Terms of Use

Effective Date: March 2025

Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using PlainFranchise ("plainfranchise.com"), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use PlainFranchise.

Information Purpose — Not Investment Advice

PlainFranchise is an informational resource presenting publicly available FDD (Franchise Disclosure Document) data. Nothing on PlainFranchise constitutes financial, legal, investment, or franchise advice. Franchise investments involve significant financial risk. Always consult qualified professionals — including a franchise attorney and CPA — before making any investment decision.

Accuracy and Completeness

FDD data is sourced from publicly available filings. We strive for accuracy but make no warranties about completeness, reliability, or currentness. FDD data may be outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate. Always verify with the franchisor's current FDD before relying on any figures.

No Professional Advice

Nothing on PlainFranchise constitutes professional advice of any kind — whether financial, legal, or franchise consulting. Any decisions you make based on information found here are solely your responsibility.

Intellectual Property

The underlying FDD data is from public filings. Our original design, code, organization, and editorial content are copyrighted by Kiznis.Studio. You may not scrape, reproduce, or redistribute our site design or original content without permission.

Advertising

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Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, PlainFranchise and Kiznis.Studio shall not be liable for any damages arising from your use of or reliance on PlainFranchise, including any investment decisions made based on data presented here.

Changes to Terms

We may update these terms at any time. Continued use constitutes acceptance.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@plainfranchise.com.

Data Accuracy and Verification

PlainFranchise aggregates and reformats information that originates from public government agencies, regulatory filings, and other openly available sources. While we take reasonable steps to ingest, normalize, and refresh this data, upstream records may contain clerical errors, lag behind real-world changes, or omit relevant context. You are solely responsible for verifying any fact that influences a legal, medical, financial, educational, safety, or similarly consequential decision. Cross-reference the official source before acting on anything you read here.

Acceptable Use

You may browse, read, and share PlainFranchise content for personal, journalistic, academic, and non-commercial research use. You may cite specific records with attribution and a link back to the page on plainfranchise.com. You may not (a) systematically scrape, crawl, or download the dataset in bulk without prior written permission; (b) resell, sublicense, or redistribute derived data products that compete with PlainFranchise; (c) use our pages to harass, defame, or misrepresent any individual or organization appearing in the data; (d) remove, obscure, or mislabel source attribution; or (e) attempt to bypass rate limits, security controls, or authentication mechanisms.

Plain-Language Editorial Role

PlainFranchise combines raw public data with plain-language summaries, explainers, and comparisons. Narrative sections are drafted by our editorial team from official source data and reviewed for accuracy before publication. We do not modify the underlying numbers or filings — those are loaded directly from the upstream source. If you spot a summary that misreads the data, please email the correction link on our contact page.

Copyright & Editorial Rights

The underlying public records surfaced on PlainFranchise are in the public domain or otherwise freely licensed by the issuing agency — you are free to use those raw facts. However, our site design, layout, navigation structure, original editorial copy, category taxonomies, comparison tables, and curated rankings are the copyrighted work of Kiznis Studio. These creative elements may not be reproduced in whole or substantial part without permission.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time to reflect changes in our data sources, product features, legal environment, or advertising relationships. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and — when appropriate — surface a brief notice on the homepage. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically.

Governing Law and Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the jurisdiction in which Kiznis Studio is domiciled, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to your use of PlainFranchise will first be addressed through good-faith informal negotiation. If that fails, both parties agree to resolve the dispute in the courts with jurisdiction over Kiznis Studio's principal place of business. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer-protection rights under applicable local law.

Legal Notices

For formal legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, subpoenas, law-enforcement requests, or correspondence regarding these terms, email legal@plainfranchise.com. General questions, data corrections, and feedback should use the contact page so they reach the editorial team promptly.