Plain English summary: Day56 is a platform that lets ball python breeders create professional waitlist pages and manage customer relationships. By using Day56, you agree to these terms. We're not responsible for transactions between breeders and customers — those are between you and them.
By accessing or using Day56 ("the Service," "we," "us," or "our") at day56.com, creating an account, or signing up for any waitlist through the platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.
These Terms apply to all users of the Service, including breeders who create accounts ("Breeders") and individuals who join waitlists through breeder pages ("Customers" or "Waitlist Members").
Day56 is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed specifically for ball python breeders. The Service provides:
Day56 is a platform only. We do not sell animals, participate in transactions between breeders and customers, set prices, or guarantee any animal listings or availability. Genetic testing ordered through Day56 is performed by a separate company (RGI), not by Day56 — see Section 8.
You must be at least 18 years old to create a Breeder account. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older and have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.
During our beta period, account creation requires a valid invite code. You must provide accurate, complete, and current information during registration. Your page URL (slug) is unique and cannot be transferred.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for all activity that occurs under your account. You must notify us immediately at legal@day56.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account. Day56 will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your account credentials.
Each person may maintain only one Breeder account. Creating multiple accounts to circumvent restrictions or invite code limits is prohibited and may result in termination of all associated accounts.
As a Breeder, you agree to provide accurate and truthful information about animals listed on your page, including gene makeup, health status, pricing, and availability. Misrepresenting animals — including false morph identifications, inflated weights, or inaccurate hatch dates — is strictly prohibited.
You represent that all animals in your collection are kept in humane conditions consistent with best practices for ball python husbandry. Day56 does not condone the neglect, abuse, or mistreatment of animals.
You are solely responsible for complying with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding the sale, transport, and keeping of reptiles, including any required permits or licenses. Day56 does not provide legal advice and is not responsible for your compliance.
You agree to use Day56's email tools responsibly. You may only email customers who have voluntarily joined your waitlist through the Day56 platform. You must honor all unsubscribe requests promptly. Sending spam, harassment, or illegal content through Day56's email system is prohibited and may result in immediate account termination.
Any sale, transaction, or agreement between you and a customer is solely between you and that customer. Day56 is not a party to any transaction and bears no responsibility for disputes, non-delivery, non-payment, fraud, or any other issue arising from transactions facilitated through the platform.
Pro Market lets Pro members list clutches, wholesale groups, proven breeders, and equipment to other Pro members. Everything in Section 4 applies equally to Pro Market listings and conversations: listings must meet the accuracy standard of Section 4.1, animals offered must meet the welfare standard of Section 4.2, and you remain solely responsible for legal compliance under Section 4.3, including laws governing the sale and interstate transport of reptiles.
All Pro Market transactions are agreed and completed directly between the two breeders, off-platform. Day56 processes no payments for Pro Market, provides no escrow, takes no commission, and is not a party to any transaction — Section 4.5 applies to breeder-to-breeder deals exactly as it does to customer sales. Day56 may remove listings, or suspend a member's access to Pro Market, for misrepresentation, spam, harassment of other members, or any breach of these terms.
By joining a breeder's waitlist through Day56, you agree to:
Day56 is not responsible for the conduct, availability, or communications of individual breeders. If you have a dispute with a breeder, please resolve it directly with them.
You retain ownership of all content you submit to Day56, including animal photos, breeder bios, and customer notes ("User Content"). By submitting User Content, you grant Day56 a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, and make the technical adaptations needed to run the Service — for example resizing and generating thumbnails, rendering your listings into PDF catalogues, cage labels and QR codes, and delivering files through our hosting and content-delivery providers. This licence extends to our infrastructure providers solely so they can perform those functions on our behalf, and it exists only to operate and improve the Service: we do not sell your photos, license them to third parties for their own use, or use them in paid advertising without your permission. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except that copies already made may persist briefly in encrypted backups as described in Section 6 of the Privacy Policy.
You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to the User Content you submit, that it does not infringe anyone else's rights, and that any personal information it contains (for example customer contact details) was collected lawfully and may be processed by Day56 on your behalf. You are solely responsible for your User Content.
If you send us suggestions, feature requests, or feedback, you grant Day56 an unrestricted, royalty-free right to use them without obligation or compensation to you. We may build them, ignore them, or do something different.
You may not submit content that:
Day56 reserves the right, but has no obligation, to remove any User Content that violates these Terms or that we find objectionable, without prior notice. We are a platform, not a publisher or editor: we do not pre-screen User Content, and removing (or declining to remove) content does not make us responsible for it.
Separately from the content rules above, you agree not to do any of the following. These protect the Service and everyone using it, and breaching them is grounds for immediate suspension or termination:
If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it to legal@day56.com and give us a reasonable opportunity to fix it before disclosing it. We will not pursue good-faith security research that follows this process and does not access, alter, or exfiltrate other members' data.
Day56 respects intellectual property rights and responds to valid notices under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content on Day56 infringes your copyright — for example one of your animal photographs used without permission — send a written notice to our designated agent at legal@day56.com with the subject line "DMCA Notice", including:
We will remove or disable access to material we determine in good faith to be infringing and will notify the member who posted it. If you believe your content was removed in error, you may send a counter-notice containing the same contact details, identification of the removed material and its former location, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification, together with your consent to the jurisdiction described in Section 13. We may restore the material if the complaining party does not pursue legal action within the period the DMCA allows.
Repeat infringers. Day56 maintains a repeat-infringer policy: accounts that are the subject of repeated, valid infringement notices will be terminated. Filing a knowingly false notice or counter-notice may expose you to liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).
Day56 offers a free plan and a paid Pro membership, billed as a recurring subscription ($9.99/month or $99/year at the time of writing; a discounted first month may be offered to first-time upgrades — current pricing is always shown at checkout). Subscriptions are processed by PayPal on PayPal's own systems; Day56 never receives or stores your payment card details. You can cancel anytime from Settings or from your PayPal account — cancellation stops future renewals and your Pro access continues through the period you have already paid for. Except where required by law, payments already made are non-refundable. Plan pricing and free-plan limits may change with reasonable notice to existing members.
Automatic renewal — please read. A Pro membership is a subscription that renews automatically at the end of each billing period (monthly or annual, whichever you chose) and continues to bill until you cancel it. Each renewal is charged at the then-current price for your plan using the payment method on file with PayPal. If you were given a discounted introductory period, the subscription renews at the standard price once that period ends. To avoid being charged for the next period, cancel before your renewal date — from Settings → Membership, or directly in your PayPal account. Cancelling stops future charges; it does not retroactively refund the period you are already in, and your Pro features remain available until that period expires. If a renewal payment fails, we may retry it and may downgrade your account to the free plan until payment succeeds. Prices are exclusive of any taxes that may apply.
Every member gets a personal invite link (Settings → Refer a breeder). When a new breeder creates an account through that link and completes their first full-price billing cycle of Pro, the referring member earns one free month of Pro. There is no limit to how many free months can be earned. Discounted intro cycles do not count as a full-price cycle; the free month is granted only after the referred member's first regular payment completes.
Free months are applied to the referring member's own membership automatically — as a refund of a monthly subscription payment, or as extended Pro access if their subscription has ended. Referral credit is service credit only: it has no cash value, cannot be transferred, sold, or paid out, and cannot be applied against anything other than Day56 Pro. If you sign up through another member's link, that member can see your business name, that you joined through their link, and whether a Pro membership was activated. Self-referrals, fraudulent or duplicate accounts, and other abuse void pending and earned credit and may result in account termination. Day56 may modify or end the referral program at any time; free months already earned will still be honored.
Any member may buy a one-month Pro gift for another breeder. A gift is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: nothing recurring is created for either the buyer or the recipient, and no further charge is made. You receive a gift code, which you may pass to anyone you like.
A code may be claimed once, by any Day56 account other than the buyer's own, and gives the claiming account one month of Pro from the moment it is claimed (stacking on top of any Pro time already banked). Codes do not expire. If you already have an active paid subscription, a code cannot be claimed onto your account while that subscription runs — it stays valid so you can claim it later, rather than being consumed for time you are already paying for.
Gift purchases are non-refundable once the code has been claimed, and a gift is service credit only: it has no cash value and cannot be exchanged, resold, or paid out. Gift months are separate from the Refer-a-Breeder credit in Section 7.1 and are not earned by referrals. We may void a code obtained through fraud, a reversed or disputed payment, or abuse of the Service, including after it has been claimed.
Day56 offers an optional feature that lets you order shed-based genetic testing through an independent third-party laboratory, Rare Genetics Inc. ("RGI"). This is a convenience integration — the testing service itself is provided by RGI, not by Day56.
RGI is a separate company and is solely responsible for its testing services, including sample handling, testing methods, turnaround times, result accuracy, and customer support for testing. Day56 is not a party to your testing transaction with RGI, does not perform the testing, and does not warrant or guarantee the availability, accuracy, timeliness, or results of any test. Your use of RGI's service may also be subject to RGI's own terms and policies.
Payments for RGI testing are made directly to RGI and are processed by RGI's own payment processor (Stripe) on RGI's account. Day56 does not collect, receive, hold, or store your payment card details for testing orders, does not set testing prices, and takes no commission from testing payments. Any refund, chargeback, or billing dispute for a test order is handled between you and RGI. Discount codes, where offered, are created and honored by RGI.
You are responsible for preparing and mailing your shed sample(s) to RGI as instructed. Physical samples are mailed at your own risk; Day56 is not responsible for lost, damaged, delayed, or misdirected mail. Test results are returned digitally to your Day56 collection tracker for your convenience. Results are provided for informational purposes and are not a substitute for professional veterinary, genetic, or breeding advice; you are responsible for how you interpret and act on them.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Day56 disclaims all liability arising from or relating to RGI's testing services — including sample handling, result accuracy, delays, pricing, payments, and any breeding or purchasing decisions made in reliance on a test result. Disputes regarding testing are between you and RGI.
By creating an account or joining a waitlist, you consent to receiving transactional emails from Day56, including welcome emails, email verification messages, and password reset emails. These emails are necessary for operation of the Service and cannot be opted out of while your account is active.
Emails sent by breeders to waitlist customers through the Day56 platform are sent on behalf of that breeder. Day56 provides the infrastructure but does not control the content of these emails. Each breeder email includes an unsubscribe link. Day56 complies with the CAN-SPAM Act and similar regulations.
Delivery measurement. Marketing emails sent through Day56 include standard open and click measurement so the sending breeder can see whether their announcements are landing. As a breeder, you are responsible for using those metrics lawfully and for any additional disclosure your own jurisdiction requires of you. Exactly what is measured and stored, and how recipients can avoid it, is described in Section 9.1 of our Privacy Policy.
Breeders who send unsolicited, abusive, or illegal emails through Day56 will have their accounts terminated. Day56 reserves the right to monitor email sending patterns for abuse.
You may delete your account at any time from your dashboard Settings page. Deleting your account removes your public page, animal collection, collection-tracker records, customer records, orders, and email history from our live systems, and cannot be undone. A short list of exceptions applies — our internal administrative audit log, anything we must keep for legal or accounting reasons, and data already held by an independent provider such as our genetic-testing partner. Deletion is immediate in the live database, but copies may persist briefly in encrypted backups before those age out. Section 6 of our Privacy Policy sets this out precisely. Deleting your account does not entitle you to a refund of fees already paid.
Day56 may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including but not limited to violation of these Terms, suspected fraud, abusive behavior toward customers, chargebacks or non-payment, conduct that exposes Day56 or its members to legal risk or reputational harm, or prolonged inactivity. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you before termination except in cases of severe violations, suspected illegality, or where notice would compromise the security of the Service. We may also, short of full termination, suspend individual features, remove content, throttle abusive usage, or restrict your access to the marketplace.
Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases immediately, any unused portion of a paid period is forfeited except where a refund is required by law, and we may delete your data after a reasonable period. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination — including User Content licences already granted, Payments, Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Governing Law and Dispute Resolution, and Miscellaneous — survive.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Day56 disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Day56 does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses. We are not responsible for any data loss, though we make reasonable efforts to maintain data integrity.
AI-assisted features. Some features use third-party AI models to generate drafts, answers, and suggestions from your data. AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, and is provided for your convenience only — it is not professional (veterinary, legal, financial, or breeding) advice. You are responsible for reviewing AI-generated content before relying on it, acting on it, or sending it to anyone. When you use these optional features, relevant data — which, for the data-aware assistant, can include your customer/waitlist information — is processed by our AI sub-processors as described in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement. You are responsible for having a lawful basis to submit any personal data you include.
Predictions, calculators, and husbandry guidance. Day56 includes tools that estimate outcomes from the data you enter — the genetics and pairing calculators, possible-offspring and het-probability output, expected lay, ovulation and hatch dates, feeding and weight trends, and any care or husbandry suggestions. These are arithmetic and heuristics applied to your own records, not guarantees and not veterinary advice. Real biology varies, inherited traits do not always express as predicted, incubation timing shifts, and your records may be incomplete or mistaken. Do not use Day56 as a substitute for a qualified veterinarian, for your own observation of your animals, or for independent genetic testing where certainty matters. Decisions about breeding, pricing, health, or an animal's welfare remain entirely yours.
Beta and experimental features. Features identified as Beta, New, experimental, or early access are provided for evaluation, may contain defects, may change substantially, and may be withdrawn or have their limits changed at any time without notice or compensation. Do not rely on a beta feature as the only record of anything important.
Third-party services. The Service links to and interoperates with independent third parties — including our genetic-testing partner RGI, PayPal, and any external sites a breeder links to in their page or emails. We do not control those parties, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, products, pricing, availability, security, or privacy practices. Your dealings with them are between you and them.
Keep your own copies. While we run routine encrypted backups for disaster recovery, they exist to restore the platform, not to serve as your personal archive. You are responsible for maintaining your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose — the dashboard provides CSV and data export for exactly this purpose.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Day56's total liability to you for any claims arising from use of the Service shall not exceed the amount you paid to Day56 in the twelve months preceding the claim, or $100, whichever is greater. This cap applies in aggregate to all claims, not per claim.
Day56 is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, regardless of the theory of liability.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Day56, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms, your User Content, your use of the Service, or any transaction between you and another user.
Governing law. These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or your use of the Service are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Nothing in this Section deprives a consumer of the protection of mandatory laws of their country of residence that cannot be contracted out of.
Talk to us first. Before starting a formal proceeding, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing a written description of your claim and the relief you want to legal@day56.com. We will do the same for any claim we have against you. Both parties agree to negotiate in good faith for 30 days from that notice. Most problems are solved at this stage.
Binding individual arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved within those 30 days, it will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. The arbitration will be seated in Fayette County, Kentucky, but may be conducted by telephone, videoconference, or on documents alone, and you may choose to appear remotely. The arbitrator's award may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. Each party bears its own attorneys' fees unless the arbitrator awards them under applicable law.
Exceptions. Either party may (a) bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies, and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction in Fayette County, Kentucky, for matters involving intellectual property, unauthorised access to the Service, or breach of Section 6.4 (Prohibited Conduct). Seeking such relief is not a waiver of the arbitration agreement.
No class actions; no jury. All claims must be brought in an individual capacity. You and Day56 each waive any right to a jury trial and any right to participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action, or in class-wide arbitration. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding.
If part of this Section fails. If the class-action waiver in the preceding paragraph is held unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request will be severed and heard in a court of competent jurisdiction in Fayette County, Kentucky, while all remaining claims proceed in arbitration. If the arbitration agreement as a whole is held unenforceable, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Fayette County, Kentucky. The rest of this Section survives in every case.
Time limit. Any claim arising out of these Terms or the Service must be brought within one (1) year after the claim arises, or within the shortest period applicable law allows if that period cannot lawfully be shortened to one year. Claims brought later are permanently barred.
Day56 reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will notify registered Breeders of material changes via email to the address on file, and will update the "Last updated" date above. Changes take effect when posted, except that material changes that reduce your rights take effect no sooner than 14 days after we notify you, so you have time to review them and, if you disagree, to stop using the Service and cancel. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the new Terms. Changes do not apply retroactively to a dispute that arose before they took effect.
If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at: