Terms of Use
- Agreement to these Terms
- Who can use AboutByMe
- Your account and security
- What AboutByMe is (and is not)
- Your content and the license you give us
- Rules of conduct
- Connections, communities and posts
- Moderation, reports and enforcement
- Profile addresses
- Plans, payments and automatic renewal
- Free plan and invite codes
- Cancellation and refunds
- Our intellectual property
- Copyright complaints (DMCA)
- Third-party services and links
- Disclaimers
- Limitation of liability
- Indemnification
- Suspension and termination
- Dispute resolution and arbitration
- Governing law
- Changes to the Service and to these Terms
- General terms
- Contact
1. Agreement to these Terms
These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and OVEXO CORPORATION, a Florida corporation doing business as AboutByMe ("AboutByMe," "we," "us" or "our") and govern your access to and use of aboutbyme.com, the AboutByMe app, public profile and community pages, and related services (together, the "Service").
By creating an account, checking the box to accept these Terms, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that organization.
2. Who can use AboutByMe
- Age 13 and older only. The Service is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not create an account or submit personal information. If we learn that a child under 13 has provided personal information, we will delete it and close the account.
- Ages 13–17. If you are under 18 (or under the age of majority where you live), you may use the Service only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. A parent or guardian who permits a minor to use the Service is responsible for the minor's use and accepts these Terms, including Section 20, on the minor's behalf. For safety, accounts of users under 18 have additional restrictions: their profiles start as semi-private, they cannot join or create communities, and they can connect only with other users under 18.
- You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under applicable law, if we previously terminated your account, or if you are located in a country subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions or appear on a U.S. government restricted-party list.
- Local laws may impose additional requirements. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you.
3. Your account and security
- You must provide accurate, current and complete information, including your real date of birth, and keep it up to date. Providing a false date of birth to bypass age protections is a material breach of these Terms.
- You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. Keep your password confidential, use a unique password, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep your recovery codes in a safe place; if you lose both your authenticator and your recovery codes, we may be unable to restore access.
- Notify us immediately at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized access. We are not liable for losses caused by unauthorized use of your account that results from your failure to protect your credentials.
- One person, one personal account. You may not sell, transfer, rent or share your account, or create accounts by automated means.
4. What AboutByMe is (and is not)
AboutByMe is a sports platform that lets athletes, coaches, teams and other members of the sports community build and publish a sports profile, share posts, connect with other members and take part in communities. AboutByMe is a tool, not a verifier. We do not verify the identity, credentials, statistics, achievements, licenses, reviews or other claims that users publish, and we do not endorse any user. Profiles and posts reflect the views and statements of the users who create them. You are solely responsible for your own decisions and interactions with other users, including any hiring, recruiting, business, purchase or meeting decisions, online or offline. Use caution and common sense, and never share passwords, financial information or other sensitive data with people you do not know.
AboutByMe is not an employment agency, recruiter, talent agency, background-check service or consumer reporting agency, and information on the Service may not be used to make decisions about eligibility for employment, credit, insurance or housing within the meaning of the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act.
5. Your content and the license you give us
"Your Content" means everything you submit to the Service, including your name, photos, profile text, statistics, sections, links, video links, posts, comments and messages.
- You own Your Content. We do not claim ownership of it.
- License to us. You grant AboutByMe a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (only to our service providers) and transferable (only in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets) license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt (for example, resize, crop, compress or remove metadata from images), format, display and distribute Your Content solely to operate, secure, improve and promote the Service. This includes displaying Your Content according to your visibility settings and showing public profiles in search engines and link previews. The license ends when Your Content is deleted from the Service, except for (a) copies kept in backups for a limited period as described in the Privacy Policy, (b) copies that other users or third parties have already made or shared, and (c) what we must keep to comply with law, enforce these Terms or resolve disputes.
- Your promises. You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights, licenses and permissions needed to post Your Content and to grant this license; that Your Content is truthful and not misleading; and that it does not infringe or violate anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights. If Your Content includes other people (for example, photos of teammates, clients or children), you are responsible for having their permission, and for photos of minors, their parent's or guardian's permission.
- Backups are your responsibility. Keep your own copies of Your Content. We are not responsible for loss of content.
- Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without any obligation to you.
