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Terms of Service

Last updated: 24 October 2026

These terms are a contract between Maxim Seryakov, trading as Courtline, New Zealand ("Courtline", "we", "us") and you. They cover Courtline Coach, Courtline Player and the web pages we run. Part A applies to everyone, Part B to coaches and Part C to players and parents.

If you have both a coach account and a player or parent account, all three parts apply to you: Part B when you are coaching and Part C when you are a parent. A parent is any adult linked to a child's record: a parent, a legal guardian, or another adult acting with their authority.

You agree to these terms when you sign up, and we keep a record that you did. You can ask us for a copy. Courtline is run from New Zealand and offered to people in New Zealand, under New Zealand law. Contact us at support@court-line.net. Our postal address is at the end of this page.

In short

This summary does not replace the full text below.

Our Privacy Policy is part of these terms. It is the full account of what we hold, who sees it, how long we keep it and what deleting does. Both pages change together and carry the same date; previous dated versions are available on request.

Part A — Everyone

A1. What Courtline is

Courtline is a record-keeping and communication tool for running and taking part in coaching. We never receive, hold or transmit money: every payment goes directly from a player to a coach, outside Courtline. We do not guarantee a booking, we are not a tax or accounting service, and we do not vet coaches.

A2. Your account

A3. Money

A4. Acceptable use

Use Courtline lawfully and honestly. Do not harass anyone, and do not guess or share codes or links that are not yours. Do not misuse a child's information. Use another person's information only for the coaching it was shared for (B2). Do not scrape any part of Courtline, build or improve a competing product, reverse-engineer our software, or interfere with the service or its limits.

Security problems. Email support@court-line.net to let us know you have found one before you send the details, and we will agree a safe way to send them. We will not treat a good-faith report as a breach of these terms. Do not access, change, keep or share anyone else's information beyond the minimum needed to show the problem exists.

A5. The suggestion boards

Ideas you post on the suggestion boards may be shown to other users without your name, and we may edit or remove them. You give Courtline the right to build, use and make money from any idea you post, and to publish what you wrote. This is permission for us, not a transfer: you can still use your own idea yourself.

We owe you no credit or payment for it, and this permission continues after your account closes. Coaches can post on the boards, and anyone can read them and report a bug. This applies only to the suggestion boards. Your exercises, lesson plans, notes and anything else you enter to run your coaching stay yours (A11).

A6. Reports, suspension and removal

Safety. Where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect a child or another person, we may unlist a public profile, remove content, suspend an account, or close it. We may do this without notice, and before we have reached a conclusion. It takes effect when the person's phone next connects to our servers, and a change they made offline before we acted can still arrive afterwards.

Other reasons. If the reason is not someone's safety, we will let you know what the problem is, in enough detail for you to answer it, though not who raised it. You then have a reasonable chance to put it right.

We act on the account, so we cannot stop someone opening a new one with a different email address. We may also act if a governing body, regulator or employer lets us know you are no longer entitled to coach. We treat a report about a child as urgent, and aim to respond within 24 hours.

While an account is suspended, nothing is deleted, and you can ask us for a copy of your records. If we restore it, we add back any free time that ran out. If we let your players or their parents know that we stopped your account, we will let them know when we restore it. When we close a coach's account ourselves, we do not run the deletion in B9 automatically. Suspending a coach deletes nothing and does not close any player's or parent's own account.

We may pass a report to Police, Oranga Tamariki or another authority where we reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious threat to someone's life, health or safety. Section 5 of the Privacy Policy explains this.

A7. Support, changes and the service

Support is by email at support@court-line.net. Courtline is run by one person. The times we give are targets, not guarantees, except where the law sets them, and there is no service guarantee or credit. If Courtline is down, we will say so in the apps when we can, and at court-line.net.

What we may change. We may change what Courtline does, its plans, limits and prices, and these terms. We will not change a price we have said is fixed, for as long as we said it is fixed. Before any other change that materially affects you, we will post the new date and a note of what changed, and email you at least 14 days before it starts if we have your email address.

If you do not agree with a change, stop using Courtline before it starts. You can do that at any time. If you keep using Courtline after it starts, you accept the change. We treat a notice as given once we have sent it to the address on your account, so keep it up to date.

You can stop using Courtline at any time without closing your account. Closing is a separate step: for a coach it deletes the money records in the account (B9), and for a player or parent it is permanent (C6).

