Terms of Service — NextTeam

Please read these terms carefully. Section 18 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a waiver of class actions and jury trials, which affect how disputes are resolved. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days as described in that section.

1. Agreement

These terms are a legal agreement between you and Vantage Labs LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company (“Vantage Labs,” “we,” “us”), governing your use of the NextTeam mobile application, website, and related services (together, 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.

2. What NextTeam is — and is not

NextTeam is a software tool that helps coaches, parents, and guardians organize youth sports teams: rosters, schedules, attendance, messaging, and related information. NextTeam is not a sports league, club, or team; does not organize, sponsor, supervise, or operate any sports activity; and does not employ, appoint, or endorse any coach, team administrator, or other user.

Coach vetting is the league's responsibility, not ours. NextTeam is built on the assumption that coaches and team administrators have been selected, approved, and, where applicable, background-checked by the league, club, school, or other organization they coach for. NextTeam does not verify the identity of any user, does not perform background checks, and does not take on any responsibility for vetting coaches, team administrators, parents, or anyone else. If you have questions about whether a coach has been screened, ask your league or organization. Use the same judgment about who you share information with in NextTeam that you would use offline.

Participation in sports carries inherent risks, including physical injury. We are not responsible for any sports activity, practice, game, travel, or event, or for the conduct of any person at or in connection with one, even if it was scheduled or communicated through the Service.

3. Free for a limited time

The Service is free for a limited time. We plan to introduce pricing in the future, which may include paid plans, subscriptions, or paid features, and some features that are free today may become paid features.

Before we begin charging for any part of the Service you use, we will give you advance notice in the app or by email. You will never be charged automatically when the free period ends. You will only be charged if you affirmatively choose to purchase, and the price and terms will be shown to you before you buy. If you choose not to pay, you may continue using any features that remain free, or stop using the Service and delete your account. Purchases made through the Apple App Store or Google Play are processed by those platforms and are also subject to their terms, including their refund policies.

We may change, limit, or stop offering any feature, including free features, at any time.

4. Eligibility

You must be at least eighteen years old and legally able to enter into a contract to hold an account. Accounts are intended for parents, legal guardians, coaches, and team administrators. Children may not create accounts or use the Service directly, and you may not create an account for a child or allow a child to use your account.

5. Your account

You are responsible for the accuracy of the information in your account, for keeping your login credentials confidential, and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly at support@nextteam.app if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

6. Information you provide about others

If you enter information about a player or another adult, you represent and warrant that:

• you are that player's parent or legal guardian, or you are a coach or team administrator entering roster information for a legitimate team-management purpose with the authority of the player's team, league, or organization;
• you have the right and any consent required by law to provide that information and to have it shared with the authorized members of the team as described in our Privacy Policy; and
• the information is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Coaches and team administrators who record notes, ratings, or observations about players agree to keep them factual, relevant to the player's sports participation, and appropriate in tone. Do not record medical, disciplinary, family, or other sensitive information that is not needed to manage the team.

7. Player photos

The Service does not currently let you upload photos. If we offer photo upload in a future version, we will update these terms and our Privacy Policy before the feature is available, to describe how photos may be used, who can see them, and when they are deleted.

8. Your content

“Your content” means anything you submit to the Service, including roster information, notes, and messages. You keep ownership of your content. You grant Vantage Labs a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, copy, process, transmit, and display your content solely as needed to operate, secure, support, and improve the Service and to make it available to the people you share it with through the Service. This license ends when your content is deleted from the Service, except for copies retained in backups for a limited period or as required by law.

You are solely responsible for your content. We do not pre-screen or monitor content, including messages, and we are not responsible for content posted by users. We may, but are not obligated to, review, remove, or restrict access to any content at any time.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• harass, threaten, bully, exploit, abuse, or harm any person, and especially any child;
• post or transmit content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, hateful, or that violates anyone's privacy or other rights;
• use the Service to contact, track, or gather information about a child for any purpose unrelated to legitimate team activities;
• copy, post, share, or otherwise use another player's information outside of team purposes;
• access, or attempt to access, information for teams or players you are not authorized to view;
• impersonate any person, or misrepresent your relationship to a player, team, or organization;
• attempt to circumvent security controls, authentication, or access restrictions;
• scrape, bulk export, sell, or resell data from the Service;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or interfere with the operation of the Service or its infrastructure; or
• use the Service for any purpose other than managing youth sports team participation.

