Terms of Service

1. Agreement and related policies

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Lazy Golfing ("Lazy Golfing," "we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of the Lazy Golfing websites, applications, and services (the "Service"). These Terms state the conditions on which the Service is offered. When an acceptance control is presented, checking or activating it signifies agreement. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use authenticated features.

Before you use a signed-in account, one agreement screen asks you to confirm that you are at least 18 years old and to accept these Terms, including the golf risk acknowledgment in Section 16, the warranty disclaimer and limits on liability in Sections 22 and 23, and the arbitration agreement and class-action waiver in Section 25, and to acknowledge the Privacy Policy. We keep a record of the version you accepted and when. When these Terms change materially, the screen asks again. Paid plans also show their price, renewal, cancellation, and refund terms for separate acceptance at checkout.

Until Lazy Golfing is organized as a limited liability company, the contracting party is the individual owner who operates the Service under the Lazy Golfing name. When that company is formed, we may assign these Terms, your account, and any subscription to it under Section 28, and it becomes the contracting party from then on.

The "Lazy Golfing Parties" are the contracting Lazy Golfing party and its applicable owners, officers, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, and service providers, but only to the extent they act within an authorized role relating to the Service. This term does not make an unrelated golfer, course, league, sponsor, charity, data source, or vendor a Lazy Golfing owner, partner, agent, affiliate, insured, or event organizer.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information. Optional professional work is also governed by the Professional Services Terms and a separately accepted Statement of Work. The Privacy Policy is a notice of data practices and is not a substitute for required contract consent. Course data source credits and publication boundaries are listed in the Course Data Sources.

2. Age, eligibility, and authority

You must be at least 18 years of age and legally capable of entering a contract to create an account or use the Service. By doing so, you represent and warrant that you satisfy those requirements. If you use the Service for a league, club, employer, charity, or other organization, you also represent that you are authorized to act for that organization to the extent you claim to do so.

The Service is not directed to anyone under 18. A person under 18 may not create an account, sign in, or otherwise use the Service, and a parent or guardian cannot consent on their behalf. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it. Do not submit unnecessary information about a minor. If you manage a league or content involving a minor, you represent that you have every legally required parent/guardian, organization, privacy, publicity, and other permission. Contact us if you believe a child provided personal information without proper authorization.

3. Accounts and security

• Provide accurate and current account information.
• Use one personal account and do not share access credentials.
• Protect your authentication method and promptly report suspected unauthorized access.
• You are responsible for actions taken through your account unless you timely report unauthorized use and applicable law provides otherwise.
• Do not impersonate another person, organization, league manager, or Lazy Golfing representative.

4. The Service and product changes

Lazy Golfing provides recreational golf tracking, statistics, social, course, league, tournament, mini-golf, and related tools. Features can differ by plan, account, league, device, location, rollout, or current availability. Public descriptions are summaries; mounted product behavior and these Terms control the actual Service offered.

We may improve, modify, suspend, or discontinue features. We will use reasonable efforts to give advance notice when a material change adversely affects a paid feature during its current paid period, except where immediate action is needed for security, law, abuse, provider failure, or platform integrity.

Lazy Golfing supplies software and only the bounded optional services in a separately signed SOW. It does not become a golf course, club, sanctioning or handicap authority, instructor, caddie, equipment fitter, medical/emergency/safety/navigation service, identity or background-check service, insurer, fiduciary, escrow, money custodian, or physical-event organizer merely because the Service displays, schedules, shares, or helps configure golf activity.

5. Free, Pro, and Commissioner

• Free: the current no-cost features shown in the product, including supported personal tracking and portability.
• Pro: a personal subscription for the subscribing user. The intended prices are $5 per month or $50 per year. Pro does not create Commissioner authority or grant personal Pro to another person.
• Commissioner: a $50-per-league annual subscription for paid capabilities within one exact league. It does not grant every league member a personal Pro subscription and does not include optional setup, migration, custom engineering, or ongoing administration.

