Terms of Service
Effective October 17, 2026 · SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC d/b/a Communly
1. Acceptance of these Terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Communly (“Communly,” “we,” “us,” “our”), including our website, our iOS app, and all related services. Communly is owned and operated by SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC, a California limited liability company.
By creating an account, browsing listings, posting a listing, booking or purchasing anything, joining a club, messaging another user, registering for an event, or otherwise using Communly, you agree to these Terms and to every policy referenced in them, including our Privacy Policy, Payments & Refunds Policy, Safety & Community Policy, and iOS App Addendum. Together these form a single agreement between you and SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC.
If you do not agree, do not use Communly.
2. What Communly is — and what it is not
Communly is a technology platform. It is a marketplace where students may post, discover, book, buy, sell, and register for lawful campus-related listings, including parties and social events, dinners and food-related offerings, general events, services, and club or organization memberships.
Communly is not a party to any transaction between users, except as a seller’s limited payment collection agent, which Section 7 describes. Unless we expressly state otherwise in writing, Communly does not own, inspect, host, organize, supervise, staff, control, endorse, insure, sponsor, or guarantee any listing, event, party, dinner, service, club, venue, ticket, good, seller, buyer, host, attendee, or user. We do not attend, monitor, or control what happens at any event or meeting arranged through Communly.
Users are solely responsible for their listings, their conduct, their legal compliance, their safety, their taxes, their licenses, their permits, their insurance, and all of their interactions with other users.
No university affiliation
Communly is designed for college communities, but Communly is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, approved by, or controlled by any college, university, campus, fraternity, sorority, student government, student organization, athletic program, venue, landlord, restaurant, or business, unless we expressly state otherwise in writing. References to a school, campus, or organization on Communly are for identification and location only and do not imply any relationship, permission, or endorsement.
3. Eligibility
You may use Communly only if you:
- are at least 18 years old;
- can form a legally binding contract;
- are not barred from using Communly under any applicable law;
- have not previously been suspended or removed from Communly; and
- will comply with these Terms, applicable law, your school's policies, venue rules, Stripe's rules, and app store rules.
Users under 18 may not use Communly for any purpose, including browsing, attending, hosting, or paying. If we learn that a user is under 18, we will terminate the account.
4. Accounts, verification, and the Verified Student badge
You may need an account to use Communly. You must provide accurate information and keep it current. You are responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping your login credentials secure. Do not share your credentials. Notify us immediately at jpjewell0703@gmail.com if you believe your account has been compromised.
The Verified Student badge indicates only that the account holder has shown they can access an email address ending in .edu — by signing in with it through Google or Apple, or by confirming it from a link we email. It is not an identity check, a background check, an age check, an enrollment check, a criminal-history check, or a verification of a person’s character, qualifications, or trustworthiness. Do not rely on it as one.
Sellers who accept payment must complete Stripe Connect onboarding. Stripe may collect identity, tax, bank, and compliance information directly from sellers under Stripe’s own terms. We are not responsible for Stripe’s separate collection or processing of that information.
5. Listings and seller promises
When you create a listing, you represent and warrant to us and to buyers that:
- the listing is accurate, complete, lawful, and not misleading;
- you have the legal right to offer the event, party, dinner, service, membership, ticket, or item;
- you have permission to use the venue, property, or location listed, and permission to admit the number of people you list;
- the listing complies with all applicable laws, campus policies, venue rules, organization rules, lease terms, permits, licenses, insurance requirements, health rules, Stripe rules, app store rules, and third-party rights;
- the listing does not involve any prohibited item, service, or content described in Section 10;
- you will honor the price, date, start time, location, capacity, refund policy, and every other promise shown in the listing; and
- you are not using Communly to evade school policy, safety rules, taxes, licensing rules, age restrictions, or applicable law.
We may remove, hide, restrict, reject, reclassify, or require review of any listing at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.
