Terms of Service

Student Section provides a specialized K-12 fundraising platform designed for sports teams, clubs, and school activities. The platform allows authorized coaches, school administrators, or athletic directors ("Organizers") to load rosters and distribute unique campaign access links ("magic links") to participants via SMS, enabling participants to share fundraising campaigns with supporters.

By uploading or inputting any roster information (including names and mobile phone numbers of students or participants), Organizers expressly represent and warrant that:

• They are authorized representatives of the school, team, or school district.
• The fundraising campaign is fully approved by the school or school district.
• The school possesses the legal authority, proper consent, or appropriate parental notices required under FERPA, COPPA, and applicable state laws (such as Michigan SOPPA) to provide participant contact information to Student Section for the sole purpose of executing this school-authorized activity.

Access to individual participant profiles is granted via secure, unique URLs ("magic links") delivered via SMS. Participants and their parents/guardians are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their magic links and are responsible for all sharing activities that occur under their specific link.

By utilizing the Student Section platform, Organizers, participants, and parents may receive text messages containing campaign setups, magic login links, and direct campaign notifications.

• Program Description & Opt-In: When an authorized coach or administrator adds a participant's mobile number to a campaign roster, Student Section sends a transactional text message containing a secure access link to the participant or parent.
• Message Frequency: Message frequency varies based on active fundraising campaigns — typically 3–5 messages per campaign over 2–4 weeks.
• Opt-Out: You can cancel the SMS service at any time. Reply STOP to any message. After you send STOP, we will send you one confirmation message and no further messages will be sent to your number.
• Help: If you are experiencing issues with the messaging program, reply HELP for assistance, or contact us directly at info@mystudentsection.com.
• Carriers: Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
• Rates: Message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you.

Full details of our SMS program: mystudentsection.com/sms.

All donations made through the Service are securely processed by our third-party payment processor, Stripe.

• Platform fees and third-party processing fees are deducted from the gross donations collected before distribution to the school or organization, as detailed in the specific campaign setup agreement.
• Student Section does not hold, manage, or invest school funds; funds are routed directly via Stripe to the designated financial accounts verified and owned by the school or its authorized booster/organization.
• Purchase Orders / Net-30 Billing: School districts and authorized booster organizations may request invoice-based billing on net-30 terms for platform subscription fees. Contact info@mystudentsection.com to request a purchase order (PO) arrangement. All invoices are due within 30 days of issuance.

To safeguard the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status of public schools, districts, and authorized booster organizations, all fundraising campaigns run on Student Section must benefit the team, club, or activity as a whole. Funds raised cannot be tracked or earmarked for individual student accounts to directly offset personal dues, private fees, or individual family balances in a manner that violates IRS regulations regarding private inurement.

Student Section operates as a “School Official” under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. In this capacity, we receive access to education records solely to perform services on behalf of the school or district and maintain a Legitimate Educational Interest strictly limited to executing the school-authorized fundraising activity. We are subject to the school's direct control with respect to the use and maintenance of education records.

In alignment with school data privacy requirements, Student Section acts as a service provider bound to strict educational data limitations. We do not own any roster or student data provided to us. All roster details, names, and contact numbers will be securely purged from our active operational databases within 90 days following the conclusion and payout of an active campaign.

Users agree not to:

• Use the platform to send unsolicited or unauthorized communications (spam).
• Manipulate, reverse-engineer, or attempt to circumvent the security of magic link authentication.
• Upload false, misleading, or unauthorized roster or identity data.
• Post or share harmful, abusive, or inappropriate text or commentary on donation pages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Student Section shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from your access to or use of the Service.

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising under these Terms shall be brought exclusively in the courts located in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will notify Organizers of any material changes by posting the updated Terms on our website and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this document.

For any questions regarding these Terms, please contact us at:
info@mystudentsection.com
mystudentsection.com