Agreement to These Terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Fullride Athletics, LLC ("Fullride Athletics," "we," "us," or "our") governing your use of fullrideathletics.com and everything on it (the "Site"). By using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.
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This is a working draft prepared without legal counsel. Have a licensed attorney review it before launch, especially the disclaimers, limitation of liability, minors, dispute resolution, and any paid-listing terms.
What Fullride Athletics Is (and Is Not)
Fullride Athletics is an education and resource platform. We provide informational content, free self-service tools, and a directory of independent service providers to help families run the college recruiting process themselves.
We are not a recruiting service or sports agency. We do not contact college coaches on your behalf, negotiate on your behalf, guarantee scholarships, roster spots, admissions, or any recruiting outcome, and we do not act as your agent or advisor. The recruiting process, and every decision in it, stays with you and your family.
We are not athlete agents. We do not recruit, solicit, or enter into any agency contract with a student-athlete, and we do not solicit or negotiate name, image, and likeness (NIL), endorsement, professional, or other contracts on anyone's behalf. Nothing on the Site is an agency contract or an offer to act as an athlete agent under the federal Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act (SPARTA) or any state athlete-agent law (such as a Uniform Athlete Agents Act or Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act). If you want agent or representation services, retain a licensed, registered athlete agent directly.
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This section is meant to keep Fullride Athletics outside the definition of an 'athlete agent' under SPARTA and state UAAA/RUAAA statutes. If the business ever offers NIL matchmaking, contract help, or anything that could be read as soliciting or representing athletes, this disclaimer no longer holds and agent-registration and disclosure obligations may apply. Have counsel confirm before adding any such feature or any paid provider tier that touches NIL.
Eligibility and Minors
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site. If you are under 18, you may use the Site only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13; see our Privacy Policy for details.
Educational Content Is Not Professional Advice
Our articles, guides, checklists, and other content are for general educational purposes. They are not legal, financial, academic, or professional advice, and they are not a substitute for guidance from your school, your athletic association, or a qualified professional.
Recruiting rules change and vary by division, sport, and governing body. You are responsible for confirming current eligibility rules and requirements (for example, with the NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, your conference, or your school) before acting. We do not guarantee that any information on the Site is complete, current, or applicable to your situation.
Nothing on the Site is medical, health, nutrition, training, or mental-health advice. Any content about conditioning, nutrition, injury, or wellness is general information only and is not a substitute for guidance from a qualified physician or licensed professional. Consult one before starting or changing any training, nutrition, or health program.
Free Tools
The Site offers free tools, including the Recruiting Checklist, Outreach Builder, and Contact Tracker. These tools run in your browser and save your data locally on your device. We do not store a copy, we cannot recover it for you, and we are not responsible for data you lose if you clear your browser, switch devices, or your browser removes it.
The tools are provided as is, for your personal, non-commercial use. You are responsible for keeping your own backups of anything important, and for the accuracy of what you enter.
The Provider Directory
Our directory lists independent, third-party service providers (such as trainers, film and highlight services, tutoring, and showcases). This is the most important thing to understand about the directory:
- The providers are independent businesses, not our employees, partners, or agents. We do not control them and are not responsible for their services, conduct, pricing, or results.
- A listing is not an endorsement, recommendation, certification, or guarantee. While we review applications before listing, we do not guarantee any provider's quality, qualifications, availability, or outcomes.
- Any agreement you enter with a provider is solely between you and that provider. We are not a party to it. We do not process payments between you and providers, and we take no commission on where you land.
- You are responsible for your own due diligence: vet providers, read their terms, and make your own decision before hiring anyone.
- Any dispute with a provider is between you and that provider. We are not responsible for resolving it and disclaim liability for it.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release Fullride Athletics from any claims, demands, damages, and disputes of every kind arising out of or connected to your dealings with any provider you find through the directory. Any transaction, agreement, or dispute is solely between you and that provider.
If you have a concern about a provider in our directory, let us know so we can review the listing, but we cannot mediate or take sides in a dispute.
Listing Your Service (Providers)
If you apply to be listed, you represent that you are authorized to do so and that the information you provide is accurate and not misleading. You are responsible for keeping it current.
We may accept, decline, edit, suspend, or remove any listing at our discretion, including for inaccurate information, complaints, or conduct that conflicts with our mission or these Terms. Listing is a privilege, not a right, and does not create a partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between us.
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Paid-listing terms are not finalized. Current pricing (see docs/pricing.md): Basic free; Featured $150/yr and Premium $300/yr at the Founding rate, standard $240/yr and $490/yr, billed monthly or annually with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Before launch, formalize renewals, auto-renewal and cancellation, the refund/guarantee mechanics, the 2-year Founding-rate lock, and proration on upgrades in a dedicated paid-listing section or separate provider agreement. The 'one featured newsletter article' Premium perk also needs defined terms.
Acceptable Use
When you use the Site, you agree not to:
- Break the law or infringe anyone's rights.
- Submit false, misleading, or impersonating information through our forms.
- Send spam, malware, or attempt to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the Site or its systems.
- Scrape, copy, or reuse the Site's content or directory data except as expressly permitted.
- Use the Site to harass, harm, or exploit any person, including minors.
Intellectual Property
The Site, including its content, design, logos, and the "Fullride Athletics" name, is owned by Fullride Athletics, LLC or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. You may use the Site and its free tools for your personal recruiting journey. You may not copy, republish, sell, or create derivative works from our content without our permission. Provider logos and materials belong to their respective owners.
If you send us feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Site, you agree we may use them for any purpose without any obligation or payment to you, and you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them.
