Terms of Service

Last updated August 12, 2026

1. Who these terms are between

These terms are an agreement between you and Lorena Machado LLC, a Washington limited liability company doing business as White Shed Meadery (“we”, “us”), the operator of mead.now (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to them. If you are using the Service on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorised to bind that business.

2. What the Service does, and what it does not

The Service lets you record production data and generates compliance reports from it. Specifically:

• It assembles the federal Report of Wine Premises Operations (TTB F 5120.17), Part I, from the events you log, and shows its arithmetic.
• It produces an estimate of federal wine excise tax. Excise is filed on a different form, on a different schedule, and eligibility for credits depends on facts we do not know.
• It tracks reporting periods, filing deadlines, formula approvals, and label approvals.

It does not do the following, and you should not rely on it as though it did:

• It does not file, submit, or transmit anything to the TTB or any other authority. Every submission is made by you.
• It does not give legal, accounting, or tax advice. Nothing in the Service or its documentation is advice, and no professional relationship is created by using it.
• It completes Part I of the form only. Other parts of the form, and the paired “used for” entries within Part I, are not computed and must be completed by you where they apply.
• It does not handle state reporting, or commercial beer compliance.

3. Verification is your responsibility

Form line numbers, tax rates, credit tiers, and the mapping between what happens in your cellar and where it appears on a form are all encoded from published official sources, and those sources change. TTB revises its forms, and Congress changes rates.

You agree that before signing or submitting anything produced by the Service you will:

• check the figures against the current official form and its instructions;
• resolve any item the Service flags as needing manual entry or as unreconciled; and
• satisfy yourself that the alcohol content and tax class of each product are correctly determined.

The Service is designed to make this practical rather than to hide the need for it: each report line carries a note describing what to verify, and the report tells you when its own figures do not reconcile with your inventory. Ignoring those notices is a decision you own.

4. Your data and your records

You keep all rights in the data you enter. You grant us only the permission needed to store, process, and display it back to you in order to operate the Service.

The Service's output is only as good as its input. You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of what you record, including volumes, dates, gravity readings, and alcohol content.

You also remain subject to your own record-retention obligations as a bonded producer. Keep independent copies of anything you are required to retain; do not treat the Service as your only copy.

5. Your account

• Keep your password confidential, and tell us promptly if you think your account is compromised.
• You are responsible for activity under your account.
• Provide accurate registration details and keep them current.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to:

• break the law, or help anyone else do so;
• attempt to access another user's data, or probe or disrupt the Service's security;
• submit knowingly false records in order to produce a misleading report — misrepresenting production or removals to a federal agency is a serious matter and the Service exists to help you get it right, not to help you get it wrong;
• resell or redistribute the Service without our written agreement.

7. Availability

We aim to keep the Service running but do not promise uninterrupted availability. We may need to take it down for maintenance, and we may change or discontinue features. Filing deadlines will not move because the Service was unavailable, so do not leave a filing to the last hour.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be error-free, that its calculations will be correct for your circumstances, or that its encoding of any form or tax rate reflects the currently applicable version.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, lost revenue, or loss of data.

In particular, and without limiting the above, we are not liable for any tax, interest, penalty, fine, assessment, or enforcement action arising from a report you file, an amount you pay or fail to pay, or a deadline you miss — including where the Service's figures, deadlines, or reminders were wrong, incomplete, or unavailable.

Our total liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or US$100.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses, and costs arising from your use of the Service, your data, or your filings, except to the extent caused by our own wrongdoing.

11. Fees

The Service is currently provided free of charge. If we introduce paid plans, we will publish the fees and give existing account holders at least 30 days' notice by email before any charge applies to them. You will never be billed without first choosing a paid plan.

12. Ending the agreement

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, and we will give notice where we reasonably can.

Export the records you need before closing your account. See our Privacy Policy for what happens to data afterwards.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will change the date above, and for changes that materially affect your rights or obligations we will notify account holders by email. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

14. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Lewis County, Washington, and you and we each consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

15. Miscellaneous

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. You may not assign them without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger or sale of the business.

Contact

Questions about these terms: owen@borseth.us.

See also our Privacy Policy.