Real Estate Website Terms

About these terms

In these terms, “Apiece Inc”, “we” and “us” mean Apiece Inc. “You” means the real estate agent, team or brokerage buying the website, named as the account owner in your site admin. “Your visitors” are the people who use your site. You accept these terms by ticking the box before you pay. We save the version you accepted and the date with your account. These terms are their own agreement, and they are the whole agreement for your real-estate website. Our general Terms of Use cover using our website. Where the two say different things about your real-estate website, these terms apply.

1. What you get

• Your website, made from the design you pick, with your listings, photos, words, team and neighborhoods.
• Your site admin, where you and the people you invite edit everything, see your leads, and choose your design and colors. You can switch to any of our real-estate designs at any time; your content comes with you.
• The forms on your site (showings, questions, the home value review), with each request delivered to your site admin.
• A small “Site by Apiece Inc” line at the bottom of your site (section 10).

It does not include:

• New photography, written listing descriptions, or anything a design does not have. A design made just for you is a custom project with its own quote and contract.
• Listings brought in from your MLS. You enter your own listings in your site admin.
• E-mail addresses or a domain name. You keep your domain in your own name (section 4).

2. Plans and prices

Prices are in US dollars. You pay by card on Stripe’s secure page; Apiece Inc never sees your card number. Paying for a year at a time costs ten months’ worth (two months free). The one-time or setup price is paid before your site admin opens; the first month (or year) is paid with it.

3. Monthly and yearly plans

• Your plan renews by itself each month (or year) on the same day, until you cancel. We e-mail a receipt each time.
• You can cancel at any time in your site admin. Your plan then runs to the end of the month (or year) you already paid for, and does not renew.
• If a payment does not go through, we e-mail you and try again over the next days. Your site keeps running while we try.
• We give you at least 30 days’ notice by e-mail before a monthly or yearly price changes. The new price starts at your next renewal after that notice; you can cancel before it does.

If your plan ends (you cancel, or payments stop):

• Your own hosting: your site stays online on your hosting, as it is. Editing in your site admin stops, and the forms on your site show your phone number instead of sending requests, so no visitor’s request is lost unseen. Start your plan again at any time and everything comes back as you left it.
• Hosted by Apiece Inc: your site stays online for 30 days after your plan ends, and you can download it in that time to put it on your own hosting. After that it goes offline.
• Your site admin, your listings and your leads are kept for 90 days after your plan ends, in case you come back, and then deleted.

4. Your domain and your hosting

• Hosted by Apiece Inc: we keep your site online, with the secure padlock (HTTPS), nightly backups and updates. Your domain stays registered in your own name, in your own account; you point it to us with the two settings your site admin shows you. We take care to keep your site running and fix problems on our side quickly; we cannot promise it is never unavailable.
• Your own hosting: you download your finished site from your site admin and put it on hosting you choose, in your own account, following our guides. You pay any hosting or domain costs directly to those companies. Its forms still deliver to your site admin through Apiece Inc’s form service while your plan is active.
• You sign in to your accounts yourself; Apiece Inc never asks for your passwords.

5. Your part as a real estate professional

• Keep your name, your Florida license number and your brokerage’s name correct on your site. Florida’s rules for real estate advertising, including showing your brokerage’s name, are yours to follow; your site admin has a place for each.
• List only homes you are allowed to market, with the owner’s permission, and keep prices, status and details accurate. Mark homes Sold, Pending or Off the market when they are.
• Follow fair housing law in everything on your site, including words and photos. Our designs and wording are written to help, and the final words on your site are yours.
• Show only real reviews from real clients, in their own words, with their permission.
• Use only photos, logos and words you have the right to use, and photos of people who are happy to be on your site.
• For a private or coming-soon home, keep “Show the street address” off; your site then shows only its neighborhood.
• Your MLS and your brokerage may have their own rules for what you advertise. Those are yours to follow.

6. Your visitors’ requests (leads)

• When a visitor sends a form on your site, Apiece Inc keeps their request for you in your site admin, encrypted, and tells you by e-mail. We never use it for anything else, never sell it, and never put a visitor’s message in an e-mail subject.
• Requests are kept for 24 months and then deleted. You can download or delete them sooner.
• Your site links to a short privacy notice for your visitors that explains this. Please follow it too: use a visitor’s details only to answer them, and keep any copies you download safe.
• Do not ask visitors for card numbers, Social Security numbers, bank details or passwords. The forms will not accept them.

7. People on your account

You can invite agents and assistants and choose what each can do. You are responsible for the people you invite and for what is done in your site admin with their sign-ins. The account owner signs in with a second step (a code), and everyone else can too. Tell us at once if you think someone has used your account without permission.

8. Refunds

Your site admin opens as soon as you pay, so the one-time and setup prices are not refundable in most cases, and monthly or yearly payments are not refunded for time already started. If something serious makes your site unusable on our side, or a hardship affects your business, please reach out to us at apieceincofficial@gmail.com. We’ll look at your situation with care and work with you on it.

9. Your site and our designs

Your words, photos, listings and details stay yours. You allow Apiece Inc to use them only to build, show and keep your site, run your site admin and deliver your forms. We always ask you first before we show your site in our own work samples. The designs, with their layouts, drawings and code, stay Apiece Inc’s. While your plan is active, you may use your design for your own real estate business. You may not sell or give away a design, use it for someone else’s business, or offer it as a template of your own. On your own hosting, the site you downloaded stays yours to keep online for your business.

10. The small “Site by Apiece Inc” line

Your site carries a small “Site by Apiece Inc” line at the bottom. We ask that you keep it in place.

11. What we do not build or keep running

Apiece Inc does not build, or keep running, a site that breaks the law (including fair housing law), misleads buyers or sellers, threatens or harasses anyone, shares someone else’s private information without their permission, or uses someone else’s work without permission. If a site turns out to be one of these, we may close its site admin and, on the hosted plan, take the site offline.

12. Our responsibility to you

We make our designs, site admin and hosting with care, and we fix anything on our side that does not work as it should. Apiece Inc’s total responsibility to you for anything to do with your real-estate website is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the problem. Apiece Inc is not responsible for indirect losses, such as lost sales, commissions or profits. We are also not responsible for problems caused by your domain or hosting company, your MLS, the services your site links to, or changes someone else makes to your site after you download it. Nothing in these terms limits anything that the law does not allow to be limited.

13. Venue for any dispute: Tampa, FL

If something troubles you, please tell us first at apieceincofficial@gmail.com. Most things are settled by talking, and we will do our best to make it right. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida. If a dispute about them cannot be settled by talking, it will be decided in the state or federal courts for Hillsborough County, Florida, in Tampa, and you and Apiece Inc both agree to that place.

14. Which version applies

Each version has a version name and a date. The version you accepted applies to your plan. If we update these terms, we tell you by e-mail at least 30 days before the new version applies to your plan, at your next renewal after that; you can cancel before it does. We keep every version; to see the one you accepted, open “Plan and billing” in your site admin.

15. Questions and notices

Questions about these terms: write to apieceincofficial@gmail.com. We send notices to the e-mail address the account owner signs in with.