Terms of use

Who we are

We’re My Coaching App. These terms cover the My Coaching App apps, the web app and this website (“we”, “us”).

My Coaching App is independent. It isn’t affiliated with, or endorsed by, the GAA, the LGFA or the Camogie Association.

Accounts

• You can sign up yourself as a player aged 16 or over, as a parent or guardian, or as a club officer setting up your club.
• Coaches, team managers, physios and other squad staff get their role from their club’s invite. Referees get theirs from their county’s invite. You can’t give yourself a staff or referee role.
• Children under 16 don’t have their own login. A parent or guardian adds them through the club and manages their account until they turn 16. A 16 or 17-year-old can have their own login once a parent approves it. At 18 the account is the player’s own.
• Give accurate details, keep your password private, and tell us through our contact form if you think someone else has used your account.
• If you manage an account for a child, you’re responsible for how it’s used.

Clubs, counties and provinces

• An officer who sets up or claims a club must be an officer of that club. Before a club can add players, it’s confirmed with the club’s official GAA, LGFA or Camogie email address, invited by its county, or set up by us.
• Each club, county and province decides who it adds, what records it keeps and who in it can see them. It’s responsible for having the right to add the people it adds, and for following its governing body’s rules, including on vetting, safeguarding and child welfare.
• The app helps with safeguarding. For example, coaches can’t message an under-18 one to one. It doesn’t replace a club’s own safeguarding duties or its Children’s Officer.
• If you’re added to a club, its officers and the staff of your squads can see the records described in our privacy notice.

Your members’ data

For the people a club, county or province adds, that body controls the data and we process it on its behalf. As its processor, we:

• use the data only to run My Coaching App for it, and on its instructions;
• make sure everyone who works on the app keeps it confidential;
• keep it secure, and tell it without undue delay if there’s a breach that affects its data;
• use only the companies listed in our privacy notice, under the same duties, and tell it before we add or change one;
• help it answer requests from the people whose data it holds, and with any impact assessment;
• delete or return its data when it leaves, unless the law requires us to keep it;
• give it the information it needs to show we keep to these terms.

An adult player’s own My Career subscription is between them and us, and for that we decide how the data is used, as our privacy notice explains.

Using the app properly

Don’t use My Coaching App to:

• bully, harass, threaten or discriminate against anyone;
• pretend to be someone else, or claim a role or a club that isn’t yours;
• upload photos or details of other people without the right to (for under-18s, the parent’s choices in Consent and privacy apply);
• contact a child outside the ways the app allows, or try to get round its safeguarding rules;
• break the law, upload anything harmful, or try to break into, overload or copy the service.

Concerns about a child’s welfare go to the club’s Children’s Officer and Designated Liaison Person from Report a concern in the app. If a child is in danger now, call 999 or 112.

What you put in

You, or your club, own what you add: team sheets, plans, notes, photos and messages. You let us store it and show it to the people it’s shared with, so the app can work. Photos of players are checked by the club before they appear. We can remove anything that breaks these terms.

Paying

• Players and parents use the app free. A child’s own stats, skill profile and trial feedback are never behind a paywall.
• Clubs get a free month with no card, and counties get 14 days. Plans and add-ons are then charged monthly, in pounds or euro. Prices include any VAT due. Current prices are on our pricing page.
• An add-on starts straight away. Removing one, or cancelling, takes effect at the end of the period you’ve paid for. We don’t refund part periods, except where the law requires it.
• Payments are taken by Stripe. Your currency is set when you first pay.
• We’ll give at least 30 days’ notice by email before a price goes up. The new price applies from your first renewal after that, and you can cancel before then.
• If a payment fails, Stripe tries again and we’ll tell you. Paid features pause until it’s paid. Your records aren’t deleted.

The Coach Assistant and Voice Logging

Clubs can turn on the Coach Assistant, which drafts match reports, session plans and feedback. Its drafts can be wrong. A coach reads and edits each one before anything is shared, and stays responsible for what they send.

Voice Logging turns what a coach says into scores and stats. It can mishear, so the coach checks each one before it’s saved.

The service

We work to keep My Coaching App running and your data safe, but we can’t promise it will never be unavailable or free of errors. Parts of the app work with no signal and send when you’re back in coverage. We may change or improve features. If we take away something you pay for, we’ll tell you first.

Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t let us limit. Otherwise, we aren’t liable for indirect or unforeseeable loss, and our total liability to a club, county or province in any year is limited to what it paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Ending

You can delete your account at any time from Edit profile. Your login and personal details go after 30 days, and signing in during those 30 days cancels it. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or where that’s needed to protect a child or other users. An account that’s never linked to a club, squad or child and isn’t used for a year is deleted, with an email 30 days before.

Changes and law

We’ll email you about important changes to these terms before they take effect. These terms are governed by the law of Ireland, and the courts of Ireland can hear disputes. If you live in Northern Ireland or Britain, you keep the protections of your local consumer law and can bring a claim there.

Questions about these terms: our contact form.