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Terms of Use

Effective September 14, 2026 · Last updated September 14, 2026

1. Agreement to these Terms

boston.xyz (the "Site") is operated by SplitNPay, Inc. (d/b/a Ryla) ("boston.xyz", "we", "us", "our"), a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business at 185 Alewife Brook Pkwy., Suite 212, Cambridge, MA 02138.

This agreement covers boston.xyz only. SplitNPay, Inc. also operates the Ryla payments products at payryla.com and in the Ryla mobile application. Those are governed by the Ryla Platform Agreement and the Ryla Privacy Policy, which are separate agreements and do not apply here — just as these Terms do not apply to the Ryla Services. Using boston.xyz does not create a Ryla Account, and nothing in these Terms gives you any right to any Ryla product.

THESE TERMS OF USE ("TERMS") ARE A BINDING LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND US. BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR USING THE SITE IN ANY WAY — INCLUDING MERELY VIEWING A PAGE — YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY, WHICH IS INCORPORATED INTO THESE TERMS BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THE SITE.

You also accept these Terms and the Privacy Policy when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit an event, purchase advertising or sponsorship, buy a ticket to an event we host, or contact us.

Section 17 contains an arbitration agreement and a class action waiver that affect how disputes between us are resolved. Please read it.

If you use the Site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" means both you and that organization.

2. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms at any time, in our sole discretion. Changes take effect when posted, and the "Last updated" date will change. Material changes will be noted on the Site for at least 30 days. Your continued use of the Site after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms periodically.

3. Who may use the Site

You must be at least 18 years old. The Site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

We may refuse service, suspend or terminate access, remove any content, and cancel any subscription or account at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you.

4. Availability — the Site and newsletter may change or stop at any time

THE SITE AND THE NEWSLETTER ARE PROVIDED AT OUR DISCRETION AND MAY BE CHANGED, SUSPENDED, LIMITED, OR DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, WITHOUT NOTICE AND WITHOUT LIABILITY.

You acknowledge and agree that we may, at any time and without notice:

  • change, redesign, restructure, or remove any feature, page, listing, collection, or function of the Site;
  • change the format, frequency, length, editorial approach, or content of the newsletter, or stop publishing it entirely;
  • stop carrying any organizer, source, or category of event;
  • delete, archive, or cease to display any listing or other content;
  • impose or change limits on use; or
  • shut down the Site and the newsletter permanently.

We have no obligation to maintain, support, update, store, or continue to make available the Site, the newsletter, any listing, or any data. You should not rely on the continued availability of anything on the Site, and you are responsible for keeping your own copy of anything you need. No refund, credit, compensation, or other remedy is owed on account of any change, suspension, or discontinuation, except as expressly stated in Section 5 (our own events) or Section 8 (advertising).

5. What the Site is — and what it is not

The Site is an index of events organized by other people. We gather event information from calendars organizers publish, from information organizers submit, and from other public sources, and present it in one place with our own selection and commentary.

We are not the organizer, host, promoter, sponsor, agent, partner, representative, or fiduciary of any event listed on the Site unless the listing expressly identifies the event as ours. We do not control, supervise, inspect, vet, verify, guarantee, or endorse third-party events, organizers, venues, speakers, sponsors, or attendees.

5.1 Listing information is not verified and may be wrong

Event listings are collected and published automatically, without human review. Dates, times, venues, addresses, prices, capacity, registration links, organizer names, categories, and descriptions are set and controlled by third parties, are frequently changed by them without notice to us, and may be incomplete, outdated, misclassified, or incorrect — including as a result of errors in our automated collection, classification, and display.

You must confirm all details directly with the organizer before relying on them, and in particular before travelling to, paying for, or otherwise acting on any listing. Any reliance you place on a listing is at your sole risk.

5.2 Dealings with organizers are solely between you and them

Any registration, ticket purchase, payment, admission, refund, cancellation, dispute, contract, or other dealing between you and a third-party organizer or venue is solely between you and them. We are not a party to it and have no responsibility or liability arising from it.

You attend events at your own risk. We make no representation about the safety, legality, quality, suitability, accessibility, or lawfulness of any third-party event, venue, organizer, speaker, sponsor, attendee, or anything served, sold, or said at an event.

5.3 Links and third-party content

The Site links to third-party websites and registration pages. We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, security, practices, terms, or privacy policies. Following a link is at your own risk.

6. Events we host ourselves

Some events are hosted by us and identified as such.

