MatUnity Athlete Terms and Conditions

Version 1.0

These terms form a binding agreement between you and MatUnity Technologies Inc. ("MatUnity", "we", "us"), a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada. Please read section 6 (Assumption of Risk and Release) carefully. It limits what you may claim from us if you are injured.

By checking the acceptance box, you agree to these terms. Under Alberta's Electronic Transactions Act, SA 2001, c E-5.5, that action has the same legal effect as a written signature.

1. What MatUnity is, and what it is not

1.1 MatUnity operates an online marketplace where combat sports academies publish unused mat capacity ("MatSessions") and athletes book and pay for individual sessions.

1.2 We are an intermediary. MatUnity does not own, lease, operate, staff, supervise or inspect any academy, and does not provide instruction, coaching, training, first aid or supervision. Each academy is an independent business, solely responsible for its premises, its personnel, the conduct of its sessions and its compliance with the law.

1.3 The contract for the training itself is between you and the academy. MatUnity's contract with you is limited to providing the platform, processing your payment and administering the booking.

1.4 MatUnity is not a gym membership, a health club contract, or a personal training agreement. Each booking is for a single session with no ongoing obligation on either side.

2. Eligibility

2.1 You must be at least 18 years old to hold a MatUnity athlete account or to book a session. We do not accept bookings by or on behalf of minors.

2.2 The reason is legal rather than commercial: under Canadian law a parent or guardian generally cannot give up a minor child's right to sue for negligence, so the release in section 6 would give neither you nor the academy the certainty it is meant to provide. If MatUnity later enables youth bookings it will be under separate terms with separate consents.

2.3 You must provide accurate registration information, keep it current, and keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for activity on your account.

2.4 You may hold only one athlete account.

3. Verification and academy standards

3.1 MatUnity requires academies to pass business verification and to hold liability insurance before they may publish sessions, and requires athletes to complete identity verification before booking. These are screening measures. They are not a warranty about any academy, coach, participant or facility, and MatUnity does not guarantee the accuracy of information an academy or another athlete provides.

3.2 Each academy sets its own eligibility requirements for a session, which may include discipline, minimum experience level, minimum age and required equipment. An academy may refuse you entry, or ask you to leave, if in its judgment you do not meet its requirements or its standards of conduct. Refunds in that situation are governed by section 5 and the academy's stated cancellation policy.

3.3 You must comply with each academy's house rules, hygiene requirements and the directions of its staff while on its premises.

4. Booking, price and payment

4.1 Before you confirm a booking, MatUnity will show you an itemised total: the academy's session price, MatUnity's service fee, and Goods and Services Tax at the rate prescribed under the Excise Tax Act (RSC 1985, c E-15) — currently 5% in Alberta, which has no provincial sales tax.

4.2 The amount disclosed is the amount charged. No fee will be added after you initiate payment. If the price of a session changes between the moment we quote it and the moment you confirm, the booking is refused and re-quoted rather than charged at the new figure.

4.3 Payment is collected at the time of booking through our third-party payment processor and held until the session is complete and the dispute period in section 8 has passed. MatUnity does not store your full payment card details.

4.4 Where an academy requires approval before a booking is confirmed, your payment is authorised but not captured until the academy approves. An approval request that is not answered within the period shown at booking expires and the authorisation is released.

5. Cancellation and refunds

5.1 Each session displays one of MatUnity's standard cancellation policies before you pay. The policy shown at the time of booking is the policy that applies to that booking.

5.2 If the academy cancels a session, or the session does not take place for any reason attributable to the academy, you receive a full refund of everything you paid, including MatUnity's service fee and tax.

5.3 If you cancel, your refund is determined by the cancellation policy displayed at booking. If you do not attend and do not cancel, no refund is due.

5.4 Refunds are returned to the original payment method. Processing times are set by your financial institution and are outside MatUnity's control.

5.5 Nothing in this section limits any right you have under Alberta's Consumer Protection Act, RSA 2000, c C-26.3. Where that Act gives you a right that these terms would reduce, the Act prevails.

6. Assumption of risk, and release

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

6.1 The risks are real and you accept them. Brazilian jiu-jitsu, wrestling, judo, boxing, muay thai, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and related activities involve deliberate physical contact with other people. Participation carries an inherent and unavoidable risk of injury, including sprains, strains, fractures, dislocations, concussion and other head injury, dental injury, joint and ligament damage, cuts, skin and other infection, cardiac events, permanent disability and death. Those risks arise from the nature of the activity and cannot be eliminated by any precaution MatUnity or an academy takes.

6.2 You accept additional risks specific to drop-in training, including training with partners whose skill, size, strength, control and judgment are unknown to you; unfamiliar premises, equipment and rules; and the conduct of other participants.

6.3 You confirm that you are physically fit to participate, that you have no medical condition making participation unsafe, and that you have been advised to consult a physician before beginning or resuming training.

6.4 Release. In consideration of being permitted to book sessions through MatUnity, you release MatUnity, its directors, officers, employees and agents from all claims, demands, actions and liabilities for personal injury, death, or loss of or damage to property, arising from or connected with your participation in any session booked through the platform, including claims founded on the negligence of MatUnity.

