Terms of service
These are the terms between PadFlow and the people and companies who use it. They are short because the deal is simple: you bring your projects and your documents, PadFlow keeps the schedules, budgets, draws and paperwork straight, and both sides behave. Using PadFlow means you accept them. If your company has a separate written agreement with us, that agreement wins wherever the two conflict.
“PadFlow”, “we” and “us” mean the operator of padflow.io. “You” means the person using the service and, where you use it for a company, that company as well. The privacy policy is part of these terms and says what we do with data.
Accounts and workspaces
A workspace belongs to a company. People join it by invitation, and the workspace’s admins decide who is a member and what each member can do. You are responsible for what happens under your account: keep your credentials to yourself, and tell us if you think someone else has them. If you sign in with Microsoft or Google, that account’s security is theirs to enforce and yours to keep. PadFlow is a tool for businesses; you must be at least 18 to use it.
Your content
Everything you put into PadFlow — projects, schedules, budgets, draws, the people you invite, and the documents you upload or connect — is yours. You give us only the licence we need to store it, process it, show it to your workspace, and send the messages you ask us to send, for as long as you use the service, and no other. Documents in your Microsoft 365 library stay in your library. We may compute de-identified statistics across workspaces, exactly as the privacy policy describes and no further. You are responsible for having the right to put your content into PadFlow, and for it not breaking anyone else’s rights or the law.
What PadFlow does, and what it does not
PadFlow keeps track. It computes dates from the rules and events you give it, reads documents and offers what it found as proposals, and shows you what is due and what is late. It does not file anything with a county, a lender or a court, and it does not know what you did not tell it. Every computed date depends on the events, offsets and holidays entered; every reading of a document is a proposal until a person accepts it. Nothing in PadFlow is legal, financial or engineering advice. You remain responsible for your deadlines, your filings, your draws and your obligations, and for checking the source document and the authority whenever it matters — which in this business is most of the time.
Acceptable use
Use PadFlow for running land-development projects, and don’t use it to break the law, to store or send anything unlawful, to probe or interfere with the service or other workspaces, to reverse-engineer it, or to scrape it. Don’t share an account between people; invite them instead. We may suspend an account or workspace that is doing any of these things, and we will tell you when we do unless the law says otherwise.
Third-party services
Connecting Microsoft 365, or signing in with Microsoft or Google, means those services’ own terms apply to your use of them. PadFlow reaches them only through the permissions you grant, and you can withdraw those permissions at any time in Settings or with the provider. We are not responsible for a third-party service being unavailable or changing what it allows.
Fees
PadFlow is free to use unless a fee is agreed in writing or shown to you before you take on a paid plan. Where fees apply, they are as stated, exclusive of taxes you may owe, and we give at least 30 days’ notice before a price changes.
Availability and change
PadFlow is in active development. We work to keep it available and correct, we keep backups, and we tell workspace admins about changes that matter — but we do not promise uptime or that a feature will stay as it is, unless a written agreement says so. We may add, change or retire features; when a change removes something you rely on, you get notice and a way to export what is affected.
Ending things
You can stop using PadFlow whenever you like and ask us to delete your account or workspace. We can end a workspace’s access with 30 days’ notice, or at once for a serious or repeated breach of these terms. Either way, you have 30 days to export your data, after which we delete it as the privacy policy describes. The parts of these terms about your content, liability, and disputes keep applying afterwards.
Warranties and liability
PadFlow is provided as it is and as it is available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no other warranty — not of fitness for a purpose, not that it is free of error, not that a computed date is right — and neither side is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss: lost profit, a missed deadline, a delayed closing, a lender’s decision. Our total liability to you for anything arising from PadFlow is capped at the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or 100 US dollars if you paid none. Some laws do not allow some of these limits; where they do not, they apply as far as they may. If someone brings a claim against us because of your content or your use of PadFlow in breach of these terms, you cover the cost of that claim.
Disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and disputes belong in the state or federal courts sitting in Georgia — except that either side may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court where they are. Talk to us first; most things are a conversation.
Changes to these terms
When these terms change, the new version is posted here with a new effective date. If a change is material, we tell workspace admins by email at least 14 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use PadFlow after that date is accepting the new terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the service and ask us to close your workspace.
Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected].