Terms of Service

1. Introduction & Acceptance

Welcome to Direct Recruit. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Direct Recruit platform, including our website, mobile interfaces, and related services (collectively, the "Service"), operated by Direct Recruit Inc. ("Direct Recruit," "we," "our," or "us").

By creating an account, checking the "I agree" box at signup, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

These Terms form a binding legal agreement between you and Direct Recruit Inc.

2. Eligibility & Age Requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to use Direct Recruit. If you are under 18, you must have the consent of a parent or legal guardian to create an account and use the Service. By registering, you represent that:

• You are at least 13 years old
• If under 18, your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf
• You have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement

Parents and guardians of minors are responsible for supervising their child's use of the Service and are jointly responsible for all content the minor posts and all subscription fees incurred.

If the user is under 18, a parent or legal guardian must review and accept these Terms on the minor's behalf and supervise the minor's use, and is responsible for the minor's compliance with these Terms. This requirement also applies to any information submitted on a minor's behalf without an account, such as a recruiting questionnaire or uploaded transcript.

3. Account Registration

When you create an account, you agree to:

• Provide accurate, current, and complete information about yourself, your athletic career, your coaching role, or your other connection to the sport
• Maintain one account per person — no duplicate, fake, or impersonation accounts
• Keep your password confidential and notify us immediately of any unauthorized access
• Accept responsibility for all activity that occurs under your account

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that contain false information, impersonate others, or are shared across multiple people.

4. Profile Types & Subscriptions

Direct Recruit supports six profile types. Some are free and some require a paid subscription:

• High School Player — Paid ($10/month)
• Transfer Player — Paid ($10/month)
• College Coach — Paid (Starter $20/month, Pro $50/month, Elite $100/month) (three tiers available)
• College Player — Free
• High School Coach — Free
• Other (parents, fans, supporters) — Free

Paid profile types require an active subscription to access the Service. If your subscription lapses or is cancelled, access to paid features is restricted until payment is resumed or you switch to a free profile type. You may change profile types through Settings, subject to a 72-hour cooldown and applicable subscription adjustments.

5. Billing, Renewal & Cancellation

Paid subscriptions are billed monthly in advance through Stripe, our third-party payment processor. By subscribing, you authorize us (via Stripe) to charge your payment method on a recurring monthly basis until you cancel.Paid subscriptions are billed monthly in advance through your platform's payment processor. By subscribing, you authorize the recurring monthly charge until you cancel.

• Auto-renewal: Subscriptions automatically renew each month at the then-current rate unless cancelled before the renewal date.
• Cancellation: You may cancel at any time through Settings → Subscription. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period — you retain access to paid features until that date.
• Price changes: We may change subscription prices with at least 30 days' prior notice via email or in-platform notification. Continued use after a price change constitutes acceptance.
• Failed payments: If a payment fails, Stripeyour payment processor may retry automatically. Your subscription may be marked "past due" and access suspended if the issue is not resolved.

5a. Apple App Store Subscriptions (iOS)

If you subscribe through the Direct Recruit iOS app, your subscription is processed by Apple under their In-App Purchase system, not by Stripe. Apple-specific rules apply:

• Payment: Charges are applied to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase.
• Auto-renewal: Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the same monthly rate.
• Cancellation: You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your iOS device's Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions, or directly at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• Refunds: Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple and are subject to Apple's refund policy. Direct Recruit cannot issue refunds for subscriptions purchased through Apple.
• Restore Purchases: If you reinstall the app or switch devices, use the "Restore Purchases" button in Settings → Subscription to re-link your existing Apple subscription.
• Apple EULA: Subscriptions purchased through the App Store are also governed by Apple's standard end-user license agreement, available at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.

6. Refund Policy

All subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law. If you cancel mid-billing-period, you will retain access through the end of that period, but no prorated refund will be issued for the unused portion.

If you believe you were charged in error, contact us at jackson@directrecruit.net within 30 days of the charge. We will review the request in good faith but make no guarantee of a refund.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Harass, threaten, bully, or discriminate against other users
• Impersonate another person, team, coach, or organization
• Post false recruiting claims, fake offers, or misleading athletic statistics
• Upload content that is illegal, defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, or infringes on another person's intellectual property or privacy
• Spam, solicit, or send unwanted promotional messages on or through the Service
• Attempt to scrape, crawl, copy, or systematically extract data from the Service
• Interfere with the Service's security, rate limits, or infrastructure, or attempt to access accounts or data that aren't yours
• Use the Service to violate NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, state high school association, or any other applicable recruiting, eligibility, or athletic governance rules
• Use the Service for any purpose unrelated to football recruiting and related communications

We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, at our sole discretion.

