Terms and Conditions

The Service is a tool that helps a household assign rooms and split a stated total rent from sealed bids. It is not a landlord, property manager, broker, lawyer, or financial advisor. It does not create a lease, sublease, or roommate agreement, and it does not collect or pay rent. The computed assignment and rents are a suggestion the household can inspect; they are not a legal determination of what anyone owes.

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. You may not use the Service for any illegal purpose or to violate any laws in your jurisdiction.

The Service does not use passwords. Access to a split is through unguessable links sent by email (and, when email is not configured, shown to the organizer). You are responsible for keeping those links secret. Anyone who has a link can act as that person: submit or change bids, open the organizer dashboard, or view results. The Company is not liable for loss or damage from a link that was shared, forwarded, or otherwise disclosed.

If you start a split, you are responsible for the names, email addresses, room descriptions, and other information you submit, and for activity that happens under the links issued for that split. You must have permission to give us each roommate's email address and to have us email them about the split. Logins and links are for the person they were issued to; you may not share an organizer or bidding link as a group login.

You must be a human. Splits created by bots or other automated methods are not permitted.

Bids are sealed until results are computed. The organizer, not the Company, chooses when to compute results. The assignment and rents follow the published maximin envy-free rule described on the site. That rule has known limits: it is not fully strategyproof, and in some cases the only envy-free split includes a negative rent. The results page is the record of what the Service computed from the bids it had at compute time.

The Company does not mediate roommate disputes, verify that bids reflect genuine preferences, or enforce payment of the computed rents. If the household disagrees with the outcome, that is for the household to resolve.

The Service is currently offered without a subscription fee. The Company may introduce prices later. Price changes, if any, will be posted on the site or the Service itself. You are responsible for any taxes on fees we charge, other than United States federal or state taxes we are required to collect and remit.

After a split, the Service may show or email offers from third parties (for example insurance, movers, or packing supplies). We may earn a commission if you use those offers. Those companies have their own terms. Purchases, quotes, and policies you obtain from them are between you and them; the Company is not a party to those transactions and does not warrant their products or services.

You can stop using the Service at any time. There is no account dashboard for self-service deletion; to ask that a split and its associated emails, bids, and results be deleted, email admin@fairandsquarefeet.com. We will treat that request as cancellation of that split. Related records may remain in backups and logs for a limited period, after which they are not recoverable.

The Company may suspend or terminate access to the Service, including any split, for any reason at any time. That may include deactivating links and deleting content associated with the split. The Company may refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

The Company may modify or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. The Company is not liable to you or to any third party for a modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service.

Content you submit (names, email addresses, room descriptions, bids, and similar) remains yours. You grant the Company a limited license to host, process, and display that content as needed to operate the Service, including computing results and sending the related emails. We do not claim intellectual property rights in that material.

We do not pre-screen content, but may refuse or remove anything available via the Service. The look and feel of the Service is copyright © Fair and Square Feet. All rights reserved. You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or visual design without express written permission from the Company.

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Support, if any, is provided only by email at admin@fairandsquarefeet.com.

The Company uses third-party vendors and hosting partners for hardware, software, networking, storage, email, analytics, and related technology. You must not modify, adapt, or hack the Service, or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Service or the Company. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Service without express written permission.

We may remove content and disable splits that we determine are unlawful, infringe intellectual property, or violate these Terms of Service. Abuse of any user of the Service, or of any Company employee or officer, will result in immediate termination of access.

Processing and transmission of the Service, including your content, may involve transmissions over various networks and changes to conform to technical requirements of those networks or devices.

The Company does not warrant that (i) the Service will meet your specific requirements, (ii) the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii) results obtained from the Service will be accurate or reliable, (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material obtained through the Service will meet your expectations, or (v) any errors in the Service will be corrected.

You expressly understand and agree that the Company shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses (even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: (i) use of or inability to use the Service; (ii) the cost of substitute goods or services; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on the Service; or (v) any other matter relating to the Service.

Failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service is not a waiver of that right or provision. These Terms of Service are the entire agreement between you and the Company concerning the Service, and supersede any prior agreements, including prior versions of these Terms of Service. Any new features that augment or enhance the current Service are subject to these Terms of Service.

Questions about the Terms of Service should be sent to admin@fairandsquarefeet.com.