Terms of Service

Last updated September 12, 2026

CourtCall is an in-development project run by Dan Stone and offered free of charge for concept testing. It can change, break or stop at any time. By joining the waitlist or texting CourtCall, you agree to these terms.

1. What CourtCall is

CourtCall is a text-message service for setting up tennis games. You text it in plain language, it texts the people you want to play with, and it tells everyone who is in.

It is a work in progress, made available for concept testing and feedback rather than as a finished product. Features appear and disappear, messages may be delayed or not arrive at all, and data may be reset while it is in development. Do not rely on it for anything that matters.

2. Who can use it

You must be 18 or older and able to enter into a contract. You need a mobile number that can send and receive text messages; at this stage that means a number in the United States or Canada.

3. Text messages

• By texting CourtCall, or by accepting an invitation sent through it, you consent to receive text messages from CourtCall about the games you are involved in — invitations, confirmations, answers from other players, and reminders.
• Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies with how much you use the service.
• Reply STOP to any message to stop all messages, or START to resume. Reply HELP for help.
• Opting out is complete: if you have replied STOP, we will not text you, which includes sign-in codes and invitations from your friends.
• Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages, and neither are we.

4. Inviting other people

This is the most important rule here. When you give CourtCall someone's phone number, you are causing a text message to be sent to them.

You may only invite someone if you actually know them and have their permission to send them a message about a game. Do not use CourtCall to text strangers, to text numbers from a list, or to text anyone who has asked you to leave them alone. You are responsible for the invitations you send, including under laws that govern text messaging such as the US Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

5. Acceptable use

Do not:

• use CourtCall to send advertising, spam, or anything unlawful, harassing or abusive;
• impersonate someone else, or set up games in another person's name;
• attempt to break, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the service, or work around its sending limits;
• use it to collect information about other players for any purpose outside playing tennis.

We can suspend or remove access at any time, without notice, if any of this happens — or for any other reason, since the service is still in development.

6. Games are yours, not ours

CourtCall passes messages between people. It does not organize, supervise, insure, or vet anyone who uses it, and it does not check that a court is booked, that a player is who they say they are, or that anyone will turn up.

You decide who to play with and where, and you accept the ordinary risks of arranging to meet people and of playing a sport. Use the same judgment you would use arranging a game any other way.

7. Your content

What you write stays yours. You give us permission to store it and send it where the service obviously needs to — your invitation goes to the player you named, your answer goes back to the organizer — and to process it as described in the Privacy Policy. That permission ends when the content is deleted.

8. The waitlist

If you give us an email address on the homepage, we will email you when the service opens, and that is all. There is no subscription, and you can ask us to remove your address at any time.

9. No warranty

CourtCall is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not promise that it will be available, that messages will arrive, that they will arrive on time, or that anything you store in it will be preserved.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Dan Stone will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any lost games, lost court fees, missed matches, lost data, or lost profits, arising out of your use of CourtCall.

Total liability for any claim relating to CourtCall is limited to the greater of the amount you paid to use it in the twelve months before the claim — currently nothing, as it is free — or fifty US dollars.

Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law allows.

11. Ending it

You can stop at any time by replying STOP, and you can ask us to delete your data by emailing privacy@courtcall.us. We may stop providing the service, in whole or to you specifically, at any time. Sections 6, 9, 10 and 12 survive the end of these terms.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New York, and you and we each consent to that jurisdiction.

Before filing anything, please email privacy@courtcall.us and give us 30 days to try to sort it out. Most problems with a project this size are a bug and a conversation.

13. Changes

We will update these terms as the project develops. The "last updated" date at the top reflects the current version, and continuing to use CourtCall after a change means you accept it.

Questions about this document? Email privacy@courtcall.us.