Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Asbury Edge ("the App"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the App.

Asbury Edge is an event discovery application for Asbury Park, New Jersey. We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Continued use of the App after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

2. Account Terms

To access certain features of the App, you may be required to create an account. When creating an account, you agree to:

• Provide accurate and complete information
• Maintain the security of your account credentials
• Accept responsibility for all activity that occurs under your account
• Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use

You may authenticate using third-party services such as Google or Apple Sign-In. By doing so, you authorize us to access certain information from those services as described in our Privacy Policy.

Supporter Recognition for Support Tips: Where support checkout is available and you choose to make a voluntary tip, you authorize Asbury Edge to display a supporter recognition notification that may include your username. If no username is available, we may use a generic label (for example, "Someone"). Supporter recognition is not guaranteed, is not a purchased badge, rank, status, or account feature, may be removed or anonymized at our discretion, and can be reviewed by contacting support.

Support tips are voluntary gifts used to support operation and maintenance of the App. They are not charitable donations, fundraisers, or tax-deductible contributions. They do not unlock app functionality, event content, notifications, account features, badges, status, rank, or any other digital goods or services.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the App for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable laws
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the App or its systems
• Interfere with or disrupt the App's functionality
• Submit false, misleading, or fraudulent information
• Impersonate any person or entity
• Use automated means to access the App without permission
• Harvest or collect information about other users

4. Event Information

Event listings are curated by our team using information from venues, promoters, and community sources. Published listings are reviewed before appearing in the App.

Asbury Edge provides information about events in Asbury Park. While we strive to maintain accurate and up-to-date information:

• Event details are subject to change without notice
• We are not responsible for event cancellations, rescheduling, or venue changes
• We recommend confirming event details with organizers before attending
• Event listings do not constitute an endorsement of any event or organizer
• Some event listings may include pre-filled details, which may introduce inaccuracies

5. Reporting a Listing

Asbury Edge does not accept user-submitted content. The App has no event submission form, no flyer upload, no comments, no reviews, and no messaging between users. Every event listing is curated by our team as described in Section 4. Apart from your own profile details, and the supporter recognition notification described in Section 2, nothing you enter in the App is published to other people.

Reporting a listing: every event listing in the App can be reported, whether or not you are signed in. You can report a listing as a duplicate, as inaccurate, or as inappropriate, or choose "Other" and describe the problem in your own words.

We review reports and may correct, hide, or remove a listing in response. Reports are private: they are not displayed to other people in the App, and reporting an event does not publish anything. Please do not include personal information about yourself or anyone else in the details you write.

You can also reach us about a listing at asburyedge@gmail.com.

6. Promotional Purchases

Asbury Edge sells optional paid promotion for events that are already listed in the App. Buying a promotion never adds an event to the App and never changes how an event is reviewed or described.

What a promoted placement is: a paid placement that places one event in the promoted section at the top of the Asbury Park events feed for one event day. An event day runs from 5:00 AM Eastern to 5:00 AM Eastern the following morning. Promoted placements are always labeled as promoted in the App.

What a promoted placement is not:

• It is not an endorsement, a recommendation, or editorial coverage by Asbury Edge
• It does not change search results, notifications, favorites, or any other App feature
• It does not create an exclusive, agency, partnership, or advertising-agency relationship
• It does not guarantee that any particular person will see, tap, favorite, or attend the event

Inventory and availability: up to three promoted placements are available for each day. All receive the same promoted card treatment and appear in completed-purchase order, with the first purchase above later purchases. Starting checkout temporarily reserves one placement, but does not reserve its display position. If checkout is not completed, that reservation is released. No additional placements can be purchased while all of a day’s placements are held or sold.

Duration: the placement appears only on the date you purchased. It begins no earlier than the start of that event day and ends when that event day ends. It does not carry over to another date, and it is not extended if the event is rescheduled, moved, or canceled after purchase.

No performance guarantee: we do not guarantee impressions, views, taps, favorites, ticket sales, attendance, reach, or any other outcome. Prices are for the placement itself, not for results.

Your responsibilities: by purchasing a promotion you represent that the event is real, that its listed details are accurate, and that you are the organizer, the venue, or otherwise authorized to promote it. You may not promote an event you have no connection to or permission to advertise.

Our rights: we may refuse, pause, or remove a promotion that violates Section 3 (Acceptable Use), these Terms, or applicable law, or that promotes an event that is not real, has been canceled, or is materially misdescribed. Money in those cases is handled under Section 9 (Refunds and Cancellations).

Promotions purchased in the iOS or Android app are consumable in-app purchases processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play. Promotions purchased on the web are processed by Stripe.

7. Instagram Story Promotions

You may also purchase an Instagram story promotion, either on its own or bundled with a promoted day placement at no extra charge. Story promotions are sold as a pack of one, two, or three story days.

Where the story is posted: the story is published to Asbury Edge's own Instagram account, @asburyedge. It is not posted to your Instagram account, and a purchase does not give you access to, or control over, our account. We create the story artwork from the event's listing in the App.

Timing is an estimate, not a commitment: for an event with a start time, the story is normally scheduled to post about 23 hours before the event starts. For an event without a start time, it is normally scheduled for the morning of the event day. If you buy after that moment has already passed, the story is queued to post as soon as possible after your purchase. Publishing is best-effort and automated: the App shows an approximate publish time, and we do not promise a specific minute.

Review holds: stories for events whose listing did not come from our own curation are held for a manual review before they post. A story on review hold may post later than the estimated time, or may not post at all if the review does not clear.

