Terms of Service

1. Accepting these Terms

By creating an account or using Branded you agree to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Assumption of Risk & Release, and the Community Guidelines. If you do not agree, do not use Branded.

We record which version of these documents you accepted and when. If we make a material change, we will ask you to accept the new version before you continue using your account.

2. Who can use Branded

• You must be at least 13 years old. We do not knowingly allow accounts for children under 13, and we delete any we find.
• If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must read and agree to these Terms with you. At signup we ask for their email and send them a one-time link to confirm; your account stays limited to what recruiting needs until they do. Accounts belonging to people under 18 receive additional protections described in the Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines.
• You must give accurate information about yourself, including your date of birth, your role, and your affiliations. Misrepresenting who you are — particularly claiming to be a coach or recruiter when you are not — is grounds for immediate removal.
• One account per person. You may not sell, share, or transfer your account.

3. What Branded does and does not do

Branded provides profiles, messaging, posts, and search. That is the whole of the service. In particular:

• We do not guarantee any recruiting outcome. Using Branded will not get you recruited, offered, signed, or seen. No feature, plan, or placement on the platform is a promise of athletic or academic opportunity.
• We are not your agent or representative. We do not negotiate on your behalf and we do not broker name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals. No NIL transaction happens through Branded. If you enter into an NIL arrangement with someone you met here, it is entirely between you and them, and you are responsible for your own eligibility under NCAA, state, school, and athletic-association rules.
• We do not verify credentials. Identity verification, where offered, confirms only that a government ID matches a selfie. It does not confirm that someone holds the coaching position, school affiliation, or authority they claim.
• We do not run athletic activity. We hold no practices, tryouts, camps, or competitions, and we do not supervise anything that happens off the platform.

4. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you post — your photos, video, stats, bio, and messages. By posting, you give Branded a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, and show that content to other users, for the purpose of operating and promoting the service. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies already shared with others and copies kept in backups until they expire.

You are responsible for having the rights to what you post. Game film in particular is often owned by a school, a league, or a film service rather than the athlete in it — make sure you are allowed to upload it.

5. References

References written about you are visible only if you choose to display them, up to the limit of your plan. The person who wrote a reference can withdraw it. We do not verify, endorse, or take responsibility for the accuracy of anything said in a reference, and we do not edit them.

6. Acceptable use

The Community Guidelines are part of these Terms. In short: do not harass, threaten, impersonate, scam, or sexualise anyone; do not contact minors inappropriately; do not scrape, automate, or reverse-engineer the service; and do not post anything unlawful.

7. Paid plans

• Paid plans are billed in advance through Stripe and renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from your account settings. Cancellation stops the next renewal; your plan stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Payments already made are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise, or where we choose to make an exception. Where you have a statutory right to cancel, that right is unaffected by this paragraph.
• Identity verification is a separate one-time charge. It is non-refundable once the verification has been attempted, because the cost is incurred at that point.
• We may change plan pricing or contents with reasonable notice before your next renewal.

8. Suspension and termination

You can delete your account at any time from your settings; doing so removes your profile, posts, messages, and references as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or remove an account that breaks these Terms or the Community Guidelines, that we reasonably believe puts other users at risk — particularly minors — or where we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why.

9. Disclaimers

Branded is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, and we are not responsible for the conduct, statements, or content of other users, whether on the platform or off it.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Branded and its officers, employees, and contractors are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost opportunities, lost scholarships, or lost profits, arising out of your use of the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred US dollars.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Branded against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from content you post, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of someone else's rights. This does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own acts or omissions.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which Branded maintains its principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us at nilbranded@gmail.com so we can try to resolve the matter directly.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When we do, we publish a new version here and, for material changes, ask you to accept them before you keep using your account. Continuing to use Branded after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: nilbranded@gmail.com. Safety concerns, including anything involving a minor: nilbranded@gmail.com.