HiDinks Terms of Service

Version 2026-10-18 — Effective October 18, 2026

Please read these Terms of Service (the "Terms") carefully. They are a binding agreement between you and HiDinks LLC, an Arizona limited liability company ("HiDinks," "we," "us," or "our"), and they govern your use of the HiDinks websites, applications, and services (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, checking the acceptance box, or clicking a button labeled "Accept" or similar, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Service. If someone creates an account on your behalf, your first sign-in to or use of that account confirms your acceptance of these Terms.

1. What HiDinks Is — and What It Is Not

HiDinks is software: tools for organizing, scheduling, and following pickleball tournaments, leagues, and similar events (each an "Event"). Events are created and run by independent organizers, clubs, and facilities ("Organizers"). Organizers are not our employees, agents, or partners.

We are not the creator, organizer, owner, or operator of any Event. The Organizer — not HiDinks — is solely responsible for its Events, including the venue and its condition, safety measures, supervision, scheduling decisions, rules and officiating, refunds, cancellations, prizes, insurance, and compliance with applicable laws. When you register for an Event, any resulting transaction or obligation is between you and the Organizer; HiDinks is not a party to it.

Brackets, standings, schedules, estimated start times, court assignments, and similar information shown by the Service are tools configured and supervised by the Organizer; automated suggestions and assignments are subject to the Organizer's review and override, and are displayed together with their reasoning. Estimated times are estimates only and are not commitments by HiDinks; actual Events may run early, late, or differently than shown.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to create an account.

A person under 18 may participate in Events through the Service only if a parent or legal guardian creates and controls the account, accepts these Terms on their own behalf and on behalf of the minor, and supervises the minor's participation. If you register or manage a minor through your account, you are responsible for all activity relating to that minor, and you agree to these Terms both for yourself and on the minor's behalf. Children under 13 may not have accounts.

You are responsible for your account: keep your password secure, keep your account information accurate, and tell us promptly at support@hidinks.com if you suspect unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity that occurs under your account.

3. Registration, Fees, and Refunds

Organizers set their own entry fees, payment methods, refund policies, and eligibility rules for their Events. Entry fees you pay for an Event are paid to the Organizer under the Organizer's terms, even where the Service helps facilitate payment; the Organizer is the merchant for its Events. Refunds of entry fees are the Organizer's responsibility — contact the Organizer directly.

If HiDinks charges fees of its own for the Service (for example, a registration fee added at checkout, or an Organizer subscription), those fees will be disclosed before you incur them.

4. Assumption of Risk for Sports Activities

Pickleball is a physical sport. Participation in any Event carries inherent risks, including illness, bodily injury, disability, and death, whether caused by your own actions, the actions of other participants or spectators, the condition of the venue, or otherwise — including risks arising from scheduling, court assignments, rest intervals, and timing information, however generated. By registering for or participating in an Event, you voluntarily choose to assume the inherent risks of that Event.

HiDinks provides software only. We do not inspect venues, supervise play, enforce safety rules, or control who participates. Responsibility for the safe conduct of an Event rests with the Organizer and with you.

Nothing in these Terms is a release or waiver of claims. Sections 10 and 11 limit warranties and remedies only, and nothing in this Section limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

5. Organizer Responsibilities

If you use the Service as an Organizer, you additionally agree that you:

• are solely responsible for your Events, including venue safety, rules, supervision, insurance, permits, prizes, fees, refunds, and compliance with all laws applicable to you and your Events;
• will obtain any waivers, consents, or parental permissions your Events require, including for minors;
• have the authority to enter participant information into the Service and will direct participants to these Terms;
• are responsible for reviewing and, where needed, overriding scheduling and bracket information the Service computes for your Events, and for the accuracy of information you publish through the Service;
• authorize HiDinks to display your Event information (including entrant names, brackets, scores, and standings) on public pages of the Service;
• will not use the Service to collect participant data for purposes unrelated to running your Events.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to: misrepresent your identity or skill rating; enter false scores or manipulate results; access another person's account without permission; probe, disrupt, overload, or reverse engineer the Service; scrape the Service at scale or harvest personal information; upload malicious code; use the Service to harass, defame, or discriminate; or use the Service in violation of any law. We may investigate violations and may suspend or terminate accounts that break these rules (Section 12).