6.5 What this release does not cover. It does not extend to gross negligence or wilful misconduct by MatUnity; to any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including under the Consumer Protection Act; or to the separate liability of an academy, a coach or another participant. Your rights against the academy on whose premises you train, including its duties as an occupier under Alberta's Occupiers' Liability Act, RSA 2000, c O-4, are unaffected by this agreement.

6.6 You acknowledge that this section is intended to be legally binding, that you have had the opportunity to read it in full and to seek independent legal advice, and that MatUnity would not permit you to book sessions on any other basis.

7. Conduct

7.1 You will treat academies, coaches and other athletes with respect, and will not engage in harassment, discrimination, intimidation, violence outside the agreed scope of training, or any conduct prohibited by the Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A-25.5.

7.2 You will not attend a session while impaired by alcohol or drugs, or with an infectious skin condition or other communicable illness.

7.3 You will not circumvent the platform by arranging or paying for MatUnity-sourced mat time directly with an academy in order to avoid our fees.

7.4 MatUnity may suspend or terminate your account for a breach of this section. Where a suspension follows a report from an academy or another athlete, you will be told the substance of the report and given a reasonable opportunity to respond, unless doing so would put someone at risk.

8. Reviews, disputes and incidents

8.1 Reviews may only be written about a session you actually attended and were checked in to. Reviews between you and the academy are withheld until both are submitted or the review window closes, so that neither side writes in reaction to the other.

8.2 You may raise a dispute about a completed session within the dispute window shown on the booking. MatUnity will review the evidence available to it, including check-in records, and may issue a full or partial refund. MatUnity's role is administering the payment, not adjudicating personal injury or other legal claims, and a decision under this section does not affect any legal right you have against the academy.

8.3 You must report any injury or safety incident to the academy immediately and to MatUnity through the platform as soon as practicable.

9. Your personal information

9.1 MatUnity handles personal information in accordance with Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act, SA 2003, c P-6.5, and, where information crosses provincial or national borders, the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

9.2 We collect what we need to operate the marketplace: your identity and verification records, booking and payment history, attendance, reviews, and the technical records of your use of the platform, including the address and browser from which you accept these terms.

9.3 Academies see only what they need. An academy you book with receives your name, photograph, discipline, experience level, emergency contact and the fact of your booking and attendance. It does not receive your identity documents, your date of birth, your payment details or your history at other academies.

9.4 You may request access to your personal information, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account. Some records must be retained after deletion where law requires it — financial records for tax purposes, and records relevant to an unresolved incident or dispute. We will tell you what has been kept and why.

9.5 Our processors, including our payment processor, may store information outside Alberta. That is disclosed here because PIPA requires it.

10. Intellectual property

10.1 MatUnity owns the platform, its software, its trade-marks and its content. These terms grant you a personal, non-transferable licence to use the platform for its intended purpose.

10.2 You keep ownership of the content you submit — your photographs, profile text and reviews — and grant MatUnity a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display and distribute it as part of operating and promoting the platform. That licence survives the deletion of your account for content already published, such as a review, in anonymised form.

11. Limitation of liability

11.1 To the extent permitted by law, MatUnity's total liability to you arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of the platform is limited to the greater of the total fees you paid to MatUnity in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD 100).

11.2 MatUnity is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages, or for loss of profit, opportunity, data or reputation, however caused.

11.3 The platform is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

11.4 Sections 11.1 to 11.3 do not apply to gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor to any liability that cannot be limited under Alberta law.

12. Suspension and termination

12.1 You may close your account at any time. Closing it does not cancel a booking already made or reverse a completed payment.

12.2 We may suspend or terminate your access for breach of these terms, for conduct that puts another person at risk, for suspected fraud, or where required by law. Where the reason permits it, we will tell you why.

12.3 Sections 6, 9, 10, 11 and 14 survive termination.

13. Changes to these terms

13.1 We may amend these terms. Each amendment is published as a numbered version with a summary of what changed and the date it takes effect.

13.2 Where an amendment materially affects your rights or obligations, you will be asked to accept the new version before you next book a session, and we will keep a record of which version you accepted and when. Continuing to use the platform after a non-material amendment constitutes acceptance of it.

13.3 Every version of these terms, current and past, remains available to you through your account.

14. Governing law and disputes

14.1 These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Alberta.

14.2 The courts of Alberta have jurisdiction, and you and MatUnity each attorn to the jurisdiction of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta. These terms do not require you to arbitrate and do not prevent you from bringing a claim in court, including in Alberta's Civil Claims (small claims) jurisdiction.

14.3 Before commencing proceedings, we ask that you contact us at contact@matunity.com so that we have an opportunity to resolve the matter. This is a request, not a precondition.

14.4 Limitation periods under Alberta's Limitations Act, RSA 2000, c L-12, apply. Nothing in these terms shortens them.

15. General

15.1 If any provision is found unenforceable, it is severed and the rest continues in force.

15.2 These terms, together with the cancellation policy and academy rules shown at booking, are the entire agreement between you and MatUnity on this subject.

15.3 A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

15.4 You may not assign this agreement. MatUnity may assign it in connection with a reorganisation or sale of its business.

15.5 Questions about these terms: contact@matunity.com.