Founding 1,000 terms (DRAFT – attorney review)

This document is a draft for attorney review. It is not in effect and is not legal advice. Do not publish it as an offer, and do not rely on it, until counsel has reviewed it and Latitude 65 Technologies LLC has approved a final version.

It describes the Founding 1,000 subscription offer for YayNo™, a service of Latitude 65 Technologies LLC. The product implements the rules below. Counsel should confirm or rewrite every rule before the offer is made.

What the product does today

• Who can join. A claimed business that starts a paid YayNo Pro or YayNo Plus plan while the launch window is open and a spot remains.
• Cap. The default cap is 1,000 businesses. The operator can set `FOUNDING_CAP`. The pricing page shows spots left as that cap minus the number of businesses that have started a founding plan. Lapsed plans still count. The product does not invent a lower number to create scarcity.
• Window. The default end is 2027-06-30, inclusive, in UTC. The operator can set `FOUNDING_ENDS_AT` to a date (`YYYY-MM-DD`) or a timestamp. An invalid value closes the window. Confirm the real end date before publication.
• Locked prices. Pro at $39 per month or $390 per year. Plus at $69 per month or $690 per year. The prices are copied onto that business at the moment it joins. A later change to the list price does not rewrite a business that already joined.
• How long the price lasts. While that business keeps a Pro or Plus subscription in status active, trialing, or, in this demo only, demo. The product treats any other status, and a move to a plan that is not Pro or Plus, as the end of the lock.
• No grace period is implemented. A cancelled or non-continuous subscription lapses immediately. Counsel should say whether a failed payment, a short pause, or a billing retry should keep the lock.
• A lapsed lock does not come back. The spot is not offered to another business. Starting Pro or Plus again after a lapse uses the standard price, even if the window is still open.
• Switching between Pro and Plus while the lock is continuous uses the founding price for the plan they switch to, from the prices saved when they joined.
• Starter bundle. One starter bundle: a 5×7 Matte Black acrylic counter plaque and two 4×4 stickers. Shipping is free only to a United States address. The product does not invent a rate for any other country. The bundle can be redeemed while the lock is still continuous. Counsel should say whether an unredeemed bundle survives cancellation.
• What founding prices do not cover. Pay-per-lead and ads. Founding is the Pro or Plus subscription fee and the one starter bundle. It does not change any lead price or any advertising price. Enterprise is not a founding plan.
• Reviews and scores. Payment, the founding price, the badge, the widget, and the kit do not hide, remove, reorder, or change reviews. They do not change the Yay score, ranking, or which reviews a visitor can see.
• Other plans stay separate. The Verified Business badge is $5 per month or $50 per year on its own, and included on Pro, Plus, and Enterprise. The website widget is $9 per month on its own, and included on Pro and up. Those inclusions are not part of the founding discount.

Questions for counsel

• Is "for life, while continuous" the right consumer offer, and which billing events count as a break?
• Should a failed renewal have a grace period before the lock ends?
• Is the spot correctly consumed forever after a lapse?
• Are the cap, the end date, and the prices a lawful introductory offer, including any auto-renewal and price-change notices required by state law?
• Does the free bundle need a stated cash value, a tax treatment, or a shipping term beyond "free to a United States address"?
• Do the "does not affect reviews or scores" sentences belong in the customer terms as well as here, so the offer cannot be read as a way to pay for review treatment?

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