1. The agreement

These Terms are a contract between you and Little Buddy Agency, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, which operates SortKind (“SortKind,” “we,” “us”). They cover the SortKind app, website, and related services (together, the “Service”).

You accept these Terms when you create an account or tap the button that says you agree. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data and is part of this agreement.

2. Who can use SortKind

– You must be at least 18 years old.
– You must live in the United States. The Service is not offered elsewhere.
– You must give accurate account information and keep your login private. You are responsible for what happens under your account, including anything done by someone you let use it or who gains access because your login was not kept private.
– If you use SortKind on behalf of an estate, a family member, or a business, you confirm you have the authority to do so, and you confirm you have the right to enter any other person’s name or details into your inventory. We do not verify that.
– No fiduciary duty, no third-party rights. SortKind owes no fiduciary, advisory, or special duty to you or to anyone else. No heir, beneficiary, family member, or other person who is not an account holder has any rights under these Terms or against SortKind, and nothing in the Service creates any such relationship.

3. Estimated values, and what SortKind is not

This section matters more than any other. Please read it.

Values are estimates. SortKind uses artificial intelligence to suggest what an item is and what it might be worth. Those values are AI-generated estimates based on a photo and whatever details you provide. They are a starting point to help you get organized. They are not appraisals. They can be wrong, sometimes by a lot. Condition, provenance, authenticity, missing details, and local markets all change real value, and a photo cannot capture all of them.

SortKind is not an appraiser. Nothing in the Service is an appraisal, an appraised value, a fair market value determination, or a “qualified appraisal” under Internal Revenue Code rules. SortKind output cannot be attached to IRS Form 8283 or used to substantiate values on Form 706 or any other tax filing. If you need a value you can rely on for taxes, insurance, a sale, a court, or dividing an estate, hire a licensed personal-property appraiser.

SortKind is not a law firm. We do not give legal advice, and using SortKind does not create an attorney-client relationship. The inventory and accounting documents SortKind produces are organized summaries you can hand to your attorney, accountant, or tax preparer. They are not court filings, and they are not a substitute for advice about your state’s probate rules. Only your attorney or the court can tell you what your state requires.

If you are an executor or personal representative, you have your own legal duty to act carefully and honestly for the estate. SortKind helps you do the work. It does not do the duty for you. Some states require a court-appointed, disinterested appraiser for part of an inventory. Check your state’s rules or ask your attorney.

SortKind does not authenticate. The AI may identify an item as a particular brand, maker, era, or material. That is a guess from a photo. SortKind does not authenticate items, detect forgeries or reproductions, or verify provenance, and you should not describe an item as genuine to a buyer, insurer, or court on the strength of SortKind’s identification alone.

Duplicate detection can be wrong in both directions. SortKind flags items that look like duplicates, and batch import skips likely duplicates automatically. A real item can be skipped. Review your inventory after every import. You are responsible for the completeness of your inventory.

SortKind is not insurance documentation. Nothing SortKind produces is proof of ownership, value, or loss for an insurance claim. Insurers set their own documentation requirements. Check yours.

SortKind is not a vault. Uploaded copies of wills, deeds, and appraisals are for your convenience. Keep the originals. A copy in SortKind does not replace the original document for any legal purpose.

SortKind never decides who gets what. Any division tools are there to help you compare. A person always makes the final decision. Sales to family members, friends, advisors, or the executor personally may have to be disclosed to a court. It is your responsibility to identify and disclose them.

Discarding is permanent. Once something is thrown away, no estimate can bring it back. Review carefully before you mark anything as discarded.

You are not entitled to rely on SortKind’s output. Nothing SortKind produces is advice, and you agree that you are not entitled to rely on any estimate, identification, description, export, or other output for any legal, tax, financial, insurance, sale, or division decision. You must verify independently before acting. We are not liable for losses that come from relying on any output.

4. Your content

You own it. Photos, descriptions, notes, documents, and everything else you add to SortKind (“Your Content”) belong to you.

You give us permission to use it, only to run the Service. You grant SortKind a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, process, copy, display, and transmit Your Content solely to provide the Service to you and the people you invite. That includes sending photos and details to the AI and service providers named in our Privacy Policy. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in backups, which are deleted on the schedule in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for it. You confirm that you have the right to upload Your Content and that it does not violate anyone’s rights or the law. That includes anything embedded in a file, such as photo metadata, and anything visible in a photo, such as other people or documents. If you do not want something included, do not upload it.

AI output. Names, descriptions, values, and listing copy the AI generates for your items are yours to use. They are provided as is and may be inaccurate. We may generate similar output for other users.

