Health, Safety and Activity Risk Disclaimers

This document is incorporated into and forms a binding part of our Terms of Service. Please read it before using the Beta Service or participating in any challenge.

1. Not Medical, Fitness or Coaching Advice

GOATGENE LEAGUES is a scheduling, social and recordkeeping tool for recreational sport and exercise. Nothing on the Beta Service is medical advice, fitness advice, coaching, training instruction, or a recommendation that you are fit to undertake any activity. We are not medical providers, trainers, coaches or instructors, and nothing we display about your performance or ranking is a health assessment.

Consult a physician before beginning any new or strenuous physical activity, particularly if you have a pre-existing condition, are pregnant, are recovering from injury or illness, are taking medication that affects exertion or hydration, or have any doubt about your fitness for an activity.

2. Assumption of Risk

Sport and exercise activities organized, scheduled or recorded through the Beta Service carry inherent risks of injury. Supported activities include but are not limited to the following, and the risks listed are examples rather than a complete list:

• Running: sprains, strains, stress fractures, tendon and ligament injury, heat illness, dehydration, hyponatremia, cardiac events, traffic and trip hazards, and injury from terrain or weather.

• Climbing: falls from height, ground falls, rope and belay error, equipment failure, holds breaking, impact with walls or other climbers, and injury to hands, shoulders, ankles and spine.

• Golf: strikes from balls or clubs, cart accidents, lightning exposure, heat illness and repetitive-motion injury.

• Pickleball, roundnet and similar court or field sports: collisions with other players, falls, eye injury from balls or paddles, ankle and knee injury from lateral movement, and overuse injury.

• Any activity: cardiac events, heat and cold injury, aggravation of pre-existing conditions, and in rare cases catastrophic injury, permanent disability or death.

As we add new sports and activities, the risks associated with those activities are equally assumed by you, whether or not they are described here.

BY USING THE BETA SERVICE TO CREATE, JOIN, SCHEDULE OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CHALLENGE, YOU KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY ASSUME ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ACTIVITY, WHETHER KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAW OF YOUR STATE.

3. Release and Waiver of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release, waive and discharge the Company and its members, managers, officers, employees, contractors and affiliates from any liability, claim, demand or cause of action arising out of loss, damage, illness or injury, including death, sustained while participating in any challenge or activity organized, scheduled or recorded through the Beta Service.

This release does not apply to, and nothing in this document purports to release, liability for gross negligence, recklessness, willful or wanton misconduct, or intentional acts, and does not apply where a release of the claim is prohibited by the law of the applicable state.

4. Third-Party Venues, Facilities and Equipment

Challenges commonly take place at venues we do not own, operate, staff, inspect or control — climbing gyms, golf courses, public parks, courts, trails and roads. You are responsible for complying with each venue's rules, waivers, age restrictions and safety policies, and for confirming that a venue permits your activity. We are not responsible for the condition of any venue, facility or equipment, or for the acts or omissions of venue staff, other patrons or third parties.

5. Other Users and In-Person Safety

Anyone can reach the website and create an account. We do not screen, verify the identity of, or conduct background checks on users. A friend connection, a shared league, or a high ranking is not a vouching or endorsement by us, and tells you nothing about whether a person is safe to meet.

You are solely responsible for deciding whom you meet, compete with, connect with, or allow into a league. Use ordinary caution when meeting anyone in person: meet in public places, tell someone where you are going, and end any interaction that feels unsafe.

Your profile is public by default. If you have not changed your settings, your display name, username and results can be seen by other people, along with your photo, bio, sports and city or state if you have added them, and your friends list may be visible too. Your age is private unless you choose to show it. Consider what your profile reveals before you fill in optional fields, and review your privacy settings if you would rather not be findable. Do not put your home address, exact location, phone number or workplace in your bio or any other free-text field.

6. Accuracy of Recorded Data

Every result on the Beta Service is typed in by a user. There is no GPS, no sensor, no automatic measurement and no verification by us. Results are affected by user error, differing measurement methods, honest disagreement, and occasionally deliberate falsification.

Confirmation by an opponent is an agreement between two users, not verification by us. Two users can confirm a score that is wrong, and they can agree to confirm a score neither of them earned. Leaderboards and global rankings reflect what users have told us, nothing more.

Do not rely on the Beta Service for any purpose requiring accurate, certified or verified athletic results — including race qualification, athletic recruitment, scholarship documentation, insurance claims, employment decisions or wagering.

7. Weather and Environmental Conditions

Outdoor activities are subject to weather, air quality, daylight, terrain and surface conditions. We make no representation about conditions at the time or place of any challenge, and scheduling a challenge is not an indication that conditions will be safe. Use your own judgment, and that of the venue, about whether to proceed.

8. Emergencies

THE BETA SERVICE IS NOT A SAFETY, MONITORING OR EMERGENCY RESPONSE TOOL. IF YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE IS EXPERIENCING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, CALL 911 OR YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY NUMBER IMMEDIATELY.

The Beta Service does not know where you are and cannot summon help. Do not rely on it, or on other users noticing your absence, as a substitute for emergency services or for telling a responsible person where you are going.

9. Beta Software

The Beta Service is pre-release software. It may be unavailable, may lose or reset data, and may display incorrect results, rankings or standings. Do not rely on it for anything that matters to you outside the beta, and keep your own record of anything you would be unhappy to lose.

10. Acknowledgment

BY CHECKING THE BOX INDICATING AGREEMENT, OR BY USING THE BETA SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THESE DISCLAIMERS, THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD, AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM AS PART OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE.