Terms of Service (EULA)

Welcome to LeagueLinks!

LeagueLinks Basket is an App that allows you to access the LeagueLinks platform relating to the Basket sport network that allows users to connect with each other, to create communities and to make their activities in the Sport sector known. These Conditions adjust the use of the App and the platform and apply to all sport networks belonging to LeagueLinks (Basketball, Football, Padel, etc.) and to other services, technologies and softwares offered by LeagueLinks, except in cases in which it is expressly declared that the application of particular conditions is different from the present ones. The services in question are provided to the user by LeagueLinks s.r.l.

The use of LeagueLinks App and platforms does not require the user to pay.

LeagueLinks does not sell personal user data, however information are shared on the platform that can directly identify the user (information such as user name, email address or other contact information) and which make the meeting possible between supply and demand (scouting) by operators, clubs and sport associations who are members in LeagueLinks.

LeagueLinks collects and uses your personal data in order to provide the services described below. These data are necessary for the use of the platform. The user can access their account settings at any time to export their personal data, to suspend or to delete the account.

 

1.  Services offered by LeagueLinks

 

The goal of LeagueLinks is to give the users of the Network (athletes and operators of a specific sporting sector) the possibility to get in touch with other users, to create communities and to publish updates on their own sporting activity. To achieve this, LeagueLinks provides you the services described below:

  • To provide a personalized user experience: the experience on LeagueLinks is unique to each user, from posts, events, advertisements and other contents displayed in the various areas of the platform. LeagueLinks uses the data it has (e.g. user's connections, what user shares and does in the platform) to personalize user’s experience;

 

  • To connect users with people and organizations of interest: LeagueLinks helps users to find and to connect with people, groups, companies, sport organizations and other entities in the sport sector. LeagueLinks uses data in its possession to offer suggestions to you and others (e.g. groups to join, events to attend, people to connect with);

 

  • Ability to communicate: LeagueLinks offers many ways to communicate with sport colleagues, companies, associations and others on topics of interest (e.g. to share updates on the own sporting activity with photos, videos and profile updates, to send messages to users, to create events or groups, to add content to the own profile, etc.);

 

  • Discovery of products and services that may be of interest to users: LeagueLinks can show the user advertisements and sponsored contents that allow the user to discover opportunities, products and services offered by various companies and organizations that use LeagueLinks;

 

  • Fight against harmful conduct, protection and support of the sport community: LeagueLinks uses automatic filters to detect and block improper use of the platform or offensive and harmful behavior towards other users. Additionally, when reporting content or conduct of this type, LeagueLinks takes appropriate measures, such as removing contents, suspending or disabling an account or contacting law enforcement;

 

  • Searching for ways to improve the own services: LeagueLinks engages in research to develop, to test and to improve its services. This could include data analysis about users of the platform and the comprehension on how users use the services, for example by analyzing the most searched or viewed content and profiles;

 

  • To enable global access to LeagueLinks services: in order to manage the own global service, LeagueLinks must store and distribute content and data in the data centers that host the platform. This infrastructure can be managed or controlled by companies outside LeagueLinks.

 

2. How LeagueLinks' services are funded

 

Instead of paying for the use of LeagueLinks and its basic services, by using the services of LeagueLinks covered by these Terms, users agree that LeagueLinks may show advertisements, whose promotion inside and outside the pages of LeagueLinks takes place against payment by companies and organizations. LeagueLinks may use user’s personal data (e.g. information on sporting activities and interests) to show them the most relevant advertisements.

The protection of users' privacy is an integral part of the platform, which means that LeagueLinks can show the user relevant and useful advertisements without revealing their identity to advertisers. LeagueLinks does not sell your personal data. LeagueLinks may allow advertisers to indicate items such as their business goals and the type of sports audience they wish to display their ads to (e.g., athletes aged 18 to 35 with a passion for cycling). Then, LeagueLinks shows ads to users who may be interested.

To provide to users the services described above, LeagueLinks collects and uses the user's personal data according to the following guidelines:

  • Information and contents provided: LeagueLinks collects the content, communications and other information you provide when you use its services, including when you register for an account, create or share contents, and you message or communicate with others. This may include information in or about the content provided (such as metadata) or the creation date of a file;

 

  • Networks and connections: LeagueLinks collects information about users, pages, accounts and groups to which the user is connected and how they interact with them through the services on the platform. LeagueLinks also collects contact information which is used to suggest new connections with other users;

 

  • Use of the platform: LeagueLinks collects information on how users use the services, on the types of contents they view or interact with, on the features they use most, on the actions it takes, on the people or accounts with whom they interact.

 

  • User information: Leaguelinks collects sharing or comments on a picture.

