Terms of use

1The agreement

In shortThese terms are between you and the publisher of this site. Using the site means you accept them.

These terms of use are an agreement between you and PickleballCourtsGuide.com, the publisher of Find Pickleball Courts (“we”, “us” and “the site”). They cover the website at pickleballcourtsguide.com and every page on it. By reading the site, linking to it, or writing to us through it, you agree to them.

If you do not agree with them, the remedy is simple: do not use the site. There is no account to close and nothing to cancel.

These terms incorporate the privacy policy, which describes what the site does and does not collect, and the image credits page, which records the licence every photograph is published under.

2What this site is

In shortA free directory of places to play pickleball in the United States, where every verified fact names its source and the date it was checked.

A directory of places to play pickleball in the United States, together with a few pages explaining the game. Every court count, address, set of lights and cost we publish as verified carries the name of the organisation that published it and the date we read it. How we verify sets out the standard a record has to meet before it appears.

Some listings are marked Unverified. Those were imported from public directory data, have not been through that standard, and are never counted in any verified figure on the site. The label is on the card and on the page, and these terms apply to unverified listings with the extra caution that label implies.

The site is free to read. There is no account, no subscription, no payment, no mobile app, no advertising and no forum. A terms page that spent its length on those things would be describing a different website, so this one does not.

3Who may use it

In shortAnyone may read it. You need to be at least 13 to write to us, and you are responsible for the law where you are.

Reading the site needs no permission from anybody and no information about you. Writing to us through the contact page does send us your name and email address, so you must be at least 13 years old to do that. If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian before you send us anything, and have them read these terms.

The site is published in the United States and describes places in the United States. If you read it from elsewhere, you are responsible for whether doing so is lawful where you are.

4What we promise, and what we do not

In shortWe promise that every verified fact has a named source and a date. We do not promise that a court is open, free or still there today.

The promise is a narrow one and we keep it: a verified fact on this site is what a named source published, read on a stated date. Where an operator states nothing we print “Not stated” rather than guessing, and where two of an operator’s own records disagree we publish the disagreement rather than quietly picking one.

What we cannot promise is that any of it is true today. Parks close, courts get resurfaced, nets come down for the winter and prices change without anyone telling us. Treat every page as a good record of what a source said on a date, not as a guarantee about this afternoon. Ring the venue before you drive.

Nothing on the site is advice about whether a place is safe, suitable or open to you, and nothing on the guide pages is coaching, medical or legal advice. The rules and dimensions are quoted from USA Pickleball; for a tournament, the tournament’s own rulebook governs.

5What you may do with what is published here

In shortRead it, link to it, print it, quote a line with a credit, and repeat any fact you find. Facts belong to nobody.

You may read any page, print or save a copy for your own use, link to any page from anywhere (including deep links to a single venue), share a link on social media, and quote a sentence or two with a credit and a link back.

You may also repeat any fact you find here. That a park has six courts, that they are lit, that play is free: those are facts, a fact belongs to nobody, and we make no claim over them. If you repeat one, we would rather you repeated its source and date too, because that is the part that makes it worth anything.

What these terms protect is the directory as a whole: the selection, checking, sourcing and dating of thousands of facts into one compiled work, and our own writing, page structure, diagrams and code around it. Section 6 says what you may not do with that, and section 8 says which parts of the site are not ours to license in the first place.

6What you may not do

In shortDo not copy the directory wholesale, pass it off as your own, strip the credits, send us false corrections, or use the site to harm anyone.

You agree not to:

• copy the directory wholesale, or a substantial part of it, or republish it as your own work, on any site, in any app, or in any dataset;
• remove, hide or alter the source, date or licence credit that accompanies a fact or a photograph, or present a fact as ours when the page names another organisation as its source;
• claim a listing you do not represent, send a correction you know to be false, or otherwise try to get a fact published that its stated source does not support;
• frame or embed our pages in a way that presents them as part of another site;
• use anything on the site to harass, stalk or harm a person, or to trespass on a venue that is closed or private;
• probe, overload, or interfere with the site, its host or the contact form, or send it anything designed to do so;
• use the site in any way that breaks a law that applies to you.

