Terms of Use
and Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

By creating an account, accessing BoutCam, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms of Use (“Terms”). If you do not agree, do not use BoutCam.

1. The Service

BoutCam helps fencers, parents and guardians, coaches, and others involved in fencing record, score, organize, review, export, and transfer fencing-bout videos. Features may include:

• Video and audio recording
• Fencer names, scores, and touch timing
• Playback, touch navigation, and variable-speed review
• Albums and event organization
• Video export to a device photo library
• Direct transfer to a nearby BoutCam device
• Optional club, fencer, sharing, and tournament features

BoutCam is an evolving service. Features, supported devices, and availability may change.

2. Eligibility and intended audience

BoutCam is intended for fencers age 13 or older, parents and guardians, coaches, and other adults involved in fencing. It is not designed or directed to children under 13.

You must be at least 13 years old to create or operate a BoutCam account. If we discover that an account is being operated by someone under 13, we may suspend or remove it.

3. Accounts and authentication

You may create an account using Sign in with Google or Sign in with Apple. We may also offer an anonymous demonstration account. Your relationship with Google or Apple is governed by that provider’s terms and privacy policies.

You agree to:

• Use only an account you are authorized to use.
• Provide accurate information through your sign-in provider.
• Protect access to your account and device.
• Notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.
• Accept responsibility for activity performed through your account.

4. Recording and sharing responsibly

BoutCam stores bout recordings locally on your device by default. It does not provide a public feed or make recordings publicly discoverable. A recording is made available to another person only when you choose to export or transfer it, or otherwise use a sharing feature and select or authorize its recipients.

You are responsible for complying with applicable recording laws and tournament, venue, club, and team policies. Do not record, name, export, transfer, or share a person when doing so is prohibited or when you do not have any authority or permission required by applicable law or policy. Respect requests from participants and responsible officials to stop recording or sharing.

5. Bout and tournament information is not official

BoutCam is not an official scoring, refereeing, bout-committee, tournament-management, eligibility, or results service. Names, scores, touch timing, assignments, and other information may be incomplete, delayed, or incorrect.

If BoutCam differs from a referee, bout committee, tournament organizer, FencingTimeLive, AskFRED, or another official source, the official source controls. BoutCam video should not be treated as official replay review unless the governing rules and responsible officials expressly permit it.

6. Your content

You retain ownership of recordings and other content you create. You are responsible for that content, including its legality, accuracy, storage, backup, recipients, and use after export or transfer.

Bout videos and audio stored only on your device are not uploaded or licensed to DieDojo. For information you choose to submit to BoutCam’s cloud or sharing features, you grant DieDojo a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, format, display, and distribute that information only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, and improve the Service.

You may not submit, export, or transfer content unless you have the rights and permissions needed to do so. You must respect copyright, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, and other rights of participants and third parties.

7. Exports and TouchTransfer

When you export a video or use TouchTransfer, you choose the destination or recipient. Confirm the intended recipient before sending. Once a recording is exported or transferred, the recipient or destination controls its copy, and DieDojo cannot retrieve or delete that copy for you.

TouchTransfer is designed to use an encrypted direct connection, but transfers may fail, be interrupted, or connect to an unintended device if you select the wrong recipient. You are responsible for reviewing the recipient shown in BoutCam before accepting or sending a transfer.

8. Optional cloud, club, and tournament features

Optional features may let you select a fencing club, follow or share a fencer, synchronize bout metadata, or use tournament information. A club selection or sharing relationship does not necessarily mean DieDojo has verified your identity, membership, authority, or relationship to a fencer.

You may access or synchronize only information that you are authorized to use and share. Your use of information from FencingTimeLive, AskFRED, a fencing club, a tournament organizer, or another source remains subject to that source’s terms and rules.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Record, submit, export, or transfer content unlawfully.
• Knowingly submit false, misleading, or fraudulent information.
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your authority.
• Harass, threaten, exploit, monitor, or harm another person.
• Use recordings or personal information for an improper purpose.
• Interfere with a bout, tournament, club, team, or venue.
• Bypass access controls, permissions, or security protections.
• Introduce malicious code or disrupt the Service.
• Scrape, overload, reverse engineer, or misuse BoutCam except where applicable law permits it.
• Use BoutCam in violation of law or another service’s terms.

10. Account deletion

You may delete your BoutCam account through the Settings screen. Account deletion removes your authentication account and the profile data stored beneath your BoutCam user record. It does not automatically delete videos stored on your device, videos exported to your photo library, or copies transferred to another person. See Delete Your Account for step-by-step instructions and an email option if you cannot access the app.

Shared fencer records, memberships, invitations, bout metadata, and tournament records may remain when maintained as shared records outside your user profile. Additional details appear in the Privacy Policy.

11. Third-party services

BoutCam relies on or links to services that may include Google, Apple, Firebase, FencingTimeLive, AskFRED, Geoapify, CARTO, OpenStreetMap, Google Forms, and club or tournament websites. Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. DieDojo does not control their availability, accuracy, security, content, or practices.

