Terms of Service

Fulltime is an independent football publication and community. You can reach us about anything in these Terms — including legal notices, regulatory enquiries, and requests from authorities — at service@fulltimecompany.com. That address is our point of contact for users and for authorities.

You must be at least 13 years old, and at least the minimum age of digital consent where you live, to use the Service. We ask for your year of birth when you create an account and do not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to sign up.

If you are between 13 and 18, you may only use the Service with the permission of a parent or legal guardian, and by using it you confirm you have that permission. Accounts we know belong to someone under 18 get additional protections. If your app store or device shares an age range or a parent's consent with us, we use it only to apply those protections and meet our legal obligations, and we do not keep it beyond what those obligations require.

Parental control protections — such as device settings, software, and filtering services — are commercially available and may help limit a minor's access to material that is harmful to minors. Both Apple and Google provide them on their devices.

You are responsible for the activity that happens under your account and for keeping your login credentials secure. Provide accurate information when you sign up and keep it current. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account.

You may delete your account at any time from within the app. Deletion is scheduled rather than immediate — see our account deletion page for exactly what happens and when.

The Service lets you post ratings, reviews, takes, polls, brackets, lists, replies, profile photos, direct messages, and other content ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content.

You grant Fulltime a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, cache, reproduce, adapt for display, publish, and distribute your User Content for the purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the Service. Sublicensing exists so we can use ordinary infrastructure — hosting, content delivery, image processing — and so the licence survives a transfer of the Service under section 17.

This licence ends when you delete the User Content or your account, except that: copies may persist in backups until they age out on our providers' normal cycle; content you shared into another user's conversation or that another user has re-posted may remain with them; and we may retain anonymous, aggregated data that no longer identifies you or your content (for example a match's average rating).

You are solely responsible for your User Content and confirm you own it or have the rights to post it, and that it does not violate anyone else's rights, the law, or these Terms. If your User Content leads to a third-party claim against Fulltime, you agree to indemnify us for it, except to the extent the claim arises from our own wrongdoing.

Our Community Guidelines and Copyright & DMCA Policy form part of these Terms and are incorporated by reference. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users: content that breaks these rules is removed and the accounts behind it are suspended or terminated. In addition, you agree not to:

• break the law or infringe the rights of others;
• harass, threaten, impersonate, or abuse other users;
• upload sexual or violent imagery, or use it in profile photos;
• upload material that sexually exploits or endangers a child, ever;
• post or send an intimate image of anyone without their consent, including a fake or AI-generated one;
• post spam, scrape, or use bots to manipulate ratings, votes, or leaderboards;
• attempt to disrupt, reverse-engineer, or gain unauthorized access to the Service.

Any user can report content, a profile, or a message, and you can block another user to stop receiving their messages and hide their content from you. Images and video uploaded to the Service, including attachments sent in direct messages, are automatically screened.

We review reports and may remove content, or suspend or terminate accounts, that violate these Terms or harm the community. Where we remove your content or restrict your account, we will tell you what rule was involved unless we are legally prevented from doing so, and you can contest the decision by writing to service@fulltimecompany.com. We moderate at our discretion; nothing here obliges us to monitor the Service.

Intimate images shared without consent. Anyone — with or without an account — can ask us to remove an intimate image of them that was shared without their consent, using our removal request page. We remove valid requests, and identical copies we know of, within 48 hours.

We report apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as US law requires, and keep what the law requires us to keep even if the account is deleted, and we terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers as described in our Copyright & DMCA Policy.

Sections 4 (as to licences already granted), 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 survive termination of your account or these Terms.

Some content on Fulltime is generated by AI. Quiz questions, the debate questions we post, and historical squad line-ups and their accompanying statistics are produced by a large language model rather than written by a person. It gets things wrong. Treat all of it as entertainment, not as a record — and if you spot an error, tell us at service@fulltimecompany.com and we will correct or remove it.

Translation happens on your phone. Tapping Translate on a post, review, reply, or question uses the translation built into your phone's operating system. The text is not sent to us or to an AI company to be translated, and nothing is translated automatically.

Uploads are screened automatically. Every image and video you upload — including attachments in direct messages — is checked by an automated content-moderation service, and is removed without a person reviewing it if it matches prohibited content. If you believe your upload was rejected in error, write to us and a person will look at it.

We do not use AI to decide whether to suspend or terminate an account — a person makes those calls. Your content is not used to train anyone's AI models.

The Service, including its design, logos, wordmark, and software, is owned by Fulltime and protected by intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of it to you.

Fulltime is an independent fan platform. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any football club, league, governing body (including UEFA, FIFA, or the Premier League), or player. Team names, badges, player names, and match data belong to their respective owners and are used for informational and editorial purposes.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Ratings and statistics are community-generated, sourced from third parties, or AI-generated as described in section 7, and may be inaccurate — scores are not gospel. We do not guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fulltime will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business, arising from or relating to your use of the Service — whatever the theory of liability, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred US dollars (US$100). The Service is currently free to use, so in practice this means US$100.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and your statutory consumer rights are unaffected.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules. You and Fulltime agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California for any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service.

If you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another place whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts and to rely on your local consumer-protection law, this section does not take those rights away from you.

Before filing anything, please write to service@fulltimecompany.com describing the problem and what you would like us to do. We will do the same before bringing a claim against you. Most things are fixable this way, and we ask that you give us 30 days to try before starting proceedings.

Nothing here stops either of us from bringing an individual claim in a small-claims court, or from seeking an injunction to stop misuse of intellectual property or unauthorized access to the Service.

You agree to indemnify and hold Fulltime harmless from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your User Content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms — except to the extent it arises from our own wrongdoing.

If you install Fulltime from a third-party app store, that store's own terms also apply to your download and use of the app. Your licence to use the app is the one described in those store terms — for Apple, the standard Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement.

Apple and Google are not parties to these Terms, are not responsible for the app or its content, and have no obligation to provide support for it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

You may not use the Service if you are located in, or are a national or resident of, a country subject to comprehensive US sanctions, or if you appear on a US government restricted-party list. You agree not to use the Service in violation of US export-control laws.

We may send you notices about the Service by email, by push notification, or by displaying them in the app, and you agree those count as being in writing. Send notices to us at service@fulltimecompany.com.

Changes. We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes we will update the date and version above and tell you in the app before they take effect. Continued use after that means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not accept them, delete your account.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the Service, on notice to you.

Severability. If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable, that part is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.

No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by something outside our reasonable control.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Community Guidelines, the Copyright & DMCA Policy, and the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Fulltime about the Service.

Questions about these Terms, or any legal or regulatory request? Reach us at service@fulltimecompany.com.