Terms of Service

The short version

• Free-Lance is pre-release software built by one person (Dan Jacobs) for freelancers, production crew first.
• You own the data you put in. Export all of it, anytime, in CSV or JSON — see the Privacy Policy.
• Use it for real freelance business, not to spam, scrape, or break things.
• There is no paid plan yet, so there is nothing to bill and nothing to refund — see Fees below.
• It is early software: no warranty, and liability is limited — see the sections on that below.

Who this is

Free-Lance (at free-lance.app) is built and operated by Dan Jacobs. In this document, “we,” “us,” and “Free-Lance” mean that. “You” means anyone who creates an account or otherwise uses the product.

Eligibility

You need to be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to create an account. If you’re a student using Free-Lance through a school program under different arrangements, check with whoever set that up for you.

Your account

You’re responsible for what happens under your account — keep your password and any device you’re signed into secure, and tell us if you think someone else has access. Passkeys and two-factor authentication (TOTP) are available if you want a stronger login than a password alone. Two-factor is required before certain sensitive actions regardless of how you normally sign in — viewing or sending a stored W-9, for instance, or changing how you get paid — and each of those requires a fresh code, not just an active session.

Acceptable use

Use Free-Lance for real freelance business — yours. Specifically, don’t:

• Use it to send unsolicited bulk email, or spam another freelancer’s public booking page with fake inquiries.
• Upload anything you don’t have the right to upload, or anything illegal.
• Try to break, scrape, reverse-engineer, or overload the service, or probe it for vulnerabilities without asking us first.
• Impersonate another person or business, or misrepresent your connection to one.
• Use a link, booking page, or piece of public information belonging to another freelancer for anything other than what it was given to you for.

We can suspend or close an account that does any of the above — see Termination below.

Your content and data

Everything you enter — clients, jobs, daily logs, invoices, uploaded documents — is yours. We store and process it so the product can work: rendering your invoices, running the rate engine, sending the emails you ask it to send. Not for anything else. The Privacy Policy has the specifics: what we collect, who else ever sees it, and exactly how to get all of it back out whenever you want it.

If you turn on AI-assisted document import, redacted text extracted from your uploaded documents is sent to Anthropic to help read it — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what “redacted” means there. That exchange is governed by Anthropic’s own terms for that service, not this document.

Clients and other people you invite in

People you do business with — clients, booking contacts — never need a Free-Lance account to view an estimate, view or pay an invoice, or submit a booking inquiry to you. That’s a deliberate design choice, not a missing feature. You’re responsible for what you send them, and for having the right to enter their contact information into the product in the first place.

Fees

There is no paid plan today. The free tier and the student tier are live and free, exactly as described on the Pricing page. When a paid tier launches, its price and terms will be posted before you’re ever asked to pay anything, and moving to a paid tier will mean agreeing to those terms at that time.

No warranty

Free-Lance is pre-release software, provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind — including, to the extent the law allows us to disclaim them, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We don’t promise it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any particular time. Back up anything you can’t afford to lose — that’s exactly what the export feature is for.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Free-Lance and Dan Jacobs are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the product — including lost income, lost data, or a missed invoice. Our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. There is no paid plan today, so that amount is currently zero.

Termination

You can stop using Free-Lance at any time — see the Privacy Policy for how to have your account and data deleted. We can suspend or terminate an account that violates Acceptable Use above, that we reasonably believe is being used unlawfully, or that’s abusing the service in a way that affects other users. We’ll try to give notice first when that’s practical, and act immediately when it isn’t.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product changes — especially once a paid plan and payment processing exist, which will need their own terms. We’ll update the date at the top when we do, and for a change significant enough to matter, we’ll email you before it takes effect.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Contact

Questions about these terms: support@free-lance.app.