Standing Terms of Service

Operator: 17101112 Canada Inc., operating as “Standing”

Email: hello@standingleague.com

Website: https://standingleague.com/

Effective Date: June 18, 2025

Currency: Canadian dollars (CAD) unless stated otherwise

SHORT VERSION (Plain Summary)

This summary is for convenience only. The full Terms below govern.

1. DEFINITIONS

“AI Model” means the third-party artificial intelligence service (currently provided by Anthropic) used to extract data from scorecard photos.

“Connected Account” means a course’s or venue’s own Stripe account linked to Standing through Stripe Connect.

“Course Plan” means a paid subscription plan (Course or Course Plus) for a venue or course, as described in Section 8.3.

“Customer” means any course, venue, or organizer that holds a paid or free account with Standing.

“Founding Course” means one of the first ten (10) courses accepted into the Founding Course Program described in Section 8.5.

“Golfer” means any individual who participates in a league, event, or tournament through Standing, whether or not they pay.

“League” means a recurring recreational golf competition set up by an Organizer on the Service.

“Organizer” means a Customer who creates and manages a League, event, or tournament.

“Season” means the annual period during which a League operates, as defined by the Organizer.

“Season Pass” means the per-league, per-season fee described in Section 8.2.

“Service” means the Standing website, mobile application, and all related features available at https://standingleague.com/.

“Substitute” or “Sub” means a Golfer listed as available to fill an open spot in a League night.

“Tournament Entrant” means an individual who enters a tournament through a link or 10-digit code.

“User” means any person who accesses or uses the Service, including Customers, Golfers, Substitutes, and Tournament Entrants.

2. ACCEPTANCE AND ELECTRONIC AGREEMENT

By creating an account, clicking “I agree,” or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a company or organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

These Terms constitute a binding electronic agreement under the Electronic Commerce Act, 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 17. You consent to receive all notices, agreements, and disclosures from Standing electronically, by email or in-app notification.

The Service is an “internet agreement” within the meaning of the Consumer Protection Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 30, Sched. A, and O. Reg. 17/05. Before completing account creation, you will be shown the price, description of the Service, cancellation rights, currency (CAD), and Standing’s contact information.

3. ELIGIBILITY AND AGE

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must consent to your use of the Service on your behalf. By creating an account, you confirm that you meet these requirements.

If Standing discovers that a User is under 16, or is under 18 without parental or guardian consent, Standing will suspend the account and delete the User’s personal data promptly. Standing is not liable for misrepresentations about age made by Users or their guardians.

4. USER ROLES AND ACCOUNT REGISTRATION

4.1 Golfers, Substitutes, and Tournament Entrants. These Users access the Service free of charge. Tournament Entrants sign in with their mobile number using a link or 10-digit code.

4.2 Course Staff Roles. A course account may have the following staff roles:

4.3 Sign-In. Users sign in with a one-time code sent by text to a Canadian mobile number, or with a Google account. A Google user must add and confirm a Canadian mobile number to receive league texts. Sign-in codes are sent to Canadian mobile numbers only.

4.4 Account Security. You are responsible for all activity under your account. You may sign out of all devices at any time using the “sign out on every device” feature.

5. LICENCE GRANT

5.1 Customers. Standing grants Customers a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for their internal league management purposes, subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees.

5.2 Free Users. Standing grants Golfers, Substitutes, and Tournament Entrants a revocable, non-exclusive, no-cost licence to access and use the Service solely to participate in leagues, events, and tournaments.

Both licences terminate immediately upon suspension or termination of your account.

6. PROHIBITED USES

You must not use the Service to:

6.1 Gambling and Payments.

6.2 Texting.

6.3 Data and Scraping.

6.4 Access and Identity.

6.5 Content and Conduct.

6.6 Security and AI.

6.7 Brand.

7. PRICING AND BILLING

All prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD). Applicable taxes are added at checkout where required by law.

7.1 Free Account

Any league of up to eight (8) Golfers (Substitutes do not count toward the eight), friends leagues, and one (1) tournament per year are free. Substitutes never count toward the golfer limit.

7.2 Season Pass and Sub Guarantee

Season Pass fee. The Season Pass is CAD 199 per league per season (CAD 149 for Founding Courses). It is due after the league’s third night is played. The Season Pass does not renew automatically.

Effect of non-payment. If the Season Pass is not paid when due, the league continues to operate but automatic texts pause until payment is received.