6. Rules of conduct
You agree not to use the Service to, and not to help anyone else to:
- impersonate any person or organization, misrepresent your identity, age, credentials or affiliation, or create a profile for someone else without their authorization;
- post content that is illegal, defamatory, fraudulent, deceptive, obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit, or that sexualizes minors in any way;
- harass, bully, threaten, stalk, dox, intimidate or incite violence against anyone, or post hate speech targeting people based on protected characteristics;
- contact, solicit or attempt to contact minors for any inappropriate purpose, or attempt to get around the safety restrictions on minors' accounts;
- share other people's personal or confidential information without their consent, including addresses, phone numbers, government IDs or financial information;
- infringe copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property, or post content you do not have the right to share;
- send spam, chain messages, pyramid schemes, unsolicited bulk invitations or deceptive advertising, or sell or promote illegal goods or services;
- publish paid advertising for products or services that are not your own, sponsored content without clearly disclosing it, or affiliate-link spam (promoting your own work is allowed, see Section 7);
- upload viruses or malicious code, or probe, scan, test or breach the security of the Service (unless you are reporting a vulnerability in good faith as described in our security.txt);
- scrape, crawl, harvest or collect data or profiles by automated means, or use the Service or its content to train artificial intelligence models, without our prior written permission;
- interfere with or overload the Service, bypass rate limits, anti-bot checks or access controls, or access areas you are not authorized to access;
- reverse engineer the Service except where this restriction is prohibited by law;
- use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including export control and sanctions laws.
7. Connections, communities and posts
- Connections. Accepting a connection lets that person see your full profile even when it is set to Private or Semi-private. Only accept people you trust. You can remove a connection at any time.
- Communities are created and run by users. The owner and admins of a community decide who can join, invite members and may remove posts and members. Community owners and admins are responsible for how they manage their communities and must follow these Terms. AboutByMe does not endorse, sponsor or supervise any community.
- Posts and comments in a community are visible to all of its members. Do not post anything you would not want members to see or copy.
- We may limit the number of communities, invitations, posts or comments a user can create, and may remove or disable any community at our discretion.
Articles, videos and the Explore portal
- Public by design. Articles and videos you publish are public. Once published they appear on their own page, in the Explore portal (aboutbyme.com/explore) and, if your profile is published, on your profile, and they can be indexed by search engines. Sharing links, YouTube videos, articles and photos is available on every plan, only to users 18 and older.
- Automated review. Posts are checked automatically, using rule-based filters and artificial intelligence models, against these Terms. A post may be blocked, published, or removed after publication if it is found to break these Terms. Automated systems can make mistakes in both directions; approval by an automated system is not an endorsement and does not mean a post complies with the law or these Terms. We may remove any post at any time. If you think a decision was wrong, contact [email protected].
- Your rights to what you post. Only publish articles, images and videos you created or have the right to share. If an article was first published on your blog, add the original link; we may point search engines to the original. When you use Import, you confirm that you own or have the right to republish the page you import, including its featured image.
- YouTube videos are embedded from YouTube and are subject to YouTube's terms. We do not host them. If a video is removed or made private on YouTube, it will stop playing on AboutByMe.
- Promotion. You may promote your own sports activity, including your team, club, academy, camps, services, events, blog and channel. You may not publish paid advertising for products or services that are not yours, sponsored content without clearly disclosing it, or affiliate-link spam.
- Directory. Published profiles that are not set to Private, belonging to users 18 and older, may be listed in the Explore directory with their name, photo, category and, for Public profiles, location.
- We may set limits on how many posts you can publish, by plan and per day.
Video uploads and Reels
- Direct video file uploads and Reels are not available at launch on any plan. You can share videos by posting YouTube links; those videos stay on YouTube and are subject to YouTube's terms.
- If we introduce video uploads or Reels in the future, we will update these Terms before they become available.
Résumés and the AI assistant
- You can create one Athletic Résumé on Free and unlimited Athletic Résumés on ABOUTBYME+, and choose who sees each one: only you, anyone with its private link, or everyone on your profile. Anyone who receives a private link can open and share it; create a new link to disable the old one.
- You are responsible for the accuracy of your résumés. The AI Sports Assistant (ABOUTBYME+) suggests wording based on the information you provide; its suggestions may contain mistakes, and you must review them before saving or sending a résumé. Do not use it to misrepresent your experience or qualifications.
- AI use on ABOUTBYME+ is subject to monthly limits and reasonable-use protections.