Commissioner is purchased and managed by an eligible owner of the exact league. A transfer of league ownership or billing responsibility must use an approved transfer process. A subscription cannot be silently reassigned by changing names or account data.

6. Billing, automatic renewal, and cancellation

When paid checkout becomes available, the checkout screen will show the exact product, price, currency, billing interval, trial treatment, taxes, refund summary, and cancellation method before you agree to pay. Paid subscriptions automatically renew for the same interval at the then-disclosed price unless you cancel before renewal.

You may cancel through the supported account or Stripe customer-portal path. Cancellation ordinarily takes effect at the end of the current paid period; access continues through that period unless a refund, charge reversal, safety issue, legal requirement, or these Terms require otherwise. We will provide legally required renewal and price- change notices and an accessible cancellation method. Contact support@lazygolfing.com if you cannot use the normal cancellation path.

After Commissioner expires, affected paid league capabilities may become read-only while supported historical data remains available. Exact behavior follows the current entitlement contract shown before purchase; expiration does not convert league members into Pro users.

7. Trials, grace periods, and promotions

A trial, grace period, compensation grant, or promotion applies only when the product expressly offers it and states its duration, eligibility, conversion, and cancellation terms. No general promise that every paid feature includes a trial is made. A no-payment trial does not automatically become a paid subscription unless the customer separately gives the required payment authorization and consent.

8. Payments, taxes, and payment failures

Stripe processes paid transactions. You authorize Stripe and Lazy Golfing to charge the payment method you select for the disclosed amount and renewal schedule. You are responsible for applicable taxes shown or lawfully assessed, except taxes imposed on Lazy Golfing's net income.

If payment fails, we may retry through the payment provider and apply the disclosed grace or restricted-access state. We will not treat a browser redirect as proof of payment. Access follows verified billing status. You remain responsible for valid amounts incurred before cancellation, subject to charge disputes and non-waivable rights.

9. Refunds, billing corrections, and payment disputes

Subscription charges are generally non-refundable after the paid period begins unless the checkout offer, applicable law, or a written exception says otherwise. This does not limit correction of duplicate, erroneous, unauthorized, unlawful, or otherwise legally refundable charges. A full refund ends the related subscription and its paid access when the refund is issued. A partial refund does not change access unless we tell you otherwise.

Optional professional services use separate cancellation and refund allocations in the Professional Services Terms and signed SOW. A service refund does not silently cancel Commissioner, and a Commissioner refund does not erase completed service work.

Contact us first. If you believe a charge is wrong, email support@lazygolfing.com before contacting your bank or card issuer, and give us at least 10 business days to review it. We promptly correct duplicate, erroneous, and unauthorized charges. Nothing in these Terms limits a right you have under law or payment-network rules to dispute a charge.

Disputes we believe are invalid. We will contest a dispute or chargeback filed without first giving us that chance, or for a charge you authorized and received the Service for. To do so we may give our payment provider and your card issuer the records needed to show the charge was valid, such as your account and plan details, the terms you accepted and when, your use of paid features, and our communications with you.

Effect of a dispute.When a dispute or chargeback is opened, we may immediately end the related paid access, cancel renewals, and refuse future purchases from that account. We may also report the charge to our payment provider's fraud-prevention tools, which may decline future payments from the same payment method or email address. A dispute resolved in our favor does not automatically restore cancelled access, and amounts validly owed remain owed.

10. Commissioner and league responsibilities

League owners and authorized managers are responsible for lawful league operation, member communications, settings, invitations, visibility, schedules, formats, and the accuracy of manager-entered information. They must obtain authority to provide member information and must not invite, publish, change, or import data beyond their permissions.

Lazy Golfing provides tools, not legal, tax, accounting, event-safety, gambling, or official handicap advice. League managers remain responsible for their rules, prizes, dues handled outside Lazy Golfing, course arrangements, participant safety, and compliance. They, not Lazy Golfing, organize, insure, supervise, and control their rounds, meetings, leagues, tournaments, outings, transportation, facilities, alcohol decisions, participants, minors, and other offline activity. They must obtain any venue agreements, insurance, releases, notices, parent/guardian permissions, permits, and emergency/safety procedures their activity requires.

11. Optional professional services

Commissioner Launch, Migration, and custom services are optional and separate from self-service Commissioner. No inquiry reserves a date, guarantees fit, authorizes production access, or creates an entitlement. Each engagement requires an accepted SOW incorporating the Professional Services Terms before Lazy Golfing sends the manual service invoice or begins work.

12. Your content and license

As between you and Lazy Golfing, you retain ownership of content you submit, including scores, round data, notes, recaps, photos, reviews, branding, and league information. You grant Lazy Golfing a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical formatting, display, and distribute that content only as reasonably needed to provide, secure, moderate, and improve the Service according to your settings and these Terms.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions necessary for submitted content and that it does not violate law, intellectual property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or another person's rights. You are responsible for not placing private or unlawful information in public or shared content.

Shared recaps are optional attributed content displayed according to the round's audience and viewer relationship. Authorized viewers may report them, and Lazy Golfing may hide or remove reported content while preserving necessary round and audit records. Merging or sharing matching rounds does not transfer ownership or overwrite another golfer's scorecard, notes, recap, settings, or history.

Honest reviews and opinions about Lazy Golfing are permitted. Nothing in these Terms prohibits or penalizes a legally protected honest consumer review. We may address content that contains confidential or private information, infringes rights, is libelous, harassing, abusive, obscene, irrelevant, or clearly false or misleading, consistent with applicable law.

13. Images, reviews, and moderated uploads

New regulation-round photo uploads are currently unavailable. Supported uploads (including moderated mini-golf venue photos, commissioner branding, and course scorecard images) must be lawful, accurate, and submitted with necessary rights. Meaningful alternative text may be required. Lazy Golfing may review, hide, reject, or remove content and may preserve bounded moderation and legal records.

Mini-golf venue reviews require a completed account round at the exact venue. Venue operator requests require a verified account, an official venue website, and approval. Approved operators may post a venue response but cannot access player history or account data merely because of operator status.

14. Mini-golf sharing and challenges

Mini-golf round sharing is private by default. Owners may select supported audiences and detail levels and may create or revoke expiring private links. A direct challenge requires the invited friend's acceptance before that friend enters a result. Device-only guest records are not account records unless explicitly imported. Reviews, photos, and shares may be reported or hidden.

15. Acceptable use

You may not:

• break the law or violate another person's rights;
• harass, threaten, abuse, discriminate against, or deceive others;
• submit malware, exploit vulnerabilities, or bypass access controls;
• scrape, automate, reverse engineer, or overload the Service except as law expressly permits or Lazy Golfing authorizes in writing;
• create bots, spam, fake accounts, or abuse trials and promotions;
• manipulate scores, statistics, contests, or leaderboards;
• use the Service to process unlawful wagering or financial settlements;
• collect or expose personal information without authority;
• use course, league, provider, organization, or member data contrary to applicable terms, licenses, permissions, privacy duties, or attribution requirements; or
• misrepresent affiliation, endorsement, ownership, or official status.

Lazy Golfing is a tracking and league-management platform. It does not facilitate, endorse, hold, or process gambling stakes. Any settlement between users occurs independently and at their own risk.

16. Recreational golf and safety disclaimers

Scores, statistics, weather, distances, schedules, course information, and LazyCap calculations can be incomplete, delayed, estimated, or user-provided. LazyCap is for recreational use and is not an official USGA or World Handicap System handicap. Verify safety, course rules, weather, distances, eligibility, and official competition requirements independently. Do not use the Service as an emergency, medical, navigational, or safety system.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU VOLUNTARILY ACCEPT AND ASSUME THE INHERENT AND PARTICIPANT-CONTROLLED RISKS OF GOLF AND ANY OFFLINE ACTIVITY YOU CHOOSE TO JOIN OR ARRANGE. Those risks can include golf balls, clubs, carts, equipment, terrain, water, weather and lightning, heat, wildlife, facilities, travel, alcohol, other people, voluntary meetings, competition, and reliance on delayed, estimated, incomplete, provider-supplied, or user-entered information. You are responsible for personal judgment, physical readiness and safety, supervision of minors, course access and rules, equipment, transportation, insurance, and emergency decisions.

