Legal
Host Agreement
Last updated September 22, 2026
This Host Agreement applies to anyone who publishes or hosts an activity on Porchside, who is added as a co-host, or who owns or administers a community (each a "Host"). It supplements our Terms of Service and is incorporated into them. By publishing an activity, accepting a co-host role, or creating or administering a community, you agree to this Agreement. Section 7, Attendee Data, sets out obligations about other people's information; read it before you publish.
1. Independent Host
You host activities as an independent organizer. You are not an employee, agent, partner, or joint venturer of Kinward, Inc. You have sole control over and responsibility for your activities. Porchside is not a party to your arrangement with attendees, except that we and our payment processor collect ticket payments on your behalf as set out below.
2. Your Responsibilities
You are responsible for planning and running your activities safely and lawfully, providing accurate descriptions, obtaining any required permits, licenses, insurance, or venue permissions, complying with all applicable laws and venue rules, and treating attendees with respect. You must honor the activities you publish and communicate changes or cancellations promptly. Where you publish a recurring series, occurrences are generated automatically from your template and you are the host of each one, so keep the template accurate and end the series when you stop running it. Where you take on a listing that originated from a public source, you are responsible for the accuracy of what it says from that point on.
3. Ticket Prices, Fees, and What You Receive
If you charge for an activity, you must use the Service's payment features. You authorize Porchside and its payment processor to collect ticket payments from attendees on your behalf, deduct the amounts in this section, and remit the balance to you. You set the ticket price, subject to the minimum published on our fee page. Guests pay a Porchside service fee on top of your price, and any applicable sales tax. You pay a card-processing fee on each sale, at the rate published on our fee page. There is no separate platform fee on your side. The current service fee, card-processing rate, and worked examples are published at porchside.co/fees, and the amounts on each sale are itemized on your earnings screen. You may choose, for each activity before it goes on sale, to include the service fee in your price instead, so guests see only the price you set. If you do, the fee comes out of your payout. You can set a default for new activities in your settings. Once a ticket has sold, you cannot change that choice or the price for that activity. Where sales tax applies to an activity, it is collected from the guest in addition to your price and is not part of your payout. Every amount is calculated by us when the guest checks out and is recorded against that purchase, so the terms that applied at the time of a sale continue to apply to it. We may change our fees, and the way they are charged, by updating the fee page; a change applies to sales made after it takes effect.
4. Payouts and Your Connected Account
To receive payouts you must create and maintain a connected account with Stripe, our payment processor, complete its identity and bank verification, and agree to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement. Your connected account must be your own, in the United States, and payouts go only to it. We transfer your payout for an activity no earlier than approximately 24 hours after the activity ends, and it then settles into your Stripe balance and out to your bank on Stripe's schedule, which typically takes several more days. Payouts are subject to holds where your connected account is not in good standing, where a charge is disputed, or where we suspect fraud or abuse; a hold for account standing clears on its own when the account recovers, and other holds are released by us. Your earnings screen shows the state of every payout, and we notify you when a payout needs something from you. Where a guest disputes a charge with their card issuer, the amount is frozen while the dispute runs. If the dispute is resolved against you after you have already been paid, we reverse the corresponding transfer. We may set off any amount you owe us against amounts we owe you.
5. Cancellations, Refunds, and Charges to You
Guest cancellations. A guest can cancel and be refunded the ticket amount and any tax up to 24 hours before the activity starts; the service fee is not refunded to them unless you included it in your price. Inside 24 hours their reservation is not refundable and their payment settles to you as usual. If you cancel. Every guest is refunded in full, including the service fee and any tax. Because the card networks do not return the processing cost of the original charge when a refund is issued, that cost falls to you: you authorize us to charge your connected account, or to collect from your next payout or from the bank account linked to it, the actual card-processing cost of the refunds on the activity you cancelled. We show you the amount, or a close estimate of it, before you confirm the cancellation, and we notify you when it is collected. Where your connected account has no balance, the charge may take it negative and Stripe recovers it from your next payout or by debiting your bank account. This amount is a debt you owe us: it survives your deleting your account, and we may set it off against other amounts we owe you or pursue it as a debt. If we cannot collect it we may suspend your ability to host. If we cancel for low signup. Where you set a minimum number of participants and too few people have signed up shortly before the start, we may cancel the activity automatically and refund every guest in full. The same processing cost applies as if you had cancelled. After an activity has been delivered, it cannot be cancelled in the product; contact support@porchside.co if attendees need refunding. Partial refunds are not available to hosts; where we issue one, it comes out of your payout for that ticket. Frequent cancellations, no-shows, or refund disputes may affect your ability to host.
6. Taxes
You are solely responsible for determining and paying any taxes on the amounts you earn through the Service, and for any tax registration or filing your activities require. Where thresholds set by law are met, our payment processor issues tax forms, such as an IRS Form 1099-K, reporting your earnings, and you are responsible for providing accurate tax information to it. Where we collect sales tax on an activity, we do so as the marketplace and it is not part of your earnings. The taxability setting on your activity is how you tell us whether an activity is taxable. You are responsible for answering it accurately and for telling us if it changes, and you will indemnify us for any tax, penalty, or interest arising from inaccurate information you give us.
