Terms of use

Effective November 14, 2026. By using Tradewinds you agree to these terms. Tradewinds is run by The Tradewinds App, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company (“we”).

Independent service

Tradewinds is an independent shift-trading service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by United Airlines. Trades are processed by United's schedulers. Nothing in Tradewinds is an official schedule, an approval or advice from your employer.

What Tradewinds does

Tradewinds helps you find a coworker who may be able to take a shift and lets you ask them. It does not submit, approve or process trades. A trade only happens when you submit the official trade form and the schedulers process it, under your employer's rules and your contract.

The rule checks (fleet, qual, rest and dates) are a convenience. They depend on schedules members upload, which can be out of date, and on our reading of the rules, which can be wrong. Check every trade yourself before you submit it.

Who can use it

• Membership is by invitation, for instructors and evaluators who can trade shifts with each other.
• You must be 18 or older.
• One account per person. Keep your sign-in to yourself.

Your content

• Upload only your own schedule, and keep your profile accurate.
• You let us store your schedule and profile and show them to other members so the app can match trades. See the privacy policy.

Don't

• Upload someone else's schedule or pretend to be someone else.
• Copy, export or collect other members' details for anything other than arranging a trade with them.
• Harass members or flood them with requests.
• Try to break, overload or get around the app's security or membership checks.

Price

Tradewinds is free during the trial. Before billing starts, we'll tell you the price and you'll choose whether to subscribe. Payments are processed by Stripe.

• A subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period (a month, or a year on a yearly plan) and charges the card on file until you cancel.
• You can cancel any time. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
• We'll email you at least 30 days before a price change affects your subscription, so you can cancel first.

Refunds

Payments aren't refunded, including for part of a month or the unused part of a yearly plan. The one exception: if we shut Tradewinds down, we refund any time you paid for and can't use.

Ending your account

You can stop using Tradewinds and ask us to delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. If we shut Tradewinds down, we'll give members notice and stop all charges.

No guarantees

Tradewinds is provided as is. We don't promise it will always be available, error-free or accurate, or that any trade will be found or approved. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for missed, refused or mistaken trades, lost pay, or other indirect losses from using it, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Changes

We may update these terms. We'll update the date above and email members before a significant change takes effect. Continuing to use Tradewinds after that means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of North Carolina.

Contact

The Tradewinds App, LLC: justin@thetradewinds.app.