1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, accessing, or using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

These Terms apply to tournament operators, administrators, bowling center staff, organization users, and individuals accessing Bowler View or shared tournament pages.

2. ELIGIBILITY

You must be legally capable of entering into a binding agreement to create an operator or administrator account.

The Services are not intended to allow children under 13 to create accounts. An adult tournament operator may enter limited tournament information concerning junior bowlers only when the operator has appropriate authority and any consent required by law.

3. BETA AND EARLY ACCESS

BracketWorks may make features available during beta, pilot, preview, or early-access periods. During those periods, features, interfaces, pricing, data structures, and functionality may change, be restricted, moved to a paid plan, or discontinued.

Beta and early-access features may contain errors or operate unexpectedly. BracketWorks does not guarantee uptime, data integrity, feature availability, or uninterrupted access for beta or early-access features.

4. DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES

BracketWorks is a cloud-hosted bowling tournament management application. It may allow tournament operators to:

1. create and manage tournaments;
2. register bowlers and assign squads;
3. generate and manage brackets;
4. enter scores and advance participants;
5. configure side pots and prize structures;
6. calculate potential payouts;
7. generate reports and exports; and
8. publish read-only tournament views.

BracketWorks provides software only. BracketWorks does not operate tournaments, collect tournament entry fees, hold prize funds, distribute payouts, determine winners, independently verify scores, or resolve tournament disputes.

5. ACCOUNTS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND AUTHORIZED USERS

Users must provide accurate account information and keep it current.

Users are responsible for protecting login credentials and may not share credentials or permit unauthorized access.

An organization may designate one or more account administrators. Organization administrators may invite or remove users, assign roles, manage tournaments, and control organization settings.

When an account is created or used on behalf of a bowling center, association, employer, or other organization, the organization may control tournaments and records created for that organization.

BracketWorks may reasonably assist with transferring organization control after verifying authority. BracketWorks is not responsible for internal ownership or employment disputes.

Users must promptly notify BracketWorks of suspected unauthorized access, compromised credentials, or account-security issues.

6. SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS

You agree that BracketWorks may send transactional and service-related communications concerning account verification, password changes, security notices, subscriptions, billing, tournament activity, support, product changes, and legal updates.

These communications are part of the Services and may not always be optional. Marketing communications, if any, will be handled separately and may be subject to additional consent or opt-out rights.

7. ACCEPTABLE USE AND TOURNAMENT INTEGRITY

You may use BracketWorks only for lawful purposes. You may not:

1. enter false, inaccurate, or misleading bowler, score, financial, payout, or tournament information;
2. manipulate bracket results, seedings, score entries, payouts, or advancement contrary to actual tournament outcomes;
3. engage in collusion, fraud, match fixing, score manipulation, or prearranged results;
4. use BracketWorks for a tournament not determined by bona fide competition;
5. gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to an account, system, or data;
6. scrape, overload, disrupt, probe, or interfere with the Services;
7. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to extract source code;
8. introduce malware, harmful code, or automated abuse;
9. impersonate another person or organization; or
10. use BracketWorks in violation of applicable law.

8. TOURNAMENT OPERATOR RESPONSIBILITY

Tournament operators are solely responsible for organizing, administering, and supervising tournaments they create or manage.

Operator responsibilities include:

1. establishing and communicating rules;
2. confirming participant eligibility;
3. entering accurate tournament and participant information;
4. verifying scores and bracket advancement;
5. configuring side pots and prize structures;
6. verifying payout calculations before funds are distributed;
7. communicating corrections and final results;
8. handling protests, disputes, refunds, and participant claims;
9. obtaining required permissions and consents; and
10. complying with applicable laws and regulations.

BracketWorks does not certify, approve, audit, supervise, or guarantee any tournament, format, score, result, prize structure, or payout.

9. CUSTOMER AND TOURNAMENT DATA

As between BracketWorks and the operator, the operator retains its rights in tournament, participant, score, entry, payout, and other information submitted to the Services (“Operator Data”).

The operator grants BracketWorks a limited, nonexclusive right to host, store, process, reproduce, transmit, display, back up, and otherwise use Operator Data only as reasonably necessary to:

1. provide and operate the Services;
2. publish views enabled by the operator;
3. provide support;
4. secure and maintain the Services;
5. investigate abuse or errors;
6. improve the Services using aggregated or deidentified information; and
7. comply with legal obligations.

The operator represents that it has the authority and required consent to submit and use Operator Data.

BracketWorks does not claim ownership of Operator Data merely because it is entered into the Services.

10. PUBLIC AND SHARED TOURNAMENT VIEWS

Operators may enable public or shared views that display brackets, scores, standings, results, participant names, or payout-related information.

