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Terms of Service

Last updated: October 5, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between PestBooker, LLC (“PestBooker”, “we”, “us”) and the business that registers for or uses the service (“you”, “Company”). By accepting these Terms, or by accessing or using the service, you agree to be bound by them and by all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree, you may not use the service.

The individual accepting these Terms represents that they are at least 18 years old and are authorized to bind the Company. Where the service presents these Terms for acceptance, we record the version accepted, the account and individual who accepted, and the date and time of acceptance. That record is evidence of the Company’s agreement.

2. Definitions

  • Customer Data: information you or your End Customers submit to the service, including contact details, addresses, property information, appointments, messages, and payment records.
  • End Customer: a consumer or business that books, receives, or enquires about your pest control services.
  • Third-Party Service: any service not operated by us that the platform connects to at your direction, including field-service management, payment processing, messaging, mapping, and AI providers.
  • Order Form: any written quote, order form, or statement of work signed or accepted by both parties that references these Terms.

Where an Order Form conflicts with these Terms, the Order Form controls for that Company, and only as to the conflicting subject.

3. Description of Service

PestBooker provides an online booking and scheduling platform specifically designed for pest control companies. Our service allows businesses to:

  • Accept online bookings from customers 24/7
  • Manage appointments and schedules
  • Send automated reminders via SMS and email
  • Process payments and collect deposits
  • Integrate with third-party calendar, field-service, and CRM systems
  • Provide AI-powered chatbot assistants for customer communication via SMS and web chat
  • Detect and route existing customers to support resources

We may add, change, or remove features over time. We will not materially reduce the core functionality you are paying for during a billing period without notice.

4. Account Registration

4.1 Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and have the authority to enter into this agreement on behalf of your business.

4.2 Account Security

You are responsible for:

  • Maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials
  • All activities that occur under your account
  • Notifying us immediately of any unauthorized access
  • Removing access promptly for personnel who leave your business or change roles

4.3 Accurate Information

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to update such information as necessary. This includes the credentials you supply for Third-Party Services; we are not responsible for failures caused by credentials that are missing, expired, or lack the permissions the integration requires.

4.4 Users

Each individual who accesses the service under your account (a “User”) must accept our User Terms, published at pestbooker.com/user-terms, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference. You are responsible for your Users’ compliance with these Terms and the User Terms, and for their acts and omissions in using the service.

5. Subscription and Payment

5.1 Free Trial

We offer a 14-day free trial. No credit card is required for the trial period. At the end of the trial, your subscription will not automatically begin unless you actively subscribe.

5.2 Subscription Fees

Unless your Order Form states otherwise, the Professional Plan includes a base monthly subscription fee plus usage-based fees:

  • Base Fee: A fixed monthly subscription fee (currently $499/month) billed in advance at the start of each billing period.
  • Per-Booking Fee: A fee of $5.00 for each customer booking that converts through the PestBooker online booking platform. This fee applies only to bookings completed entirely through PestBooker. Conversions that occur through other channels (such as phone calls, in-person sales, or external systems) are not subject to this fee.

Enterprise and multi-office arrangements may be priced per office, per active location, or at negotiated rates, as set out in your Order Form.

Per-booking fees are calculated and charged at the end of each billing cycle along with your next base subscription fee. You can view your current usage and estimated charges at any time in your billing dashboard.

5.3 Billing

Base subscription fees are billed in advance on a monthly basis. Usage-based fees (per-booking fees) are billed in arrears at the end of each billing period. All fees are non-refundable except as required by law or as explicitly stated in our refund policy.

Fees are exclusive of taxes. You are responsible for any sales, use, VAT, or similar taxes, excluding taxes on our income.

5.4 Non-Payment

If an invoice is not paid when due, we may send notice and, if it remains unpaid 10 days after that notice, suspend access to the service until payment is received. Suspension does not relieve you of fees accrued. We will not delete Customer Data solely because of a suspension.

5.5 Price Changes

We reserve the right to modify subscription fees with 30 days’ notice. Price changes will not affect your current billing period.

5.6 Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription at any time. Cancellation will take effect at the end of your current billing period. Any outstanding usage-based fees will be charged with your final invoice.

6. Customer Data and Privacy

6.1 Ownership

As between the parties, you own all Customer Data. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, transmit, and display Customer Data solely to provide and support the service, to prevent fraud and abuse, and as otherwise permitted in these Terms.

6.2 Our Role

For personal information about your End Customers, you are the business or controller and we act as your service provider or processor. We process that information only on your documented instructions — which include your configuration of the service — and for no other commercial purpose. We do not sell or share End Customer personal information, and we do not retain, use, or disclose it outside the direct business relationship with you.

