Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using the PlusPetanque Platform website and services, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provision of this agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the above, please do not use this service.

2. Use License

Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials on PlusPetanque Platform's website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

• • Modify or copy the materials
• • Use the materials for any commercial purpose or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial)
• • Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on the website
• • Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials

3. Open Beta and Pricing

PlusPetanque is currently in an open beta period. During the open beta, use of the platform — including creating and running tournaments — is free of charge for everyone.

When the open beta ends, playing in tournaments and registering for them will remain free for players. Creating and running tournaments will become a paid service for organizers, with pricing based on the number of registered participants in a tournament.

Free tournament allowances granted to accounts do not create any entitlement beyond the granted amount, and free access during the beta period does not create any entitlement to free services after the beta ends. We will announce the end of the open beta on the platform in advance. Current pricing is published on our Pricing page.

4. User Accounts

When you create an account with us, you must provide information that is accurate, complete, and current at all times. You are responsible for safeguarding the password and for ensuring the security of your account.

You agree not to disclose your password to any third party and to take sole responsibility for any activities or actions under your account, whether or not you have authorized such activities or actions.

Players may create their own account once they have reached the age of digital consent that applies in their country of residence. This age is between 13 and 18 depending on the country. Where we cannot determine the country, 18 applies. Below that age, a parent or legal guardian must approve the account before it can be used. Nobody under 13 may hold a login of their own. A parent may instead keep a child profile under their own account.

A player below the age of digital consent enters a parent's or guardian's email address at sign-up. We send that address an approval link. The guardian approves with their own verified adult PlusPetanque account and confirms that they are an adult and the child's parent or legal guardian. The account cannot be used until this approval is recorded. An approval request expires after 7 days and can be sent again.

The guardian decides what is public about the child, approves team invitations, may hand the role to another guardian, may withdraw consent and may delete the account. If consent is withdrawn, the child can no longer sign in, and the account is removed after 30 days unless a guardian approves it again. The guardian is informed about account-level events such as an email change, a suspension or a deletion request, but not about matches or tournaments.

While a guardian link is active, the following applies to the account:

• No phone number is stored on the account. The guardian's contact details are used instead.
• No newsletter, marketing email or advertising profiling.
• The account cannot organize tournaments, act as a referee, or hold API keys, website widgets or webhooks.
• Team invitations reach the guardian first and can be accepted by the child only after the guardian has approved them.
• The birth date is locked once consent is recorded. Only we can correct it, on request, and every correction is logged.
• The child cannot delete the account alone. A deletion request is confirmed by the guardian.

On the day the child reaches the age of digital consent that applies at that time in their country of residence, the guardian link ends and the account becomes fully their own. Privacy settings stay exactly as the guardian left them. Nothing becomes public on its own.

You must give your real birth date. If we learn that an account holder is below the age of digital consent, we apply the protective settings at once and ask for a guardian's approval within 30 days. After that period, sign-in is refused until a guardian approves. An account without approval after 120 days enters the normal account deletion process. Existing tournament registrations remain valid throughout.

A guardian may add a child who is too young for an account as a profile under the guardian's own login. Such a profile has no email address and no password. The guardian registers it for tournaments, manages its teams and may later convert it into the child's own account, which then remains under the guardian's link until the age of digital consent.

The person who creates an organization account confirms that they are an adult authorized to represent that organization.

6. API Access, Website Widgets and Webhooks for Organizations

Organization accounts may connect their own websites and systems to the platform in three ways: read-only API keys, embeddable website widgets (tournament lists, matches, standings, results, brackets and a registration form shown inside a frame on the organization's site), and webhooks (notifications we send to a web address the organization provides when something happens in its tournaments). All three are limited to the tournaments the organization organizes, co-administers or runs through its club.

• Confidentiality. API keys are confidential credentials. You are responsible for every request made with your keys, including requests made by agencies, plugins or other services acting on your behalf. Keep keys on your server, never in public web pages, and revoke a key immediately if you believe it has been exposed.
• Permitted use. Data obtained through the API may be displayed only in connection with the tournament it belongs to and must respect the same visibility rules as the platform, including the anonymization of players who have requested it. Reselling the data, collecting it in bulk, or using it for purposes unrelated to the tournament is not permitted.
• Your responsibility as publisher. Where you display participant data on your own website, you are responsible for that display under applicable data protection law, including informing participants and honouring their requests.
• Website widgets. Widgets show the same information as the public tournament page and may only be embedded on the websites you list for them; the list of allowed websites is enforced by the visitor's browser. Where a widget lets visitors register a team, the registration is made with us, under these Terms and our Privacy Policy, and the visitor creates a PlusPetanque account in the process; you must not present the form as your own service or alter it. You are responsible for the pages that embed the widgets and for informing your visitors that content is provided by PlusPetanque.
• Webhooks. You are responsible for the endpoints you register: they must be under your control (or that of a provider acting for you), reachable over HTTPS, and must verify the signature we attach to every delivery. Webhook payloads contain tournament, team, registration and match information for your tournaments and must be handled under the same permitted-use and publisher-responsibility rules as API data. Deliveries are made on a best-effort basis with limited retries; we may disable endpoints that persistently fail and are not responsible for events not received by an unavailable endpoint.
• Limits and availability. Requests and deliveries are rate limited. We may throttle, suspend or revoke API keys, widgets and webhooks that violate these terms or endanger the platform, and we may change or discontinue these integrations with reasonable notice.

7. Tournament Participation

8. Content and Conduct

You are responsible for any content you post on our platform. You agree not to post content that is:

• • Illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, vulgar, or obscene
• • Infringing on intellectual property rights
• • Containing viruses or malicious code
• • Spam or unsolicited advertising
• • Discriminatory or hateful toward any individual or group

9. Privacy and Data Protection

Your privacy is important to us. Our collection and use of personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms of Service. By using our services, you consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in our Privacy Policy.

10. Platform Availability

While we strive to maintain continuous service availability, we do not guarantee that the platform will be available at all times. We may suspend or terminate services temporarily for maintenance, updates, or other operational reasons without prior notice.

11. Limitation of Liability

12. Governing Law

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France, and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that state or location.

We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting on the platform. Your continued use of the service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.