Organizer responsibility. The Organizer is responsible for paying the Season Pass even if the Organizer passes the cost to individual Golfers through dues.

Sub Guarantee. No Season Pass is due for a given season if all three of the following conditions are met:

If all three conditions are met, no Season Pass is owed for that season.

7.3 Course Plans

Plans and pricing.

The yearly price is equivalent to ten months at the monthly rate (“two months free”).

Free trial. Each Course Plan includes a 30-day free trial. The trial period is excluded from the 60-day satisfaction guarantee window described in Section 7.4.

Auto-renewal and cancellation. Monthly plans renew automatically each month and may be cancelled at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid month. Yearly plans renew automatically each year and may be cancelled at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid year. Standing will provide advance notice of renewal as required by the Consumer Protection Act, 2002 and O. Reg. 17/05.

Founding-course discount. The 40% founding-course discount applies to either the monthly or yearly term, as described in Section 7.5.

7.4 60-Day Satisfaction Guarantee

If Standing does not save your staff time in the first 60 days of a paid Course Plan, Standing will refund the plan fees you paid and cancel your plan.

Conditions:

Interaction with the Founding-Course Season Guarantee. The 60-day guarantee and the Founding-Course Season Guarantee (Section 7.5) are separate. A Founding Course may claim either guarantee if the applicable conditions are met, but not both for the same period.

7.5 Founding-Course Program

Eligibility. The Founding Course Program is open to the first ten (10) courses accepted by Standing. The offer closes when all ten spots are filled or when the 2027 season begins (approximately May 4, 2027), whichever comes first.

Benefits. Each Founding Course receives:

Season Guarantee. If Standing fails to run a Founding Course’s leagues for an entire season, Standing will refund the annual plan fee paid for that season.

Founding-Course Obligations. In exchange for the benefits above, each Founding Course agrees to:

Both obligations must be fulfilled within the first paid subscription year.

Failure to fulfil obligations. If a Founding Course does not fulfil both obligations after Standing provides written notice and a 30-day cure period, the founding discount converts to the standard rate going forward. The free 2027 season already received is not clawed back.

8. PAYMENT PROCESSING

8.1 Card payments. Card payments are processed by Stripe Payments Canada Ltd. Card payment functionality is available where enabled. Standing’s own plan fees are charged by 17101112 Canada Inc. and appear on your statement as STANDING LEAGUE.

8.2 Golfer payments. Payments from Golfers (dues, green fees, bay fees, entry fees) are made directly to the course’s own Connected Account. The course is the merchant of record for those payments, and the charge appears on the Golfer’s statement under the course’s own Stripe descriptor. Standing is not the merchant of record for Golfer payments and is not responsible for the course’s statement descriptor.

8.3 e-Transfer. Season Passes may also be paid by e-Transfer, recorded by Standing’s support team.

8.4 Billing records. Standing retains billing records for the period required by the Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), and applicable provincial law.

9. AUTOMATIC TEXTS AND CASL COMPLIANCE

Carrier charges: message and data rates may apply to texts Standing sends you and to any reply you send.

9.1 Transactional texts. The following messages are service messages sent to facilitate your use of the Service and are exempt from the consent requirements of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), S.C. 2010, c. 23, s. 6:

By creating an account and providing a Canadian mobile number, you consent to receive these transactional texts as a condition of using the Service.

9.2 Promotional texts. Standing will not send promotional commercial electronic messages (CEMs) without your separate, express opt-in consent, obtained through a clearly labelled checkbox at the time of consent. Each promotional CEM will include Standing’s name, contact information, and an unsubscribe mechanism, as required by CASL, s. 6(2), and the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CASL), SOR/2012-36. Standing will honour unsubscribe requests within 10 business days.

9.3 STOP. Replying STOP to any text immediately removes you from that message type. Standing will not send further messages of that type after processing your STOP request.

9.4 Organizer obligations. Organizers must not add phone numbers of people who have not consented to join the league. Organizers are responsible for their own CASL compliance in any communications they send outside the Service.

10. LOCATION DATA

The “find a league” page may use your device’s approximate location, if you choose to share it, to sort nearby leagues by distance. This location data:

Sharing your location is entirely optional. The page functions without it.

11. AI-ASSISTED SCORECARD ENTRY

When an Organizer uploads a scorecard photo, the photo is transmitted to the AI Model solely to extract scorecard data. The photo is not retained by Standing or the AI Model after processing. The AI output is always reviewed by the Organizer before being saved to the Service.