BoutCam is not affiliated with or endorsed by USA Fencing, FencingTimeLive, AskFRED, tournament organizers, fencing clubs, or other organizations unless expressly stated.

12. Advertising and paid services

BoutCam does not currently display advertising. We may offer paid features, subscriptions, contextual sponsorships, or promotions in the future. Any applicable price and payment terms will be presented before purchase. Sponsored content will be identified where appropriate.

13. Intellectual property

BoutCam’s software, branding, design, logos, and original content belong to DieDojo LLC or its licensors. These Terms do not grant permission to copy, modify, sell, distribute, sublicense, or reverse engineer BoutCam except where applicable law expressly permits it. Third-party names, trademarks, records, and content remain the property of their owners.

14. Service changes and termination

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of BoutCam. We may suspend or terminate an account if we reasonably believe the user violated these Terms, threatens another person or the Service, uses the account fraudulently or unlawfully, or if action is necessary to comply with law. You may stop using BoutCam or delete your account at any time.

15. Disclaimer of warranties

BoutCam is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the extent permitted by law, DieDojo disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, and noninfringement.

We do not guarantee that recording, audio, scoring, touch timing, playback, export, transfer, synchronization, or account features will always work without interruption, error, delay, corruption, or data loss. Maintain appropriate backups of recordings you need to preserve. Some jurisdictions do not permit certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

16. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, DieDojo LLC and its officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from BoutCam, including loss, disclosure, corruption, or deletion of a recording.

To the extent permitted by law, DieDojo’s total liability for claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid DieDojo for BoutCam during the 12 months preceding the claim or US $100. These limitations do not apply where prohibited by law.

17. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold DieDojo harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses arising from your unlawful use of BoutCam, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights. This section does not apply where prohibited by law.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as BoutCam changes. We will revise the effective date and provide additional notice when required by law. Continuing to use BoutCam after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

19. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Legal proceedings relating to these Terms or BoutCam must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction located in California, unless applicable law provides otherwise.

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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how DieDojo collects, uses, discloses, and retains information through BoutCam.

1. Information processed by BoutCam

Bout recordings and bout details

When you record or import a bout, BoutCam may process the video and audio, fencer names, scores, touch timing, album or event information, recording dates, playback information, and related video metadata. The video and audio are stored locally on your device unless you choose to export or transfer them. If you enable an optional sharing feature, selected bout details—but not the video or audio—may be synchronized to Firebase as described below.

Camera, microphone, and photo-library access

BoutCam requests camera and microphone access to record bouts. It requests permission to add media to your photo library when you choose to export a video. BoutCam does not use these permissions to collect your existing photo library or recordings in the background.

Nearby transfers

TouchTransfer uses Bluetooth to discover nearby BoutCam devices and an encrypted, direct WebRTC connection to transfer the bout package you select. During discovery, nearby devices may see your BoutCam display name, account display name, or device name. The transfer may include the selected video, audio, fencer names, scores, touch timing, and album information.

BoutCam uses Google’s STUN service to help devices establish a direct connection. Google may receive network information such as IP addresses as part of that connection process. BoutCam does not use a relay or DieDojo video server for TouchTransfer.

Account information

If you sign in with Google or Apple, we may receive your name, email address (including an Apple private relay address), a provider-specific account identifier, the identity provider used, and authentication and security tokens. We do not receive your Google or Apple password. You may use core local features as a guest without creating an account.

Optional club, fencer, and tournament features

If you use BoutCam’s club or event features, we may process your selected club, followed fencers, sharing relationships, invitations, and tournament information. When fencer sharing is enabled, BoutCam may also synchronize album and bout metadata such as fencer names, event details, recording identifiers, recording time and duration, scores, and touch timing. BoutCam does not upload the associated video or audio. Tournament information can include fencer names and club affiliations, tournament and event names, schedules, venues, pool and tableau assignments, scores, placements, and results. Some of this information may concern people who do not have BoutCam accounts, including minor athletes.

Device, website, and technical information

Our systems and service providers may process information such as:

• IP address and network connection information
• Device type, operating system, app version, and build number
• Authentication and app-integrity information
• Request timestamps, errors, diagnostics, and security information
• Locally stored preferences, recent app state, and cached data

The BoutCam website does not currently use advertising cookies or third-party analytics tags. Its hosting and network providers may still process ordinary server-request information, such as an IP address, browser type, and request time.

On older Android versions, the operating system may require a location permission for Bluetooth discovery. BoutCam does not use that permission to collect or track your precise location.

Analytics and app activity

BoutCam uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how people use the app, improve features, and diagnose reliability problems. Firebase Analytics may process a randomly generated app-instance identifier, Apple’s Identifier for Vendor, app lifecycle information, app version, device model, operating-system information, language, and coarse geographic information derived from a masked IP address. BoutCam does not use Apple’s advertising identifier or use Analytics for tracking or targeted advertising.

BoutCam sends limited product-interaction and operational events, such as whether a user is signed in or using the app as a guest; aggregate counts of fencers, albums, and videos; creation, deletion, movement, recording, playback, export, and nearby-transfer actions; recording settings; duration and file-size measurements; and bounded success, cancellation, or failure categories.

