Closed-beta edition — adopted without external counsel review (D34, 2026-08-11)
These Terms were finalized 2026-08-11 and adopted as the live Terms for DPI’s closed, invite-only beta per Decision D34. They have not been reviewed by external counsel — that deferral is a deliberate, recorded risk acceptance. This document is not legal advice. Counsel review is owed before any public opening.
These terms are a contract between you and Dressage Performance Initiative(“DPI,” “we,” “us”), the operator of the DPI web product. Plain English is intentional: if a court or a rider reads a section, it should mean what it appears to mean.
1. Accepting these terms
1.1. You accept these terms by creating an account, or by continuing to use the site after they are posted.
1.2. When you create an account, we record the date and time you accepted these terms and the Privacy Policy, and we keep that record with your account.
1.3. If you use DPI without an account, these terms still govern your use of the public pages.
2. Who may use DPI
2.1. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
Closed-beta note. The 18+ minimum is the rule for the closed, invite-only beta: the cohort is founder-invited, so the bar is trivially satisfiable, and it is the maximally safe default while COPPA counsel is deferred (D34; Risk Register R11 unmitigated — no parental-consent flow exists). Junior or parent-managed accounts are a counsel-pass item, revisited only after a consent flow ships. This section governs accounts only: public competition records about minors still exist in the corpus, and what of those records is exposed is governed by the Privacy Policy §4 and the D35 payload redaction — not by this eligibility rule.
2.2. If we learn an account holder is under the minimum age, we will close the account.
2.3. You must provide accurate registration information and keep control of your credentials. You are responsible for activity under your account.
3. Beta access and invite codes
3.1. DPI is currently in a closed, invite-only, referral-gated beta. Creating an account requires an invite code or a member’s referral link. We may change or remove this requirement at any time.
3.2. Beta means the product is changing. Features may be added, changed, or removed, and data displays may be corrected, without notice.
4. Referral program (promotional offer terms)
These are the formal terms of the beta referral offer (Decision D32). They control over any shorter marketing description of the offer.
4.1. The offer. Each member has a personal referral code. When 2 or more people you refer each complete a qualifying referral, you earn one comped Metrics Pass — 12 months of account-wide analytics, at no charge. (The threshold is a runtime setting we may change prospectively per §4.7.)
4.2. Qualifying referral, defined. A referral counts only when the referred person (a) creates an account using your referral code or link, (b) verifies their email address, and (c) claims a rider profile in DPI. All three are required. Creating an account alone does not count.
4.3. The reward. The reward is the standard 12-month Metrics Pass (see §5), granted at $0. It is not cash, has no cash value, cannot be transferred or sold, and cannot be exchanged for any other product. One reward per account, ever, unless we announce otherwise.
4.4. When the 12 months start. The 12-month window starts automatically on the day the reward is granted. No activation step is required, and there is nothing to lapse.
4.5. Fraud and revocation. We may withhold or revoke the reward if we reasonably determine referrals were not genuine — including self-referrals, accounts created with disposable or duplicate identities, profile claims made without a genuine connection to the rider, or automated signups. Because a rider profile can be claimed by only one account, false claims also violate §8 (acceptable use) and can end the referring and referred accounts.
4.6. Referrals later found fake. If a qualifying referral is later unwound (for example, a profile claim is reversed as false, or the referred account is closed for fraud), it stops counting toward your threshold. If your reward was already granted on the strength of referrals later found fake, we may revoke the unused remainderof the reward window. Full revocation is reserved for cases where the referrer’s own conduct was fraudulent.
4.7. Changes and end of program. This is a promotional offer, not a permanent feature. We may change the threshold, the reward, or end the program prospectively at any time. Rewards already granted are honored.
5. Payments and passes
5.1. Current state: nothing is for sale.As of the effective date, no DPI product can be purchased. Checkout is not open, and it stays closed until a dedicated monetization session decides otherwise (Decision D38; the dark state is mechanically enforced in production, not just page copy). The free features in §6 are the product today. Any pricing shown on the site is informational and carries the “not open yet” line.
5.2. If and when passes go on sale — dormant during the closed beta; nothing below is purchasable (D38) — the following applies from the date checkout opens:
- Qualification Pass — a one-time purchase () tied to one named goal. It never expires: it is good for as long as you chase that goal. While you hold at least one Qualification Pass, your whole account’s analytics are unlocked.
- Metrics Pass — a one-time purchase () unlocking account-wide analytics for a 12-month window. It does not auto-renew and does not include goal-planning depth. When it lapses, you may buy another; we will never charge you automatically.
- No rider subscriptions, ever. No DPI rider product is a subscription, and no rider is ever charged on a recurring basis. This is a standing product promise (D27/D28), not just a current fact.
- Coach licence — the one recurring product we sell, to a different buyer: an annual coach licence (, unlimited students) that renews yearly until cancelled via the billing portal. It is not a rider product and never unlocks rider analytics.
5.3. Refunds. Not applicable during the closed beta: nothing can be purchased, so there is nothing to refund. If passes go on sale, the intended policy — dormant until checkout opens — is: a pass is refundable within 14 days of purchase if unused (no goal plan generated, no gated analytics accessed); after use, passes are non-refundable except where law requires.
5.4. Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store full card numbers.