 

3. Your commitments to LeagueLinks and the Community 

 

Platforms referring to LeagueLinks provide these services to users and others to help to achieve the own goals. In return, users must make the following commitments:

1. Who can use LeagueLinks

When content relates to people, the LeagueLinks community is safer and more responsible. For this reason, users are required to:

  • Provide real personal data;
  • Provide accurate personal information;
  • Create a single account (the own) and use it for personal purposes and related to the specific sport;
  • Not share the own password, to not grant access to the own LeagueLinks account to others or to transfer the own account to others (without LeagueLinks permission).

The use of LeagueLinks is prohibited to:

  • Users under the age of 14;
  • Users with accounts previously disabled for breach of LeagueLinks Terms;
  • Users not authorized by applicable law to receive LeagueLinks services or software.

 

2. What users can share and do on LeagueLinks

LeagueLinks wants its users to be able to share sport contents that are important to them, but without compromising the safety of others or the integrity of the community. Therefore, users agree not to adopt the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others to adopt them): 

  • Users may not use services offered by Leaguelinks to adopt conduct or share contents:
    • Contrary to the Conditions applicable to the use of LeagueLinks by users;
    • Unlawful, deceptive, discriminatory or fraudulent;
    • Against or in violation of the rights of other users, including their intellectual property rights.

 

  • Users may not upload any viruses or damaging codes, or do anything that may disable, overload or prevent the proper functioning or appearance of the LeagueLinks services;

 

  • Users may not access or collect data from LeagueLinks platforms using automated means (without the prior authorization of LeagueLinks) or try to access data to whom users do not have permission to access.

LeagueLinks may remove or block content that violates these provisions.

In the event LeagueLinks removes contents posted by users due to a breach of the Terms, LeagueLinks will notify users and explain the options available to request a review, unless they seriously or repeatedly violate these terms; or in the event that doing so exposes LeagueLinks or other users to legal liability, they damage the User Community, compromise or interfere with the integrity or functioning of the services, there are restrictions due to technical limitations or it is forbidden to do so for legal reasons.

LeagueLinks encourages users to report contents or conducts that users believe violates their own rights or the LeagueLinks Terms.

LeagueLinks may suspend or limit users access if it determines that such action is reasonably necessary to avoid or reduce negative legal or regulatory consequences on LeagueLinks.

3. Permissions granted by users to LeagueLinks

Users must grant certain permissions to allow LeagueLinks to provide their services:

  1. Permissions to use created and shared contents by users: some contents shared or uploaded by users, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.

Users are the owners of intellectual property rights (aspects such as copyrights or trademarks) of the contents they create and share on LeagueLinks platforms. Nothing in these conditions deprives users of the rights he owns in relation to their contents. Users are free to share their contents with anyone, wherever they want. However, users must grant LeagueLinks certain statutory permissions (known as "licenses") for the provision of the own services to use the content in question. This is done for the sole purpose of providing and improving LeagueLinks services, as described above.

Specifically, when users share, publish or upload contents protected by intellectual property rights to the LeagueLinks platform, they grant a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and valid worldwide license for transmission, use, distribution, modification, execution, copying, public execution or display, translation and creation of derivative works of its contents. This implies, for example, that if users share a photo on LeagueLinks, they authorizes LeagueLinks to store it, copy it and share it with other parties, such as service providers that support the platforms or other LeagueLinks services that users use. This license ceases to exist once your content is deleted from the LeagueLinks platform.

Users can delete contents individually or collectively by deleting their account. Users can download a copy of their own data at any time before deleting their account.

When users delete their own contents, they will no longer be visible to other users; however, they may continue to exist in other places within LeagueLinks systems in the case of:

  • Immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations (in these cases the contents will be deleted as soon as the technical issues are overcome);
  • Users contents has been used by other users in compliance with this license and has not been deleted (in this case, this license will continue to apply until the content is deleted);
  • In cases where immediate elimination would limit LeagueLinks' ability to:
    • Identify or investigate illegal activities or violations of LeagueLinks terms and conditions (e.g. identify or investigate misuse of LeagueLinks services);
    • Comply with a legal obligation, such as keeping evidences.
    • Comply with a request from judicial or administrative authorities, law enforcement or government agencies.

In these cases, the contents will be kept for a period that not exceeds what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were kept (the exact duration will vary according to the situation).

In each of the above cases, the license will continue to exist until the content is completely deleted.

2. Authorization to use name, profile picture and information related to user actions with ads and sponsored contents: users authorize LeagueLinks to use their name, profile picture and information related to actions taken on the platform. LeagueLinks in connection with or in connection with advertisements, offers and other sponsored content that LeagueLinks displays within the platform, without any remuneration for its benefit. For example, LeagueLinks may show your friends that you are interested in a sponsored event or that the user has "liked" a Page created by a brand that has paid LeagueLinks to show their ads.

