Lynx Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions govern your access to and use of Lynx, including the Lynx web platform, companion mobile applications, websites, dashboards, APIs, tools, services, and related features collectively referred to as the “Service.”

The Service is operated by Jeremy Lese (“Lynx,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By creating an account, accessing the Service, or using any Lynx feature, you agree to these Terms. If you are using Lynx on behalf of an organization, campaign, committee, company, nonprofit, PAC, agency, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

1. The Service

Lynx is an election resource management and civic operations platform. It may include tools for project management, canvassing, voter contact, staff scheduling, internal messaging, fundraising workflows, communications, analytics, quality assurance, reporting, compliance support, and mobile field operations.

Lynx is a software platform. Unless expressly stated in a separate written agreement, Lynx does not provide legal, accounting, campaign finance, tax, payroll, employment, lobbying, election law, or professional compliance advice.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, to create an administrative account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity under your account.

You agree to provide accurate account, organization, billing, and contact information. You must promptly update information that becomes inaccurate or incomplete.

3. Organizations, Roles, and Permissions

Lynx may support multi-tenant organizations, projects, staff roles, permissions, and administrative controls. Organization owners and administrators are responsible for managing access, assigning roles, removing users who no longer require access, and ensuring that only authorized personnel may view or process data within the Service.

We are not responsible for unauthorized access caused by your failure to manage user permissions, protect credentials, configure accounts correctly, or remove users when appropriate.

4. Customer Data

“Customer Data” means data, files, records, messages, voter information, donor information, staff information, survey responses, notes, project details, schedules, geographic information, and other content submitted to or generated through the Service by you or your users.

As between you and Lynx, you retain ownership of your Customer Data. You grant Lynx a limited license to host, process, transmit, store, display, analyze, and use Customer Data as necessary to provide, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Service.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have the legal right to upload, collect, process, use, contact, message, export, or disclose Customer Data through Lynx.

5. Political, Election, and Campaign Compliance

Lynx may be used in political, civic, electoral, fundraising, advocacy, or public affairs contexts. You are solely responsible for complying with all federal, state, local, and international laws, rules, regulations, reporting requirements, disclosure obligations, consent requirements, campaign finance restrictions, election laws, lobbying rules, ethics rules, communications laws, labor laws, and data protection requirements that apply to your activities.

Features that reference compliance, filings, fundraising limits, disclaimers, staff rules, payroll, labor requirements, or reporting are provided for operational support only. They are not a substitute for review by qualified counsel, treasurers, compliance officers, payroll professionals, or other appropriate professionals.

You agree not to rely solely on Lynx to determine whether a campaign, committee, organization, expenditure, contribution, communication, filing, staff practice, or voter contact activity is lawful.

6. Voter, Donor, and Sensitive Data

You may not upload, collect, process, or use voter, donor, staff, or other personal information unless you have a lawful basis and all required permissions, consents, rights, notices, contracts, or authorizations.

You agree not to use Lynx to unlawfully discriminate, intimidate, suppress participation, harass individuals, target protected classes in violation of law, or engage in unlawful voter suppression, deception, fraud, coercion, or manipulation.

7. Mobile Field Operations and Location Data

Lynx mobile applications may support field workflows such as assigned projects, walkbooks, voter addresses, survey completion, canvassing outcomes, internal messaging, field notes, and quality assurance signals.

Some features may use device location to support field operations, verify proximity to assigned addresses, improve data quality, or generate quality assurance alerts. You are responsible for providing legally adequate notice to staff, contractors, volunteers, or other users regarding any location-enabled workflows you deploy.

8. Communications and Messaging

If you use Lynx to prepare, send, manage, coordinate, or analyze communications, you are responsible for complying with applicable laws and platform rules, including rules governing text messages, calls, emails, push notifications, political disclaimers, consent, opt-outs, do-not-contact requests, and recordkeeping.

You may not use Lynx to send spam, unlawful robocalls, unlawful text messages, deceptive communications, fraudulent fundraising messages, malicious content, or communications that violate applicable platform, carrier, or legal requirements.

9. Payments, Billing, and Subscriptions

Some Lynx features may require payment, a subscription, usage-based charges, seat-based billing, or third-party payment processing. You agree to pay all applicable fees shown at checkout, in your account, in an order form, or in a separate agreement.

Payments may be processed by third-party providers such as Stripe. Lynx does not control third-party payment processors and is not responsible for their acts, omissions, outages, or independent data practices.

Unless otherwise stated, fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly agreed in writing.

10. Fundraising and Donations

Lynx may include fundraising workflows, donor records, contribution tracking, pledge tracking, compliance reminders, or integrations with payment providers. You are solely responsible for ensuring that every solicitation, contribution, donor record, receipt, refund, limit calculation, reporting field, disclaimer, and filing complies with applicable law.

Lynx does not guarantee that fundraising records, compliance flags, contribution limits, filing references, or reports are complete, current, accurate, or legally sufficient.

11. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any law, regulation, court order, or contractual duty.
• Infringe or misappropriate intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.
• Upload malware, harmful code, or materials designed to disrupt systems.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, networks, or data.
• Scrape, harvest, export, or misuse data in violation of law or these Terms.
• Harass, threaten, intimidate, deceive, defraud, or unlawfully discriminate.
• Interfere with the integrity, security, availability, or performance of the Service.
• Use the Service to build a competing product by copying non-public features, design, or functionality.

12. Third-Party Services

Lynx may connect to or rely on third-party services, including cloud hosting providers, database providers, authentication services, payment processors, analytics tools, messaging providers, mapping services, geocoding providers, Apple services, Google services, or other integrations.

Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Lynx is not responsible for third-party services, even if they are integrated with or linked from the Service.

13. Availability and Changes

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may release updates, add or remove features, change pricing, adjust usage limits, or modify integrations.

We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or available at all times.

14. Intellectual Property

Lynx and its software, design, branding, interfaces, workflows, documentation, and underlying technology are owned by Lynx or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.

You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, sell, sublicense, or create derivative works from the Service except as permitted by law or expressly authorized in writing.

15. Feedback

If you submit ideas, suggestions, reports, or feedback, you grant Lynx a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation.

16. Termination

We may suspend or terminate access to the Service if we believe you have violated these Terms, created legal risk, failed to pay fees, misused data, compromised security, or used the Service in a harmful or unlawful manner.

You may stop using the Service at any time. Certain provisions, including payment obligations, confidentiality, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, and dispute provisions, survive termination.

17. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LYNX DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND RELIABILITY.

LYNX DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL DETECT ALL ERRORS, PREVENT ALL COMPLIANCE ISSUES, IDENTIFY ALL FRAUD, PRESERVE ALL DATA, OR PRODUCE LEGALLY SUFFICIENT REPORTS, FILINGS, RECORDS, OR OUTPUTS.

18. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LYNX WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, CAMPAIGN LOSSES, REPUTATIONAL HARM, LEGAL PENALTIES, OR COMPLIANCE FAILURES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LYNX’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO LYNX FOR THE SERVICE IN THE THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100), WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

19. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Lynx, its owners, officers, employees, contractors, service providers, and affiliates from claims, damages, liabilities, penalties, costs, and expenses arising from your use of the Service, your Customer Data, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law, your campaign or organizational activities, or your infringement of third-party rights.

20. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Venue for disputes will be in the state or federal courts located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

21. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the Service after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:
jlese2005@gmail.com