Terms of Service

The Service allows Organizers to enter limited data about rostered players, including first name, last name, jersey number, position, and audio cue selections (“Player Data”). When players are minors, special legal requirements apply, including under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and various state privacy laws.

By entering Player Data about any minor (a “Minor”) into the Service, you represent, warrant, and covenant that either:

(a) you are the parent or legal guardian of the Minor and consent to the collection, use, and display of the Minor’s Player Data as contemplated by these Terms and our Privacy Policy; or

(b) you have obtained verifiable parental or legal guardian consent from a parent or guardian of the Minor authorizing the use of the Minor’s first name, last name, jersey number, position, and audio cue selections for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy, including public address announcements during games and display within the Service to authorized Organizers.

You agree to maintain records of such consent and to provide proof of consent to SportsDJ upon request.

Consent obtained under Section 4.1(b) must, at a minimum, authorize:

• Entry and storage of the Minor’s first name, last name, jersey number, position, and audio cue selections in the Service
• Display of that information to Organizers on the Minor’s team
• Use of that information for public address announcements during games the Minor plays in

Consent must be obtained from the parent or legal guardian. Consent from a coach, league, or other third party is not sufficient unless that party is itself the Minor’s legal guardian.

You are responsible for obtaining consent consistent with the law of the state where the Minor resides, which in some states extends to Minors under 16 or 18. See our Privacy Policy for details.

If a parent or legal guardian withdraws consent, you agree to promptly remove the Minor’s Player Data from the Service, or to notify us at privacy@ligobyte.com so we can remove it.

You agree not to enter into the Service any of the following about any player, Minor or otherwise, absent a separate written agreement with SportsDJ:

• Date of birth, home address, phone number, email address, or school
• Photographs, video, or audio recordings of the player
• Health, medical, or biometric information
• Social security numbers or other government identifiers
• Any information not reasonably necessary for in-venue announcements and roster management

If we become aware that Player Data about a Minor has been entered without the required consent, or that prohibited data has been entered, we may remove the data, suspend the relevant account, and take other action we deem appropriate. You agree to cooperate with reasonable requests for information regarding consent.

You are solely responsible for holding the rights and licences needed for everything you select, upload, play, share, or otherwise use through the Service — including walk-up songs, goal horns, sound effects, crowd tracks, and announcements.

That responsibility has three parts:

• Content rights. For every file you import, upload, or play, and every track you play from a music service you have connected, you must hold the rights you need in both the recording and the underlying composition for the use you are making of it. Owning a copy of a file, or holding a subscription that lets you listen to it, is not by itself permission to perform it publicly.
• Venue performance licences. Playing music where the public can hear it is normally a public performance, and normally requires a performance licence. In the United States those licences come from performing rights organizations — ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and GMR — and are typically held by the venue, league, school, or event operator rather than by the individual announcer. Before you play, confirm with whoever runs the venue or event that the required licences are in place and that your use is within them.
• Third-party service terms. If you connect a music service, you must stay within that service’s own terms, which may be more restrictive than these Terms. See Section 6.6.

These obligations are yours, not ours. SportsDJ does not obtain, provide, verify, or administer any music licence on your behalf, and we make no representation that any particular use of content through the Service is licensed or otherwise permitted.

SportsDJ grants you no rights in music, sound recordings, or other third-party content. If you are not certain a use is covered, do not play it until you have asked the venue, league, or event operator who holds the licences.

The Service, including its software, design, trademarks, and content we provide, is owned by SportsDJ and its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms.

You retain ownership of content you submit to the Service (including your roster information, custom audio uploads, sound files, and announcement text).

You grant SportsDJ a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, and display your content as necessary to operate and provide the Service. This license includes transmitting your content to other users when you direct us to do so — for example, when you share a sound group with another SportsDJ user. We do not make your content available to other users unless you initiate that share.

The Service allows you to share certain content — such as a set of sound groups and the audio files they reference — with other SportsDJ users you designate.

You are responsible for what you share. By sharing content, you represent that you have the right to distribute it to the recipients you select. Sharing does not transfer any rights you do not hold, and it does not grant the recipient any license from SportsDJ in third-party music or recordings.

Recipients are responsible for what they receive. Content you receive from another user is subject to the same obligations that apply to content you upload yourself, including Section 6.1. Receiving content through a share does not give you any right to play it, publicly or otherwise, that you did not already hold.

How shared content is stored. Files you upload are stored under your own account. When you share content, recipients are granted access to your copy rather than receiving a duplicate, so one stored file may serve several recipients of the same share. We do not combine or deduplicate identical files across different users’ accounts. Access is always limited to users with an active share; identifying a file does not by itself grant access to it.

Retention. When you delete a share or your account, we remove your shares and your references to the content. A file may be retained after that point for as long as another user’s active share references it, and is deleted once no share references it.

Revocation. You may revoke a share at any time. Revocation prevents further downloads but does not recall content a recipient has already downloaded to their device.

SportsDJ respects intellectual property rights and responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512. Full details, including our designated agent and the required elements of an effective notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), counter-notification under § 512(g)(3), and our response process, are on our Copyright & DMCA page, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

Repeat infringers. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we have adopted and will reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers. We record valid notices against the account that supplied the material. An account that accumulates repeated valid notices may lose sharing privileges and may be suspended or terminated.

Misrepresentation. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees.

The Service may let you connect a third-party music service — for example Spotify or Apple Music — using your own account with that service, and play content through it.

That service’s own terms govern your use of it, and those terms apply to you directly.

Your agreement with a third-party music service is between you and that service. It is not part of these Terms, we do not modify it, and we cannot grant you rights under it. Consumer music services commonly license personal, non-commercial listening only, and restrict or prohibit public performance, broadcast, and commercial or business use — which can include playing over a venue’s PA system. Some also restrict mixing or overlapping their content with other audio, altering playback, and recording or otherwise capturing it. Those limits are theirs to set and yours to observe.

That a music service can be connected through SportsDJ is not a representation by us that your intended use of it is permitted by that service. Where a connected service’s terms are more restrictive than these Terms, the more restrictive terms govern your use of that service’s content. A third-party service may also change its terms, restrict or withdraw a feature, or end your access at any time, with or without notice to us; we are not responsible for that and it does not entitle you to a refund except as stated in Section 7.

Content you reach through a third-party service stays subject to that service’s terms. Nothing in the Service grants you any right in it.

SportsDJ is a tool, not a rights-clearance service. We do not review the content you import, play, or share, and we have no obligation to monitor it, to determine whether you hold the rights to it, or to verify that your venue holds the licences it needs.

The absence of a warning, a block, or an objection from us is not approval and is not evidence that a use is licensed. Nothing in these Terms makes us the arbiter of anyone’s rights, and nothing in them obliges us to act as one.

We may — but are not required to — remove content, disable a feature, or suspend or terminate an account where we receive a notice under Section 6.5, where we believe these Terms have been breached, or where we are required to act by law or by the terms of a third-party service. When we do act, we act on our own behalf and to meet our own obligations, not as your agent. Nothing in this Section limits Section 3, Section 4.6, Section 6.5, or Section 9.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless SportsDJ from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to (a) your breach of these Terms, including the Player Data warranties in Section 4 and the content and licensing responsibilities in Section 6.1; (b) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party, including any claim that content you imported, played, shared, or performed through the Service infringed a copyright, trademark, or other right; (c) your failure to hold, or to stay within, any public performance or other licence required where you used the Service; (d) your breach of the terms of any third-party music or streaming service you connected to the Service; and (e) your use or misuse of the Service.