Keep your own copies. We have no obligation to store, back up, or return Your Content, and we are not liable for its loss, corruption, or deletion for any reason. You are solely responsible for keeping your own copies of anything you need. We may delete accounts that have been inactive for an extended period, and content associated with closed accounts, without notice.

5. People you invite

– The person who creates an inventory is its owner. Owners control who has access to it.
– People the owner invites are collaborators. Collaborators must accept these Terms themselves before they can see anything, and they are bound by them for what they do in the Service.
– When you invite someone, you confirm you have their permission to give us their name and email.
– Content a collaborator adds to an inventory stays with the inventory, and the owner may delete it.
– SortKind does not moderate or take responsibility for what collaborators say to each other inside an inventory. Disputes between an owner and collaborators, or among heirs, are yours to resolve. We may act on reports of abuse.
– Release. You release SortKind from all claims, known or unknown, arising from any dispute between you and any other user or any other person about an inventory, its accuracy, or how its contents are divided, sold, or handled. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.” You knowingly and voluntarily waive that section and any similar law, and intend this release to cover unknown claims.

6. Selling through eBay and other marketplaces

– To publish a listing on eBay, you sign in to your own eBay account and give eBay permission for SortKind to create listings for you. The eBay account, the listing, and the sale are yours. eBay’s terms govern them. Either of us may end that connection at any time.
– Listing copy for other marketplaces (Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Nextdoor) is generated for you to copy and paste. We do not post to those services.
– Affiliate disclosure. SortKind is a member of the eBay Partner Network. If someone buys an item through a listing you publish with SortKind, we may earn a commission from eBay. This does not change what you receive.
– Web search results. When the AI uses Google Search to price an item, you may see Google search suggestions in the app. Those come from Google and are subject to Google’s terms.

7. Professional appraisals

If SortKind offers a way to request a professional estimate and you use it, we may connect you with an independent appraiser. The appraiser, not SortKind, provides the appraisal and is responsible for it. Fees, timing, and terms are set out when you make the request. Any payment to an appraiser is between you and the appraiser unless we say otherwise at the time.

8. Plans, billing, and cancellation

Plans. We offer a Free plan and paid plans (currently Starter, Standard, and Pro), and may offer credit packs of additional AI scans. Current prices, item limits, and scan allowances are on the pricing page and shown before you buy. Each plan’s limits are described there. The Free plan includes a fixed lifetime allowance of AI scans. We may change, add, or retire plans and features. Changes to a paid plan’s price apply from your next renewal.

Automatic renewal. Paid plans are subscriptions. They renew automatically at the end of each billing period (monthly or annually, as you chose) at the then-current price, until you cancel. Notices about your subscription go to the email on your account. The price, billing period, and renewal terms are shown before you confirm a purchase.

How to cancel.
– Bought on our website: cancel from your account settings. Cancelling stops future charges. You keep paid features until the end of the period you already paid for.
– Bought through the Apple App Store or Google Play: cancel in your Apple or Google subscription settings. We cannot cancel a store subscription for you.

No refunds. All payments to SortKind are final. We do not refund or prorate any charge, in whole or in part, except where the law requires. Cancel before your next renewal to avoid the next charge. Purchases made through the Apple App Store or Google Play are billed by Apple or Google, and any refund of those purchases is decided and issued by Apple or Google under their own policies, not by SortKind.

Taxes. Prices exclude sales tax where it applies.

9. Acceptable use

Do not use SortKind to:

– break the law, or help anyone else break it;
– upload content you do not have the right to upload, or that is unlawful, harmful, or infringes someone’s rights;
– catalog property you have no right to catalog, or misrepresent your authority over an estate;
– misuse the personal information of collaborators, heirs, or anyone else;
– probe, overload, scrape, reverse-engineer, or interfere with the Service or its security;
– resell the Service or use it to build a competing product;
– send spam or run automated bulk scans outside the app’s normal use.

We may suspend or close accounts that do these things.

10. Third-party services

The Service depends on third parties, including Google (Firebase, Gemini, Cloud Vision), Apple, RevenueCat, Stripe, eBay, and the appraisers in our network. Their services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for them, and we may change providers.

11. Copyright complaints

If you believe content in SortKind infringes your copyright, send a notice with the information required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent, Little Buddy Agency, LLC
5987 Lebanon Road #136
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
[email protected]

We will remove or disable access to the content, notify the user who posted it, and accept counter-notices as the law provides. We close the accounts of repeat infringers.

