Terms of use

Last updated November 12, 2026

Draft: our business address is still to be added, and these terms should be reviewed by a lawyer before launch.

These terms are an agreement between you and OLS Family Inc. (“OLS”, “we”, “us”), which runs Our Local Scene: the website at ourlocalscene.com, our apps and our emails (together, the “service”). By using the service you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.

Who can use it

You must be at least 13 to use the service, and at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to buy a paid listing or advert. If you use the service for a business or organisation, you confirm you're allowed to accept these terms for it.

Listings and tickets

• We gather listings from ticket sellers, venues, universities, libraries, parks, organisers and our users, and we show where each one came from and when we last checked it. Details can still change or be wrong, so check with the organiser before you travel.
• We don't run the events, venues or trails we list, and listing something isn't an endorsement.
• Tickets are sold by the seller shown, not by us. Your purchase, prices, fees, refunds and entry are between you and that seller.
• Some links are affiliate links: we may earn a commission when you buy, at no extra cost to you.

Weather, trails, outdoors and scores

Forecasts, alerts, trail maps, sky guides and sports scores come from public and third-party sources and are for general information only. They can be late, incomplete or wrong. Don't rely on them for safety decisions: check official sources (such as the National Weather Service and park authorities), know your limits, and follow local rules. Outdoor activities carry risk, and you take part at your own risk.

Your account

You sign in with a link sent to your email, so keep your email account secure. You're responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete your account at any time from your Account page.

Things you submit

• Only submit events, listings, photos and text that are accurate and that you have the right to share.
• You keep ownership of what you submit. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, show, copy, edit for length and clarity, and share it on the service, in our emails and apps, and on our social media to promote it and the service. This licence ends when you remove it or ask us to, except for copies already shared or kept in backups for a short time.
• We check submissions before they go live and can decline, edit or remove anything that's inaccurate, misleading, unlawful, hateful, infringing or spam.

Paid listings and advertising

• Business listings cost $19.99 a month and band profiles $9.99 a month, plus any tax due. They are billed in advance through Stripe and renew each month until you cancel.
• You can cancel any time from your Account page (Your plans), or by emailing hello@ourlocalscene.ca. Your listing stays live until the end of the period you've paid for. We don't refund part-months, except where the law requires it.
• We'll tell you at least 30 days before any price change, and it applies from your next billing date after that. You can cancel before then.
• Paying doesn't guarantee placement, traffic or results. We still check every listing, and can remove ones that break these terms. If we remove one for a reason other than a breach of these terms, we'll refund any unused full month.
• Adverts, sponsored tiles and promoted events are always labelled as advertising. Advertisers are responsible for their adverts, and for the offers and claims in them.

Acceptable use

Please don't:

• scrape, bulk-copy or resell our listings or data, or use bots to access the service, except search engines following our robots.txt;
• try to break, overload or get around the security of the service;
• post anything unlawful, abusive, hateful, sexually explicit, misleading or that infringes someone else's rights;
• pretend to be someone else, or submit fake events, reviews or listings;
• use the service to send spam or collect other people's information.

We may suspend or close accounts and remove content that breaks these terms.

Our content

The Our Local Scene name, logo, design, text, guides and software belong to OLS Family Inc. or our licensors and are protected by law. You can use the service for your own personal, non-commercial use, and share links to it. Event details, images and logos from other sources belong to their owners.

Copyright complaints

If you believe something on the service infringes your copyright, email hello@ourlocalscene.ca with: the work, where it appears on our service, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised. We'll review it and remove infringing material.

Other sites

The service links to ticket sellers, venues and other sites we don't control. We aren't responsible for their content, products or policies.

Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including that the service will be accurate, uninterrupted or error-free, or fit for a particular purpose.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, OLS Family Inc. and its officers, employees and partners aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits or data. This includes losses from events, venues, ticket sellers or other sites we list or link to, or from relying on listing, weather or trail details. Our total liability for any claim about the service is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under the law that can't be limited.

Indemnity

If you break these terms or the law, or something you submit infringes someone's rights, you agree to cover the reasonable costs and losses we face because of it, including legal fees.

Ending these terms

You can stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, or if we stop offering the service. The sections on things you submit, our content, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and disputes continue after that.

Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Please contact us first at hello@ourlocalscene.ca so we can try to resolve any problem informally. If we can't, any dispute will be decided by the state or federal courts located in North Carolina, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. If you're a consumer, you may also have the right to bring a claim where you live.

Changes

We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top, and if the change is significant we'll tell account holders by email at least 14 days before it takes effect. Using the service after that means you accept the new terms.

General

If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later. You can't transfer these terms to someone else without our permission; we may transfer them as part of a sale or reorganisation of our business. These terms, with our privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the service.

Contact

OLS Family Inc., [Business address to be added]. Email: hello@ourlocalscene.ca.