6.3 Aggregated and Service Data

We may generate and use aggregated or de-identified data derived from use of the service to operate, secure, analyze, and improve it. Such data will not identify you, your End Customers, or any individual, and we will not attempt to re-identify it.

6.4 Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Customer Data appropriate to its sensitivity. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we do not guarantee absolute security. We will notify you without undue delay after becoming aware of a breach of security leading to the unauthorized disclosure of Customer Data in our control.

6.5 Retention and Deletion

We retain Customer Data for as long as your account is active and as described in our Privacy Policy. On termination, see Section 15.3. You may request deletion of specific Customer Data at any time; we will comply within a reasonable period except where retention is required by law or for the establishment or defense of legal claims.

6.6 Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle personal information and is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

6.7 Data Processing Addendum

Our Data Processing Addendum, published at pestbooker.com/dpa, sets out how we process personal information about your End Customers on your behalf, including the service provider terms required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, our security commitments, subprocessor notice, and breach notification. It is incorporated into these Terms by reference and applies to every customer without a separate signature. Where it conflicts with these Terms on the processing of personal data, it controls.

7. End-Customer Communications and Consent

The service sends SMS and email messages to your End Customers on your behalf and under your brand. This section allocates responsibility for those messages, and it is important.

  • You are the sender. You are the sender of record for every message the service sends to your End Customers, including booking confirmations, reminders, review requests, marketing messages, and AI-generated replies.
  • You warrant consent. You represent and warrant that you have obtained and will maintain all consents required by applicable law — including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, CAN-SPAM, and any state analogues — for every phone number and email address in your account, and that you will honor opt-outs promptly.
  • Content is yours. You are responsible for the content of message templates you configure, and for reviewing the behavior of any automated or AI-generated messaging you enable.
  • We may act to protect the platform. We may throttle, suspend, or refuse messaging that we reasonably believe violates law, carrier rules, or messaging-provider policy, or that risks the deliverability of the shared platform. We will tell you when we do.

We provide suppression, opt-out handling, and quiet-hours features as tools. Using them does not transfer responsibility for compliance to us.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  • Violate any laws or regulations
  • Infringe on intellectual property rights
  • Upload malicious code or viruses
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems
  • Use the service to send spam or unsolicited communications
  • Interfere with or disrupt the service or servers
  • Use the service for any fraudulent or illegal purpose
  • Resell, sublicense, or provide the service to a third party except to operate your own pest control business, unless your Order Form permits it
  • Reverse engineer the service, or use it to build a competing product, or benchmark it for publication without our written consent
  • Access the service by automated means beyond documented APIs, or in a way that imposes an unreasonable load

9. AI-Powered Features

PestBooker uses artificial intelligence (powered by Anthropic’s Claude) to provide automated customer communication. AI features include: automated SMS replies to customer messages, web chat widget with AI responses, customer identification, and booking link generation.

AI-generated responses may contain inaccuracies. They are informational only and do not constitute professional advice. Customer message content is processed by Anthropic’s API for response generation. Anthropic does not use API data for model training.

You (the company) are responsible for reviewing and configuring AI behavior through the settings dashboard. You must ensure your End Customers are informed that they may be interacting with AI, including where a law such as California Business and Professions Code section 17941 requires disclosure of an automated bot.

AI features must not be used to make, or to appear to make, decisions about pricing, eligibility, or service refusal on any basis that would be unlawful.

PestBooker is not liable for any actions taken based on AI-generated responses.

10. Third-Party Services

The service connects to Third-Party Services at your direction — for example field-service management systems, payment processors and merchant providers, messaging carriers, mapping providers, and AI providers. Your use of a Third-Party Service is governed by your agreement with that provider, not by these Terms.

We do not control Third-Party Services and are not responsible for their availability, accuracy, security, pricing, or acts and omissions, including where an outage, rate limit, quota, or data error at a Third-Party Service affects the service. Where you direct us to transmit Customer Data to a Third-Party Service, you authorize that transmission.

Payments for your pest control services are processed by your merchant provider through your field-service management system, not by PestBooker. We do not hold funds for your services and are not a party to those transactions.

11. Intellectual Property

11.1 Our Rights

All content, features, and functionality of PestBooker are owned by us and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted here, no license is granted.

11.2 Your Content

You retain all rights to content you upload. By using our service, you grant us a limited license to store, process, and display your content solely for providing the service.

11.3 Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback about the service, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you. Feedback is given voluntarily and is not your Confidential Information.

12. Confidentiality

Each party may receive information of the other that is marked confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential (“Confidential Information”). Customer Data is your Confidential Information. Non-public details of the service, including pricing not publicly listed, are ours.

