Terms of Service

By using Thrown you agree to these terms. If you are using it on behalf of a business, you are confirming you can agree on that business's behalf.

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

Thrown is two things: software for planning and running a party, and a marketplace where you can find businesses and neighbours who supply things for it.

Thrown is not a party planner, caterer, venue, bartender, rental company or insurer. We do not supply anything that turns up at your party. When you book someone through Thrown, your agreement is with them.

Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has got into it.

Note that there is currently no automated password reset — if you are locked out, email us and we will help you back in by hand.

Businesses listed on Thrown are independent. They set their own prices, terms, availability and cancellation rules, and they are responsible for their own licences, insurance and the work itself.

Sending an inquiry is not a booking. A lead is a message with a date and a budget attached; nothing is reserved until you and the vendor agree between yourselves. Amounts recorded against a vendor on your party page are your own bookkeeping — a note to yourself about what you agreed, not an invoice we issue, collect or guarantee.

Listing a business is free, and inquiries reach you free. We do not charge per lead and we do not sell placement in the inquiry stream.

Rental listings come from the Thrown community — ordinary members lending their own things, not businesses we have vetted.

Thrown isn't a party to these rentals, so coordinate pickup, condition, and payment directly with the lister. We do not inspect items, hold deposits, process payment for them, arbitrate disputes, or insure anything against loss or damage. Agree the terms with the other person before anything changes hands.

Some members show an "Admin-reviewed" badge. That means a human at Thrown looked at the account. It is explicitly not identity verification, a background check, or a guarantee about anyone — we do not run any of those, and you should not treat the badge as though we do.

You keep ownership of what you write, upload and plan. By posting it you give Thrown permission to store it and to display it where you have asked us to — a published pack on the gallery, a listing in the marketplace, a review on a profile.

Only post things you have the right to post. Do not upload photos you do not have permission to use, and be thoughtful about what you write about other people, particularly on a guest list.

We can remove content that breaks these terms or the law, and we run a moderation queue for reported reviews, comments and images. Reviews are tied to a real transaction: you can only review a business, pack, listing or person you actually dealt with, once, and you cannot review your own.

Some Party Packs are sold by their authors. Prices are in US dollars and shown before you pay. Stripe processes the payment; Thrown takes a platform fee out of the sale and the rest goes to the seller.

Buying gives you ongoing access to that pack for your own parties. It does not give you the right to resell it, republish it, or list a copy of it for sale — copies made from a premium pack are blocked from being published or sold.

If a purchase is refunded, or a card dispute is opened against it, access is suspended rather than deleted. If a dispute is resolved in your favour, access comes back.

Because a pack is delivered in full the moment you buy it, sales are generally final. Email us if something is wrong with what you received and we will sort it out.

Selling requires an approved application and a connected Stripe account. Stripe runs its own identity and banking checks; being approved by us is not the same as being able to take money, and you will not be paid until Stripe says your account is ready.

Only sell plans you actually made. Do not list someone else's work, and do not list a plan built from a premium pack you bought.

Discount codes attached to a pack require the vendor offering them to have agreed. A vendor can withdraw a deal at any time, and a withdrawn deal stops being redeemable.

The planner writes suggestions. It grounds them in real listings rather than inventing businesses, but it does not check that anyone is free on your date, that the prices are current, or that a plan is complete or safe.

Confirm availability, pricing and terms with any business before you rely on it. Treat food, allergy, alcohol and safety guidance in a generated plan as a starting point to check, not as advice to follow.

Asking for a coordinator is free. If there is a fee for the work itself, we will agree it with you directly before anything starts — nothing is charged through the app.

A coordinator helps you book. They do not become responsible for the vendors they help you find, and the agreements are still between you and those businesses.

Do not:

• Post anything unlawful, hateful, harassing, or sexually explicit.
• Impersonate anyone, or list a business you do not run.
• Write or solicit fake reviews, or review your own listings.
• Scrape the site, or use it to build a competing database.
• Attempt to break, overload or get around the security of any part of it.
• Use someone else's party, guest list or contact details for marketing.

You can stop using Thrown whenever you like; email us to have your account deleted. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you why unless we are prevented from doing so.

If your account closes, anything you bought stays yours to the extent we can still deliver it, and published content may be removed.

Thrown is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that a listing is accurate, or that a vendor or lister will do what they say. We are not responsible for anything that happens at your party, for what a vendor or lister does or fails to do, or for a rental item's condition or safety.

To the extent the law allows, Thrown is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot legally be limited.

You agree to cover us for claims arising out of your own content, your parties, or your breach of these terms.

[TODO(release): governing law and venue to be set by counsel before launch.]

If we change these terms we will change the date at the top, and for a material change we will say so in the product. Continuing to use Thrown after that means you accept the new version.

Questions: email us at the address on our About page.