Terms of Use

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These terms are an agreement between you and Gadzook Labs LLC, a Pennsylvania company ("Gadzook Labs", "we", "us"). They cover Gadzook Golf at golf.gadzooklabs.com (the "app"). Other Gadzook Labs apps, such as Gadzook Live, have their own terms. By using the app you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it.

1. Using the app

Looking around is free: courses, the map, the weather, the prize catalogue and the rules. You don't need a player name for that.
You may use the app for your own personal, non-commercial use.
Please don't copy large parts of the app, or collect its course details, ratings, players or standings with bots, scrapers or other automated tools.
Please don't interfere with how the app works, try to use a player name that isn't yours, or overload our servers.
Please don't use the app for anything illegal.

2. Your player name and crews

One name per person. You pick one player name. Names are unique, and you may not hold more than one, for example to get around a rule or to play yourself.
It's public. Your player name, your stats, your league standing, your crews' boards and the results of your finished matches can be seen by everyone who uses the app. Open matches are shown only to their two players.
It stays. A name can't be changed or deleted, so your history stays with you and the league stays accurate.
Pick a fair name. Please don't choose a name that's offensive or pretends to be someone else. We may remove or replace a name like that.
Your recovery code. Your name belongs to a private code kept on your phone, shown to you as a recovery code. Keep it private: anyone who has it can use your name. We keep only a scrambled copy, so we can't look up a lost code for you. You're responsible for what happens under your name.
Crews. A crew's captain can rename the crew, make a new join code and remove members, and a removed member can't rejoin. Share a crew's join code only with people you want in it.

3. Memberships

A membership lets you make and accept matches, keep scorecards and get a handicap and stats. The League plan adds a ranking in the league and on crew boards. The current prices are shown in the app before you pay.
You must be at least 18 to buy a plan.
Each plan lasts one month from the day you pay. Plans don't renew on their own. Renewing early adds a month to the time you have left.
Payments are handled by our payment processor. Payments for a plan aren't refundable, except where the law requires.
If we change a price, the new price applies to the next month you buy, not to a month you've already paid for.

4. Friendly matches and prizes

Who can play. You must be at least 18 and a member to make or accept a match for a prize. Prize matches may not be offered everywhere and are void where prohibited. You're responsible for following the laws where you live and play.
What you play for. Every prize is a physical item from the prize catalogue, such as golf balls, gloves, apparel or gear. Prizes are never cash, free rounds, bar tabs or lessons, and can't be exchanged for cash.
Who buys the prize. The loser of a match buys the prize for the winner. Nothing is paid when a wager is made or accepted. When the match is finished, the loser may buy the prize through the app, at the price set when the wager was made, plus tax, and it is shipped to the winner. This is a matter of trust between the players: nobody can be made to buy. Gadzook isn’t a party to any match or wager between players and holds no money for them. We only sell the prize.
Winning. The winner gives us a shipping address, and a size for sized items, and once the loser has bought the prize we ship it to the winner. If an item becomes unavailable, we may send a similar item at or under the price set when the wager was made. If an order can’t be filled, the buyer is refunded in full. The maker's warranty, if any, comes with the item.
Ties and cancelled matches. A tie means nobody owes anything. If a match is removed before it's finished, no prize is bought.
Results. A match is decided by the scores the two players enter, under the rules in the app. Once a match is finished, it's final.
We're not the referee. Disagreements between players are between them. But if we believe scores were faked or these terms were broken, we may cancel the match or hold back the prize.

5. Scores, rounds and fair play

Enter only the scores you actually played, and confirm only rounds you saw played.
Your course votes, such as difficulty and "nice", are your opinion and are shown as opinions.
You're responsible for what you add to the app: your player name, scores, posted rounds, crew names and votes ("Your Content"). You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, copy, display and share Your Content in the app, for example on scorecards, league tables and crew boards. Because finished matches and confirmed rounds are final, they stay in the league records.
We may remove rounds, matches, names or other content that's false, offensive or breaks these terms, and we may suspend or close a player name that does. If we close a name for breaking these terms, unused time on a plan isn't refunded.

6. Handicaps, course ratings and the league

The handicaps in the app are worked out by the app from your league rounds, or from the GHIN index you enter, for friendly matches in the app. They're not an official Handicap Index, and Gadzook Golf isn't connected with or endorsed by the USGA or GHIN.
Course ratings and slopes come from published sources, and some are estimates marked as such. They may be out of date or wrong. If you spot one, please tell us.

