Terms of Service (online edition)

Last updated: November 12, 2026 · Seller: Danny Gilbert, Georgia, USA

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are between you (the organization that signs up, and the person signing up on its behalf) and Danny Gilbert ("we", "us"), who runs the Anise online service at christxchurch.org ("the Service").

By creating a portal or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you sign up for an organization, you confirm that you are allowed to accept them on its behalf.

  1. Your account
  2. Plans, trials and billing
  3. 30-day money-back guarantee
  4. Your content and your members
  5. Acceptable use
  6. Other services
  7. Availability and changes
  8. Cancelling and your data
  9. No warranty
  10. Limit of liability
  11. Indemnity
  12. Governing law
  13. Changes to these terms
  14. Contact

1. Your account

You must give accurate information when you sign up and keep it up to date. You are responsible for your administrators' sign-ins and for everything done in your portal. Keep passwords private and tell us at once if you think your portal has been accessed without permission.

You must be at least 18 years old to sign up an organization.

2. Plans, trials and billing

Paid plans (Standard, Pro and Premium) are billed in advance each month, by card through Stripe. Prices are shown on christxchurch.org/anise.php. A free trial may come first; you will not be charged until it ends, and you can cancel during the trial at no cost.

Subscriptions renew automatically each period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from Billing in your portal. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you have paid for, and you will not be charged again.

If a payment fails, we will try again and let you know. If it still is not paid, the portal may be limited or paused until it is. We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice; the new price applies from your next renewal after that.

The Free plan has no charge and a lower member limit. We may change or end the Free plan with 30 days' notice.

3. 30-day money-back guarantee

If you are not satisfied, email us at dannyg@christxchurch..org within 30 days of your first payment and we will refund that payment in full. No reason is needed.

For a Windows licence, the 30 days start on the day you buy it. When we refund it, the licence key is cancelled and the program stops working on your PC after its next check-in.

For a subscription, the guarantee covers your first payment. Later renewals are not refunded, but you can cancel at any time and you will not be charged again.

Refunds go back to the card or account you paid with, through Stripe. Your bank may take 5 to 10 business days to show it.

4. Your content and your members

Your organization owns the information it puts into the Service: member details, giving records, files, messages and so on ("Your Content"). You give us permission to store and process it only to run the Service for you.

You are responsible for Your Content and for having permission to store it, including consent from members and, in daycare mode, from parents or guardians for children's information. Only add people who agree to be members.

You are responsible for the messages you send through the Service. Email and text blasts must follow anti-spam laws, including the CAN-SPAM Act and the TCPA: only message people who agreed to hear from you, and honour every request to stop.

5. Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to: break any law; send spam or unwanted messages; upload anything harmful, illegal, hateful or that infringes someone else's rights; try to access another organization's portal or data; probe, overload or disrupt the Service; or resell the Service without our written permission.

We may suspend a portal that breaks these rules or puts the Service or other customers at risk. Where we can, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

6. Other services

Card payments are handled by Stripe, and some features connect to other services (such as text messaging, QuickBooks, Zoom or Google Meet). Those services have their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.

7. Availability and changes

We work to keep the Service running and your data safe, but it may sometimes be unavailable, for example for maintenance or because of problems outside our control. We may improve, change or remove features over time. If we remove a major feature from your paid plan, we will tell you in advance.

8. Cancelling and your data

You can cancel at any time. While your portal is open you can export your reports to CSV. After your account closes, we keep Your Content for 90 days so you can come back, then delete it, unless the law requires us to keep it longer. Ask us at dannyg@christxchurch..org if you want it deleted sooner.

We may close a portal for serious or repeated breaches of these Terms, or for non-payment.

9. No warranty

The Software is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not promise that it will be error-free or uninterrupted, or that it will never lose data.

You are responsible for keeping your own backups and for checking important figures, such as giving statements, tax records and payroll hours, before relying on them.

10. Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the Software or the Service.

Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

Some states do not allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you.

11. Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold us harmless from claims by others arising from Your Content, your messages, or your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or the law.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Georgia, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will tell you by email or in the program or portal before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Software or Service after that means you accept the new terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: dannyg@christxchurch..org.