Game Cast

Terms of use

The agreement for using the Game Cast app: who may have an account, who may film a game, what happens to a child's record, and what we do and do not promise.

Effective September 28, 2026. Game Cast is offered in the United States only and is written for United States law. Beta version; these terms will be updated before the app stores release. Game Cast is operated by the company being formed to own it; this page will name that company, and give its mailing address, before the app stores release. Buying gear or a membership on the website is covered by the terms on the site; this page covers the app.

Agreeing to this

Game Cast is a scorebook, live video and player-record app for youth baseball and softball. Creating an account or using the app means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the app, and tell us so we can close the account.

Who may have an account

You must be 18 or older to agree to these terms on your own behalf. A coach, scorekeeper, parent or guardian account is an adult account.
A player aged 13 to 17 may hold an account only with a parent or guardian's approval in the app, and the parent stays on the record as a co-owner.
Nobody under 13 gets an account. A younger child appears in Game Cast only as a player record held by a parent or guardian.
One person per account, and you are responsible for what is done with yours. Keep your password to yourself; tell us if you think someone else has it.
The email address on the account has to work, because verification codes, password resets and account deletion all go through it.

Children, and who speaks for them

A player record is the child's, and the family holds it. A coach creates a record and shares a claim code; a parent claims it with that code and the child's date of birth. At 18 the record is handed to the player, and the parent stays on as a co-owner.

Photographs of a minorA minor's photo is shown only to the family, the approved coaches of a team the child is on, and Game Cast itself until a parent or guardian has consented in the app. Consent can be withdrawn at any time, and the photo stops being served.

Your league or club holds the paper permissions for photography and video at its events. Game Cast keeps its own record of what a parent agreed to here; it is not a substitute for the league's, and it does not give anyone permission the league has refused.

Filming and broadcasting a game

This is the part to read twice, because it involves other people's children.

A game is streamed by a coach, a scorekeeper, or a volunteer a coach has approved for that game. Nobody else can start a broadcast.
Approval is per game and can be withdrawn. A coach can end a broadcast at any time.
Only people signed in to Game Cast can watch: the teams, their followers, and — while a game is live — other signed-in members. Game Cast has no public share links for a game's video, and that is deliberate. Do not re-post or re-broadcast the video anywhere else.
Whether filming is allowed at a given field is the venue's and the league's decision, not ours. Follow their rules, and stop if you are asked to stop.
Everybody on the field, in both dugouts and in shot is in the picture. If a family objects, stop filming them; if that cannot be done, stop filming.
Recordings and clips are kept for a limited window and then deleted. The demo game deletes its recording every time the game ends.
Do not point a camera anywhere but the game. No bathrooms, changing areas, parking lots or anybody's back garden.

Scores, stats and pitch counts are not official

What a volunteer taps into a scorebook is the team's own record of the game. It is not the league's official result, and Game Cast is not an authority on the rules. The pitch counter and its warning colors are a convenience, not a rule engine: the umpire and the league decide what a pitcher may throw, whether a game is suspended, and what the final score was. Never use the app's count as the reason to leave a child on the mound.

Your content

Photos, video, rosters, messages and game records you put into Game Cast stay yours. You give us the permission needed to store them, show them to the people you have shared them with inside the app, and process them to make the product work — cutting clips, adding up statistics, reading a name aloud in an announcement. We do not sell them, license them to anyone else, or use them to advertise.

You must have the right to put in what you put in. A roster you import, a team logo, a photograph of somebody else's child: if it is not yours to share, do not upload it.

Music and walk-up songs

Song search and walk-up previews come from Apple's public catalog search. A preview is a short clip supplied by Apple and played through Apple's service.
Between-innings music plays in Apple's own embedded player. Hearing full songs needs the listener's own Apple Music subscription; Game Cast neither stores nor supplies the music, and cannot start, stop or fade it.
Playlists are screened for explicit tracks when a coach saves one. Screening reads Apple's own labelling and is not a guarantee — a coach is responsible for what a playlist plays at a field full of children.
Playing music over a PA at an event can need a licence that the venue, league or tournament holds. Getting that right is theirs and yours, not ours.

Memberships

Scoring, watching, alerts, one camera, automatic clips, season statistics and roster import are free, and free means free — not a trial.
Plus and Clubhouse add features on top. What is in each is shown in the app and on the memberships page; a feature can move between tiers, and if one you are paying for moves out of your tier you keep it for the period you have already paid for.
A Clubhouse membership belongs to a team, so every family on that roster gets the paid experience for as long as it lasts.
Founding accounts: the first 25 accounts to sign up keep Clubhouse at no charge, for as long as the account exists. It is a gift, not a contract, and it does not transfer to somebody else.
Memberships are bought on the Game Cast website, not through an app store. Payment, renewal, cancellation and refunds are covered by the terms on the site.

How to behave here

The team thread is coaching staff and parents talking about a team of children. Do not harass anyone, do not post anything you would not say in front of the whole dugout, and do not use Game Cast to contact a child who is not yours. We can suspend or close an account used to harm somebody, and we will.

What we do not promise

The app is provided as it is. Game Cast is in beta; it runs on real hardware, at a real field, on real cell service, and a broadcast can fail, a recording can be lost and an alert can arrive late. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we do not promise that a game you meant to record was recorded. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot lose.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our liability for any claim arising out of the app is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before it arose. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else the law does not let us limit.

Ending it

You can delete your account from My account at any time; a code is emailed to confirm it. Your account, your messages, your follows and your photo go. Player records you hold are unlinked rather than destroyed, because they are the child's; a team you are the only coach of has to be handed to another coach or deleted first.
We can close an account that breaks these terms, and we will say why.
If Game Cast shuts down, we will give reasonable notice and a way to get your team's records out.

Changes

If these terms change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and the change is described here. Continuing to use the app after that is accepting the new version.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of the State of Georgia, and its courts have jurisdiction. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Questions about these terms: [email protected] · About your family's data: [email protected] · Privacy policy