Terms of Service

What you can expect from ShowRing — and what we can't promise.

Effective: April 25, 2026 Last updated: April 25, 2026

ShowRing ("ShowRing," "we," "us," "our") is operated by Apparent Logic LLC. These terms cover your use of the ShowRing app, the showring.app website, and any related services (together, the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

1. About ShowRing & Beta

ShowRing is a real-time companion for horse shows. Attendees get live class updates, push notifications, and schedules. Show organizers get tools to run their ring, score classes, and broadcast announcements.

ShowRing is in active beta development. Features will change, gaps will exist, and the Service may be unavailable, slow, or wrong without notice. We move quickly to fix problems but we do not promise that anything you see today will look the same — or work the same — tomorrow.

2. Eligibility & Accounts

Attendees can use ShowRing without creating an account. Show staff sign in with an email magic link or a passkey. You're responsible for keeping your sign-in method secure; we'll treat any action taken with your sign-in as your action. Tell us right away (via the feedback form below) if you think your account has been compromised.

The Service is intended for use by people 13 or older. The privacy policy explains how attendee use works without an account.

3. Acceptable Use

Don't:

Impersonate someone else or misrepresent your role at a show.
Scrape, crawl, or extract data from the Service at scale, or attempt to circumvent any access control.
Reverse engineer, probe, or attack the Service.
Upload unlawful, infringing, or harassing content.
Use the Service to harass riders, families, judges, organizers, or staff.

We may suspend or terminate access for any of the above (see Section 13).

4. Your Content

If you're a show organizer, you and your organization keep ownership of the show data you put into the Service — schedule, classes, sections, divisions, entries, rider and horse information, results, broadcasts, and similar content ("Your Content"). You grant ShowRing a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, display, transmit, copy, and process Your Content solely to operate, improve, and protect the Service for you and your attendees.

We will never sell Your Content, never use it for advertising, and never use it to train external machine-learning models.

5. Service Availability

We aim for reliability but we don't promise it. The Service may be unavailable, delayed, incorrect, or partial — especially during beta. We reserve the right to add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time without prior notice.

6. Informational Use Only

ShowRing is a convenience layer. Official results, prize money, entry status, and scheduling decisions live with the show organizer and their books — not with the app. Verify anything that matters with the show office before acting on it. We are not responsible for missed rides, missed classes, missed payments, or any other consequence of relying solely on what the Service displays.

7. Paid Features

The current beta is free. We expect to offer paid features in the future, including per-show licenses for organizers and transaction fees on entry-payment processing through Stripe. Specific commercial terms — pricing, refunds, chargebacks, payout timing, taxes — will be presented to you at the point of purchase or sign-up and will apply in addition to these terms. Until you accept those commercial terms, paid features don't apply to you.

8. Feedback

When you send us a suggestion, bug report, comment, or other input through the in-app feedback form, the showring.app contact form, or any other channel ("Feedback"), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that Feedback to build, improve, and market the Service, without owing you compensation, credit, or any obligation. You're not transferring ownership of anything you didn't already own — you're just letting us act on what you said.

9. Intellectual Property

ShowRing — the app, the website, our branding, our logos, our designs, and the underlying platform — is owned by Apparent Logic LLC and protected by intellectual-property laws. Using the Service does not transfer any of those rights to you. Don't copy our brand or claim our work as your own.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties — express, implied, or statutory — including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that rankings will be correct; that classes will run on the schedule shown; that notifications will arrive; or that any data you put in will be preserved.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost prize money, missed rides, missed registrations, business interruption, or loss of goodwill — even if we knew such damages were possible.
Our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service is capped at the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the twelve (12) months before the claim arose, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100.00).
Some states don't allow some of these limitations. Where that's the case, our liability is limited to the maximum extent allowed by law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify Apparent Logic LLC and its officers, employees, and contractors from any third-party claim arising out of (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service in violation of these terms or applicable law, or (c) your infringement of any third party's rights.

We agree to defend and indemnify you, the Service-using organization, from any third-party claim that the Service itself (as we provide it) infringes that third party's intellectual-property rights — provided you tell us about the claim promptly and let us control the defense and any settlement. This indemnity does not cover claims arising from Your Content or from your use of the Service in combination with anything we didn't provide.

13. Termination & Suspension

You may stop using the Service at any time. Admins may delete their account from the Profile screen.

We may suspend or terminate your access — temporarily or permanently — if we reasonably believe you have violated these terms, abused the Service, or created risk for other users. Where reasonable, we'll explain why and give you a chance to fix it. On termination, we'll give organizers a reasonable opportunity to export Your Content from the Service before deleting it.

The following sections survive termination: Section 4 (Your Content) for any license previously granted, Section 8 (Feedback), Section 9 (Intellectual Property), Section 10 (Disclaimers), Section 11 (Limitation of Liability), Section 12 (Indemnification), Section 14 (Modifications), Section 15 (Assignment), and Section 16 (Governing Law).

14. Modifications to These Terms

We may update these terms over time. Material changes will be posted to this page with a new "Last updated" date and announced in the Info tab of the app. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms. If you don't agree, stop using the Service before the effective date of the change.

15. Assignment

We may assign or transfer these terms — and our rights and obligations under them — to a successor entity in connection with a reorganization, merger, acquisition, sale of substantially all our assets, or migration of the operating entity to a different legal entity (for example, from Apparent Logic LLC to a successor LLC formed in another state). You may not assign your rights or obligations under these terms without our prior written consent. Any attempted assignment in violation of this section is void.

16. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in California, and you and we consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

17. Contact

Questions, problems, or anything else: send a message via the feedback form — in the iOS app's Info tab → "Stay in Touch," or on the showring.app contact form. We read every one.

For legal notices specifically: legal@showring.app.
For privacy questions: privacy@showring.app.
For everything else: hello@showring.app.

Apparent Logic LLC
https://showring.app