Terms & Conditions

Effective Date: July 10, 2026  ·  Last Updated: July 11, 2026

Application: What the Hill
Operating Entity: Rencher LLC

Welcome to What the Hill (the "App"), which is owned and operated by Rencher LLC ("we," "us," or "our"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you," "user," or "organization"), and Rencher LLC, concerning your access to and use of the App across iOS, Android, Web, or any other platform.

By downloading, installing, registering an account, or using the App, you explicitly acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms. If you do not agree with all of these Terms, you are expressly prohibited from using the App and must discontinue use immediately.

1. Eligibility & Account Registration

• Age Requirement: Access to the App is restricted to individuals who are 13 years of age or older. We enforce a mandatory age verification check during the account registration process. By registering, you warrant that you meet this age milestone.
• Account Security: When creating an account, you agree to provide accurate, current, and complete details (including name, email address, and optional demographic data). You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.
• Account Deletion: You have the absolute right to terminate your account at any time. To execute a permanent account and user record deletion, you can navigate within the App following this path: Home Page → Profile → Settings → Account → Permanently Delete Account.

2. Acceptable Use & Prohibited Activities

You may use the App solely for its intended purpose: tracking legislative bills, evaluating political data, and engaging with designated public officials. You are strictly prohibited from utilizing the App to engage in harmful behaviors. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to:

• Using any automated system, spider, robot, or scraper to access, extract, or copy data, code, or bill tracking inventories from the App without our explicit written permission.
• Attempting to decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or crack any source code or algorithmic feeds powering the App.
• Tricking, defrauding, or misleading other users, or attempting to harvest or collect the personal data of other users.
• Uploading, posting, or transmitting any content (via organization accounts or user profiles) that is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, harassing, threatening, or inciting violence.
• Impersonating another individual, public official, legislative entity, or using another user's account credentials without authorization.

3. Ultimate Discretion to Ban Users and Approve Organizations

• Absolute Right to Ban Users: Rencher LLC reserves the absolute right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to suspend, terminate, restrict, or permanently ban any user account, device, or IP address from accessing the App at any time, for any reason whatsoever or for no reason at all. We are not required to provide prior warning, notice, explanation, or justification to you or any third party regarding our decision to revoke your access.
• Absolute Right over Partner Organizations: Rencher LLC retains total and exclusive legal authority to choose which external groups, campaigns, nonprofits, or entities are permitted to operate as a "Partner Organization" allowed to publish content within the platform. We reserve the right to establish any internal qualifications, modify approval standards at any time, or deny/revoke an organization's administrative access for any reason—including an organization's political views, public statements, affiliations, actions, or any other factor determined entirely by us. Rencher LLC is under no obligation to explain, justify, or defend its approval or denial choices, and we reserve the right to change our decision regarding an organization's status at any time without liability.

4. Code of Conduct for Civic Engagement & Constituent Communications

The App is designed to foster productive, democratic communication between constituents and public officials, including legislators, governors, committees, and state staff members. By using the App's communication functionalities, pre-built templates, email generation tools, or telephone integration buttons, you explicitly agree to use these tools in a civil, lawful, and proper manner.

You are strictly prohibited from using the App, its templates, or its communication shortcuts to initialize, draft, or transmit any outbound communications that:

• Harass, abuse, stalk, threaten, intimidate, or intentionally defame any public official, government employee, or fellow user.
• Contain obscene, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or sexually explicit language.
• Are designed purely to maliciously embarrass, dox, or compromise the personal safety and privacy of a public official or their staff.
• Constitute "spamming," automated flooding, or coordinated mass denial-of-service attacks against a legislative or executive office's communications infrastructure.
• Violate any applicable local, state, or federal laws regarding telephonic or digital communications, including harassment and wire fraud statutes.

5. Intellectual Property & User Content Licenses

• Our Intellectual Property: Unless otherwise indicated, the App, including its source code, databases, software functionality, UI designs, graphics, branding elements, and logos (collectively, "Our Content") are owned or controlled by Rencher LLC and are protected by copyright, trademark, and unfair competition laws. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access the App strictly for personal or approved organizational operations.
• Organizational & User-Generated Content License: If you operate an administrator or organization account and upload, publish, or submit profiles, text updates, legislative posts, external hyperlinks, social media markers, imagery, or other materials (collectively, "User Content"), you retain your underlying ownership rights. However, by publishing or providing User Content to us, you grant Rencher LLC a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable license to host, display, distribute, modify, and stream that content publicly within the App for operational use. You represent and warrant that you own or possess the legal rights to distribute all materials submitted.

6. Content Disclaimers & Passive Hosting

• Third-Party Content & Fact-Checking Shield: The App allows partner organizations, external entities, and third-party administrators to publish profiles, legislative positions, opinion posts, external hyperlinks, and pre-built communication templates ("Partner Content"). You explicitly acknowledge and agree that Rencher LLC acts strictly as a passive hosting platform for the distribution of this information. We do not actively monitor, fact-check, vet, or verify Partner Content for factual accuracy, truthfulness, legality, or completeness. Rencher LLC explicitly disclaims all liability and responsibility for any misinformation, defamatory statements, factual errors, omissions, or real-world harms resulting from your reliance on materials posted by third-party organizations. Any reliance on Partner Content is strictly at your own risk.
• Proprietary Bill Summaries and Interpretations: To assist users in navigating confusing legislative terminology, the App provides proprietary summaries, simplified explanations, and contextual commentary regarding bill histories and text. These summaries are generated for general informational, educational, and civic tracking purposes only. They do not constitute official legislative records, legal advice, statutory analysis, or political endorsements. Legislative text and political processes are inherently complex, fast-moving, and subject to interpretation. Rencher LLC makes no representations or warranties regarding the absolute accuracy, completeness, or definitive legal correctness of our generated summaries. You agree that you will not rely on these summaries for professional, legal, or compliance decision-making, and you are entirely responsible for verifying official bill texts through primary state legislative portals.

