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sabondojo

Terms of service

These terms govern the use of sabondojo. They apply to the school that subscribes and to everyone who accesses the service through it: instructors, students and guardians.

Version 2026-08-16 · effective 2026-08-16

Draft

Draft — pending legal review

We wrote this ourselves at sabondojo, from our own reading of Ley 25.326 (Argentina), the LGPD (Brazil), the GDPR (EU), Ley 21.719 (Chile), the LFPDPPP (Mexico), Ley 1581 (Colombia) and COPPA (United States). No lawyer has reviewed it yet. We are publishing it as a draft anyway, because a school needs something concrete to read before trusting us with its students' data — and a text you can argue with beats a text that does not exist. Nothing here is legal advice.

1. What sabondojo is

sabondojo is a web application for running a martial-arts school: students and locations, classes and calendar, attendance, belts, tuition and payments, announcements and an internal forum.

We are not a school, we do not teach, we do not supervise training and we provide no health services. Everything that happens on the mat is the school's responsibility.

2. Who subscribes and who uses it

The school subscribes to the service and administers the accounts of its staff and students. People access it through their relationship with that school; when the relationship ends, the school can revoke the access.

You must be of legal age to use the system, unless a guardian grants portal access to a minor from age 14, as explained in the Privacy notice.

Accounts are personal. Sharing credentials is prohibited: it destroys the record of who did what, which is precisely what protects families.

3. What the school is responsible for

  • Having a lawful basis for enrolling each student and for asking for the data it asks for.
  • Obtaining and keeping current the health and image consents, using the tools the system provides.
  • Verifying each guardian's relationship in person before granting access to a minor's health record.
  • Entering accurate data and correcting it when a family asks.
  • Answering access, rectification and erasure requests within the statutory deadlines.
  • Not recording health, family or legal information in the free-text fields meant for training observations.
  • Registering its database with the competent authority in its jurisdiction where that is mandatory.

4. What we are responsible for

  • Keeping the service available and working, with reasonable diligence.
  • Protecting the data with the technical and organisational measures described in the Data processing agreement.
  • Processing data only on the school's instructions.
  • Notifying the school, without undue delay, of any security incident affecting its data.
  • Enforcing the published retention periods in code.
  • Giving notice before adding a new subprocessor.
  • Returning or deleting the data at the end of the relationship, as the school chooses.

5. Acceptable use

In using sabondojo, the school and its users agree not to:

  • Upload biometric data of any kind, or integrate the system with face or fingerprint recognition.
  • Upload special categories of data outside the fields designed for them.
  • Send commercial communications to minors, or use their data for advertising.
  • Use student data for any purpose other than running the school.
  • Attempt to reach another school's data, probe for vulnerabilities without prior authorisation, or scrape data automatically.
  • Upload unlawful content, or use the forum or messaging to harass anyone.

A serious breach of this section allows immediate suspension of the account, with notice.

6. Subscription and billing

The service is sold as a monthly subscription, at the price and scope in force when it is taken out. Amounts are stated in Argentine pesos, taxes included where applicable.

Recurring charges are processed through MercadoPago. sabondojo stores no card data: the payment processor holds it.

A price change is announced at least 30 days in advance and applies from the following cycle. If you do not accept it, you can cancel before it takes effect.

Non-payment suspends administrative access after the grace period we state; a suspension does not delete data.

7. Termination, suspension and data return

The school may cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current paid cycle. We may suspend or terminate for a serious breach, with prior notice and a reasonable chance to fix it where the case allows.

After cancellation the school has 30 days to export its data. 90 days after cancellation we delete the school's data from active systems, except what we are required to keep (accounting records, consent records). Backups expire by rotation within the following 35 days and are not restored selectively.

8. Data and intellectual property

The data the school uploads belongs to the school. We use it for nothing but providing the service: we do not sell it, do not license it out, and do not train models on it.

The sabondojo software, brand and design are ours. A subscription grants a right to use, not an assignment.

We may use aggregated, anonymised metrics — which identify no person and no school — to understand usage and improve the product.

9. Warranties and liability

We work diligently to keep the service available and correct, but we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free. It does not replace an instructor's professional judgement or the advice of a health professional.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to the school is limited to the amounts paid in the 12 months before the event giving rise to it. None of this limits liability for wilful misconduct, for personal injury, or the obligations that data-protection law imposes on us directly.

10. Governing law and changes

These terms are governed by the law of the Argentine Republic, and any dispute is submitted to the ordinary courts of the City of Buenos Aires. If the school is in the European Union, this does not affect the rights its local law grants it mandatorily.

When we change these terms we publish the new version with its effective date, and give at least 30 days' notice where the change is material.

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