Terms of Service

Last updated November 7, 2026

1. Agreeing to these terms

These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and Nextgradus ("Nextgradus," "we," "us"). They cover nextgradus.com, every athlete page we host (including pages on a family's own domain), the sign-in and editing tools, and the emails we send. Together, we call these "the service."

You agree to these terms when you check the box at sign-up, create a login, or use the service. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle information and is part of these terms. If you don't agree, please don't sign up or use the service.

"You" means the adult who signs up and holds the account (the "account holder"). The athlete the page is about is the "athlete." People who look at a page, including coaches, are "visitors." Sections 10, 11 and 13 also apply to visitors.

2. Who can use Nextgradus

• The account holder must be 18 or older. They must be the athlete, or the athlete's parent or legal guardian.
• If the athlete is under 18, their parent or legal guardian must be the account holder. The parent or guardian decides what goes on the page and is responsible for it. The athlete can help build the page with that adult's permission and supervision.
• Athletes must be at least 13. Nextgradus isn't for children under 13, and we don't knowingly host pages about them. If we learn a page is about a child under 13, we'll take it down and delete it.
• One page per athlete. Each paid plan covers one athlete's page.
• The service is offered in the United States. You must be able to form a binding contract where you live.
• You can't use Nextgradus if we've previously ended your account for breaking these terms.

By signing up, you confirm that everything you told us is true and that you have the authority to agree to these terms for yourself and, if you're a parent or guardian, on behalf of the athlete.

3. What Nextgradus is, and isn't

Nextgradus hosts a single public page for an athlete. It can hold film, a schedule, stats, a profile, contact details and coach references. Some features keep the page up to date automatically, such as pulling new videos from a YouTube channel or events from a team calendar link. The page can also show which networks and places visits come from, and it can produce a printable one-page profile.

Nextgradus is a tool for organizing and sharing information. It is not:

• A promise of results. We don't guarantee that any coach, team, school or program will view a page, respond, or offer a roster spot, admission, scholarship or anything else.
• An agent or advisor. We don't represent athletes, and we don't contact coaches or programs for you. We don't give eligibility, academic, athletic, legal or financial advice.
• Affiliated with anyone. We aren't connected with any school, club, league, state high school association, college athletic association or governing body. Their names may appear on a page only because a family typed them in.

Following the rules is your responsibility. Schools, leagues, state associations and college athletic associations may have rules about contact with coaches, publicity, eligibility and amateur status. You are responsible for knowing and following the rules that apply to the athlete.

4. Price and automatic renewal

• Price. A plan costs $25 a year (US dollars), plus any sales tax that applies. The price shown at sign-up is the price you pay for your first year.
• Automatic renewal. Your plan renews automatically for another year on the same date each year. At each renewal, the card on file is charged the then-current yearly price. This continues until you cancel.
• Reminders. We email the account holder about 30 days and again about 3 days before each renewal. The emails give the renewal date, the amount and how to cancel. Keep your email address current so you get them.
• Price changes. If the yearly price is going to change, we'll email you at least 30 days before the renewal it applies to. You can cancel before that renewal and you won't be charged the new price.
• Promotional codes. Discounts apply only as described when you use them. Unless the code says otherwise, it applies to one year, and later renewals are at the regular price.
• Payments are handled by Stripe. You authorize us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method for your first year and for each renewal until you cancel. Card details go directly to Stripe and never reach our servers.
• Receipts. Stripe emails a receipt for each charge. You can also see past charges from Billing.

5. Canceling

• Cancel online, any time. Sign in to your page, open Billing, and choose Update card, see receipts or cancel. That opens Stripe's secure billing page, where cancelling takes a few clicks. You can also email us at [email protected] from the account's email address, and we'll cancel for you.
• What happens next. Cancelling stops all future charges. Your page stays up through the end of the year you've already paid for, and then it goes offline. If you want the page taken down sooner, tell us.
• No pressure. If you ask to cancel, we won't try to talk you out of it with offers unless you ask us to.
• Changing your mind. You can undo a cancellation from Billing any time before the paid year ends.

6. Refunds

• 14-day refund. If you ask within 14 days of any charge, whether your first one or a renewal, we'll refund that charge in full and end the plan. Ask by emailing [email protected].
• After 14 days. Charges aren't refunded, in whole or in part. The page stays up through the end of the paid year, and nothing further is charged once you've cancelled.
• If we end the service. If we close Nextgradus, or end your plan for a reason that isn't your fault, we'll refund the unused part of your paid year.
• If the law requires more, we'll follow the law.
• Timing. Refunds go back to the original payment method. Your bank may take 5 to 10 business days to show the refund.
• Before disputing a charge, please contact us first. We can usually fix the problem faster than a card dispute can.