3. Authorization to update current or downloaded software: If Users download or use LeagueLinks software, they allow LeagueLinks to download and install software updates, where available.

4. Permissions granted by users to LeagueLinks

If Users use contents covered by intellectual property rights owned by LeagueLinks and made available on their platforms (e.g. images, videos or sounds produced by LeagueLinks or added by Users), LeagueLinks reserves all rights related to such content (excluding those of Users). Users use any copyright or trademark (or any similar trademark) of LeagueLinks only with the prior written permission of LeagueLinks. Users must obtain written permission from LeagueLinks to modify, to create derivative works, to decompile or otherwise to attempt to extract source code from LeagueLinks platforms.

 

4. Further provisions

 

  1. LeagueLinks update terms

LeagueLinks is constantly working to optimize its platforms and to develop new features that can improve services for the user. Therefore, LeagueLinks may need periodically to update these Terms to precisely indicate its services and practices. LeagueLinks will make changes only if the rules are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete and only in cases where such changes are reasonable and taken to users, in according to their interests.

LeagueLinks will notify users (e.g. by email or message within the platform) at least 30 days before making changes to these Terms and will give users the opportunity to consult them prior to their entry into force, unless the changes are required by law. Once the updated Terms become effective, Users will be bound by them if they continue to use LeagueLinks' services.

If Users do not accept the updated Terms and intend to leave the LeagueLinks Community, they can delete their own Account at any time. 

 

  1. Account Suspension or Termination

 LeagueLinks' goal is to promote the sporting activity and business of registered users.

 If LeagueLinks determines that Users has clearly, seriously or repeatedly violated the Conditions, LeagueLinks may suspend or permanently disable the access to their account. LeagueLinks may also suspend or disable Users account if they repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of other Users or if LeagueLinks is required to do so for legal reasons.

In the event that LeagueLinks will do this, LeagueLinks will notify Users and explain the options available to Users to request a review, unless this exposes LeagueLinks or others to legal liability, compromises or interferes with the integrity or operation of the LeagueLinks services and systems, there are restrictions due to technical limitations or where it is forbidden to do so for legal reasons.

Users can contact LeagueLinks if they believe the account has been disabled in error.

If the account is deleted by Users or disabled by LeagueLinks, these Conditions will cease to be valid as a contract between LeagueLinks and Users, unless otherwise provided by law.

 

  1. Limitation of Liability

No elements in these Terms are intended to exclude or to limit LeagueLinks' liability in the event of death, personal injury or fraudulent misrepresentation caused by negligence or prejudice to statutory rights of Users. 

LeagueLinks will act with professional diligence in providing you with its services and in ensuring a safe, secure and error-free environment. Provided it has acted in professional diligence, LeagueLinks accepts no liability for losses that are not caused by the own breach of these Terms or otherwise attributable to actions, losses not reasonably foreseeable by Users and LeagueLinks at the time of '' acceptance of these Conditions and in relation to events beyond the reasonable control of LeagueLinks.

 

  1. Disputes 

LeagueLinks attempts to provide clear rules in order to limit or hopefully avoid disputes with users. In the event of a dispute, the user accepts that the competent court is that of Ancona (AN), Italy.

 

5. Other provisions

  1. These Conditions build the entire contract between Users and LeagueLinks s.r.l. in relation to the use of the services offered by the platforms belonging to LeagueLinks. They supersede any previous agreements;
  2. Some services offered by LeagueLinks may also be governed by additional terms. In case of use of one of the services in question, the additional conditions will become part of the contract with the user. In the event of a conflict between these Terms and any additional terms, the latter will apply in the context of the conflict;
  3. If any part of these Terms proves unenforceable, the remainder will remain valid and continue to have effect. Failure to enforce any part of these Terms does not in any way constitute a waiver. Any modification or waiver of these Terms must be made in writing and signed by LeagueLinks;
  4. Users will not transfer any of your rights or obligations specified in these Terms to anyone else without the consent of LeagueLinks;
  5. These Conditions do not confer any rights on third party beneficiaries. All rights and obligations of LeagueLinks specified in these Terms may be freely assigned by LeagueLinks in the event of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets or through a legal transaction or other transaction;
  6. In some circumstances, LeagueLinks may need to change username of an account (e.g. if a titled entity claims it). In such cases, LeagueLinks will inform Users in advance and explain the reasons behind the transaction;
  7. LeagueLinks always appreciates user feedback and suggestions regarding their products and services. However, the user should be aware that LeagueLinks may use such information without limits or remuneration obligations towards the user and that LeagueLinks has no obligation to keep it confidential.

Date of last revision: January 30, 2021