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TERMS

Terms of Service

The Way of The List

Exodus Original LLC

Version 2.4 · Effective 9 September 2026

This version updates monthly pricing and adds yearly billing. Previous versions are available on request.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Exodus Original LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("we", "us"), and govern your use of The Way of The List, a private journal available at thewayofthelist.com (the "Service"). By creating an account, or by continuing to use the Service after these Terms take effect, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree to them, do not create an account or use the Service.

These Terms contain a binding individual arbitration agreement and a class action waiver (Section 15), a release (Section 14), and limits on our liability (Sections 11 and 12). They affect your legal rights. Please read them.

Please also read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle information, and our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, which covers the optional features that record how you are feeling. Both are part of these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be 18 or older to use the Service. The Service is currently offered in the United States only. You confirm your age when you create an account, and you represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

The Service is for your personal, non-commercial use. You may hold one account for yourself, and you may not share your account with anyone else.

2. Your account

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account, to the extent caused by your failure to use reasonable care in protecting your credentials. This does not make you responsible for our own security failures. Please tell us promptly if you believe someone else has gained access to it.

We will use your email address to sign you in, to reset your password, and to send you messages about your account, your subscription and these Terms.

3. What the Service is

The Way of The List is a personal notebook for keeping your own record of your dating life: who you have met, what happened, what you noticed, and how you felt. Your private entries are written by you, for your own use. The Service also includes optional reading material and results based on the information you enter.

The Service does not provide professional advice of any kind. Its readings, patterns, quizzes, scores, reflections and prompts are for your own thinking. They are not legal, medical, psychological, therapeutic, relationship-counseling or financial advice; they are not assessments, evaluations or diagnoses of you or of anyone else; and no qualified professional reviews your situation. Nothing in the Service creates a therapist-patient, counselor-client or any other professional relationship.

Optional reading material is offered for reflection only. The Service includes optional material you may choose to read: daily quotations, passages from religious, philosophical and literary works, reflections, articles, quizzes, and astrological readings. This material is provided for reflection and entertainment. It is not advice, it is not a recommendation about any person or decision, and the inclusion of a passage from any tradition or author is not an endorsement of it. You choose whether to read any of it. Astrological content in particular has no scientific basis and must not be relied on for any decision.

The Service is not a safety or emergency service. It does not monitor anything, it cannot tell you whether a person is safe or dangerous, and it will not contact anyone on your behalf. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Any support organizations listed in the Service are independent of us; we do not control them and are not responsible for their services or availability.

The Service does not verify information. The content of your account is information that has been entered into it. We do not confirm anyone's identity, history or statements, including yours.

The Service is not designed as an evidence-preservation or archival service. We do not guarantee a permanent edit history or that content will remain available indefinitely.

4. Your decisions and assumption of risk

Every decision about your relationships, your dating life and your personal safety is yours alone. The Service organizes information you chose to record; it does not make decisions, and nothing it displays is a reason to do or not do anything. You agree that you will not rely on the Service, or on anything it displays or generates, as a substitute for your own judgment or for advice from a qualified professional.

You assume all risk arising from your use of the Service and from any action you take or decline to take based on it. This includes the risk that information you recorded was incomplete or wrong; that a pattern, score, reading or result was inaccurate or was misunderstood; and that a relationship or interaction turns out differently from what you expected. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for the outcome of any relationship, interaction, meeting or decision.

5. Your content

You retain ownership of everything you write in the Service. We do not claim any ownership of it.

You grant us a limited license to host, store, back up, transmit and display your content as reasonably necessary to operate the Service for you. This license exists only so that we can provide the Service, and ends when you delete the content or your account, subject to information retained as described in the Privacy Policy.

We do not use your private journal content for advertising.

