Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and CaddieBib. The short version: we will give you the best club advice we can, but it is advice about a game, the numbers can be wrong, and how you play and how you conduct yourself on a golf course remain entirely yours. Please read Section 5 and Section 6 even if you read nothing else.

Section 1Accepting these terms

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], a [STATE] limited liability company (“CaddieBib”, “we”, “us”). By downloading, signing in to or using CaddieBib, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use CaddieBib.

Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your information and forms part of this agreement.

Section 2Who may use CaddieBib

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, you may use CaddieBib only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. You must be able to form a binding contract, and you must not be barred from using the service under the laws of your country.

Section 3What CaddieBib is

CaddieBib is an AI golf caddie. It suggests clubs and strategy, measures distances using your phone’s GPS, tracks your shots and rounds, keeps statistics, and answers questions about your game. It learns from the shots you log, so its advice becomes more specific to you over time.

CaddieBib is not a human caddie, a coach, a rules official or a measuring instrument of certified accuracy. It is a piece of consumer software making its best estimate.

Section 4Your account

• Give us accurate information, and keep it current. Advice built on a handicap or a set of club distances you invented will be advice you should not follow.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your sign‑in secure.
• One account is for one person. Do not share it.
• Tell us promptly at hello@caddiebib.app if you believe someone else has access to your account.

Section 5Advice, distances and accuracy

Specifically, and without limiting the above:

• GPS is approximate. Consumer phone GPS is typically accurate to several metres, and considerably worse under tree cover, near buildings, in poor weather or when your device restricts location access. Distances shown may be materially wrong.
• Course data may be inaccurate or out of date. Hole layouts, yardages, tee and green positions, and hazard shapes come from public mapping sources, published scorecards and our own work. Courses are re‑routed, greens are relocated, pins move daily and bunkers are rebuilt. Always trust the course, its markers and its staff over the app.
• The AI can be confidently wrong. CaddieBib is built on large language models, which sometimes produce answers that are fluent, specific and incorrect, including on the Rules of Golf. Do not treat any answer as authoritative.
• Photo analysis is a guess. When you photograph your lie, the reading of that image is an interpretation, not a measurement.
• Statistics are estimates. Strokes‑gained figures and similar measures are modelled from your logged shots against a baseline. They are indicative, not official, and they are not a handicap issued by any golf authority.

Section 6The Rules of Golf and competition

Two areas matter in particular:

• Advice. Rule 10.2 restricts the advice a player may give or receive during a round. Club recommendations and strategy of the kind CaddieBib provides are the sort of thing that rule is about.
• Devices. Rule 4.3 governs the use of equipment, including distance‑measuring devices, and committees may adopt a Local Rule prohibiting them. Features that read elevation, wind or slope are commonly restricted even where basic distance measurement is allowed.

Before you use CaddieBib in any competition, check the current Rules of Golf and the committee’s Local Rules for that event. We make no representation that CaddieBib, or any particular feature of it, is conforming for any given competition, and we are not responsible for any penalty, disqualification or lost standing that results from your use of it.

Section 7Safety on the course

A golf course has moving carts, flying golf balls, water, uneven ground and, sometimes, lightning. Look up from your phone.

• Do not use CaddieBib while driving a cart, and do not let it distract you from the players around you.
• Do not rely on the app for any decision where your safety is at stake, including whether it is safe to hit, whether a group ahead is clear, or whether to take shelter in a storm. Weather information in the app is a third‑party forecast, not a warning system.
• Follow the course’s own rules, its staff and posted signage at all times.
• Golf involves physical exertion and risk of injury. You play at your own risk, and you are responsible for judging whether you are fit to play.

Section 8Subscriptions and billing

CaddieBib offers auto‑renewing subscriptions. Prices, plan lengths and what each plan includes are shown in the app before you buy.

• We do not process your payment. Purchases are made through the Apple App Store or Google Play, charged to that account, and governed by their terms as well as these. We never see your card details.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the then‑current price, for the same period, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Cancel through the store, not through us. On iOS this is Settings › your name › Subscriptions; on Android it is the Play Store subscriptions screen. We cannot cancel or refund a store purchase on your behalf.
• Cancelling stops the next charge but does not end the period you have already paid for. You keep access until it expires.
• Prices can change. We will give you notice before a change affects a renewal, and you can cancel if you do not want to continue.