6. Fees and price display
Every paid transaction on Communly includes a buyer service fee. The fee is 10% of the order (everything in it, including add-ons, after any discount) plus $0.30 per order, and it is charged to the buyer on every paid booking. Prices shown in the app are all-in totals for one item that include this fee, and the fee for your whole order is itemized at checkout before you pay. Only free listings and free RSVPs carry no fee. We may change our fees at any time; changes do not apply to bookings already completed.
Communly does not currently deduct a separate platform fee from sellers: sellers are paid the full listing price of what they sell, less any discounts they offer, any refunds, any chargebacks on their sales, the fees on disputes decided against them, and, for whoever receives a club’s payments, refunds and the card fees on them for members the club removes (see the Payments & Refunds Policy), and Communly covers payment-processing costs out of the buyer service fee. If we introduce seller-side fees, we will disclose them before they apply to any transaction.
Taxes, if any, may be shown separately where allowed by law. We may change how fees and totals are displayed in order to comply with applicable price-transparency law.
Referral credits
The referral programme is currently paused. While it is paused, referral codes can’t be claimed, no credits are issued, and credits can’t be applied at checkout. The rest of this section describes how it works if we turn it back on.
You may receive a referral credit for inviting someone who then completes a paid booking, and someone who joins using your code may receive one as well. A referral credit is a discount applied to the Communly service fee on a single future booking, up to the amount stated in the app at the time.
A referral credit is not money, is not a stored balance, and has no cash value. It cannot be withdrawn, redeemed for cash, transferred to another person, combined across bookings, or refunded. It reduces only the Communly service fee and never the amount payable to the seller — a seller is paid the same whether or not a buyer applied a credit. Any part of a credit worth more than the service fee on the booking it is used for is forfeited.
Credits expire 90 days after they are issued and are void if unused. One referral code may be applied per account, and only before that account's first paid booking. We may withhold, cancel, or claw back credits, and may suspend participation in the referral programme, where we reasonably believe a code has been used through duplicate or fake accounts, self-referral, automated means, or any other abuse. We may change, pause, or end the referral programme at any time; while it is paused, credits can’t be applied, and they still expire on schedule.
Partner program
A user who has finished payout setup may create a partner code. A code is entered on a listing when it is posted, or within 7 days after and before the listing’s first paid sale, and the code’s owner, the partner, then earns in one of two ways:
- A referred host. If the host (for a club, its owner) has never made a paid sale on Communly, the code refers that host. For 12 months from the day it is added, the partner earns on every paid sale by that host, including a club they own and all of that club’s events. Each host can be referred once.
- A referred event. A code entered on a club event, or on a party or event of a host who has already made paid sales, covers that event only. This is allowed only if the host or club has no referral and has never sold tickets to an event on Communly, and only once per host or club. A club event’s code may be entered by the club’s owner or an admin who can post its events.
What a partner earns. The partner earns 30% of Communly’s net revenue on each paid sale the code covers. Net revenue means the buyer service fee on that sale, less any referral credit applied, Stripe’s processing fee on that payment, and any part of the fee that is refunded. A sale counts only if it is made before its listing ends and within 12 months of the code being added. Partner earnings come entirely out of Communly’s share. They never change what a buyer pays or what the host or club is paid. Two hosts may not use each other’s codes.
Who can’t earn. A partner earns nothing on a listing they own, co-host, or are a treasurer of, or on any listing of a club where they are the owner, an admin, or a treasurer. This applies to every sale made while they hold one of those roles, even one they took on after the referral. We don’t pay partner earnings where the partner’s payout bank account or card matches that of the host or the person being paid for the sale, or where we reasonably believe the referral involves duplicate or fake accounts, self-referral, or any other abuse.
When it’s paid. A sale is credited to the partner once the host has been paid for it. Credited earnings are sent to the partner’s payout account, usually within a day, once they total at least $1.00. From there the partner cashes out under the same rules as any payout (see Section 7). If a sale is later refunded in a way that returns Communly’s fee, or a chargeback on it is lost, that sale’s earnings are reversed. Anything already sent is deducted from the partner’s future earnings. We will not bill a partner for it.
