Terms of Service & EULA

1. Agreement to Terms

This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you and Aura Growth Partners, LLC ("Aura," "we," "us," or "our") for the use of our website, applications, portals, dashboards, and associated services — including the Homeward Circle platform and mobile app (collectively, the "Services").

By accessing or using the Services, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

Your use of the Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy and by any agreements presented to you within the Services (such as the Circle Confidentiality Agreement in Homeward Circle), which are incorporated into this Agreement by reference. If your organization has a signed agreement with Aura — including a subscription agreement or a business associate agreement — that signed agreement controls over this Agreement to the extent they conflict.

2. License Grant

Aura grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited license to use the Services solely for your internal business purposes or, for individual users, your personal, non-commercial use, subject to the terms of this Agreement. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

3. Homeward Circle

Homeward Circle is provided to licensed child-placing agencies and similar organizations and to the people they support. Families and agency staff join by invitation at their agency's direction; an authorized representative may also create an agency's account directly. Your agency administers your access and may direct us to deactivate it. Before entering circle spaces, you must accept the Circle Confidentiality Agreement presented in the app; those commitments are part of your agreement with us and with your agency.

4. QuickBooks Online Integration

Our Services include functionality that allows you to connect to your Intuit QuickBooks Online ("QBO") account via the QBO API.

• Authorization: By initiating the OAuth 2.0 consent flow, you expressly authorize Aura to access and retrieve data from your QBO company file.
• Representation: You represent and warrant that you are an authorized administrator of the QBO company for which you are granting access.
• Third-Party Terms: Your use of QBO is subject to Intuit's Terms of Service and Privacy Statement. Aura is not responsible for the performance, availability, or security of Intuit's services.
• Disconnection: You may revoke Aura's access to your QBO data at any time through your QBO account settings or within the Aura portal.

5. Restrictions on Use

You agree not to, and will not permit others to:

• License, sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute, transmit, host, outsource, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services.
• Modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, decrypt, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Services.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, to another user's account, or to data belonging to another agency or user, or probe, scan, or scrape the Services.
• Use the Services for any purpose that is illegal or prohibited by this Agreement or by an agreement presented within the Services.
• Post, upload, or share content that is unlawful, abusive, harassing, threatening, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, or defamatory, or that discloses confidential information in violation of this Agreement, an agreement presented within the Services, or your agency's policies.
• Harass, intimidate, threaten, or impersonate any other user.

Zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Objectionable content and abusive users are not tolerated in the Services. Circle moderators, your agency, and Aura may remove any content and remove any user or family from a circle, and we may suspend or terminate an account, without prior notice. Report objectionable content by flagging it in the app, or by emailing support@homewardcircle.com.

6. Professional Disclaimer; Not an Emergency Service

Aura Growth Partners, LLC provides advisory and technology services. We are not a CPA firm, law firm, or a substitute for professional financial or legal advice. The data and dashboards provided through our Services are for informational purposes and should be verified by your own qualified professionals.

The Services are not a crisis line or emergency service and are not monitored continuously. If a child or adult is in danger, contact 911 or your local emergency and child-protective services.

7. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Aura disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Aura shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from your access to or use of the Services.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Aura's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid to Aura for the Services giving rise to the claim in the twelve months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or modifies any signed agreement between Aura and your organization.

9. Termination and Suspension

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services if you breach this Agreement or an agreement presented within the Services, if your agency directs us to for an account it sponsors, or if reasonably necessary to protect the Services or their users. You may stop using the Services, and delete a Homeward Circle account in-app, at any time. Sections 6 through 8 and 10 through 12 survive termination.

10. Mobile App Stores

If you downloaded the app from Apple's App Store or Google Play, the store's own terms also apply. Apple and Google are not parties to this Agreement, have no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for the app, and are not responsible for addressing claims relating to it; Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement with respect to your license to the app and may enforce it against you.

11. Governing Law and Venue

This Agreement and your use of the Services are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any suit arising out of this Agreement will be brought exclusively in the state courts sitting in the City of Staunton, Virginia, or in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

12. Updates to this Agreement

We may modify this Agreement from time to time. We will give notice of material changes in the app or by email before they take effect, and the latest version will always be available on this page. Your continued use of the Services after the effective date of a change constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.