12. Our intellectual property

The SortKind name, logo, app, website, design, and software are ours or our licensors’. These Terms give you a personal, non-transferable right to use the Service. They do not give you any ownership in it. Feedback you send us may be used without obligation to you.

13. No warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any identification, value, duplicate flag, export, or listing will be accurate or complete.

No support obligation. We have no obligation to provide customer support, maintenance, updates, or any particular level of availability. Any support we provide is at our discretion and may stop at any time.

Some states do not allow certain warranty disclaimers. In those states, our disclaimers apply only as far as the law permits.

14. Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

– We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost opportunities, arising from the Service or these Terms.
– We are not liable for any loss that comes from relying on an AI estimate, identification, description, export, listing, or other output, or from a decision to keep, sell, donate, discard, insure, report, or divide any item.
– Our total liability to you for all claims together will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred dollars ($100).

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for our fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. If any part of this section is unenforceable in your state, it applies only to the extent your state’s law allows, and the rest still applies.

15. Your responsibility to us

You agree to defend and reimburse SortKind for third-party claims, and the reasonable costs of them, that arise from Your Content, the accuracy of information you enter, disputes with other users or third parties about your inventory, your violation of these Terms, your violation of the law, or your misuse of another person’s information. This does not cover claims caused by our own breach or misconduct.

16. Ending the agreement

You can leave anytime. Delete your account from the app or at sortkind.com/delete-account.

We can suspend or close your account if you violate these Terms or the law, if we are required to, or if we discontinue the Service. If we discontinue the Service, we may give you an opportunity to retrieve your data first. If we close your account for a reason other than your violation, we may refund any prepaid amount for the unused period.

Sections 2 (no fiduciary duty), 3, 4, 5 (release), 13, 14, 15, 17, and 18 survive after the agreement ends.

17. Disputes

Contact us first. Before bringing any claim, email [email protected] with a description of the problem and give us 30 days to respond.

Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

Where claims are heard. You may bring a claim in small claims court in your own county if it qualifies there. Otherwise, claims must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

One year to bring a claim. Any claim relating to the Service must be filed within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, unless the law of your state does not allow this.

JURY TRIAL WAIVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, YOU AND SORTKIND EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY DISPUTE RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS.

CLASS ACTION WAIVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, YOU MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST SORTKIND ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. If a court finds this waiver unenforceable for a particular claim, the waiver does not apply to that claim, nothing in these Terms requires arbitration, and the rest of these Terms remain in effect.

Attorney’s fees. If SortKind prevails in any claim you bring relating to the Service or these Terms, you will reimburse SortKind’s reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, to the extent the law allows.

Your state’s rights still apply. Nothing in this section takes away consumer-protection rights that the law of the state where you live says you cannot waive.

18. If you die

Where the app lets you name a legacy contact and you have done so, we may give that person access to export your inventory and close your account after we receive proof of your death. Otherwise, we may work with your court-appointed executor or administrator as described in our Privacy Policy, Section 11, to the extent your state’s fiduciary access law requires.

19. Accessibility

We work to make SortKind usable by everyone and aim to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. If you hit a barrier, email [email protected].

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the updated Terms and change the date at the top, and for material changes we will make reasonable efforts to notify you, such as a notice in the app or an email. Changes take effect when posted unless the notice says otherwise, and apply only to your use of the Service after that date. Any dispute or claim that arose before a change is governed by the version of the Terms in effect when it arose. If you keep using the Service after a change, the new Terms apply. If you do not agree, stop using the Service, export your data, and cancel any subscription.

21. Everything else

– These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and SortKind about the Service.
– Except for Apple as described below, no one other than you and SortKind has any rights under these Terms.
– If any part is unenforceable, the rest still applies.
– If we do not enforce a right, we have not given it up.
– You may not transfer this agreement. We may transfer it to a successor that agrees to honor it.
– Notices to you go to the email on your account or appear in the app. You agree to receive notices, receipts, and disclosures electronically. Notices to us go to the address in Section 22.
– We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages at our providers, internet failures, natural disasters, or government action.
– If you downloaded the app from the Apple App Store, these additional terms apply, as Apple requires. These Terms are between you and SortKind, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to conform to any warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any; Apple has no other warranty obligation. SortKind, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, legal or regulatory compliance, and consumer protection claims, and for investigating and resolving any claim that the app infringes a third party’s intellectual property. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo or designated a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
– If you downloaded the app from Google Play, Google is not a party to these Terms and has no responsibility for the Service.

22. Contact

Little Buddy Agency, LLC
5987 Lebanon Road #136
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
[email protected]