Conduct. Partners must describe Communly honestly, must not present themselves as Communly staff or say they speak for Communly, and must not spam people, buy ads using our name, or offer hosts cash or anything else of value to use their code. A partner is an independent user, not an employee, agent, or contractor of Communly, and has no authority to make promises for us. Partner earnings are income: the partner is responsible for any taxes on them, and Stripe or Communly may issue tax forms and require tax information before paying.
We may withhold, reverse, or cancel partner earnings, end a referral, or switch off a partner code where these rules are broken. We may change, pause, or end the partner program at any time. Changes apply only to sales made after the change, and earnings already credited for completed sales are still paid unless they were obtained through abuse.
7. Payments, cancellations, refunds, and payouts
Payments are processed by Stripe. All paid transactions initiated on Communly must be completed through Communly. You may not use Communly to find a counterparty and then move the payment off-platform to avoid fees, safety tools, support, taxes, refund rules, or payment protections.
Cancellations, refunds, payout timing, chargebacks, and dispute responsibility are governed by our Payments & Refunds Policy, which is part of these Terms.
Communly is not a bank, money transmitter, escrow agent, payment institution, insurer, fiduciary, trustee, broker, employment agency, travel agent, transportation carrier, landlord, property manager, ticket broker, event promoter, caterer, or professional services provider. We collect payments only as each seller’s limited payment collection agent, described next, through a third-party payment processor.
Communly as the seller's limited payment collection agent
Each seller appoints SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC as the seller’s limited agent for the sole purpose of accepting payments from buyers on the seller’s behalf. A buyer’s payment to Communly for a booking satisfies the buyer’s obligation to pay the seller for it in full, as if the buyer had paid the seller directly, even if we later fail to release those funds to the seller. The seller’s right to be paid is against Communly alone, under these Terms and the Payments & Refunds Policy — never against the buyer. For a club that has named a treasurer, proceeds are released to the treasurer’s account as described in Section 12.
We hold collected amounts, through Stripe, only until they are released to the seller or refunded as that policy describes: event and service proceeds are released when the guest is checked in or the event ends, and membership dues are released when they are paid. Amounts we hold are not deposits, earn no interest for anyone, and may be held with other funds in our Stripe account.
Stripe
Payment processing services for sellers on Communly are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (together, the “Stripe Services Agreement”). By agreeing to these Terms or continuing to operate as a seller on Communly, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as Stripe may modify it from time to time. As a condition of Communly enabling payment processing through Stripe, you agree to give Communly accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorize Communly to share it, and transaction information related to your use of Stripe’s services, with Stripe.
Splitting a booking with friends
Some listings let you start a split: you pay for your own spot and we reserve the remaining spots in your group so the people you invite can pay for theirs. Each person pays Communly directly for their own spot and receives their own booking.
You are never charged for anyone else's share, and no one is charged for yours. Communly does not lend, advance, or guarantee money between users — it only collects each person's own payment, as Section 7 above describes. If a person you invite does not pay, nothing further is charged to you — their reserved spot is simply released.
Reserved spots are held only until the deadline shown on the group page, which always ends no later than the start of the event. At that deadline, any spot that has not been paid for is released and goes back on sale to anyone. A released spot is not held for your group and is not guaranteed to still be available afterwards. Everyone who has already paid keeps their booking.
The per-spot price is fixed when the group is created, so a later joiner is not charged more if the listing's price rises in the meantime; if you separately qualify for a lower member price, the lower price applies. Cancellations and refunds work the same as any other booking, under the Payments & Refunds Policy, and each person may cancel only their own spot. If the organizer cancels their own spot, the group closes and any spots nobody has paid for are released immediately; anyone who has already paid keeps their booking.
