Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

Welcome to LiverpoolVerse. By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms or the Privacy Policy then please do not use the site.

2. Description of Service

LiverpoolVerse is a blog and fan community for supporters of Liverpool Football Club. We are not affiliated directly or indirectly with Liverpool Football Club as an organization or any of it's partners or subsidiaries. We provide:

• Articles, news and analyses related to Liverpool Football Club- including it's players.
• Interactive content including: pre-match lineup selections, post-match player ratings, polls and comments (also related to Liverpool Football Club) for our users.

3. User Accounts and Registration

3.1 Account Creation

To participate in interactive features (pre-match lineup submissions, post-match player ratings, polls and comments), you must create an account through one of our supported authentication providers (Facebook or Google). By creating an account, you guarantee that:

• You meet the requirements of the authentication provider that you choose- including but not limited to age restrictions.
• The information that you provide is accurate and complete.
• You will maintain the security of your account.
• You are a Liverpool Football Club supporter.

3.2 Quiz Requirement

New users must pass a Liverpool FC knowledge quiz to complete registration. This helps to filter out trolls and helps to ensure our community consists of genuine Liverpool supporters. For details about the data collection involved for the quiz and the wider sign-up process then please navigate to section 2.2 of our Privacy Policy

3.3 Account Termination

We reserve the right to terminate accounts for the reasons in the next section (section 4) or any other reason at our discretion. Upon termination, your email will be stored for up to 5 years to prevent re-registration. View our our Privacy Policy for details regarding this.

4. User Conduct

As deemed by us, you agree not to:

• Post content that is offensive, discriminatory, hateful or harassing.
• Insult, demean or denigrate any member of our community.
• Impersonate another person or entity.
• Spam or post repetitive content.
• Share content that infringes on intellectual property rights.
• Attempt to hack, disrupt, or interfere with our services.
• Use automated systems or bots.
• Share false or misleading information.
• Engage in any illegal activities.

Failure to meet any of these standards will likely result in a ban (for up to 5 years as detailed in our Privacy Policy). By using the site at all as a signed-in user you accept that you may be banned for a perceived breach of these rules and that in this scenerio your email will be stored in a banned list for up to 5 years to prevent re-registration.

5. Content and Intellectual Property

5.1 Our Content

All articles, images, graphics, and other content provided by LiverpoolVerse are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works without our express permission.

5.2 User-Generated Content

By posting comments, lineup selections, player ratings, polls or other content on LiverpoolVerse, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to: use, display, and distribute your content on our platform. We reserve the right to associate your account information (email address, name and profile picture) with any content that you participate in to ensure the integrity of the collected data. This should only be visible to other users if you post a comment but we do not guarantee this (unlikely but potential for technical error etc.). You retain ownership of your content but are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to share it.

5.3 Third-Party Content

We may embed content from third parties (such as Getty Images)- see section 7 for a list of third-parties that we use and links to their terms. These materials are subject to their respective owners' terms of use, privacy policy and copyright. View sections 4.2 and 10 of our Privacy Policy for links to the privacy policies of these third-parties.

6. Privacy and Data Collection

Your use of LiverpoolVerse is also governed by our Privacy Policy. By using our services, you consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in our Privacy Policy. You may delete all data we hold about you on the My Account page. This link will only work if you're signed in. If you are banned from our service then we reserve the right to store your email address for up to 5 years as part of our proactive moderation efforts. As a football club fan site we are a target for trolls and malicious actors so we take these measures to help protect our platform.

7. Third-Party Services

Our service integrates with the following third-party services:

• Vercel. For web hosting. View Vercel's terms here.
• Prisma Postgres. Our database provider. View Prisma Postgres' terms here.
• Upstash. As part of our caching solution (for Redis caching). View Upstashs' terms here.
• Facebook. For authentication using OAuth 2.0. View Facebook's terms here.
• Google. For authentication using OAuth 2.0. Also for Google reCAPTCHA to help us prevent bots from signing-up to our platform. View Google's terms here.

If you wish to view the Privacy Policies for any of these platforms then they can found in sections 4.2 of our Privacy Policy.

Our service regularly links to the following third-party sites/services:

• Getty Embeds. We often use Getty Embeds for images. View Getty's terms here.
• BBC Sport. For sourcing match stats (like xG for example). View BBC Sport's terms here.
• Statmuse. For sourcing player statistics for an individual match. View Statmuses' terms here.
• Scouting Stats. For sourcing player and team data. Tends to be more macro than Statmuse (good for looking at stats over a season for a player or team). View Scouting Stats' terms here.
• Facebook. For links to encourage social sharing of our articles. View Facebook's terms here.
• X. For links to encourage social sharing of our articles. View X's terms here.
• Whatsapp. For links to encourage social sharing of our articles. View Whatsapp's terms here.

We reserve the right to link to other platforms but these are the ones that we link to the most frequently. If you would like to examine the Privacy Policies for any of these platforms they can be found in section 10 of our Privacy Policy.

Note that integrate is a stronger word than link- this differentiates the 2 lists above. The word integrate implies that our website is dependent on these services to function whereas link suggests that our website isn't reliant on these services to function. There are differences between these 2 words (integrate and link) in terms of whether data is exchanged but that is more a matter for our Privacy Policy (hint- integrate implies data exchange, link doesn't).

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

Liverpool Verse is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not guarantee that our service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure. We are not responsible for any content posted by users or for any decisions that you make based on the information found on our site.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, LiverpoolVerse and it's operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of our services.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless LiverpoolVerse and its operators from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses arising from your use of our services, your violation of these terms, or your violation of any rights of another person or entity.

11. Comments and Community Guidelines

LiverpoolVerse fosters an inclusive community of Liverpool FC supporters. Comments and discussions should be respectful and constructive. We reserve the right to remove any content that violates our community standards as well as ban the users who are responsible for such violations (for up to 5 years). See section 4 of these terms for details on the user conduct that we consider to be unacceptable.

12. Modifications to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the website. Your continued use of LiverpoolVerse after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the modified terms. You will be able to see when the page was last updated at the top of the page to see if you need to review the terms again. We encourage you to review these Terms of Service periodically to stay informed about our policies and practises.

13. Governing Law

These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable laws, without regard to conflict of law principles.

14. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us through our website. The contact us page is only accessible by signed-in members of our community. If as a non signed-in user you have any objections to these terms or our Privacy Policy then please do not use our site.

15. Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Service is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.