Anyone with access to the public page or shared link may be able to view that information. Operators are responsible for choosing what information is published and for ensuring that they have authority to publish it.

Operators should use additional care when publishing information about minors and should avoid displaying unnecessary personal information.

11. ENTRY FEES, PRIZE FUNDS, AND PAYOUTS

BracketWorks calculates payout amounts using operator-configured settings and entered tournament information.

Unless a separate written agreement expressly states otherwise, BracketWorks does not collect, hold, escrow, transmit, or distribute tournament entry fees or prize funds.

Operators must verify payout calculations before distributing prizes. Reports, exports, and calculations are not guaranteed to be accurate, final, complete, or suitable for tax, accounting, legal, or regulatory purposes.

12. TOURNAMENT DISPUTES

Disputes involving tournament rules, scores, eligibility, brackets, entry fees, refunds, payouts, or final results are exclusively between the participant and tournament operator.

BracketWorks is not a party to the tournament and has no authority to decide such disputes.

13. GAMBLING, GAMING, AND PRIZE-CONTEST COMPLIANCE

Entry-fee tournaments involving cash or prizes may be regulated by federal, state, local, tribal, or other laws concerning gambling, gaming, contests, sweepstakes, lotteries, taxes, consumer protection, or prize distribution.

BracketWorks does not determine whether a tournament is lawful.

By using BracketWorks for a tournament involving entry fees, prizes, or payouts, the operator represents that:

1. the tournament and prize structure are lawful in all applicable jurisdictions;
2. required permits, approvals, or licenses have been obtained;
3. tournament rules have been properly established and communicated; and
4. BracketWorks will not be used for illegal gambling or unlawful prize activity.

14. SUBSCRIPTIONS, RENEWALS, AND CANCELLATION

Certain features may require a paid subscription.

Subscription pricing, billing intervals, included features, limits, renewal terms, and trial terms will be disclosed at checkout or within the Services.

Unless otherwise disclosed, subscriptions automatically renew for successive billing periods until cancelled.

Cancellation prevents the subscription from renewing for another billing period. Unless otherwise stated at checkout, access to paid features continues through the end of the current paid billing period.

Users may cancel through the account or billing settings or by contacting support when self-service cancellation is unavailable.

Unless required by law or expressly stated otherwise, fees already paid are non-refundable and no prorated refunds or credits are provided.

If payment fails, BracketWorks may retry the payment, request updated billing information, limit paid features, or suspend the subscription.

BracketWorks may change pricing or included features after providing notice required by law or the applicable subscription terms.

15. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES AND PAYMENT PROCESSING

BracketWorks may use third-party providers for hosting, infrastructure, databases, authentication, email delivery, analytics, error monitoring, security, customer support, and payment processing.

These providers may process limited information as necessary to provide services to BracketWorks.

Payment processors handle full payment-card information. BracketWorks may receive limited billing information such as customer name, billing email, transaction status, plan, card brand, expiration information, last four digits, invoices, and payment history.

Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

16. SUPPORT ACCESS AND SECURITY REVIEW

Authorized BracketWorks personnel may access limited account, billing, technical, and tournament information when reasonably necessary to:

1. provide requested support;
2. troubleshoot issues;
3. maintain security;
4. investigate suspicious activity or abuse;
5. enforce these Terms;
6. comply with law; or
7. operate and improve the Services.

Access should be limited to personnel with a legitimate business need.

17. SERVICE AVAILABILITY, MAINTENANCE, AND CHANGES

BracketWorks may update, modify, suspend, or discontinue features.

BracketWorks does not guarantee uninterrupted operation, error-free performance, availability of a specific feature, or compatibility with every device, browser, network, or configuration.

BracketWorks may perform scheduled or emergency maintenance.

18. DATA EXPORT AFTER CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION

Where technically available, and unless access is terminated for unlawful activity, fraud, security risk, or abuse, BracketWorks may provide a limited period of [30 days recommended; confirm before publication] after subscription expiration or cancellation for the operator to export available tournament data.

After that period, BracketWorks may delete or deidentify data in accordance with the Privacy Policy, backup practices, and legal obligations.

Operators are responsible for maintaining any independent records required for tournament, business, tax, accounting, association, or legal purposes.

19. PRIVACY, CORRECTION, AND PUBLIC-VIEW REQUESTS

BracketWorks may review, restrict, correct, unpublish, or remove information from a public or shared tournament view when reasonably necessary to address:

1. privacy or safety concerns;
2. information concerning a minor;
3. impersonation or unauthorized publication;
4. legal or regulatory obligations;
5. security incidents; or
6. obvious data-entry errors.

