Terms of Service
Please read carefully. By creating a Row & Bed account or subscribing, you agree to these terms. Section 14 requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration (not in court and not as a class action). You can opt out of the arbitration clause within 30 days of first using Row & Bed. See section 14 for how.
1. Acceptance of these Terms
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Row & Bed, operated by ABS Ventures LLC, an Alabama limited liability company, doing business as "Row & Bed" ("Row & Bed," "we," "us," or "our"). By creating an account, subscribing to a paid plan, or using any part of this site, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.
If you don't agree, don't use the service.
2. Who can use Row & Bed
You must be at least 13 years old and a resident of the United States to create an account. If you're between 13 and 18, you represent that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agrees to these Terms on your behalf. Row & Bed is not currently offered outside the United States.
You're responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity under your account.
3. Public pages and paid subscription
Row & Bed publishes public informational pages (for example, What to plant and Frost dates) that anyone may view without an account. The Row & Bed app is a paid subscription. These Terms govern both; the subscription provisions below apply only to the paid app.
4. Subscription terms, auto-renewal, and cancellation
4.1 Plans and prices
We currently offer two subscription plans:
- Annual plan — $59 per year, billed once at signup and again every 12 months until cancelled.
- Monthly plan — $10 per month, billed once at signup and again every month until cancelled.
Prices are in US dollars and exclude any applicable sales tax. We may change pricing for new signups at any time. If we change pricing for existing subscribers, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice by email before the new price takes effect; you can cancel before renewal if you don't agree to the new price.
4.2 Auto-renewal — YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW UNTIL YOU CANCEL
By subscribing, you authorize Row & Bed (through our payment processor, Stripe) to charge your payment method on a recurring basis — every year for the annual plan, every month for the monthly plan — at the then-current price, until you cancel. We'll send you a receipt after each successful charge.
For annual plans, we email you a renewal reminder approximately 14 days before each annual renewal, every year, regardless of the state you live in. This satisfies California's Automatic Renewal Law and the equivalent laws of every other state we've seen, and is also a brand commitment: you will never be surprised by an annual charge.
4.3 How to cancel
You can cancel at any time in your account settings (the billing section of /account). Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period: you keep access until then. You can also cancel by emailing hello@rowandbed.com and we will honor that as well.
4.4 Refunds
Our refund posture is described in full at the Refund Policy. The short version:
- First purchase, within 30 days: full refund, no questions, no retention offers — email hello@rowandbed.com with the subject Refund request.
- Cancellations outside that window: access continues through the end of the period you already paid for. Subscription fees paid for that period are not automatically refunded. We may offer refunds in individual cases at our discretion, and we will honor any refund rights your state law requires.
If there is any conflict between this summary and the Refund Policy page, the Refund Policy page governs.
4.5 Failed payments
If a scheduled payment fails, we'll retry a few times and email you. If payment isn't resolved, your account may be suspended until it is. Your garden data stays intact during suspension.
4.6 No free trial
Row & Bed does not offer a free trial of the paid app. The public informational pages on this site (What to plant, Frost dates) give a sense of the underlying data but are not a trial of the paid app.
5. How you may use Row & Bed
You get a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use Row & Bed for your personal, non-commercial gardening purposes during any active subscription period.
You may not:
- Resell, sublicense, or repackage Row & Bed or any of its content.
- Scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the variety library, pest library, disease library, or any other database content for any reason.
- Use Row & Bed to train machine-learning models, without written permission.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code.
- Use Row & Bed to harass, harm, or infringe on any other person's rights.
- Circumvent security features, rate limits, or access controls.
- Share your account with others — accounts are single-user.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.
6. Our content and intellectual property
Row & Bed (including the app, the site, the variety library, the pest and disease content, the written guidance, the visual design, the wordmark, the codebase, and all related materials) is owned by us. We license — but do not give — its use to you under these Terms. All rights we don't explicitly grant are reserved.
"Row & Bed" and the Row & Bed wordmark are our trademarks. You may not use them without written permission.
Third-party content we reference (extension-service pages, seed-company libraries, practitioner-author books, NOAA data) belongs to the respective owners. We cite them; we don't claim them. See the affiliation disclaimer on our home page.
7. Your content
Row & Bed lets you create content — bed setups, plant entries, journal notes, photos you upload, corrections you submit. You own your content. By submitting it, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store it, display it back to you, and process it as needed to provide the service.
For corrections you submit through the "Suggest a correction" affordance — where the point is for us to incorporate fixes into our library that then help every user — you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the correction and any associated reasoning or citations to improve the service. This license survives termination of your account (we can't unbuild the improved library, and we don't plan to).