The list is short because the site is simple. If you want to do something and are not sure which side of it you are on, ask through the contact page rather than guess.

7Automated access, crawlers and AI tools

In shortSearch engines and well-behaved crawlers that follow robots.txt are welcome. Bulk extraction to rebuild the directory elsewhere is not.

Every page renders in full without JavaScript, and that is on purpose: we want this site to be easy to index. Search engines and other crawlers may fetch it, provided they follow the site’s robots.txt, identify themselves honestly, and fetch at a rate an ordinary reader would. The sitemap lists every page we want indexed.

An AI assistant or answer engine that reads a page to answer a reader’s question, and tells the reader where the answer came from, is doing what a search engine does and is welcome on the same terms. Systematically extracting the directory to build, train or fill a competing directory or dataset is the thing section 6 forbids, whatever tool does the extracting.

We may block or rate-limit traffic that ignores robots.txt, disguises what it is, or puts a load on the site that a reader never would. Nothing here obliges us to serve any automated client.

8What is not ours to license

In shortThe court data, the rules, the map tiles and the photographs each belong to someone else and carry their own licence, which we name.

Much of what is on these pages is other people’s work, used with credit, and we cannot grant you rights over it. In particular:

• The court data comes from parks departments and other operators. Each venue page names its source and links to it. What you may do with an operator’s own publication is for that operator to say.
• The rules, scoring and court measurements on the guide pages are quoted from USA Pickleball, the sport’s governing body, and remain theirs.
• The maps are built from OpenStreetMap data, used under the Open Database Licence, with tiles served by MapTiler on city and county pages. Attribution is on every map and must stay with any copy of one.
• The photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences that require attribution, and sometimes share-alike. The image credits page names the photographer and licence for every one; if you reuse a photograph, you take on that licence, not ours.

Our own writing, page structure, diagrams, wordmark and code are ours, and section 5 says what you may do with them. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of anything to anybody.

9What you send us

In shortCorrections, new venues and photographs are welcome. We may publish the facts with their source, we will not pay for them, and you must have the right to send them.

There are two ways to send us something. The contact page, which every claim, correction and add-a-court link on the site opens with a subject already filled in, sends one email to us and stores nothing on the site. The review form on a venue page stores what you type — your name, a star rating and your text, and an email address if you give one — until a person has read it; the privacy policy says what happens to each and how to have a review removed.

A review is your opinion, published under the name you give, once a person has read it. By posting one you confirm that you played there or otherwise know the place first hand, that it is your own writing, and that it names nobody in a way they could object to; and you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish it on the venue page and in any rating we compute from it, for as long as we choose to. We may decline to publish a review, or remove one, without giving a reason, and we never edit one to change its meaning. A review is not a fact about the venue: it does not change a court count, a fee or an hours line, and it buys nothing.

When you send us a correction, a new venue or any other fact:

• we will check it against a published source before it goes live, and if there is no source we will ask for one, because a number we cannot source does not go on the page;
• if it passes, we may publish it, edit it for length and house style, and keep it for as long as the listing exists, without payment and without naming you unless you are the venue and have confirmed a claim (section 10);
• you confirm that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the right to send it to us.

If you send us a photograph, you confirm that you took it or otherwise hold the rights to it, that nobody identifiable in it objects to its publication, and you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish it on the venue page and the pages that list that venue, with a credit in the name you give us, for as long as we choose to. You keep the copyright. If you later want it taken down, tell us and we will take it down; the licence exists so that we can publish what you sent, not so that we can do anything else with it.

Anything else you send (a suggestion, a complaint, an idea for the site) is not confidential, and we may act on it without owing you anything for it. We do not publish messages, and we do not add you to any list.

10Claims by operators

In shortA claim tells us who you are. It gives you a direct line for corrections, and buys no ranking, placement or trust.

If you run a venue that is listed here you can claim its listing. A confirmed claim means the page says “confirmed by the venue” with a date, and that future corrections from you are handled as coming from the operator.

A claim is an identity event, not evidence about the courts. We may ask you to confirm you speak for the venue, usually by replying from an address on the venue’s own domain or from a number the operator publishes, and we may decline a claim we cannot confirm. A change to a court count from a claimed venue is still checked against a published record before it goes live.

