Terms of Service

Last updated: June 12, 2026 • Version 2.0

1. Acceptance of Terms

Sideline Command ("Sideline Command," "the Service," "we," "us," or "our") is a youth flag football platform operated by Dymond Inc and available at sidelinecommand.com. The Service includes the coach app, the parent and athlete app (including team chat and photo/video sharing), live scoreboards and game streaming, and the league management platform.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"), our Privacy Policy, our Acceptable Use Policy, and our Children's Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. We may modify these Terms as described in Section 17.

2. Eligibility

• You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live) to create an account.
• In all cases, no one under 13 may create or hold an account, and we do not knowingly allow it.
• Children never hold accounts. Players appear in the Service only as roster records created and managed by adults: coaches, league administrators, and parents or guardians. Children are data subjects, not users.
• If you create an account on behalf of an organization (a league, team, club, or school), you represent that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

3. Accounts and Security

• You must provide accurate, complete, and current information when creating your account.
• You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity under your account. Do not share your credentials or let others use your account.
• Notify us immediately at support@sidelinecommand.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts that provide false information or violate these Terms.

4. Children's Content and Consent

The Service exists for youth sports, so much of the content on it is about children. This section explains who is responsible for that content and the permissions behind it. It applies to all content involving a minor: roster information, photos, videos, game footage, statistics, and anything else that identifies or depicts a child.

4.1 Uploader Warranty

When you post, upload, or enter any content involving a minor — a photo, a video, a roster entry, anything — you represent and warrant that:

• You are that child's parent or legal guardian; or
• You hold verifiable consent from the child's parent or legal guardian to post that content, and you can provide proof of that consent to us upon request.

If you cannot make this promise for a given child, do not post content about that child.

4.2 Registration as Consent

When a parent or guardian registers a child for a league or team through the Service (including the league registration form), that registration constitutes the parent's or guardian's consent to the platform's collection and use of the child's information as described in our Privacy Policy and our Children's Privacy Notice. Registration includes explicit, individually presented consent checkboxes (such as the liability waiver and the photo/video consent), and we record what was agreed to, when, and under which version of the consent language.

The photo/video consent is a real control, not paperwork: a child's photo is only shown on public surfaces (such as public scoreboards) if that child's photo consent is on. See Section 6.

4.3 Coach and League Responsibility

Coaches, team administrators, and league administrators ("Team Admins") who create or manage roster records are responsible for the player data they enter and maintain. Team Admins agree that:

• They will only add a child to a roster if the child's parent or guardian has consented to the child's participation and to the team's use of the child's information on the Service;
• They are the first line of response for privacy questions or complaints from parents about roster data they manage, and will respond to such requests promptly; and
• They will remove or correct a child's information when a parent or guardian with authority over that child asks them to.

Parents can always contact us directly as well (see Section 4.5); the coach-first route exists for speed, not as a barrier.

4.4 League and Organization Warranty

Any league, club, or organization that uses the Service to run registration, manage rosters, or operate games represents and warrants that it collects all parental consents required by applicable law at the time of registration, including consent to the collection and use of each child's information and (where the organization intends to allow it) consent to photography and recording. Where the organization uses our built-in registration form, the form's consent checkboxes are the mechanism for collecting these consents and the organization is responsible for ensuring its waiver and consent language is accurate and lawful for its jurisdiction.

4.5 Removal of a Minor's Content

If a parent or legal guardian objects to content involving their child, or withdraws a previously given consent, we will endeavor to promptly remove or restrict that content. Two routes are available, and you may use either or both:

• Coach or league first (usually fastest): ask the Team Admin who manages the roster or posted the content. Team Admins are obligated under Section 4.3 to act on these requests.
• Us directly: email support@sidelinecommand.com with the child's team and the content at issue. We will verify that you are the child's parent or guardian and act on the request.

Turning off a child's photo consent removes the child's photo from public surfaces. Removal requests for other content (for example, media shared in team chat) are handled case by case, and we commit to honoring direct removal requests from a verified parent or guardian for content depicting or identifying their minor child.

