Additional Point of Sale Terms of Service

Last updated: October 3, 2017

By using Square Point of Sale (formerly Register) and any associated products and services (the “Services”), you agree to be bound by the General Terms, these additional terms and conditions (“Additional Point of Sale Terms”), and all other terms, policies, and guidelines applicable to the Services used including, but not limited to, the Payment Terms if you accept payments through Square. If you are using the Services on behalf of a business, you agree that you accept all these terms, and have authority to enter into these terms, on behalf of that business. Defined terms have the same meaning as in the General Terms.

1. Gift Cards

If you purchase and offer gift cards to your customers through Square, you (and not Square) are the issuer and administrator of your gift cards. If you have multiple business locations and do not manage your locations through a single Square account, you must separately order gift cards for each business location where you wish to issue and redeem gift cards and print that business location on your gift cards.

Gift cards sold by you are “closed loop” gift cards that are only redeemable from you for your goods and services. You agree to pay our Fees (as defined in the Payment Terms) on each issue of a gift card as well as all order, printing, and shipping fees for each order of gift cards. Square does not assess a fee on the redemption of a gift card to purchase goods or services from you, and you may not assess or impose any fees or charges on the issuance, maintenance, or redemption of gift cards. You may not issue a gift card with a value in excess of $1,000 or add value to a previously issued gift card so that the total funds loaded on a gift card in any single day exceed $1,000. Further, you may not issue more than $1,000 in gift cards to any single person in any one day. You may not impose an expiration date on gift cards, and any unused balance of a gift card must remain available to the holder of the gift card until fully redeemed, even if your Square Account is closed, suspended, or terminated. You may not provide a cash refund from or cash back on gift cards except to the extent required by applicable law. Gift cards may not be used for payment of a credit account.

At the time you issue a gift card, you must clearly disclose on the gift card itself, and on any packaging and promotional materials associated with the gift card, any restrictions, limitations and terms and conditions in respect of the use of such gift card, as well as contact information for the purpose of obtaining information about the gift card, including any remaining balance. If a purchase exceeds the holder’s gift card balance, the holder must pay the remaining amount with another payment method. All gift cards and the funds associated with gift cards are your sole property. Any liability for the use or misuse of your gift cards, and any third party claims arising from or relating to your gift cards, are your sole responsibility.

You are solely responsible for compliance with federal, provincial, territorial, and local laws, rules and regulations that apply to your gift cards, including but not limited to notice, disclosure requirements and language requirements (including, without limitation, pursuant to the Charter of the French Language (Quebec), as applicable), expiration dates and fees, refunds, unclaimed property or escheat requirements (such as tracking, reporting, and remittance of unclaimed property balances in all states), and customer service for buyers and holders of gift cards.

2. Online Store

Your Square Account permits you to create, personalize, and maintain a website for your business using Online Store. If you use Online Store, you agree to make available to your buyers a refund policy applicable to their online purchases. You may not use the donations feature to accept donations for a nonprofit organization other than your own. If you sell live animals through Online Store, you agree to not deliver the animals using inhumane or cruel transportation methods.

3. Online Community

Square provides an Online Community help forum for Sellers to share information and best practices relating to their use of Square Services. All Seller questions, answers, opinions, or information, whether text, image, or video, contributed to the Online Community constitute “Content” and are governed by Section 6 of the General Terms, including that you grant us, our affiliates and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media in order to provide and promote the Services and Square’s business. By participating in the Online Community you acknowledge that you are participating in a public forum and have no expectation of privacy in your Content, which will be available to the public. Only Sellers may contribute to the Online Community. Square does not endorse and is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness or applicability of Content posted in the Online Community. You may encounter content that is inaccurate, inapplicable, or offensive. If the possibility of encountering such content will be offensive or harmful to you, you should not participate in the Online Community.

If you provide suggestions, comments, proposals, feature requests, or other feedback with respect to our current or future products or Services, you agree that such content is not confidential or proprietary and shall not create any confidentiality obligations on us, you acknowledge that we may independently have similar ideas under consideration or development, and you are not entitled to compensation, payment or reimbursement of any kind for such content from us under any circumstances unless you are otherwise notified in writing by us.

Square may remove posts that are offensive, that violate the Community Guidelines, or for any other reason we deem appropriate. Square may also limit or terminate your use of Online Community or our Services if, in our sole judgment, you abuse or inappropriately use the Online Community. Examples of the types of violations that may result in immediate post removal, suspension, or termination from the Online Community or our Services include:

• Violating any laws, the General Terms or Additional Terms, or infringing any third party rights;
• Posting any material that is false, misleading, defamatory or invasive of another person’s right of privacy or right of publicity;
• Posting any material that is harmful, obscene, harassing, offensive, or threatening;
• Collecting information about others without their consent;
• Copying, modifying or distributing Content or the Online Community content or otherwise infringing on copyrights and trademark rights;
• Solicitations of other Online Community users or SPAM of any kind;
• Using any material obtained through the Online Community for commercial purposes; and
• Continuous violations of Community Guidelines.

We have no obligation to monitor the Online Community but may do so at our sole discretion and as we deem appropriate. Please report inappropriate or offensive content, policy violations or other problems to community@squareup.com or flag it within the community.

4. Survival

Sections 1 (Gift Cards) and 2 (Online Community) will survive termination of these Additional Point of Sale Terms, in addition to those that survive under Section 12 of the General Terms.