Terms of use

These terms

TradeWrench is run by Ayuda Ventures Inc.(“we”). By using the TradeWrench website, app or API you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use TradeWrench. Our Trust and privacy page is part of these terms.

A free service

Looking up a home and adding to its record are free. We may add paid features later; nothing will be charged without separate terms you agree to first. We may change, pause or stop any part of TradeWrench at any time.

What the information is, and isn’t

Each record is our best estimate of the equipment in a home, put together from public records (such as building permits and county tax lots) and from what households and contractors add. Records can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Ages, typical lifespans, warranty windows and what is likely due next are estimates.

“No permit on record” does not mean the equipment is original: much work, such as most reroofs and many water heater swaps, is done without a permit.

TradeWrench is not professional advice, a home inspection, an appraisal, or confirmation of any warranty or recall. Before you rely on it to buy, sell, insure, repair or replace anything, check with a licensed professional, the manufacturer or the office that issued the record.

No warranty

TradeWrench and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that the information is accurate, complete or current, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Ayuda Ventures Inc.and the people who work with it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, savings or data, arising from your use of TradeWrench or reliance on anything in it, even if we were told such damages were possible. Our total liability for any claim about TradeWrench is limited to one hundred US dollars ($100). Some places don’t allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you.

Using TradeWrench fairly

You agree not to:

• use TradeWrench, or anything you get from it, to contact, mail, call, visit, market to or target the people who live at an address, or to build a list for anyone else to do so;
• try to find out who lives at an address, or add anyone’s name, phone number or email address to a record;
• scrape, crawl or copy the site or its data in bulk, or reach it by automated means, except through our published API within its limits;
• resell or republish the records, or use them to build a competing database;
• add information you know is false, or about a home you have no real connection to;
• get around rate limits or security, probe for weaknesses, or interfere with the service.

We may limit or end access for anyone who breaks these rules.

What you add

When you add something about a home’s equipment (a plate reading, where a unit sits, a replacement, a service date, the shop that did the work), you confirm it is true as far as you know and that you are free to share it. It goes on that home’s record as the household’s (or the contractor’s) word, under these terms, and stays there when you move or close your account. Corrections are added as new entries; nothing is erased.

You keep any rights you have in what you add, and you give Ayuda Ventures Inc.a worldwide, royalty-free, permanent license to store, show, adapt and combine it as part of the home’s record and in summaries built from many records, and to let others see it there. Please don’t include anyone’s personal details; we remove them.

Receipts, costs and private notes you keep in your account are yours. We store them to show them to you, and never show them to anyone else.

Accounts

You don’t need an account to look up a home. If you sign in, use your own email address and keep access to it secure: anyone who can open your email can open your account. You can delete your account at any time from your account page or by writing to hello@tradewrench.com.

Our name and our site

TradeWrench™ is a trademark of Ayuda Ventures Inc., and the site’s design, text and code belong to Ayuda Ventures Inc.as well. Public records stay public; we credit the offices that publish them where they ask us to. Links to manufacturers and other sites are for your convenience; we don’t control those sites.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about TradeWrench will be heard in the state or federal courts in Multnomah County, Oregon, and you and we agree to those courts.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, the date at the top changes, and if a change matters to how you use TradeWrench we will say so on the site (and by email if you have an account) before it takes effect. Using TradeWrench after a change means you accept the new terms.

Questions

Write to hello@tradewrench.com.