Ballon — Terms of Service

Version 1.0 — Last updated: 2026-07-26

1. Introduction and acceptance

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Ballon website and progressive web app at ballonleague.com and all related features (the "Service"), operated by Ballon League sp. z o.o. (in formation), Kraków, Poland ("Ballon", "we", "us"). References to the "Service" apply equally to the website and the app.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. When you register, we will ask you to expressly accept these Terms.

2. What Ballon is — and what it is not

Ballon is a free, skill-based entertainment and social platform for predicting sports results and building a reputation among friends and leagues.

Ballon is not a gambling or betting service. There is no stake, no wager, no odds, no cash prize, and no payment to enter or to win anything of value. Predictions are for entertainment and status only. Nothing on the Service is a bet, and no outcome results in a payout. You must not treat, describe, or use the Service as a gambling product.

Ballon is also not a fantasy-sports salary/draft game, not a financial product, and not a source of betting advice.

3. Eligibility — 18+

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By using Ballon you confirm that you are 18 or over. We may suspend or close accounts where we reasonably believe the user is under 18.

4. Accounts

• You register using a valid email address (email/password) or by signing in with Google. You must provide accurate information and keep it current.
• You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately at support@ballonleague.com of any unauthorised use.
• One account per person. You must not use another person's account without permission, or create an account on behalf of someone under 18.
• Your username/display name must not impersonate others, infringe rights, or breach the content rules in §7.

5. Predictions, scoring, leaderboards, and reputation

• Ballon lets you predict match scorelines; points are awarded by our scoring rules (e.g. exact score, correct result, goal-difference bands). Scoring is automated and applied uniformly.
• Reputation, tiers, achievements, leaderboards, rivalries, and standings are generated from your activity and are part of the entertainment experience. They have no monetary value, cannot be redeemed, transferred, sold, or exchanged, and confer no ownership or prize.
• We may correct scores, standings, or reputation where a data error, provider correction, or bug requires it. We aim to apply scoring fairly and consistently but do not guarantee the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of results or sports data (see §10).
• Pick secrecy: other members' predictions are hidden until the applicable lock/deadline. Do not attempt to circumvent this.

6. Friends, leagues, and social features

The Service is social: you can join leagues, add/follow others, see standings, and appear on leaderboards and activity feeds visible to other members. By default, wider visibility settings are conservative; you control certain visibility options in your settings. You acknowledge that your display name, avatar, country, predictions (after lock), and standings are visible to other members of leagues you join. Treat other users with respect; harassment is prohibited (§7 and the Acceptable Use Policy).

7. Your content and conduct

"Your content" means anything you submit — including your display name, uploaded avatar/banner images, and any other material.

• Licence to us. You keep ownership of your content. You grant Ballon a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt (e.g. resize/crop), and display your content solely to operate and promote the Service. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies retained in backups for a limited period or as required by law.
• Your warranties. You confirm you own or have the rights to the content you upload, and that it does not infringe anyone's rights.
• Prohibited content and conduct. You must not upload or do anything unlawful, infringing, misleading, hateful, harassing, obscene, or that includes third-party trademarks/logos you don't have rights to, malware, or automated scraping/harvesting of the Service. Full rules are in the Acceptable Use Policy (appended below), which forms part of these Terms.
• Moderation. We may remove content or restrict features if content breaches these Terms or we reasonably suspect it does. There is no chat/direct-messaging feature at launch; if we add one, additional rules will apply.

8. Intellectual property

• Ballon's IP. The Service — including the "Ballon" name and logo, design system, software, text, and graphics we create — is owned by Ballon or its licensors and protected by law. You may use the Service for your personal, non-commercial enjoyment only. You must not copy, redistribute, resell, reverse-engineer, or exploit the Service or its content except as these Terms allow.
• Sports data and third-party marks. Team names, competition names, fixtures, and scores are factual sports information sourced from a third-party provider (API-Football / API-Sports), whose terms permit Ballon's use, including displaying team/competition logos for identification inside the app, without further licence or attribution. Club, league, and competition names, logos, crests, and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners, are shown for identification only within fair use, and do not imply any affiliation. Ballon is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any club, league, federation, or competition. See the Predictions & Sports-Data Disclaimer.

9. Fees, subscriptions, and advertising

The Service is currently free. We may introduce optional paid features (e.g. a premium subscription) and/or advertising in future. These clauses take effect only when such features actually launch, and we will present clear, specific terms (price, billing cycle, renewal, cancellation, and refund/withdrawal rights) at that time.

