Athlete Conduct & Prohibited Activities

Athletes must: ✓ Provide accurate personal, athletic, and performance information. ✓ Use the platform for legitimate training, development, testing, coaching, and performance-related purposes. ✓ Respect coaches, athletes, parents, teams, organizations, and platform staff. ✓ Communicate professionally and appropriately with coaches and other users. ✓ Follow program instructions responsibly and train within their own ability, equipment access, and health status. ✓ Stop training and seek appropriate help if they experience serious pain, dizziness, fainting, chest pain, concussion symptoms, difficulty breathing, or injury warning signs. ✓ Use correct testing procedures when submitting performance results. ✓ Upload truthful videos, photos, measurements, times, scores, and training data. ✓ Respect coach services, pricing, delivery timelines, and platform payment rules. ✓ Protect their login credentials and account access. ✓ Follow all applicable laws, school rules, team rules, facility rules, league rules, and anti-doping policies.

Athletes may not use Next Level Sports to engage in any of the following activities.

Athletes may not: ✓ Submit fake, altered, exaggerated, or misleading testing results. ✓ Upload testing videos that do not show the actual athlete performing the test. ✓ Use another athlete's video, score, image, profile, or performance result. ✓ Edit videos to manipulate timing, reps, distance, height, speed, or test outcome. ✓ Misrepresent age, gender, sport, position, school, team, competition level, or location to improve rankings. ✓ Use fake accounts to boost visibility, rankings, votes, reviews, or engagement. ✓ Submit results performed under conditions that violate the test rules. ✓ Intentionally mislabel tests, drills, distances, weights, or measurements. ✓ Pressure coaches, teammates, parents, or others to verify false results. ✓ Attempt to exploit technical errors in rankings, testing verification, or leaderboard systems. Recommended clause: Any athlete who submits false, misleading, manipulated, or unverifiable performance data may have the result removed, ranking access restricted, account suspended, or profile permanently removed from Next Level Sports.

Athletes may not: ✓ Use programs in a reckless, unsafe, or inappropriate manner. ✓ Ignore medical advice, injury restrictions, school/facility rules, or return-to-play protocols. ✓ Perform exercises they cannot safely execute. ✓ Attempt max-effort lifts, jumps, sprints, or conditioning tests without proper preparation or supervision where needed. ✓ Train through serious pain, concussion symptoms, chest pain, fainting, dizziness, or injury warning signs. ✓ Use Next Level Sports as a substitute for medical treatment, physical therapy, emergency care, or professional medical advice. ✓ Encourage other athletes to perform unsafe training methods. ✓ Promote extreme dieting, dehydration, unsafe weight cutting, banned substances, or illegal performance-enhancing methods. Suggested wording: Next Level Sports provides training tools, programming, education, testing systems, and coach access. Athletes remain responsible for using all programs safely and for seeking qualified medical or professional guidance when needed.

Athletes may not: ✓ Harass, threaten, insult, shame, bully, intimidate, or abuse coaches, athletes, parents, or other users. ✓ Use racist, sexist, homophobic, discriminatory, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, or degrading language. ✓ Send inappropriate messages, images, videos, memes, jokes, or comments. ✓ Pressure coaches for free services, discounts, faster delivery, private access, or personal favors. ✓ Retaliate against coaches or users because of service disputes, declined requests, feedback, rankings, or reviews. ✓ Use platform communication for dating, romantic, sexual, or unrelated personal contact. ✓ Spam coaches or athletes with repeated messages, requests, promotions, or unrelated offers. ✓ Attempt to contact minors inappropriately or outside approved platform channels.

Athletes may not: ✓ Ask coaches to accept payment outside of Next Level Sports after finding or contacting them through the platform. ✓ Offer to pay through Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, bank transfer, cash, personal booking links, or other external payment systems to avoid platform fees. ✓ Ask coaches to provide services outside the platform after the relationship was created through NLS. ✓ Share external payment information inside platform messages. ✓ Use NLS to discover coaches and then bypass the platform for related services. Recommended clause: If an athlete discovers, contacts, books, or purchases services from a coach through Next Level Sports, all related payments, bookings, and service communication must remain on the platform unless expressly approved by Next Level Sports in writing. This protects NLS from becoming a free lead generator.