8. User Content & License

You retain ownership of the content you post to Direct Recruit, including profile information, posts, comments, messages, photos, and highlight videos ("User Content").

By posting User Content, you grant Direct Recruit Inc. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, adapt, and publicly perform your User Content for the purposes of operating, providing, promoting, and improving the Service. This license ends when you delete the User Content or your account, except as needed to enforce these Terms, resolve disputes, or comply with legal obligations.

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have the necessary rights to post your User Content
• Your User Content does not infringe on any third party's rights (including copyright, trademark, publicity, or privacy rights)
• Any person depicted in photos or highlight videos has consented to being shown on the Service

Direct Recruit is not obligated to monitor User Content but reserves the right to remove any content at our discretion.

8a. Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)

You retain all rights to your name, image, likeness, performance data, and other identity rights ("NIL"). The license you grant in Section 8 is limited to operating, displaying, and promoting the Service (for example, displaying your profile, content, and stats to other users and within recruiting and matching features) and does not transfer ownership of your NIL or grant Direct Recruit the right to use your NIL to endorse third-party products or services without your separate consent. We do not pay for, broker, or facilitate NIL deals, and nothing in the Service is an offer of, or advice regarding, NIL compensation. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Service complies with applicable NIL, school, conference, and NCAA or other governing-body rules. If you are under 18, your parent or guardian grants this license on your behalf.

9. AI-Powered Features

Direct Recruit offers AI-powered tools to eligible subscribers as part of the Service. These tools help subscribers search, discover, and connect with other users on the platform.

9.1 Data Generated by AI Use

When you use an AI feature, we collect and store data associated with that use, including:

• The query or input you submit
• Information derived from your query for the purpose of returning results
• Results returned to you and basic information about how you interact with those results
• Technical metadata such as timestamps, usage metrics, and session identifiers

We use this data to operate and secure the Service, enforce subscription limits, monitor performance and abuse, improve product quality, and comply with legal obligations.

9.2 How AI Results May Be Visible to Others

The Service may surface anonymized or aggregated information about AI-driven interactions to other users of the platform. For example, players may see summary information about when their profile has appeared in search results, without disclosing the identity of the searcher or the exact query used.

By using the Service, you acknowledge and agree that:

• Information you voluntarily provide on your profile may be surfaced in AI-generated results to other eligible users
• Summary or aggregate information about your use of AI features may be visible to other users in the forms described in our product interfaces

9.3 Subscription Limits & Fair Use

AI features are subject to monthly usage limits tied to your subscription tier. Current tier limits are described on our Pricing page and within the Service. We may rate-limit, throttle, or temporarily suspend AI access if usage limits are exceeded, if we detect abusive, automated, or fraudulent patterns, or if required to protect the Service.

9.4 Third-Party AI Processing

AI features rely on one or more third-party AI providers to process inputs and generate outputs. Your inputs and the context required to respond to them are transmitted to those providers for processing, under contractual and privacy protections. We do not authorize third-party AI providers to train their models on your inputs, and we do not sell your data to AI providers or other third parties. We may change AI providers at any time without notice.

9.5 No Warranty on AI Output

AI features are provided as tools to assist — not replace — human judgment. AI-generated outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, biased, or misleading, and may miss relevant information or include irrelevant information. You are solely responsible for reviewing AI outputs and for any decisions you make based on them, including recruiting, eligibility, or academic decisions. Direct Recruit disclaims all warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of AI output.

9.6 Proprietary Nature of AI Features

The design, methods, scoring, ranking, filtering, and output-generation systems used by Direct Recruit's AI features are proprietary and confidential to Direct Recruit Inc. Nothing in these Terms grants you any license, right, or interest in those systems, and you agree not to reverse engineer, copy, scrape, or attempt to derive the underlying methods.

9.7 Retention & Deletion

Data associated with your use of AI features is retained in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You may request deletion of personal data tied to your account by contacting us at jackson@directrecruit.net, subject to legal, billing, and fraud-prevention retention requirements.

