Terms of Service

Last updated November 6, 2026.

These terms are the agreement between you and PinHigh for using the PinHigh app and this website (together, “PinHigh”). Please read them with our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with your information. They may change before PinHigh launches.

PinHigh is still in development. While we are testing, features may change or stop working, and accounts and saved rounds may be reset or deleted without notice.

Who we are

PinHigh is run by Derek Reese and Blake Smith (“we” and “us”), in Utah. You can reach us at admin@usepinhigh.com or by post at PinHigh, 444 E 320 N, Vineyard, UT 84059.

Who can use PinHigh

• You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
• If you are under 18, you may use PinHigh only with the permission of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms for you.
• You may not use PinHigh if we have removed your account before, or if the law where you live doesn't allow it.

Your account

• Give a real email address you can receive mail at, and keep your password to yourself.
• One account is for one person. Don't share it or sign in as someone else.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has used it.
• You can delete your account at any time, in the app under Profile or on your account page on this site (once accounts open). What that removes is set out in the Privacy Policy.

What PinHigh does

PinHigh helps you keep score, see your stats, play games and challenges with friends, follow friends' rounds, and take part in tournaments that golf courses and businesses run. Some features may change, be added, or be removed over time.

Course information, maps, and distances are approximate. Course details come from a third-party course database, hole maps from OpenStreetMap's volunteer mapping, and course photos from US government aerial imagery. Distances are worked out from that course data, those maps, and your phone's location, and can be wrong. Don't rely on them where accuracy matters, and they aren't a ruling under the Rules of Golf or for any handicap system. The handicap estimate PinHigh shows is our own estimate, not an official handicap index.

Stay safe on the course. Watch where you are and what's around you, not your phone, especially when driving a cart, and follow the course's rules.

PinHigh Pro

Some features are part of PinHigh Pro. During development we turn Pro on for golfers ourselves, free of charge, and we may turn it off or change what it includes. PinHigh doesn't sell anything today. If we start charging for Pro, we'll tell you the price and terms first, and you won't be charged unless you choose to pay.

Tournaments

Golf courses and businesses can ask to run tournaments on PinHigh, and we approve each organizer before it can run any. The organizer, not PinHigh, is responsible for its event: its format, rules, results, and anything it promises players. PinHigh doesn't take entry fees or pay out prizes. A tournament's leaderboard is public, and shows each player's name and scores; joining a tournament means agreeing to that.

What you put on PinHigh

You keep the rights to what you add: your scores, names you give, and anything else you enter. You give us permission to store it, use it to run PinHigh, and show it to the people the app shows it to (for example, your friends, or a tournament's leaderboard), for as long as it's on PinHigh. That permission ends when you delete it or your account, except for copies other golfers keep, such as a round a friend kept score for with you in it.

If you add other golfers to a scorecard by name, only add people who are happy for you to do so.

How to behave

When you use PinHigh, don't:

• harass, threaten, bully, or impersonate anyone;
• choose a display name or username that is offensive, hateful, sexual, or misleading;
• enter scores or results you know are false to cheat in a game, challenge, Money Round, or tournament;
• use PinHigh for anything illegal, including illegal gambling;
• try to get into accounts or data that aren't yours, overload or interfere with PinHigh, or get around its limits or protections;
• copy course data, maps, or other content out of PinHigh in bulk, or use bots or scripts on it;
• copy, sell, or resell PinHigh itself, or try to take its code apart, except where the law allows.

You can block another golfer, and report them to us, in the app. We look at reports, and we may reset the name of, or remove, an account that breaks these terms, with or without warning.

Notifications and email

We email you a code when you sign up or reset your password. We tell you about round invitations by phone notification and email, and about other updates (friend requests, rounds you're added to, and challenges) by phone notification. You can turn either off in the app, under Profile, then Notifications. Early-access and development emails go only to people who asked for them, and each has a link to stop them.

Our rights, and other people's

PinHigh, its name, design, and software belong to us. These terms let you use PinHigh for your own golf or, if you're an approved organizer, to run your tournaments, and don't give you any other rights in it. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without owing you anything.

Some content comes from others: hole maps use data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License; course photos are public-domain US government aerial imagery (USDA NAIP, via the US Geological Survey); course details come from a licensed course database.

If you're using the iPhone app

If you got the app from Apple's App Store, these points apply too.

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the app and its content. These terms can't set rules for using the app that conflict with Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• You may use the app on any Apple-branded device you own or control, as Apple's Usage Rules allow (including through Family Sharing). This permission can't be transferred.
• We alone are responsible for maintaining and supporting the app. Apple has no duty to do so.
• If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you can tell Apple, and Apple will refund the price you paid for the app, if any. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app; any other claims, losses, or costs from such a failure are ours to deal with, as these terms set out.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for any claim by you or anyone else about the app or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy, or similar laws.
• If anyone claims that the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling, and discharging that claim.
• You confirm that you aren't in a country under a US government embargo, or one the US government has designated as supporting terrorism, and that you aren't on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use the app, such as your mobile carrier's.
• Questions, complaints, or claims about the app go to us, at the contact details under “Who we are”.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. Once you accept them, Apple may enforce them against you.

Ending things

You can stop using PinHigh and delete your account at any time. We may end your access if you break these terms, if we must by law, or if we stop offering PinHigh; where we reasonably can, we'll tell you first. The sections on what you put on PinHigh, our rights, disclaimers, limits on liability, and disputes still apply after your account ends.

Disclaimers

PinHigh is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no promises about it beyond those in these terms: for example, that it will always be available, free of errors, or that course data, maps, distances, scores, or results will be accurate. Some places don't allow these disclaimers, so they may not all apply to you.

Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses, or for lost data, money, or profits, arising from PinHigh; that includes money golfers agree to in a Money Round. Our total liability for any claim about PinHigh is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (today, nothing) or US $50. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited.

Your responsibility to us

If someone makes a claim against us because of how you used PinHigh, broke these terms, or broke the law or someone else's rights, you'll cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, to the extent the law allows.

Disputes

If you have a problem with PinHigh, please email us first; most things can be sorted out that way. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah and of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be decided in the state or federal courts in Utah County, Utah, except that either of us may bring a claim in small claims court where it qualifies.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as PinHigh changes. If a change matters, we'll ask you to agree to the new terms in the app or on your account page. The date at the top shows when they last changed.

Everything else

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about PinHigh. If part of them can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce part of them right away, we can still do so later. You can't pass your rights under these terms to anyone else; we may pass ours to whoever takes over PinHigh.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email admin@usepinhigh.com, and Derek Reese and Blake Smith will get back to you.