Terms of Service

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 13. If you are between 13 and 18, you represent that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf. We reserve the right to terminate accounts of users who misrepresent their age.

2. Your Account

• You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity under your account.
• You agree to provide accurate account and profile information, including your email address, first name, last name, home base, and sharing preferences where requested.
• You may not create an account on behalf of someone else or transfer your account to another person.
• You must notify us at support@golfist.golf if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.
• You may delete your account in the app. Account deletion is intended to remove your account and associated app data, subject to legal, security, backup, and abuse-prevention limits described in our Privacy Policy.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to:

• Submit ratings, scores, played dates, or head-to-head choices that are intentionally fraudulent, spammy, or designed to manipulate rankings.
• Harass, threaten, abuse, or impersonate another person.
• Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state your affiliation with a person or entity.
• Use Golfist to send spam, scrape course or user data, or build a competing database without our written permission.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, its servers, Supabase resources, or related systems.
• Use automated scripts, bots, or scrapers to access the Service without our written consent.
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the Service.

4. Ratings and Rankings

4.1 Your golf data

Golfist lets you rate courses, enter played dates and optional scores, make category ratings, complete head-to-head comparisons, and build personal rankings and a Tee Box. You retain whatever rights you have in information you submit. You grant SeaDecLabs a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, use, process, display, reproduce, and create derivative works from that information as needed to operate, improve, and promote Golfist.

4.2 Public, private, and aggregated output

Golfist includes sharing settings for profile and ratings visibility. Those settings control supported product surfaces, but ratings may still be used in aggregated or de-identified course scores, ranking calculations, and product analytics. You should not submit information you are not comfortable having processed to power Golfist rankings.

4.3 Accuracy and ranking integrity

Course rankings, Golfist scores, and Tee Box placements are generated from available data and ranking logic. They are not official course ratings, professional advice, or guaranteed statements of quality. We may adjust, hide, remove, de-duplicate, or recalculate ratings and rankings to fix bugs, prevent abuse, improve data quality, or operate the Service.

5. Beta Service

Golfist is currently an early iOS product and may be distributed through TestFlight or other beta channels. Beta features may be incomplete, unstable, inaccurate, unavailable, or changed without notice. Course catalog coverage, score calculations, ranking logic, profile settings, and Tee Box behavior may change as we learn from the beta.

Do not rely on beta data as your only record of rounds, rankings, or scores. We may reset, migrate, delete, or reprocess beta data when needed to operate the product.

6. Intellectual Property

The Service, including the Golfist name, mark, visuals, app design, course ranking systems, software, text, graphics, and other materials we provide, is owned by SeaDecLabs or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any right to use the Golfist name, logo, app assets, or brand without our written permission.

7. Feedback

If you send us feedback, bug reports, ideas, screenshots, or suggestions, you allow us to use them without restriction or compensation to you. Feedback helps us improve Golfist and may be used to develop features, fix bugs, or shape product decisions.

8. Analytics and Experiments

We use product analytics and experimentation tools, including PostHog, to understand how Golfist is used, diagnose issues, measure feature quality, and test product changes. This means features, copy, ranking surfaces, onboarding steps, or other non-essential product details may vary between users or over time.

Analytics and experiments do not change your responsibility to use Golfist honestly, and they do not guarantee that any feature, ranking method, or beta behavior will remain available.

9. Third-Party Services and App Store Terms

9.1 Third-party services

Golfist uses third-party services including Supabase, PostHog, and Apple services such as Sign in with Apple, TestFlight, and App Store distribution. Your use of those services may also be governed by their terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

9.2 Apple App Store

If you download the App from the Apple App Store, the following additional terms apply:

• These Terms are between you and SeaDecLabs only, not with Apple Inc. Apple is not responsible for the App or its content.
• Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide any maintenance or support services for the App.
• In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the App. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your use of the App, including: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
• In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your use of the App infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, SeaDecLabs (not Apple) will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance, Apple will have the right to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
• You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

10. Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Disclaimers

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not warrant that Golfist will be uninterrupted, error-free, complete, accurate, secure, or available at any particular time. Course rankings, ratings, recommendations, catalog data, distances, and scores may be incomplete or incorrect and do not constitute professional advice.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, SeaDecLabs and its members, officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, goodwill, rankings, or access, arising out of or in connection with your use of or inability to use the Service. Our total liability for any claim arising from these Terms or the Service will not exceed USD $100.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SeaDecLabs and its members, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses arising out of or connected with your use of the Service, your ratings or submitted information, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person's rights.

14. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk for Golfist or other users, submitted fraudulent data, abused the Service, or if we discontinue the Service. You may stop using Golfist at any time and may delete your account in the app.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may modify these Terms as Golfist changes. We will post updated Terms at golfist.golf/terms and update the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of Golfist after updated Terms are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Governing Law and Disputes

16.1 Informal resolution

Before initiating any formal dispute, you agree to contact us at legal@golfist.golf with a written description of the dispute, your name, and contact information. We will try to resolve the dispute informally within 30 days.

16.2 Binding arbitration

Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, except that either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual property rights. The arbitration shall take place in San Diego, California, or by video conference. The arbitrator's award shall be final and binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

16.3 Class action waiver

You and SeaDecLabs agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding.

16.4 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, except to the extent preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.

17. General

• Entire agreement: these Terms and our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and SeaDecLabs regarding the Service.
• Severability: if any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
• Waiver: our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
• Assignment: you may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms. We may assign our rights without restriction.
• Notices: we may provide notices by email, in-app message, or posting on golfist.golf. Notices to us must be sent to legal@golfist.golf.

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