9.8 No Guarantee of Performance, Fit, or Predictive Accuracy

Certain features of the Service generate scores, grades, rankings, percentages, tiers, or lists — including but not limited to the "AI Match" score, per-category fit grades or breakdowns, and "Best-Fit Schools" results (collectively, "Match Outputs"). You acknowledge and agree to the following:

• Match Outputs are algorithmic estimates, not guarantees. Match Outputs are generated automatically from information that users themselves enter into the Service (such as position, measurements, academics, stated preferences, financial-aid indications, and location), together with information entered by colleges and coaches. They reflect only the degree of overlap between that self-reported information. They are not verified, scouted, or independently confirmed by Direct Recruit.
• Match Outputs are not a prediction of future performance. A Match Output is not a forecast or promise of any athlete's future athletic performance, on-field results, durability, health, eligibility, academic success, development, retention, transfer behavior, or career outcome. A high score, grade, or ranking does not mean an athlete will perform, qualify, enroll, stay, or succeed, and a low or absent score does not mean the opposite.
• Match Outputs are not advice or a recommendation. Match Outputs are not a recommendation, endorsement, or instruction to extend or accept an offer, to recruit, commit, transfer, enroll, allocate aid, or take any other decision. They are one informational signal only.
• Both directions. This applies equally (i) to colleges, coaches, and staff who view Match Outputs about prospective or current athletes, and (ii) to athletes (and their parents or guardians) who view Match Outputs, Best-Fit Schools, or related results about themselves. Neither audience should treat a Match Output as a commitment, an offer, an assurance of interest, or an assurance of fit.
• Match Outputs may be wrong, incomplete, biased, or out of date. Match Outputs depend on the accuracy and completeness of user-entered data, are intentionally sparse (many pairings produce no score), and may contain errors or reflect limitations or biases in the underlying data or scoring method. They may change as data changes.
• You are responsible for your own decisions. Any decision you make in reliance on a Match Output — including any recruiting, enrollment, financial, scholarship, transfer, or roster decision — is made solely at your own discretion and risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Direct Recruit is not liable for any loss, damage, or claim arising out of or relating to reliance on any Match Output, including any claim that an athlete did not live up to a score, grade, ranking, or "best-fit" result, or that a college or program did not turn out as a Match Output suggested.

10. NCAA & Recruiting Compliance Disclaimer

Direct Recruit is an independent platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, any high school athletic association, any conference, or any college or university.

You are solely responsible for complying with all recruiting, contact, and eligibility rules applicable to you (whether as a player, coach, parent, or other user). Direct Recruit makes no representations about whether any particular use of the Service complies with those rules and disclaims all liability for your compliance or non-compliance.

Direct Recruit does not guarantee any recruiting outcome, including but not limited to scholarship offers, roster spots, transfer placements, playing time, or athletic or academic opportunities.

See Section 9.8 regarding AI Match scores, grades, and Best-Fit results, which are estimates only and are not predictions of performance or fit.

11. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party service providers in categories such as:

• Payment processing and subscription management (including Stripe)
• Cloud infrastructure, hosting, authentication, file storage, and email delivery
• AI model inference and related services
• Optional integrations, such as linked highlight-video providers

We may change providers within these categories at any time. Your use of third-party services is governed by their respective terms and privacy policies. Direct Recruit Inc. is not responsible for the acts, omissions, availability, or data handling of third-party providers.

12. Account Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, if:

• You violate these Terms or our policies
• We are required to do so by law
• Your account is used to harm other users or the Service
• Your subscription lapses and you do not resolve the lapse

You may delete your account at any time via Settings → Account. Certain information may be retained after deletion for legal, accounting, fraud prevention, and dispute-resolution purposes, as described in our Privacy Policy.

13. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ACCURACY.

DIRECT RECRUIT INC. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY USER CONTENT, AI OUTPUT, RECRUITING INFORMATION, OR DATA AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE.

You use the Service at your own risk.

14. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL DIRECT RECRUIT INC., ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOST RECRUITING OPPORTUNITIES, LOST SCHOLARSHIPS, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE.

IN NO EVENT WILL DIRECT RECRUIT INC.'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO DIRECT RECRUIT INC. IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100.00).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In such jurisdictions, the above limitations apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Direct Recruit Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from or related to:

• Your use of or access to the Service
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your User Content and any claim that your User Content infringes a third party's rights
• Your violation of any applicable law or regulation, including NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA, or high school association rules

16. Governing Law, Arbitration & Disputes

16.1 Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

16.2 Binding Arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

Except for disputes that qualify for small-claims court or involve intellectual property infringement, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules.

The arbitration shall be held in Denver, Colorado, or, at your election, by telephone or video conference. The arbitrator's decision is final and binding, and judgment may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

16.3 Class Action Waiver

You and Direct Recruit Inc. agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

16.4 30-Day Right to Opt Out

You have the right to opt out of the arbitration and class-action-waiver provisions in Section 16.2 and 16.3 by sending a written opt-out notice to jackson@directrecruit.net within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. The notice must include your full name, email address, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. Opting out does not affect the other provisions of these Terms.

16.5 Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, for material changes, notify you by email or through the Service. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service.

17. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us: