Terms & Conditions

The agreement

These Terms & Conditions are a contract between you and Starlight Sports Inc. ("Starlight", "we", "us"), a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business at 25 Sylvan Rd S, Suite P, Westport, CT 06880. They govern your use of starlightlax.com and everything we offer through it (the Services).

By creating an account or using the Services you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Services. Our Privacy Policy is part of this agreement.

Who may use Starlight

An athlete under 13 cannot create their own account. A parent or guardian must create it for them. We collect date of birth at registration and route under-13 signups to the guardian path, where the parent registers from their own verified email address and accepts these terms themselves.

Accounts for athletes under 13 are not visible to college programs. See our Privacy Policy for what else differs.

Athletes 13 and older may create their own account. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed these terms and agrees to them. We ask for their email address at registration and let them know the account exists.

Where a parent or guardian creates or holds access to an athlete's account, they accept these terms personally, they are responsible for the athlete's use of the Services, and they make the grants in Your content and Name, image and likeness on the athlete's behalf.

A player may also appear on a team roster maintained by an organization without any account at all, so that team film is complete. A roster entry has no login, no messaging, and is not visible to college programs.

Your account

• Give us accurate information and keep it current.
• Your account is yours. Do not share your login, and tell us promptly at legal@starlightlax.com if you believe someone else has used it.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account, except where someone gains access through no fault of yours.
• You may delete your account at any time from your account settings. See retention for what happens to your information afterwards.

Organizations and staff

If you are a coach, director or staff member with administrative access to a club, high school or event company account, additional obligations apply because you are handling minors' information:

• Act in the interests of the athletes on your rosters. Use their information only to run your program and support their recruiting.
• Only add an athlete to a roster where you have the right to do so, including any parental consent your own rules or the law require.
• Do not change an athlete's recruiting visibility, profile or account settings without the athlete's and their guardian's agreement.
• When an athlete leaves your program, do not delete or withhold their profile or their access to their own film in order to pressure them.
• You are responsible for having the rights to any film you upload, including agreements with any videographer you engaged.

Subscriptions and billing

• Term and price. Athlete and organization subscriptions are sold as annual terms. The price and renewal date are shown before you confirm, and again on your billing page.
• Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from your billing page — athletes under Billing in the athlete portal, organizations under the team's subscription settings. No phone call or email is required. Cancelling stops the next renewal; your subscription stays active through the end of the term you have already paid for.
• Price changes. If we change the price of a subscription we will tell you by email at least 30 days before the renewal it affects, so you can cancel first.
• Refunds. Subscription fees are non-refundable, including fees for a term that has renewed automatically. If you believe a renewal was charged in error, contact us within 30 days and we will look into it.
• Failed payments. If a charge fails we may retry it and may suspend the subscription until payment succeeds.
• Taxes. Prices exclude tax unless stated. You are responsible for any applicable sales or use tax.

Film and livestream purchases

Game film purchases and pay-per-view livestreams are one-time purchases. They do not renew.

• Livestreams are live-only. There is no replay or archive after the broadcast ends, which is disclosed before purchase. Buying access does not guarantee a particular camera angle, resolution or uninterrupted stream.
• Event film may be cancelled for a full refund up to 1:00 PM Eastern on the day before the event begins. After that, refunds are available only where the athlete could not participate due to a documented injury, or where we failed to deliver usable film.
• Failure to film. If we do not capture a game we committed to film, or the film we deliver is unusable, we will refund it. This is your exclusive remedy for a filming failure.
• All other purchases are non-refundable.

Your content

Your Content means anything you upload, post or submit — game film, highlights, clips, photographs, messages, and profile information.

You keep ownership of Your Content. You are responsible for it, and by submitting it you promise that you own it or have permission from whoever does, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights.

You grant Starlight a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly perform and display, create derivative works from, and distribute Your Content, in any media now known or later developed, for the purposes of:

• operating, providing and improving the Services;
• making Your Content available to the coaches, organizations, college programs and purchasers you have chosen to share it with; and
• promoting Starlight — including in advertising, on our website and social channels, and at recruiting and scouting events.

To the extent permitted by law you waive any moral rights in Your Content, and you release us from claims arising out of the uses permitted above.

Name, image and likeness

Subject to the opt-out above, you consent to our use of an athlete's name, voice, biographical information, appearance and likeness as they appear in Your Content, for the purposes described in Your content.