A8. What we are and are not responsible for

Your consumer rights come first. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, the Fair Trading Act 1986 or the Privacy Act 2020. The same goes for any other law that cannot be limited by agreement. If any part of this section would have that effect, that part does not apply to you.

If you use Courtline for your own private purposes, nothing in this section limits your rights at all.

If you use Courtline to run your coaching business, you and we agree in writing that the Consumer Guarantees Act does not apply. That agreement works only where we both supply and acquire Courtline in trade, we both agree to it, and it is fair and reasonable. If it is not fair and reasonable in your case, the Act still protects you, whatever this paragraph says. Your Fair Trading Act rights always stand. If you are not sure whether you use Courtline in trade, the Consumer Guarantees Act protects you.

If you use Courtline in trade, then to the extent the law allows:

This limit does not bind a court or the Disputes Tribunal, which may disregard it, and nothing here stops you asking one to.

The promises in B2 and B5 to cover our costs are part of this section. They are capped at the same figure. You owe us nothing under them for loss caused by our own breach, negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud, or for our own liability under the Privacy Act 2020. We will take reasonable steps to keep any such loss down.

Nothing in this section limits our liability for fraud, for personal injury we cause, or for our own breach of the Privacy Act 2020.

A9. Law, disputes and general

These terms and the Privacy Policy are governed by New Zealand law. Nothing in them affects rights you have under the law of the country you live in. You may bring a claim in any New Zealand court or tribunal that has jurisdiction, including the Disputes Tribunal, and nothing in these terms limits that. We will only bring a claim against you in New Zealand. Before that, please email support@court-line.net and we will try to sort it out.

You can complain about privacy to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (privacy.org.nz, 0800 803 909) at any time, and about a harmful message to Netsafe.

If part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce something straight away, we can still enforce it later.

A10. App stores

When Courtline is available from Apple's App Store or Google Play, this agreement is still between you and Courtline only. Apple and Google are not parties to it. They have no responsibility for Courtline, its support or maintenance, or any claim about it. Courtline alone is responsible for the app and everything in it.

A11. Content and rights

Courtline's name, apps, software and design are ours. You keep ownership of everything you enter. You let us store it, show it to the people these terms say can see it, and process it to run Courtline. That permission lasts only while your account is open.

Two things are exceptions: anything you post on the suggestion boards (A5), and the items listed in section 8 of the Privacy Policy. We may also use information across Courtline in a form that identifies nobody, to see how the service is used. We do not publish or sell your rates, prices or roster as your own figures.

Do not upload or publish anything you do not have the right to use. That includes another person's photograph, drawing or diagram; text copied from a book, a website or another coach's material; a club's or brand's name or logo; and any claim to be endorsed by or connected to an organisation that has not agreed to it. We will not use your name, photo or profile to advertise Courtline without asking you first.

If you believe something in Courtline infringes your rights, or that someone is using your name, photo or business on Courtline, email support@court-line.net. You do not need an account. We will review it, may remove it without notice, and will let you know what we decided.

A12. If we stop, and if we sell

We may stop offering Courtline or any part of it. If we close the service, we will give at least 30 days' notice in the apps and by email. During that time you can ask for a copy of your data, which we put together by hand. When the service closes, we delete what we hold, except anything the law requires us to keep. If the business fails, a court or an insolvency officer may decide what happens to the information, and the Privacy Act still applies to whoever holds it.

We may transfer Courtline and these terms to someone who buys or merges with our business, or to a company we set up to run Courtline. We will transfer personal information only to a successor bound by our Privacy Policy, who may use it only for the purposes that policy describes.

We will let account holders know at least 30 days before a transfer takes effect. You can close your account and ask us to delete your information first, and we will delete it before we hand anything over. A free month or a plan granted by support ends with the service and has no cash value.

Part B — Coaches

B1. Plans, limits and what each plan includes

Courtline has a Free plan and three paid plans: Base, Pro and Edge. You can buy a paid plan in the app, or Courtline support can turn one on for you. A plan can also be granted for a time through the referral programme (B8) or a zone founding place (B10).

Each plan includes different features and sets limits on how many players, groups, clubs and bank accounts you can have. Your Free limits also rise permanently once ten of your players have signed in to the Player app. Plans are charged monthly, and a weekly figure on a card is the monthly price divided by the weeks in a month.

The founding offer. Coaches who joined under the original founding offer keep the welcome price for as long as they stay on a paid plan. That offer is closed to new coaches, and zone founding places (B10) are the only founding offer. Everyone else pays the standard price once any welcome-price lock they hold ends, and you will never be charged more than the standard price shown for your plan when you signed up.

