Terms of Service
Nutzungsbedingungen · Last updated [PLACEHOLDER — date]
Before launch. A draft, structured the way a consumer-facing EU service needs. It must be reviewed by a lawyer, and the withdrawal section in particular has statutory wording requirements that vary by market.
1. Who these terms are between
These terms govern your use of the MatchSquads apps and website, operated by [PLACEHOLDER — legal entity], [PLACEHOLDER — address]. By creating an account you accept them.
2. What the service does
MatchSquads helps people find and organise amateur sports matches: discovering games nearby, forming and running teams, challenging other teams, and recording results in leagues. We provide the platform. We do not organise the matches, we do not supervise them, and we are not a party to any arrangement you make with other users.
3. Your account
- You must be at least [PLACEHOLDER — minimum age] years old.
- The details you give must be accurate, and the account is yours alone.
- You are responsible for keeping your credentials secret.
- You may close your account at any time; see section 8.
4. How you may behave
Using MatchSquads, you agree not to:
- harass, threaten or discriminate against anyone;
- post content you do not have the rights to;
- impersonate another person or team;
- manipulate results, ratings or reliability figures;
- scrape, reverse engineer or overload the service;
- use the service for anything unlawful.
We may remove content or suspend an account that breaks these rules. Where the Digital Services Act applies we will state the reason and offer a route to appeal.
5. Content you post
What you write and photograph stays yours. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce and display it strictly for the purpose of running the service — showing your message to the chat you sent it to, your post to your wall. That licence ends when you delete the content, except for copies others already legitimately received and backups pending routine deletion.
6. Safety of play
Sport carries risk of injury. You take part at your own risk, you are responsible for your own physical fitness and insurance, and you are responsible for checking that a venue and a group are suitable before you play. [PLACEHOLDER — confirm with counsel; this clause does not and cannot exclude liability for injury caused by intent or gross negligence.]
7. Price
Finding matches, joining them, your team and the chat are free. [PLACEHOLDER — paid tier] If an optional subscription is offered, its price, billing period, renewal terms and cancellation route must be stated here and shown again before purchase, as required by Art. 246a EGBGB.
8. Ending it
You can delete your account at any time from the app. We may terminate with reasonable notice, or immediately for a serious breach. On termination your access ends and your data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.
Right of withdrawal for consumers in the EU
If you are a consumer and enter into a paid contract with us, you have fourteen days to withdraw without giving a reason. [PLACEHOLDER — statutory withdrawal instructions and model withdrawal form must be inserted verbatim; the wording is prescribed and cannot be paraphrased.]
9. Availability
We aim to keep the service running but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. Maintenance and changes are part of running software.
10. Liability
We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an obligation essential to the contract, and then only for foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract. Liability under the German Product Liability Act is unaffected. [PLACEHOLDER — confirm with counsel for each market.]
11. Changes to these terms
We will give you at least [PLACEHOLDER — e.g. 30 days] notice of material changes. If you do not accept them you may close your account before they take effect.
12. Law and venue
German law applies, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer protections of the country you live in. [PLACEHOLDER — venue clause, which for consumers is constrained by Art. 18 Brussels I bis.]