Terms of use

01The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and Oh So Lawny (“Oh So Lawny”, “we” or “us”). They cover the Oh So Lawny app and ohsolawny.com. Our Community guidelines are part of these terms.

By creating an account you agree to these terms and to our Privacy policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Oh So Lawny.

02Who can use Oh So Lawny

• You must be at least 16. In South Africa, if you’re under 18, you need a parent or guardian’s permission.
• One account per person, in your own name. Don’t share it, sell it or sign in as someone else.
• Keep your sign-in secure. You’re responsible for what happens on your account.
• Businesses can use Oh So Lawny through a person’s account. Verified pro badges are given to businesses we have checked.

03How it works

You log sessions (mowing, watering, feeding and other lawn jobs) and post photos, before-and-afters and questions. Other people can give Green Thumbs, comment and follow you. Lawn Pulse suggests jobs based on your grass type, your hemisphere and the season. You can enter competitions, vote, earn points and climb rankings for your area, region, country and the world. The Market has the Lawn Clinic, job posts and verified pros.

Browsing and posting are free. Some features may need Lawny Plus in future; we’ll always say so in the app before you pay.

04Your content

You own what you post: sessions, photos, comments, questions, answers, competition entries and job posts. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, resize, display and share it in Oh So Lawny, as your privacy settings allow, for as long as it’s on Oh So Lawny. That includes showing a winning entry on a results page or in the Hall of Fame.

We will ask you first before using your content outside the app, for example on social media or in an advert.

You promise that you have the right to post what you post, that photos are your own, and that you have permission from anyone who can be identified in them. We don’t check content before it appears, and we can remove anything that breaks these terms.

05Community rules

Our Community guidelines come down to four things: be kind, only your own photos, no spam and vote fairly. When you use Oh So Lawny, also don’t:

• harass, threaten, bully or demean anyone, or post hateful, violent, sexual or illegal content, or anything involving a minor
• share someone’s private information, such as their address or phone number, without permission
• impersonate a person, a business or a verified pro
• advertise or sell outside the places the app makes for it (pros can respond to jobs in the Market)
• scrape, copy, reverse-engineer or overload the service, access other people’s accounts, or get around limits or blocks
• use Oh So Lawny to break the law

Every post, comment, entry, job and profile has Report and Block. Content that three different people report is hidden until a moderator reviews it.

06Competitions and fair voting

• Monthly competitions run on calendar months (UTC). You can enter each competition once, with a photo of your own lawn taken during that competition’s period where the competition says so.
• Voting: one to five stars per entry, one vote per entry per person, up to ten votes a day. You can’t vote for your own entry.
• Points are awarded only by our servers: a logged session (5 points, up to two a day), each star your entry receives (1), each vote you cast (1), each competition entry (10) and each Lawn Clinic answer marked helpful (10).
• Champions: the person at the top of a monthly table at the end of the month becomes that level’s champion (area, region, country or world). Country champions may be invited to the World Lawn Championships, which have their own rules.
• Community competitions: anyone can propose one for next month. Proposals with enough backers become official. Do-it-yourself challenges are for fun and badges only.
• Fair play: one account each, no vote swapping, no buying or selling votes, no extra accounts and no entering someone else’s lawn. We may remove entries, votes or points, take away a title or suspend accounts that break these rules, and our decision on a competition result is final, subject to your rights under the law.
• Never for sale: Lawny Plus, sponsors and advertisers can never buy votes, points or rankings.

07Sponsored competitions and prizes

Some competitions are “presented by” a brand and may come with prizes. Each one shows its own rules in the app: who can enter, the closing date, how winners are chosen and what the prize is. Where those rules differ from these terms, the competition’s rules apply to that competition.

• Prizes are supplied by the sponsor, can’t be exchanged for cash unless the rules say so, and may need a delivery address in an eligible country.
• We’ll contact winners in the app. If a winner doesn’t reply within 14 days, the prize may go to the runner-up.
• We’ll ask before sharing a winner’s details with a sponsor, and only share what’s needed to deliver the prize.
• Promotional competitions follow the law where they run, including South Africa’s Consumer Protection Act. Nobody pays to enter.

08The Market and pros

The Market helps homeowners and lawn-care businesses find each other. Job posts, quotes and any work that follows are between you and the pro. We are not a party to that agreement, don’t employ pros, and don’t handle payments between homeowners and pros.

• A verified pro badge means we checked the business’s details and photos of its work when it applied. It isn’t a guarantee of the quality of any job, a licence, or insurance cover. Ask for a written quote, references and proof of insurance before work starts.
• Pros must describe their services honestly, only post photos of their own work, and follow the law that applies to their business, including consumer protection law.
• We may remove a badge or a listing if a pro breaks these terms or we receive credible complaints.
• Featured or paid listings, when they exist, are always labelled.

09Lawn advice

Lawn Pulse windows, tips, Lawn Clinic answers and Lawn Journal articles are general guidance from us and from the community. They can’t account for every soil, climate, water restriction or weather event. Use your judgement, follow your local water rules, and always read and follow the label on fertilisers, weed killers and other chemicals, including how to keep children and pets safe.

10Free, Plus and billing

Oh So Lawny is free, with a few clearly labelled ads. Lawny Plus is an optional subscription that removes ads and adds extras such as lawn analytics. It isn’t on sale yet. When it is:

• Billing. Plus is sold and billed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). The price in your currency is shown before you buy.
• Free trial. If a free trial is offered, you’re charged when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before.
• Auto-renewal. Plus renews automatically, monthly or yearly, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Cancelling. Cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings. Deleting the app or your account doesn’t cancel a subscription.
• Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies, without limiting your rights under consumer law.

11Ads, sponsors and affiliate links

The Free plan shows a few ads. Sponsored cards, sponsored tips and “presented by” competitions are always labelled. Ads never appear in onboarding, the composer, voting, Lawn Clinic answers or notifications. Some articles may contain affiliate links, which are always labelled; see our affiliate and advertising disclosure. How ads use data is explained in the Privacy policy.

12Moderation and ending your account

You can delete your account at any time in the app (You → Notifications & privacy → Delete account and data). See what gets deleted.

We may hide content, remove points or titles, or suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, or where the law requires it. A suspended account can still sign in to read and to delete itself. Where it’s reasonable, we’ll tell you why, and you can ask us to look again by emailing support@ohsolawny.com.

13Changes and availability

Oh So Lawny will change as we learn. We may add, change or remove features, and the service may sometimes be unavailable. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll tell you in the app before the change takes effect. If you keep using Oh So Lawny after that, the new terms apply.

14Liability

We work hard to keep Oh So Lawny running and your data safe, but the service is provided “as is”. Notifications can be late or fail, Lawn Pulse windows are estimates, and the community’s advice is the community’s, not ours.

To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, for work done by pros you find in the Market, or for the results of advice you choose to follow, and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

15Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and the South African courts have jurisdiction. If you use Oh So Lawny as a consumer and live in another country, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country and can bring a claim in your local courts.

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