A claimed venue gets no ranking, sorting or placement advantage over an unclaimed one, and no claim is exclusive: a city parks department and a club that runs sessions on its courts can both be right about the same place. If a claim turns out to have been made by someone who did not represent the venue, we will remove the confirmation and anything published on the strength of it. A claim is free, creates no contract for any service, and can be withdrawn by either side at any time.

11Copyright complaints

In shortIf something here infringes your copyright, tell us through the contact page with the details below and we will act on it promptly.

We publish other people’s work only under licences that allow it and with the credit those licences require, and we would rather take something down than argue about it. If you believe a photograph, a diagram or any text on this site infringes a copyright you own or control, send a notice through the contact page that includes:

1. the page the material appears on, and which material;
2. the work you say it infringes, and where we can see that work;
3. your name, and how to reach you;
4. a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, their agent or the law;
5. a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for them;
6. your physical or electronic signature.

Those are the elements a notice under section 512(c)(3) of the US Copyright Act needs, and a notice that has them lets us act without a round of questions. A knowingly false notice can make you liable for the costs it causes. If we remove something that you supplied and you believe the removal was a mistake, write to us with the same details and we will consider a counter-notice on the same basis.

For a photograph, the image credits page already says what to do, and a photograph of your own venue that you are willing to license is better than any of ours.

12Links to other sites

In shortSource links, the directions button and the map tiles take you to sites we do not control and are not responsible for.

Every venue page links to the source it took its facts from, usually a parks department. The directions button opens Google Maps. The interactive map on city and county pages fetches tiles from MapTiler once your browser runs it. We link to a source because a fact without one is worthless, not because we endorse the site it lives on.

We do not control any of those sites, have not checked them, and are not responsible for what they say, what they collect or what they sell. Once you follow a link you are on their site under their terms and their privacy policy rather than ours, and any dealing you have with them is between you and them.

13Privacy

In shortThe privacy policy is part of these terms. The site sets no cookies and is hosted in the United States.

The privacy policy describes what this site does and does not collect, and it is part of these terms. The short version is that the site sets no cookies and has no way to know who you are, and that the one thing we ever receive about you is the email you choose to send us.

The site is hosted in the United States. If you read it from a country whose law treats personal data differently, anything you send us is processed in the United States.

14Availability and changes to the site

In shortThe site is provided as it is. We may change or remove pages, though a published address is meant to keep working.

We do not promise the site will always be available or free of errors. It may be down for maintenance, its host may have a bad day, and we may change, add or remove pages, listings and features at any time without notice. We are under no obligation to update any page, although the whole point of the site is that we try.

Published addresses are meant to be permanent. A URL here is intended to keep working rather than be reorganised away, and if a page has to move, the old address is meant to forward to the new one. That is an intention, not a warranty.

We may correct any error, omission or out-of-date fact on the site whenever we find one, without notice. Section 9 says how to tell us about one.

15Ending or restricting access

In shortThere is no account to close. We may block traffic that breaks these terms and decline to publish what anyone sends.

There is no account, so there is nothing for us to suspend and nothing for you to cancel. These terms apply for as long as you use the site and stop applying when you stop, except for the sections that by their nature outlast a visit: what you may do with what you copied, the licence on anything you sent us, and the disclaimers and limits below.

We may block, rate-limit or otherwise restrict access from any address, network or client that breaks these terms or that we reasonably believe is trying to, without notice. We may decline to publish, or later remove, anything sent to us, and we may remove a claim confirmation as section 10 describes.

16No warranties

In shortThe site is provided as it is and as available, with no warranty of any kind beyond what the law will not let us exclude.

The site and everything on it are provided as they are and as available, without any warranty, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. Section 4 says what we do stand behind: that a verified fact records what a named source said on a stated date. Beyond that we make no promise that any fact is complete, current or correct, that a court is open, playable, lit, free or safe, that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any site we link to is any of those things.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranties to be excluded, and if you are in one, the exclusion applies only as far as that law permits.

17Limit of liability

In shortYou pay nothing to use the site, and our liability to you is limited accordingly, except where the law does not allow it to be.

