1. Acceptance of these Terms

These Terms of Use (the Terms) govern your use of the AssistantCoach mobile application (the App). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

The App is provided by the operator identified in section 18 (AssistantCoach, we, us, or our).

2. Eligibility

The App is intended primarily for adult coaches, assistant coaches, team managers, club representatives, and other people authorised to manage a football team.

If you are below the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the App only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who accepts responsibility for your use. The App is not designed for independent use by children.

You must be legally permitted to use the App and must not be prohibited from receiving or using it under applicable law.

3. Licence to use the App

Subject to these Terms and applicable app-store rules, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable licence to install and use the App on devices you own or control for lawful football team-management purposes.

The App is licensed, not sold. No ownership rights in the App are transferred to you.

You may not copy, sell, rent, sublicense, commercially redistribute, tamper with, circumvent security features of, or attempt to derive the source code of the App, except where applicable law expressly permits such activity despite this restriction.

4. Responsible and prohibited use

You agree to use the App lawfully, responsibly, and only for legitimate purposes. You must not use the App to:

  • Violate any law, regulation, court order, privacy right, image right, intellectual-property right, safeguarding requirement, or applicable club or governing-body rule;
  • Create, store, export, publish, or share information that is unlawful, threatening, exploitative, abusive, discriminatory, defamatory, harassing, deceptive, or otherwise harmful;
  • Endanger, exploit, groom, sexualise, intimidate, or otherwise harm a child or any other person;
  • Store unnecessary detailed medical information or other highly sensitive personal information;
  • Disclose player information to unauthorised people;
  • Use player information for unrelated advertising, profiling, surveillance, exploitation, or commercial solicitation;
  • Interfere with, damage, overload, bypass, or test the security or operation of the App without permission;
  • Introduce malicious code or use a manipulated or unsafe backup file;
  • Misrepresent your identity, authority, relationship with a player or club, or the App's relationship with a club, league, football association, or other organisation.

Suspected child exploitation or other unlawful conduct may be reported to the appropriate authorities where required or permitted by law. Because core App data remains on your device, we generally cannot view or moderate that data.

5. Information entered by users

You control and are responsible for information you enter, import, export, or share using the App. This can include team and club details, player names and ages, attendance, line-ups, cards, injuries, performance ratings, match statistics, and notes.

AssistantCoach does not claim ownership of this information. Because core App data is stored locally, you do not grant us a licence to use it and we do not receive or have access to it through the App.

You are responsible for ensuring that information you enter is accurate, relevant, fair, and kept no longer than necessary. You must have a valid legal basis and any permission or authority required to record or use information about another person.

Where you use the App for a club, employer, or other organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to do so and will follow that organisation's instructions and policies. The relevant user, club, or organisation—not AssistantCoach—is responsible for handling requests from players or other individuals concerning locally stored information.

6. Players under 18 and safeguarding

The App may be used by authorised adults to manage teams containing players under 18. When you record or use information about a minor, you must:

  • Act in the minor's best interests;
  • Have a legitimate team-management purpose and an appropriate legal basis;
  • Obtain any permission, authorisation, or parental involvement required by law, safeguarding rules, or club policy;
  • Inform the player and, where appropriate, a parent or guardian about the use of the information;
  • Record only information reasonably necessary for team management;
  • Restrict access to authorised people and delete information when no longer needed;
  • Take particular care before exporting, sending, or publicly sharing a minor's name, availability, performance, injury, or other information.

You must never use the App to create, retain, export, or share sexual, exploitative, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, or otherwise inappropriate content concerning a minor. A breach of this section is a material breach of these Terms.

7. Injuries and professional decisions

AssistantCoach is an organisational tool. It is not a medical, healthcare, safeguarding, legal, employment, scouting, or professional coaching service. Injury entries, availability indicators, statistics, ratings, and other records in the App are organisational notes only.

The App does not diagnose injuries, determine whether a player is fit to train or play, or replace advice from a doctor, physiotherapist, safeguarding professional, or other appropriately qualified person. You remain responsible for decisions concerning a player's health, welfare, safety, selection, eligibility, development, and playing time.

In an emergency or where a person's health or safety may be at risk, contact the appropriate emergency service or qualified professional rather than relying on the App.

8. Local storage and deletion

The App does not require an account and stores its core data locally on your device. You are responsible for securing the device, controlling who can access it, keeping its operating system updated, and deleting information when it is no longer required.

Deleting a record in the App, clearing the App's storage, or uninstalling the App may permanently remove local information. We cannot remotely recover, correct, export, or delete a local database that we do not possess.

Your operating system or platform provider may include App data in a device or cloud backup depending on your settings. You are responsible for reviewing and managing those settings.

Our handling of support emails and other information we receive directly is described in the AssistantCoach Privacy Policy.

9. Backups, imports, exports, and sharing

The App may allow you to export and import a .sqlite3 database file and to generate or share a line-up image. Exported files may contain personal or confidential player information even when the filename does not reveal this.

