The rules of the trip.

Stymie is a web app for planning, scoring, and remembering group golf trips. The service includes trip pages, live scoring across multiple formats, side-bet tracking, a Ryder Cup style scoreboard, and a permanent recap at a stable URL. Stymie does not book tee times, process WHS handicap rounds, or function as a betting platform for real-money wagers.

You must be at least 18 years old to create a Stymie account. Sign-up requires a valid email address. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for any activity on your account. If you suspect unauthorized use, email kyle@stymiegolf.co as soon as you can.

Stymie is free during early access. When the service exits early access, the commissioner of a trip will be charged a one-time fee (currently planned at $50 per trip) to create the trip. Players invited to that trip do not pay. We will give clear notice on the pricing page and in the app before turning charging on. Continuing to create new trips after that change is your agreement to the new pricing.

Don't use Stymie to:

• Spam, scrape, or programmatically abuse the service.
• Impersonate another person, pretend to be a captain or player you are not, or take over a trip that isn't yours.
• Upload content you don't have the right to share, including photos of other people without their permission.
• Use Stymie to organize real-money wagering as a business, bookmaking, or anything that would put you or us on the wrong side of state or federal gambling law. Side bets between friends on a buddy trip are not what this clause is about.
• Probe, scan, or attempt to disrupt the security, rate limits, or authentication of the service.

We may suspend or remove accounts that violate this section. In serious cases we may delete trip data without notice; in routine cases we'll email you first.

Trip rosters, scores, photos, bets, and recaps you create on Stymie belong to you. You grant Emerson Capital LLC a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display that content solely to operate the service for you and your invited crew. That license ends when you delete the content or your account, except where we need to keep it briefly in backups or to comply with law.

The Stymie name, the Stymie Golf wordmark, the cedar-and-bone visual system, and the code that runs this site are owned by Emerson Capital LLC. You don't get any rights to those just by using the service. The fact that we publish a sample trip at /sample doesn't make it scraping-friendly.

We work hard to keep Stymie running but we don't promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend, or shut down features without notice. If we discontinue the service entirely, we'll give reasonable notice and a way to export your trip data before it goes away.

You can delete your account any time by emailing kyle@stymiegolf.cowith the subject “Delete my account.” We'll remove your account and the trips you own within a reasonable window (typically under 30 days, sometimes longer for backups). We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms. If we do, sections that should logically survive termination — ownership, disclaimers, liability, governing law — survive.

Stymie is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, Emerson Capital LLC disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't warrant that scoring math, handicap calculations, weather, or course data are error-free — settle real-money disputes between yourselves, not in Stymie.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Emerson Capital LLC's total liability arising out of or related to Stymie will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or (b) $50. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits or lost trip memories, even if we were told they were possible.

You agree to defend and indemnify Emerson Capital LLC from claims arising out of (a) content you submit, (b) your violation of these terms, or (c) your violation of someone else's rights. This is standard SaaS language; in practice it almost never matters for a friendly buddy trip.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Georgia, and you and Emerson Capital LLC each consent to that jurisdiction. If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stays in force.

We may update these terms as Stymie grows. When we make material changes, we'll update the “Effective” date at the top and, for significant changes, send a notice to the email on your account. Continuing to use Stymie after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Questions, complaints, or legal notices? Email kyle@stymiegolf.co. We answer every message.