Lazy Golfing does not arrange, host, supervise, inspect, secure, insure, or control physical play or an offline meeting merely because users, leagues, schedules, invitations, or results appear in the Service. This acknowledgment does not waive fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, statutory rights, or any liability that applicable law does not permit a person to waive.

17. Third-party services and links

The Service can depend on or link to providers such as authentication, hosting, mapping, weather, email, analytics, and payment services. Their services and terms are separate. Lazy Golfing is not responsible for third-party content, availability, security, pricing, policies, or acts beyond our reasonable control, but we remain responsible for our own obligations under applicable law.

Course, venue, league, provider, governing-body, and product names may identify factual subjects or third-party services. Their appearance does not by itself mean that the third party supplied, verified, sponsors, endorses, is affiliated with, or accepts responsibility for Lazy Golfing. Verify current course access, conditions, pricing, policies, schedules, rules, and official records directly with the responsible third party.

The Service does not verify every user's identity, authority, background, conduct, or statements. Exercise independent judgment in online and offline interactions. Lazy Golfing is not a party to an arrangement between users or between a user and a course, league, sponsor, charity, or vendor unless an authorized written agreement expressly says otherwise.

18. Lazy Golfing intellectual property and feedback

The Service, software, design, branding, documentation, methods, and non-user content are owned by or licensed to Lazy Golfing and protected by applicable law. These Terms grant only a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service as offered. No source code, trademark, ownership, or resale right is granted.

If you voluntarily provide feedback, you grant Lazy Golfing a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without restriction or compensation, provided we handle associated personal information under the Privacy Policy.

19. Copyright complaints

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, email legal@lazygolfing.com with identification of the protected work, the allegedly infringing material and its location, your contact information, a good-faith statement, an accuracy/authority statement, and your physical or electronic signature. We may request additional legally required information, remove or restrict content, notify the submitter, and address repeat infringement. This contact information is not a claim that a Copyright Office designated-agent registration is active.

20. Privacy, export, deletion, and retained records

Supported export, correction, and deletion controls are described in the product and Privacy Policy. Account deletion does not automatically erase another user's independently owned records or information that Lazy Golfing must or may lawfully retain for billing, tax, contract, fraud prevention, security, disputes, legal obligations, or de-identified platform integrity. We will minimize, restrict, delete, or anonymize retained information according to the applicable purpose and retention schedule.

Deleting an account or league does not by itself cancel an external recurring subscription. Active billing must be canceled or transferred through the approved process first.

21. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and request account deletion. We may investigate, restrict, suspend, or terminate access for breach, nonpayment, a payment dispute or chargeback, security risk, unlawful conduct, abuse, provider/legal requirement, or material risk to users or the Service. When practical, we will provide notice and an opportunity to cure. Immediate action is permitted where delay could cause harm.

Termination does not eliminate accrued payment obligations, lawful records, licenses needed for retained user-directed sharing, dispute provisions, or other terms that by their nature should survive.

22. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." THE LAZY GOLFING PARTIES DISCLAIM IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR THAT DATA, SCORES, STATISTICS, IDENTITIES, COURSE/WEATHER/DISTANCE INFORMATION, OR OTHER USER OR THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION WILL ALWAYS BE ACCURATE, CURRENT, COMPLETE, OR PRESERVED. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO RELY ON AN ORAL, SOCIAL-MEDIA, MARKETING, SUPPORT, OR THIRD-PARTY STATEMENT THAT IS NOT AN EXPRESS COMMITMENT IN AN APPLICABLE ACCEPTED AGREEMENT. NON-WAIVABLE WARRANTIES REMAIN UNAFFECTED.

23. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE LAZY GOLFING PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA, OR OPPORTUNITY, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE LAZY GOLFING PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO LAZY GOLFING FOR THE AFFECTED SERVICE DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR (B) $100.

The exclusions and cap apply in the aggregate across contract, tort (including negligence), statute, strict liability, restitution, and other legal theories; across all related events and claims; and even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose, to the extent permitted by law. They are an essential allocation of risk on which the Service and its pricing are based and do not create a separate cap for each Lazy Golfing Party.

These exclusions and limits do not apply where prohibited, including liability that cannot lawfully be limited for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence where non-waivable, statutory rights, or other non-waivable duties. They do not limit government or regulatory authority. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so portions may not apply to you.

To the extent permitted by law, you will bring any claim arising from or related to the Service or these Terms only against the contracting party, and not personally against an individual owner, officer, employee, or contractor acting for Lazy Golfing within an authorized role. This does not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

24. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Lazy Golfing and its applicable owners, officers, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, and service providers (the "Lazy Golfing Parties") from third-party claims, damages, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your content, lack of authority or permission, unlawful instructions, misuse of the Service, violation of another person's rights, or material breach of these Terms. This also includes third-party claims arising from a league, event, meeting, physical activity, participant/minor information, prize/dues handled outside Lazy Golfing, venue/provider terms, or customer-directed operation that you organize, control, or supply. Lazy Golfing may control the defense with your reasonable cooperation and will not settle in a way that imposes an admission or nonmonetary duty on you without your consent. This indemnity does not require you to indemnify a Lazy Golfing Party for that party's own conduct to the extent applicable law prohibits it.

25. Informal resolution, arbitration, and class waiver

Before filing a formal claim, contact support@lazygolfing.com and allow at least 30 days for informal resolution, unless immediate relief is legally necessary.

Except for an eligible small-claims matter or a claim for urgent injunctive relief involving security, misuse, or intellectual property, disputes arising from these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its applicable Consumer Arbitration Rules and Consumer Due Process Protocol. Arbitration is individual; neither party will pursue a class, consolidated, or representative proceeding to the extent permitted by law. A consumer may use eligible small-claims court instead.

You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days after your first affirmative acceptance of this version by emailing legal@lazygolfing.com with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out" and your account email. Opting out affects arbitration only, not the rest of these Terms. Arbitration fees and procedures follow applicable AAA rules and law.

To the extent permitted by law, a claim arising from or related to the Service or these Terms must be filed within one year after it arose, or it is permanently barred. This time limit does not apply to claims to collect amounts owed or where the law does not allow it.

26. Governing law

Michigan law governs these Terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except to the extent federal law or the non-waivable law of your residence applies. Where arbitration does not apply, the parties consent to appropriate state or federal courts in Michigan, subject to applicable jurisdiction and venue law.

27. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the version and date and provide legally required notice of material changes. A material change will not retroactively rewrite a completed transaction. We may require new affirmative acceptance before continued authenticated or paid use. Continued use after a properly noticed effective date can constitute acceptance only where permitted and where the notice clearly says so.

28. General terms

These Terms and incorporated documents are the entire agreement about the Service, except an accepted SOW or written amendment. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the lawful extent and the remainder continues. Failure to enforce is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in a merger, reorganization, financing, sale, or transfer of the Service, subject to law and notice requirements. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond reasonable control, except accrued payment obligations. The parties are independent; these Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, franchise, employment, fiduciary, agency, insurance, trust, or beneficiary relationship. Except for the Lazy Golfing Parties enforcing provisions that expressly protect them, no third party is an intended beneficiary. Headings are for convenience.

29. Contact

General and billing support: support@lazygolfing.com. General inquiries: info@lazygolfing.com. Legal inquiries and arbitration opt-outs: legal@lazygolfing.com.