Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and Motion51 when you create an account, sign in, or use the Motion51 canvassing application. We've written them in plain English on purpose. If you have questions, email jason@motion51.com.

1. Who we are and what you're agreeing to

Motion51 is operated by Jason Becher in Florida (“Motion51,” “we,” “us”). By creating an account or using the service, you (and the campaign or organization you act for) agree to these terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a campaign, you confirm you have authority to do so.

2. What your subscription buys

Your subscription fee pays for access to the Motion51 software: turf mapping, the mobile canvassing app, reporting, and related tools. Where Motion51 provides voter registration data, that data is furnished at no separate charge, solely for the permitted political uses described in section 4. Motion51 does not sell voter data.

3. Accounts and volunteers

• You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for the activity that happens under your account.
• Campaign administrators may create volunteer logins. The campaign is responsible for its volunteers' use of the service, including their handling of voter data in the field.
• Tell us promptly at jason@motion51.com if you believe an account has been compromised.

4. Voter data: permitted use only

Voter registration data in Motion51 comes from state and county election officials (or from files you lawfully provide). State law restricts how this data may be used, and those restrictions flow through to you. You agree to use voter data available through Motion51 only for political and election-related purposes — canvassing, voter outreach, get-out-the-vote activity, petition efforts, and campaign planning.

You agree that you will not:

• Use voter data for any commercial purpose, including commercial marketing, advertising, or solicitation;
• Sell, resell, license, publish, or redistribute voter data, or export it for use by any third party outside your campaign;
• Use voter data to harass, intimidate, or stalk any person;
• Post voter data on the open internet or otherwise make it available for unrestricted access;
• Provide voter data to any person or entity where the source state's law prohibits it (for example, certain states restrict providing their lists to foreign nationals or foreign commercial interests);
• Violate the law of the state a voter file came from. This includes, without limitation, the voter-file use statutes of Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Washington, and any other state whose data appears in Motion51.

We filter records that states flag as confidential or address-protected, and you agree not to attempt to identify or locate such voters. We may suspend or terminate any account that misuses voter data, without refund, and this section survives termination of your account.

5. Your campaign's data is yours

• The canvass results, voter contacts, notes, and other data your campaign creates in Motion51 belong to your campaign. We use it only to operate and improve the service, never to sell or share with third parties.
• If your plan includes export, you can export your campaign's data at any time. At the end of a race, ask us and we'll help you get your data out.
• If you upload your own data (“bring your own” voter files, contact lists), you promise that you have the legal right to use it and to let Motion51 host it for you.

6. Billing and cancellation

• Paid plans bill through Stripe on the schedule shown at checkout. We never see or store your card number.
• You can cancel anytime. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; we don't charge you again after that. We do not prorate or refund partial periods.
• If we change a plan's price, we'll give existing subscribers notice before the new price applies.
• Free tiers, pilots, and trials are offered at our discretion and may be modified or ended; we'll give reasonable notice to active users.

7. Acceptable use of the service

Don't use Motion51 to break the law. Don't scrape, bulk-extract, or programmatically harvest data outside the features we provide. Don't probe, overload, or interfere with the service, attempt to access other campaigns' data, or reverse-engineer the software.

8. Availability

We work hard to keep Motion51 up, especially around election days, but we can't guarantee uninterrupted availability. The mobile canvassing app is built to keep working offline once a volunteer's turf is loaded — we recommend volunteers open their turf while online before heading out. We may perform maintenance, and we'll try to schedule it away from peak canvassing times.

9. Disclaimers

Motion51 is provided “as is.” Voter data originates with government offices and third parties; it contains errors, and people move, re-register, and pass away. We make no warranty about the accuracy or completeness of voter data or about the service being error-free. Nothing in Motion51 is legal advice: your campaign is responsible for complying with the election, canvassing, and campaign-finance laws that apply to it.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law: Motion51 will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages (including lost votes, lost elections, or lost data), and our total liability for any claim arising from the service is limited to the amount your campaign paid Motion51 in the twelve months before the claim arose. Some states limit these disclaimers, in which case they apply to the maximum extent allowed.

11. Your responsibility for misuse

If your campaign's (or your volunteers') use of voter data in violation of section 4, or content you upload, results in a claim against Motion51, you agree to indemnify us — that is, to cover the losses and reasonable costs that claim causes us.

12. Termination

• You can stop using Motion51 and cancel at any time.
• We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these terms, with notice where practical (and immediately for voter-data misuse or security abuse).
• After termination, you have 30 days to request an export of your campaign's data, after which we may delete it. On written request we will delete your campaign's data sooner, subject to residual copies in routine encrypted backups that expire on their own schedule.

13. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms materially, we'll post the new version here, update the date at the top, and take reasonable steps to notify active accounts (such as an email or an in-app notice). Continuing to use Motion51 after changes take effect means you accept them.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Florida, and both sides consent to that venue.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: jason@motion51.com