7. Government Data Feeds & Master API Disclaimer

To populate its civic tracking platform and provide automated representative matching, the App relies heavily on public developer application programming interfaces (APIs) and data feeds provided by the State of Utah and its affiliated government entities (including the Utah Geospatial Resource Center - UGRC). This includes, but is not limited to, automated data regarding bill names, tracking numbers, structural amendments, vote counts, committee schedules, legislator rosters, and official public contact channels. You explicitly acknowledge and agree to the following:

• "As-Is" Delivery: All public government data is integrated into the App on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. Rencher LLC does not control, maintain, or curate the official state data feeds.
• Exemption from Feed Liability: Rencher LLC shall hold zero liability or responsibility for any disruptions, server downtime, missing data blocks, typographical blunders, or structural inaccuracies originating within the official state records or state API infrastructures.
• Legislator Media Assets: While the App displays public photography or imagery of legislators, these visual assets are sourced from public or third-party open repositories. Rencher LLC holds no liability for the accuracy, outdated nature, or specific licensing terms of those external image assets. Your reliance on any primary data delivered via state systems is executed entirely at your own risk.

8. Incident Reporting & Public Official Protocols

• Abuse and Reporting Contact: If any user or organization is found to be abusing the app, violating the code of conduct, or infringing upon your rights, or if you need to report system vulnerabilities, you should immediately contact our support team at support@whatthehill.app.
• Elected Official & Legislator Protocols: If an elected official, legislator, governor, or committee staff member wishes to update their public contact information on the App, report an abusive user account, or officially interact with What the Hill, they are required to submit their request using an official government email address (e.g., matching a verified state, executive, or legislative domain). Rencher LLC will not process structural public profile adjustments or formal conduct reports from legislators sent via private or unverified personal email clients.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties & Real-World Actions

The App is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. You agree that your use of the App and our services will be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Rencher LLC disclaims all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the App and your use thereof. We assume no liability or responsibility for any errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies in legislative reporting; server interruptions; bugs, viruses, or malware transmitted by third parties; or any software malfunctions.

• Independent Civic and Real-World Actions: The App acts purely as a technical tool to facilitate contact initialization between constituents and elected officials. Rencher LLC holds absolutely no responsibility or liability for the real-world outcomes, backlash, or consequences of any emails sent, telephone calls placed, or communications initiated using our platform's templates or buttons. You assume 100% of the risk and legal responsibility for your interactions with public officials, legislative offices, or political bodies. Rencher LLC does not guarantee that your communications will be received, read, answered, or favorably acted upon by any representative or government office.

10. Limitation of Liability & Cyber Shield

In no event will Rencher LLC, its directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages—including lost profits, lost revenue, loss of data, or other damages arising from your use of the App, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

• Absolute Exclusion of Individual Personal Liability: You explicitly acknowledge and agree that the App is owned, operated, and maintained solely by Rencher LLC, a distinct legal entity. Under no circumstances shall any individual owner, member, manager, officer, employee, founder, or agent of Rencher LLC be held personally liable to you or any third party for any contractual, tort, or structural damages, data breaches, system errors, or financial losses arising from your use of the App. You unconditionally waive any right to bring claims, launch lawsuits, or seek recovery against any individual associated with Rencher LLC, agreeing that your sole legal recourse for any dispute lies exclusively against the corporate assets of Rencher LLC.
• Data Breach Liability Shield: You explicitly acknowledge that while we deploy industry-standard security architectures, no digital platform is entirely impervious to malicious actors. Rencher LLC shall not be held liable to you for any unauthorized data access, system intrusion, exposure, alteration, or theft of personal identifiers, sensitive political choices, or usage metrics resulting from a third-party cyberattack or data breach.
• Maximum Liability Cap: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, our total liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the net amount paid, if any, by you to us for using the App.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Rencher LLC—including its officers, members, and employees—from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to:

1. Your use or misuse of the App.
2. Any User Content, materials, links, or posts you or your organization publish or submit via the platform.
3. Your violation of these Terms.
4. Your violation of any third-party intellectual property, privacy, or civil rights.

If Rencher LLC is sued or faces legal action due to your behavior, content, or misrepresentations, you agree to fully cover all legal defense and settlement costs incurred by us.

12. Dispute Resolution & Class Action Waiver

• Governing Law: These Terms and your use of the App are governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Utah, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising out of these Terms shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Utah.
• Class Action Waiver: You and Rencher LLC agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. You explicitly waive your right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration proceeding.

13. Storefront Precedence & System Modifications

• Storefront Policies: You acknowledge that this agreement is solely between you and Rencher LLC, and not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC. However, the distribution frameworks, download mechanics, and payment or refund pathways of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store take precedence over these Terms where applicable.
• Modifications to Terms: We reserve the right to change, modify, or alter these Terms at any time. We will provide prompt notice of material changes via an in-app alert, an email broadcast, or by updating the text directly on our web index. Your continued use of the App following the posting of updated Terms confirms your binding acceptance of the revisions.

14. Contact Information

For any legal inquiries, formal notices, or issues regarding these Terms, please contact:

Rencher LLC
Legal & Compliance Department
Email: privacy@whatthehill.app or support@whatthehill.app
Website: whatthehill.app

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