A plan we turn on for you is a courtesy, not a purchase, and support can turn it off again. If we do, we will let you know, and the effect is the same as moving down a plan. When you move down a plan, nothing you created is deleted: anything over a limit stays, and you simply cannot add more. Two things do stop: a public profile is unlisted, and offers you had for sale are taken down. You can put both back up if you move up again.

Paying for a plan. A paid plan is a monthly subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play. The terms below apply to it.

B2. The people you enter — your responsibilities

You will enter other people's details into Courtline, including children's. When you do, you are responsible for that information under the Privacy Act 2020 and any code of practice made under it, in your own right, alongside us. New Zealand has no small-business exemption, so you must appoint a privacy officer and answer a person's request to see or correct what you hold. If you coach for a club, the club may also be responsible, so agree with them what you may keep here.

You promise us:

Your account is yours, not a club's. Courtline accounts belong to the individual coach, not a club, academy, franchise or employer. We will not give a club access to your account or roster, but we must answer a court order or another lawful demand. If you are employed, your agreement with your employer may say the records belong to them, and we cannot split an account. If more than one coach works with the same families, each needs their own account.

A copy of your own records. You can ask us for one at any time. We put it together by hand, normally within 20 working days, and it does not include your exercises or templates. If you need it for a claim, let us know and we will keep what we hold while the claim is open.

If a player or parent needs to bring a claim about money and cannot identify you, we will give them your trading name and the club and city you entered. We do not give out the address you sign in with, and we let you know when we have given anything out.

Beyond the checks described in the Privacy Policy, we are not responsible for the accuracy or lawfulness of what you enter. If someone takes legal action against us over something you entered in breach of these promises, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and anything we have to pay, on the terms and within the limits in A8.

B3. Who sees what

B4. Publishing

B5. Messages you send through Courtline

B6. Money — what you are responsible for

B7. Requests and availability

Requests for sessions, connections or a place in a group are requests only. You may accept, decline or ignore them. Courtline promises the player nothing on your behalf.

A player saying they cannot attend is not a cancellation. The lesson and any charge stay. We record that they said so, and when.

Displayed availability is a convenience, not a commitment. An open slot a player has bought is not booked by the purchase. Book it yourself, or let the player know it is gone.

B8. Inviting other coaches

You can invite other coaches to Courtline. The reward is free time on a plan, never money, credit or a refund. The coach you invited has to actually start using Courtline before you earn anything, and their account must be new. There are limits on how many rewards you can earn, how long an invitation lasts, and what counts.

There is also a one-off free month for getting ten of your own players onto the Player app. This is separate from invitations.

A granted month starts immediately and runs down whether or not you pay for a plan. It is time on a plan, not credit against a future bill. It cannot be paused or banked. When it ends you move down a plan, so B1's downgrade rules apply.

We can change or end this programme at any time. If a free month has already started, you keep it to the end, unless we close the service altogether (A12).

B9. Closing your account

How. You can close your account in the app, by emailing support@court-line.net, or at court-line.net/delete-account. However you ask, we email a single-use confirmation link to the address on the account. It is good for 24 hours, and nothing changes until you open it.

Then seven days. Opening the link locks the account, stops every share link you had live, and schedules the deletion a week later. Nothing is removed in that week. You can cancel with the link in the same email, or by signing in and choosing to keep the account.

What happens at the end. Your coaching data is deleted and your name is replaced on the account. Section 8 of the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is deleted and what is kept. From that point we cannot undo it. Anyone who can read your email can start it.

Tax law may require you to keep business records for years after you stop coaching. Closing your account destroys the only copy Courtline holds.

Your players. Players and parents with their own login keep their profiles and are unlinked. A child left with no other coach and no parent who can sign in is held for 30 days, not deleted with you. We remove the record then, unless a coach or a parent has claimed the child. A parent record left with nothing but that child is held too. An adult player with no login and no other coach still goes with you. Players are not notified.

If you stop coaching, sell your practice or cannot run your account, your account cannot be transferred. Anyone taking over must invite each family themselves. Closing it deletes the money records in your Courtline account, including balances other people owe you. We cannot reproduce that ledger.

If you die, your personal representative can ask us for a copy of your money records before deciding whether to close the account. We will ask for proof of authority, and if debts are unsettled it should stay open.

B10. Zone founding places

Each of our 10 launch zones has 10 founding places. Any coach whose club is in the zone can hold one. A place counts once we have checked your club is in the zone and confirmed it. A nomination we have not confirmed within 30 days lapses. Places are numbered in the order we confirm them, and we never confirm more than 10 founding places in a zone.

