Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Athlete Engine ("Athlete Engine," "we," "us," or "our") covering your use of our mobile app, website, and related services (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Who may use Athlete Engine

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you are under 18, you may only join through a baseball program using the program code your coach gives you — you cannot create an account on your own. By joining a program, you confirm that your participation is known to the coaching staff responsible for you, and, if you are under 18, that a parent or guardian permits you to use the Service.

We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If we learn that we have, we will delete the account and its data. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, contact us at athleteengineapp@gmail.com.

Your account

• Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep it current.
• Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access to your account.
• One account per person. Do not share logins.

Programs, coaches, and what they can see

Athlete Engine is built for teams. When you join a program with its code, the coaching staff of that program can see the training, wellness, workload, and performance data you log, along with any video and notes you add. That visibility is the point of the product, and you should assume anything you record in a program is visible to that program's staff.

If you leave a program, staff may retain records of the work logged while you were part of it, in the same way a team keeps its own training records.

Programs are separated from each other

Every record in Athlete Engine belongs to exactly one program. No program can see another program's athletes, logs, schedules, video, or circuits — not their rosters, not their data, not the fact that they exist. This is enforced on our servers, not merely hidden in the app, so it holds regardless of what someone knows or guesses about another program's code.

We do not pool your program's data with another's, sell it, share it with a competing program, or use it for advertising. Where we report on the product as a whole, we use aggregated, de-identified figures that cannot reasonably be traced back to you or your program.

What we ask of you

• Don't take other people's data out of the program. You can see some of your teammates' training — maxes on a leaderboard, for instance. Don't export, publish, or pass it outside the program.
• Don't hand out the program code. Anyone with it can join and be seen by your staff.
• Video is of real people. Only upload clips of athletes who have agreed to be recorded.

Additional terms for coaches and staff

If you hold a coach, trainer, or strength-coach account, you have access to the training and wellness data of every athlete in your program, some of whom may be minors. In addition to everything above, you agree that:

• You are responsible for who receives your program code, and for removing people who should no longer have access.
• You will not export, forward, or publish an athlete's data outside the coaching staff of your program without that athlete's agreement — and, for an athlete under 18, their parent or guardian's.
• By enrolling athletes under 18, you confirm your program has the standing to do so and that a parent or guardian permits it where your institution requires that.
• You will use the app's health-adjacent indicators as coaching information, not as a basis for a medical or clearance decision.

Acceptable use

Do not:

• Upload content you do not have the right to share, including video of people who have not agreed to be recorded.
• Upload anything unlawful, harassing, or abusive.
• Attempt to access another person's account or a program you were not invited to.
• Probe, scrape, overload, reverse engineer, or interfere with the Service.
• Use the Service to build a competing product.

We may suspend or end an account that breaks these rules.

Your content

You keep ownership of the data, photos, and video you put into Athlete Engine. You grant us a limited licence to host, store, process, and display that content for the purpose of operating the Service for you and your program — for example, parsing an uploaded Trackman file into charts, or showing your coach your workload. We do not sell your content, and we do not use it for advertising.

We may use aggregated, de-identified information — figures that cannot reasonably be traced back to you or your program — to understand usage and improve the product.

Not medical advice

This one matters, so it is stated plainly rather than buried. Athlete Engine reports readiness scores, workload flags (volume spikes, consecutive high-intensity days, throwing more than prescribed, grip-strength drops), arm-care prescriptions, and similar indicators. These are training-management tools. They are not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or a clearance decision.

• A flag is a prompt to look closer. It does not mean an injury exists, and the absence of a flag does not mean one doesn't.
• A good readiness score is not clearance to throw. A poor one is not a diagnosis.
• The app cannot detect, predict, or prevent injury, and nothing in it should be used in place of an examination.
• Self-reported wellness and grip readings are exactly that — self-reported. They are as good as the input.

Decisions about an athlete's health belong to that athlete, their coaching staff, and qualified medical professionals. If you think you are injured, stop and see an athletic trainer or a doctor. We are not any of those things.

Availability and changes

We are an early-stage product and the Service will change. We may add, alter, or remove features, and we may need to take the Service down for maintenance. We will try to give notice of significant changes, but we cannot promise uninterrupted availability.

Fees

Some plans are paid. Where fees apply, they will be described to you before you are charged, and any purchase made through the Apple App Store is also governed by Apple's terms. Unless stated otherwise at the time of purchase, fees are not refundable except where required by law.

Ending your use

You can stop using Athlete Engine at any time and can delete your account from within the app. We may suspend or end access if you break these Terms, or if we stop offering the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive — ownership, disclaimers, limits of liability — survive the end of your account.

Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any data or analysis it produces is accurate or complete.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Athlete Engine and its founders will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Minnesota, and you and we consent to that jurisdiction.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When a change is material, the app will ask you to accept the new version before you carry on using it — we record which version you accepted, so an acceptance always refers to what you actually agreed to. Minor corrections that don't change your rights or ours are made without asking.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: athleteengineapp@gmail.com