Terms of Service

These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and PlayerTap LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company (“PlayerTap”, “we”, “us”). They cover the PlayerTap website at playertap.app, the profiles it hosts, organization pages and dashboards, event and sponsor pages, the emails we send, the waitlist, and PlayerTap cards and bag tags (together, the “Service”).

Our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines are part of these terms.

You accept these terms by creating an account, activating a card or bag tag, joining the waitlist, or otherwise using the Service. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service. If you use it on behalf of a club, business or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to accept these terms for it, and “you” includes it.

• You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
• If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, you confirm that your parent or legal guardian has read and agreed to these terms and allows you to use the Service. We don’t verify this ourselves.
• If you are a parent or guardian who allows someone under 18 to use PlayerTap, you agree to these terms on their behalf and are responsible for their use of the Service.
• You must be at least 18 — and old enough under the law where you are to take part in any wager — to switch on Settle Up or to be included in anyone’s Settle Up entries (see section 8).
• We may ask you to confirm your age, and may limit features or close an account if we believe the person using it is younger than these terms allow.
• You may not use the Service if we have previously closed your account for breaking these terms, or if the law prohibits you from using it.

• Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep your email address current — it’s how you get back into your account.
• Keep your password secret, and keep any Google account you use to sign in secure. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. Tell us at hello@playertap.app straight away if you think someone else has access; resetting your PlayerTap password signs every other PlayerTap session out.
• One account per person. Don’t create an account for someone else, or impersonate anyone.
• Usernames are permanent once chosen, because your profile link is built from yours. We may reclaim a username that impersonates someone, infringes a trademark, or is abusive.

That includes your name, username, photos, handicap, home course, bio, interests, answers to profile prompts, work details and links. Your phone number and email are shown only if you switch them on, and are off by default. Anyone who sees your profile can copy, screenshot or share it, and we can’t control what they do with it. If you don’t want a stranger to see something, don’t put it on your profile.

“Your content” means anything you put on the Service: photos, text, links, messages and anything else. You keep ownership of it.

You give PlayerTap a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display, format and transmit your content, only as needed to operate, provide, secure and improve the Service — for example, showing your profile to the people who tap your card, resizing your photos, and delivering your messages. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other users have already received, content kept for legal reasons, and backups that expire on their normal schedule.

You promise that you own your content or have permission to use it, that it doesn’t infringe anyone’s rights, and that it follows these terms and the Community Guidelines. You are responsible for your content and the consequences of sharing it.

We don’t review content before it is posted and have no obligation to, but we may remove or restrict any content, at any time, that we believe breaks these terms or the law, or puts anyone at risk.

Follow the Community Guidelines. In addition, you must not:

• break the law, or use the Service to help anyone else do so
• harass, threaten, stalk or abuse anyone, or share someone’s private information without their permission
• impersonate any person or organisation, or misrepresent your connection to one
• send spam or unsolicited advertising, or use messages or connections for mass outreach
• scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-download profiles or other data, by any automated means, without our written permission
• probe, scan or test the Service’s security, get around rate limits or other protections, or access any account, data or system that isn’t yours
• upload malware, or interfere with, overload or disrupt the Service
• reverse engineer or copy the Service, except where the law expressly allows it
• copy, clone or re-program a PlayerTap card or bag tag, write PlayerTap links onto other tags, or make or sell anything presented as an official PlayerTap product
• sell, rent or transfer your account, or use the Service for commercial purposes other than showing your own work on your profile or using the organization features we provide (see section 10)

Only people you are connected with can message you. You can remove a connection at any time, which deletes your conversation for both of you, and you can block someone, which also stops them connecting with you again.

Your interactions with other users, on or off the Service — including rounds you play, arrangements you make and money you exchange — are solely between you and them. We are not responsible for what other users say or do, and to the extent the law allows, you release PlayerTap from claims arising from them. Report anything serious to hello@playertap.app.

Settle Up is an optional note-keeping tool. It lets two players write down an amount one says should be paid to the other, see the same note, and mark it settled. Every entry is a statement made by a player. We don’t see your round, keep score, decide who won, or check that anything recorded is accurate, and a Settle Up entry is not an agreement with PlayerTap.

