Terms and Conditions

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using Buy Off-Season (the "Service"), you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

2. Description of Service

Buy Off-Season is a contrarian shopping calendar — an editorial site that highlights off-season product picks at their twelve-month price floor on Amazon. The Service provides:

• A monthly curated catalog of off-season product picks
• A twelve-month contrarian shopping calendar
• Field notes and editorial essays about seasonal floor pricing
• Outbound affiliate links to Amazon for the products we feature
• An optional free account (Google Sign-In) for saving picks and tracking which months you've shopped

We are not a retailer. We do not sell, ship, fulfill, or refund any product. All purchases happen on Amazon's own website, subject to Amazon's own terms, return policies, and customer service.

3. Pricing accuracy and availability

We make a good-faith effort to surface products at or near their twelve-month price floor. However, Amazon prices change frequently — sometimes hour to hour — and we cannot guarantee that the prices shown on Buy Off-Season exactly match what you'll see at checkout on Amazon.

Always verify the actual price, availability, shipping cost, and any applicable taxes or fees on Amazon before completing your purchase. We are not liable for price discrepancies between what's shown on Buy Off-Season and what's charged by Amazon.

Product illustrations on our site are stylized representations, not photographs of actual packaging. Always confirm the exact product on Amazon's page.

4. Brand names, trademarks, and affiliations

Product names, brand names, trademarks, and logos referenced on this site are the property of their respective owners. We use these names solely to identify the products being featured.

We participate in the Amazon Associates program and earn a small commission on qualifying purchases made through our outbound links. Beyond that affiliate relationship, we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any brand listed on the site. Our editorial picks are based on the off-season floor price for a category — never on paid placement or commercial relationships with any specific brand.

5. Intellectual property

Except for the third-party brand and product names described in Section 4, all content on Buy Off-Season — including the site design, written copy, original illustrations, the underlying source code, and the curated editorial picks — is owned by Buy Off-Season and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

You may:

• Browse the site for personal, non-commercial use
• Share individual deal or article links with friends, family, or on social media
• Print pages for your own reference

You may not:

• Copy, redistribute, mirror, or republish substantial portions of the site without our written permission
• Scrape or systematically harvest our pricing data, catalog, or images
• Use our content to train machine learning models without our written permission
• Resell access to our data or recreate the Service in another product

6. Accounts

Creating an account is optional and free. We currently support Google Sign-In; other providers may be added later. By creating or using an account, you agree that:

• The account is yours — you authorized the Google sign-in, and the email/profile we receive came from your Google account
• You can sign out at any time from the avatar pill in the top-right of any page; signing out clears your session from this device
• We may store small bits of preference data (favorited products, last-read issues) tied to your account
• Editorial picks are opinions based on observed seasonal pricing patterns, not professional financial, retail, or legal advice

7. User conduct

When using Buy Off-Season, you agree not to:

• Scrape, crawl, spider, or otherwise systematically harvest data from the site without our written permission
• Use bots, automated scripts, or other tools to access the site at a rate inconsistent with normal human browsing
• Attempt to bypass authentication, access controls, or security measures
• Probe, test, or breach the security of the Service or any related infrastructure
• Submit false or misleading information through any form on the site
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone
• Interfere with the normal operation of the site or other users' enjoyment of it
• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right

We reserve the right to investigate violations and take appropriate action, including blocking access, removing content, or referring to law enforcement.

8. Outbound Amazon links

The Service contains outbound affiliate links to Amazon. We provide these links for your convenience and earn a small commission on qualifying purchases through the Amazon Associates program. We have no control over the content, products, prices, shipping, returns, advertising, or privacy practices of Amazon and we expressly disclaim any responsibility for them.

Your interactions with Amazon accessed through Buy Off-Season — including purchases, refunds, customer service, warranty claims, and disputes — are solely between you and Amazon. Buy Off-Season is not a party to those transactions.

9. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free
• The information displayed will be accurate, complete, or current
• Any defects in the Service will be corrected
• The Service or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components

Your use of the Service is at your own risk.

10. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COMPAREASTORE AND ITS OPERATORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING FROM:

• Your access to or use of, or inability to access or use, the Service
• Any conduct or content of any third party on the Service or on Amazon
• Any content obtained from the Service, including editorial picks or field notes
• Pricing inaccuracies or product availability discrepancies
• Unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data

Our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100 USD).

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Buy Off-Season and its operators from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with your access to or use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any third-party right.

12. Modifications to the Service

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service — including specific features, picks, categories, or account functionality — at any time and without prior notice. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any such modification, suspension, or discontinuation.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent version. For material changes, we will provide notice on the site for at least 30 days before the changes take effect.

Your continued use of the Service after any changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should stop using the Service.

14. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice, for any conduct that we believe violates these Terms or is harmful to other users, to us, or to third parties, or for any other reason in our sole discretion.

15. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the [Your state, e.g., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania], United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in [Your county/state], and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.

16. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

17. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Buy Off-Season regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms?

Email: legal@buyoffseason.com
Mailing address: Buy Off-Season, [Your business address]