You are responsible for:

  • Making appropriate backups before deleting, replacing, importing, or modifying important information;
  • Checking that a backup is current, complete, compatible, and obtained from a trusted source;
  • Storing and transferring exports securely;
  • Sharing files and images only with authorised recipients;
  • Having an appropriate legal basis and any required permission before publishing identifying information, particularly information about minors;
  • Deleting exported and shared copies when they are no longer needed.

Importing a database can replace, duplicate, change, or make existing information inaccessible. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for loss or disclosure caused by an unsafe, corrupted, incompatible, incorrectly selected, or improperly handled export or backup.

10. Availability, maintenance, and changes to the App

We may maintain, fix, update, modify, replace, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the App. Updates may be required for security, compatibility, legal compliance, or continued operation. The App may not remain compatible with every device, operating-system version, or third-party service.

Where reasonably possible, we will communicate a material change that adversely affects users in advance. We do not guarantee that every feature will always remain available or that the App will operate without interruption or error.

You are responsible for exporting an appropriate backup before installing an update or making a material device change.

11. Intellectual property

The App, including its software, design, interface, branding, graphics, and original content, is owned by or licensed to AssistantCoach and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Third-party components remain owned by their respective licensors and may be subject to separate licence terms.

“AssistantCoach” and associated visual branding may not be used in a way that falsely suggests sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, or official status.

If you voluntarily provide feedback or suggestions, you permit us to use them to improve the App without an obligation to compensate you. This does not give us ownership of your locally stored team or player information.

12. Third-party platforms and services

Your use of the App may also be subject to the terms of Apple, Google, your device manufacturer, operating-system provider, cloud-backup provider, or a service you independently choose for storing or sharing an export. You must comply with applicable third-party terms.

We do not control and are not responsible for a third-party service you choose to use. Links or compatibility with a third-party service do not imply endorsement.

13. Special terms for Apple users

If you obtained the App through Apple's App Store:

  • These Terms are between you and AssistantCoach, not Apple. AssistantCoach, not Apple, is responsible for the App and its content;
  • Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App;
  • If the App fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund any purchase price paid for the App. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation concerning the App;
  • To the extent required by applicable law or Apple's terms, AssistantCoach is responsible for addressing claims relating to the App, including product-liability, legal-compliance, consumer-protection, privacy, or intellectual-property claims;
  • Your licence is limited to use permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and applicable Family Sharing or legacy-contact rules;
  • You confirm that you are not located in a country or region subject to an applicable United States government embargo and are not listed on an applicable United States government prohibited- or restricted-party list;
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce the relevant provisions against you after your acceptance.

Nothing in this section makes Apple responsible for the App or reduces any mandatory right you have against AssistantCoach under applicable law.

14. Disclaimer of warranties

The App is provided on an “as available” basis. Although reasonable care is taken in developing and maintaining it, we do not promise that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with every device, or suitable for every individual, team, club, competition, administrative process, or purpose.

Statistics, calculations, reminders, displays, exports, and other App outputs depend on information entered by the user and may contain errors. You should check important information independently before relying on it.

No provision of these Terms excludes a warranty or legal guarantee that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable consumer law.

15. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, AssistantCoach is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of, or inability to use, the App, or for loss caused by:

  • Inaccurate, incomplete, or unlawful information entered by a user;
  • Failure to secure a device or maintain an appropriate backup;
  • Deletion, device loss, operating-system failure, failed or incompatible imports, or use of a corrupted backup;
  • A user's export, publication, or disclosure of player or team information;
  • Decisions about health, safety, selection, discipline, performance, eligibility, or playing time;
  • An interruption, modification, or discontinuation outside our reasonable control;
  • A third-party platform, device, storage provider, or sharing service.

These limitations apply only to the extent they are fair and enforceable under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where doing so would be unlawful, including mandatory consumer rights or liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, death, or personal injury where such liability cannot legally be excluded or limited.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms when the App, our practices, or applicable requirements change. The updated Terms will be published on the AssistantCoach website with a new effective date.

Where reasonably possible, material changes will also be communicated through the App or another appropriate channel. Updated Terms apply from their stated effective date. If you do not agree to an update, you must stop using and uninstall the App. Nothing in this section limits rights that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

17. Governing law and general provisions

These Terms are governed by Dutch law. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections provided by the law of your country of residence. A dispute may be brought before a court that has jurisdiction under applicable law.

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain effective to the extent legally possible. A failure to enforce a provision immediately does not waive the right to enforce it later.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the agreement governing your use of the App. They do not override mandatory app-store or consumer rights.

18. Operator and contact

AssistantCoach is operated personally in the Netherlands by Joeri van Megen.

Questions about these Terms or the App: infoassistantcoach@gmail.com
Website: https://assistantcoachinfo.github.io/