Terms of Service
Last updated 26 September 2026
These terms govern your use of the Cahoots app and the pages on cahoots.family. By creating an account you agree to them.
1. Who may use Cahoots
You must be 18 or older to create an account. Cahoots is designed for a household to share, and it assumes the people in a circle know and trust one another.
Children do not have accounts. A profile you create for a child is a record you control, and you are responsible for what you put in it.
2. Your account and your circle
- Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account.
- A circle has an owner, who can invite and remove members and manage the subscription. Inviting someone gives them access to that circle's shared content — invite deliberately.
- You may belong to more than one circle. Leaving or being removed from a circle ends your access to it but not to your own account.
3. Your content
What you put into Cahoots is yours. We claim no ownership of it.
You give us only the permission we need to run the service: to store your content, show it to the people in your circle you have shared it with, back it up, transmit it to the providers listed in the Privacy Policy, and process it to produce the suggestions you asked for. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in backups that age out on their own schedule.
You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload — including documents that mention other people, and photos of children.
4. What the AI does, and what it does not
Cahoots reads what you capture and proposes events, tasks, and reminders.
- It proposes; you decide. Nothing it extracts enters your circle until a person confirms it.
- It gets things wrong. Dates, times, names, and amounts can be misread. Check anything that matters against the original, which the app keeps and shows you.
- It is not advice. Cahoots is an organiser. Nothing it produces — including anything it stores about medications, doses, sizes, allergies, or medical appointments — is medical, legal, or financial advice, and it must not be relied on as such.
- Reminders and notifications depend on networks, app stores, and your device settings. Do not rely on Cahoots as the only safeguard for anything whose failure would be serious.
5. Acceptable use
Do not use Cahoots to break the law, to harass anyone, to store or share material you have no right to, to upload malware, to attempt to reach data belonging to another circle, to probe or overload the service, or to build a competing product from it. Do not use automated means to extract data from the service.
Links you share outside your circle are your responsibility: anyone holding such a link can see the single item it points to, until it expires or you revoke it.
6. Subscriptions and payment
- Coordination features are free. Autopilot is a paid subscription covering the AI and insight features.
- Every new circle starts with a 30-day trial of everything, with no card required.
- Purchases are made through the Apple App Store or Google Play. They take the payment, not us, and their terms govern billing.
- Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel through your App Store or Google Play account — cancelling in the store is what stops billing.
- Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies. We cannot issue them.
- A subscription covers circles owned by the person who bought it, up to that plan's allowance.
- Prices may change. We will tell you before a change affects a renewal.
If a subscription lapses, nothing is deleted. Paid features pause and your content stays readable.
7. Availability, and the fact that this is early
Cahoots is in active development and is currently distributed for testing. It may be unavailable, may lose functionality, and may change. We may modify or discontinue features. Where a change is significant and we can foresee it, we will try to give notice.
8. Ending it
You may stop using Cahoots and delete your account at any time from within the app. Deleting an account or closing a circle has a 14-day grace period in which signing back in undoes it; after that it is removed.
We may suspend or end an account that breaches these terms, that puts the service or other users at risk, or where we are required to. Where circumstances allow, we will tell you first.
9. Disclaimers
Cahoots is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that any notification will be delivered.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of Cahoots — including anything arising from a missed appointment, a missed reminder, or an incorrect extraction.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to Cahoots is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or twenty-five US dollars.
Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
11. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from content you upload, from your breach of these terms, or from your misuse of the service.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change is material we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Cahoots after that means you accept the new terms.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the state and federal courts located in Connecticut will have exclusive jurisdiction — except that either of us may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing here removes any consumer-protection right you have under the law where you live.