Terms of Use
1. Agreement
These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Empire Soccer Inc, a Delaware corporation located at 1101 Brickell Ave, South Tower, 8th floor, Miami, FL 33131, United States ("SoccerPath", "we", "us"). They apply to soccerpath.us, its sub-pages (including team pages), our emails, and the SoccerPath apps for iOS and Android (together, the "Service").
By using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information and is part of these Terms.
2. Who can use SoccerPath
- Accounts are for adults. You must be at least 18 to create an account. Accounts are meant for parents, legal guardians, coaches and team staff.
- Players aged 13 to 17 may search the Service and contact a club or coach about themselves, without an account.
- Children under 13 must not use the Service on their own or send us their information. A parent or guardian may use the Service on their behalf.
- The Service is offered to people in the United States.
If you use the Service for a club, team or business, you confirm that you are allowed to act for it, and these Terms bind it too.
3. What SoccerPath is, and is not
SoccerPath is a directory and matching service for youth soccer, plus free tools for private coaches and team pages for families.
- Clubs and coaches are independent. They are not our employees, agents or partners. We do not provide coaching, run practices, events or tournaments, or supervise any session. Any arrangement you make with a club or coach (schedule, price, payment, cancellation, safety) is between you and them.
- Club listings are compiled from publicly available sources such as club websites and state association directories. Details such as prices, ages, programs and contact information can change or be wrong. Check them with the club. Clubs can ask us to correct or remove a listing.
- Matching and rankings (including the quiz and AI search) are suggestions based on the information available to us. They are not endorsements or guarantees of quality or fit.
- Coach credentials are self-reported. Licenses, certifications, background-check status, experience and safety answers shown on a coach profile are provided by the coach. We do not independently verify them unless a profile says so explicitly.
4. Parents and guardians
You decide who your child trains with. Before booking a private coach, we encourage you to check the coach's credentials yourself (for example U.S. Center for SafeSport training and a current background check), meet them first, train in a public place, and stay present or nearby, especially for younger children. You remain responsible for your child's supervision, transport and medical needs.
5. Coaches
If you use SoccerPath as a coach, you agree that:
- everything you put on your profile is true and current, including licenses, certifications, background-check status and your answers to our safety questions, and you will update it if anything changes;
- you follow the laws and governing-body rules that apply to working with minors, including any required background checks, abuse-prevention training and reporting duties, and you carry any license or insurance your activity requires;
- you are an independent professional, responsible for your own sessions, prices, taxes, cancellations and payments. Payments are between you and the families; we are not a party to them;
- you use client information (players, parents, session notes) only to coach those clients, keep it accurate, and remove a child's information when the parent asks;
- before uploading a video that shows a player, you have the consent of that player's parent or guardian, and you never upload a clip in which a child is undressed, being changed, or shown in any compromising situation;
- you communicate about a minor player through their parent or guardian, and never ask a child to keep a communication secret from their parents.
6. Team pages
Team pages are set up with a team's coach or manager. The public part shows schedules, results, fields and similar team information. The family area is private: a family gets access after the team's coach or SoccerPath approves its request. If you have access to a family area, do not share what is in it, including photos and videos of players, outside the team's families. Access can be removed when a player leaves the team or if these Terms are broken.
7. Your content
"Your content" means anything you add to the Service: profile details, messages, requests, session notes, photos, videos and team content.
- You keep ownership of your content.
- You give us permission to host, store, copy, process, display and send your content as needed to run the Service, for example to show your coach profile to parents or deliver a recap to a parent. This permission is worldwide and free of charge, and it ends when the content is deleted, except for copies kept in backups for a limited time or that we must keep by law.
- You are responsible for your content and confirm that you have the rights and the consents needed to post it, in particular the consent of a parent or guardian for any content that shows or identifies a child.
- We may remove or limit any content that breaks these Terms or that we reasonably believe puts someone at risk.