We will not use an athlete's name, image or likeness in a way that states or implies they endorse any third party's product or service, and we will not license their name, image or likeness to a third party for advertising. Our promotional use is limited to promoting Starlight itself. We do this because high school athletes' name, image and likeness rights are regulated by state athletic associations, and an endorsement could put an athlete's eligibility at risk.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Break the law, or use the Services to help anyone else do so.
• Upload anything unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, obscene, hateful, or invasive of privacy.
• Upload or solicit sexual content involving a minor, or any content that sexualizes a minor. We report this to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement.
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation with an organization.
• Scrape, crawl or harvest data from the Services by any automated means, or use the Services or any content on them to train a machine learning or generative AI model.
• Sell, sublicense or redistribute athlete information or film obtained from the Services.
• Probe, scan or test the security of the Services, circumvent access controls, or interfere with their operation.
• Upload viruses or malicious code, or send spam or bulk unsolicited messages.
• Use another user's account, or let anyone else use yours.

Team chat and messaging

Team chat exists so coaches, athletes and staff can communicate about their team. Messages are visible to the members of the channel and to the organization's administrators, who can view and delete messages in their teams' channels. Chat is not private correspondence between you and us, and it is not a confidential channel.

Because minors are in these channels, we may remove messages and suspend accounts for conduct that violates Acceptable use. Report a problem to legal@starlightlax.com.

Our intellectual property

The Services, including the software, design, text, graphics and the Starlight name and logo, belong to Starlight or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Services for their intended purpose. You get no other rights, and you may not copy, modify, reverse engineer or create derivative works from the Services.

Copyright complaints

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate repeat infringers. Our full notice-and-takedown procedure, and the contact details for our designated agent, are in our Copyright / DMCA Policy.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services and delete your account at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your conduct puts other users — particularly minors — at risk. Where circumstances allow we will give notice and an opportunity to fix the problem first; for serious violations, including anything involving the safety of a minor, we may act immediately.

If we terminate your account without cause, we will refund the unused portion of any subscription term you have paid for. Terminating an account does not cancel amounts already owed. Sections that by their nature should survive — including Your content, Limitation of liability, Indemnification and Dispute resolution — survive termination.

Disclaimers

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STARLIGHT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not promise that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free, that film will be captured or delivered without fault, or that any athlete will be recruited, receive an offer, receive a scholarship, or attract interest from any college program. Recruiting outcomes depend on many things outside our control, and nothing on the Services is a promise of one.

We are not responsible for the conduct of other users, whether online or offline, including college coaches, organizations and event companies.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STARLIGHT WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOST RECRUITING OR SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for gross negligence or willful misconduct. Some states do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Starlight and its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claim, loss, liability, expense or demand — including reasonable legal fees — arising out of your breach of these terms, Your Content, or your misuse of the Services. This does not apply to claims arising from our own negligence or misconduct. We will notify you of any claim we seek indemnity for, and you may participate in the defense at your own expense.

Dispute resolution and arbitration

Talk to us first

Before starting arbitration or a lawsuit, email legal@starlightlax.com with your name, the email on your account, a description of the problem and what you want. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days. Any deadline to bring a claim pauses while we do. Most problems get solved here.

Arbitration

If we cannot resolve it, the dispute will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules, before one arbitrator. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section. The arbitration will be held in Fairfield County, Connecticut, or by video or telephone at your election, or in the county where you live if you prefer. The arbitrator's award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Where you begin the arbitration, you pay the consumer filing fee under the JAMS rules and we pay the remaining JAMS fees. Where we begin it, we pay all fees.

Class action waiver

ARBITRATION WILL BE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. YOU AND STARLIGHT WAIVE THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, AND THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT PRESIDE OVER ONE. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim alone goes to court and the rest stay in arbitration.

What is not covered

• Claims that qualify for small claims court, which either of us may bring there.
• Claims for injunctive relief over intellectual property, which either of us may bring in court.
• Any claim that applicable law does not permit to be arbitrated, including claims a minor cannot be bound to arbitrate.

Opting out

You can opt out of arbitration and the class action waiver by emailing legal@starlightlax.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with your name, the email on your account, and a statement that you are opting out of arbitration. That is all it takes. Opting out does not affect your account, your subscription, or anything else in this agreement, and we will not treat you differently for it.

Time limit

Any claim relating to the Services must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred, unless applicable law provides a longer period that cannot be shortened by agreement.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and Starlight submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in Fairfield County, Connecticut. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in the place you live.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. When we do we will post the updated version with a new "Last updated" date. Where a change is material we will give at least 30 days' notice by email or in the Services before it takes effect, and it will not apply retroactively to a dispute that already exists. Continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not, stop using the Services and cancel your subscription.

General

• Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Services.
• Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, we have not given it up.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger or sale of the business.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something outside our reasonable control.
• Notices. We give notice by email to the address on your account or by posting in the Services. Send notices to us at legal@starlightlax.com.

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