Terms of Service

Effective Date: May 2, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Avenue 1 (the "Service"), operated by Avenue 1 ("we," "us," or "our"). By accessing the Service, creating an account, or using any feature offered through the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

These Terms incorporate by reference our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and use information.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent that you meet this requirement and that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and "you" includes both you individually and that organization.

The Service is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. See our Privacy Policy for details.

2. Description of the Service

Avenue 1 provides a database of college football coaching staff information, including biographical details, employment history, compensation data, and related editorial content. We aggregate, curate, and present information sourced from public records, public reporting, official athletics communications, and other publicly available sources, and we supplement that information with our own research, analysis, and editorial judgment.

The Service includes:

  • A web application available at avenue-1.com and related subdomains
  • Free read access to portions of our coaching information
  • Subscription tiers ("Coach Paid" and "Hiring Seat") that unlock additional features and content
  • A demo mode that allows limited preview access without an account
  • Optional features that allow signed-in users to save coaches, submit profile-update requests, and contact us

We may add, remove, or modify features at any time as described in Section 16.

3. Account Registration and Security

To access certain features, you must create an account. We use Clerk, a third-party identity provider, to handle authentication. By creating an account you also agree to Clerk's terms and privacy policy.

You agree to:

  • Provide accurate and current information when registering
  • Keep your account credentials confidential and not share them with anyone
  • Notify us immediately at support@avenue-1.com if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization
  • Be responsible for all activity that occurs under your account, whether or not you authorized it

We may suspend or terminate accounts at our discretion as described in Section 14, including for suspected unauthorized access, fraud, or violation of these Terms.

4. Demo Mode

The Service offers a "demo mode" that grants temporary, read-only access to selected features without account registration. Demo mode is provided for evaluation purposes only. You may not:

  • Use demo mode to extract data in bulk or to evaluate scraping techniques
  • Share demo access tokens or links with third parties for the purpose of granting them access
  • Attempt to circumvent the limitations of demo mode

Demo access may be revoked or modified at any time without notice.

5. Subscriptions, Billing, and Refunds

Paid tiers of the Service ("Coach Paid," "Hiring Seat," and any successor or additional tier we offer) are provided on a subscription basis. We use Stripe to process payments. By subscribing, you also agree to Stripe's terms.

5.1 Recurring Billing

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period at the then-current rate, unless you cancel before the renewal date. By starting a subscription you authorize us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method for each renewal until you cancel.

5.2 Pricing Changes

We may change subscription pricing for future billing periods. We will provide notice of any price change before it takes effect, and your continued use of the Service after the change constitutes acceptance of the new price.

5.3 Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription at any time from your account page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, after which you will lose access to subscription-only features. We do not provide refunds for partial billing periods, except where required by law.

5.4 Refunds

All sales are final unless we determine otherwise in our sole discretion. We may offer refunds in cases of billing error, duplicate charges, extended Service outage, or other circumstances we deem appropriate. To request a refund, contact support@avenue-1.com.

5.5 Failed Payments

If a payment fails, we may suspend your access to subscription features until the payment is resolved. We may attempt to retry the payment through Stripe according to its standard procedures.

5.6 Taxes

Subscription fees do not include taxes. You are responsible for any sales, use, value-added, or similar taxes that apply to your subscription, except for taxes based on our net income.

6. License Granted to You

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business use. This license does not include any right to:

  • Resell, redistribute, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service or its content
  • Use the Service to build, train, evaluate, or improve any competing product, dataset, or model
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract source code or proprietary algorithms
  • Remove or modify any proprietary notices on the Service

All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by us.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with these Terms. You will not:

  • Use the Service in any manner that violates applicable law or regulation
  • Use the Service to harass, defame, threaten, or harm any individual, including any coach, staff member, or other person whose information appears in the Service
  • Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or the source of any communication
  • Interfere with or disrupt the Service, its servers, or networks connected to it
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service, related systems, or other users' accounts
  • Use the Service to transmit viruses, malware, or any other harmful code
  • Use the Service in connection with any unsolicited communications, including spam

8. Prohibited Conduct: Scraping and Bulk Data Extraction

The integrity of the Service depends on our ability to limit unauthorized data extraction. You expressly agree that you will not:

  • Use any automated means — including scrapers, crawlers, headless browsers, robots, scripts, or other software agents — to access, copy, harvest, or monitor any portion of the Service, except for search engine indexing performed by widely recognized public search engines that respect our robots.txt directives
  • Use any third-party tool, service, or technique designed to bypass authentication, rate limits, bot-detection systems, or other access controls
  • Access or attempt to access the Service from more than one account in a manner intended to evade per-account limits
  • Aggregate, compile, copy, or republish more than incidental amounts of Service content into any other database, dataset, model, or product
  • Use Service content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, whether commercial or non-commercial, without our prior written permission
  • Sell, license, lease, or otherwise commercially distribute Service content to third parties
  • Attempt to circumvent any technical protection measure, including rate limits, bot detection, watermarks, or honey tokens that we may use to detect unauthorized access

Violations of this Section 8 cause us material harm. We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, terminate any account engaged in any of the above conduct, pursue all available legal remedies, and seek injunctive relief, statutory damages, and reasonable attorneys' fees.