You're responsible for the legality of any content you upload. Don't upload content that infringes someone else's rights, violates the law, or contains personal information about other people without their consent.
8. Feedback
If you send us feedback, suggestions, or ideas about Row & Bed, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use them without obligation or compensation.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
ROW & BED IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Gardening outcomes depend on many factors outside our control — weather, soil, pests, your own choices and timing. The guidance in Row & Bed is curated from publicly available references and is the best information we can assemble. It is not a substitute for local expertise, professional horticultural advice, or your own judgment. Plants may die. Harvests may disappoint. Pests may show up uninvited.
Nothing in Row & Bed constitutes medical, nutritional, or safety advice about the plants you grow. If you plan to eat something, verify its edibility and preparation from authoritative sources.
10. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:
- Row & Bed will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost harvests, lost data, or cost of substitute services — arising from or related to your use of the service.
- Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or Row & Bed is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months immediately preceding the claim, or (b) US$100.
Some states don't allow certain of these limitations. In those states, the above limits apply to the maximum extent permitted.
11. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Row & Bed (and any successor entity) from any claim or liability arising out of (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) content you upload, (c) your violation of any third party's rights, or (d) your use of the service in a way that violates applicable law.
12. Termination
You can close your account at any time by cancelling your subscription and emailing hello@rowandbed.com to request account deletion.
We may suspend or terminate your account immediately if you materially breach these Terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud, or if required by law. We'll do our best to give you notice when we can.
Sections that should survive termination do survive — including sections 4.4 (refunds, to the extent of any unresolved request), 6 (IP), 7 (your content license, especially the perpetual license for corrections), 8 (feedback), 9 (disclaimers), 10 (liability limit), 11 (indemnification), 13 (informal dispute resolution), 14 (arbitration), 15 (governing law), and 17 (miscellaneous).
13. Informal dispute resolution — try this first
Before filing any formal claim, you agree to contact us at hello@rowandbed.com with a description of the issue and what you'd like us to do. We'll respond in good faith within 30 days. Most issues can be resolved this way. If we haven't resolved it within 60 days, either party can proceed under section 14.
14. Arbitration agreement and class-action waiver
14.1 Arbitration
Any dispute between you and Row & Bed that isn't resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not in court and not as a class or collective action. This includes claims arising before you accepted these Terms.
The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules in effect at the time the demand is filed. The AAA's rules and fee schedules are available at adr.org. For consumer claims under $10,000, the AAA limits the consumer's fee to $200; we will pay the remainder of the AAA fees for claims up to that amount, except where the AAA determines a claim is frivolous.
The arbitration will be conducted in English. It will take place in or near Birmingham, Alabama, unless both parties agree otherwise, except that you may elect to have a telephonic or video hearing if your claim is for less than $10,000. The arbitrator may award the same relief a court could award to you individually; the arbitrator cannot award class-wide relief.
14.2 Small claims exception
Either party may bring a qualifying individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration, provided the claim stays in small claims court.
14.3 Injunctive relief exception
Either party may seek injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property or confidential information, notwithstanding the arbitration requirement.
14.4 Class-action waiver
You and Row & Bed each waive any right to pursue disputes on a class, collective, or representative basis. An arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable, the entire arbitration agreement in section 14 is null and void — but the remainder of these Terms continues to apply.
14.5 30-day opt-out
You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending a written notice to hello@rowandbed.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you're opting out of arbitration. Opting out doesn't affect any other part of these Terms.
14.6 Federal Arbitration Act
This arbitration agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and by Alabama law where federal law doesn't apply.
15. Governing law and venue
These Terms and any dispute between you and Row & Bed are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. For any claim not subject to arbitration under section 14, you and Row & Bed consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Jefferson County, Alabama.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we'll notify you by email and post an update at the top of this page. Changes take effect when posted, except changes to section 14 (arbitration), which apply only to disputes arising after the change is posted. Continued use of Row & Bed after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
17. Miscellaneous
- Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Row & Bed about the service.
- Severability. If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in effect (except as noted in section 14.4 for the class-action waiver).
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right doesn't waive it.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them, without notice and without your further consent, to a successor entity (for example, if the business is restructured, converted to a different entity form, or acquired). Your subscription and all rights under these Terms carry over to the successor automatically.
- Notices. We'll send notices to the email on your account. You send notices to hello@rowandbed.com.
18. Contact
Questions about these Terms: hello@rowandbed.com.