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Terms of Service

Last updated September 27, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and SpotStarter (“SpotStarter,” “we,” or “us”) about getspotstarter.com, our emails, and our apps (together, “SpotStarter”). By creating an account, agreeing when we ask, joining or hosting a game, or answering from one of our emails, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, don’t use SpotStarter.

Please read sections 6 to 9 closely. They say that you play at your own risk, that you release SpotStarter from claims about games, and that what you can recover from us is limited.

1. What SpotStarter is, and what it isn’t

SpotStarter helps people find, organize, and fill pickup games. Players and hosts create games and leagues. SpotStarter sends call-ups and reminders, keeps a headcount, and tells everyone when a game has enough players.

SpotStarter doesn’t:

  • run, referee, or supervise games. Hosts and players do.
  • own, run, inspect, or look after venues, or confirm that a venue is open, safe, or allowed to be used.
  • employ hosts, league organizers, or players. They aren’t our employees, agents, or partners, and they don’t act for us.
  • check anyone’s identity, background, criminal record, skill, health, or fitness.
  • promise that a game will happen, that people will show up, or that anyone will behave well.

A game listing, a call-up, or a “Game on” is information from other players, not a promise from us.

2. Who can use SpotStarter

You must be 18 or older. Keep your information accurate, have only one account, and keep your email account secure, since that’s how you sign in. You can’t use SpotStarter if we’ve removed you before, or if the law doesn’t allow you to.

3. Be a good teammate

When you use SpotStarter, or play in a game you found through it:

  • Treat people with respect. No harassment, bullying, threats, violence, hate, or discrimination, and no unwanted sexual attention.
  • Play safely and fairly. Follow the game’s rules and the venue’s rules. Don’t play to hurt anyone, and don’t play impaired by alcohol or drugs.
  • Be honest. Use a name people know you by, don’t pretend to be someone else, say whether you’re in truthfully, and cancel when you can’t make it.
  • Respect privacy. Don’t share other players’ information outside SpotStarter without their OK.
  • Don’t misuse SpotStarter. No spam, scams, selling, scraping, getting around our limits or security, or anything illegal.

We may warn you, limit what you can do (bench you for a while, say), or remove you, and we may remove anything you post, whenever we think it’s needed to keep games fair and safe. We don’t have to monitor people or what they post, and we can’t catch everything.

To report a problem, email safety@getspotstarter.com or use our contact form. In an emergency, call 911. SpotStarter isn’t an emergency service.

4. Hosts and league organizers

If you host a game or run a league on SpotStarter:

  • You’re responsible for it: accurate details, permission to use the venue (and any permit, rental, or insurance the venue requires), the rules of play, and deciding when to cancel, for weather or anything else.
  • You host as yourself, not for SpotStarter, and you can’t make promises for us.
  • If you ask players for a fee, like a league’s season fee, you set it, collect it yourself, and handle any refunds. SpotStarter can show the fee and keep track of who you marked as paid, but we don’t collect, hold, or send money, and we’re not part of any payment between you and players.
  • Documents you add to a league, like an insurance certificate or a permit, must be accurate and yours to share. We don’t check them.
  • You follow the law, including any rules about who can join.

We may change, hide, or cancel a game or league that breaks these terms.

5. What you post

You own what you add to SpotStarter, like your name, game details, and messages. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, show, copy, and share it as needed to run and improve SpotStarter (showing your name on a roster, for example), for as long as it’s on SpotStarter and for a reasonable time after. Only post what you have the right to share and what follows these terms.

SpotStarter’s name, logo, design, and software are ours. You can use SpotStarter as these terms allow, and nothing more.

6. Pickup sports have risks, and you play at your own risk

Basketball, pickleball, soccer, football, and every other sport carry real risks, including sprains, broken bones, concussions, eye and dental injuries, heat illness, heart attacks, other serious injuries, and even death. The risks come from the game itself; from courts, fields, weather, lighting, and equipment; from getting to and from games; and from other people, including their carelessness and their bad behavior.