Athletes may not: ✓ Purchase services with no intent to pay. ✓ Use fraudulent, stolen, expired, or unauthorized payment methods. ✓ Abuse refund, chargeback, or dispute systems. ✓ Falsely claim a coach did not deliver a service when the service was completed. ✓ Request refunds after using, downloading, completing, or receiving a delivered digital program unless required by applicable law or platform policy. ✓ Harass coaches for refunds outside the official dispute process. ✓ Manipulate service completion, delivery confirmations, or communication records. ✓ Resell or redistribute paid programs, coach feedback, or platform content.

Athletes may not: ✓ Request services that are outside the coach's listed scope. ✓ Demand unlimited revisions, unlimited messaging, or ongoing coaching unless purchased. ✓ Treat a one-time coach-built program as full monthly coaching. ✓ Share coach-created programs with other athletes, teams, schools, or organizations without permission. ✓ Copy, sell, upload, or redistribute coach-created content outside the platform. ✓ Misrepresent coach guidance as medical advice, recruiting advice, legal advice, or guaranteed performance outcomes. ✓ Pressure coaches to guarantee scholarships, roster spots, NIL deals, professional contracts, rankings, or recruitment exposure. Example wording for athlete checkout: I understand that a coach-built program add-on is a one-time digital service and does not include ongoing coaching, weekly check-ins, live training, nutrition guidance, recruiting support, or unlimited messaging unless separately purchased.

Athletes under 18 must follow additional safety rules. Minor athletes may not: ✓ Create paid service requests without parent or guardian consent where required. ✓ Share private contact information with coaches outside approved platform channels. ✓ Arrange private in-person meetings with coaches without parent, guardian, team, school, or facility involvement. ✓ Send personal, inappropriate, unrelated, or private images/videos to coaches. ✓ Keep coach communication secret from parents, guardians, or Next Level Sports. ✓ Use another person's payment method without authorization. ✓ Misrepresent their age to access adult features, coach communication, marketplace services, or visibility settings. For youth athletes, NLS should require: ✓ Parent/guardian consent for paid services ✓ Parent/guardian consent for public profile visibility ✓ Parent/guardian consent for video uploads ✓ Parent/guardian consent for coach messaging ✓ Parent/guardian consent for testing/ranking participation Recommended clause: Athletes under 18 may be required to have parent or guardian approval before accessing certain platform features, including paid coach services, video uploads, public profile visibility, messaging, and ranking participation.

Athletes may not: ✓ Share, screenshot, download, post, or distribute another user's private data without permission. ✓ Misuse coach messages, programs, videos, profile information, or service details. ✓ Post private communication publicly to harass, embarrass, or damage another user. ✓ Collect, scrape, export, or use athlete or coach data outside approved platform tools. ✓ Use another athlete's results, profile, photos, videos, or training data. ✓ Upload personal information about another athlete without consent. ✓ Use platform information to build, promote, or support a competing service without authorization.

Athletes may not upload: ✓ False, misleading, manipulated, or stolen content. ✓ Content they do not own or have permission to use. ✓ Offensive, abusive, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, illegal, or discriminatory content. ✓ Private images or videos of others without consent. ✓ Videos that expose private locations, school facilities, locker rooms, bathrooms, or minors without permission. ✓ Content showing unsafe training, hazing, bullying, harassment, illegal acts, banned substances, or dangerous behavior. ✓ Copyrighted music, footage, logos, programs, or branded materials they do not have rights to use.

Athletes may not: ✓ Misrepresent recruiting status, scholarship offers, team affiliations, agency representation, rankings, or scouting interest. ✓ Claim that NLS guarantees recruitment, scholarships, NIL deals, professional opportunities, tryouts, or contracts. ✓ Use false performance data to contact coaches, scouts, schools, clubs, agents, or organizations. ✓ Pressure coaches to act as recruiters, agents, NIL representatives, legal advisors, or financial advisors unless specifically authorized and legally qualified. ✓ Use NLS rankings or testing data in a misleading way outside the platform. Recommended wording: Next Level Sports may provide performance visibility, testing tools, athlete profiles, coach discovery, and development resources, but does not guarantee recruitment, scholarships, NIL opportunities, roster placement, professional contracts, or athletic success.

Athletes may not: ✓ Promote, request, sell, use, or discuss illegal performance-enhancing drugs through the platform. ✓ Encourage banned substances, unsafe supplements, steroid use, doping methods, or rule violations. ✓ Ask coaches for banned substance advice. ✓ Use platform services to help avoid testing rules, eligibility rules, school rules, league rules, or sport governing body rules. ✓ Misrepresent eligibility status, competition status, age group, or governing body compliance. Simple version: Athletes are responsible for following all applicable anti-doping, eligibility, school, league, team, and sport governing body rules.

