Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Student Section ("Student Section", "the Service"). By creating an account, signing a subscription, or submitting a purchase order to Student Section, you ("Customer", "you", the contracting school, athletic department, booster club, PTSA, or district) agree to these Terms.

If you are accepting on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

Student Section is a fundraising software-as-a-service for K-12 schools and school-affiliated organizations. Student Section provides campaign management, participant outreach tooling, donor collection, payment processing via Stripe Connect, and reporting.

Student Section is sold in fixed tiers: Single Event ($499 per 60-day campaign), School Annual ($1,999 / year), and District Master ($1,999 base + $999 per additional school / year). Current pricing is shown on the onboarding wizard and on the billing page in the app.

P-card / credit card — processed in real time via Stripe Checkout. Access is active immediately.

Purchase order (PO) / net-30 invoice — Student Section emails the billing contact a Stripe-hosted invoice with 30-day terms. The Customer may begin campaign setup immediately ("use-first"), but campaign LAUNCH (transitioning a campaign to an active public state) is gated until Stripe marks the invoice paid. Late payment past the due date moves the account to "past due" status, which blocks new launches until resolved.

Student Section charges 0% platform fee. Stripe's standard processing fee (2.9% + $0.30 per donation) is covered by the donor at checkout by default.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) permits schools to disclose education records to contractors acting as "School Officials" with a "Legitimate Educational Interest." The Customer designates Student Section as such a School Official, as defined at 34 C.F.R. § 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B). Student Section will use education records only for the purposes the Customer has directed, will remain under the Customer's direct control with respect to those records, and will not re-disclose them to third parties without the Customer's prior written consent.

• Obtain any additional parental consents your state or district requires above the federal COPPA floor (Student Section's built-in DOB gate + VPC handles federal COPPA).
• Keep roster data accurate and promptly remove participants whose parents revoke consent.
• Direct all fundraising proceeds into the school's or booster's own 501(c)(3) account via Stripe Connect. Student Section does not operate Individual Fundraising Accounts (IFAs) and no funds may be credited to individual students.
• Comply with any applicable state-level laws. In Michigan, the Student Online Personal Protection Act (SOPPA) prohibits Student Section from using student data for targeted advertising, building student profiles for non-educational purposes, or selling student data. Student Section does not engage in any of these practices. See our Privacy Policy for the full data retention and deletion schedule.

• Process personal information strictly in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
• Use Stripe Connect for all money movement so Student Section is not a Money Services Business; KYC, AML, and 1099-K responsibilities sit with Stripe and the school.
• Maintain TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, MFA on administrator accounts, role-based access control, and audit logs.
• Notify Customer within 48 hours of any confirmed unauthorized access to Customer data.
• Purge identifying student data 90 days after a campaign ends, or earlier on parental request. Aggregated totals are preserved in the school's reporting.

You may not use Student Section to:

• Reward students for uploading contacts or for providing data beyond what is strictly necessary for the fundraiser (a COPPA concern)
• Credit individual students with funds raised (a 501(c)(3) / IRS concern)
• Send messaging to participants or parents who have opted out or revoked consent
• Share Student Section accounts with people outside your contracting organization
• Reverse-engineer or copy the Service

Subscriptions run for the tier's duration (60 days for Single Event, 1 year for School Annual and District Master). At expiry the account enters read-only mode; the Customer may purchase a new term at any time from the billing page.

Either party may terminate for material breach with 30 days written notice. On termination Student Section will export the Customer's data on request and then purge it per section 6.

Student Section provides the Service "as is" without warranty of any kind. Student Section does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Student Section disclaims all implied warranties, including merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Student Section's total liability under these Terms for any claim is limited to the fees paid by the Customer in the twelve months preceding the claim. Student Section is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan. Venue for any dispute is the state or federal courts located in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Student Section may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced by email to the account owner and posted here with a revised "Last updated" date at least 30 days before taking effect.

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