Terms of use

Introduction
1. These terms and conditions apply to your use of our website.
2. By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; Accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
3. When you register with our website, post material to our website or use any of our website services, we expressly ask you to agree to these terms and conditions.
4. You must be at least 12 years old to use our website; By using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 12 years of age.
5. Our site uses cookies; By using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our [privacy and cookies policy].
Copyright notice
1. Copyright © 2024 Pickleballfans.eu.
2. Subject to the express provisions of these general terms and conditions:
  1. we, together with our licensors, own and control all copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website;
  2. all copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
License to use the website
1. You can:
  1. view pages of our website in a web browser
  2. download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
  3. print pages from our website;
  4. stream audio and video files from our website;
  5. use our website services through a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
2. Except as expressly permitted by clause 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3. You may use our website only for your own personal and business purposes, and you may not use our website for any other purpose.
4. Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website other than your own published content.
5. Unless you own or control the relevant rights to the material, you must not:
  1. republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
  2. sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
  3. display material from our website publicly;
  4. exploit material from our website for commercial purposes;
  5. redistribute material from our website.
6. Notwithstanding clause 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in printed and electronic form to any person.
7. We reserve the right to restrict access to parts of our website, or indeed our entire website, at our sole discretion; you must not circumvent or attempt to circumvent the access restriction measures on our website.
Acceptable use
1. It is not permitted:
  1. use our website in any way or take any action that causes or may cause damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
  2. use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
  3. use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
  4. conducting any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
  5. access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, other than for the purpose of search engine indexing;
  6. violate the guidelines set forth in the robots.txt file for our website; or
  7. use data collected through our website for direct marketing activities (including but not limited to email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).
2. You must ensure that all information that you provide to us through our website, or in connection with our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and not misleading.
Registration and accounts
1. You can register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website.
2. You must not allow anyone else to use your account to access the Website.
3. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account.
4. You may not use another person's account to access the Website unless you have that person's express permission to do so.
User login details
1. When you register for an account on our website, you will be asked to choose a username and password.
2. Your username must not be misleading and must comply with the content rules set out in Article 11; you may not use your account or username for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.
3. You must keep your password confidential.
4. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.
5. You are responsible for any activity on our website arising from any failure to keep your password confidential, and you may be held liable for any losses arising from such failure.
Account Cancellation and Suspension
1. We can:
  1. suspend your account;
  2. cancel your account; and/or
  3. change your account information at any time at our sole discretion, without notice or explanation.
2. You can cancel your account on our website via the dashboard on the website.
Social networking
1. Registered users may access such additional features on our website as we may determine from time to time, including:
  1. facilities to complete a detailed personal profile on the website, to publish that profile on the website and to limit the publication of that profile to certain groups or individuals registered on the (b) website;
  2. facilities to create groups, manage groups you have created, join and leave groups, and share information among group(c) members;
  3. the ability to send private messages via the website to certain groups or individuals registered on the website;
  4. the ability to post and publish text and media on the website.
2. You acknowledge that we cannot be responsible for the conduct of our users, whether on or off the website, and that we cannot guarantee that any information provided by any user is true, accurate, complete, current and not misleading; and subject to clause 14.1, you will not hold us liable for any loss or damage arising from any user conduct or user information.
3. You agree to the publication of communications relating to you by others on our website; you acknowledge that such communications may be critical, defamatory or otherwise unlawful; and, subject to clause 14.1, you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such communications whether or not we are aware of or should have been aware of such communications.
Personal profiles
1. All information you provide as part of a personal profile on the website must be true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
2. You must keep your personal profile on our website up to date.
3. Personal profile information must also comply with the provisions of Section 5 and Section 11.
Your content: license
1. In these terms and conditions, "your content" means any works and materials (including but not limited to text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audiovisual material, scripts, software and files) that you transmit to us or our website. for storage or publication on, processing by or transmission via our website.
2. You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store and, with your specific permission, publish Your Content on and in connection with this Website.
3. You grant us the right to sublicense the rights licensed under Section 10.2.
4. You grant us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under section 10.2.
5. You hereby waive all moral rights in your Content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
6. You may edit your content to the extent permitted by using the editing functionality made available on our website.
7. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may remove, unpublish or to process. some or all of your content.
Your content: rules
1. You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
2. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe the legal rights of any person, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against anyone (in each case in any jurisdiction and under applicable law).
3. Your Content and our use of Your Content in accordance with these terms and conditions must not:
  1. be defamatory or maliciously false;
  2. be obscene or indecent;
  3. infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right of way or other intellectual property right;
  4. infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection law;
  5. constitute negligent advice or contain a negligent statement;
  6. constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or furtherance of criminal activity;
  7. be in contempt of court, or in violation of a court order;
  8. violate any laws on racial or religious hatred or discrimination;
  9. to be blasphemous;
  10. contravene official secrets legislation;
  11. breach any contractual obligation owed to any person;
  12. depict violence in an explicit, explicit or gratuitous manner;