These Analytics events are designed not to include fencer names or identifiers, account names or email addresses, tournament or album names, video or audio, precise location, URLs, Firebase user IDs, or other free-form user content. Google processes Analytics information for us under its applicable terms and data-retention settings.

External forms and links

If you open a feedback or club-request form, Google Forms may collect information you choose to submit. BoutCam may also open third-party tournament or mapping services. Information you provide directly to a third party is governed by that party’s privacy practices.

2. How we use information

We use information to:

• Record, organize, score, play, export, and transfer bout videos.
• Create, authenticate, support, and delete BoutCam accounts.
• Provide optional club, fencer, sharing, and tournament features.
• Maintain preferences and synchronize eligible cloud information.
• Understand feature usage and improve app reliability.
• Secure, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve BoutCam.
• Detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unauthorized access.
• Respond to support, privacy, and legal requests.
• Comply with applicable law and enforce our agreements.

We do not use your bout videos, audio, account information, or app activity for targeted advertising.

3. How information is disclosed

At your direction

When you export a video or use TouchTransfer, you direct BoutCam to disclose that bout content to the destination or nearby device you select. The recipient controls their copy after the transfer.

Other BoutCam users

Users participating in optional shared club, fencer, or tournament features may see information made available through those features, including names, club affiliations, event information, sharing relationships, and eligible user contributions.

Service providers

We use service providers to operate BoutCam, including:

• Google Firebase: authentication, databases, server functions, app integrity, analytics, hosting, and infrastructure.
• Google and Apple: account authentication.
• Google STUN: establishing direct nearby-device connections for TouchTransfer.
• Google Forms: optional feedback and club requests.
• FencingTimeLive and AskFRED: tournament, event, fencer, venue, and results information.
• Geoapify, CARTO, and OpenStreetMap: venue geocoding, map presentation, and map data.
• Apple and Google platform services: app distribution, permissions, photo-library export, and operating-system functions.

These providers may receive the information needed to perform their functions. We do not give service providers your locally stored bout videos unless you direct a feature that requires sending the video to that provider.

Legal, safety, and business disclosures

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law or valid legal process; protect users, DieDojo, or the public; investigate fraud, abuse, or security incidents; or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. Information may also transfer as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, subject to applicable law.

4. Advertising and sale of information

BoutCam does not currently display advertising. We do not sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Data retention and deletion

Bout videos and related bout details remain on your device until you delete them, remove the app and its data, or otherwise erase the device. Videos exported to your photo library or transferred to another person must be deleted separately from those destinations.

We retain account information and eligible cloud information while your account is active and for as long as reasonably necessary to provide BoutCam. You may request account deletion through BoutCam’s Settings screen. Account deletion removes your authentication account and the profile data stored beneath your BoutCam user record. See Delete Your Account for complete instructions.

Deleting your account does not automatically delete locally stored or exported videos. Shared fencer records, sharing memberships, album or bout metadata, invitations, and tournament records may remain when they are maintained as shared records outside your user profile, particularly when other users rely on the same information.

We may retain information longer when reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or enforcement. Residual copies may remain temporarily in backups, security records, and service-provider logs until routine deletion.

6. Your choices and privacy rights

You can:

• Manage camera, microphone, Bluetooth, local-network, photo-library, and location permissions in your device settings.
• Choose whether to export or transfer any bout video.
• Delete locally stored bouts and separately delete exported copies from your photo library.
• Manage BoutCam’s access through your Google or Apple account settings.
• Delete your BoutCam account through the Settings screen or request deletion if you cannot access the app.

Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a portable copy of certain personal information; object to or restrict certain processing; withdraw consent; or appeal our response to a privacy request. Email us to make a request. We may need to verify your identity, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

7. Children’s privacy and recording others

BoutCam is a general-audience service for fencers age 13 or older, parents and guardians, coaches, and other adults involved in fencing. It is not designed or directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not create or operate a BoutCam account.

Recordings created by parents, guardians, coaches, and other users may depict minor athletes or other people who do not use BoutCam. Appearing in a recording does not create a BoutCam account for that person.

DieDojo does not receive a child’s image or voice merely because it is recorded and stored locally in BoutCam. BoutCam has no public feed or public discovery feature for recordings. A recording is shared only at the account holder’s direction, such as with a selected person or, when enabled by the account holder, an eligible coach of the account holder’s selected fencing club.

Optional cloud features may process limited bout metadata concerning a minor athlete, such as a fencer’s name, club, event, score, and touch timing. BoutCam does not upload the associated video or audio. The account holder is responsible for using and sharing recordings and bout information appropriately and in accordance with applicable law and tournament, venue, club, and team policies.

If we discover that an account is being operated by someone under 13, we may suspend or remove the account and delete its associated personal information.

8. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information, including encrypted network connections, authentication, database access controls, app-integrity protections, and encrypted direct connections for TouchTransfer. No storage or transmission system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. International use

DieDojo operates from the United States. If you use BoutCam from another country, information may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as BoutCam changes. We will revise the effective date and provide additional notice or obtain consent when required by applicable law.

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