Terms of Service

These terms are a contract between you and Thrown LLC, the New Jersey limited liability company that runs Thrown at thrown.party. In these terms, “Thrown”, “we” and “us” mean Thrown LLC. By creating an account, or by using Thrown, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy, which explains what happens to information on Thrown and is part of the deal. Signing up asks you to tick a box confirming you are 18 or over and that you accept both documents, and we record on your account the date it did.

If you are using Thrown for a business — say, a vendor listing — you are agreeing on that business's behalf and promising you are allowed to.

You must be 18 or older to hold an account. Parties for children are welcome; accounts for children are not.

Thrown is two connected things: a planning tool that helps you design and run a party — including an AI planner — and a marketplace where independent vendors list services and rentals, and where people sell party packs they made.

What Thrown is not: a party to your bookings. When you hire a vendor, rent a tent, or buy a pack from a seller, that transaction is between you and them. We provide the introduction, the listing, and in some cases the payment rails — we are not the caterer, we do not own the tent, and we have not inspected it. The one exception is anything Thrown itself expressly sells or provides, which will say so.

Sign-in is passwordless: a one-time link or six-digit code we email you, Google, or — in the Thrown app — Apple. That means your Thrown account is exactly as secure as the email, Google or Apple account behind it, so keep that locked down, and tell us promptly if you think someone else has got into it.

You are responsible for what happens under your account, and for keeping your account email current — it is how we reach you about anything that matters, including changes to these terms.

One person, one account. Do not impersonate anyone, and do not use someone else's sign-in. A sign-in link or code works once and expires after fifteen minutes; do not forward one to anybody — for as long as it is live, it signs in whoever uses it.

When you add people to a guest list you are handing us their names and contact details, so this part is a real promise, not boilerplate: you confirm that you know the people you add, that you are inviting them to an actual event, and that you have no reason to think they would object to being contacted about it. Use Thrown to invite guests to parties — never to build mailing lists, harvest contacts, or spam.

• If you send invites through Thrown, the emails go out via our systems with your address as the reply-to, and we limit how fast and how many. Texts go out from Thrown's number, under the extra rules in “Text messages” below.
• Guests and other people on your lists can ask us to remove their details, and we will — the Privacy Policy explains how. Do not re-add someone who has asked out.
• Picking people out of your phone's address book does not loosen any of this. The app reads your contacts on the device so you can search them; the promise above applies to whoever you tick, exactly as it would if you typed them in.
• We can suspend invite-sending for any account that appears to be abusing it.

Thrown can text party invitations on a host's behalf. The program is described in full in our SMS Terms, at thrown.party/sms, and those terms are part of this agreement.

If you send invites by text, you confirm each time, by checking the box before you send, that everyone you are texting agreed to get texts about your party. That is a stronger promise than the guest-list one above, because the text lands on someone's phone from Thrown's number. Only text people who agreed, never try to get around a STOP, and use texting only to invite people to a real party. We can switch texting off for any account that appears to be misusing it.

If you check “Text me about this party” on an RSVP form, you are confirming that the number is yours, or that its owner has said you can.

• Message frequency varies, and it is usually one text per party. Message and data rates may apply.
• Reply STOP to any text from Thrown to stop getting them, and HELP for help. You can also email hello@thrown.party.
• Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
• No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes, and text message opt-in data and consent are never shared with any third party.

You own what you post — party descriptions, photos, videos, reviews, listings, packs. By posting it you give us the license we need to run the product: to host, display, back up, and process your content to provide Thrown's features (including its AI and search features, as described in the Privacy Policy), and to show public content — listings, published packs, reviews — publicly. That license ends when the content is deleted, except where copies persist in backups for a limited time or the content has been forked or purchased by others as the product allows.

• Links you add to a pack are fetched once for the picture that goes on the card, and a photo you add by pasting its address is fetched so we can host our own copy. Both ask the site's permission first, the same way the vendor prefill does, so a link to a site that refuses automated visitors will simply come through without a picture. Post links to things you have the right to point at.
• Post only what you have the right to post. No other people's private information, no content you do not have rights to, nothing unlawful, hateful, or sexually explicit, and nothing involving minors beyond the ordinary fact of a family party.
• Reviews are public and carry your real name. Write about your genuine experience, keep it about the business or event, and do not use reviews to harass or extort. The businesses and people you review did not agree to these terms, and they can dispute or report reviews.
• Be careful what is inside your uploads. As the Privacy Policy explains in detail, uploaded files are served from links that work without sign-in, and camera metadata (including GPS location) is not reliably removed from photos and is never removed from videos.
• You can block another person. Their posts stop appearing for you, and they can no longer comment or review on anything you own. Blocking is a personal control, not a report: we are not told why, and the person is not told it happened.
• You can report a review or a comment, and we record who reported it and why. A report is not an automatic takedown — someone here reads it. Report things that break these rules, not things you disagree with.
• We may remove content, or restrict accounts, when content breaks these rules or the law, and we may preserve and disclose content when the law requires it.