  • Tickets are sold subject to the terms presented at the point of purchase and to any published house rules.
  • Unless the ticket terms say otherwise, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. We may cancel, reschedule, relocate, or change the format of any event we host; our sole and entire liability in that case is a refund of the ticket price paid.
  • You attend at your own risk. We are not responsible for injury, illness, loss, theft, or damage occurring at or in connection with our events, except to the extent such liability cannot lawfully be excluded.
  • We may refuse admission to, or remove, any person at our discretion, including for breach of published house rules, without refund.
  • Alcohol, where served, is served by the licensed venue and not by us.
  • We may photograph and record our events. By attending, you consent to your image, voice, name, and likeness being captured and used by us and our affiliates for any lawful purpose, including promotion, without notice, approval, or compensation.

7. Submitting an event

When you submit an event, you represent and warrant that:

  1. you have the right and authority to submit the event and all information, text, images, logos, and other material you provide (the "Submission");
  2. the Submission is accurate to the best of your knowledge;
  3. the Submission does not infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other right of any person, and violates no law; and
  4. the Submission is not unlawful, defamatory, deceptive, obscene, discriminatory, harassing, or malicious.

You grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, translate, publish, display, perform, distribute, and otherwise use the Submission in connection with the Site, the newsletter, our social channels, and the promotion of any of them, in any media now known or later developed.

We are under no obligation to publish, to continue publishing, or to explain a decision not to publish. We may edit, reclassify, reformat, shorten, rewrite, decline, or remove any Submission at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice.

8. Advertising, sponsorship, promotion, and payment

This Section 8 applies to any person or organization that buys promoted placement, a newsletter slot, sponsorship, a hiring or job post, or any other paid placement from us (each, an "Advertiser"; each purchase, a "Placement").

8.1 Your grant of rights to us

By purchasing a Placement, or by supplying us with any material for one, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, display, publish, distribute, modify, resize, reformat, and adapt your name, trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, brand assets, images, copy, product names, and other materials (collectively, "Advertiser Materials") for the purpose of creating, displaying, delivering, and promoting the Placement on the Site, in the newsletter, in our social channels, in archived or historical copies of any of them, and in our own marketing, case studies, sales materials, and lists of advertisers and sponsors.

This license survives the end of the Placement to the extent necessary for us to maintain archives, historical newsletter issues, and records, and to continue identifying you as a past advertiser or sponsor.

You further agree that we may write our own copy describing your Placement, and that such copy is our content.

8.2 Your warranties and indemnity

You represent and warrant that:

  1. you own or have all rights and licenses necessary to grant the license in Section 8.1, and our use of the Advertiser Materials will not infringe or violate any third-party right;
  2. the Advertiser Materials and any claims in them are truthful, accurate, not misleading, substantiated, and compliant with all applicable laws, including the Federal Trade Commission Act, FTC advertising and endorsement guidance, and all consumer protection, advertising, employment, financial services, and industry-specific rules that apply to you;
  3. the Placement does not promote anything unlawful, deceptive, discriminatory, defamatory, obscene, or harmful; and
  4. you hold all licenses, registrations, and permissions required to offer what you are promoting.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any claim, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to the Advertiser Materials, the Placement, or your breach of this Section 8. This obligation is in addition to Section 16.

8.3 Fees, payment, and refunds

  • Fees are due as stated on the invoice or at the point of purchase, and are payable in U.S. dollars. Unless we state otherwise in writing, payment is due in advance of the Placement running.
  • All fees are non-refundable, including where a Placement is removed or shortened under Section 8.4, where you cancel, or where the Site or newsletter changes or is discontinued under Section 4 — except that, if we discontinue the Site or the newsletter before a prepaid Placement has run at all, our sole and entire liability is a pro-rata refund of the amount you prepaid for the portion that did not run.
  • Invoices unpaid after 30 days accrue interest at 1.5% per month, or the maximum permitted by law, whichever is lower, and you are responsible for our reasonable costs of collection, including legal fees.
  • You are responsible for all taxes other than taxes on our net income.
  • You agree not to initiate a chargeback or payment dispute for a Placement that has run. If you do, you are responsible for our associated fees and costs.
  • We may suspend or remove any Placement, and withhold future Placements, for non-payment.

8.4 Our editorial control

We may reject, edit, reclassify, relocate, shorten, pause, or remove any Placement or any Advertiser Material at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice and without refund, including where in our sole judgment it is inaccurate, misleading, unlawful, off-topic, or inconsistent with the character of the Site.

Placement is not an endorsement. We do not verify, and we are not responsible for, any claim made by any Advertiser. Every paid Placement is labeled as such.

8.5 No guarantee of results

We do not guarantee any level of traffic, impressions, opens, clicks, reach, subscribers, attendance, leads, sales, ranking, placement duration, positioning, or other result. Any figures we provide about audience or performance are estimates, are provided without warranty, and are not a representation on which you may rely. Section 15 (limitation of liability) applies in full to Advertisers.