8. Moderation, reports and enforcement
We are not obligated to monitor the Service. Some content, such as articles and photos, may be screened by automated systems before it appears; other content is not reviewed before it is posted. However, we may (but are not required to) review, screen, restrict, hide, remove or refuse any content, and restrict, suspend or terminate any account, at any time, for any reason or no reason, including if we believe content or conduct violates these Terms, creates risk or legal exposure for us or others, or is otherwise objectionable. You can report content using the report tools in the app. We decide in our discretion whether and how to act on reports, and we are not liable for acting or failing to act. We may preserve content and disclose information to law enforcement or others when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or it is necessary to protect someone's safety, as described in our Privacy Policy.
9. Profile addresses
Profile addresses (for example, aboutbyme.com/yourname) and community addresses are licensed to you for use with the Service; you do not own them. We may refuse, reclaim, rename or reassign an address at our discretion, including if it infringes a trademark, impersonates someone, is misleading or offensive, is reserved for our use, or belongs to an account that is closed or has been inactive for an extended period. You may not sell or transfer addresses.
10. Plans, payments and automatic renewal
- Plans. The Service offers two athlete plans: Free and ABOUTBYME+ ($9.99/year). Features, limits and prices are described on our pricing page and in the app at the time of purchase. Features that the pricing page describes as coming later are not included until they are released. Where a plan is described as "unlimited," reasonable limits apply to prevent spam and abuse.
- Payment processing. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. By purchasing, you also agree to Stripe's terms. We do not receive or store your full card number. You authorize us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method for the plan you choose, plus any applicable taxes.
- Automatic renewal. Paid plans are billed annually in advance and automatically renew at the end of each annual term for another one-year term at the then-current price, and your payment method will be charged at renewal, unless you cancel before the renewal date. You can cancel at any time in the app under Plan & billing → Manage billing. If the price of your plan changes, we will notify you before the change applies to your next renewal.
- Failed payments. If a payment fails, we may retry the charge, and your plan may be downgraded to Free until payment is made.
- Taxes. Prices do not include taxes unless stated. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to your purchase.
11. Free plan and invite codes
- The Free plan includes a complete athlete profile, links, posts, up to 50 photos and 1 Athletic Résumé. ABOUTBYME+ includes up to 200 photos, unlimited Athletic Résumés, advanced tools and the AI Sports Assistant. Direct video file uploads and Reels are not available on either plan at launch; YouTube links are available on both plans.
- Invite or promotional codes are valid only for the plan, duration and number of uses stated when issued, have no cash value, cannot be sold or transferred, may be used only once per account, and may be modified or withdrawn at any time before they are redeemed. When a plan obtained with a code expires, your account returns to the Free plan; your profile may remain published subject to the Free plan limits and these Terms. We may cancel benefits obtained through fraud, abuse or a code you were not entitled to use.
- We may change, limit or discontinue the Free plan or any promotion at any time.
12. Cancellation and refunds
- You may cancel your paid plan at any time. Cancellation stops future renewals; your paid features continue until the end of the current paid term, after which your account moves to the Free plan.
- Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial terms, unused features or unused time. We may, at our sole discretion, issue a refund or credit in a specific case without obligation to do so in other cases.
- Consumers in the European Union, European Economic Area and United Kingdom: you have a legal right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days. By asking us to start your paid plan immediately, you acknowledge that if you withdraw within 14 days you may be charged proportionally for the service already provided, and that you lose the right of withdrawal once the service has been fully provided. To withdraw, email [email protected] with your account email.
- If you delete your account, any paid plan is cancelled and no refund is due except where required by law.
13. Our intellectual property
The Service, including its software, design, templates, taxonomy, text, graphics, logos and the "AboutByMe" name, is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell or create derivative works of the Service, or use our names or logos, without our written permission. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
14. Copyright complaints (DMCA)
We respect intellectual property rights and respond to notices of alleged infringement under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes: (1) your physical or electronic signature; (2) identification of the copyrighted work; (3) identification of the infringing material and its location (URL); (4) your contact information; (5) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Designated agent: Copyright Agent, OVEXO CORPORATION, 5304 SW 138 PL, Miami, FL 33175. Phone: +1 (786) 671-8701. Email: [email protected].
If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3). We may restore the content unless the complainant files a court action within 10 business days. Knowingly false notices or counter-notices may result in liability for damages. We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.
15. Third-party services and links
The Service works with and links to third-party services, such as Stripe (payments), Cloudflare (hosting, security and anti-bot checks), YouTube and Vimeo (embedded videos) and websites that users link to. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services, their content, availability, terms or privacy practices. Your use of them is at your own risk and subject to their terms.
16. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all content are provided "as is" and "as available," with all faults and without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy and quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that content will not be lost, or that the Service or its servers are free of viruses or other harmful components. No security measure is perfect, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized parties will never be able to defeat our security measures. We are not responsible for the conduct, statements or content of any user, whether online or offline. Any advice or information you obtain from us or through the Service does not create any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.
17. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will AboutByMe, its owners, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors or service providers be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunities, goodwill, data or content, or for costs of substitute services, arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, whether based on contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or any other theory, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty U.S. dollars (US $50).
These limitations apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and they are an essential basis of the bargain between you and us. They do not limit liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, such as liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where such limitation is prohibited.
18. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless AboutByMe and its owners, affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, fines and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service, (c) your violation of these Terms or of any law, or (d) your violation of anyone's rights, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. We may assume the exclusive defense of any matter subject to indemnification, and you will cooperate with us.
19. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from Account & security in the app. We may suspend or terminate your account or access, remove your profile or content, or unpublish your profile at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you violated these Terms or the law, if required by law, to protect users or the Service, or if we discontinue the Service. If we terminate a paid plan for convenience and not because of your violation, we will refund the unused portion of your prepaid fees. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 5 as to licenses needed to comply with law, 13–14 and 16–23) will survive.
20. Dispute resolution and arbitration
Please read this section carefully. It requires you and us to resolve most disputes by individual binding arbitration instead of in court, and it waives the right to a jury trial and to participate in class actions.
20.1 Informal resolution first
Before starting any arbitration or court proceeding, you and we agree to try to resolve the dispute informally for at least 60 days. The party raising the dispute must send a written notice describing the claim and the relief requested, with contact information, to the other party (for us: [email protected] and by mail to the address listed in Section 14; for you: the email address on your account). If requested, the parties will meet by phone or video in good faith. Statutes of limitation are paused during this period.
20.2 Agreement to arbitrate
Except as provided in 20.4, any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or your relationship with AboutByMe, including its formation, scope, validity and enforceability ("Dispute"), will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section. The arbitrator, and not a court, will decide questions of arbitrability, except that a court decides disputes about Section 20.5 (class waiver) and 20.7 (batch arbitration). Payment of AAA filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA Consumer Rules. Arbitration may be conducted by video conference, by documents only, or in the county where you live or in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could award, but only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary for that party's individual claim.
20.3 Jury trial waiver
You and we waive any right to a trial by jury.
20.4 Exceptions
Either party may (a) bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies and remains there; and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to stop the actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property rights or unauthorized access to the Service.
20.5 Class action waiver
You and we may bring claims against each other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding.
If this class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a claim, then that claim (and only that claim) will be severed and decided by a court as provided in Section 21, after all individual claims are resolved in arbitration.
20.6 30-day right to opt out
You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending an email to [email protected] from your account email, with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out," within 30 days after you first accept these Terms. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.
20.7 Batch arbitration
If 25 or more similar demands for arbitration are filed against us by or with the help of the same or coordinated counsel or organizations within 180 days, they will be administered in batches of up to 100 claims each, with one arbitrator per batch, to the extent permitted by the AAA rules, and the parties will cooperate in good faith to implement this process.
20.8 Changes
If we change this Section 20 after you accept it, you may reject the change by emailing [email protected] within 30 days after the change takes effect; in that case, the most recent version you accepted will continue to apply.
20.9 Time limit
To the extent permitted by law, any claim must be brought within one (1) year after the claim arises; otherwise it is permanently barred.
21. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. For any Dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or UK, you also benefit from any mandatory protections of the law of the country where you live, and nothing in these Terms limits them.
22. Changes to the Service and to these Terms
We may add, change, suspend or discontinue features of the Service at any time. We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material, we will give reasonable notice, for example by email or a notice in the app, before it takes effect. The "last updated" date shows when these Terms last changed. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept them. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and delete your account.
23. General terms
- Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and supersede prior agreements.
- Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will remain in effect.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or to an affiliate.
- Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of third-party providers, internet failures, attacks, natural disasters, government actions and labor disputes.
- Electronic communications. You agree to receive notices electronically, and that electronic notices satisfy any legal requirement that communications be in writing.
- No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms do not create rights for anyone other than you and us.
- Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only; if there is a conflict, the English version controls to the extent permitted by law.
- Headings are for convenience only.
24. Contact
OVEXO CORPORATION, doing business as AboutByMe
5304 SW 138 PL, Miami, FL 33175
Support: [email protected] · Legal: [email protected] · Security: [email protected]