You decide whether to play. You’re responsible for knowing your limits, your health (check with a doctor if you’re unsure), your equipment, and your own safety, and you can stop playing or leave at any time. SpotStarter doesn’t provide medical, accident, or liability insurance for players or hosts.

You knowingly and voluntarily accept all of these risks, known and unknown, for every game or activity you find, join, or host through SpotStarter.

7. Release of claims

To the fullest extent the law allows, you release SpotStarter and its owners, employees, contractors, and volunteers (the “SpotStarter parties”) from all claims, demands, and losses of any kind, including for injury, illness, death, or damage to property, that arise out of or relate to games or other activities you find, join, or host through SpotStarter, venues, travel to and from games, or the conduct of other users or anyone else. This release includes claims based on the negligence of the SpotStarter parties. It doesn’t cover claims that can’t legally be released, such as claims for gross negligence or intentional misconduct. You make this release for yourself and for your heirs, your estate, and anyone who could make a claim through you.

8. No warranties

SpotStarter is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don’t promise that SpotStarter will be available, accurate (including venue details, times, and headcounts), or free of errors, that our emails will arrive, or that other users are who they say they are.

9. Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the SpotStarter parties won’t be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill. The SpotStarter parties’ total liability for all claims about SpotStarter is limited to the greater of $100 or what you paid SpotStarter in the 12 months before the claim. These limits apply to every kind of claim, even if we were told the damage was possible, and even if a remedy fails.

10. Your responsibility to us

You’ll defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the SpotStarter parties from any claims, losses, and costs (including reasonable lawyers’ fees) that arise from your conduct at or around games, the games or leagues you host, what you post, or your breaking these terms or the law.

11. Emails

We send the emails you need to use SpotStarter, like sign-in codes, and emails about the games and leagues you’re part of, like call-ups and reminders. You can turn league emails off on your profile or from any league email. If you signed up for early access, we’ll email you when SpotStarter opens near you, and every one of those emails tells you how to stop them.

SpotStarter is free for players. Some leagues ask players for a fee, like a season fee toward the league’s insurance or gym rental. That fee is between you and the host: the host sets it, collects it (in cash or with an app like Venmo), and decides any refunds. SpotStarter only shows the fee and whether the host marked you as paid. We don’t take or hold the money, and we aren’t responsible for it.

Paying a league fee doesn’t get you insurance from SpotStarter. Whether a league’s insurance covers you is between you, the league, and its insurer.

If we add paid features, we’ll show the price, and the cancellation and refund rules, before you pay, and more terms may apply.

13. Ending things

You can stop using SpotStarter at any time, and ask us to delete your account (see our Privacy Policy). We may suspend or end your access at any time if you break these terms, if we need to for safety or legal reasons, or if we stop offering SpotStarter. Sections 5 to 10, 15, and 16 still apply after that.

14. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. We’ll post the new version here with a new date, and for important changes we’ll tell you, by email or in SpotStarter, and ask you to agree again. If you keep using SpotStarter after a change, the new terms apply. If you don’t agree to them, stop using SpotStarter.

15. Disputes

If you have a problem with SpotStarter, please contact us first at hello@getspotstarter.com. Most problems can be solved that way. If we can’t solve it within 30 days, either of us can go to court. New Hampshire law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any lawsuit will be brought in the state or federal courts for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (or in small claims court, if it qualifies), and we each agree to those courts’ jurisdiction.

16. Everything else

These terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about SpotStarter. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, that part will be enforced as far as the law allows, and the rest stays in effect. If we don’t enforce a part, we haven’t given it up. You can’t transfer these terms to anyone else; we can, if SpotStarter is sold, for example. Nothing in these terms makes you and us partners, employer and employee, or each other’s agents. We aren’t responsible for delays or failures caused by things outside our reasonable control, like weather, outages, or emergencies.

17. Contact

Email hello@getspotstarter.com, or use our contact form.