If and when paid features launch:

• Payments will be handled by a third-party payment processor (e.g. Stripe, Apple App Store, or Google Play). Ballon does not store your card details.
• Where you contract as a consumer in the EU, you will have the statutory 14-day right of withdrawal, subject to the rules on digital services you begin using immediately.
• Subscriptions may renew automatically until cancelled; renewal terms will be disclosed before purchase.
• Advertising, if introduced, will exclude all gambling/betting content and advertisers. Paying for any feature will never increase your chance of winning anything of value; Ballon will remain free-to-play and non-gambling.

Until these features launch, no payment is taken and no advertising is served.

10. Disclaimers

• The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that sports data, scores, fixtures, or standings will be complete, accurate, or timely. Sports data comes from third parties and may be delayed, incorrect, or revised.
• Ballon is for entertainment only. Nothing on the Service is advice (including betting advice), and you should not rely on it for any decision with financial or legal consequences.
• We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. Because the Service is free, we are not liable for changes or discontinuation, save as set out in §11.

11. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded by law (including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud).

Subject to that:

• To the maximum extent permitted by law, to the extent the Service is provided free of charge, we are not liable for any loss or damage of any nature arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service.
• We are not liable for business losses, loss of profit, loss of data, loss of goodwill, or any indirect or consequential loss.
• We are not liable for losses arising from incorrect or delayed sports data, event times, scores, or standings sourced from third parties, or from outages beyond our reasonable control.
• Where paid features exist and liability is not otherwise excluded, our total aggregate liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights under Polish and EU law are unaffected.

12. Suspension and termination

• By you: you may stop using the Service and delete your account in-app at any time.
• By us: we may warn, suspend, restrict, or terminate your account and remove content if you breach these Terms (or we reasonably suspect you have), for security reasons, or to comply with law. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give notice. You must not evade a suspension (e.g. by creating another account).
• Sections that by their nature should survive termination (IP, disclaimers, liability, governing law) survive.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms as the Service evolves. We will post the updated version with a new date and, for material changes, notify you by email or in-app. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them. If you do not accept, stop using the Service.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Poland. Disputes are subject to the competent courts of Poland, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rights that entitle you to bring proceedings in your country of residence or to rely on your local law. EU consumers may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform.

15. General

• If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
• We may assign these Terms (e.g. on a corporate reorganisation); you may not assign your account without our consent.
• These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Predictions & Sports-Data Disclaimer, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

16. Contact

support@ballonleague.com — Ballon League sp. z o.o. (in formation), Kraków, Poland. Registered address, NIP and KRS details will be updated upon registration.

Appendix — Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") forms part of the Terms of Service above.

1. Purpose

This AUP sets the rules for how you may use Ballon. It applies to everything you do on the Service, including your username/display name and any avatar or banner image you upload. Breaking these rules can lead to content removal, feature restrictions, suspension, or account termination.

2. Be respectful

Ballon is competitive but friendly. You must not harass, threaten, bully, defame, or discriminate against other users, or incite others to do so. Rivalry and banter are welcome; abuse is not.

3. Content rules (usernames, avatars, banners, and any other content)

You must not upload, display, or choose content that:

• infringes anyone's intellectual property — including club/league/competition logos, crests, kits, or official photos you do not have the rights to;
• impersonates any person, brand, or organisation, or is misleading about your identity;
• is unlawful, hateful, discriminatory, harassing, obscene, sexually explicit, or violent;
• is defamatory, or invades another person's privacy;
• contains malware, or links to harmful or illegal material;
• promotes gambling or betting, or presents Ballon as a betting service;
• is spam, a scam, or unsolicited advertising.

You confirm you own or are licensed to use anything you upload.

4. Don't misuse or attack the Service

You must not:

• access, scrape, harvest, or index the Service by automated means (bots, spiders, crawlers) except a search engine acting under our robots rules;
• attempt to break, overload, or bypass the security, authentication, rate-limits, or access controls of the Service;
• attempt to view other users' predictions before the applicable lock/deadline, or otherwise defeat "pick secrecy";
• reverse-engineer, copy, resell, or commercially exploit the Service or its data;
• create multiple or fake accounts, manipulate leaderboards/reputation, collude, or otherwise game the scoring or standings;
• use the Service in breach of any applicable law, or the third-party sports-data terms.

5. Reporting abuse

If you see content or behaviour that breaks these rules, report it to support@ballonleague.com (or the in-app report tool where available). We review reports and act where appropriate.

6. Enforcement

We may, at our reasonable discretion and where lawful: issue warnings, remove or edit content, restrict features, suspend or terminate accounts, and block access. Serious or repeated breaches may be reported to the relevant authorities. We aim to act proportionately and, where reasonable, to give notice.

7. Contact

support@ballonleague.com