If you believe content on Thrown infringes your copyright, email hello@thrown.party with “copyright” in the subject line. Tell us: what the work is and that you own it or represent the owner, where the infringing content is on Thrown (a link), your contact details, a statement made in good faith that the use is not authorized, and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate. Sign it, physically or electronically.

We will take down content that a complete notice identifies, tell the person who posted it, and pass them the notice so they can respond or counter-notify. If they send a proper counter-notice, we may restore the content unless you tell us you have filed a court action about it.

Accounts that repeatedly infringe get closed. And do not send false notices — the perjury statement above is not decoration, and a bad-faith takedown can make you liable to the person whose content you had removed.

The planner generates suggestions — vendors, themes, menus, budgets — from your inputs and our catalog. It is a drafting tool, not a promise. AI output can be wrong, out of date, or oddly confident; vendors it cites may be unavailable, prices may differ, and web results it surfaces are not vetted by us. Confirm anything that matters directly with the vendor before you rely on it. You are responsible for the party; the planner just helps you throw it.

If you list a business on Thrown, you promise the listing is yours to make: the business is real, you are authorized to represent it, the details are accurate, and you hold whatever licenses, permits, and insurance your trade and your area require. Keep your listing current — hosts make real decisions from it.

• Listing on Thrown is currently free. This is an early-access arrangement, not a permanent promise: at some point listing will move to a paid subscription.
• What is a permanent commitment about our model: we never charge vendors per lead. Inquiries that come through Thrown are yours, without a meter running.
• Before any pricing takes effect, we will email the contact address on your listing well in advance, with the actual prices, and you will be free to remove your listing instead. Nobody gets charged by surprise, and nobody gets charged without having agreed to a price.
• Vendors control the visibility of their listing's contact details, and can respond to and export their own inquiries. Inquiry details are for responding to that host, not for unrelated marketing.
• Building a listing from a link: paste your website and we will fetch it once and read it into a draft, unless the site's robots.txt tells automated visitors not to. Paste a page for the business you are actually listing — a drafted listing carries every promise in this section exactly as a typed one does, the draft is yours to correct, and nothing goes live until you publish it. An Instagram or Facebook link is kept as your handle and not read, because both sites ask automated visitors to stay out.
• Admin-assisted listings: if we build a profile for you at your request, nothing goes live until you say so, and the promises in this section apply to it the same as if you typed it.

Rentals on Thrown come from independent businesses. They set their own prices, terms, deposits and cancellation rules, and are responsible for their own licences, insurance, and the condition and safety of what they supply. Thrown is not a party to the rental — arrange delivery or pickup, condition and payment directly with the business.

To say the same thing at full length: rental listings on Thrown are offered by the vendors who own the items, to you. Thrown does not own, store, inspect, deliver, or maintain rental inventory, and we make no representation about any item's condition or safety. Price, deposit, delivery, setup, damage, and returns are between you and the vendor — agree on them before money moves.

For anything with a safety dimension (tents, staging, anything people climb on or sit under), it is on the vendor to provide equipment that is safe and legal for the use, and on you to use it as directed.

Some things on Thrown cost money: premium party packs, and whatever else the product says has a price. Payments run through Stripe; card details are entered with Stripe and never touch Thrown.

• Prices are shown before you pay. Digital purchases (like premium packs) are delivered immediately, so they are generally not refundable once opened — but if something is broken, misdescribed, or not what you paid for, email us within 14 days and we will make it right, with a refund where that is the right answer.
• If you sell packs on Thrown: payouts run through Stripe Connect, which requires completing Stripe's onboarding (identity and banking checks happen with Stripe, not us). Thrown charges a flat platform fee per sale, shown to you before you publish a priced pack. You promise your packs are your own work and that any vendor deals in them are real and authorized by those vendors.
• Sellers and vendors are independent businesses responsible for their own taxes on what they earn. Thrown does not withhold or remit taxes on your behalf.
• Premium packs cannot be bought inside the Thrown app. Apple reserves purchases of digital content in an app for its own in-app payment system, so the app shows you the pack without a checkout. Anything you bought on the web unlocks in the app, because what you own belongs to your account rather than to the device.
• White glove: asking for a Thrown coordinator is free; you pay only for what actually gets booked, at the prices you approve.

