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Terms of Service

Last updated: September 26, 2026

Fammy is operated by Eagle Developers, LLC ("Fammy", "we", "us"). These Terms govern your use of the Fammy website and service. By creating an account or using Fammy, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

1. What Fammy is

Fammy is a tool for coordinating childcare among people who already know and trust each other. You create a circle (a "Fammy"), invite people, post when you need help, and members offer help in return. Fammy is a coordination tool only: we do not provide childcare, we do not employ, supply, screen, vet, background-check or supervise anyone in your circle, and we are not a party to any arrangement you make through it. Deciding who is fit to care for your children is entirely yours.

2. Your account

  • You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
  • Provide accurate information and keep your login credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account.
  • You are responsible for the content you post — need details, children's names and notes, messages and anything else — and you must have the right to share it with the people in your circle.
  • You may close your account at any time from your profile.

3. Circles, owners and admins

Each circle has an owner, who creates it, and may have admins. Owners and admins can invite and remove members, post and edit needs, and manage the circle's settings. Information you post in a circle is visible to the active members of that circle, so only invite people you are comfortable sharing it with — see section 4.

4. What you share, and who you share it with

Fammy carries the information you put into it to the people you have invited. Deciding what goes in, and who is in the circle to receive it, is yours — so:

  • Post only what the circle needs to know. Need notes, locations and children's details are shown to every active member of that circle. If a detail is not something you would tell each of them directly — a medical condition, an address you would rather not publish, a family matter — leave it out or say less.
  • Do not share other people's private information without their say-so. That includes a co-parent, another family's child, or anyone whose details would end up in a note you type.
  • Sharing cannot be undone. Deleting a need or removing a member stops future access; it cannot retrieve what members have already seen, or what has already reached them by email, SMS, push notification or their calendar feed. Treat a post as read the moment you make it.
  • Invitation links are the credential. Anyone holding the link in an invitation email can see the name of the circle it is for. Send invitations to addresses you know, and do not forward them.
  • Keeping membership current is the owner's and admins' job, not ours. When somebody should no longer have access to a circle — a relationship ends, a sitter stops sitting, an address changes hands — remove them from the Members page. We do not review or prune your circle's membership, and we cannot tell that someone's access has outlived its reason.

5. Premium, trial and renewal

  • Free and Premium. Joining a circle as a Helper is always free. A circle on the free plan can post needs up to 30 days ahead, have up to five members besides its owner, and notify by email; it cannot post recurring needs or send text-message alerts. Premium lifts those limits and is offered monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. If Premium ends, nothing already in the circle is removed, but the free-plan limits apply to anything new.
  • Subscriptions belong to a circle, not to a person. A subscription is purchased for one Fammy and covers that circle. If you own more than one circle, each is subscribed separately, and a subscription follows the circle if ownership is transferred.
  • Free trial. New subscriptions may be eligible for a free trial. Cancel any time before the trial ends and you will not be charged.
  • Auto-renewal. Unless we say otherwise at the point of purchase, subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each term at the then-current price, using the payment method on file, until you cancel.
  • Cancel any time. You can cancel whenever you like. Cancelling turns off auto-renewal; it does not end your access immediately. Your subscription stays active through the end of the term you have already paid for, and then simply stops. Free trials must be canceled before the trial ends to avoid being charged.
  • Single Purchases. Some purchases are one-time rather than recurring. These do not renew and there is nothing to cancel.
  • Payments and refunds. Payments are processed by our payment providers, and purchases made through an app store are also subject to that store's terms and refund policy. Except where the law requires otherwise, payments are non-refundable; if something has gone wrong, email support@fammy.org and we will look at it.
  • Price changes. We may change prices. Any change applies to terms beginning after we have told you, so you can cancel first.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use Fammy to:

  • break the law, or harass, threaten or endanger anyone;
  • post content that is not yours to post, or that infringes someone else's rights;
  • access a circle, account or data you have not been invited to, or attempt to defeat the service's access controls;
  • disrupt, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the service;
  • send unsolicited commercial messages to other members.

We may suspend or remove an account or a circle that breaks these rules.

7. Your content

Your content stays yours. You grant us a limited licence to store, process and display it for the purpose of operating Fammy for you and your circle — for example, showing a need to the members you posted it to, or sending a reminder about a shift you agreed to. We do not sell your content and we do not use it for advertising.

You remain responsible for that content: for having the right to share it, for keeping out what does not belong in a shared circle, and for removing it when it should no longer be there. We store and deliver what you post; we do not review it.

8. Notifications

Fammy sends email, push and SMS notifications about your circles — invitations, offers of help, confirmations, reminders and changes. Message and data rates may apply to SMS. You can adjust notification settings in your profile; some messages about your account and your commitments are operational and cannot be turned off while your account is open.

9. Availability, and changes to the service

Fammy is offered as-is and as-available. We may change, add or remove features, and we may suspend the service for maintenance. We aim to keep it running, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. Do not rely on Fammy as the only record of an arrangement somebody's day depends on.

10. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fammy is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We make no warranty about the conduct, suitability or reliability of any member of your circle.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Eagle Developers, LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss arising out of childcare arrangements made through the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to Fammy is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred US dollars, whichever is greater.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Eagle Developers, LLC from claims arising out of your use of Fammy, your content, or arrangements you make with other members.

13. Termination

You may close your account at any time; doing so removes you from your circles and deletes the records that name you. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — content licence, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and governing law — do.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page, and we will tell you about material changes before they take effect. Continuing to use Fammy after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located in Georgia have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except where applicable law gives you the right to bring it elsewhere.

16. Contact

Questions, concerns or a request about your subscription? Email support@fammy.org. See also our Privacy Policy.