The receiving party will use Confidential Information only to perform under these Terms, will protect it with at least reasonable care, and will not disclose it except to personnel and contractors bound by comparable obligations. These duties do not apply to information that is public through no fault of the receiving party, was already known to it, is independently developed, or is rightfully received from a third party. A party may disclose Confidential Information where legally compelled, giving prompt notice where lawful.

13. Service Availability and Support

We strive to provide 99.9% uptime but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. We may perform maintenance, updates, or modifications that temporarily affect service availability, and will use reasonable efforts to schedule planned maintenance outside peak booking hours.

Unless an Order Form states otherwise, this uptime figure is a target and not a service level agreement, and no service credits are offered for failing to meet it. Support is provided by email at support@pestbooker.com during business hours.

Features may be offered on a beta, preview, or early-access basis. Those features are provided as is, may change or be withdrawn, and are excluded from any availability target.

14. Disclaimer of Warranties

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, AND PESTBOOKER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICE OR ITS OUTPUTS — INCLUDING AI-GENERATED CONTENT, PRICING ESTIMATES, ROUTING, AND AVAILABILITY — WILL BE ACCURATE OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSES. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR VERIFYING ANYTHING YOU RELY ON.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • Neither party is liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost bookings, or loss of goodwill, even if advised of the possibility
  • Each party’s total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms shall not exceed the amounts you paid us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim
  • We are not responsible for Third-Party Services or integrations
  • AI-generated responses are provided “as is” without warranty of accuracy

These limits do not apply to your payment obligations, to either party’s indemnification obligations, to a breach of confidentiality, or to liability arising from fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct — nor to any other liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

The parties agree these limits are mutual, are a reasonable allocation of risk between two businesses, and are part of the basis of the bargain: the fees reflect them.

16. Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify PestBooker against third-party claims, and pay resulting damages and reasonable legal fees, arising from: your use of the service; Customer Data; messages sent to your End Customers, including any claim under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act or a state analogue; your services to End Customers; or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

We will defend and indemnify you against third-party claims that the service, as provided by us and used in accordance with these Terms, infringes a United States patent, copyright, or trademark, and pay resulting damages and reasonable legal fees. This does not apply to claims arising from Customer Data, Third-Party Services, your modifications, or use in combination with anything we did not supply.

Indemnification is conditioned on prompt notice, sole control of the defense by the indemnifying party, and reasonable cooperation. No settlement that imposes an obligation on the other party may be made without its consent.

17. Term and Termination

17.1 Term

These Terms begin when you first accept them or first use the service, and continue until all subscriptions have expired or been terminated.

17.2 Termination

You may terminate at any time as described in Section 5.6. We may suspend or terminate your account for material breach of these Terms that is not cured within 15 days of notice, for non-payment as described in Section 5.4, immediately for conduct that creates legal or security risk to us or to others, or for convenience on 30 days’ notice. If we terminate for convenience, we will refund any prepaid, unused base fees.

17.3 Effect of Termination

Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases. For 30 days after termination you may request an export of Customer Data in a commonly used format. After that period we may delete Customer Data, subject to backup cycles and any retention required by law. Sections 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, and 20 survive termination, along with any accrued payment obligations.

18. Changes to Terms

We may revise these Terms at any time. We will give notice of material changes through the service, by email, or both, and ask an administrator of your account to review and accept the revised Terms. A revised version is recorded as accepted when an administrator accepts it, together with who accepted it and when. Non-material changes, such as correcting a typographical error, may be made without asking for acceptance.

19. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Before filing a claim, each party agrees to try to resolve the dispute informally by giving written notice describing it and negotiating in good faith for 30 days. If that fails, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Diego County, California, and each waives any objection to that venue.

Each party agrees to bring any claim in its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative action. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or Confidential Information.

20. General

  • Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any Order Form are the entire agreement between the parties on this subject and supersede prior discussions. Terms on your purchase order or vendor portal do not apply.
  • Assignment. Neither party may assign these Terms without the other’s written consent, except to a successor in a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all assets, on notice.
  • Severability. If a provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder stays in effect.
  • Waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, excluding payment obligations.
  • Notices. Notices to you may be sent to the email addresses on your account or shown in the dashboard. Notices to us go to legal@pestbooker.com and to the address below.
  • Independent contractors. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing here creates a partnership, agency, or employment relationship.
  • No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights for anyone other than the parties.
  • Publicity. We will not use your name or logo publicly without your consent, which you may withdraw at any time.

21. Contact Information

For questions about these Terms of Service, contact us at:

  • Email: legal@pestbooker.com
  • Address: PestBooker, LLC, 8690 Aero Dr, Ste 115 #1076, San Diego, CA 92123