Third-Party Links and Services
The Site links to third-party websites and services, including provider websites and our newsletter platform. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, practices, or policies. Visiting them is at your own risk and subject to their terms.
Disclaimer of Warranties
The Site, its content, tools, and directory are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, title, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any recruiting outcome will result from using it. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.
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This disclaimer is set in bold, uppercase type so it is 'conspicuous' as required for warranty disclaimers under Colorado's UCC (C.R.S. 4-2-316), which requires the word 'merchantability' to appear and the disclaimer to stand out. Confirm styling with counsel and keep it visually distinct from surrounding copy.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fullride Athletics, LLC and its owners, members, and contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, opportunities, or recruiting outcomes, arising from your use of the Site, the tools, or any provider you find through the directory. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Site will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).
Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or gross negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages or the above cap, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Where a limitation is not enforceable, our liability is limited to the least amount permitted by law, and the rest of this section still applies.
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A flat $100 cap can be attacked as unconscionable in consumer contexts under Colorado law, especially where the user pays nothing and the cap is far below actual harm. Have counsel weigh a higher or usage-based cap (for example, the greater of $100 or amounts you paid us in the prior 12 months), confirm the excluded-damage categories are enforceable here, and keep the savings/severability language above.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Fullride Athletics, LLC and its owners and members from any claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your misuse of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or your dealings with any provider you find through the directory.
Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Site, or to any feature of it, at any time and without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms, misused the Site, or created risk or legal exposure for us or others, or at our discretion. We may also change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time.
You may stop using the Site at any time. Because the free tools store your data in your own browser, ending your use does not require anything on our end. The parts of these Terms that by their nature should continue (including Intellectual Property, Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, and General) survive any termination.
Copyright Complaints (DMCA)
We respect intellectual property rights and expect you to do the same. If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, you may send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to our designated agent. Your notice must include what the DMCA requires: identification of the copyrighted work, identification of the material you believe is infringing and where it is on the Site, your contact information, a statement of your good-faith belief that the use is not authorized, and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the copyright owner.
Send DMCA notices to our designated agent at info@fullrideathletics.com. We may remove material we believe in good faith is infringing, and we may terminate access for anyone who repeatedly infringes.
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Register a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office and list the agent's exact name and mailing address here; a general email alone does not secure safe-harbor protection. Add counter-notification procedures if the Site ever hosts user-submitted content. Confirm agent details with counsel.
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Most concerns can be resolved quickly. Before starting arbitration, you agree to first contact us at info@fullrideathletics.com with a short written description of the dispute and the resolution you want, and to give us 60 days to try to resolve it informally. If we cannot resolve it in that time, either of us may begin arbitration.
Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to go to court and to have a jury trial. You and Fullride Athletics agree that any dispute relating to the Site or these Terms will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not in court, and you waive the right to participate in a class, collective, or representative action.
The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, before a single arbitrator, and is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. The arbitration will take place in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, or by phone or video if you prefer, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The arbitrator, not a court, decides questions about the scope or arbitrability of this agreement, except that a court decides whether the class-action waiver below is enforceable.
You and Fullride Athletics agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may not combine more than one person's claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, will be separated out and handled in the courts described below, and the rest of this section still applies.
You can opt out of this arbitration agreement. To opt out, email us at info@fullrideathletics.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms, stating your name and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out affects only this arbitration agreement and no other part of these Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. For any dispute that is not subject to arbitration, including any action to enforce this arbitration agreement and any dispute if you opt out, you and Fullride Athletics agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in the City and County of Denver, Colorado.
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Denver venue and Colorado governing law are set per owner instruction. Counsel should still finalize the arbitration provider and rules (AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules assumed), who pays filing and arbitrator fees, any small-claims-court carve-out, a mass-arbitration procedure, and confirm enforceability, including how this binds a minor whose parent accepts on their behalf.
Electronic Communications
When you use the Site, contact us, or submit a form, you consent to receive communications and legal notices from us electronically, such as by email or by posting on the Site. You agree that electronic communications meet any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. Keep your email address current so you can receive them.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the 'Last updated' date at the top of this page. For minor or clarifying changes, that revised date is your notice.
If we make a material change (for example, to the disclaimers, the limitation of liability, or how disputes are handled), we will give more direct, reasonable notice before it takes effect, such as a prominent notice on the Site and, where we have your email address, by email. Material changes are not retroactive; they apply only to your use of the Site after they take effect.
If you do not agree to a change, your remedy is to stop using the Site. Continuing to use the Site after a change takes effect, and after the notice described above, means you accept the updated Terms.
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Counsel should define what counts as a 'material' change, the notice method and lead time (for example, 14 to 30 days), and whether material changes should require affirmative click-acceptance rather than acceptance by continued use, which is more defensible for consumer terms.
General
Severability
If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed to the smallest extent necessary, and the rest of these Terms will stay in full effect.
No Waiver
If we do not enforce a part of these Terms, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later. A waiver is only effective if we put it in writing.
Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any terms we reference, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Site, and they replace any prior understanding. You are not relying on any promise or statement that is not in these Terms.
Assignment
You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign these Terms, for example to a successor if our business is sold or reorganized. These Terms bind and benefit each party's permitted successors.
Force Majeure
We are not responsible for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as outages, natural disasters, or the acts of third parties.
Time Limit on Claims
Any claim relating to the Site or these Terms must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, unless applicable law does not allow that limit.
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A one-year limitations period is common but is not enforceable everywhere and may not apply to consumers or minors in some states. Have counsel confirm it holds in Colorado, and confirm the assignment and entire-agreement language against any separate provider agreement you adopt.
Contact Us
Questions about these Terms? Email us at info@fullrideathletics.com or use our contact form.