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither we nor anyone who works on the site will be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any lost time, wasted journey, lost data or lost profit, arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything on it, even if we were told it was possible. Our total liability to you for everything arising from the site, on any legal basis, is limited to the amount you paid us to use it, which is nothing.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits a liability that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud. Where the law where you live gives you rights that these terms cannot take away, you keep them.

The practical reading is the one section 4 gives: the site is a record of what sources said on dates, and if you drive to a court on the strength of it without ringing first, that is a risk you chose to take.

18Your responsibility for what you do

In shortIf your breach of these terms, or something you sent us, causes a claim against us, you cover it.

If a third party brings a claim against us that arises from your breach of these terms, from something you sent us that you did not have the right to send, or from a claim you made on a listing you did not represent, you agree to cover the loss that claim causes us, including reasonable legal costs. We will tell you about any such claim as soon as we reasonably can, and we may take over its defence at our own expense if we choose to.

This is narrower than the template clause you may have seen elsewhere, on purpose. It covers what you did, not everything that could ever happen in connection with a website.

19Governing law

In shortThese terms are governed by the law of the United States and of the state the operator is established in.

These terms, and any dispute about them or about the site, are governed by the federal law of the United States and the law of the US state in which the operator is established, without regard to any rule that would apply the law of somewhere else. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

If you live somewhere whose consumer law gives you protections that cannot be overridden by a choice of law, this section does not take them away.

20Resolving a dispute

In shortWrite to us first and give us thirty days. If that fails, the courts decide. We do not make you agree to arbitration.

Almost every dispute this site could produce is a fact that is wrong or a photograph that should not be there, and both are fixed faster by an email than by a lawyer. So before starting any proceeding, write to us through the contact page, say what the problem is and what would put it right, and give us thirty days to respond. We ask the same of ourselves before we would bring a claim against you.

If that does not settle it, the dispute is heard by the state and federal courts with jurisdiction over the operator, and you and we each agree to that jurisdiction. You may bring a claim that qualifies in a small-claims court where you live instead.

We do not ask you to give up a jury or agree to binding arbitration. The template terms of larger sites usually do, and this site is free, small and run by people who would rather fix a fact than fight about one.

21Electronic communications

In shortEmail and the contact form count as writing, from both sides.

Sending us a message through the contact page, and any email we exchange with you about it, is an electronic communication, and you agree that it satisfies any requirement that a notice or agreement between us be in writing. Publishing a change to these terms on this page, with a new date at the top, is how we give notice of it.

22California residents

In shortCalifornia law asks us to tell you where to complain if we cannot resolve something. Here it is.

If you are a California resident and a complaint to us is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone on (800) 952-5210.

23General terms

In shortThese terms are the whole agreement. If a part fails, the rest stands. The full text governs over the “In short” lines.

These terms, with the privacy policy and the image credits page, are the whole agreement between you and us about the site. If any part of them turns out to be unenforceable, that part is read as narrowly as it needs to be and the rest stands. If we do not enforce a term on one occasion, we can still enforce it later.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to whoever takes over publishing the site; you may not transfer yours without our agreement. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something outside our reasonable control. Nothing here makes either of us the partner, agent or employee of the other.

The section titles and the “In short” line under each one are there to help you find and understand the full text. If an “In short” line and the text beneath it ever seem to disagree, the full text is what applies.

24Changes to these terms

In shortWhen these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and the sections that changed say so.

We may change these terms. When we do, the date at the top of the page changes with them, and if a change would matter to a reader the section it lives in will say what changed rather than quietly absorbing it. Using the site after a change means you accept the changed terms; if you do not, the remedy is the one in section 1.

The previous version of this page, dated 9 September 2026, was eight sections long. This version is longer because it answers more of the questions people bring to a terms page, not because the site now does more.

25Contact

In shortEverything goes through the contact page and reaches a person.

A question about these terms, a correction, a claim, a copyright notice, or a complaint all go through the contact page. It reaches a real inbox and is read by a person, and we reply when a reply is needed. We publish no postal address or telephone number, for the same reason the privacy policy gives for publishing as little as possible: the contact page is enough, and everything else would be a claim we would then have to keep true.