5. Your Content and Our License

5.1 You Own Your Content

"User Content" means plays, formations, playbooks, rosters, game data, statistics, messages, photos, videos, clips, and any other content you create or upload to the Service. You own your User Content. We do not claim ownership of your plays, your photos, your videos, or anything else you create.

5.2 The License You Give Us (Deliberately Narrow)

By uploading User Content, you grant Sideline Command a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce, transmit, and adapt (for example, transcoding video, generating thumbnails, or resizing images) your User Content solely to operate, provide, and improve the Services for you and the team members and league participants you share it with.

To be explicit about what this license is not:

• No marketing use of identifiable minors. We will not use photos, video, or other content that identifies a minor in our advertising or marketing without separate, written, opt-in permission from that child's parent or legal guardian. A registration checkbox is not that permission.
• No license to sell. Nothing in these Terms gives us the right to sell your User Content or license it to third parties for their own purposes.
• The license ends. When you delete User Content (or your account), this license ends for that content, except that deleted content may persist for a limited time in routine backups (retained approximately 30 days) and where we are required to retain it by law or a legal hold.

5.3 Responsibility for Content

You are solely responsible for your User Content. You represent that you have the right to upload and share everything you post, that it does not violate anyone else's rights, and — for content involving minors — that you have made and kept the promises in Section 4.1.

6. Sharing and Visibility

Be honest with yourself about who can see what:

• Team-shared is not secret. Content shared with a team (chat messages, photos, videos) can be seen by the other members of that team, and any of them can save it to their device, screenshot it, or re-share it outside the Service. We cannot control what people do with content once they have seen it. Treat anything you share with a team accordingly.
• Team chat media is access-controlled. Photos and videos shared in team chat are stored privately and are only accessible to authenticated team participants through expiring access links. They are not publicly reachable. (See the Privacy Policy for details.)
• Public surfaces mask kids' names. On public surfaces such as live scoreboards, player names are shown as first name plus last initial only, at all ages. A child's photo appears on public surfaces only if the child's photo consent is on.
• Streams, clips, and highlights can travel. Live game streams, scoreboard pages, and generated clips or highlights may be viewable by people with the link, and viewers may record or share them. If you operate a stream or share a clip, you are responsible for doing so consistently with Section 4.

7. Acceptable Use

This is a youth sports environment. You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose
• Harass, bully, threaten, or intimidate anyone — adult or child — through messaging, comments, or any other feature
• Upload or record content involving a minor without the authority described in Section 4.1, or make unauthorized recordings of people who have not consented to being recorded where consent is required
• Upload content that is obscene, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate for a youth sports environment
• Contact or attempt to contact minors through the Service for any purpose unrelated to legitimate team activity
• Create fake, misleading, or impersonating accounts
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to extract data from the Service
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service
• Attempt to access other users' accounts or data without authorization
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service's infrastructure or security, or circumvent any security measure, rate limit, or access control
• Send spam or unsolicited messages through the Service
• Redistribute, resell, or commercially exploit default system playbooks

See our Acceptable Use Policy for detailed content and conduct standards. Violations may result in content removal, suspension, or termination under Section 14.

8. Subscriptions, Fees, and League Payments

8.1 Pricing

Some features of the Service require a paid subscription. Current plans and pricing are displayed within the Service and on our website at the point of purchase. Prices are subject to change with at least 30 days' notice.

8.2 Payment Processing

Payments — including subscription fees and, where a league enables it, league registration fees — are processed by Stripe, a third-party payment processor. We do not store your full card number. By subscribing, you authorize recurring charges to your payment method until you cancel.

8.3 League Registration Fees

When you pay a registration fee to a league through the Service, the fee amount and any refund terms are set by the league, not by us. Registration refund requests should go to the league first; we will assist where we can.

8.4 Cancellation and Refunds

You may cancel a subscription at any time through your account settings or by contacting support@sidelinecommand.com. You keep access to paid features through the end of the current billing period, and no further charges are made. Subscription fees are generally non-refundable, but we may offer refunds case by case for billing errors, service outages, or other exceptional circumstances.

