Terms of Service

What Florida Education Vendors is

• Florida Education Vendors is an independent directory that helps Florida families using PEP and FES-UA scholarships find providers. We are not affiliated with Step Up For Students, the Florida Department of Education, or any state scholarship program. We do not process scholarship funds, approve providers, or decide which purchases qualify.
• Provider details, including which scholarship programs a provider accepts, are mostly supplied by the providers themselves. We work to keep listings accurate, but we cannot guarantee them. Always confirm eligibility with your scholarship program and the provider before you pay.
• Our guides and articles are general information. Program rules change, and nothing on the site is legal, financial, medical, or educational advice.

Using the site

• You must be 18 or older to create an account.
• Keep your login private. You are responsible for activity under your account.
• Do not copy, scrape, or bulk download listings or other content, including with bots or scripts.
• Do not collect provider or family contact information to send spam or bulk outreach.
• Do not post false, misleading, offensive, or unlawful content, or pretend to be someone else.
• Do not upload harmful code, try to break into the site, or overload it.

Families and providers

• When you contact or hire a provider, any agreement, payment, or service is between you and that provider. We are not part of that arrangement and are not responsible for a provider's services, pricing, safety, or results.
• We do not run background checks or confirm licenses or credentials. Ask providers for credentials and references, especially anyone who will work with your child in person.

Reviews

• Only review providers you have actually used, and describe your own honest experience.
• Do not post offensive content or other people's personal information, and do not post a review you were paid or offered something for. Providers may not review their own business or a competitor.
• We may remove reviews that break these rules or that we believe are not genuine. Reviews are the opinions of the people who wrote them, not ours.
• By posting a review, you allow us to show it, along with the name you choose to display, on the site and in our marketing.

Sponsored placements and affiliate links

• Some providers pay for features such as Top Vendor labels, featured spots, category sponsorships, and higher placement. Payment affects where a listing appears. It never changes a provider's reviews.
• Some links to providers are affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you sign up through one, at no extra cost to you.

Provider listings

• Anyone may suggest a listing, and we decide whether to publish it. You may manage a listing only if you are authorized to represent that business.
• Keep your listing accurate and up to date, including the programs you accept, your pricing, and your contact details. Honor any special offer or code you post while it appears on your listing.
• If families message you through the site, use their contact information only to respond to them, and follow the law. Do not sell it or add families to marketing lists without their permission.
• You keep ownership of the business name, logo, photos, videos, and descriptions you provide. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to use, display, resize, and format that content on the site, in our emails, and on our social media to promote your listing and the directory. You confirm you have the right to share it, including permission from a parent or guardian for any photo or video that shows a child.
• You can remove content from your listing at any time. We will stop using it in new marketing within a reasonable time, but posts already published may stay up.
• We may edit listings for formatting, accuracy, or category, and we may suspend or remove a listing that breaks these terms or that we believe is inaccurate or unsafe.

Paid plans and billing

• Standard and Premium are monthly subscriptions, billed in advance through Stripe. They renew automatically each month until you cancel. Current prices are on our Plans page. All paid plans are month to month, with no contract.
• Upgrades take effect right away, and you are charged the prorated difference for the rest of your current billing period.
• Cancellations and switches from Premium to Standard take effect at the end of your current billing period. Your paid features stay on until then, and your listing then moves to the new plan or to Free.
• You can cancel at any time from the Billing page in your provider account or by emailing hello@floridaemavendors.com.
• We do not give refunds or credits for partial months, unused features, or time left in a billing period, except when the law requires it or we made a billing mistake.
• If a payment fails, Stripe will try again. If payment still cannot be collected, the subscription ends and your listing moves to the Free plan.
• Promo codes and free periods follow the terms shown when you redeem them and have no cash value.
• We may change plan prices or features. We will email paying providers at least 30 days before a price increase takes effect, so you can cancel first if you choose.
• Partner and sponsorship packages are covered by a separate written agreement. If that agreement conflicts with these terms, the agreement controls.

Our content

The site, its design, search tools, guides, and other content belong to ESA Vendor Network or the people who licensed them to us. You may use the site for your own personal or business research and share links to it. Do not copy, resell, or republish our guides or directory without our written permission. The Florida Education Vendors name and logo are ours.

Search results and AI tools

Our search and quiz use automated tools, including AI, to suggest providers. Results can be incomplete or wrong, and the order of results also reflects paid placement. Use them as a starting point for your own research.

No guarantees

The site is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise the site will be error free or always available. For providers, we do not guarantee any number of views, messages, recommendations, or customers.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, ESA Vendor Network and its owners, team members, and contractors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or business, arising from your use of the site or from any provider's services. Our total liability for any claim related to the site or these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or $100.

Your responsibility

If you use the site in a way that breaks these terms or the law, or if content you post leads to a claim against us, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim, including legal fees.

Ending your use

You can stop using the site at any time and ask us to close your account by emailing hello@floridaemavendors.com. We may suspend or end access for anyone who breaks these terms or misuses the site. Sections that should reasonably continue after that, such as payments owed, permission for content already published, no guarantees, limits on our liability, your responsibility, and disputes, still apply.

Disputes and governing law

If you have a problem, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally within 30 days. These terms are governed by Florida law, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any lawsuit about the site or these terms must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Florida, and you and we agree to those courts' jurisdiction.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the site changes. When we do, we will post the new version here and change the date at the top. If a change materially affects paid providers, we will also email them. If you keep using the site after an update, you accept the new terms.

Other details

If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a part of these terms right away, we can still enforce it later. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our permission. We may transfer ours as part of a sale or merger of the business. These terms, our Privacy Policy, and any signed sponsorship agreement are the full agreement between you and us about the site.

Contact us

Questions about these terms can go to ESA Vendor Network, operator of Florida Education Vendors, at hello@floridaemavendors.com. You can also reach us through our contact page.