Connecting Nests

Legal

Terms of Service

Effective date: July 23, 2026

1. What this service is

Connecting Nests is a tool for separated parents: a shared calendar, an unalterable message record, an expense log, and a private place to keep documents and notes.

Connecting Nests is not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice or legal representation. Using this service does not create an attorney-client relationship with us, and nothing you send us is privileged. Our parenting-plan templates are general educational forms, not documents prepared for your situation. Consult a licensed attorney in your state.

2. Your records are permanent — including if you leave

This is the most important term in this document, and the one most likely to surprise you later.

Messages, schedule changes, expense agreements, and check-ins are permanent. Once created they cannot be edited or deleted — not by you, not by the other parent, and not by us. This is not a policy we could choose to break: our database physically refuses to modify or remove a record.

This is the point of the product. A record either parent could quietly change is not a record, and would be worth nothing to either of you in a dispute.

What this means for you:

  • Write as if a judge will read it, because one might.
  • You cannot unsend a message. There is no "delete for everyone."
  • If you close your account, your records remain, because the other parent relies on them and they are as much their record as yours. You lose access to the service; the record continues to exist.

3. Both parents, one price

One parent's plan covers the family. The other parent can read and reply for free, permanently, and we will never charge them to take part in their own children's record. If a plan lapses, the family drops to the free tier: you both keep reading and replying, you both keep every record, and the paid extras (certified exports, file storage) stop.

4. Professionals

Attorneys, mediators, guardians ad litem, parenting coordinators, and therapists can hold free accounts. A professional sees only the sections a parent explicitly grants, read-only. They cannot post as you, cannot alter anything, and cannot see any parent's private journal or vault. Every export a professional takes is recorded in your family's record where you can see it. You can change or revoke their access at any time.

A listing in our professional directory is not a referral, an endorsement, or a vetting. We list professionals who tell us who they are. Check their license with your state bar or licensing board.

5. Money

We do not move money. When you agree an expense and settle it, you do that with each other — Venmo, Zelle, a check, however you already do it — and record here that it happened. We are not a payment processor and never touch your funds.

6. What you may not do

  • Use the service to harass, threaten, or abuse anyone, including the other parent.
  • Use another person's account, or create an account for someone else without their knowledge.
  • Attempt to alter, delete, or forge a record, or to defeat the verification on an export.
  • Present an export as something other than what it is.

7. Children

Children do not have accounts. A parent may create a profile for a child (name, date of birth, medical and school information) to share with the other parent. If you are not that child's parent or legal guardian, do not create a profile for them.

8. Safety

If there is any history of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence in your situation, this product is not a substitute for a lawyer, a court, or the police. Nothing here should delay you calling any of them.

9. If we get a subpoena or other legal request

Sometimes a court, a government agency, a law enforcement officer, or a party to a legal proceeding will ask us to hand over records — often by subpoena, warrant, or court order. Because this product exists to serve people in active legal disputes, we treat these requests seriously and narrowly.

  • We don't volunteer your data. We produce records only when we are legally required to, and only the specific records the request actually reaches.
  • We tell you first when we're allowed to. Where the law permits, we will notify the affected parent before we produce anything and give you a reasonable chance to object or to ask a court to limit or quash the request. We will not give advance notice where a court order or a law forbids it, or where there is a genuine emergency involving someone's safety.
  • Private content stays private wherever we can keep it that way. A parent's journal entries and vault files belong to that parent. If a request seeks the other parent's private journal or vault, we will treat that content as belonging to its author, notify that author, and object to producing it unless a court specifically orders us to. A subpoena aimed at one parent does not, by itself, give anyone a right to the other parent's private material.
  • We ask that requests be narrowed. When a request sweeps more broadly than the matter requires, we will push back and produce the least data necessary to comply.
  • We produce records as they are. Anything we hand over is produced with its verification intact. We do not — and technically cannot — alter, edit, or delete a record to respond to a request.
  • Costs. To the extent the law allows, we may charge the requesting party our reasonable costs of responding.

10. No warranty / limitation of liability

The service is provided "as is" and "as available." We work hard to keep records accurate, durable, and verifiable, but we do not promise that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure against every possible threat.

  • We don't guarantee a legal outcome. We give you tools to build a clear, tamper-evident record and to certify an export of it. We do not guarantee that any court, agency, or other party will admit that record, accept it, or give it any particular weight. Whether evidence comes in, and what it's worth, is up to the court and depends on facts we don't control. Our certification describes how a record was kept; it is not a promise about how a judge will rule.
  • Not legal advice. As stated in Section 1, nothing in the service is legal advice, and we are not responsible for how you use a record, template, or export in a legal matter. Talk to your attorney.
  • Backups are not a guarantee. We keep encrypted backups, but you should keep your own copies of anything critical. We are not liable for loss of data that occurs despite reasonable safeguards.
  • Damages we're not liable for. To the fullest extent the law allows, Connecting Nests is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or any loss arising from a legal outcome, even if we were advised such damages were possible.
  • Cap on liability. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $100.
  • Where local law says otherwise. Some states and countries do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limits above apply to you only to the extent the law permits, and our liability is limited to the smallest amount the law allows.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@connectingnests.com

See also our Privacy Policy and template disclaimer.