Standing is not liable for errors in AI-read scorecards. The Organizer is responsible for verifying the accuracy of all extracted data before saving it. The AI Model is provided by a third party (currently Anthropic) and is subject to that provider’s own terms and policies.

12. HANDICAP AND CALCULATION DISCLAIMER

12.1 League handicaps only. Standing computes its own league handicaps for recreational use. These are not official World Handicap System (WHS) or Golf Canada handicaps and must not be used as such.

12.2 No liability for errors. Standing is not liable for errors in handicap, standings, side-game (skins, closest to the pin), or dues/winnings ledger calculations.

12.3 Error correction. Standing will correct confirmed calculation errors promptly when reported to hello@standingleague.com.

12.4 Organizer approval. Organizers are responsible for reviewing and approving results before treating them as final.

13. SUB MATCHING DISCLAIMER

Standing offers open spots to Substitutes by text in the order they appear on the sub list. Whether any Sub accepts is outside Standing’s control. Standing does not guarantee that a Sub will be found for any open spot. This disclaimer is separate from the Sub Guarantee pricing provision in Section 7.2.

14. USER CONTENT AND FEEDBACK

14.1 Ownership. You retain ownership of content you submit to the Service, including scores, recaps, league results, and scorecard corrections (“User Content”).

14.2 Licence to Standing. By submitting User Content, you grant Standing a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to store, display, process, and use that content to operate and improve the Service.

14.3 Aggregated data. Standing may use anonymized, aggregated data (such as average scores and league activity trends) for product analytics and marketing. Standing will never sell individual User data.

14.4 Feedback. If you submit suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Service, Standing may use them freely without compensation or attribution to you.

15. ORGANIZER RESPONSIBILITY

Organizers are independent users of the Service, not agents or employees of Standing. Organizers are solely responsible for:

Standing is not liable for any Organizer misconduct, errors, or disputes with Golfers. Standing reserves the right to suspend or terminate any Organizer account for violations of these Terms.

16. PROSPECT PREVIEWS AND PUBLIC PAGES

16.1 Prospect previews. A course may appear on the Service as a prospect preview before claiming its account. A course may claim or decline its preview at any time. Standing will remove a preview on written request. A preview does not imply that a course is enrolled in or has agreed to the Service.

16.2 Public course pages. Each course has a public page at /c/[slug]. During a league night, a live leaderboard link is included in the tee time text and opens without an account when results are set to public. A TV leaderboard may be shared separately.

16.3 Private clubs. A venue may mark itself as a private club, which removes it from the “find a league” public listings and closes public sign-ups.

17. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

17.1 Customers. Standing may suspend or terminate a Customer account for material breach of these Terms after providing written notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure (not less than 5 business days), except that Standing may suspend or terminate immediately for egregious violations, including fraud, illegal activity, or conduct that poses a risk to other Users or the Service.

17.2 Free Users. Standing may suspend or terminate a Golfer’s, Substitute’s, or Tournament Entrant’s access at any time, with or without notice, for violations of these Terms, conduct that disrupts leagues or other Users, or for any other reason at Standing’s reasonable discretion. No refund obligation applies to free Users.

17.3 Effect of termination. Upon termination, your licence to use the Service ends immediately. Sections 6, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 27 survive termination.

17.4 Refund on termination. If Standing terminates a Customer account without cause, Standing will refund a pro-rated portion of any prepaid fees for the unused period.

18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

18.1 Cap for Customers. Standing’s total liability to a Customer for any claim arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service is limited to the total fees paid by that Customer to Standing in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the claim.

18.2 Free Users. Standing’s total liability to a free User (Golfer, Substitute, or Tournament Entrant) is CAD 0.

18.3 Exclusion of indirect damages. Neither party is liable to the other for indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

18.4 Carve-out. Sections 18.1 and 18.3 do not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by Standing’s gross negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

18.5 Consumer rights. Nothing in this Section limits any statutory right you may have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 30, Sched. A, that cannot be waived by contract.

19. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Standing makes no warranty, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Standing does not guarantee any specific uptime. The Service is in an early pilot phase; features may change, be added, or be removed without notice (subject to Section 24 for material changes).

Card payment functionality is available where enabled. Standing does not warrant that card payments are available in all circumstances.

Standing does not provide legal, tax, gaming-law, or professional advice of any kind through the Service.

20. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The Service relies on third-party providers, including:

Each third-party service is subject to its own terms and policies. Standing is not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or conduct of any third-party service, or for any outages, errors, or changes made by those providers.

