Terms of service

These terms apply to bracketfield.app, the Bracketfield iOS app, and anything reachable from them. Using any of it means you accept them.

Only directors and their staff need an account. You are responsible for what happens under yours, including anything done by somebody you gave a field slip to — a slip is a key, and handing one out is your decision.

You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live. Do not share a password.

Schedules, teams, scores and everything else you enter remain yours. You grant us only what we need to run the service: storing it, displaying it to the people you publish it to, and sending the notifications you ask us to send.

Publishing an event makes its schedule, scores and standings public. That is the purpose. Do not publish anything you are not willing for families to read.

Nothing. There is no paid tier, no per-team fee and no advertising. If that ever changes we will say so plainly and in advance, and it will never mean charging parents or showing them ads.

Bracketfield includes tiebreaker sequences and game rules transcribed from sanctioning bodies’ published rulebooks, and labels each value with whether that body actually mandates it. This is a convenience, not an authority, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any of them. If our reading disagrees with your event’s rules, your event’s rules win — check anything that decides a placing.

The service is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available, correct, or free of faults. It is free software run in good faith, not a contracted service with an uptime commitment.

Run your event as though the app might be unavailable, because sometimes it will be.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from using — or being unable to use — Bracketfield. That includes a missed game, a wrong score, a notification that did not arrive, and a placing decided differently from how you intended.

Delete your account whenever you like, from your settings. We may suspend an account that breaches the acceptable use policy, and will say why.

We will update these terms occasionally. Material changes get an announcement to directors rather than a silently edited page.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States.