Athletes may not: ✓ Hack, reverse engineer, scrape, copy, interfere with, or manipulate the platform. ✓ Use bots, scripts, automation, fake accounts, or unauthorized tools. ✓ Attempt to access another user's account. ✓ Share login credentials or allow unauthorized account access. ✓ Interfere with rankings, testing verification, payments, coach services, or user experience. ✓ Exploit bugs, errors, promo codes, payment systems, or technical weaknesses. ✓ Upload malware, harmful files, spam, phishing links, or malicious content. ✓ Use NLS to promote unrelated businesses, gambling, betting, adult content, drugs, weapons, scams, MLMs, or illegal services.

Next Level Sports may review athlete activity, uploaded content, testing results, communication, service requests, payment activity, complaints, and ranking participation to enforce platform standards. If an athlete violates these rules, NLS may take action including: ✓ Warning the athlete ✓ Removing content ✓ Removing testing results ✓ Removing leaderboard/ranking placement ✓ Restricting coach communication ✓ Restricting profile visibility ✓ Suspending marketplace access ✓ Refusing or canceling service requests ✓ Pausing or terminating subscriptions ✓ Holding or denying refunds where allowed ✓ Suspending the account ✓ Permanently banning the athlete ✓ Reporting serious misconduct to appropriate authorities where required ✓ Taking legal action where necessary

Before purchasing any coach service, athletes should clearly understand: ✓ What service they are buying ✓ The price ✓ Delivery timeline ✓ What is included ✓ What is not included ✓ Whether messaging is included ✓ Whether revisions are included ✓ Whether the service is remote, in-person, or hybrid ✓ Whether parent/guardian approval is required ✓ Whether the service is one-time or recurring Example: Coach-Built Program Add-On Includes one custom training block and one revision within 7 days. Does not include weekly check-ins, unlimited messaging, form review, nutrition support, live coaching, or ongoing monthly coaching unless purchased separately.

Use this on onboarding, checkout, and profile pages: Athletes on Next Level Sports must use the platform honestly, safely, and respectfully. False testing results, manipulated videos, harassment, off-platform payments, unsafe training behavior, misuse of coach services, and inappropriate communication are prohibited. Violations may result in removal of results, restricted access, suspension, or permanent account removal.

Athlete Conduct & Prohibited Activities – Dev Handoff Add a required checkbox during athlete onboarding: I agree to the Next Level Sports Athlete Conduct Policy, including rules for truthful performance data, safe training, respectful communication, coach service payments, platform use, and prohibited activities. Add another required checkbox before testing/ranking submission: I confirm that the testing result I am submitting is accurate, belongs to me, and follows the required testing rules. I understand that false or manipulated results may be removed and may lead to account restrictions. Add another checkbox before purchasing coach services: I understand that all coach services discovered or booked through Next Level Sports must be paid for and managed through the platform. I also understand that one-time coach services do not include ongoing coaching unless separately purchased. For minors, add parent/guardian approval: I confirm that I am the parent or legal guardian of this athlete and approve their use of Next Level Sports features, including training programs, video uploads, testing submissions, rankings, coach communication, and paid services where applicable.

The platform should include: ✓ Report athlete button ✓ Report testing result button ✓ Report inappropriate message button ✓ Admin review panel for submitted testing videos ✓ Flag suspicious ranking jumps ✓ Flag duplicate videos or repeated submissions ✓ Parent/guardian consent tracking ✓ Minor athlete safety flags ✓ Coach complaint system ✓ Athlete dispute system ✓ Payment dispute tracking ✓ Testing verification status ✓ Removed result history ✓ Account warning history ✓ Suspension tools ✓ Ban tools ✓ Audit logs for profile edits, test submissions, and service purchases

The most important athlete rules to enforce from day one are: 1. No fake testing data 2. No manipulated videos 3. No off-platform coach payments 4. No harassment or inappropriate communication 5. No misuse of coach services 6. No unsafe training behavior 7. No false recruiting or scholarship claims 8. No sharing or reselling coach-created programs 9. No minor safety violations 10. No platform manipulation For Next Level Sports, this is especially important because your platform will rely heavily on trust: verified testing, coach credibility, athlete data, rankings, and paid coach services. The rules need to protect the athlete, the coach, and the platform at the same time.