9. Removal requests

If you are an organizer and want a listing taken down, email hello@boston.xyz with a link to the listing and we will remove it. You do not need to give a reason. If you want us to stop carrying your events entirely, say so and we will remove your calendar as a source.

If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our designated agent:

DMCA Agent, SplitNPay, Inc. (d/b/a Ryla) 185 Alewife Brook Pkwy., Suite 212, Cambridge, MA 02138 hello@boston.xyz

We will respond as required by law and may terminate repeat infringers. Nothing in this Section is an admission that any material infringes any right.

10. Acceptable use

You may not:

  • scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, or bulk-download the Site or any part of it, or use any automated means to access it, except a conforming search engine crawler obeying our robots.txt;
  • copy, republish, resell, syndicate, frame, or create a competing or substantially similar product, service, or dataset from Site content;
  • use Site content or data to build, train, fine-tune, or evaluate any machine learning model or dataset without our prior written permission;
  • submit false, misleading, spam, duplicate, or bulk submissions;
  • impersonate any person or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation;
  • interfere with, probe, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, its infrastructure, or any account;
  • use the Site to send unsolicited commercial messages, or harvest contact information from it;
  • remove, obscure, or alter any notice of promotion, sponsorship, ownership, or attribution; or
  • use the Site for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these Terms.

11. Our intellectual property

The Site, its name, design, layout, editorial selection, arrangement, commentary, original descriptions, logos, and software are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. The selection, curation, and arrangement of listings is our original work. These Terms grant you no license to any of it other than to view the Site for your own personal, non-commercial use.

12. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use them for any purpose without compensation, attribution, or obligation of confidentiality.

13. Newsletter and other communications

If you subscribe, you consent to receive the newsletter and related messages at the address you provide. Every issue contains a one-click unsubscribe, and we honor it. You may also unsubscribe by emailing hello@boston.xyz.

We may change or discontinue the newsletter at any time under Section 4, and you acknowledge that no particular frequency, length, format, or continued publication is promised.

14. Our relationship with Ryla and our affiliates

boston.xyz is operated by SplitNPay, Inc., which also operates the Ryla products. We may share information with, and operate the Site in coordination with, our corporate affiliates, as described in our Privacy Policy. Where Ryla products appear on the Site they are identified. Listing, inclusion, selection, and coverage on the Site are not conditioned on any person's use of any SplitNPay or Ryla product.

15. Disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability

THE SITE, THE NEWSLETTER, AND ALL CONTENT, LISTINGS, DATA, AND MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ACCURACY, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT ANY LISTING IS ACCURATE, CURRENT, COMPLETE, OR RELIABLE; THAT ANY EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AS DESCRIBED OR AT ALL; OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER WE NOR OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, OR AFFILIATES WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR WASTED EXPENDITURE (INCLUDING TRAVEL, TIME, TICKET, OR ADVERTISING COSTS), ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE, THE NEWSLETTER, ANY LISTING, ANY PLACEMENT, OR ANY EVENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this Section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

16. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SplitNPay, Inc., its affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Site; (b) any Submission or Advertiser Material you provide; (c) your breach of these Terms or of any law; (d) your violation of any third-party right; or (e) your attendance at or conduct in connection with any event.

17. Governing law, arbitration, and class action waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Informal resolution first. Before starting any proceeding, you agree to email hello@boston.xyz describing the dispute and to allow 30 days to resolve it.

Binding individual arbitration. Except as stated below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Site, the newsletter, any Placement, or these Terms — whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether it arises during or after termination — will be resolved by binding individual arbitration. Any such arbitration will be settled under the Federal Arbitration Act and administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, seated in Boston, Massachusetts. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

YOU AND WE EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE DETERMINED BY A SINGLE ARBITRATOR AND NOT BY A JUDGE OR JURY. The arbitrator may award relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — will proceed in court.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, and either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

Venue if arbitration does not apply. Where a dispute is not subject to arbitration, you and we agree it will be brought exclusively in a federal or state court located in Boston, Massachusetts, and each party irrevocably consents to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waives any objection to venue there.

Time limit. Any claim must be brought within one (1) year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, to the extent the law allows such a limit.

18. General

Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary, or severed, and the rest remains in force.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them freely, including to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.

Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by anything beyond our reasonable control.

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any terms presented at the point of ticket or Placement purchase are the entire agreement between you and us.

Survival. Sections 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14 through 18 survive termination or discontinuation.

19. Contact

SplitNPay, Inc. (d/b/a Ryla) 185 Alewife Brook Pkwy., Suite 212 Cambridge, MA 02138 hello@boston.xyz

For the Ryla payments products, see the Ryla Platform Agreement and Ryla Privacy Policy at payryla.com, and contact support@payryla.com.