Instagram is a third party: Instagram is operated by Meta and is outside our control. Instagram outages, rate limits, policy enforcement, or content removal can delay a story, prevent it from posting, or take it down after it posts. Instagram stories also expire on their own after roughly 24 hours; that expiry is Instagram's behavior, not a shortened delivery by us.

If a story cannot be published: each story day has a publish window that closes once the event is over. We do not post a story after that window closes. If a paid story does not publish, the App shows that status on your purchase and we apply the remedy described in Section 9.

Test purchases: purchases made in a store sandbox or test environment, including App Review testing, run the full pipeline but do not post anything to the real Instagram account. The App labels these as test purchases.

8. Pricing and Taxes

• Prices for promoted placements vary by day of the week. Story packs are priced by the number of story days.
• In the iOS and Android apps, prices are shown by the Apple App Store or Google Play in your local currency, and include any sales or value-added tax that those stores collect and remit.
• The price displayed to you at the moment you confirm a purchase is the price charged. A later price change never affects a purchase you have already completed.
• We may add, change, or withdraw prices and products at any time, and we may stop selling a product or a particular day without notice.
• Unless the store shows otherwise, prices are in U.S. dollars.

9. Refunds and Cancellations

Before you pay: you can back out of a promotion at any point before you confirm the purchase, and you are not charged. If you had already started checkout, the day you selected stays reserved for a short time — about fifteen minutes — and returns to sale when that reservation expires.

No change-of-mind refunds: promoted placements and Instagram stories are digital products delivered on a fixed schedule. Once a placement has run on its purchased date, it has been delivered and is not refundable, including when it produced few or no views, taps, or attendance. Once a story has posted to @asburyedge, it has been delivered. Support tips are voluntary gifts and unlock nothing, so we do not offer change-of-mind refunds for them.

Purchases made in the iOS or Android app: these purchases are billed by Apple or Google. Refund requests for them are made to, and decided by, the store under its own policies:

• Apple App Store: sign in at reportaproblem.apple.com and choose "Request a refund" (see Apple's refund instructions).
• Google Play: open your Google Play order history, choose the order, and select "Report a problem" (see Google Play's refund policies).

If Apple or Google refunds or reverses a purchase, we take the promoted placement down and cancel any story for it that has not yet posted.

Purchases made on the web: these purchases are billed by Asbury Edge through Stripe. Refund requests for them are made to, and decided by, Asbury Edge under these Terms, at asburyedge.com/help.

If we do not deliver: where a paid Instagram story does not publish for a reason that is not your fault, we will make it right. Our first remedy is to post it in the next available window for that event, if the event date still allows it, or to move a promoted day placement that did not run to another available day. If that is not possible, you are entitled to your money back for the part we did not deliver. For a multi-day story pack, this applies only to the day or days that did not publish; the days that did publish were delivered. For a story bundled at no extra charge with a promoted day placement, the remedy covers the story only, because no separate amount was paid for it.

How money is returned for undelivered purchases: a refund follows the same route as the original purchase. For a purchase billed by Apple or Google, the request is made at the store link above; we will confirm the non-delivery to the store and will not contest the request. For a purchase billed through Stripe, the request is made to us at the link above. If a refund request for something we did not deliver is declined, contact us and we will make it right another way, such as an equivalent promotion on a future date at no charge.

This non-delivery remedy does not apply when the story or placement could not run because the event was canceled, rescheduled, withdrawn, or materially changed after purchase; because the listing or its imagery violated Section 3 or Instagram's rules; or because you asked us to hold or remove it.

How to ask: contact us through asburyedge.com/help or at asburyedge@gmail.com. Tell us the event, the date you purchased, and whether you bought in the iOS app, the Android app, or on the web. We aim to respond within five business days. For App Store and Google Play purchases, we can investigate and take a placement down, and the refund decision is made by Apple or Google.

If we cancel: if we refuse or remove a promotion under Section 6 for a reason that is our decision rather than a breach of these Terms by you, you get the undelivered portion back through the route described above. If we remove it because the purchase or the event breached these Terms, no refund is due.

Nothing in this section limits any refund or cancellation right you have under applicable law.

10. Intellectual Property

The App, including its design, features, content, and branding, is owned by Asbury Edge and protected by intellectual property laws. You may not:

• Copy, modify, or distribute the App or its content without permission
• Use our trademarks or branding without written consent
• Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code

11. Disclaimers

THE APP IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. We do not warrant that:

• The App will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free
• Results obtained from the App will be accurate or reliable
• Any errors or defects will be corrected

12. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ASBURY EDGE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• Loss of profits, data, or use
• Damages resulting from reliance on event information
• Damages arising from your attendance at any event

Our total liability for any claims arising from your use of the App shall not exceed the amount you paid to use the App, if any.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Asbury Edge, its operators, and affiliates from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses arising from your use of the App or violation of these terms.

14. Account Deletion and Termination

Account Deletion by You: You may delete your account at any time through the App by going to Profile → Delete Account. Account deletion is immediate and permanent. Your profile, favorites, preferences, and other account data will be permanently removed, apart from the purchase records described below. This action cannot be undone.

Purchases and account deletion: deleting your account does not cancel, refund, or extend a promotion or story you already bought, and it does not erase the order record we must keep as a financial record. Deleting your account clears that record's reference to your account, but the record itself is kept intact, including the email address used for the purchase. See the Privacy Policy for details. A promotion already scheduled for a future date may still run; contact us before deleting your account if you want it stopped.

Termination by Us: We may terminate or suspend your access to the App at any time, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the App will immediately cease.

15. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

16. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will notify users of significant changes through the App or via email. Your continued use of the App after such modifications constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

17. Contact Information