Terms of Service

By creating an account, paying any fee, attending any event, or otherwise using Fairway Founders Network (“Fairway Founders,” “we,” “us,” “our”), you (“you,” “Member”) agree to these Terms of Service (“Terms”) and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Fairway Founders is a private member-organized golf and networking group. We facilitate weekly golf rounds and networking opportunities. We are not a country club, a course owner or operator, a financial institution, a money transmitter, or an insurer. We are a coordinator and a software platform.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering binding contracts. We may require identity verification. We may deny membership for any reason consistent with applicable law.

Membership is granted at our sole discretion. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account, revoke event invitations, and withhold any fees already paid, at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, subject to applicable law. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you waive any claim arising from termination of your membership.

Fairway Founders operates as a public-facing networking platform. Anything you submit — including your name, photo, bio, company, role, links, RSVPs, messages, scores, and any other information — may be displayed publicly, shared with members, shared with sponsors and partners, used in marketing and promotional materials, or otherwise distributed at our sole discretion. Do not submit anything you wish to keep confidential.

You grant Fairway Founders a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, modify, translate, publish, and create derivative works of any content you submit, for any purpose, in any medium now known or later developed. This license survives termination of your membership.

You represent that you own or have all necessary rights to any content you submit and that it does not infringe any third party’s rights, and you indemnify us against any claim to the contrary.

Golf and on-course activities involve inherent risks, including but not limited to: being struck by golf balls or clubs, falls, slips, heat exhaustion, dehydration, lightning, motor-vehicle and golf-cart accidents, collisions with other participants, and interactions with course staff, animals, weather, and the general public.

By participating in any event, you expressly assume all such risks, including those not foreseeable.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release Fairway Founders, its owners, operators, employees, agents, admins, and other members from all claims, demands, liabilities, and causes of action for personal injury, death, property damage, or any other harm arising from your participation, whether caused by negligence or otherwise.

The golf courses we play are operated by independent third parties. We do not own, control, or maintain them. Any claim arising from course conditions, equipment, staff conduct, alcohol service, or anything occurring on course premises is between you and the course operator.

(a) We do not sell, serve, or furnish alcohol. Fairway Founders is not a licensed alcohol vendor. We do not sell, serve, furnish, distribute, sponsor, or provide alcoholic beverages, and the cost of alcohol is never included in any membership or event fee. Any alcohol available at an event is sold and served solely by the golf course or another independently licensed third party, under its own license and in its own discretion. Your purchase and consumption of alcohol is a transaction between you and that vendor, to which we are not a party.

(b) Legal age; responsible use. You represent that you are of lawful drinking age. You are solely responsible for your own decisions about alcohol — whether, what, and how much to consume — and for complying with all applicable laws. You agree to drink responsibly, if at all.

(c) Your transportation is your responsibility. You are solely responsible for arranging safe transportation and for not operating any vehicle, golf cart, or other equipment while impaired. You assume all risk arising from your own or any other person’s consumption of alcohol.

(d) No liability for alcohol-related harm. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release and hold harmless Fairway Founders and its owners, operators, employees, agents, admins, and other members from any claim, injury, death, property damage, or other harm arising from the sale, service, furnishing, or consumption of alcohol at or in connection with any event — whether involving you or any third party — including any claim under a dram-shop, social-host, negligent-undertaking, or similar theory. You acknowledge that we neither control nor monitor alcohol service and are not a vendor, licensee, social host, or furnisher of alcohol.

(e) We may act, but need not. We may (but are not required to) ask a Member to stop drinking, remove a Member from an event, or revoke membership where we believe alcohol use creates a risk. A decision to act or not act creates no duty and no liability.

(a) Fees. Membership and event fees are as disclosed at signup or checkout. Fees may include in-app subscription charges and/or separate fees paid directly to a golf course or vendor.

(b) Third-party processors. We use a third-party payment processor. You agree to the processor’s terms when you transact. Fairway Founders is not a party to the financial transaction once it is processed and is not responsible for processor errors, outages, fraud, chargebacks, or any dispute between you and the processor or your card issuer.

(c) Direct payments to vendors. Payments you make directly to a golf course, pro shop, or other vendor are between you and that vendor. Fairway Founders is not a party to those transactions.

(d) Auto-renewal. Subscriptions automatically renew at the then-current rate until you cancel. You may cancel at any time through the Service; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period and does not entitle you to a refund of the current period’s fee.

(e) No refunds. All fees — including subscription and event fees — are non-refundable, including if you are removed from the group, if an event is cancelled or relocated, or if you do not attend, except where a refund is required by applicable law.

(f) Failed payments. We may suspend your access until you cure a failed payment.

The Service connects you with other people. Any deal, transaction, partnership, employment relationship, introduction, or personal interaction between you and another Member is between you and them. We do not endorse, vouch for, verify, or take responsibility for any Member or any representation a Member makes.