7. Courses, green fees and tee times

Course details come from public sources and the courses themselves. We work to keep them accurate, but green fees, hours, conditions, access and whether a course is open can change without notice. Fees in the app are approximate ranges.
We don't sell tee times or take bookings. When you book, pay for or cancel a round, that's between you and the course, under the course's own prices and policies. Please check with the course before you go.
On the course, the course's rules and staff apply.

8. Weather and playability

The app shows forecasts from Open-Meteo and labels days Go, Iffy or Skip. These are a rough guide to whether a day is good for golf. They may be delayed, incomplete or wrong. They're not a safety service. Always follow course staff, lightning horns and sirens, posted signs and official National Weather Service warnings, and take care in extreme heat. In an emergency, call 911.

9. Course sponsors

These rules apply to courses and brands that sponsor the app, for example with a featured listing, photos, a sponsored prize or a tee-time button.

Who can sponsor. You must be at least 18 and authorized to act for the course or brand. We set up sponsorships on request, after confirming the business, and may decline any request.
Separate terms. Prices and other details are agreed with you separately. If those terms conflict with these, the separate terms win for that sponsorship.
What you send us. You're responsible for your photos, logos, descriptions, links, sponsored prizes and offers ("Sponsor Content"). You promise that it's accurate and lawful and that you'll honor the prizes and offers you provide; that you own it or have permission to use it; and that it doesn't break anyone else's rights, such as copyrights, trademarks or privacy.
Permission to show it. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, display, format and share your Sponsor Content in the app and in materials that promote the app (for example a social media post featuring your course or your sponsored prize). This license ends when the sponsorship ends or you remove the content, except for copies already shared and backups we keep for a limited time.
Content we may remove. We may edit for formatting, decline or remove any Sponsor Content, for example content that's false, offensive, adult or illegal.
Ratings stay independent. Sponsorship never changes course ratings, slopes or the league.
Your responsibility to us. You agree to defend and repay Gadzook Labs for claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) that come from your Sponsor Content, your prizes and offers, or your breaking these terms.

10. Our content and brands

The app, its design, software, text, course illustrations and graphics are owned by Gadzook Labs LLC or our licensors and protected by copyright and other laws.
GADZOOK, GADZOOK LABS, GADZOOK GOLF, the Gadzook ticket logo, the Gadzookium "Gz" tile and our app names and tiles are our trademarks. Please don't use them without our written permission.
Some photos and map data come from others under their own licenses (for example Creative Commons photos, and map data from OpenStreetMap contributors). Their credit lines in the app show who owns them and under which license.
Course and brand names, logos and prize brands belong to their owners. Showing them doesn't mean the course or brand endorses us, or that we endorse it.

11. Copyright complaints

If you believe something in the app infringes your copyright, email our copyright agent at info@gadzooklabs.com or write to the address below, with:

your name, address, phone number and email;
a description of the work you believe was copied;
where it appears in the app (a link is best);
a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorized by you, your agent or the law;
a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you're the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and
your physical or electronic signature.

We'll remove material that we're properly notified about, and we'll close the player names and sponsorships of repeat infringers. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address.

12. Links and other services

The app links to course websites, booking pages, maps, directions and phone numbers that we don't run, and uses outside services such as our payment processor, Open-Meteo for weather and OpenStreetMap for maps. We're not responsible for their content or how they handle your information.

13. Disclaimers

The app is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don't promise the app will always be available or error-free. Golf is a physical activity, and you play at your own risk.

14. Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Gadzook Labs won't be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill, arising from your use of the app. That includes a course's fees, tee times or details being wrong, a sponsor not honoring a prize or offer, another player's scores or conduct, and weather information being late or wrong. Our total liability for any claim about the app is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

15. Changes

We may update these terms. We'll change the date at the top, and for important changes we'll let players know in the app and email sponsors. If you keep using the app after a change, the new terms apply.

16. Law and courts

Pennsylvania law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be decided in the state or federal courts for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and you and we agree to those courts' jurisdiction.

17. Everything else

If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term right away, we haven't given up the right to enforce it later. You can't transfer your rights under these terms, including your player name; we can transfer ours, for example if Gadzook Labs is sold.

18. Contact

Gadzook Labs LLC, TERMS_MAILING_ADDRESS. info@gadzooklabs.com

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