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Ringside

Ringside Terms of Service

Effective: November 9, 2026 · Version 2026-11-09

Draft for attorney review. These terms are written for US users; consumer laws in other countries may give users rights these terms can't remove.

The key points (plain English)

This summary is part of the terms, but the full sections below control.

  • Ringside organizes your photos and videos and reminds you of each step. It doesn't inspect cars, assess damage, or guarantee how any damage dispute turns out.
  • Spot suggestions are automatic hints. They can be wrong or miss damage. You are responsible for checking the car yourself.
  • It isn't legal, insurance or financial advice. Ringside isn't affiliated with any rental company.
  • Your photos stay on your device (and your own iCloud, if you turn it on). You're responsible for keeping copies.
  • Use it safely and lawfully: never while driving, watch for traffic in parking lots, and follow recording-consent laws when your videos capture sound or other people.
  • Our liability is limited, and disputes go to individual arbitration, except small-claims cases, unless you opt out within 30 days.

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and FettInk LLC, a Maryland limited liability company ("FettInk", "we", "us"), about the Ringside app ("Ringside" or "the app"). By tapping "Agree and continue", or by using the app, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the app.

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to use Ringside.

2. What Ringside is, and what it isn't

Ringside is a tool that helps you photograph and video a vehicle, keeps those files organized with the time, location and a file fingerprint, and lets you share them and keep notes.

Ringside is not:

  • a vehicle inspection, appraisal, or damage-assessment service;
  • a guarantee, warranty or promise about the outcome of any damage claim, charge, dispute, chargeback, insurance claim or legal proceeding;
  • legal, insurance, financial or other professional advice;
  • affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any rental company, car-sharing platform, insurer or card issuer.

Whether any rental company, platform, insurer, card issuer, court or other person accepts your photos, videos, reports or notes is up to them. We make no promise that anything produced with Ringside will be accepted, will be considered sufficient, or will change any outcome.

3. Automatic suggestions ("spots to check")

Ringside may point out areas in your video that could be worth a closer look. These suggestions are produced automatically by image analysis on your device. They can be wrong: they may flag reflections, dirt, water, decals, trim or normal wear, and they may miss real damage entirely. A suggestion is not a finding of damage, and no suggestion means nothing about whether damage exists. You are solely responsible for inspecting the vehicle and deciding what, if anything, to record or report. Suggestions are never added to reports or exports unless you choose to photograph something yourself.

4. Your responsibilities

You agree to:

  • Use Ringside safely. Never use it while driving or operating a vehicle. Stay aware of traffic, other vehicles and people while walking around a car.
  • Use it lawfully. Follow the laws where you are, including laws about photographing or recording people, private property and conversations. Some places require everyone's consent before recording a conversation; if your video records sound, make sure you have any consent the law requires, or don't record conversations.
  • Respect others. Don't use Ringside to harass anyone or to capture people, license plates or property for any purpose other than documenting a vehicle you're renting, sharing or responsible for.
  • Follow your rental agreement. Ringside doesn't change your obligations to any rental company or platform, including any inspection or reporting steps they require.
  • Check accuracy. Time and location come from your device and may be inaccurate (for example, if your clock is wrong or GPS is weak).

5. Your content and your data

The photos, videos, notes and other content you create with Ringside ("Your Content") belong to you. Your Content is stored on your device and, if you turn on iCloud sync, in your own iCloud account. We do not receive, store or have access to Your Content unless you choose to send it to us (for example, by emailing support).

You are responsible for keeping copies of anything important. Content can be lost if your device is lost, damaged or reset, if you delete the app, if you remove files (including through the app's storage tools), or if iCloud or your backup fails. We are not responsible for any loss of Your Content. The app's export feature lets you save copies elsewhere.

When you share content from Ringside (for example, by email), it's sent through your own apps and accounts, to people you choose. We don't control what recipients do with it.

Optional spot-check examples. If you turn on "Help improve spot checks" and choose to send examples (small crops of video frames with your answers and the detector's numbers), you give FettInk a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, copy and modify those examples to test and improve Ringside's spot check. We won't sell them or use them to identify you. Turning the option off stops new examples from being saved; examples you've already sent can't be recalled from email, but you can ask us to delete them.