8. Events, parties, and dinners — host responsibility
If you host or post any event, party, dinner, gathering, performance, class, activity, or similar listing, you are solely responsible for planning, staffing, supervising, controlling, and operating it safely and legally.
Hosts must comply with all applicable rules, including:
- capacity limits, fire code, and building rules;
- noise ordinances, nuisance rules, and local law;
- venue permission, property access rights, and trespass law;
- health and food-safety rules for any food or drink served;
- disability access requirements;
- age restrictions;
- security, crowd control, and supervision appropriate to the event; and
- all campus, housing, Greek-life, and student-organization policies.
Communly does not provide security, crowd management, staffing, supervision, emergency response, medical care, substance monitoring, age verification at the door, venue approval, permits, or insurance for any user-hosted event.
Listings, titles, descriptions, photos, tags, messages, club rooms, comments, and reviews may not mention, advertise, promote, include, coordinate, sell, furnish, distribute, or imply the availability of alcohol, drugs, controlled substances, cannabis, nicotine, vaping products, fake IDs, hazing, or intoxication-focused activity. See our Safety & Community Policy.
9. Special categories
Some listing categories carry extra legal risk. If you post or buy in these categories, you are responsible for all applicable laws, permits, licenses, approvals, disclosures, insurance, taxes, safety rules, and third-party permissions.
Parties and social events
Hosts are responsible for everything in Section 8. Social host liability laws may make a host personally liable for harm arising at their event. Communly bears no such responsibility.
Dinners and food
Food-related listings must comply with food safety laws, health department rules, permits, cottage food laws, allergen disclosure, and labeling rules. Sellers must accurately disclose ingredients and known allergens on request. Communly does not inspect kitchens, verify food handling, or guarantee food safety.
Services
Listings involving licensed or regulated services are allowed only if the provider holds every required license, registration, insurance, and approval. This includes tutoring, medical, legal, financial, tax, real estate, childcare, security, fitness, beauty, repair, and construction services. Communly does not verify professional qualifications, licenses, or insurance.
Tutoring and academic help
Tutoring listings must comply with the school’s academic integrity policy. You may not sell, buy, request, or provide cheating, plagiarism, ghostwriting, exam answers, unauthorized test materials, impersonation, fake attendance, or any academic misconduct.
Tickets and admission
Ticket listings must comply with the original ticket terms, event rules, resale and anti-scalping laws, and transfer restrictions. Sellers must have the right to transfer the ticket. Communly does not guarantee ticket validity, entry, transferability, or admission.
10. Prohibited items, services, and content
You may not post, sell, buy, request, promote, arrange, facilitate, mention, imply, or pay for any of the following through Communly:
- illegal goods, services, or activities of any kind;
- alcohol, or any alcohol-related promotion, whether paid or unpaid, including open bars, BYOB coordination, drinking games, and "drinks included" offerings;
- drugs, controlled substances, cannabis, prescription medication, drug paraphernalia, tobacco, nicotine, vapes, or any age-restricted substance;
- hazing, initiation rituals, forced consumption, humiliation, coercion, or pledge activities;
- firearms, ammunition, explosives, fireworks, weapons, weapon parts, or weapon accessories;
- stolen goods, counterfeit goods, replicas presented as authentic, or anything violating intellectual property rights;
- hazardous materials, chemicals, poisons, recalled items, or unsafe products;
- sexual services, escort services, pornography, intimate content, exploitation, trafficking, or adult-only services;
- gambling, betting, lotteries, or games of chance requiring legal approval, including any raffle or drawing people pay to enter in any way (a ticket, donation, purchase, or dues that come with an entry). A drawing anyone can enter free is fine on a free listing or in chat, but not on a listing that charges anything;
- fake IDs, forged documents, academic cheating services, test answers, or unauthorized access credentials;
- hacking tools, malware, spyware, credential theft, surveillance tools, or cyber abuse services;
- licensed or regulated services offered by anyone who is not properly licensed;
- hate speech, harassment, extremist, threatening, violent, discriminatory, or abusive content;
- anything prohibited by Stripe, an app store, a bank, a card network, your campus, a venue, or applicable law; or
- anything we determine creates unacceptable legal, safety, financial, reputational, payment, app store, or platform risk.
