Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the ChurchMind website, dashboard, data, reports, exports, and related services (collectively, the “Service”), provided by Churchmind LLC (“ChurchMind,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing or using the Service, or by clicking to accept these Terms, you agree to be bound by them on behalf of yourself and the organization you represent. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Please read the sections on Acceptable Use, Intellectual Property, Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, and Dispute Resolution carefully — they limit our liability and affect your legal rights, including a binding arbitration provision and a waiver of class actions.

1. Eligibility & accounts

The Service is offered solely for business-to-business use by organizations and their authorized personnel. You must be at least 18 years old and authorized to bind your organization. You must provide accurate information when creating an account or requesting a trial, keep it current, safeguard your credentials, and remain responsible for all activity under your account.

2. Free trials

We may offer a free trial of the Service for evaluation only. Trials may be limited, modified, or revoked at any time in our discretion and do not convert to a paid subscription without your explicit authorization.

3. License grant & seats

Subject to these Terms and your payment of applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to access and use the Service during your subscription term, solely for your organization’s internal business purposes. Access is limited to your named authorized users, up to the number of seats you have purchased. Credentials may not be shared, and accounts may not be seat-shared, time-shared, or made available to any third party. If your usage exceeds your purchased seats, you are deemed to have licensed the additional seats at our then-current rates. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

4. Acceptable use & data-use restrictions

The Service and all data made available through it (the “ChurchMind Data”) may be used only for lawful business-to-business sales, marketing, market-research, and business-development purposes, and not for any personal, household, or consumer purpose. You agree that you will not, and will not permit anyone else to:

• Resell or redistribute. Resell, sublicense, rent, lease, distribute, transfer, or otherwise make the Service or the ChurchMind Data available to any third party.
• Scrape or bulk-extract. Access, copy, harvest, or extract the ChurchMind Data using bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, or any other automated means, or perform bulk downloads, except through interfaces and exports we expressly authorize and within any applicable limits.
• Reverse engineer. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, structure, scoring logic, or underlying organization of the Service or the ChurchMind Data.
• Build a competing product. Use the Service or any data derived from it to create, train, or improve any product, dataset, model, or service that competes with ChurchMind, or to compile or supplement a similar database.
• Misuse for regulated purposes. Use the ChurchMind Data for any purpose governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or any comparable law, including decisions about a person’s credit, insurance, employment, or housing eligibility.
• Harass or surveil. Use the Service or data to stalk, harass, surveil, or unlawfully profile any individual, or to send unlawful, fraudulent, or deceptive communications.
• Disrupt or breach security. Interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, its systems, or other users’ data.

Your compliance responsibility. You are solely responsible for your use of the ChurchMind Data and for complying with all laws that apply to your outreach, including the CAN-SPAM Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Canada’s CASL, and applicable privacy laws. You are responsible for honoring opt-out and do-not-contact requests you receive.

5. ChurchMind Giving report (free tool)

ChurchMind Giving is a free, informational tool. When a church requests a report, we provide a factual read on the requesting church’s local area — such as the giving software churches nearby use and the nearest churches and their technology. The following additional terms apply to it:

• Informational only. The report is for general information only and is not financial, accounting, tax, or legal advice, and is not a recommendation of any vendor or product. You are responsible for your own decisions.
• Estimates, not quotes. Any figures shown are estimated ranges for general comparison and are not quotes, price commitments, or offers; actual pricing is set solely by each vendor.
• Introductions. By requesting a report and giving the consent shown on the form, you agree that we may share your details with matched church-software vendors, that those vendors may contact you directly, and that we may send you the report and follow-up communications. We do not guarantee any vendor will respond. How we handle the information you submit is described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Subscriptions & billing

• Paid plans are billed in advance on the term shown at purchase (for example, quarterly).
• Fees are invoiced and payable per the terms on your invoice and are exclusive of taxes, which are your responsibility. Unless stated otherwise or required by law, fees are non-refundable.
• Unless cancelled before the end of a term as provided in your order form, subscriptions renew for a like term at the then-current rate.

7. Intellectual property & database rights

The Service, the ChurchMind Data, and everything comprising them — including the compiled database, the selection, arrangement, enrichment, scoring, and analytics, the software, and all trademarks and content — are owned by ChurchMind and protected by copyright (including copyright in the compilation), trademark, trade-secret, and other intellectual-property laws, and by any applicable database rights. No ownership is transferred to you. You retain ownership of data you upload and grant us a license to use it to provide and improve the Service. We own the compilation, enrichment, and analytics we generate.

8. Disclaimers & data accuracy

THE SERVICE AND THE CHURCHMIND DATA ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the ChurchMind Data is accurate, complete, current, reliable, or error-free. The ChurchMind Data is compiled in part from third-party and public sources and may contain errors or omissions. You assume all risk associated with your use of the Service and the ChurchMind Data.

9. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CHURCHMIND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING 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 the above may not apply to you.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless ChurchMind and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your use of the Service or the ChurchMind Data, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

11. Order forms

Paid subscriptions are purchased through an order form (such as the in-app agreement page) that states the plan, fees, billing cadence, and renewal terms. If an order form conflicts with these Terms, the order form controls for that subscription.

12. Suspension, termination & changes

We may suspend, limit, or revoke your access at any time for any breach of these Terms or to protect the Service. We may modify these Terms or the Service at any time; material changes take effect when posted with an updated effective date, and your continued use constitutes acceptance. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution — survive.

13. DMCA & takedown

We respect intellectual-property rights. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at legal@churchmind.io including the elements required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (identification of the work, the material and its location, your contact information, a good-faith statement, a statement under penalty of perjury, and your signature). We will respond to valid notices, may remove the material, and may terminate repeat infringers.

14. Dispute resolution, arbitration & class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully. Except for the carve-out below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will be resolved exclusively by binding individual arbitration administered under the Federal Arbitration Act, rather than in court. You and ChurchMind each waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative action.

Carve-out. Either party may bring claims relating to intellectual property, confidentiality, or requests for injunctive relief in the state or federal courts located in Suffolk County (Boston), Massachusetts.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice to legal@churchmind.io within 30 days of first accepting these Terms; opting out does not affect the other provisions of these Terms.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to Section 14, any dispute not subject to arbitration will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Suffolk County (Boston), Massachusetts, and you consent to their jurisdiction and venue.

16. Contact us

Questions about these Terms? Email us at info@churchmind.io, or write to us at Churchmind LLC, 6 Liberty Square, Ste #275, Boston, MA 02109.