21. PRIVACY AND DATA DELETION

Standing’s collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is governed by the Privacy Policy at https://standingleague.com/privacy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Standing complies with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), S.C. 2000, c. 5, and the Digital Privacy Act, S.C. 2015, c. 32, including mandatory breach notification obligations.

Account deletion. You may request deletion of your account at any time by contacting hello@standingleague.com. Within 30 days of a confirmed deletion request, Standing will remove your personal identifiers (name, mobile number, email address). Anonymized historical data (scores, results, standings) may be retained in de-identified form to preserve league records for other participants. Billing records will be retained for the period required by the Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.), and applicable law.

22. NO PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Standing does not provide legal, tax, gaming-law, or any other professional advice. Organizers are solely responsible for determining whether their league’s prize structures, side games, and dues arrangements comply with applicable law, including the Gaming Control Act, 1992, R.S.O. 1992, c. 24, and the AGCO Act, 2019, S.O. 2019, c. 15, Sched. 1. Standing recommends that Organizers seek independent legal advice on these matters.

23. DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LIMITATION PERIOD

23.1 Informal negotiation. Before filing any legal claim, the party with the dispute must send written notice to the other party describing the claim in reasonable detail. The parties will attempt to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days from the date of that notice. If the dispute is not resolved within 30 days, either party may proceed to court.

23.2 Governing law and jurisdiction. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the applicable federal laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario for any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service (Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43).

23.3 Limitation period. Any claim arising out of or related to these Terms must be brought within two (2) years of the date the claimant knew or ought to have known of the facts giving rise to the claim, consistent with the Limitations Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B. Nothing in this Section shortens any limitation period that cannot be shortened by contract under applicable law.

24. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

Standing may change these Terms at any time. For material changes — including changes to pricing, data use, or dispute resolution — Standing will provide at least 30 days’ advance written notice by email and in-app notification before the change takes effect (Electronic Commerce Act, 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 17).

Your continued use of the Service after the notice period constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a material change, you may cancel your account before the effective date and receive a pro-rated refund of any prepaid fees for the unused period.

25. LANGUAGE

The Service is available in English, Canadian French, and Simplified Chinese. If there is any conflict between a translation and the English version, the English version governs.

26. GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE

The Service is available in Canada only. Sign-in codes are sent to Canadian mobile numbers only. Any prices displayed in currencies other than CAD are estimates for display purposes only. Standing does not currently offer the Service in the United States or any other jurisdiction.

27. ASSIGNMENT

Standing may assign these Terms or any rights under them to a successor entity in connection with a sale of the business, merger, or corporate restructuring, with notice to affected Users. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without Standing’s prior written consent. Any purported assignment in violation of this Section is void.

28. GENERAL PROVISIONS

28.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy at https://standingleague.com/privacy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Standing regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements and understandings on that subject.

28.2 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable; if it cannot be so modified, it shall be severed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

28.3 No waiver. Standing’s failure to enforce any provision of these Terms on one occasion does not waive its right to enforce that provision on any other occasion.

28.4 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure to perform caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, government action, internet outages, or third-party service failures. This Section does not excuse Standing’s obligation to issue refunds under the 60-day satisfaction guarantee (Section 7.4) or the Founding-Course Season Guarantee (Section 7.5).

28.5 Survival. The following Sections survive termination of these Terms: 6 (Prohibited Uses), 12 (Handicap Disclaimer), 14 (User Content and Feedback), 15 (Organizer Responsibility), 18 (Limitation of Liability), 19 (Disclaimer of Warranties), 21 (Privacy and Data Deletion), 22 (No Professional Advice), 23 (Dispute Resolution), 28 (General Provisions), 29 (IP Complaints), and 30 (Contact and Notices).

28.6 Electronic notices. Notices from Standing to you are validly given by email to the address on your account or by in-app notification. Notices from you to Standing must be sent to hello@standingleague.com or by mail to the address in Section 30.

29. IP COMPLAINTS

If you believe that content on the Service — including any logo, image, or trademark appearing through a print or merchandise feature — infringes your intellectual property rights, please send a written notice to hello@standingleague.com with:

Standing will review the complaint and take appropriate action, which may include removing the content.

30. CONTACT AND NOTICES

17101112 Canada Inc., operating as Standing

Email: hello@standingleague.com

Website: https://standingleague.com/

All legal notices, guarantee claims, support requests, and account deletion requests should be directed to the email address above.

These Terms of Service are effective as of June 18, 2025.