Terms of service.

1. Who these terms are between

These terms cover your use of uncommittedrecruits.com and any advisory work you engage Uncommitted Recruits to do. "We" and "us" mean Uncommitted Recruits; "you" means the parent or guardian using the site or engaging us. By using the site you accept these terms; if you engage us, they apply to that work alongside whatever we agree in writing about scope, price and timing.

2. What we provide

We provide educational and advisory services about the college athletic recruiting process: evaluation of where an athlete currently stands, target-list construction, guidance on film and coach communication, event planning, and help comparing offers. Everything we produce is advice for you to act on.

3. What we are not

We are also not academic advisers, financial advisers, tax advisers or lawyers. The academic and financial-aid fit analysis is an informational estimate built from published cost and aid data; it is not financial advice, and actual awards are determined by the institutions.

4. Eligibility and compliance are yours to verify

Recruiting rules, contact periods, eligibility standards and roster limits are set by governing bodies and individual institutions, and they change. We will tell you what we understand the current position to be, and we keep up to date. You remain responsible for confirming anything that affects eligibility with the relevant governing body, your athlete's high school, and the compliance office of the institution concerned before acting on it.

5. What you are responsible for

• Giving us accurate information. A target list built from an inflated account of where an athlete stands is worse than no list at all.
• Doing the work. Our plans only produce anything if someone runs them — the emails, the film, the follow-up. That is the athlete's job, not ours.
• Your own decisions. We advise; you and your athlete decide what to attend, whom to contact and what to accept.
• Ensuring the parent or guardian is the one engaging us and consenting to our handling of the athlete's information.

6. Fees and payment

Prices for standard tiers and add-ons are published on the pricing page and apply to engagements agreed while they are published there. Workshop and organizational retainer pricing is quoted individually. Fees are in US dollars, invoiced by email after the intro call, and payable on the terms stated on the invoice. Multi-Year is payable in installments; Recruiting Partner can be split across the year by agreement. Continued delivery may be paused while an invoice is overdue.

7. Cancellation and refunds

Before delivery

If you decide to stop before the written deliverable for a tier has been sent to you, tell us and we will refund what you have paid for that tier.

After delivery

Once the written deliverable has been sent — the two-page assessment, the Blueprint, or a year's plan — that portion of the fee is earned and is not refundable, because the work has been done and cannot be returned.

Ongoing tiers

Recruiting Partner and Multi-Year can be cancelled with 30 days' notice. We will refund the unused portion of any period paid in advance beyond that notice, less the value of deliverables already sent.

Scheduled calls

Rescheduling is free with 24 hours' notice, and we will be reasonable about anything less — sport and family life do not run to a calendar. Repeatedly missed calls without notice may be counted as delivered.

If we cancel

If we cannot continue for any reason, we refund everything paid for work not yet delivered.

8. Deliverables and how you may use them

Target lists, assessments, calendars, templates and other written deliverables are prepared for your family and remain our intellectual property, licensed to you for your own use with your athlete. Please do not resell them, publish them, or distribute them to other families or to an organization — organizational use is what the retainer is for. Everything published on this site is free to read, quote and share with attribution.

9. Confidentiality

We treat what you share during an engagement as confidential and handle it as set out in the privacy policy. We will not use your athlete's name, film or outcome in marketing.

10. Site content

The guidance published on this site — including how recruiting actually works — is general educational content, not advice about your athlete's situation. It is accurate to the best of our knowledge on the date shown, and the recruiting landscape changes. Nothing on the site creates an advisory relationship; that begins when we agree an engagement.

11. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, our total liability arising out of or connected with any engagement is limited to the fees you have paid us for that engagement, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses — including recruiting outcomes, admission decisions, scholarship amounts, or money spent on events, travel or services on the basis of our advice. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the date at the top of the page shows when. Changes apply to new engagements from the date they are posted. The terms in force when you engaged us continue to govern that engagement unless we both agree otherwise in writing.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, and the state and federal courts sitting in New York County have jurisdiction over any dispute. Before anyone goes anywhere near a court, please email us — almost everything is fixable with a phone call.

14. Contact

max@uncommittedrecruits.com · 646-239-3888, weekdays 9am–6pm Eastern.

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