BracketWorks may refer disputes concerning tournament rules, score accuracy, eligibility, advancement, payouts, or final results to the applicable tournament operator.

Requests may be submitted to [email protected]. BracketWorks may require reasonable verification of identity, parental authority, organizational authority, or account ownership before taking action.

20. SECURITY INCIDENTS

If BracketWorks identifies a security incident involving personal information, BracketWorks will investigate the incident, take reasonable containment and remediation measures, preserve appropriate records, and provide notices to affected users, customers, service providers, or government authorities when required by applicable law.

BracketWorks does not guarantee that every attempted attack, unauthorized access event, or security issue will be prevented.

21. TAXES ON BRACKETWORKS SUBSCRIPTIONS

Unless expressly stated otherwise, subscription prices do not include sales, use, excise, value-added, or similar transaction taxes.

Customers are responsible for taxes associated with their purchase, except taxes based on BracketWorks’ net income. BracketWorks may calculate, collect, and remit applicable taxes when required by law.

22. DELETION, UNPUBLISHING, AND TOURNAMENT-HISTORY INTEGRITY

Account deletion, tournament deletion, removal from public view, and deletion of personal information are separate actions.

BracketWorks may unpublish a tournament or remove personal information from public view without immediately deleting all related private records.

BracketWorks may retain limited records when reasonably necessary to:

1. maintain security and audit trails;
2. investigate fraud or abuse;
3. address payout or participant disputes;
4. comply with accounting, tax, legal, or regulatory requirements;
5. preserve legal acceptance records; or
6. enforce agreements.

Where appropriate, BracketWorks may deidentify or restrict access to retained records instead of keeping them publicly available.

23. ACCESSIBILITY

BracketWorks aims to provide a usable interface and welcomes reports of accessibility barriers.

BracketWorks does not warrant that every feature complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 508, WCAG, or every other accessibility standard.

Accessibility concerns may be reported to [email protected].

24. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

BracketWorks and its licensors own the Services, including the software, code, design, workflows, documentation, trademarks, logos, reports, layouts, and related materials, excluding Operator Data.

These Terms grant only a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable right to access and use the Services in accordance with these Terms.

25. FEEDBACK

If you submit ideas, feature requests, bug reports, or other feedback, you grant BracketWorks the right to use, implement, modify, and commercialize that feedback without compensation, attribution, restriction, or obligation.

26. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

BracketWorks may suspend, restrict, or terminate access when it reasonably believes that a user:

1. violated these Terms;
2. failed to pay required fees;
3. created legal, security, or operational risk;
4. manipulated tournament data;
5. engaged in fraud or abuse;
6. used the Services for unlawful activity; or
7. exposed BracketWorks or others to potential harm.

Where practical, BracketWorks may provide notice and an opportunity to cure. Immediate action may be taken for fraud, security threats, unlawful activity, or serious abuse.

27. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BRACKETWORKS DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND ERROR-FREE OPERATION.

28. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BRACKETWORKS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, TOURNAMENT DISPUTES, PAYOUT DISPUTES, LOST PRIZE FUNDS, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BRACKETWORKS’ TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF:

1. one hundred dollars ($100.00); or
2. the amount paid to BracketWorks by the claiming user during the three months before the event giving rise to the claim.

29. INDEMNIFICATION

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless BracketWorks and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from:

1. your use of the Services;
2. your violation of these Terms;
3. your violation of law;
4. your tournament operations;
5. participant claims or payout disputes; or
6. information you submit to the Services.

30. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Idaho, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

The parties will first attempt to resolve disputes through good-faith negotiation for at least thirty days after written notice.

If BracketWorks adopts arbitration, the final published terms must specify the arbitration provider, applicable rules, filing-fee allocation, hearing location or remote-hearing process, small-claims exception, class-action waiver, notice procedure, and any opt-out right.

If no enforceable arbitration agreement applies, each party agrees that any legal action arising out of or relating to the Services will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in [Insert Idaho County], Idaho, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

31. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

BracketWorks may update these Terms.

For material changes, BracketWorks may provide notice through the Services, email, or another reasonable method and may require renewed acceptance.

Changes that materially reduce user rights or increase obligations will take effect prospectively after the stated notice period, except where immediate changes are required by law or security concerns.

32. GENERAL TERMS

If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective.

Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

Users may not assign these Terms without BracketWorks’ written consent. BracketWorks may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, Tournament Operator Terms, applicable order forms, and any signed written agreements constitute the complete agreement concerning the Services.

33. CONTACT

Support: [email protected]

Privacy: [email protected]

Legal notices: [Insert Legal Notice Email]

Mailing address: [Insert Legal Mailing Address]