Terms of service
We last changed these terms on October 25, 2026.
These terms are between you and Homestead Industries LLC ("we," "us"). They cover the Home Nine game and the optional cloud service at this address. By making an account or using the cloud service, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not make an account. The game works without one.
1. What the service is
Home Nine is a home golf simulator. It runs on your machine and flies a ball from the shot data your launch monitor measured. The cloud service is separate and optional. It keeps rounds, a profile and courses for an account. It runs leaderboards and events, and lets you add friends, play private matches, play rounds live with other players in online lobbies, and watch rounds again.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the game and the cloud service for your own play. You may not resell it, rent it out, or run it as a paid service for other people.
2. Your account
- Give a real email address you can read. It is how we confirm the account and how you recover a password.
- An account is for one person. Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done with it.
- You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live, and in any case at least 13. If you are under 18, have a parent or guardian read these terms with you.
- If you think somebody else has gotten into your account, tell us right away at support@homeninegolf.com.
3. The trial, buying the game, and refunds
The price is on the pricing page. Each account gets one free 7-day trial, starting the first time it signs in to the game, and each computer gets one too. After the trial, the range keeps working, and everything else needs the full game.
The full game is bought once. It is not a subscription and never renews. Buying it gives your account a license to play Home Nine, offline and online, on two computers at a time, plus one more for each extra computer you buy. You can move it to a new computer from your account page. The game keeps a license on each computer and checks it with us from time to time, so it keeps working offline between checks. The license is for you and the people who play with you. You may not sell it, share your account so others can play on their own computers, or get around the license check.
You can get a full refund within 14 days of buying, from your account page. Our refunds policy covers the trial, refunds, and what happens to your rounds and courses. It is part of these terms.
Our payment provider, Stripe, takes payments. We never see or store your card details. Prices may change, but a price change never affects a copy you've already bought.
4. How you may use it
You agree not to:
- attack, overload, probe or otherwise interfere with the service, or try to reach parts of it that are not yours;
- try to defeat the server's checks on a submitted round, or submit shots that a launch monitor did not measure, whether by hand, by a tool, or by altering the game;
- in an online lobby, send shots your launch monitor did not measure, or hold up, harass or disrupt the other players;
- use a display name, a course name or any other text that impersonates somebody, or that is abusive or unlawful;
- film anybody with the swing camera without their permission. The video stays on your computer, and what you do with it is up to you and your local law;
- upload or publish a course you do not have the right to share (see the next section);
- use the service to build a competing service, or to scrape it wholesale.
We may suspend or close an account for any of the above. The clearest case is cheating by submitting rounds that were not played as they claim. It makes a leaderboard worthless for everybody else.
5. Courses, and what you publish
We claim no ownership of a course you build or import. When you choose to publish a course, you give us and other players of the service permission to store, copy, download and play it, for as long as it is published. If you unpublish it, that permission ends for new downloads. Copies already downloaded remain with the people who downloaded them.
When you make a private match on a course of your own, the players you invite may download and play the version the match uses. That permission lasts while the match is open and for a week after it closes.
When you host an online lobby on a course of your own, the players in it may download and play that course. That permission lasts while the lobby runs and for a day after it ends.
Real courses are OpenStreetMap data. A course imported from public map data contains OpenStreetMap data, which is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Publishing such a course through this service redistributes that data, so it is made available under the ODbL and carries its credit. The server refuses to publish a real course that has lost its credit. You must not strip the credit from a course file you pass on. See licenses.
A real course is one player's import. Nothing published here is licensed, approved or checked by the golf club whose land it describes. It must not be presented as if it were.
Reporting a published course
If a published course misuses a name, misleads about who made it, carries offensive text, infringes your rights, or is a place you represent and object to, write to support@homeninegolf.com. Say which course and why. We will look at it, and we may unpublish it while we do. Every takedown is recorded with the reason. If you own a course we unpublish, we will tell you why.
6. What we do not promise
The service is provided "as is." We do not promise it will be available without interruption, that a course built from public data is accurate, or that any number the simulation produces matches what the same swing would do outdoors. A golf simulator is a model, not a measuring instrument.
Ranked competition and the handicap index are switched off. Until the server can verify that a launch monitor really measured a shot, every round is stored as not counting. A round sent as a tournament entry is refused. Nothing on this service is a ranked competition, and no number it shows is a handicap you can take to a club. Read the full explanation.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost data, or for anything beyond the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
7. Ending it
You may close your account at any time from your account page. Closing it disables the account and ends every session. It doesn't refund a purchase; use the refund button within 14 days first. Rounds and courses stay stored until you ask us to erase them. See the privacy policy.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we may withdraw the cloud service altogether with reasonable notice. If we do, the game keeps working offline on your computers.
8. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms. The date at the top says when they last changed. If a change materially affects you and you have a paid plan, we will tell you by email before it takes effect at your next renewal.
9. Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the state in which Homestead Industries LLC is established, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still stands.
10. Reaching us
Write to Homestead Industries LLC at support@homeninegolf.com. A real person reads it.