MatUnity Coach Terms and Conditions

Version 1.0

This agreement is between you ("you", "the Coach") and MatUnity Technologies Inc. ("MatUnity", "we", "us"), a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada.

Acceptance is given electronically and has the effect of a signature under Alberta's Electronic Transactions Act, SA 2001, c E-5.5.

1. What a MatUnity coach profile is

1.1 A MatUnity coach profile is a professional identity you own: your belt and rank, disciplines, certifications, languages, years coaching, and the record of the academies where you have taught.

1.2 The profile is yours, not an academy's. It is not a record inside one gym's database that disappears when you leave, and your standing accumulates across every academy that engages you.

1.3 A profile is not an engagement and confers nothing on its own. It does not give you access to any academy's members, classes or facilities, and it is not an offer of work by MatUnity or by any academy. Access follows from an academy inviting you, on whatever terms you and that academy agree.

1.4 Be aware of what does not exist yet. MatUnity does not currently allow athletes to book or pay you directly, does not operate a searchable coach directory, and does not sell seminars, private lessons or digital content on your behalf. Those are planned; nothing in this agreement is a promise that they will arrive, or when. Creating a profile now means your history is already in place if they do.

2. Eligibility and accuracy

2.1 You must be at least 18 years old and provide accurate registration information.

2.2 You are responsible for the accuracy of every credential on your profile. Claiming a rank, certification or affiliation you do not hold is a material breach of this agreement, and MatUnity may remove the claim, suspend the profile or terminate your account.

2.3 MatUnity may ask you to substantiate a credential and may mark it unverified until you do. We do not warrant to anyone that your credentials are accurate; we present them as your representations.

2.4 If you coach or supervise anyone under the age of majority, you are responsible for holding whatever clearances the academy and the law require, including criminal record and vulnerable sector checks. MatUnity does not perform them for you.

3. Your relationship with MatUnity, and with academies

3.1 You are not an employee of MatUnity. Nothing in this agreement creates employment, a partnership, agency or joint venture between you and MatUnity, and no provision of Alberta's Employment Standards Code, RSA 2000, c E-9, applies as between you and us on the basis of this agreement.

3.2 Your engagement with any academy is a matter between you and that academy: its terms, your pay, your schedule, your classification as employee or independent contractor, and your insurance are theirs and yours to settle. MatUnity is not a party to it and does not set, guarantee, collect or pay your remuneration.

3.3 You are responsible for your own insurance, including professional liability coverage appropriate to instruction, and for your own tax affairs including any GST registration and remittance obligation under the Excise Tax Act (RSC 1985, c E-15).

3.4 MatUnity does not supervise, direct or evaluate your coaching.

4. Profile content and what is public

4.1 What is public: your name, photograph, disciplines, rank, certifications, languages, years coaching, and the academies where you hold a current engagement.

4.2 What is never public: what you are paid. Each academy sets your title and your compensation with them, and the platform does not display or disclose it to other academies, to athletes, or on your profile.

4.3 You keep ownership of the content you submit and grant MatUnity a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, display and distribute it as part of operating and promoting the platform. That licence ends for new uses when you delete your profile; material already distributed in a promotional context may persist.

4.4 You will not upload content you have no right to use, including photographs of other people taken without their consent or third-party marks.

5. Claiming an existing profile

5.1 An academy may create a coach record naming you before you have an account. If so, the academy can give you a claim link.

5.2 Opening that link takes ownership of the existing record rather than creating a second one, so the engagements already attached to it stay with you. Once claimed, the record is yours and the academy can no longer edit its contents — only the engagement it holds with you.

5.3 Claiming a profile that is not yours is a material breach and may also be an offence.

6. Conduct

6.1 You will treat athletes, academies and other coaches with respect, and will not engage in harassment, discrimination or conduct prohibited by the Alberta Human Rights Act, RSA 2000, c A-25.5.

6.2 You will not misrepresent your affiliation with MatUnity or hold yourself out as its employee, agent or representative.

6.3 You will not use information obtained through the platform to solicit an academy's members away from it, or to circumvent MatUnity's fees on mat time sourced through the marketplace.

6.4 MatUnity may suspend or terminate your profile for a breach of this section, for a credible and unresolved safety concern, or where law requires it. Where the reason permits, you will be told what it is and given a reasonable opportunity to respond.

7. Your personal information

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

7.2 Because a coach profile is a professional identity, much of it is public by design. Section 4 sets out precisely what is public and what is not.

7.3 You may request access to your personal information, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account. Records that must be retained by law, or that relate to an unresolved incident or dispute, are kept and you will be told what and why.

7.4 Our processors may store information outside Alberta. That is disclosed here because PIPA requires it.

8. Liability

8.1 To the extent permitted by law, MatUnity's total liability to you arising out of or relating to this agreement is limited to one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD 100), or the total fees you have paid MatUnity in the preceding twelve months, whichever is greater. MatUnity does not currently charge coaches a fee.

8.2 MatUnity is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages, or for loss of engagements, income, opportunity, data or reputation.

8.3 You will indemnify MatUnity against claims arising from your coaching, your representations about your credentials, your content, or your breach of this agreement.

8.4 Sections 8.1 and 8.2 do not apply to MatUnity's gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or to liability that cannot be limited under Alberta law.

8.5 The platform is provided on an "as is" basis, with no warranty of engagements, income or continuous availability.

9. Term and termination

9.1 Either party may terminate at any time. You may delete your profile from your account settings.

9.2 Deleting your profile does not end any engagement you have with an academy, which is governed by your agreement with that academy.

9.3 Sections 4.3, 7, 8 and 10 survive termination.

10. Governing law and dispute resolution

10.1 This agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Alberta.

10.2 The parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute by good-faith negotiation within 30 days of written notice.

10.3 Failing that, the dispute will be finally resolved by arbitration before a single arbitrator under Alberta's Arbitration Act, RSA 2000, c A-43, seated in Calgary, Alberta, in English.

10.4 Section 10.3 does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief from the Court of King's Bench of Alberta.

10.5 If you are properly characterised as a consumer rather than a business in respect of a particular claim, section 10.3 does not apply to that claim and you may bring it in the courts of Alberta.

11. General

11.1 MatUnity may amend this agreement, published as a numbered version with a summary of the change and its effective date. Where a change materially affects your rights or obligations you will be asked to accept the new version.

11.2 An unenforceable provision is severed; the remainder continues.

11.3 You may not assign this agreement. MatUnity may assign it on a reorganisation or sale of its business.

11.4 This is the entire agreement between you and MatUnity on this subject.

11.5 Questions: contact@matunity.com.