11. User conduct
You agree not to:
- violate any law, campus policy, venue rule, third-party right, Stripe rule, app store rule, or these Terms;
- harass, threaten, stalk, dox, bully, exploit, discriminate against, or harm any person;
- post false, misleading, deceptive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, violent, sexually explicit, or illegal content;
- impersonate another person, school, organization, business, or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with one;
- use Communly for fraud, scams, fake listings, fake bookings, chargeback abuse, money laundering, or payment manipulation;
- move transactions off-platform to avoid fees, safety tools, support, refund rules, or taxes;
- interfere with our security, payments, systems, moderation, reviews, check-in, or platform operations;
- scrape, copy, reverse engineer, overload, or misuse Communly or its data;
- collect other users' information without their consent;
- send spam, unsolicited promotions, or unauthorized commercial messages;
- upload malware or malicious code;
- manipulate reviews, ratings, search results, visibility, referrals, or rankings; or
- encourage or help anyone else do any of the above.
12. Clubs, memberships, co-hosts, and treasuries
Communly lets users create club and organization listings with memberships, dues, member chat rooms, polls, forms, events, and a treasury view. If you create or co-host a club, you additionally represent and warrant that:
- you are authorized by that club or organization to collect money, admit members, and act on its behalf;
- the club complies with its school's recognition, registration, hazing, financial, and student-organization policies;
- dues, fees, and member charges are accurately described, lawfully collected, and used as represented to members;
- any form, poll, or roster you use to collect information from members complies with privacy law, is limited to what you actually need, and is kept secure; and
- you will not use club rooms, forms, or member lists to harass members, coerce participation, run hazing, or distribute prohibited content.
Communly is not the treasurer, banker, escrow agent, fiduciary, accountant, or agent of any club or organization, other than as the limited payment collection agent described in Section 7. Membership dues are released to the club as soon as they are paid, so they are non-refundable in the app, except that a member the club removes while their membership is still running gets their dues back (see the Payments & Refunds Policy). Treasury and revenue figures shown in the app are informational summaries of Communly activity only. They are not audited financial statements, they may not reflect Stripe balances, fees, refunds, chargebacks, or timing, and they must not be relied on for accounting, tax, or reporting purposes.
Club treasurers
A club’s host may name up to two of the club’s current admins who have set up payouts as treasurers, and choose one of them to receive the club’s payments in the host’s place — membership dues, tickets for club events, add-ons, and anything else sold through the club. Only the host can name, change, or remove a treasurer. By naming a treasurer, the host directs Communly to release the proceeds of payments made while that treasurer is receiving to the treasurer’s connected Stripe account, and that release counts as payment to the seller. Who receives a payment is fixed when the buyer pays: changing or removing the treasurer applies only to later payments and never moves money already paid, or the proceeds of bookings already made, even when those are released later. If the receiving treasurer cannot take payouts (for example, their payout account is paused or their Communly account is suspended or closed), new payments go to the host instead. One exception: when a club removes a member whose dues were already released, the refund is taken from whoever receives the club’s payments at the time of the removal, even if the dues went to a former treasurer or the host (Payments & Refunds Policy §5).
A treasurer represents that they are authorized by the club to receive its funds and will hold and use them for the club as represented to its members. For payments released to them, the treasurer — not the host — bears the chargeback recovery, fees, and tax responsibilities the Payments & Refunds Policy places on sellers. The host remains responsible for the club’s listings, events, and refund policies. Arrangements between a host, a treasurer, and their club, including how funds are handled once released, are between them; Communly is not a party to them.
Disputes between a club and its members, between co-hosts, or over club funds are between those parties. We may, but are not required to, freeze payouts or restrict a club listing while such a dispute is unresolved.