  13. be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
  14. be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
  15. consist of or contain any actionable instructions, advice or other information which, if not followed, may cause illness, injury or death or any other loss or damage;
  16. constitute spam;
  17. be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
  18. cause annoyance, inconvenience or unnecessary anxiety to any person.
4. Your content must be appropriate, polite, tasteful, and consistent with generally accepted standards of Internet etiquette and conduct.
5. You must not use our website to link to any website or webpage consisting of or containing material which, if placed on our website, would conflict with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions.
6. You must not submit any material to our website which is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
report abuse
1. If you discover any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.
2. You may notify us of any such material or activity by email or via our abuse report form.
Limited Warranties
1. We do not guarantee:
  1. the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
  2. that the material on the website is up to date; or
  3. that the website or any service on the website remains available.
2. We reserve the right to discontinue or modify any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion, without notice or explanation; and except as otherwise expressly provided in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment on the discontinuance or modification of any website services, or if we cease publishing the website.
3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 14.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
Limitations and exclusions of liability
1. Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
  1. limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
  2. limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  3. limit liability in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
  4. exclude all liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
2. The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this clause 15 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
  1. fall under Article 14.1; And
  2. apply to all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or in relation to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly stated otherwise provided in these terms and conditions.
3. To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any kind.
4. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
5. We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
6. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or damage to any data, database or software.
7. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential damages.
8. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, in consideration of that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not make any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will of course not limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity themselves for the actions and omissions of our officers and employees).
Compensation
1. You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified from and against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal fees and any amounts paid by us to any third party in settlement of any claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us which arises directly or indirectly from your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.
Violations of these terms and conditions
1. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
  1. send you one or more formal warnings;
  2. temporarily suspend your access to our website;
  3. permanently deny you access to our website;
  4. take legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
  5. suspend or delete your account on our website.
2. Where we suspend, prohibit or block your access to our website or any part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension, ban or blocking (including but not limited to creating and/or using a different account ).
Third party websites
1. Our website contains hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
2. We have no control over third party websites and their contents and subject to clause 14.1, we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Trademarks
1. Pickleballfans.eu, our logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks owned by us; we do not authorize the use of these trademarks and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
2. The registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of third parties on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless otherwise stated in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse or have any affiliation with any of the holders of such rights. as such, we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.
Competitions
1. From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws and/or other promotions on our website.
2. Competitions are subject to separate terms and conditions (which we will make available to you if necessary).
Variation
1. We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
2. The revised terms will apply to the use of our website from the date of posting of the revised terms on the website, and you hereby waive any right you might otherwise have to be notified of, or to agree to, revisions to these terms and conditions.
3. If you have expressly agreed to these terms and conditions, we will obtain your express consent for any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not expressly agree to the revised terms within the time period specified by us, we will disable or delete your account on the Website and you must stop using the Website.
Assignment
1. You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, subcontract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
2. You may not assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without our prior written consent.
Divisibility
1. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be unlawful and/or unenforceable by any court or other competent authority, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.
2. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Third party rights
1. Any contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
2. The exercise of the parties' rights under any contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
Complete agreement
1. Subject to clause 14.1, these terms and conditions, together with our Privacy and Cookie Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Website and supersede any prior agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
Our data
1. This website is owned and operated by Pickleballfans.eu
2. We are registered…
Data protection statement
1. Our top priority has been and always will be to build a platform where pickleball (club) information is shared.
2. We strongly believe in the user's right to control the use of his/her personal data. Registered members can always choose which sensitive information will be shared with other members, such as telephone numbers and email addresses.
3. All information is stored and used in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
4. We provide our members with our own messaging page to communicate with other members from our own website and we never publicly display personal contact information. Club data logically always contains contact details such as an e-mail address and/or telephone number.
5. Pickleballfans.eu will never sell, rent, lease or trade personal information. The privacy of every user must be respected, and that is what we not only believe in, but also act by.

Terms of use

Introduction

Copyright notice

License to use the website

Acceptable use

Registration and accounts

User login details

Account Cancellation and Suspension

Social networking

Personal profiles

Your content: license

Your content: rules

report abuse

Limited Warranties

Limitations and exclusions of liability

Compensation

Violations of these terms and conditions

Third party websites

Trademarks

Competitions

Variation

Assignment

Divisibility

Third party rights

Complete agreement

Our data

Data protection statement