5.5. All prices may change prospectively. A price change never affects a pass you already hold: a purchased Qualification Pass keeps its never-expires promise, and a granted or purchased Metrics Pass keeps its full window.
6. Free features
The free core — rider search, profile claiming, and the calibrated “on track?” answer with a next-score range — is free and is not gated behind any pass. We reserve the right to change what is free, except that we will not retroactively lock a claimed profile away from its owner.
7. Your content
7.1. What you submit. You may submit content to DPI: a USDF lifetime score report, an Equestrian Hub scoresheet link, corrections and data-issue reports, and profile information.
7.2. Your promise. You may only submit records that are yours or that you are authorized to submit, and you must not alter them. Self-submitted files are checked for tampering; submitting a doctored score report is grounds for termination.
7.3. Our licence. You keep ownership of what you submit. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, process, analyze, and display it in order to operate DPI — including showing results on your profile and folding them into rankings and analytics. This licence continues for content already woven into published aggregates (rankings, statistics) after account deletion; see the Privacy Policy §10 for what deletion does and does not remove.
7.4. Corrections. Corrections you submit are used to improve data quality through a review workflow. They do not overwrite official competition results without verification.
8. Acceptable use
You must not:
- claim a rider profile that is not yours, or impersonate anyone;
- submit knowingly false results, claims, corrections, or dispute reports;
- create accounts with false identities, or farm referrals (§4.5);
- scrape, bulk-download, or systematically extract data from DPI in ways that burden the service or reproduce our compilation or its presentation (this clause protects service integrity and our selection and arrangement; it does not claim ownership of the underlying competition facts, which we do not assert — see §10.1);
- probe, overload, or interfere with the service, or access administrative tooling without authorization;
- use DPI outputs for betting, wagering, or any gambling product (§11.2);
- resell or commercially redistribute DPI outputs without a written agreement.
9. The competition record, corrections, and disputes
9.1. DPI compiles publicly published competition results (see the Privacy Policy for sources and for the rights of people who never signed up). Profiles exist for many riders who have no account.
9.2. We are not the official record. Federation and show records are authoritative. Always verify standings and rules with the relevant governing body.
9.3. “Verified” has a strict meaning. A result is marked verified only when the rider has linked or submitted their own USDF or FEI competition history to DPI and that federation history corroboratesthe result we found from the show’s published source. Verification is per-result corroboration (D33, refining D29): vendor-scraped data alone is never “verified,” and a bare self-assertion is never “verified.” Linking your federation history is what verifies your matching results — verification is something riders do, not something we assert.
9.4. Disputes. If you believe a result shown on DPI is wrong, you can report it from the result page or by email. A result under formal dispute is excluded from public rankings pending resolution; if the dispute resolves in favor of the result, it returns automatically. (Decided 2026-08-11, D36 — exclusion, matching the ELO board’s existing rule; annotation was rejected as publishing an accusation before adjudication.)
10. Intellectual property
10.1. The DPI software, site design, metrics, models, analytics, and the selection and arrangement of our compilation are ours or our licensors’. Underlying competition facts (who rode, where, what score) are facts; we do not claim to own them.
10.2. You get a personal, non-transferable licence to use DPI for your own riding, coaching, or organizing. No other rights are granted.
10.3. DPI is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official product of USEF, USDF, or the FEI. Federation names are used to identify the source and context of results only.
11. Disclaimers
11.1. DPI is an analytics and planning tool. Forecasts are calibrated ranges built from historical data. They are not guarantees. No output of DPI promises that you will qualify for anything. Dressage is a judged sport; scores depend on factors no model controls.
11.2. DPI is not a betting or gambling product. Our outputs are for training, planning, and sport analysis. We do not offer, support, or knowingly permit use of DPI for wagering, and §8 prohibits it. (Standing product position — this framing is deliberate and must survive any future redlining.)
11.3. The service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that data is complete or error-free — our coverage depends on what shows publish and what riders submit.
12. Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities (including missed qualifications or entries), or loss of data. Our total liability for all claims is capped at the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Some states do not allow certain limitations; where a limitation is not allowed, it does not apply.
13. Termination
13.1. You may close your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy for what deletion removes).
13.2. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms — false claims, tampered submissions, referral fraud, abuse of the service — or where we must act to protect the platform or other riders. Where practical we will say why.
13.3. Sections that by their nature survive (your content licence for published aggregates, disclaimers, liability limits, disputes/governing law) survive termination.
14. Governing law and disputes
14.1. These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
14.2. Disputes go to court, not arbitration. Any dispute arising out of these terms or DPI goes to the state or federal courts located in Virginia, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction. Small-claims court remains available for qualifying claims. (No arbitration clause in this edition: an enforceable consumer arbitration provision needs counsel-owned drafting, and inventing one without review was judged riskier than accepting court exposure during a closed beta; counsel may revisit at the public-opening pass.)
14.3. Informal first. Before filing anything, email us at support@equestrianperformanceinitiative.com and give us 30 days to resolve the issue.
15. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. For material changes we will give notice — at minimum by email to account holders and a notice on the site — at least 14 days before they take effect. Continuing to use DPI after the effective date accepts the change. We keep dated prior versions available on request.
16. Contact
Dressage Performance Initiative · support@equestrianperformanceinitiative.com
Continued use of the service is also subject to the current Privacy Policy.