13. Messaging, questions, and club rooms
Communly may let users message each other, ask questions on listings, and post in club rooms. You are responsible for everything you send.
You may not use messages, questions, or rooms to harass, threaten, exploit, scam, spam, send sexual or illegal content, promote prohibited items, move payments off-platform, evade moderation, or violate these Terms.
Messages may not be deletable by you once sent. When content is reported, we may review the information provided in the report, including screenshots, descriptions, account details, and metadata, and we may review the reported content itself where it is technically available to us.
14. Your content and the license you give us
You keep ownership of what you post or send, including listings, photos, descriptions, messages, reviews, questions, club content, usernames, and profile information (“User Content”).
By posting or sending User Content, you grant SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, promote, moderate, and otherwise use your User Content to operate, improve, market, protect, and provide Communly. This license ends when you delete the content, except for copies retained in backups, in records we must keep, or already shared with other users.
You represent that you have all rights necessary to grant this license, and that your User Content does not violate any law, these Terms, or anyone else’s rights — including the rights of people who appear in photos you upload.
15. Reviews and ratings
Reviews and ratings must be honest, accurate, based on a real experience, and not manipulated. You may not post fake reviews, pay for reviews, threaten users over reviews, review your own listing, coordinate review manipulation, or post confidential, private, defamatory, discriminatory, or abusive content in a review.
You can leave one review for each listing you booked, once you’ve been checked in or the event has ended, however many orders you placed for it. You can edit it later; the edited review replaces the original.
16. Tickets, check-in, and wallet passes
Communly may issue QR tickets, check-in codes, and mobile wallet passes. These are a convenience for sellers to manage entry. A ticket or pass issued by Communly is not a guarantee of admission, safety, venue access, or that an event will occur as described. Entry decisions are made by the host and the venue, not by us.
Do not share, duplicate, forge, or resell tickets or check-in codes in violation of a listing’s terms. We may invalidate any ticket we believe is fraudulent, duplicated, or connected to a violation.
Each ticket admits the number of people on it once. After it has been scanned it shows as checked in and can’t be used again. A wallet pass is a copy of your ticket as it was when you added it and does not update itself — if your booking changes or is cancelled, the ticket in the app is the one that counts.
A host’s co-hosts and club admins can check guests in. This includes admins whose access is limited to check-in. A check-in by any of them counts as the host’s own, including releasing the seller’s proceeds for that booking. Only the host chooses who gets this access.
Listings may show how many people are going and how many have checked in. These figures are informational, can lag behind by a short time, and are not a guarantee of attendance or capacity, or that an event will take place.
Check-in opens one hour before a listing’s start time and cannot be performed before then. Checking a guest in releases the seller’s proceeds for that booking, so this window exists to stop proceeds being released well ahead of an event that has not taken place. Moving a listing’s start time earlier doesn’t release proceeds any sooner than the time the guest originally booked for. Listings with no start time, such as memberships and free services, are not affected. See Section 8 of the Payments & Refunds Policy.
17. Assumption of risk
Using Communly involves interacting with strangers, attending in-person events and parties, visiting unfamiliar locations and private residences, eating food prepared by other users, receiving services from other users, joining organizations, buying used goods, and relying on information provided by users.
These activities carry real risks, including personal injury, illness, food-borne illness, allergic reaction, death, property damage, theft, fraud, harassment, assault, exposure to alcohol or drugs despite our prohibitions, unsafe locations, legal violations, disciplinary action by your school, cancellation, and loss of money.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you voluntarily and knowingly assume all of these risks arising from your use of Communly, your interactions with other users, your attendance at any event, your consumption of any food, your purchase or sale of anything, and your reliance on any listing or User Content.
18. No endorsement and no guarantee
Badges, verification, reviews, ratings, moderation, recommendations, search placement, and promotion are not guarantees. We do not guarantee any user’s identity, age, campus status, enrollment, character, qualifications, licensing, criminal history, legal compliance, ability to pay, ability to perform, event safety, listing accuracy, item quality, food safety, ticket validity, or the outcome of any transaction.
