Terms of Use

1. Who these Terms cover

These Terms apply to all users of the Service, including players, club hosts, club organizers, venue operators, coaches, referees, and visitors. If you use the Service on behalf of a club, venue, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes that organization.

2. The Service

The Service helps manage pickleball sessions, tournaments, queues, matchmaking, ratings-related features, player and club data, court booking, live displays, and related tools. Features may vary by club, plan, or configuration. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features with or without notice, subject to any separate written agreement we have with you.

3. Accounts and club hosts

You must provide accurate information and keep credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. Club hosts and organizers with elevated access must use that access only for legitimate club or venue operations on the Service, and must not share admin credentials or grant access to unauthorized persons.

4. License to use the Service

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for your internal personal or club/venue operational purposes. No other rights are granted. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

5. Intellectual property

The Service—including software, source and object code, APIs, databases, schemas, algorithms, matchmaking and rotation logic, rating and scoring methodologies, workflows, documentation, designs, user interfaces, graphics, logos, trademarks, trade names (including PickleStax, GGPickleStax, and related marks), text, audiovisual materials, and all related intellectual property—is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other laws.

These Terms do not transfer ownership of any intellectual property to you. “Pickleball House of Dinkie Winkie,” “PickleStax,” “GGPickleStax,” and related logos and brand elements may not be used without our prior written permission, except as needed for truthful, non-misleading references to the Service.

6. Restrictions; no copying or reverse engineering

Except as expressly allowed by these Terms or mandatory applicable law, you must not:

• copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, sell, lease, sublicense, or commercialize the Service or any part of it;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, or otherwise attempt to derive or discover the source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, file formats, data models, matchmaking or rating logic, or other non-public aspects of the Service;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, bypass or circumvent access controls, rate limits, authentication, or security measures, or interfere with Service integrity or availability;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, spider, or use automated means to extract data, content, rankings, pairings, or other output from the Service, except for ordinary interactive use through the provided interfaces or with our prior written consent;
• use the Service, or any knowledge gained from using it, to build, train, assist, or operate a competing product or service that substantially replicates our features, workflows, matchmaking, ratings, tournament operations, or booking platform;
• remove, obscure, or alter proprietary notices, branding, or attribution on the Service or its outputs;
• frame or mirror any part of the Service without our prior written consent; or
• use the Service for any unlawful, fraudulent, harassing, or abusive purpose.

If mandatory law permits limited reverse engineering for interoperability, you may do so only to the minimum extent required by that law, and only after providing us prior written notice and a reasonable opportunity to provide interoperability information.

7. Club data and your content

You retain rights in content and data you submit (such as player names you enter, club logos you upload, and session notes), subject to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, display, and use that content as needed to operate, secure, improve, and support the Service, and as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy.

Club hosts are responsible for having the rights and consents needed to upload player and club data. Aggregate or anonymized insights derived from Service use may be used by us for analytics, product improvement, and legitimate business purposes.

8. Confidentiality of non-public features

Non-public features, configurations, admin tools, pricing discussions, unpublished roadmaps, and technical details disclosed to club hosts or partners are our confidential information. You must not disclose them to third parties or use them to develop competing systems, except with our prior written consent or as required by law.

9. Feedback

If you provide ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and incorporate that feedback without obligation or compensation to you.

10. Third-party services

The Service may integrate with or reference third-party services (for example payment providers or rating systems). Those services are governed by their own terms. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

11. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access, or remove content, if we reasonably believe you violated these Terms, pose a security or legal risk, or misuse the Service—including attempts to copy, reverse engineer, scrape, or build a competing product using our Service. Upon termination, your license ends. Sections that by nature should survive (including intellectual property, restrictions, confidentiality, feedback, disclaimers, and limitation of liability) survive termination.

12. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that matchmaking, ratings, or rankings will meet any particular expectation.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE AND OUR AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US $100) OR LOCAL EQUIVALENT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those cases, our liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.

14. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us against claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your misuse of the Service, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your infringement of another party’s rights.

15. Electronic acceptance and records

Player and club registration require affirmative electronic acceptance (for example, checking “I agree” boxes) of these Terms, the Privacy Policy, and—for club hosts—additional host obligations. Checking those boxes, submitting the registration form, and creating an account constitute your electronic signature and agreement. We may store records of acceptance, including the time of acceptance, account identifiers, and the Terms version presented to you, for compliance, security, and enforcement.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date will change when we do. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

17. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Courts located in the Philippines will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms or the Service, except that we may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property or confidential information.

18. Contact

For questions about these Terms, intellectual property, or suspected misuse, see our Contact us page or email info@ggnextq.com.