7. Failed payments

If a renewal charge doesn't go through, we email you. Stripe tries the card again over the following days, and you can update your card from Billing at any time. If the payment still hasn't gone through after the final retry, the plan ends and the page goes offline. Section 15 explains what happens to the information after that.

8. Your account and login

• After you pay, we email a private activation link. It works once, expires after a set number of days, and creates your login. Don't forward it.
• Use a strong password that you don't use anywhere else. Keep your login to yourself and the people you trust to edit the page. You're responsible for everything done with your login.
• If you think someone else has your login, or that something is wrong with your page, contact us right away. We can reset access.
• Keep your account email up to date. We send billing notices and important changes there.
• You agree to get notices, receipts and other messages from us by email and on the website. These count as written notice.

9. Your content

"Your content" means anything you or the athlete add to the page, or connect to it. That includes text, stats, photos, videos, video links, calendar links, schedules, contact details and references.

• You own your content. These terms don't take ownership of anything.
• You give us permission to use it to run the service. That means hosting, storing, copying, displaying, formatting and resizing it, and putting it in the printable profile and link previews. This permission is worldwide and free. It ends when your content is deleted, except for copies that other people have already saved or that are in backups waiting to be deleted.
• You must have the right to post it. You must own your content or have permission to use it. This includes game film or photos taken by someone else, and music in videos.
• Other people in your content. If your content names, shows or gives contact details for someone else, you must have their permission. That includes coach references, teammates and other athletes, and especially other minors. Only list a reference who has agreed to be contacted.
• Accuracy. You're responsible for making sure stats, results, grades, test scores and other claims are true and kept up to date. We don't check them.
• Public by design. Once published, a page can be seen by anyone who has the link, and it may appear in search engines. Visitors can copy, screenshot or save what they see, and we can't control that. Don't post anything you wouldn't want public. For the athlete's safety, we recommend not posting a home address, the athlete's own phone number, or anything that tells strangers where the athlete will be alone. Remember that the schedule shows game times and places publicly.
• Keep your own copies. Keep the originals of your photos, film and other important content. The service isn't a backup.

10. Rules for using Nextgradus

Neither account holders nor visitors may use the service to:

• break any law, or help someone else break one;
• harass, threaten, bully, stalk or intimidate anyone, or encourage others to;
• post sexual or sexually suggestive content, especially anything involving a minor. Content that sexualizes a minor is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement;
• post hateful, violent or graphic content;
• pretend to be someone else, make a page about an athlete without the right to do so, or misrepresent your relationship to the athlete;
• post other people's private information without their permission;
• post false or misleading information, such as invented stats or offers;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights;
• advertise or sell things, send spam, or use contact forms for anything other than real messages about the athlete;
• upload viruses or harmful code, or interfere with the service or other people's use of it;
• scrape, copy in bulk, or collect information about visitors, athletes or coaches with automated tools;
• probe, scan or test the service's security, or get around any limit or security feature;
• resell, rent or share a plan, or use one plan for more than one athlete.

We can remove content that breaks these rules, and we may suspend or end the page (see section 14). To report a problem with any page, email [email protected] with the page address and what's wrong.

11. Coach messages and visitor reports

• Messages. A page can include a contact form. Anything a visitor sends through it goes to the athlete's family, by email and in their dashboard. It includes the visitor's name, program, email address and message. Visitors should only send messages they're comfortable with the family reading and replying to.
• Visitor reports. Families see reports about visits to their page: when visits happened, which pages were viewed, approximate locations, device types, the network an internet address belongs to (which is sometimes a school's), and which personal links were opened. These reports are estimates. Locations, network names and "school" labels come from outside databases and can be wrong. A network name doesn't identify a person, and a visit from a school's network doesn't mean a coach looked at the page. Don't rely on these reports for important decisions.
• Using reports responsibly. Account holders may use visitor reports and messages only to manage their page and stay in touch with the people who contacted them. Don't use them to identify, track, harass or bother anyone, or share them publicly.
• Personal links are links a family makes for a specific person or program, so they can tell when that link is opened. Only make personal links for people you've had real contact with, and don't put private information in their names or notes.