9. Intellectual Property

9.1 Our Property

Sideline Command — including its name, logo, design, code, default playbooks, system plays, and documentation — is the intellectual property of Dymond Inc. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works from our intellectual property without written permission.

9.2 Default Playbooks

System-provided default playbooks and plays are licensed to you for personal, non-commercial use within the Service. You may modify the copies assigned to your account, but you may not redistribute the originals or bulk exports commercially.

9.3 NFL and NCAA Disclaimer

NFL, the NFL shield design, and team names, logos, and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the National Football League and its member teams. NCAA, college team names, and logos are trademarks of their respective institutions. Sideline Command is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NFL, NCAA, or any of their member organizations. References to professional or college football concepts (play types, formations, terminology) are used in their generic, commonly understood sense within the sport of football.

9.4 Patent-Pending Innovations

The features, methods, and architectures showcased in our "Patent Pending — 13 Innovations" disclosure (linked from the Sideline Command landing page and reproduced on this Service) are disclosed in United States Provisional Patent Application No. 64/009,533, filed March 18, 2026, prepared by Foley & Lardner LLP (Attorney Docket No. 147315-0102; Customer No. 38706). The corresponding non-provisional application is scheduled to be filed on or before March 18, 2027, preserving our March 18, 2026 priority date.

The disclosed innovations include — without limitation — the QB Intercom Bluetooth coach-to-player audio system, the bidirectional AI coaching pipeline, the SyncEngine trim-point video synchronization architecture, the computer-vision play-diagram ingestion pipeline, the three-way role-based authority and auto-escalation game-state system, the multimodal streaming-overlap AI commentary pipeline, the multi-language native commentary generation system, the latency-masking filler-topic queue, the structured sponsor-mention commentary integration with per-mention billing, the licensed-voice royalty accounting system, the jersey-number-with-roster-correlation player identification, the coach-event-triggered virtual pan from a single stationary 4K camera, and the per-element animation timing system with serialized ball-transfer event schema.

Unauthorized commercial reproduction, derivative works, or reverse engineering for competitive purposes of the disclosed innovations may infringe pending patent claims when the corresponding non-provisional applications issue. Sideline Command and Dymond Inc. reserve all rights — statutory, equitable, or otherwise — available under the patent laws of the United States and applicable international treaties.

Builders, researchers, or competitors developing potentially-overlapping work are encouraged to contact us in advance at coach@sidelinecommand.com regarding licensing, partnership, or pre-publication review. We are open to good-faith collaboration; we will pursue infringement only where necessary to protect our investment.

Counsel of Record: Foley & Lardner LLP. This Section 9.4 is informational and does not constitute legal advice or a representation regarding the scope of any pending or future patent claims.

10. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party providers for hosting, database and storage, payment processing, error monitoring, email delivery, push notification delivery, and AI model processing. Your use of the Service is also subject to those providers' terms and policies where applicable. The categories of providers and what they receive are described in our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or practices of third-party services.

The Service may contain links to third-party websites. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content or practices of linked sites.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure
• Any particular play, formation, or strategy will be effective in actual games
• The Service will produce any particular game outcome or competitive advantage
• Data will be preserved in all circumstances (though we maintain regular backups)

12. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DYMOND INC AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR:

• Any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages
• Any loss of data, revenue, profits, or business opportunities
• Any on-field injuries, accidents, or health incidents that occur during sporting events, regardless of whether the Service was used in planning or managing the event
• Decisions made based on information displayed in or generated by the Service
• Content posted by other users, including content posted in breach of Section 4

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES YOU PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of the above may not apply to you.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Dymond Inc and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from:

• Your use of the Service
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your violation of any third party's rights
• User Content you submit to the Service
• Your breach of the minor-consent warranties in Section 4, including posting content about a child without being the child's parent or guardian and without holding the parental consent you warranted you had, or (for Team Admins and organizations) failing to collect the parental consents you warranted you collect

14. Account Termination and Deletion

14.1 By You

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion by emailing support@sidelinecommand.com with the subject "Account Deletion Request." We will verify your identity, and associated data will be permanently deleted within 30 days. This action is irreversible.