7. Attendee Data
Hosting gives you access to information about other people. It is theirs, not yours, and this section is a condition of hosting. What you receive. Depending on the activity or community, you may see: an attendee's first name, photo, bio, neighborhood, interests, badges, and, where they set them, username and last initial; whether they are attending, pending, maybe, declined, waitlisted, or withdrawn; how many guests they bring; whether and when they checked in; no-show records; for a community you organize, each member's attendance and RSVP history for that community's activities, how recently they were active, how they came to join, the note they sent with a request to join, and the share of the activities they said they would attend that they attended; and for a paid activity, each buyer's first name, last initial and username where set, neighborhood, ticket count, amount, and refund status. What you may do with it. Use it only to plan, run, and follow up on the specific activity or community where you received it, and to communicate with attendees about it through Porchside. That is the whole permitted purpose. What you may not do with it. You may not: copy, export, download, photograph, screenshot, transcribe, compile, or otherwise extract attendee or member information, or keep any list of it outside Porchside; use any automated means to collect it; contact an attendee or member off Porchside for marketing, promotion, recruitment, fundraising, or any purpose other than the specific activity or community, or add them to any mailing list, newsletter, group, or channel without their separate agreement given for that purpose; sell, rent, share, publish, or otherwise disclose it to anyone else, including a co-organizer outside Porchside, a sponsor, a venue, a platform, or a service provider of yours; combine it with information from any other source, or use it to identify, locate, look up, or learn more about a person than the Service shows you; use it to make decisions about a person outside Porchside, including decisions about employment, housing, credit, insurance, or membership of any other organization; use it to infer or record anything about a person's health, sexual orientation, religion, politics, immigration status, or other sensitive characteristics; keep it after you no longer need it for the activity or community; or use it to harass, exclude on a prohibited basis, retaliate against, or embarrass anyone. Your obligations. Keep anything you are given secure. Use it only yourself, or through a co-host or co-organizer who is bound by this Agreement, and remain responsible for what they do with it. Delete anything you hold about a person, including notes you made, promptly if they ask you to, or if we ask you to on their behalf, or when the activity or community ends. Tell us at support@porchside.co without delay if you lose control of attendee information, if it is exposed, or if you learn it has been misused. Do not take a photograph or recording at an activity that a person has asked you not to take, and do not publish a photograph of an attendee without their agreement. Enforcement. We may ask you what you hold and how you are using it, and you agree to answer. We may remove your access, remove your activities or community, suspend or terminate your ability to host, and take other action if we believe you have broken this section, and we may tell an affected person what happened. You will indemnify us for claims arising from your use of attendee information, as our Terms of Service provide. This section survives the end of your hosting and of your account.
8. Communities You Organize
Where you own or administer a community, you also agree that: You will describe the community accurately, and you understand that a public community's name, description, member count, and upcoming public events can be shown on the web to people who are not signed in, and can be indexed by search engines. You will use the invitation features only to invite people you know or who have asked to be invited, and never addresses you bought, scraped, or collected for another purpose. Invitations are capped per send and per day. When you invite someone by email, your own email address is shown to the recipient as the reply-to address, so they can reply to you. We hold the addresses you enter only as our Privacy Policy explains, and we do not send those people anything else. Where a person asks to join, the note they send is for deciding on their request. Insights about your community's members, including the per-member measures described in section 7, are provided to help you run the community. They are not a reputation service, they are not to be shared, and they are covered by section 7 in full. Where you promote another member to admin, they gain the same access, including to invitation records made before they were promoted. Promote people accordingly.
9. Co-Hosts
You may add co-hosts to a free activity from among its accepted participants. A co-host can see and do what you can for that activity, including seeing pending, maybe, declined, and waitlisted requests, checking people in, and receiving host notifications, but does not receive earnings information. Adding a co-host does not transfer your responsibilities under this Agreement, and you remain responsible for the activity. A co-host is a Host for the purposes of this Agreement and is bound by section 7.
10. Prohibited Host Conduct
You may not host activities that are unlawful, unsafe, deceptive, or that violate our Community Guidelines. You may not collect payments outside the Service for activities arranged through it, list an activity you do not intend to run, use a listing to advertise something else, solicit attendees for unrelated commercial purposes, misrepresent your activities or your connection to a venue or organization, create the appearance of demand that does not exist, or retaliate against an attendee for a rating, a report, or a cancellation.
11. Suspension and Termination
We may remove activities or communities, withhold or reverse payouts, revoke your access to attendee information, and suspend or terminate your ability to host if you violate this Agreement, our Terms of Service, our Community Guidelines, or applicable law, or if we determine it is necessary to protect users or Porchside. Where we can, we will tell you why, and you may appeal to support@porchside.co. Sections 3 to 7 continue to apply to activities and amounts that predate any termination.
12. Contact
For questions about this Host Agreement, contact us at support@porchside.co. Kinward, Inc. Austin, Texas