• It is off by default. Both players must switch it on, and both must be at least 18 and old enough under the law where they are to take part in any wager — in some places that age is higher than 18.
• You alone are responsible for making sure that anything you record, and any money that changes hands, is lawful where you and the other player are. Rules vary by state, country, course and club. If it isn’t lawful for you, don’t use Settle Up. Nothing on PlayerTap is an invitation or encouragement to gamble.
• Payment links are a shortcut, nothing more. When the other player has a payment app such as Venmo on their profile, a link can open that app with their username and, if you choose, an amount and note filled in. You review and send any payment yourself, inside that app, under that company’s own terms and rules — which may restrict using it for wagers. PlayerTap is not part of the payment and never learns whether it was made.
• A Settle Up entry marked settled means one of you pressed a button. It isn’t proof of payment, and we can’t resolve disagreements about what should have been paid or what was paid.
• You must not use PlayerTap to run a pool, bookmaking, a fantasy or prize contest, or any business that involves wagering, or to record wagers on behalf of anyone else.
• We may switch Settle Up off for any account, in any place, or for everyone, at any time and without notice.

• Each card or bag tag contains an NFC chip holding a PlayerTap link. When you buy one you own the physical object; the link, the code behind it and the Service it opens remain ours, and you may use them only with the Service and these terms.
• Cards and bag tags are made in numbered runs. A card or tag can be activated once, by whoever activates it first, and from then on opens that person’s profile. Keep yours safe until you activate it.
• We may, at our discretion, release a card or tag that was activated by mistake or by the wrong person, so that it can be activated again. Releasing it doesn’t delete anyone’s account or history.
• If yours is lost or stolen, it keeps opening your profile until we deactivate it — tell us at hello@playertap.app.
• Tapping depends on the other person’s phone supporting and reading NFC. Most modern phones do; some don’t, and results vary by model, case and placement.
• A card or tag needs the Service to be useful. If the Service changes or ends, it may stop opening anything (see section 16).
• If yours arrives faulty, tell us within 30 days of delivery and we’ll replace it.
• When cards and tags go on sale, the price, taxes, shipping and any return terms will be shown to you before you pay, and form part of this agreement for that purchase.

Clubs, businesses and other organizations can have a page and a dashboard on PlayerTap, including tracked links and inquiry forms. If you manage an organization on PlayerTap:

• you confirm you are authorised to act for it, and you are responsible for everything you and your organization’s other admins do with it, and for its page, logo, description and links;
• invite only people who expect to hear from you;
• use the name, email and message someone sends through your inquiry form only to respond to that inquiry, and handle it lawfully — including anti-spam and privacy laws. Once you receive it, you are responsible for how you use and keep it, under your own privacy practices;
• don’t use PlayerTap to collect information from anyone under 18.

Organization accounts are set up and may be suspended or removed by us at our discretion. Offers, prizes and links from sponsors or organizations at events are made by them, not by PlayerTap; any terms are between you and them, and we aren’t responsible for them.

• Joining the waitlist is free and is not an order, a reservation or a purchase. You are not charged, and you are not obliged to buy anything.
• A pre-order is a purchase. You pay at checkout, and your tag or card is made in a batch after the order window closes; the delivery date shown is our estimate, not a guarantee.
• Pre-ordered tags and cards are made to order with the name and home course you give us, so check the spelling before you pay. A correctly made personalised tag or card can’t be returned, but if yours arrives faulty or misprinted we’ll replace it (see section 9).
• If a run is cancelled, or we can’t fill your pre-order, we refund what you paid in full.
• Products, prices, quantities, numbering and dates shown before sale are our current plans and may change. Joining doesn’t guarantee you any item, number or price.
• Club, team and outing enquiries are requests for us to contact you, not orders.
• Promotional offers apply only as described at the time, to the people who qualify, and may be changed or ended early.

You agree that we may communicate with you electronically, and that notices we send by email or show on the Service satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing.