14.2 What Deletion Removes — and What May Persist

Plainly:

• Deleting your account removes your profile, your login, your personal content (plays, playbooks, formations you created), your messages, your push subscriptions, and other data tied to your account, per the process in our Privacy Policy.
• Records a league or team manages may persist. Roster entries, game results, and statistics that a league or team created and manages as part of its own records may remain under that organization's responsibility even after a related parent or coach account is deleted, because the organization — not the departing account holder — controls those records.
• Parents are not stuck with that. Regardless of who controls a record, we commit to honoring removal requests from a verified parent or legal guardian for content that depicts or identifies their minor child, per Section 4.5. League-managed status does not override a parent's removal request for their own child's content on our platform.
• Deleted data may persist in routine backups for approximately 30 days before those backups expire, and longer where law or a legal hold requires.

14.3 By Us

We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or our Acceptable Use Policy, or for other reasons with reasonable notice. For severe violations (illegal activity, harassment, child-safety issues), we may terminate immediately without prior notice.

14.4 Effect of Termination

• Your right to use the Service ceases immediately
• Your data is soft-deleted and retained for a reasonable period to allow recovery from accidental termination; you may request permanent deletion at any time
• Sections that by their nature should survive termination (Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Dispute Resolution) continue in effect

15. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

15.1 Informal Resolution First

Before filing any formal legal action, you agree to first contact us at support@sidelinecommand.com and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

15.2 Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [STATE — CONFIRM WITH COUNSEL], without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

15.3A Option A — Binding Arbitration and Class Action Waiver

If informal resolution fails, any dispute arising from these Terms or the Service shall be resolved through binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures, conducted in [STATE] or remotely by agreement. The arbitrator's decision is final and binding. YOU AND WE EACH AGREE THAT DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. If the class action waiver is found unenforceable, this entire arbitration provision is null and void. Either party may still seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for intellectual property infringement or unauthorized access, and either party may bring qualifying claims in small claims court.

15.3B Option B — Courts

If informal resolution fails, any dispute arising from these Terms or the Service shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in [COUNTY, STATE], and both parties consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Qualifying claims may instead be brought in small claims court.

16. California and State-Specific Rights

16.1 California Minor Content Removal

California law (Business & Professions Code Section 22581) gives California residents under 18 the right to request removal of content they themselves posted. Because minors do not hold accounts on the Service, this scenario should not arise — but if a California minor has posted content through any means, the minor or their parent or guardian may request its removal by emailing support@sidelinecommand.com, and we will remove or anonymize it as the statute requires. Note that removal from the Service does not ensure complete removal from the internet if the content was re-shared by others, and content may persist briefly in backups.

Independently of any statute, our parent removal commitment in Section 4.5 applies to all parents and guardians in every state.

16.2 Other State Rights

Residents of states with consumer privacy laws have additional rights described in our Privacy Policy.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may modify these Terms. When we make material changes:

• We will update the "Last updated" date and version number at the top of this page
• We will provide at least 30 days' notice via email or in-app notification before material changes take effect
• Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance
• If you do not agree to the modified Terms, you must stop using the Service before the effective date

18. General Provisions

• Severability: If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.
• Entire Agreement: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Children's Privacy Notice, constitute the entire agreement between you and Dymond Inc regarding the Service.
• Waiver: Our failure to enforce any provision does not waive that provision.
• Assignment: You may not assign your rights under these Terms without our consent. We may assign our rights in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

19. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms of Service, contact us at:

Dymond Inc
Email: support@sidelinecommand.com
Website: sidelinecommand.com

NFL, the NFL shield design, and team names, logos, and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the National Football League and its member teams. NCAA, college team names, and logos are trademarks of their respective institutions. Sideline Command is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NFL, NCAA, or any of their member organizations.