Parts of Thrown are built on other companies' services — Stripe for payments, Google and Apple for sign-in, and the providers the Privacy Policy lists. When you use those services through Thrown, their own terms govern your relationship with them; we do not control them and are not responsible for them.

Thrown also points outward: vendor listings link to vendor websites, the AI planner can surface businesses and web results from outside our catalog, and content on Thrown may contain links other users added. A link is not an endorsement. Once you leave Thrown, you are on someone else's site under someone else's rules, and anything you do there — including anything you buy — is between you and them.

The app is the same Thrown in a native shell, and everything above applies inside it. Five things are true only there.

• This agreement is between you and Thrown LLC. Apple and Google do not operate Thrown, are not parties to it, and are not responsible for the app or anything in it. If the app breaks, if you want your money back for something bought through Thrown, or if you have a claim about the app — it does not work, it injured someone, it infringes something, it broke a consumer-protection rule — bring it to us at hello@thrown.party, not to them. Neither of them owes you support for Thrown.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms as they apply to the iOS app, and Apple may enforce them against you as such.
• Your right to use the app is a personal, non-transferable licence to run it on devices you own or control, on the terms the app store you got it from imposes. Those store rules apply to you alongside these terms, and where a store rule is stricter, it wins for that store's copy of the app.
• The app asks your device for permission to use your photos, your camera, your location, and your contacts. Each is asked for only when a feature needs it, each can be refused without losing the rest of the app, and the Privacy Policy says exactly what we do with what you allow — including that your address book is read on the device and only the people you tick are sent to us.
• You may not use the app if US export law bars you: not from an embargoed country, and not on a US prohibited-parties list.

Do not break the product or use it against the people on it. That means, without turning this into a list of everything bad: no unauthorized access or probing, no scraping or bulk-harvesting of profiles, guest data, or vendor contacts, no automated account creation, no interfering with rate limits or safety measures, no using Thrown to send spam, and no using data you got from Thrown (a guest list, a lead, a review author's name) for purposes the person it belongs to would not expect. We build parties here; behave like a guest.

You can stop using Thrown at any time, and you can delete your account yourself from your profile page. The Privacy Policy explains exactly what that removes, what is handed to a co-host or to Thrown's house account, and what stays behind under “Former member”.

We can suspend or close accounts that violate these terms, put others at risk, or abuse the systems, and where practical we will say why. If your account closes, sections of these terms that by their nature should survive (content licenses for forked or purchased content, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, disputes) survive.

Thrown is provided as-is and as-available. We are a small, young product and we will not pretend otherwise: things will occasionally break, be wrong, or be down, and AI output in particular comes with no guarantee of accuracy. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing in these terms limits rights the law does not let us limit.

To the extent the law allows it, Thrown's total liability to you for claims arising out of the service is capped at the greater of one hundred dollars or the amounts you paid Thrown in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages — which, concretely, includes what a vendor or another user does or fails to do, since those transactions are theirs. This cap is deliberately not aggressive; it is scaled to what Thrown is. Some jurisdictions do not allow parts of this section, in which case it applies to the fullest extent permitted.

If your breach of these terms — a listing you had no right to make, content you had no right to post, guest data you had no right to upload — gets us sued or fined, you agree to cover the losses and reasonable legal costs that your breach caused. This is the mirror image of the liability section, and it is meant for genuine breaches, not gotchas.

These terms are governed by New Jersey law, and disputes belong in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, whose jurisdiction both of us accept.

Before anyone files anything, email us; almost everything can be fixed faster and cheaper that way.

The general machinery, in one place, in plain words:

• These terms plus the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Thrown about the service, and they replace anything earlier.
• If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, that part gets trimmed to what is enforceable — or severed — and the rest stands.
• If we do not enforce a part of these terms for a while, we have not given it up.
• You cannot transfer this agreement to someone else. We can transfer it if Thrown is sold or reorganized, in which case the new operator takes on these same obligations.
• Neither of us is on the hook for delays or failures caused by things genuinely outside our control — outages of the services we run on, disasters, that kind of thing. This does not excuse paying for something already delivered.
• Ideas and suggestions you send us about Thrown are welcome, and we can use them without owing you anything — do not send us feedback you consider confidential or expect to be paid for.
• Formal notices from us to you go to your account email; from you to us, to hello@thrown.party. Section headings are for finding your way around, not for interpreting the contract.

We can update these terms as Thrown changes. For material changes — pricing, dispute terms, meaningful new obligations — we will notify account holders by email or in the app before the changes take effect, and continuing to use Thrown after that is acceptance. The current version is always at thrown.party/terms, with its last-updated date at the top.

Questions: hello@thrown.party. You can also reach a person through our About page.