Who you are agreeing with
Court Companion is run by one person in the Netherlands rather than by a company. There is no legal form, no Chamber of Commerce registration and no VAT number, because there is no business to register. If that changes, this page changes with it.
These terms apply when you use the app or the site. By signing in you accept them, together with the privacy notice, which explains what happens to your data.
What Court Companion is
A companion for a player touring tournaments. It shows you which tournaments are on and where, helps you find someone to play with, keeps a trip’s flights and stays in one place, and works out who owes whom afterwards.
It is worth being plain about what it is not:
- It does not enter you in a tournament. Entries are made with the organiser or the governing body; what the app holds is your record that you did.
- It does not sell travel. Where you can book a stay, the booking is between you and the provider.
- It is not a payment service. The shared-cost ledger is a record of what people agreed, not an account holding money. Nothing you enter moves a cent; players pay each other directly, by whatever means they already use.
Your account
- You must be 18 or older.
- One account, one person. It is yours, not a team’s.
- Keep your sign-in to yourself. If you lose control of the email address it uses, tell us.
- What you put in your profile should be true, because other players decide whether to travel with you on the strength of it.
What we ask of you
The app puts you in touch with strangers in another country. Nearly all of this is obvious, and it is written down anyway:
- Do not harass, threaten or abuse anyone, in a message or anywhere else.
- Do not pretend to be someone you are not, and do not use another player’s IPIN.
- Do not scrape the service, hammer the API, or try to reach data that is not yours.
- Do not use the shared-cost ledger to record anything unlawful.
If you break these we may suspend or close your account. Where it is proportionate we will ask you to stop first.
What you write stays yours
Your messages, your trips, your photos and your notes remain yours. You give us only the permission the service needs in order to work: to store what you write and show it to the people you have shared it with. We do not publish it, sell it, or use it to train anything.
Money between players
The ledger records what a trip cost and who paid for what. The payment handles you add — an IBAN, a Pix key, a UPI id — are shown to the other members of the group so they can pay you back themselves.
We never hold, move or handle money, and a debt the app shows is between the players, not with us. If someone does not pay you back, that is a matter between the two of you; we can show you the record and nothing more.
Information that comes from elsewhere
- Tournament information
- Gathered from the governing bodies’ own published calendars. Dates, fees and above all entry and withdrawal deadlines change, and a feed can be wrong or late. Check the deadline with the organiser before you rely on it. Missing one because the app said the wrong date is not something we can put right for you.
- Places to stay
- Supplied by Booking.com. Prices and availability are theirs and can change between your seeing them and your booking. Where you book through a link from the app, we may be paid a commission by Booking.com. It costs you nothing and it does not change what we show you or the order we show it in.
- Flight status
- Supplied by AeroDataBox. Useful, not authoritative; the airline is.
- Exchange rates
- The European Central Bank’s daily reference rates, which are an indication rather than the rate your bank will give you.
What we can and cannot promise
We will run the service carefully and fix what we find broken. We cannot promise it is never down, and we cannot promise that information arriving from somewhere else is correct.
Nothing here limits any right you have as a consumer under Dutch or European law. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury, for fraud, or for damage caused deliberately or by gross negligence. Those cannot be signed away, and this does not try.
Beyond that, so far as the law allows: Court Companion is free and is offered as it is. It is not liable for indirect or consequential loss — an entry deadline you missed, a flight you did not catch, a booking that went wrong with the company you booked it from, or a figure in the shared-cost ledger that you and the people you travel with settled between yourselves. Anything that costs you money is worth checking against its source before you act on it.
Ending it
You can delete your account from the profile screen at any time, and you do not have to tell us why. What happens to your data afterwards is in the privacy notice.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or stop offering the service altogether — in which case we will give you notice and time to take your data out.
Which law, and which court
Dutch law applies. If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the European Union, you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country, and you can bring a claim in the courts there; that choice of law does not take it away.
When these terms change
The date at the top changes with them, and we will tell you in the app before a change that matters takes effect. Carrying on using the service afterwards means you accept the new version; if you do not, delete your account.