19. Safety and emergencies
We may provide safety features, reporting tools, blocking tools, moderation, and support. We cannot control every user or every in-person interaction, and we do not attempt to.
Communly is not an emergency service. If there is an emergency, immediate threat, crime, injury, overdose, fire, assault, or other urgent safety issue, call 911, campus police, or local emergency services immediately.
20. Reporting and moderation
You can report any listing from its page and block any user from their profile. We commit to reviewing reports of objectionable content and abusive behavior, and we aim to act on them within 24 hours. We may remove content, restrict or suspend accounts, preserve records, contact users, and report serious matters to law enforcement, campus authorities, payment processors, or app stores.
We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Our review commitment is a good-faith operational practice, not a warranty, and it does not make us responsible for user content or for harm caused by another user.
21. Intellectual property
Communly — including our name, logo, design, software, code, features, text, graphics, and platform content — is owned by SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, reverse engineer, scrape, frame, or exploit Communly except as these Terms allow.
22. Copyright complaints
If you believe content on Communly infringes your copyright, email jpjewell0703@gmail.com with: your name and contact information; identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the allegedly infringing material and where it appears; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature.
We will remove infringing content where appropriate and terminate repeat infringers.
23. Third-party services
Communly integrates with third parties including Stripe, Google Firebase, Apple, Vercel, and mapping providers. We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of them may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
24. Suspension and termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account or any listing at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, abused the platform, violated Stripe or app store rules, or harmed Communly or others. We may also stop offering Communly, in whole or in part, at any time.
You may stop using Communly at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, as described in Section 36.
25. Account deletion
You may delete your account from the Profile page or by emailing jpjewell0703@gmail.com.
Deleting your account removes your profile, your listings, and your social activity, and anonymizes your name and email on bookings you made. You can’t delete your account while anyone has paid for an event you host that hasn’t ended, or while a club you own with no co-host has members with paid memberships still running: ask us to call the event off, or add a co-host, first. Otherwise, events you host that nobody has paid for are called off, a club with no co-host and no paid members is deleted, and your own upcoming bookings are cancelled or refunded as the Privacy Policy describes. The exception is a club you own that has a co-host: it passes, with its members and upcoming events, to the first co-host you added whose account is still in good standing, and payments for those listings that have not yet been paid out are then paid to them instead of you. Money already paid out to you stays yours. It does not delete records other users need or records we must keep. See “Deleting your account” in our Privacy Policy for exactly what is removed and what is retained.
26. Changes to Communly
We may add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time. We are not liable to you for doing so.
27. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Communly is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. We disclaim all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, safety, availability, accuracy, reliability, quality, legality, and uninterrupted operation.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
28. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC, Communly, and our owners, members, managers, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, for lost profits, or for loss of data, goodwill, reputation, business, opportunity, or revenue — even if we have been advised of the possibility.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to Communly, these Terms, or any transaction will not exceed the greater of: (a) the total amount you paid us in Communly service fees in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) $100.
These limits apply to all theories of liability, including contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, and statute. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
29. Release
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC, Communly, and our owners, members, managers, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors from all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses of every kind arising out of or related to: disputes with other users; listings; events, parties, and dinners; goods; services; club matters; payments; cancellations; injury; illness; death; property damage; fraud; the conduct of any user or third party; tickets; messages; or anything that happens at an in-person meeting arranged through Communly.
If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which reads: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.” You waive any comparable law in any other jurisdiction.
30. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC, Communly, and our owners, members, managers, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to:
- your use of Communly;
- your listings, events, parties, dinners, goods, services, clubs, User Content, messages, or transactions;
- your violation of these Terms;
- your violation of any law, campus policy, venue rule, Stripe rule, app store rule, or third-party right;
- your negligence, misconduct, fraud, misrepresentation, or unsafe conduct;
- injury, illness, or damage occurring at or arising from any event or meeting you host, attend, or arrange;
- taxes, permits, licenses, insurance, or approvals related to your listings; or
- any dispute between you and another user or third party.
