Terms
Using Holler.
The short version. Holler is a bulletin board for neighborhood businesses. You can use it to see what is happening nearby. Businesses can use it to let the neighborhood know what they are up to.
If you visit.
You can use Holler for free, without signing up. Location is optional and is used only to filter the feed (see privacy). Nothing is required of you.
The hollers you see come from real businesses and are accurate to the best of their knowledge. We do not verify the specifics of each post. If something is inaccurate or inappropriate, email us.
If you post hollers.
Post for your own business, about things that are happening at your business, to people who might be nearby. The feed is commercial by design, but it is not an advertising platform. Honesty, specificity, and a light touch make it work.
Your hollers are public, and Holler is built to publish them into the Neighborhood Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), an open license that lets anyone reuse them with credit to you. By posting, you grant the permission needed to display and share your hollers this way. Post only what you have the right to share, and keep it about your own business.
Do not post illegal content, harassment, spam, or anything that is not about your business. We will remove posts that break these rules and suspend accounts that do it repeatedly.
Reusing what you see.
Hollers are public and openly licensed (CC BY 4.0): you are free to reuse the words, with credit to the business that posted them. Photos are different. They stay with the business and are not part of that open license.
One hard line: you may not use Holler, or anything posted on it, to identify, track, or profile people. No facial recognition, no biometric indexing, no assembling a record of who was where and when from holler photos. Holler is a bulletin board, not a surveillance tool, and we hold that line for the people who happen to appear in a storefront’s photo and never signed up for anything.
If you use the app.
The Holler app is the tool businesses use to post. It is free. You sign in with a magic link sent to your email; there are no passwords. Use the app for your own verified business and the people it serves. Do not attempt to access accounts that are not yours, scrape the service, or interfere with how it runs.
Availability.
Holler is a small project in pilot. We try to keep it running well but do not guarantee uptime or feature stability. If things break, we fix them. If a feature stops working for you, please let us know.
Changes.
We may update these terms as the product evolves. Material changes get announced. You can always read the current version here.
Copyright.
If you believe something on Holler infringes your copyright, see our DMCA page for the designated agent and the notice procedure.
Contact.
Last updated 2026-06-01.