7. Your Content and Public Display of Results

You may submit content to the Service, such as names, profile details, scores, and messages ("User Content"). You retain your rights in your User Content. You grant HiDinks a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, use, reproduce, display, and distribute User Content as needed to operate, improve, and promote the Service. We will not use a minor's name or likeness in marketing or promotional material without separate written parental consent.

Tournament play is public by nature. You understand that participant names, ratings, brackets, scores, standings, and match history may be displayed publicly — on live bracket pages, venue displays, and similar surfaces — and you consent to that display for yourself and for any minor you register.

You represent that you have the rights to the User Content you submit and that it does not violate law or the rights of others.

8. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, and content we create, is owned by HiDinks LLC or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service as intended by these Terms. You may not copy, modify, sell, or create derivative works of the Service except as permitted by law.

9. Third-Party Services

The Service may link to or interoperate with third-party services (for example, payment processors or rating providers). Those services have their own terms, and HiDinks is not responsible for them.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, OR THAT SCHEDULES, BRACKETS, RATINGS, OR RESULTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR AVAILABLE. STATEMENTS IN MARKETING MATERIALS DESCRIBE THE SERVICE'S DESIGN GOALS AND ARE NOT WARRANTIES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN WARRANTY EXCLUSIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HiDinks LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF HiDinks LLC ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU ACTUALLY PAID TO Hidinks LLC IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM; OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD $100). Entry fees and other amounts you pay to an Organizer are not amounts paid to HiDinks LLC.

This Section does not limit liability for: (i) gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud by HiDinks; (ii) death or bodily injury caused by HiDinks's own negligence; or (iii) any other liability that cannot be limited under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms waives rights you hold under consumer-protection laws that cannot be waived by contract.

The parties intend this Section as a reasonable allocation of risk in light of the fact that the Service is provided at low or no cost, and the Service would not be offered on these economics without it.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service or its users. Where practical — including when you decline a revised version of these Terms — we will give you an opportunity to export information relevant to you (write to support@hidinks.com). Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 16) survive.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless HiDinks LLC and its members, managers, employees, and agents from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of: (a) your breach of these Terms; (b) your User Content; (c) your participation in or conduct at an Event; and (d) if you are an Organizer, your Events, including claims by participants, spectators, staff, or venues. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from HiDinks's own negligence, gross negligence, or willful misconduct.

14. Governing Law, Venue, and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Except for small-claims matters, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court — you in the county where you reside, us in Maricopa County, Arizona — if it qualifies. If the law of your state of residence grants you rights or a venue that cannot be waived by contract, nothing in this Section overrides them.

Before filing any claim, the complaining party will send the other a written description of the dispute (to us: legal@hidinks.com) and both parties will attempt in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. Any applicable limitations period is tolled during those 30 days.

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH PARTY WAIVES ITS RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE. If the class-action waiver or the jury-trial waiver is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that waiver is severed for that claim only and the remainder of this Section is unaffected. Any claim must be brought within one year after it accrues, unless a longer period is required by law; this one-year period does not apply to claims for death or bodily injury.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. Each version is identified by a version date at the top of this document. Changes are prospective only: a revised version does not apply to disputes that arose before its effective date. When we revise these Terms, we will ask you to review and accept the revised version — for example, when you next sign in — and the revised Terms will apply to you only after you accept them. If you do not accept revised Terms, your use of the Service ends, and the version you last accepted continues to govern your use through the date it ends.

16. General

These Terms, together with policies they reference, are the entire agreement between you and HiDinks LLC about the Service, and you have not relied on any statement not contained in them. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the rest remain in effect. If any provision is unenforceable as to a minor, it remains enforceable as to the parent or guardian who accepted these Terms. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, with notice to you. Notices to us: HiDinks LLC, legal@hidinks.com.

Questions about these Terms: legal@hidinks.com.