Account emails — password resets especially — are part of the Service and can’t be switched off while you have an account. Notification emails can be switched off in your settings. Marketing email, including waitlist announcements, always carries an unsubscribe link.

Profiles, organization pages and event pages link to other services — Instagram, Venmo, LinkedIn, golf apps, sponsors and websites — and the Service relies on other companies to run. We don’t control third-party services, aren’t responsible for them, and your use of them is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

The Service, and everything in it that isn’t your content or another user’s — including the PlayerTap name, logos, card and bag tag designs, software and text — belongs to PlayerTap or our licensors and is protected by law. These terms give you a limited, personal, revocable, non-transferable right to use the Service as intended, and no other rights. Don’t use our name or branding without our written permission.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely without paying you or owing you anything.

We respect intellectual property rights and respond to notices of alleged infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content on PlayerTap infringes your copyright, send a notice to our copyright agent at hello@playertap.app or PlayerTap LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA, including:

• your physical or electronic signature
• identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed
• identification of the material you say infringes it, and where it is on PlayerTap (for example, the profile link)
• your name, address, telephone number and email
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn’t authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. We close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Knowingly false notices can create legal liability.

We may change, add or remove features, or suspend or discontinue any part of the Service, at any time. Where a change significantly affects you, we’ll try to give you reasonable notice.

You can stop using PlayerTap at any time, and ask us to delete your account by emailing hello@playertap.app. We may suspend or close your account, remove content, or deactivate a card or tag, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have broken these terms or the law, created risk for PlayerTap or others, or if we are required to.

Sections that by their nature should continue after your account ends — including 5 (the licence for copies already shared), 8, 10 (for inquiries already received), 13 through 15, and 17 through 23 — continue.

THE SERVICE, CARDS AND BAG TAGS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, PLAYERTAP DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We aren’t responsible for any wager, payment or arrangement between users. We don’t promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that every tap will work, that messages or emails will arrive, or that content will be preserved. Keep your own copy of anything that matters. Some places don’t allow these disclaimers, in which case they apply only as far as the law allows.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS: (A) PLAYERTAP IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS; AND (B) PLAYERTAP’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR $100.

These limits apply whatever the legal theory — contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise — and even if we were told the damage was possible. They don’t limit liability that can’t be limited by law, such as for fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and some states don’t allow certain limits, in which case those parts don’t apply to you.

To the extent the law allows, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless PlayerTap and its members, managers, employees and agents from any claims, losses, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your use of the Service, your dealings with other users (including any wager or payment), any organization you manage and the information it receives, or your breach of these terms or the law.

These terms, and any dispute relating to them or the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming and applicable U.S. federal law, including the Federal Arbitration Act, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute not subject to arbitration will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Wyoming, and you and PlayerTap consent to their jurisdiction.

Informal resolution first. Before starting any formal proceeding, the party with a complaint must send the other a written description of it and the relief sought — to us at hello@playertap.app, or to you at the email on your account — and both must try in good faith to resolve it for 60 days.

Binding arbitration. If it isn’t resolved, you and PlayerTap agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising from or relating to these terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitrator decides all questions of arbitrability except those about the class action waiver below, which a court decides. Arbitration may take place by video, by phone, on written submissions, or in the county where you live. Fees are paid as the AAA’s rules provide.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies, and either party may seek relief in court to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property or unauthorised access to the Service.

Opting out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing hello@playertap.app within 30 days of first accepting these terms, from the email on your account, with your name and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out doesn’t affect any other part of these terms.

We may update these terms from time to time, and the date at the top shows when they last changed. If a change materially affects your rights, we’ll tell account holders by email or on the Service before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it. Changes don’t apply to disputes we already knew about before they took effect.

• These terms, with the policies they refer to, are the entire agreement between you and PlayerTap about the Service.
• If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and that part is enforced as far as the law allows.
• Not enforcing a provision isn’t a waiver of our right to do so later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours, including as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
• We aren’t liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Headings are for convenience only.

PlayerTap LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Email: hello@playertap.app