6. File fingerprints, timestamps and reports

Ringside records a SHA-256 fingerprint of each file when it's saved, along with the time and location your device reports. A fingerprint lets you check later whether a file has changed since it was saved. It does not prove when or where a photo was taken, who took it, or what it shows, and we make no promise that any party will accept fingerprints, timestamps or reports as evidence.

7. Purchases

Ringside is free to download. Your first rental check is free; unlimited use is a one-time in-app purchase. Purchases are processed by Apple under Apple's terms. Prices are shown in the app and may change. Refund requests are handled by Apple, not by us. If you get a new device, you can restore your purchase with the same Apple Account.

8. License and restrictions

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Ringside on Apple devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions. You may not: copy, modify or create derivative works of the app; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law allows despite this restriction; rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense it; remove any proprietary notices; or use it to violate any law or anyone's rights. We and our licensors keep all rights not expressly granted.

9. Apple

These Terms are between you and FettInk only, not Apple Inc. ("Apple"). FettInk, not Apple, is solely responsible for Ringside and its content.

  • Support: Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for Ringside. Contact us instead (see Contact).
  • Warranty: to the extent any warranty applies that hasn't been effectively disclaimed, if Ringside fails to conform to it you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation for Ringside, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses due to a failure to conform to a warranty are FettInk's responsibility, subject to these Terms.
  • Claims: FettInk, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to Ringside or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that Ringside fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
  • Intellectual property: if a third party claims that Ringside or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, FettInk, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of that claim.
  • Legal compliance: you represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
  • Third-party terms: you must comply with any applicable third-party terms (such as your wireless data agreement) when using Ringside.
  • Third-party beneficiary: Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and once you accept them, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, RINGSIDE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. FETTINK DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT RINGSIDE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT IT WILL DETECT OR NOT DETECT ANY PARTICULAR CONDITION OF A VEHICLE, THAT ITS COVERAGE INDICATORS OR SUGGESTIONS WILL BE ACCURATE, OR THAT YOUR CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED. SOME JURISDICTIONS DON'T ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THESE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) FETTINK AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, INCLUDING ANY DAMAGE CHARGES, REPAIR COSTS, FEES, DEPOSITS, INSURANCE COSTS OR OTHER AMOUNTS CLAIMED BY OR PAID TO ANY RENTAL COMPANY, PLATFORM, INSURER OR OTHER PERSON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO RINGSIDE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES; AND (B) FETTINK'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO RINGSIDE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR RINGSIDE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR US $50. THESE LIMITS APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DON'T ALLOW THESE LIMITATIONS, SO THEY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN FULL.

12. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless FettInk and its members, managers, employees and agents from claims, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of Ringside in violation of these Terms or the law, including recording people or conversations without required consent.

13. Disputes, arbitration and class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes are resolved.

Talk to us first. Before filing a claim, you agree to email us at customerservice@fettink.com with a description of the issue and try to resolve it informally for at least 30 days.

Arbitration. If we can't resolve it, you and FettInk agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or Ringside will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except that either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either of us may seek relief in court for infringement or misuse of intellectual property. The arbitrator's decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court with jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

No class actions. You and FettInk may bring claims only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate claims or award relief on a class basis.

Opt out. You can opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing customerservice@fettink.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with your name and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out doesn't affect the rest of these Terms.

If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable for any claim, that claim must be decided in court, not arbitration. If any other part of this section is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.

14. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable U.S. federal law. Subject to Section 13, any court proceeding will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Frederick County, Maryland, and you and FettInk consent to their jurisdiction.

15. Changes

We may update these Terms. If we make a material change, the app will show you the new Terms and ask you to agree before you continue using it. Changes don't apply to disputes that arose before the change.

16. Ending use

You can stop using Ringside at any time by deleting it. We may suspend or end your license if you materially breach these Terms. Sections 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9 through 17 survive termination.

17. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and FettInk about Ringside. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remain in effect and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. Headings are for convenience only.

Contact

FettInk LLC · customerservice@fettink.com · https://fettink.com/ringside/