Terms of Service

Flowers is a membership community for family caregivers and the elders they love, hosted by Sharawn Connors of Mahogany Homes in Oakland, California. Using the app or coming to a gathering means you accept these terms. They’re short, because the arrangement is simple.

Membership

• Membership costs $20 a year and renews automatically each year through Stripe until you cancel. You can cancel any time from the receipt or renewal emails Stripe sends you, or by asking us — cancelling stops future charges and your membership runs to the end of the year you’ve paid for.
• Joining in person is equally welcome — cash or a word with Sharawn at a gathering puts you on the roll the same as paying online.
• Membership is for you. Signing in requires the email on the roll, and lets you see the gatherings, save seats, and share with the community.

Gatherings, seats, and tickets

• Some gatherings are free — you RSVP and come. A free RSVP may come with a check-in code for the door; it is a greeting, not a ticket, and nothing was bought.
• Some gatherings are ticketed (like the dinner). A ticket is a paid seat at that gathering, bought through Stripe, and exists only after Stripe confirms the payment. The QR on your phone is the ticket; the door can also find you by name if your phone dies.
• Life happens, especially in caregiving. If you can’t make a gathering you paid for, talk to us — refunds and transfers are handled personally, with grace, not by a policy grid.
• A gathering may occasionally change time, place, or date; we’ll say so in the app. If we cancel a ticketed gathering, you get your money back.

The community

• The Circle, gathering memories, and the Face Card wall are shared spaces for a community built on honoring elders. Post with the warmth you’d bring to the table: no cruelty, harassment, or spam, and only photos of people you have the right to share.
• What you post is yours. By sharing it in Flowers you give us permission to show it in the app to the community — that’s all. Delete it and it comes down for everyone.
• Sharawn tends this space and may remove anything, or anyone, that brings unkindness into it. Posts appear immediately and are moderated after the fact — that is a deliberate act of trust; please honor it.

Honesty at the door

Tickets and check-in codes are signed and each admits once. Don’t forge, copy, or share them with someone else expecting a seat — the door will know, and more importantly, it isn’t how we treat each other.

The plain disclaimers

• The app is provided as-is, by a very small team, and may occasionally be imperfect. We don’t promise uninterrupted service, and we’re not liable for indirect damages; for anything else our liability is capped at what you’ve paid us in the past year.
• Flowers is community and connection, not professional advice — nothing here is medical, legal, or financial guidance.
• These terms are governed by the laws of California.

Changes

If these terms change in a way that matters, the date above changes and we’ll say so plainly in the app and at gatherings. Continuing to use Flowers after that means the new terms.

Questions about any of this? Speak with Sharawn at any gathering. This is a small community — a real person answers.