01About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and [Company legal name], [registered address], Ethiopia ("Matchday", "we"), which runs the Matchday website and phone app. By creating an account or using Matchday you accept them. If you do not, do not use Matchday.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal data and forms part of these terms.

02What Matchday is

Matchday is a platform where teams enter competitions, organizers run them, venues take bookings for their pitches and courts, and shops list sports kit. It keeps one shared record of those entries, bookings, fixtures, results and payments, read by every side involved.

Matchday is not the organizer of any competition, the operator of any venue or the seller of any product listed by a shop, unless it says so. Each competition, venue and shop is run by the organizer, venue or shop that lists it, and they are responsible for it.

03Your account

• Give accurate details, and keep your phone number and email current so you can be reached.
• Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done through your account; tell us at once through the contact form if you think someone else is using it.
• Organizer, venue and administrator accounts are opened by Matchday by invitation. Shop accounts are opened by application and approval.
• You must be old enough under Ethiopian law to enter into this agreement.

04Payments

Matchday does not receive, hold or transfer money. Entry fees, booking payments and order payments are paid directly by you to the organizer, venue or shop, by the methods they accept, such as bank transfer, mobile wallet or cash.

• After paying, you upload proof of payment. The organizer, venue or shop checks it and confirms or rejects it. A payment is shown as confirmed only once they have confirmed it.
• Prices, fees, refunds and cancellations are set by the organizer, venue or shop, and any question or dispute about a payment is between you and them. Matchday can help by showing the record, but is not a party to the payment and does not guarantee it.
• Uploading a false or altered proof of payment may lead to your account being suspended.

05Teams and competitions

• A captain is responsible for their team's roster: that each player is real, eligible under the competition's rules and has agreed to be entered.
• A captain who adds a player under 18 confirms they have the permission of the player's parent or guardian.
• Each competition's rules, schedule, results and discipline are decided by its organizer. Matchday records them; it does not referee them.

06Organizers, venues and shops

If you run a competition, a venue or a shop on Matchday, you are responsible for:

• The accuracy of what you publish: dates, prices, fees, rules, opening hours, products and stock.
• Reviewing payment proofs honestly and promptly, and confirming only payments you actually received.
• Delivering what you sell or offer, and handling refunds and complaints with the people who paid you.
• Using the personal data you see on Matchday only to run your competition, venue or shop.

Online checkout in the marketplace is not open yet; until it is, products can be browsed but not bought through Matchday.

07Acceptable use

Do not use Matchday to:

• break the law, or mislead, harass or impersonate anyone;
• publish content you have no right to, or that is offensive or harmful;
• upload fake payment proofs or enter fake teams or players;
• interfere with Matchday, get around its security, or collect data from it by automated means.

08Your content

You keep ownership of what you upload, such as team details, photos and receipts. You allow Matchday to store and show it to the people it is meant for, as described in the Privacy Policy, for as long as it is needed to run Matchday.

09Suspension and closing accounts

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts other users at risk. You can stop using Matchday at any time, and ask us to close your account through the contact form.

10Our responsibility

We work to keep Matchday available and accurate, but it is provided as it is, and we cannot promise it will always be uninterrupted or free of errors.

As far as the law allows, Matchday is not liable for what organizers, venues, shops or other users do or fail to do, for payments made between them, or for indirect losses. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under Ethiopian law.

11Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Any dispute that cannot be settled by talking to us first will be decided by the competent courts in Addis Ababa.

12Changes to these terms

When we change these terms we update the date at the top, and for a significant change we will tell signed-in users on Matchday before it applies. Using Matchday after a change means you accept the new terms.