Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

Sunday Gaffer is a web app that helps grassroots youth football coaches plan training sessions. It is operated by Jason Wrangles, a sole trader based in England, trading as Sunday Gaffer (“we”, “us”). You can contact us at hello@sundaygaffer.co.uk.

These terms are a contract between you and us. By creating an account or using the service you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the service. Our Privacy Notice explains how we handle personal data and forms part of these terms.

2. The service

The service lets you record your squad, log matches and observations, and generate training session plans and drills with the help of an AI model. The plans are suggestions built from what you tell us and from our drill library. The service is currently provided free of charge while it is being developed. We may introduce paid plans, limits on usage, or new features, and we will tell you before anything you rely on changes materially.

3. Your account

You must be at least 18 to hold an account. Keep your password private and tell us if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what is done through your account. One person, one account: accounts are not to be shared or transferred.

4. What you must not do

You agree not to, and not to help anyone else to:

• Copy or scrape the service. Do not extract, crawl, harvest or download the drill library, session content, page content or data from the service other than your own data through the features we provide for that.
• Access it automatically. Do not use bots, scripts, crawlers or any automated means to access the service or its APIs, and do not attempt to bypass any rate limit, usage limit or security control.
• Reverse engineer it. Do not decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, prompts, models, structure or underlying ideas of the service, except to the extent the law expressly allows despite this term.
• Resell or rebrand it. Do not sell, rent, sub-license, white-label, or offer the service or any part of it (including generated content or the drill library) to third parties as a product or service, or use it to build or train a competing product.
• Misuse it. Do not upload unlawful, abusive or infringing content, do not record anything about a child that is not a fair and necessary coaching observation, and do not use the service in a way that could harm it, us, or other users.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. Where the breach causes us loss, we may also recover that loss from you.

5. Your squad’s data: who is responsible for what

You enter information about the players you coach. Under UK data protection law, you are the data controller for that information: you decide what to record and why, and you are responsible for having a proper basis to do so, for example through your club’s arrangements with parents and carers. We are your data processor for it: we store and process it only to provide the service to you, on your instructions, and we do not use it for our own purposes.

To keep everyone’s exposure small, please record only what coaching needs: a first name or nickname is enough to identify a player, and the service has no fields for dates of birth, addresses or contact details of children on purpose. Do not put that kind of information in free-text notes.

For your own account details (your email address and login), we are the data controller. The Privacy Notice covers both roles in more detail, including the providers we use to run the service.

6. Content and intellectual property

Ours. The service, its name, design, code, drill library, coaching framework, prompts and all other materials are owned by Jason Wrangles and protected by copyright and other intellectual property law. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership of them, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Yours. The information you enter (your squad, match reports, observations and notes) remains yours. You give us permission to store and process it as needed to provide the service to you, and for nothing else.

Generated for you. Session plans, drills and summaries that the service generates for you may be used freely for your own coaching, including printing them, sharing them with your assistant coaches, your club and the parents of the players you coach. Because they are produced by a model from shared templates and a shared drill library, we cannot promise they are unique, and other coaches may receive similar content. You may not resell them, publish them as a product, or use them to build a competing service. The drill library and templates they draw on remain ours.

7. AI-generated content and your judgement

Generated plans are a starting point, not an instruction. AI models make mistakes, and a plan cannot see your pitch, your players or the weather. You remain responsible for reviewing every plan before you use it, for adapting it to your players’ age, ability and safety, for following FA and club guidance on age-appropriate coaching and safeguarding, and for supervising the session. We do not promise that generated content is accurate, complete or suitable for any particular group.

8. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the service available but do not guarantee it. It may be interrupted for maintenance, updates or reasons outside our control. We may change or withdraw features, and we may stop providing the service altogether; if we do, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to get your data out. Please keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose - the PDF export exists for that reason.

9. Ending things

You can stop using the service at any time. You can ask us to delete your account and its data by emailing hello@sundaygaffer.co.uk; a self-service option is planned. We may close accounts that are inactive for a long period or that break these terms. Sections 4, 6, 10 and 11 continue to apply after an account is closed.

10. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law. In all other cases, and to the fullest extent the law allows: we are not liable for any loss that was not a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms; we are not liable for loss of data you have not backed up, for loss of profit or for business losses; and our total liability to you for all claims in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of £50 and the amount you paid us for the service in that period. The service is provided for your own coaching; it is not advice, and it is not a substitute for your own judgement or for FA guidance.

11. General

We may update these terms. If a change is significant we will tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect; continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, though nothing stops you relying on consumer rights you have where you live.