The terms.
Every service on earth buries its terms in ten pages of fog so you'll click "agree" and never read them. We're not going to do that to you. Here's the whole deal, in the open.
1. What this actually is
OurTerms is a collective. You tell it what you're subscribed to and where your red line is. When enough of us draw the same line on the same service, and that service crosses it, we all move at once. Sometimes you'll pull the trigger yourself. Sometimes, if you've signed an authorization, we'll submit the cancellation for you, as your openly-disclosed agent, on the record, saying plainly that we're acting for you.
That's it. It's a coordination tool and a megaphone. It is not a magic wand, a law firm, or a promise.
Let's be blunt about the heart of it: we fully expect most services to refuse to honor a cancellation we submit as your agent. No law forces them to. Maybe someday, if enough of us pile in, we can afford a K Street lobbyist to go change that. Until then, the point is the story. A company refusing to let people walk is a story, the story brings more members, more members make a bigger story, and round and round she goes until, hopefully, something finally gives. We're not promising that either.
2. What we promise you
Almost nothing.
Specifically:
- We do not promise any service will honor a cancellation, a downgrade, or anything else we send them. Honestly, we expect a lot of them to fight it. That refusal turns out to be the whole point, but it means we can't promise you an outcome.
- We do not promise the site works, stays up, is bug-free, is accurate, or is available when you want it. We run this on a shoestring budget, sheer stubbornness, an unhealthy amount of caffeine, and a laptop badly in need of a new fan.
- We do not promise the price monitoring catches every change, catches it fast, or catches it at all. If it misses one, you're free to tell us about it, but we don't promise to read that either.
- We do not promise this thing survives. It might get big. It might quietly die. I might get bored, or sued, or hit by a bus.
We'd rather say all that out loud than hide it.
3. What I'll actually do
I'll try. I built this because the squeeze got to me, the enshitification, paying more every year and getting less, and I suspect it gets to you too. I know think (damned lawyers!) that this almost certainly won't change anything. But I choose to try, in my own small way. I'll do my honest best to make it work, to keep your data safe, and to never lie to you or to the companies on your behalf. But "my honest best" is a level of effort, not a warranty, and some weeks my best is better than others (sometimes, I even have a personal life). Take it as a statement of intent, not a contract of results.
4. The "as-is" part (this is the lawyer's paragraph)
The service is provided "as is" and "as available," with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. To the fullest extent the law allows, we're not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, lost subscriptions you actually wanted to keep, money you thought you'd save and didn't, or anything else that goes sideways from using this. You use OurTerms at your own risk. If some law where you live says a bit of that can't be waived, then that bit isn't waived, and the rest still stands.
5. Your side of it
- Bring people. You should definitely get others to join up. There is power in numbers. Apes together strong, and all that. The whole thing only works if the bloc is big.
- Only sign up accounts and authorizations you actually control. Don't sign for other people. Fraud is the one thing that can genuinely sink this, for everyone, so don't.
- What you tell us should be true. If you list a service you're not on, the numbers get dirty and the whole point is the numbers being real.
- You can walk away any time. Revoke an authorization, delete your account, done. No dark patterns, no retention desk, no "are you sure" seventeen times. That would make us hypocrites.
6. Money
The plan is free until we hit 100,000 members. After that it's probably $5 a year, or $50 once for life, so the lights stay on and we can grow some teeth.
Let's be clear about what paying that annual fee actually gets you: a warm and fuzzy feeling of doing your part, and not a goddamned thing more. No extra features, no priority, no secret handshake. Just the lights staying on.
And signing up now, before the 100k mark, does not obligate you to pay a cent if and when that day comes. We'll shoot you an email asking you to pay your member dues,* and you will** or you won't. No hard feelings either way.
* The lawyers would like you to know that this is not a union, these are not dues, and paying them does not entitle you to anything even remotely like a union.
** Pretty please.
7. We might change this
We'll update these terms when we need to. If it's a big change we'll try to say so. "Try" is, once again, doing a lot of work in that sentence. Keep using the site and you're taking the current version as it stands.
Want a heads-up when these change?
Leave your email and we'll try to ping you when the terms change in a way that matters.
Like everything else here, this is best-effort. The heads-up is a courtesy we'll try to remember to send, not a promise we're making. (Check it out! Our TOS has its own TOS!)
8. Boring but real
Nothing here is legal, financial, or tax advice, and we are not your lawyers. These terms are the whole agreement between us about using OurTerms. These terms are severable: if a court decides one line is unenforceable, it strikes that line and leaves the rest intact. Us not enforcing something once doesn't mean we've given it up forever.
9. Talk to us
Questions and complaints: [email protected]
A soulless executive who wants to yell: [email protected]
I'll probably read them. I might even reply. (You guessed it: no promises.)
Last updated 21 July 2026.