The rules of the world, and of using it.

The agreement

These terms are an agreement between you and DANCER DIGITAL LTD, trading as CLUBVERSE™ (“we”, “us”), the operator of the CLUBVERSE™ game and website (“the game”). By creating an account or using the game you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the game.

You must be at least 13 years old to use the game, and at least the age at which you can agree to terms like these where you live. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms on your behalf.

We may change these terms. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page and, for a change that matters to how you play, say so in the Discord and on the status page before it takes effect. Continuing to play after a change means you accept it.

The game is in alpha

The game is unfinished and under active development. Features will change, balance will change, and the world itself may be reset, in whole or in part, while we build it. A reset can mean losing your club, your squad, your history and anything else in the world.

We will try to announce a reset in advance and never during a season, but we do not promise to, and nothing you do in the game creates a right to have it preserved.

Access may be gated by invitation. An invitation is personal to you and may be withdrawn.

Your account

You sign in with your email address and a password, or with an Apple, Discord, Google or Microsoft account. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in secret and for everything done through your account in the game. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has used it.

One person, one account. You may not create accounts for other people, share an account, or run more than one club through separate accounts to gain an advantage over other managers.

You may delete your account at any time by asking us; see the privacy notice for what happens to your data. Your club stays in the world, with its squad and money as you left them, and your name may remain on its history as a record of who managed it.

Playing fairly

Every rival in the game is a person or an empty chair. Play as you would want them to play against you. In particular, you agree not to:

• use bots, scripts, automation or multiple accounts to play, to gain an advantage, or to overload the game;
• exploit a bug or an unintended behaviour for advantage, rather than reporting it;
• harass, threaten, abuse or discriminate against another manager, in the game, in chat, or in the Discord;
• post anything unlawful, defamatory, obscene, infringing, or that you do not have the right to post, including in club names, kit designs, chat and feedback;
• impersonate another person, a real club, a real brand or us;
• attempt to access accounts, data or systems that are not yours, or to interfere with the game’s operation;
• collect other managers’ personal information from the game.

We may remove content, reverse in-game outcomes obtained unfairly, suspend or end an account, or withdraw an invitation, where we reasonably believe these terms have been broken. We will tell you why where we can.

What you make in the game

You may create things in the game: a club name, a kit and crest, chat messages, feedback. You keep whatever rights you have in them. You give us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display, reproduce and adapt them for the purpose of running and promoting the game, for example showing your kit on a league table or your club’s result on the World page, for as long as the game exists and for a reasonable time after.

You are responsible for what you create. Do not use names, logos, designs or text that belong to somebody else. A kit that copies a real club’s kit, or a club named after a real one, may be changed or removed.

Feedback you send us may be used to improve the game without any obligation to you.

Your profile picture. You may put a picture beside your name: one you upload, or the one you keep at Gravatar. It is shown wherever your name is, to anyone, signed in or not, so treat it as public. You confirm that the picture is yours to use; that anyone in it has agreed to appear; and that it is not sexual, violent, hateful, unlawful, misleading about who you are, or a picture of a real person, club, brand or logo you have no right to. We may take a picture down without notice where we reasonably think it breaks this, and we may end the account of somebody who keeps doing it.

Before we keep an uploaded picture we shrink it to a small square and remove the hidden data cameras add to a file, such as where and when it was taken. If you choose Gravatar, we fetch the picture from Gravatar on our server using a one-way hash of your email address and show it as if it were ours; your address is not sent to anyone’s browser. A Gravatar you change or remove changes or disappears here within about an hour.

What is ours

The game, its code, its design, its text, its artwork, its generated players, managers, clubs, leagues, sponsors and places, the CLUBVERSE™ name and logo, and everything else in the game that you did not make, belong to us or to our licensors. You may use them only to play the game. You may not copy, sell, scrape, reverse-engineer or redistribute them except where the law allows.

Nothing in the game, whether a club, a player, in-game money or any other item, is your property. It is a licence to play, personal to you, which ends when your account does.

Screenshots and recordings of your own play may be shared freely, with attribution appreciated.

CLUBVERSE™ Pro

The game is free to play, and everything that happens on the pitch is available to every manager on the same terms. CLUBVERSE™ Pro is an optional tier of cosmetic and convenience extras for managers who want to support the game. It never changes how a match is simulated, how a player develops, what a board decides, or what a bid is worth; a Pro manager and a free manager compete as equals.

CLUBVERSE™ Premier is a higher tier that includes everything in Pro, plus extras of status and say: a Premier badge, a place on the public supporters wall unless you turn it off, a vote with other Premier members on which feature from a published shortlist is built next, and earlier access to features that do not touch the pitch. Whatever a vote chooses is built for, and released to, every manager at the same time. In these terms, what is said about Pro applies to Premier too.

What Pro includes is listed where it is offered and may change over time. Today it is a Pro badge beside your name wherever the world shows it. We may add, change or retire Pro extras, and we may grant Pro free of charge to some managers, for example early supporters and testers.

If and when Pro is sold, the price, the billing period and how to cancel will be stated clearly before you pay. A paid Pro subscription renews until you cancel; you can cancel at any time and keep Pro until the end of the period you have paid for. Statutory rights to a refund, including any cooling-off period where you live, are not affected. We may change the price with reasonable notice, taking effect from your next renewal. Pro may be removed from an account that breaks these terms.

In-game money

Budgets, wages, fees and any in-game currency are part of the fiction and have no real-world value. They cannot be bought, sold, exchanged, transferred between accounts or redeemed for anything outside the game, and Pro does not buy any of them.

A work of fiction

Everything in the world is invented. Players, managers, staff, clubs, leagues, competitions, sponsors, brands and places are generated or written by us and do not depict real people or organisations. Any resemblance to a real person, living or dead, or to a real club, company, brand or place, is coincidental and not intended.

Player portraits are generated images and are not photographs of anybody.

Availability and changes

We aim to keep the game running around the clock, and the status page shows how we are doing. We do not guarantee that it will be available, uninterrupted, on time or free of errors. The game clock, matches, and everything that depends on them may run late, run twice, or not run.

We may change, suspend or stop the game, or any part of it, at any time. Where we stop it altogether we will try to give reasonable notice.

No warranty; limited liability

The game is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or that it will meet your expectations.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable to you for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, the game, including loss of data, loss of a club, or loss of anything created in the game. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, which for a free game is nothing, and £50.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law. Nothing in them affects rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.

Other people’s services

Payments for Pro are taken by Stripe, under its terms. The Discord is run by Discord under its terms. We do not control those services and are not responsible for them.

Ending the agreement

You may stop using the game at any time and may ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or end your access for breaking these terms, for a legal reason, or if we stop running the game.

When an account ends, any Pro on it ends with it. The sections on what is ours, what you make in the game, fiction, liability and governing law survive the end of the agreement.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and disputes are subject to the courts there, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection you have where you live.

If a part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.

Contact

Questions about these terms: the Feedback button on any signed-in screen, or the Discord. The support page lists both.