12. Other companies' services

Parts of the service rely on other companies. These include Stripe for payments, YouTube for video, Google for email delivery and web fonts, Cloudflare for networking and security, and the team calendar providers you link to. Their own terms and privacy policies apply to how you use their services, and we aren't responsible for them. Features that depend on them can stop working if they change or go down. For example, a calendar provider might change its links, or YouTube might change what it allows. If you connect a YouTube channel, you're also agreeing to YouTube's Terms of Service, and you can disconnect it at any time.

13. Copyright complaints

If you believe something on a Nextgradus page infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with:

• the work you believe was copied, and the page address where it appears;
• your name, mailing address, phone number and email;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorized by the owner, its agent or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorized to act for the owner;
• your physical or electronic signature.

We'll remove or disable the content and tell the account holder. If the account holder believes it was removed by mistake, they can send us a counter-notice with the same kind of information. We may then restore the content as the law allows. We end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.

14. Suspending or ending a page

We may take content down, or suspend or end a page or account, if:

• you break these terms;
• payment fails and isn't fixed;
• we need to protect an athlete, a visitor, the service or the public;
• the law requires it, or we get a valid legal request.

When it's reasonable and safe, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. If we end a plan because you broke these terms, we don't refund the rest of the year. We may also stop offering Nextgradus altogether. If we do, we'll give at least 30 days' notice by email when we can, refund the unused part of your paid year, and give you a reasonable chance to get a copy of your content.

15. When a plan ends

• When a plan ends, whether because of cancelling, failed payment or anything else, the page goes offline. Visitors then see that the page isn't available.
• We keep the page's information for 3 months after the plan ends, in case you want to come back. If you want to start again within that time, email us and we'll bring the page back as it was once a new plan is paid for. After that, we permanently delete it.
• You can ask us to delete your page and its information sooner, or ask for a copy of your content, at any time. See our Privacy Policy.
• Sections 6, 9 (the parts about responsibility), 11, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 continue to apply after a plan ends.

16. Availability and changes to the service

We work to keep pages up and working, but we don't guarantee that the service will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free or secure. Pages can be unavailable during maintenance, outages, internet problems or problems with services we rely on. We may add, change or remove features. If we remove a major feature you were paying for, you can ask for a refund of the unused part of your year.

17. Disclaimers

The service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We don't warrant that the service will meet your needs or produce any result, or that visitor reports, locations, network names, calendar imports or video imports will be accurate or complete.

We aren't responsible for content that account holders post, for what visitors do with information they see, or for messages that visitors send.

18. Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Nextgradus and its owners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost opportunities, lost data, lost profits or lost goodwill, arising out of or related to the service, even if we were told they were possible. Our total liability for all claims related to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or $50 if that's greater.

Some places don't allow some of these limits. In those places, the limits apply only as far as the law allows. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow to be limited.

19. Your responsibility for claims

If someone brings a claim against us because of your content, your use of the service, or your breaking these terms or the law, you agree to cover our reasonable costs. That includes damages and reasonable attorneys' fees, and it applies as far as the law allows. We'll tell you about the claim, and we can choose to handle our own defense.

20. Resolving disagreements

• Talk to us first. If you have a problem with Nextgradus, email [email protected]. Before either of us files a claim, we'll both try in good faith to settle it informally for at least 30 days.
• Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
• Where. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court where it qualifies. Otherwise, claims must be brought in the state or federal courts located in or serving Dakota County, Minnesota, and we both agree to those courts' jurisdiction. If the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your home county, this paragraph doesn't take that right away.
• Time limit. To the extent the law allows, any claim related to the service must be brought within one year after it arises.

21. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time, and the date at the top always shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we'll email the account holder at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you don't agree with a significant change, you can cancel before it takes effect and get a refund of the unused part of your paid year. Smaller changes, such as clarifications, take effect when posted. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept it.

22. The legal fine print

• These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the service. They replace any earlier agreements about it.
• If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. The part that can't be enforced is changed only as much as needed to make it enforceable.
• If we don't enforce a part of these terms right away, we can still enforce it later.
• You can't transfer your plan or these terms to someone else without our written permission. We may transfer them as part of a merger, sale or reorganization, and we'll tell you if we do.
• We aren't responsible for delays or failures caused by things outside our reasonable control. Examples include power or internet outages, failures of other companies' services, natural disasters or government action.
• Section headings and "the short version" are there to make the terms easier to read. They don't change what the terms mean.

23. Contact us

Nextgradus
Email: [email protected]