Section 9Free trials

Where we offer a free trial, it converts into a paid subscription automatically when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours beforehand. One trial per person. We may withdraw or change trial offers at any time.

Section 10Refunds

Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own policies, and requests go to them, not to us. Where the law gives you a right to a refund or a cancellation period, that right applies regardless of anything in this section. If something has gone wrong, email us anyway at hello@caddiebib.app and we will help where we can.

Section 11Acceptable use

Do not:

• Reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract the source code, prompts or models behind CaddieBib, except where the law expressly permits it.
• Scrape, bulk‑download or systematically extract our course data, or use CaddieBib to build a competing product or train a competing model.
• Resell, sublicense or commercially redistribute access to CaddieBib.
• Circumvent rate limits, paywalls, trial limits or authentication, or use automated means to access the service.
• Upload anything unlawful, or any photograph taken in breach of another person’s privacy.
• Use CaddieBib to break the law, to harass anyone, or to interfere with the service or the people using it.

Section 12Your content

Your rounds, shots, notes, photographs and recordings remain yours. You grant us a worldwide, non‑exclusive, royalty‑free licence to host, store, process and display that content for the purpose of operating and improving CaddieBib, as described in our Privacy Policy. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, save for copies retained in backups for the period described in that policy.

You confirm you have the right to give us the content you upload. Do not upload photographs of other people without their agreement.

Section 13Our intellectual property

CaddieBib, its software, its models and prompts, its course database, its design and the CaddieBib name and marks belong to us or our licensors. We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non‑transferable licence to use the app for your own golf while these Terms are in force. Nothing else is granted.

Course names, club names and tournament names are the marks of their owners and are used to identify courses. No affiliation or endorsement is implied. Some course data is derived from OpenStreetMap, available under the Open Database Licence.

Section 14Third-party services

CaddieBib depends on services operated by others, including AI model providers, mapping, weather and speech services. Those services can change, fail or become unavailable, and their behaviour is outside our control. Where the app links out to somewhere else, what happens there is governed by that provider’s terms, not ours.

Section 15Availability and changes

We do not promise CaddieBib will be available without interruption. It needs a working data connection, and it will be degraded or unavailable where there is no signal, which on some golf courses is much of the time. We may add, change, suspend or remove features. If we discontinue a paid feature you are actively paying for, we will give reasonable notice and, where fair, a pro rata refund of the unused portion via the app store.

Section 16Ending this agreement

You may stop at any time by deleting your account in the app, which permanently deletes your data as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if continuing would create a security or legal risk. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right. Sections 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 20 survive termination.

Section 17Disclaimer of warranties

CaddieBib is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non‑infringement, accuracy and quiet enjoyment. We do not warrant that CaddieBib will be uninterrupted, secure, error‑free, or that its advice, distances or data are accurate or will improve your golf.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be limited.

Section 18Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost opportunity, or any penalty, disqualification or loss suffered in a competition, arising out of your use of CaddieBib.

Our total liability for all claims relating to CaddieBib is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or fifty US dollars.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Section 19Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your misuse of CaddieBib, your breach of these Terms, your violation of any law, or content you upload. This does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own wrongdoing.

Section 20Disputes and governing law

Talk to us first. Most problems are a misunderstanding or a bug. Email hello@caddiebib.app with the details and we will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days before either of us starts formal proceedings.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [STATE], without regard to its conflict of laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in [COUNTY, STATE], and each of us waives any objection to venue there. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory laws in your country of residence.

Section 21General

• Changes. We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will give notice in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use CaddieBib afterwards means you accept the new Terms.
• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about CaddieBib.
• Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, we have not given it up.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger or sale of the business.
• Apple. Where you obtained CaddieBib from the App Store: this agreement is between you and us, not Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide support or to address any claim about the app; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third‑party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Section 22Contact

Email: hello@caddiebib.app
Post: [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], [MAILING ADDRESS]