You are solely responsible for your content. Most of what you write in the Service concerns other people, who have not agreed to anything. You alone decide what to record, and you represent that you have the right to record it, that recording it does not violate any law, agreement or right of another person, and that you will keep it private and use it only for your own personal reflection. We do not monitor journal content, for safety or for any other purpose, and we do not routinely review it. A limited number of authorized personnel may access content only when reasonably necessary to provide support you request, investigate a security or misuse concern, comply with applicable law or valid legal process, or respond to a specific, credible threat of serious harm to a person that we have become aware of, as described in our Privacy Policy. Any such access must be limited to what is reasonably necessary for that purpose. We do not verify or endorse your content. Any dispute about your content, including any claim by a person you have written about, is between you and that person.

No AI feature. The Service does not currently offer an artificial intelligence feature, and we do not send your journal content to an AI provider. If we introduce such a feature, we will describe its processing in advance, update the relevant policies and obtain any consent required by law.

You may export your content at any time using whatever export tools the Service makes available, whether or not you have a paid subscription.

Please review any export after you create it. An export is generated from the information available at the time it is created, and we cannot guarantee that every entry, field, attachment or formatting detail will be captured exactly or completely. Check that an export contains what you expect before relying on it as a copy of your content.

6. Acceptable use

You are responsible for what you record and for anything you do with it outside the Service.

You agree not to use the Service to:

Publishing or distributing content you have written in the Service is your own act, and you are solely responsible for it, including for any claim of defamation, invasion of privacy or infringement that may arise.

7. Subscription, trial and billing

15 days free, then $7.99 per month or $49.99 per year, billed automatically until you cancel. Cancel before the trial ends and you will not be charged. These terms are also shown to you before you provide any billing information.

Free trial. New accounts include a 15-day free trial. You provide a payment method when the trial begins and are not charged during the trial. If you cancel before the trial ends, you are not charged.

Subscription. Choose $7.99 per month or $49.99 per year, with full access under either option. After the 15-day free trial, your chosen amount is charged to your payment method. The yearly option is billed as one $49.99 payment, not monthly installments. Your subscription renews automatically every month or every year, according to your selection, until you cancel.

Payment processing. Payments are processed by Stripe. Payment card information is submitted directly to Stripe. We do not receive or store your complete card number. The Service stores only your subscription status, the dates of your trial and billing period, and Stripe's identifiers for your customer and subscription records. Stripe also makes limited billing and transaction information available to us in its dashboard, such as payment status, card brand, expiration date and the card's last four digits.

Price changes. We will give you notice before any change to the price applies to your subscription, and you may cancel before it takes effect.

Taxes. The advertised subscription prices include applicable sales or use tax. Your total and any included tax are shown at checkout.

8. Cancellation, refunds and lapsed subscriptions

Canceling. You may cancel at any time from Settings. An optional question may appear before the cancellation page; you can skip it and continue. You do not need to contact us, and you do not need to give a reason. Your subscription continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and you are not charged again.

Refunds. Payments are non-refundable once charged, except where a refund is required by applicable law. Canceling stops future renewals; it does not refund the current period, and you keep access for the remainder of the period you have paid for. If you cancel during the 15-day free trial, you are not charged at all.

If you believe you have been charged in error, write to thelisthelp@protonmail.com and we will look into it.

Failed payments. If a payment fails, Stripe may retry the payment, and access to paid features may eventually be restricted.

If your subscription ends. Access to certain features may change. The Service is designed so that you continue to be able to read, export and delete information associated with your account, and to close your account, whether or not you have a paid subscription. We do not intend to delete your content because a subscription has lapsed, and we do not intend to require payment merely in order to access or delete information you previously entered.

9. Service availability and maintenance

We may temporarily suspend or limit access to the Service for maintenance, updates, security purposes, technical issues, or other operational reasons. We do not guarantee that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, or error-free, or that no data will be lost. We recommend that you export a backup regularly, using whatever export tools the Service makes available.

The Service depends on third-party infrastructure, including hosting, database and payment providers, and email providers. An outage, change, or failure affecting any of them may make the Service, or part of it, unavailable, and those events may be outside our control.

We may modify, add or discontinue features at any time. Where a change would remove content you have stored, then where reasonably practicable we will give you notice and an opportunity to export it first.