Reporting. If you see content or conduct that violates these terms, or that you believe puts a child at risk, report it to support@nextteam.app. If a child is in immediate danger, contact local law enforcement first. We may report suspected child exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement, and may preserve and disclose related information as permitted or required by law.

10. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your account or access to any team, with or without notice, if you violate these terms, if your use creates risk or legal exposure for us, other users, or any child, or if your account has been inactive for an extended period. You may stop using the Service and request deletion of your account at any time through the app or our Account Deletion page. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including Sections 8 and 11 through 21, will survive.

11. Availability — no guarantee of service

The Service is provided on an as-available basis. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, or available at any particular time, or that notifications, messages, schedule changes, or attendance updates will be delivered or delivered on time. The Service depends on third-party infrastructure and on your own device and network.

Do not rely on the Service for emergencies, medical information, safety decisions, weather or field-closure alerts, or any other time-critical or safety-critical need. Always confirm important information, such as game times and locations, directly with your coach, team, or league.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. We specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that any information in the Service (including information entered by other users) is accurate or complete, or that defects will be corrected.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vantage Labs and its members, managers, officers, employees, and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; for any loss of data, goodwill, or opportunity; for missed events or activities; or for any injury, harm, or loss arising from sports activities or from the conduct of any user or other third party, whether online or offline, in each case arising out of or relating to the Service, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the total amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. If you have not paid us anything, our liability to you is zero. You acknowledge that the Service is provided free of charge or at low cost, and that these limitations are a fundamental part of the bargain without which we would not provide the Service.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, such as liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud where the law does not permit such a limitation. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers or limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Vantage Labs and its members, managers, officers, employees, and contractors from any third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of your content (including any information you provided about another person), your violation of these terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of any other person.

15. Intellectual property and feedback

The Service, including its software, design, and the NextTeam name and logo, is owned by Vantage Labs and protected by intellectual property law. Subject to these terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

If you believe content in the Service infringes your copyright, email support@nextteam.app with a description of the work, where the content appears, your contact information, and a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized.

16. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party services, including Google Firebase for authentication, data storage, notifications, and crash reporting, and app store platforms operated by Apple and Google. Your use of those services is also subject to their terms. We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, or outages of third-party providers.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email at least 14 days before they take effect, except where a change is required by law or addresses a new feature, in which case it may take effect sooner. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account. Changes to Section 18 will not apply to any dispute of which we had notice before the change.

18. Dispute resolution — arbitration and class action waiver

Informal resolution first. Before filing any claim, you and we each agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by sending a written description of the dispute and the relief requested (to us at support@nextteam.app; to you at the email on your account) and negotiating in good faith for at least 60 days.

Binding arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved informally, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitration may be conducted by video conference, by phone, or on written submissions, and any in-person hearing will take place in the county where you live or in Kentucky, at your choice. Payment of filing and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules.

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

Class action and jury trial waiver. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you and we each agree that claims may be brought only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding, and each waives the right to a jury trial. If this class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim will be severed and decided in court, not arbitration.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing support@nextteam.app from your account email, with the subject “Arbitration Opt-Out,” within 30 days after you first accept these terms. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms.

19. Governing law and venue

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, without regard to its conflict of laws rules, except that Section 18 is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Kentucky.

20. Apple App Store terms

If you downloaded the app from the Apple App Store: these terms are between you and Vantage Labs only, not Apple, and Vantage Labs (not Apple) is solely responsible for the app and its content. Your license to use the app is limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the App Store's Usage Rules. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no warranty obligation with respect to the app; if the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund any purchase price you paid for the app. Vantage Labs, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection or privacy claims, and claims that the app infringes a third party's intellectual property rights. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo and are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

21. Miscellaneous

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Vantage Labs regarding the Service.

22. Contact

Vantage Labs LLC
Kentucky, USA
Email: support@nextteam.app