Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Placeholder notice: "[Catch LLC]" below is a placeholder until the LLC is formed and named. This document has not yet been reviewed by an attorney — see the cover note delivered alongside this file for what still needs legal review before this is treated as final or published to real users.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and [Catch LLC], a New York limited liability company (to be formed) ("Catch," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of the Catch rowing-team management application (the "Service").
By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account yourself. The Service enforces this: an account that gives a date of birth under 16 is refused at sign-up and told to ask their coach.
Athletes under 16 are added to a team by their coach, and their participation requires a parent or legal guardian to approve it through the guardian-consent process before the athlete can use the Service. If you are between 16 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you represent that you have your parent's or legal guardian's permission to use the Service, and that a parent or guardian has reviewed these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
If you are a coach or team administrator entering information about an athlete (including a minor), you represent that you have the legal authority and appropriate consent (e.g., from the athlete, their parent/guardian, or your organization, as applicable) to do so.
The Service may be offered to teams under a paid subscription or license model. As of this version of these Terms, no live payment processing is active in the Service; dues/fee-tracking features record balances and reminders manually entered by your team, not real financial transactions.
Once paid subscriptions or licenses are introduced:
Catch's business model includes revenue from team subscriptions/licenses and from affiliate links and brand partnerships (for example, with rowing equipment, apparel, or related brands). We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information as a source of revenue. Any affiliate or partnership arrangement that would involve sharing your personal account information with a third-party brand will be clearly disclosed at the time, and, where required by law, will require your opt-in consent — see our Privacy Policy, Section 4.2, for more detail.
You agree not to:
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section, as described in Section 10.
"User Content" means any information, data, messages, or files you or your team submits to the Service — including roster information, attendance records, chat/comms messages, coaching notes, and athlete performance data.
The Service integrates with or relies on certain third-party services (for example, weather data, and in the future potentially fitness-device or payment integrations). Catch does not control, and is not responsible for, the availability, accuracy, or practices of these third-party services. Your use of any third-party service accessed through the Service may be subject to that provider's own terms.
The Service, including its software, design, graphics, and branding (excluding your own User Content), is owned by Catch or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service, or reverse-engineer it, except as permitted by law.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that any data will be accurate, complete, or preserved without loss.
Catch is a team-management and communication tool. It is not a substitute for professional medical judgment. Any health, injury, or medical-adjacent information recorded in the Service (weight, injury logs, medical notes) is provided by coaches and other users, not verified or reviewed by Catch, and should not be relied upon as a substitute for consulting a qualified medical professional, athletic trainer, or other appropriate authority.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:
Note for legal review: the limitation-of-liability and disclaimer language above is standard, strong protective language, but it is not an absolute guarantee of zero liability — no contract can override certain non-waivable statutory obligations (e.g., New York's SHIELD Act data-security/breach-notification requirements, or protections specific to minors' data). This entire section, and its interaction with the safeguarding/minors data handled by the Service, is exactly the kind of language that should be reviewed by an attorney familiar with New York law and, ideally, with youth-sports or health-adjacent data specifically, before this is relied upon.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Catch, its owners, and affiliates from any claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any rights of another person, except to the extent caused by Catch's own breach of these Terms or violation of applicable law.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause, including for violation of these Terms. You may stop using the Service and request account deletion at any time (see our Privacy Policy, Section 8). Provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 8 through 13) will survive.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Saratoga County, New York, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Note for legal review: whether an arbitration clause, class-action waiver, or other dispute-resolution mechanism should be added here (common in consumer-facing ToS) is a decision to make with counsel, not something drafted here without legal input.
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice (such as an in-app notice or updated "Last Updated" date) before the changes take effect. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
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