You acknowledge that we may use technical means to detect unauthorized access, including but not limited to anomaly detection on usage patterns and "honey token" data designed to be uniquely traceable. By using the Service, you consent to such monitoring.

9. Avenue 1 Data and Intellectual Property

9.1 Our Content

The Service, including all software, designs, text, graphics, photographs, video, audio, structured data, compilations, and other content that we create, curate, or aggregate (collectively, the "Avenue 1 Content"), is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, database rights, and other intellectual property laws. We retain all rights, title, and interest in and to the Avenue 1 Content, except for the limited license granted to you in Section 6.

The compilation, selection, arrangement, and presentation of coaching information on the Service represents substantial editorial and engineering effort and is itself a protected work, regardless of whether individual underlying facts are publicly available.

9.2 Trademarks

"Avenue 1" and our logos are our trademarks. You may not use them without our prior written permission, except as needed to identify the Service in factual references that comply with normal fair-use practice.

9.3 Public Information About Coaches

The Service contains information about identifiable individuals, including coaches and staff members. Where this information is sourced from publicly available records or public reporting, we display it in good faith based on those sources. Individuals who believe information about them is inaccurate or out of date may submit a correction request through the Service or contact support@avenue-1.com. We will review such requests and update the Service as appropriate.

10. User-Submitted Content

The Service allows you to submit content, including profile-update requests, supporting links, attached files, messages to our support team, and similar materials ("User Submissions"). By making a User Submission, you:

  • Represent that you have all necessary rights to submit the content and that the content does not infringe any third party's rights
  • Grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and display the User Submission in connection with operating, promoting, and improving the Service
  • Acknowledge that we may use User Submissions to update the Service, including by incorporating factual information into our database

We are not obligated to publish, retain, or act on any User Submission. We may remove, edit, or refuse User Submissions at our discretion.

You agree not to submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, infringing, fraudulent, deceptive, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. We may report unlawful submissions to appropriate authorities.

11. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party services, including but not limited to Clerk (authentication), Stripe (payments), PostHog (product analytics), Vercel (frontend hosting and edge), Fly.io (API hosting), Turso (database), and Cloudflare R2 (storage). Your use of those underlying services is also subject to the respective providers' terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or content of third-party services.

12. Feedback

If you provide us with feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Service ("Feedback"), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use the Feedback for any purpose without compensation or attribution.

13. Termination

13.1 By You

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may close your account from your account page or by contacting support@avenue-1.com. Cancellation of a paid subscription is governed by Section 5.

13.2 By Us

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, with or without notice, if:

  • You violate these Terms, including Section 8 (Scraping and Bulk Data Extraction)
  • We reasonably suspect fraud or unauthorized access to your account
  • Required by applicable law, court order, or other legal process
  • We discontinue the Service or any feature
  • You have not used the Service for an extended period (we may close inactive accounts to free resources)
  • Continued service to you would expose us to liability or harm our other users

In cases of suspected scraping, fraud, or other material breach, we may terminate immediately and without notice, and any prepaid amounts may be forfeited.

13.3 Effect of Termination

Upon termination, your right to access the Service ceases. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 6 (license restrictions), 8 (anti-scraping), 9 (intellectual property), 10 (User Submissions license), 14 (disclaimers), 15 (limitation of liability), 16 (indemnification), and 22 (notices and contact) — will survive.

14. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that defects will be corrected, or that the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information on the Service. Coaching positions, salaries, and employment status change frequently; we update the Service in good faith but we do not guarantee that any specific data point is current or correct at any specific moment.

You use the Service at your own risk.

15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD 100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so the above may not apply to you in full. In such cases, our liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

16. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Avenue 1 and our officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from:

  • Your use or misuse of the Service
  • Your violation of these Terms, including Section 8 (Scraping and Bulk Data Extraction)
  • Your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property, publicity, or privacy right
  • Your User Submissions

We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense.

17. Changes to the Service

We are continually improving the Service. We may add, remove, or modify features, change pricing, modify subscription tiers, or discontinue the Service or any portion of it at any time. We will provide reasonable notice of material changes that adversely affect existing paid subscribers, where practical.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these Terms at any time. The most current version will be posted at the URL where these Terms appear, with an updated "Effective Date." For material changes, we will provide reasonable notice — for example, by email to your registered address or by posting a notice within the Service — before the changes take effect.

Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

19. Severability and No Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or if it cannot be modified, severed from these Terms; the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce that or any other provision in the future.

20. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any of your rights or obligations under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or by operation of law, without notice to you.

21. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies or addenda we expressly incorporate, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.

22. DMCA Copyright Policy

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our users to do the same. If you believe that content on the Service infringes a copyright you own, please send a notice that includes:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Service (for example, a URL)
  4. Your contact information, including address, telephone number, and email
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner

Send notices to dmca@avenue-1.com.

We will respond to valid DMCA notices in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and may remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice. Repeat infringers' accounts may be terminated.

If you believe content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice to the same address.

23. Notices and Contact

Legal notices to us must be sent to support@avenue-1.com and will be deemed received when we acknowledge them. We may give notices to you by email to the address associated with your account or by posting within the Service.

For all other inquiries, please contact support@avenue-1.com.