10. Suspension and termination

By you. You may close your account at any time. Account closure is intended to be permanent and should be treated as irreversible; please export anything you wish to keep before closing it. Closing your account also stops its subscription. If we cannot stop billing, account deletion does not complete and we ask you to retry. Deleting an account is different from canceling a subscription: cancellation keeps your account and content available under Section 8, while account deletion removes them as described in the Privacy Policy.

By us. We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms, if your use creates legal risk for us or risk to any person, or where we are required to do so by law. Where reasonably practicable, and unless prohibited by law or where doing so would create a risk to any person, we will notify you, explain the reason, and provide an opportunity to export your content.

If we discontinue the Service entirely, then where reasonably practicable we will provide advance notice and an opportunity to export your content.

11. Disclaimers

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE, AND ALL CONTENT, FEATURES, READINGS, PATTERNS, SCORES, QUOTATIONS, PASSAGES, REFLECTIONS AND OTHER MATERIAL MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH IT, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY CONTENT OR RESPONSE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE OR SUITABLE FOR YOU, OR THAT USING THE SERVICE WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR RESULT IN YOUR LIFE OR RELATIONSHIPS.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where that is the case, these exclusions do not apply to you, and nothing in this section limits any right you have that applicable law does not permit us to disclaim.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE, OUR MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, OR ANY LOSS ARISING FROM ANY RELATIONSHIP, INTERACTION OR DECISION, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limitations do not apply to, and we do not attempt to limit or disclaim, liability for:

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted, and your rights under the law of your state are unaffected.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Exodus Original LLC and its members, managers, employees and contractors from and against any third-party claim, demand, loss, damage and reasonable cost (including reasonable legal fees) to the extent it arises from:

This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own negligence, willful misconduct, or breach of these Terms, and it does not apply to any liability that applicable law does not permit us to shift to you. We will notify you promptly of any claim for which we seek indemnity, and you may participate in its defense at your own expense; we will not settle any such claim in a way that imposes an obligation on you without your consent.

14. Release

The Service is about people you know, and we are not part of those relationships. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release Exodus Original LLC and its members, managers, employees and contractors from any claim, demand or damages of any kind arising out of or connected with any dispute, interaction or relationship between you and any other person, including any person you have written about in the Service and any person who has written about you. This release concerns disputes between users and other people. It does not release our own breach of these Terms, negligence, fraud, willful misconduct, or liability that applicable law does not permit us to exclude.

15. Dispute resolution: binding arbitration and class action waiver

Please read this section carefully. It requires you and us to resolve disputes through binding individual arbitration rather than in court, and it waives the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class action. You may opt out, as described below.

Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration or any other proceeding, you agree to contact us at thelisthelp@protonmail.com with a description of the dispute and what you would like us to do, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. We will do the same before bringing a claim against you. This does not prevent a small-claims filing, a complaint to a government agency, or an application for urgent relief. Applicable limitation periods are paused during this process to the extent permitted by law; a party may file when necessary to preserve a claim.

Agreement to arbitrate. If the dispute is not resolved informally, any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, your account, or your relationship with us (including its existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination, and including claims that arose before you accepted these Terms) will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, and not in a court, except as stated in this section. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules in effect when the arbitration is started (available at adr.org). If a provision here conflicts with a mandatory consumer protection in those rules or applicable law, that protection controls. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section.

How arbitration works. A single neutral arbitrator will decide the dispute. The arbitrator, and not any court, has exclusive authority to resolve any question about the scope, applicability or enforceability of this section, except that a court decides any question about the enforceability of the class action waiver below. The arbitrator can award the same individual relief that a court could, and must follow these Terms and applicable law. Any hearing will be held in the county where you live or by video or telephone, at your choice, and either party may choose to have the arbitration decided on written submissions alone if the claim is for $25,000 or less. Arbitration fees are governed by the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules and their fee schedule; where those rules require us to pay a fee, we will. The award is binding, subject to review allowed by applicable law, and may be entered as a judgment in a court with jurisdiction. We will comply with AAA clause-review and fee requirements. If AAA declines administration because of our failure to comply, you may pursue the claim in a court with jurisdiction. Neither this section nor any other part of these Terms prevents reporting a concern to a regulator or obtaining relief that cannot lawfully be waived.

Small claims. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court in the county where you live (or in Texas), instead of arbitration, if the claim qualifies for that court and remains there on an individual basis.

CLASS ACTION AND JURY WAIVER. YOU AND WE EACH AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE WILL BE RESOLVED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS OR PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND WE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY. If a court decides that the class action waiver cannot be enforced as to a particular claim, then that claim (and only that claim) will proceed in court under Section 16 rather than in arbitration, and will proceed subject to applicable law and any order of the court.

Your right to opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement by sending an email to thelisthelp@protonmail.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms, with the subject line "Arbitration opt-out", stating your name and the email address of your account. If you opt out, this Section 15 will not apply to you or to us, and disputes will be resolved under Section 16. Opting out has no other effect on your account or on these Terms.

Exceptions. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking an injunction or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorized access to or misuse of the Service, or from bringing a claim that applicable law does not permit to be arbitrated.

Changes to this section. If we change this Section 15 after you have accepted these Terms, you may reject the change by emailing us within 30 days of the notice of the change; if you do, the prior version of this section applies to you.

Survival. This section survives the closure of your account and the termination of these Terms.

16. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and, as to arbitration, the Federal Arbitration Act, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

For any dispute that is not subject to arbitration under Section 15, including where you have opted out, you and we agree that it will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Texas, and you and we consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Both of the paragraphs above are subject to any right you have under the consumer-protection law of the state where you live that applicable law does not permit you to waive, including any right to bring a claim in your home state or in small-claims court, and including your rights under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.

17. Time limit on claims

The time limits established by applicable law govern claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service. These Terms do not shorten those limits.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Each version carries a version number and an effective date, and we keep a record of the version in effect when your account was created and of each later version you accepted.

If we make a material change, we will notify you through the Service or by email before or when it takes effect, and we may ask you to accept the new version before you continue to use the Service. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not agree to a change, you may close your account, and you may still export your content first.

19. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account without our written consent. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of all or substantially all of our assets, provided that the assignee is bound by these Terms. We will notify you of any such assignment.

20. Notices

We will send notices to the email address associated with your account, or display them in the Service. It is your responsibility to keep your email address current.

You may send notices to us at thelisthelp@protonmail.com.

A notice by email is treated as received on the day it is sent, unless the sender receives a delivery failure.

21. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations where that failure or delay results from a cause beyond our reasonable control, including natural disaster, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor dispute, epidemic, government action, or the failure of a telecommunications, hosting, email or payment provider. This section does not excuse your obligation to pay amounts already due, and it does not extend to anything within our reasonable control.

22. Electronic acceptance and records

You accept these Terms electronically, by reviewing them and checking the box provided when you create your account or when we ask you to accept a new version. Your electronic acceptance has the same legal effect as a signature on paper. We keep a record of the version you accepted and when, and you agree that this record is admissible evidence of your acceptance. You consent to receive the notices and communications described in these Terms electronically.

23. Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Service, you agree that we may use them without restriction or compensation. This does not apply to the content of your journal, which remains yours under Section 5.

24. Severability, waiver and entire agreement

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will remain in full force, except as Section 15 provides for the class action waiver.

Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it, and no waiver is effective unless it is in writing.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service, and replace any earlier understanding about it.

25. Survival

Sections 4 (your decisions and assumption of risk), 5 (your content, as to ownership and responsibility), 6 (acceptable use, as to conduct before termination), 11 (disclaimers), 12 (limitation of liability), 13 (indemnification), 14 (release), 15 (dispute resolution), 16 (governing law and venue), 17 (time limit on claims), 20 (notices), 22 (electronic acceptance and records), 24 (severability, waiver and entire agreement) and this section survive the closure of your account and the termination of these Terms.

26. Contact

thelisthelp@protonmail.com

Exodus Original LLC