You agree not to:

• harass, threaten, defame, or discriminate against any person;
• misrepresent yourself or your credentials;
• solicit Members in violation of these Terms;
• collect Member data for use outside the Service except for ordinary personal networking;
• violate any law in connection with the Service.

We may, but are not required to, investigate complaints, remove content, suspend access, and terminate accounts. We are not liable for any decision to act or not act on a complaint.

Members and admins may post bios, broadcasts, messages, scores, and other content. We do not pre-screen or guarantee accuracy. Reliance on Member or admin content is at your own risk.

We use artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools to operate and improve the Service, including but not limited to drafting messages, summarizing content, organizing groupings, generating recommendations, moderating content, and analyzing Member data.

(a) Consent to AI processing. You consent to our use of AI to process any data you submit or generate through the Service, including transfer to AI service providers under their respective terms.

(b) No warranty on AI output. AI output is not professional advice (legal, medical, financial, golf instructional, or otherwise). It may contain errors. Verify before relying on it.

(c) AI-assisted decisions. We may use AI tools to flag potential rule violations and to assist in decisions about your membership. You may request human review of any AI-driven membership decision by emailing the address in Section 23.

(d) No model training on our data. You may not use the Service, scrape its content, or harvest Member data to train artificial intelligence or machine learning systems.

(a) Ownership. The Service — including its software, source and object code, databases, design, “look and feel,” user interfaces, layouts, screens, navigation, workflows, features, functionality, algorithms (including foursome and pairing generation and leaderboard logic), text, graphics, logos, the Fairway Founders and Golf Links Network names and marks, and all content we create — is owned by Golf Links Network LLC or its licensors and protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other laws. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

(b) Limited license to you. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access the Service solely for your own participation in Fairway Founders golf and networking activities. No other use is permitted.

(c) Prohibited uses. You will not, and will not permit or help anyone else to:

• copy, reproduce, republish, frame, mirror, or create derivative works of any part of the Service;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, structure, or underlying ideas of the Service, except to the limited extent this restriction cannot be barred by law;
• access or use the Service to design, build, market, or operate a competing or substantially similar product or service, or to replicate the Service’s structure, organization, features, workflows, “look and feel,” or business model;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, or use automated means to extract data or content from the Service;
• use the Service, its content, or any Member data to train or develop any artificial intelligence or machine-learning system (see also Section 11); or
• remove or alter any proprietary notice, or use our names, logos, or branding without our prior written consent.

(d) Confidentiality; trade secrets. Non-public aspects of the Service — its source code, design and architecture, unreleased features, algorithms, analytics, pricing logic, and roadmaps — are our confidential information and trade secrets. Membership grants you no license to them. You will not disclose or use them except as needed for your permitted use of the Service.

(e) Feedback. Any idea or suggestion you give us about the Service is assigned to us, and we may use it freely without obligation to you.

(f) Member content. Content you submit remains yours, subject to the broad license you grant under Section 5.

(g) Injunctive relief. You agree that breach of this Section may cause irreparable harm for which money damages are inadequate, and that we may seek injunctive relief, in addition to any other remedy, consistent with Section 19.

The Service integrates with third parties (payment processors, authentication providers, hosting, analytics, AI providers, email/SMS providers, golf courses, sponsors). Their performance and terms are outside our control. Outages, errors, security incidents, or actions of third parties are not our responsibility.

You consent to being photographed, filmed, and recorded at events and to our perpetual, royalty-free publication of those images and recordings in any medium, for any purpose. If you do not consent, do not attend events.

We may cancel, postpone, relocate, or substitute any event at any time. Fees paid for cancelled events are not refunded. We are not liable for any cancellation or impairment caused by weather, illness, public emergency, government action, course unavailability, supplier failure, or any event beyond our reasonable control.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Fairway Founders, its owners, employees, agents, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill arising from these Terms or the Service.

Our total cumulative liability for all claims shall not exceed the greater of (a) one hundred dollars ($100) or (b) the total fees you paid to us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Fairway Founders and its owners, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from: (i) your use of the Service; (ii) your content; (iii) your interaction with other Members or third parties; (iv) your breach of these Terms; (v) your violation of any law or third-party right.

Any dispute arising from or related to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, in Bradenton, Florida, before a single arbitrator. You and Fairway Founders waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in any class, collective, or representative action.

Exceptions: either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court or seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property rights.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Venue for any non-arbitrable action lies in Manatee County, Florida.

We may update these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated through the Service or by email. Your continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Fairway Founders regarding the Service. You may not assign these Terms; we may.

Questions about these Terms can be directed to hello@fairwayfounders.org or by mail to Golf Links Network LLC, 5620 Tara Blvd, Ste 101A, Bradenton, FL 34203.