. Company will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any Third-Party Services or Third-Party Integrations.
You agree to indemnify and hold us and our affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, employees, and suppliers harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of a Third-Party Service or Third-Party Integration or your relationship with any third-party provider.
12. Artificial Intelligence Features
From time to time, Company may introduce features and capabilities as part of the Services that utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar technologies (the "AI Tools"). While Company uses commercially reasonable efforts to reduce errors and omissions arising from use of AI Tools, Company makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, reliability or non-infringement of the AI Tools (including without limitation any and all outputs therefrom) and disclaims any liability for errors, actions or omissions based on the AI Tools or your use thereof.
Any content generated by AI Tools is not reviewed by Company and you are solely responsible for reviewing such content for purposes of accuracy before publishing or utilizing such content. AI Tools cannot provide legal, medical, or professional advice, and users are cautioned against relying on the AI Tools for critical decisions or sensitive matters. Consultation with a qualified professional is advised.
Any personal information provided by you in connection with the AI Tools will be used and stored in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please refrain from sharing sensitive personal information with the AI Tools, as any information shared with an AI Tool may be logged for analysis, improvement, and security purposes.
You are prohibited from using the AI Tools in certain prohibited manners, which include, but are not limited to: bypassing filters or otherwise making an AI Tool perform unanticipated actions; exposing any information used in an AI Tool's training data; overriding the privacy or security controls in an AI Tool; creating or exacerbating biases in an AI Tool; or otherwise negatively impacting an AI Tool's safeguards or extracting personal information in the course of using an AI Tool.
13. Beta Services
From time to time, Company may, in its sole discretion, invite you to use or otherwise make available to you, on a trial or evaluation basis only, pre-release or beta features, technologies, or services that are in development and which are not yet available to all customers ("Beta Services"). Beta Services are not part of the Services, and Beta Services may be subject to additional terms and conditions, which Company will provide to you prior to your use of the Beta Services. You must comply with all terms related to any Beta Services and unless otherwise specified in the applicable additional terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable limited license to use the Beta Services. Company may add or modify terms related to access to or use of any Beta Services at any time.
Such Beta Services and all associated content, data, and materials relating thereto (including any information relating to your access, use, testing, or evaluation of Beta Services such as observations or information regarding the performance, features, and functionality of Beta Services) will be owned by and constitute Confidential Information of Company and is subject to the confidentiality provisions in this Agreement. You agree that you will not disclose or use any such information except for your internal evaluation purposes of any Beta Services.
The Beta Services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis and may contain bugs, errors, or other problems. Company makes no representations or warranties of any kind in relation to the Beta Services. Company hereby disclaims all liability for any harm or damage arising out of or in connection with Beta Services.
Company may suspend or terminate your access to or use of any Beta Services at any time. Your access to and use of Beta Services will automatically terminate upon the release of a generally available version of the applicable Beta Services or upon notice of termination by Company. On termination of your access to or use of any Beta Services for any reason: (a) you will not have any further right to access or use the applicable Beta Services, and (b) any content used in the applicable Beta Services may be deleted or inaccessible. Company may change or not release a final or commercial version of Beta Services in our sole and absolute discretion.