We may assume exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you will cooperate with us.
31. No personal liability of the owner
Communly is operated by SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC, a California limited liability company. All obligations under these Terms are solely those of the company.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the company’s members, managers, officers, employees, and agents — including its sole member individually — have no personal liability for the company’s obligations, acts, or omissions, and you agree to look solely to the assets of SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC for satisfaction of any claim. You agree not to name any member, manager, officer, employee, or agent of the company individually in any claim, arbitration, or proceeding arising out of or relating to Communly or these Terms, and you waive any right to pierce the corporate veil or seek alter-ego liability, except where a court finds such a waiver unenforceable.
32. Governing law and venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration agreement in Section 33.
For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Diego County, California, and you waive any objection to that venue.
33. Dispute resolution, arbitration, and class action waiver
First, contact us
Before filing any claim, you agree to email jpjewell0703@gmail.com and try to resolve the dispute informally. If we cannot resolve it within 30 days, either party may proceed as described below.
Small claims
Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court if the claim qualifies and remains only in small claims court.
Binding individual arbitration
Except for small claims, intellectual property claims, requests for emergency injunctive relief, and claims for public injunctive relief (below), any dispute arising out of or relating to Communly or these Terms will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by AAA or JAMS under that provider’s consumer arbitration rules. If the parties cannot agree on AAA or JAMS, the provider will be selected under applicable law or by a court with authority to appoint one. Arbitration will take place in San Diego County, California, or by videoconference or on the papers where the rules allow.
Jury trial and class action waiver
You and SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC waive the right to a jury trial and agree to bring claims only on an individual basis — not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim alone proceeds in court and the rest of this section still applies.
Public injunctive relief
Nothing in this section waives a right you have under California law to seek public injunctive relief. A claim for public injunctive relief will be decided by a state or federal court in San Diego County, California, after any individual claims have been arbitrated, and is stayed until then.
How to opt out
You may opt out of arbitration by emailing jpjewell0703@gmail.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Your email must include your name, your account email, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms. If we later make a material change to this section, you may also reject that change by emailing us the same way within 30 days after you accept the updated Terms; this section then continues to apply to you as it read before the change.
Time limit
To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to Communly must be filed within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred.
34. Apple and the iOS app
If you use the Communly iOS app, the iOS App Addendum also applies. Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for Communly.
35. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by posting the updated Terms, updating the effective date, or another reasonable method. Your continued use of Communly after the updated Terms take effect means you accept them. If you do not agree, stop using Communly and delete your account.
36. General
- Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest of these Terms remain in full force.
- Survival. Sections 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 17, 18, and 27 through 36 survive termination of your account or these Terms.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.
- Entire agreement. These Terms and the policies they reference are the entire agreement between you and us regarding Communly and supersede any prior understanding.
- Force majeure. We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages, natural disasters, epidemics, labor issues, government action, or third-party service failures.
- Notices. We may send you notices by email, in the app, or by posting on the website. You may send notices to us at jpjewell0703@gmail.com.
- No agency. Except for the limited payment collection agency described in Section 7, these Terms do not create any partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency relationship between you and us.
37. Contact
SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC d/b/a Communly
8952 Caminito Fresco, La Jolla, California 92037
(609) 705-8530
jpjewell0703@gmail.com
California users. Using Communly is free; the only charges to buyers are the prices and service fee shown before you pay (see Section 6). Sellers and club treasurers may also owe the amounts described in Section 6, such as dispute fees. Under California Civil Code §1789.3, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
SIGMA SIGMA HOLDINGS LLC d/b/a Communly · 8952 Caminito Fresco, La Jolla, California 92037 · (609) 705-8530 · jpjewell0703@gmail.com