Place
You get
1
12 months of Edge free
2–3
6 months of Edge free
4–5
1 month of Edge free
6–7
1 month of Pro free
8–10
1 month of Base free

Every place also keeps the welcome price on every plan for 1 year after the free time ends. Once a zone has 10 places taken, we confirm no one else in it.

Free time starts when your place is confirmed, or when a free month you already have ends. Nothing is charged while free time runs. You can hold one place, in one zone. We show on court-line.net how many places are taken in each zone, but never who holds them.

Part C — Players, parents and guardians

C1. Acting for a child

You may add a child, or review a child a coach has already entered. When you do, you confirm that you are the child's parent or legal guardian. You may instead act with that parent's or guardian's authority, or with the authority of a government agency that has legal responsibility for the child.

You also confirm you may share the child's details with the coach you choose, and will let us know promptly if that changes. The app records your confirmation, and the time of it, when you add a child and when you review a child a coach has already entered.

As a parent you can see and manage the child's coaching. The app does not show you the coach's notes, medical notes, assessed level or attendance counts. A session you attend together with your child is charged to you, not to the child.

A parent's link does not end automatically when a child turns 18. If you are 18 or older and want one ended, email us. If you are 16 or 17 and do not want a parent seeing your lessons, charges and profile, email us and we will talk to you and to them.

A parent is linked to a child coach by coach. Where two or more adults are linked at the same coach, each can do everything above. Courtline cannot rank one over another, or show that coach's lessons to one and hide them from another. A parent linked at one coach is not linked at another. We do not notify you when another adult is linked, or when a child is connected to a new coach.

If someone is linked who should not be. We do not decide disputes between parents and will not restrict another adult's access simply because you ask. What we can do is remove an adult's access entirely. We will act without a court order where we reasonably believe a child is at risk. We will do the same where an adult is linked to a child with no authority to act for them. Send us any court order affecting who may act for a child and we will act on it.

If a parent or a child dies, or a parent can no longer act, contact us. We stop every message straight away. We can link another parent who shows proof of authority.

C2. Coaches are independent

Coaches on Courtline are independent businesses. Courtline does not check a coach's qualifications, background, insurance or working-with-children status. A coach in Discover or reachable by a code is not a recommendation.

Your coaching relationship, its price, its cancellation rules and any dispute are between you and the coach.

A coach's plan limits how many players they can have, so a request can be refused for that reason and not because of anything you did. No coach can raise that limit by paying today.

Club addresses and maps are approximate. Check the venue with your coach before you travel.

C3. What you share with a coach

C4. Messages from coaches and from Courtline

C5. Money

Courtline never takes a payment. Balances, charges and the "Pay" button record what your coach says you owe and point to bank details they entered. We do not check that they are correct or that a payment reached them. If a reminder shows a different account number from the one you paid last time, ring your coach before you pay.

A charge cannot be split, discounted or paid ahead in Courtline. It is recorded against one person for the whole amount and is either owed or paid, and a balance only counts down to zero. We hold only a New Zealand bank account number, and not every coach has entered one.

Buying an offer from a coach's profile records what you owe and charges nothing. It cannot be undone in the app, and if the offer is for a particular time, buying it does not book that time. A pack covers nothing until your coach marks it paid, so until then each lesson is still charged separately.

What you owe, what you bought and what you are refunded are between you and your coach, not us, under their own policy. A charge is your coach's record, not a bill from Courtline, and can appear before any lesson has happened. A cancelled lesson can still be charged, and saying you cannot attend is not a cancellation. Your coach can change or delete a charge, a pack or a payment mark after the event, and Courtline does not let you know or keep the original.

A Courtline balance or statement is not a tax invoice — ask your coach for one. Keep your own record and proof of everything you pay.

If you think a charge or payment is recorded wrongly, speak to your coach; if that does not resolve it, email support@court-line.net. We cannot decide who is right, and we hold no history of a charge or a payment. We can require your coach to respond and can record your written statement; section 10.2 of the Privacy Policy says what we do. A money dispute is with your coach, not with us. If your coach leaves Courtline or we close their account, your sessions and credits are still between you and them.

C6. Leaving a coach, and deleting your account

Contact

Courtline is operated by Maxim Seryakov, trading as Courtline, New Zealand. For questions, complaints or claims, email support@court-line.net, or write to 6 Burgoyne Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand.