Terms of Service

Last updated: September 28, 2026

Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or otherwise using Cohort -- a social app built for college students to stay connected, meet new people, and find groups on their campus, operated by Cohort, LLC ("Cohort," "we," "us") -- you agree to these Terms of Service. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

Eligibility

You must be at least 17 years old to use Cohort. By creating an account, you confirm that the date of birth you provided is accurate and that you meet this requirement.

Your Account

You're responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity that happens under your account. Let us know right away at support@hicohort.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

Content You Post

You keep ownership of the posts, photos, messages, and group content you create. By posting content on Cohort, you grant us a license to store, display, and distribute that content within the app as needed to provide the service (for example, showing your post to your group or your followers). You agree not to post content that: • Is illegal, or promotes illegal activity • Is hateful, threatening, or harassing toward others • Violates someone else's privacy or impersonates another person • Infringes someone else's intellectual property rights • Is spam or intentionally misleading

Groups & Merging

Groups you create or join are visible to their members, and group admins/creators may have additional controls over group content and membership. Proposing or accepting a merge request shares your group's name, members, and content with the other group(s) involved -- including any group added to an existing merge later -- so only propose or accept a merge you're comfortable with.

Events & Businesses

Event and business listings shown in Cohort are provided for informational and organizational purposes. We don't guarantee the accuracy of an event's details or a business's information, and attending any event you find or create through Cohort is at your own discretion and risk.

Advertising

Cohort displays sponsored posts and map pins from businesses and organizations advertising on the app, always labeled as sponsored. We don't guarantee the accuracy of an advertiser's content and aren't responsible for any product, service, or event a sponsored post promotes. Advertising content is reviewed before it goes live, but its inclusion on Cohort isn't an endorsement.

For Businesses & Advertisers

If you create a business/advertiser account to run a campaign on Cohort, you're responsible for the accuracy of your business information and campaign content, and for having the rights to any photo or video you submit. We review every campaign before it goes live; a campaign is only charged once it's approved, so a campaign we reject during review is never charged. Once a campaign has gone live, fees already paid aren't refunded, including if we later remove the campaign for violating these Terms or our advertising guidelines. Payments are processed by Stripe under its own terms; Cohort isn't responsible for payment processing errors on Stripe's end. You can delete your business account at any time from your advertiser dashboard.

Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to: • Use Cohort for any unlawful purpose • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems or another user's account • Scrape or collect other users' data without consent • Use bots or other automated tools to access the app • Interfere with the normal operation of the app for other users

Account Suspension & Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these Terms. You can delete your own account at any time from Settings, which permanently removes your profile, posts, and messages from our systems.

Disclaimers

Cohort is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We don't guarantee the app will always be available, uninterrupted, or error-free.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cohort and its creators aren't liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the app, including anything that happens at an event or gathering you organized or found through Cohort.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Cohort, its owners, and its service providers harmless from any claim, loss, or expense -- including reasonable attorneys' fees -- arising from your use of the app, your content, or your violation of these Terms.

Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These Terms are between you and Cohort, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company, and are governed by the laws of the State of Kansas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Except for a small claims court action or a request for injunctive relief to protect our intellectual property, any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of Cohort will be resolved through binding, individual arbitration rather than in court, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. You and Cohort each waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative action against the other. If any part of this arbitration agreement is found unenforceable, the rest still applies, and the dispute will instead be heard in the state or federal courts located in Kansas, to whose jurisdiction you consent.

Copyright Complaints (DMCA)

If you believe content on Cohort infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent, Benjamin Curotto, at legal@hicohort.com including: your signature; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material you claim is infringing and where to find it in the app; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized; and a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you're authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Cohort, LLC's designated agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (registration no. DMCA-1081400). We'll remove or disable access to material we determine, in good faith, infringes a valid copyright, and notify the user who posted it. A user who believes their content was removed in error may submit a counter-notice to the same address.

Force Majeure

We aren't responsible for any delay or failure to perform caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages at our service providers, natural disasters, or other circumstances we couldn't reasonably plan for.

Severability & Entire Agreement

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in full effect. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, make up the entire agreement between you and Cohort regarding your use of the app, and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continuing to use Cohort after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

Contact Us

Questions about these Terms of Service can be sent to legal@hicohort.com.