8. Rules of conduct
When using the Service, do not:
- post or send anything that sexualizes or endangers a minor. We have zero tolerance for this: we remove it, close the account, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement;
- harass, threaten, bully, stalk or intimidate anyone, or post hateful content targeting people for who they are;
- post sexual or graphic violent content;
- impersonate a person, club or organization, or misrepresent your qualifications or your relationship with a child or team;
- contact a player under 18 directly to recruit or meet them without involving their parent or guardian;
- send spam or unsolicited advertising, or use the Service for anything unrelated to youth soccer;
- post content you do not have the right to post, or someone else's personal information without their permission;
- scrape, copy or resell listings or other data from the Service, or use automated means to access it, except search engines indexing our public pages;
- try to get around security measures, access another person's account or private areas, or disrupt the Service;
- use the Service for anything illegal.
9. Reporting and moderation
You can report a person, a profile, a listing or any content from the "Report" link in the app, or at soccerpath.us/report.html, or by writing to hello@soccerpath.us. Reports can be made without an account.
- We review reports promptly, and child-safety reports first.
- We may remove content, limit or suspend an account, or close it, depending on what happened. Where the law or a child's safety requires it, we inform the authorities.
- If a child is in immediate danger, call 911 first.
10. AI features
Some features use artificial intelligence: club search, training-session drafts, recaps for parents and video reviews. AI output can be incomplete or wrong. It is a draft and not professional, medical or safety advice. Coaches are responsible for reviewing and editing it before using it or sending it to a family.
11. Third-party services
The Service links to or works with services we do not control, such as club websites, YouTube, Google Maps, Stripe payment links, weather forecasts and, if a family connects it, Footbar trackers. Their own terms and privacy policies apply, and we are not responsible for them.
12. Fees
The Service is currently free for parents and for coaches. The apps contain no in-app purchases. If we introduce paid features, we will say so clearly before you are charged anything, and nothing will be charged without your agreement.
13. Your account, suspension and deletion
- Keep your password private. You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else is using it.
- You can delete your account at any time from your profile (parents) or the My Profile tab of the coach dashboard (coaches), or from soccerpath.us/delete-account.html. See section 10 of the Privacy Policy for what is deleted.
- We may suspend or close an account, or remove access to a team page, if these Terms are broken, if required by law, or to protect a child, another user or the Service. When appropriate we will tell you why.
- We may change or stop parts of the Service. If we close the Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice where we can.
14. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT LISTINGS, PROFILES, CREDENTIALS, SCHEDULES, FORECASTS OR AI OUTPUT ARE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT OF ANY CLUB, COACH, PARENT OR OTHER USER, ONLINE OR OFFLINE. SOCCER IS A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WITH A RISK OF INJURY.
15. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, SOCCERPATH AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR FROM ANY DEALINGS WITH A CLUB, COACH OR OTHER USER. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATED TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AND 100 US DOLLARS.
Some states do not allow some of these limits. Where they do not, the limits apply only as far as the law allows. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
16. Indemnity
If a claim is brought against SoccerPath because of your content, your sessions or services (for coaches), or your breaking these Terms or the law, you agree to cover the reasonable costs, damages and legal fees that result, to the extent allowed by law.
17. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida and applicable US federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before starting any claim, please write to us at hello@soccerpath.us so we can try to resolve it informally within 30 days. Any dispute that is not resolved will be heard by the state or federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court where it qualifies.
18. App Store and Google Play
If you downloaded a SoccerPath app from the Apple App Store or Google Play:
- these Terms are between you and Empire Soccer Inc only, not Apple or Google. We, not Apple or Google, are responsible for the app and its content, its maintenance and support, and any claims about it, including product liability, legal compliance and intellectual-property claims;
- you may use the app on devices you own or control, as allowed by the store's own usage rules;
- if the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price (the app is free); Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app to the extent allowed by law;
- you confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo and are not on a US government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
19. Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms. We will change the effective date above and, for important changes, tell account holders by email or in the Service before the change takes effect. If you keep using the Service after that, the updated Terms apply. If you do not accept them, you can delete your account.
20. Contact us
Empire Soccer Inc (SoccerPath)
1101 Brickell Ave, South Tower, 8th floor
Miami, FL 33131, United States
Email: hello@soccerpath.us
Phone: +1 609 591-5258