Effective date: September 3, 2026
Operator: Hudson AI Consulting LLC, contact us by email (below)
Contact: asafgreenfield21+brownshop@gmail.com
Brown Bazaar is a marketplace where students at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of
Design buy and sell secondhand items from each other and hand them off in person on campus.
We are a venue, not a seller. Every listing is created by a student. When you buy something,
your contract is with the seller, not with us. We do not own, inspect, store, ship, or guarantee
any item.
**We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Brown University or the Rhode Island
School of Design.** School names, email domains, and the campus locations we list are used only to
identify the community the app serves.
You may use Brown Bazaar if all of these are true:
@brown.edu or @risd.edu email address, and it is yours.We verify your school by the domain of the email address you sign up with and by requiring you to
click a link we send to it. We do not otherwise confirm enrollment. If you stop being able to
receive email at that address, you may lose access to your account.
One account per person. Do not share your login, and tell us at asafgreenfield21+brownshop@gmail.com if you think
someone else has it.
You choose a username, a display name, a bio, and a photo, and you post listings with photos and
descriptions. All of that is your content. You keep ownership of it.
By posting content you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store,
resize, and display it inside Brown Bazaar for as long as your account exists, so the app can
function. That licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies inside
completed order records, reviews, and message threads (see §11).
You promise that:
Prohibited items. No weapons, ammunition, or replicas designed to look real. No alcohol,
tobacco, vapes, cannabis, or any controlled substance or paraphernalia. No prescription or
over-the-counter medication, supplements, or medical devices. No counterfeit or replica branded
goods. No stolen goods, and nothing you are not allowed to resell (including university property,
lab equipment, keys, or ID cards). No live animals. No food you made yourself. No used underwear,
swimwear bottoms, or cosmetics that have been opened. No adult or sexually explicit material. No
services, labour, tickets to events you are not permitted to transfer, academic work, tutoring, or
anything that would violate your school's academic code. No digital goods, gift cards, currency,
or crypto. No recalled or unsafe products. No firearms accessories, fireworks, or hazardous
materials.
Prohibited behaviour. No harassment, threats, hate speech, stalking, or unwanted contact after
someone blocks you. No spam, bulk messaging, or advertising other services. No arranging payment
outside the app to dodge fees. No scraping, reverse engineering, or automated access. No attempts
to break our access controls or to reach data that is not yours. No using Brown Bazaar to run a
retail or dropshipping business.
We may remove any listing, message, or account that breaks these rules, with or without notice.
Prices are set by sellers. Buyers can send offers; sellers can accept, decline, or counter
once. Offers expire 48 hours after they are made or countered.
Payment happens in the app. We use Stripe to process card payments and
to pay sellers. We never see or store your full card number. Sellers must complete Stripe's
onboarding (including identity verification) before they can be paid.
We hold the money until the handoff. When you buy, your card is charged and the funds are held.
The seller offers meetup times; you pick one; you meet on campus and exchange the item. **The
money is released to the seller when the buyer confirms the exchange in the app.** A seller
confirming alone never completes an order.
Fees. Brown Bazaar keeps a platform fee of 3.5% of the item price plus $0.45 on each
completed sale. The buyer pays the listed price; the fee comes out of the seller's payout, and both
numbers are shown before you commit. Fees may change with notice for future orders.
Cancellations and refunds. Either side can cancel before the handoff is confirmed; the buyer is
refunded in full to the original payment method and the listing goes back up for sale. Refunds take
as long as the card network takes, usually 5–10 business days. If a meetup never happens, cancel the
order — do not just stop responding.
Disputes. We are not a court and we do not arbitrate who is right about an item's condition.
We will look at reports, and we can cancel and refund an order, remove a listing, or suspend an
account. Chargebacks initiated with your bank may result in your account being suspended while
they are resolved.
Taxes. Selling your own used belongings for less than you paid is usually not taxable income,
but you are responsible for your own taxes. If you sell enough that Stripe must file a form for you,
Stripe will collect what it needs directly.
Every Brown Bazaar transaction ends with two people meeting. **We do not vet, background-check, or
supervise anyone.** Verifying a school email is not a safety guarantee.
You meet at your own risk, and you accept that risk when you use Brown Bazaar.
Every profile, listing, message thread, and order has a Report action, and you can block
anyone. Blocking stops them from messaging you or making offers, and hides their listings from you.
Reports are private — the person you report is not told who reported them. We review reports and
act at our discretion; we are not obliged to tell you the outcome.
We may suspend or terminate your account at any time if you break these terms, if we are required
to, or if we reasonably believe you are putting other people at risk. You can stop using Brown Bazaar
whenever you want, and you can delete your account in Settings → Delete account (see §11).
Open orders survive termination: money already held is still refunded or released according to §5.
Brown Bazaar is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we
disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the app will be uninterrupted, secure, or
error-free.
We make no warranty about any item, any seller, or any buyer — including that an item is
authentic, safe, functional, as described, or legally yours to sell or to own.
To the fullest extent the law allows:
lost profits or lost data.
the fees we collected from you in the 12 months before the claim, or $100.
Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits; where that is true, they apply to the extent
permitted.
You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your content, your items, your conduct, or
your breach of these terms.
Deleting your account removes your profile details, your listings, and your likes, and signs you
out everywhere. Because other people's records cannot be rewritten, your **past orders, reviews you
wrote and received, and your messages stay**, with your name shown as "Deleted user." You cannot
delete your account while you have orders in flight — finish or cancel them first.
What happens to your personal data is described in the Privacy Policy.
We may change these terms. If a change is material we will tell you in the app or by email before
it takes effect. Continuing to use Brown Bazaar after that means you accept the new terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Rhode Island, without regard to conflict-of-law
rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved by talking to us at asafgreenfield21+brownshop@gmail.com will be brought
in the state or federal courts located in Providence County, Rhode Island, and you and we consent to
that jurisdiction.
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