Terms & Conditions

Last updated on 2024-07-10.

Please read these Terms of Service (these “Terms”) and our Privacy Policy carefully because they govern your use of the website located at chessdrop.com, any associated website and APIs (collectively, the “Site”), together with any applications, including mobile applications, and the services accessible via the Site, including ChessDrop (as defined below) any Apps (together with the Site and Apps, the “Services”) offered by Lakpa SLU (the “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”). These Terms refer to any individual or entity using the Services as “you” or “your”.

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING ARBITRATION: THESE TERMS CONTAIN ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE ONLY TO YOU. WHEN YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS YOU ARE AGREEING (WITH LIMITED EXCEPTION) TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND LAKPA SLU THROUGH BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION RATHER THAN IN COURT. PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY SECTION 27 BELOW, “HOW CAN WE RESOLVE DISPUTES?”, FOR DETAILS REGARDING ARBITRATION.

1. What is the scope of the Terms?

A. By accessing or using the Services, you agree that you have read, understood, and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in these Terms including the Cookie Policy and the Privacy Policy, as each may be amended from time to time, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference. If you do not agree with these Terms, you must not access or use the Services.

B. From time to time, we may change these Terms. If we do this, then we will publish those changes on the Site. It is important that you review these Terms each time you use or access the Services. If you continue to use or access the Services after we have posted updated Terms it means that you accept and agree to the changes and you will be bound by those new terms the next time you use the Services. If you do not agree to any changes, you must not use or access the Services. Because the Services are evolving over time we may change or discontinue all or any part of the Services, at any time and without notice, at our sole discretion.

2. What do some of the capitalised terms mean in these Terms?

A. “ChessDrop” means an online service to record, store, access and share chess games.

B. “Force Majeure Event” means any event, circumstance or cause beyond our reasonable control, which prevents, hinders or delays the provision of the Services or makes their provision impossible or onerous, including, without limitation: (a) acts of God, flood, storm, drought, earthquake or other natural disaster; (b) epidemics or pandemics (for the avoidance of doubt, including the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic); terrorist attacks, hacking or cyber threats, civil commotion or riots, war, threat of or preparation for war, armed conflict, imposition of sanctions, embargo, or breaking off of diplomatic relations; or (d) equipment or software malfunction or bug, as well as hacks, phishing attacks, distributed denials of service or any other security attacks.

3. What are the Services of ChessDrop?

ChessDrop is a software platform that enables its users to:

A. Create and manage an account with the Service.

B. Record, store, edit, annotate, analyze, manage, share, import, and export chess games.

4. Are you eligible to use the Services?

A. THE SERVICES ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 13, or in certain jurisdictions, under 16 (“Minors”) and we do not knowingly collect information from Minors. If you are between 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions) and 18, you must have permission from your legal guardian before you are permitted to use the Services.

B. You must have the full right, power, and authority to enter into and comply with these Terms on behalf of yourself and any company or legal entity for which you may access or use the Services. Furthermore, the Services are not available to any User previously removed from the Services by us.

C. The Services are operated out of Andorra. The Services may not be available or appropriate for use in other jurisdictions. You must not use the Services if your use of them would be illegal or otherwise violate any law you are subject to. We are not liable for your compliance with such laws.

D. You must not be, and will not be, located in any jurisdiction that is the subject of an embargo by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union or Switzerland and you are not listed on any list of prohibited or restricted parties by those foregoing. By using the Services, or any part thereof, you represent and warrant that: (i) you are not a citizen, resident, or member of any jurisdiction or group that is subject to economic sanctions by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union or Switzerland or any other relevant jurisdiction; and (ii) you do not appear on HMT Sanctions List, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control’s sanctions lists, the U.S. commerce department’s consolidated screening list, the EU consolidated list of persons, groups or entities subject to EU Financial Sanctions, nor do you act on behalf of a person sanctioned thereunder.

E. You represent and warrant that any information you provide via the Services is accurate and complete. You accept and acknowledge that the Company is not responsible for any errors or omissions that you make in connection with any transaction initiated via the Services, for instance, if you mistype a recipient’s username or otherwise provide incorrect information. You agree to review your transactions carefully before completing them via the Services.

5. How do you access the services?

A. If you wish to access the Services, you must create a ChessDrop account through the Services.

B. You hereby accept and acknowledge that you will take responsibility for all activities that occur under your ChessDrop account and accept all risks of any authorized or unauthorized access to your ChessDrop account, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

C. We may, in our sole discretion, with or without prior notice and at any time, suspend, modify or terminate, temporarily or permanently, all or any portion of the Services, with or without reason, including, without limitation, for any of the following reasons: (i) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; (ii) our provision of the Services, or any part thereof, to you is no longer commercially viable; and (iii) if you breach these Terms.

6. What licenses and access do we grant to you?

A. All intellectual property rights in the ChessDrop and the Services throughout the world belong to us and/or our licensors. Nothing in these terms gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by accessing or using the Services, or any portion thereof.

B. The Services may contain code, commonly referred to as open source software, which is distributed under open source licence terms, including terms which allow the free distribution and modification of the relevant software’s source code and/or which require all distributors to make such source code freely available upon request, including any contributions or modifications made by such distributor (“Open Source Software”). To the extent that the Services contain any Open Source Software, that element only is licensed to you under the relevant licence terms of the applicable third party licensor (“Open Source Licence Terms”) and not under these Terms, and you accept and agree to be bound by such Open Source Licence Terms.

7. What can you expect from the Services and can we make changes to them?

A. Except as set out in these Terms, we do not warrant, represent or guarantee that the Services will be accurate, complete, correct, reliable, integral, fit for purpose, secure or free from weaknesses, vulnerabilities or bugs.

B. You understand and accept that you use the Services at your own risk.

C. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we provide the Services to you “as is” and “as available” without any warranty, representation or assurance (whether express or implied) in relation to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, security, title or non-infringement.

D. We reserve the right to change the format and features of the Services by making any updates to Services or, where your device settings permit it, by automatic delivery of updates.

E. We may cease to provide and/or update content to the Services, with or without notice to you, if it improves the Services we provide to you, or we need to do so for security, legal or any other reasons.

8. What about third-party risk and the terms of third party providers?

B. The Services rely in part on third party and open-source software, and the continued development and support by third parties. There is no assurance or guarantee that those third parties will maintain their support of their software or that open source software will continue to be maintained. This may have a material adverse effect on the Services.

C. In connection with your use of the Services, you may be offered or made aware of services, content, features, products, Third Party Applications, offers and promotions providers by third parties (collectively, “Third Party Services”). Our inclusion or promotion of Third Party Services does not reflect a sponsorship, endorsement, approval, or verification by us. Your use, access, and exchange of data with any Third Party Services is at your own risk and subject to terms and conditions between you and the provider of the Third Party Services. We do not warrant any Third Party Services in any way.

F. For more information please also refer to our Privacy Policy.

9. What do you agree, warrant and represent?

You agree not to do any of the following:

A. Use, display, mirror or frame the Services or any individual element within the Services, the Company’s name, any Company trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page, without Company’s express written consent;

B. Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, Company’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Company’s providers;

C. Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services, or any Company system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;

D. Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Company or any of Company’s providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Services;

E. Attempt to access or search the Services or download any information from the Services, through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than the software and/or search agents provided by Company or available through the Services;

F. Use or access the Services for the purpose of sending any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, email, junk mail, spam, chain letters or other form of solicitation;

G. Use any meta tags or other hidden text or metadata utilizing a Company trademark, logo URL or product name without Company’s express written consent;

H. Use the Services, or any portion thereof, for any commercial purpose or for the benefit of any third party or in any manner not permitted by these Terms;

I. Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;

J. Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Services;

K. Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the Services;

L. Collect or store any personally identifiable information from the Services from other users of the Services without their express permission;

M. Impersonate or misrepresent any person or entity;

N. Use the Services for activities that are unlawful or fraudulent or have such purpose or effect or otherwise support any activities that breach applicable local, national or international law or regulations;

P. Use the Services for activities that are unlawful or fraudulent or have such purpose or effect or otherwise support any activities that breach applicable local, national or international law or regulations;

Q. Use the Services or interact with the Services in a manner that violates any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control laws; or

R. Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing. Although we are not obligated to monitor access to or use of the Services, we have the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Services, to ensure compliance with these Terms and to comply with applicable law or other legal requirements. We have the right to investigate violations of these Terms or conduct that affects the Services. We may also consult and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate the law.

10. What if you breach these Terms or we incur damages in connection with your use of the Services?

A. You will indemnify and hold the Company and its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, and costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your access to or use of the Services, or (b) your violation of these Terms.

B. You agree that you will be liable for any losses sustained by us as a result of your breach of these Terms and will compensate us in full for any such losses.

C. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you pursuant to paragraph 1 of this sectionand, in such case, you agree to cooperate with us in the defence of such matter.

D. The indemnity set out in this clause is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other remedies that may be available to us under applicable law.

11. What about our liability to you?

A. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SERVICES WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUES, LOST SAVINGS, LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF DATA OR GOODWILL, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT CLIENT OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

B. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAW OF THE APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, IN NO EVENT WILL CLIENT’S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID OR ARE PAYABLE BY YOU TO CLIENT FOR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100), IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD ANY PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS TO CLIENT, AS APPLICABLE.

C. THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND YOU.

12. What about viruses, bugs and security vulnerabilities?

A. We do not guarantee that the Services will be secure or free from bugs, security vulnerabilities or viruses.

B. You are responsible for configuring your information technology and computer programmes to access the Services and to use your own virus protection software.

C. If you become aware of any exploits, bugs or vulnerabilities, please let us know at: support@chessdrop.com.

D. You must not misuse the Services by knowingly introducing material that is malicious or technologically harmful. If you do, your right to use the Services will cease immediately.

13. Can you link to our Interfaces?

A. You may link to our Interfaces, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to the Services in any application that is not owned by or licensed to you.

B. Our Interface must not be framed on any other graphical user interface, nor may you create a link to any part of our graphical user interface other than the home page https://chessdrop.com/. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

C. The graphical user interface or application in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these Terms. If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our Interface other than that set out above, please contact: support@chessdrop.com.

14. What if an event outside our control happens that affects the Services?

We may update and change the Services from time to time. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Services for business, operational or regulatory reasons or because of a Force Majeure Event at no notice. We shall not be liable or responsible to you, or be deemed to have defaulted under or breached these Terms, for any failure or delay in the provision of the Services or the performance of these Terms, if and to the extent such failure or delay is caused by or results from or is connected to acts beyond our reasonable control, including the occurrence of a Force Majeure Event.

15. What if part of these Terms are determined to be invalid?

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable by an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

16. What if we do not enforce certain rights under these Terms?

The Company’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of such right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of the Company. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise.

17. Do third parties have rights?

Unless it expressly states otherwise, these Terms do not give rise to any third party rights, which may be enforced against us.

18. Can these Terms be assigned?

You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without the Company’s prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null. The Company may freely assign or transfer these Terms without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

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Upon cancellation, suspension, or termination of the Services, the provisions that by their nature are intended to survive termination will survive including, without limitation, the following sections: 1, 2, paragraph 3 of section 5, 7-11, and 14-22.

20. Which laws apply to these Terms?

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Andorra.

21. How can you get support for the ChessDrop and tell us about any problems?

If you want to learn more about the ChessDrop or the Services or have any problems using them or have any complaints, please get in touch with us via email at: support@chessdrop.com.

22. How can we resolve disputes?

A. In the event of a dispute between the parties concerning any matter arising from or concerned with these Terms, the parties shall use reasonable efforts to settle the dispute through negotiations conducted in good faith between the parties.

B. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, or the breach, termination or invalidity thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration legislation of Andorra. The number of arbitrators shall be one. The place of arbitration shall be determined by the Company, unless agreed otherwise. The language to be used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English.

23. User Generated Content

When users enter games into ChessDrop, the game data may include the names of other players. These names may include opponents of the user’s own games, or the names of opponents in games in which the account owner did not participate. As all game data is under control of the user who created it, ChessDrop is not obliged to delete or modify any such data on games publicly shared or otherwise made available by the controlling user.

Notwithstanding the terms specified above, ChessDrop reserves the right, at its discretion and for any purpose it deems necessary, to modify or delete any User Generated Content.

24. If you are from the U.S.

A. You must be 13 (thirteen) years or older to access and use the Services. If you are under 13 (thirteen) years of age, you are not permitted to access and use the Services. Otherwise you may access to, and use of the Services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Due to the age restrictions for access and use of the Services, no information obtained within the Services Provision falls within The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and is not monitored as doing so. In any event, you shall not access and use the Services, if you are under the age of 13 (thirteen). The COPPA requires us to obtain parental consent before we knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under the age of 13 (thirteen). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 13 (thirteen) without obtaining verifiable consent from that child’s parent or guardian (“Parental Consent”), except for the limited amount of personally identifiable information we need to collect in order to obtain Parental Consent (“Required Information”). Until we have received Parental Consent, we will only use Required Information for the purpose of obtaining Parental Consent.

B. We obtain Parental Consent using methods that are approved under the COPPA. For example, we may obtain Parental Consent by asking a child’s parent or guardian to sign a consent form that we provide on the Infrastructure and to send it back to us via email or electronic scan.

C. If you are a child under 13 (thirteen), please do not attempt to send any personal information about yourself to us before we obtain Parental Consent, except for the Required Information in the context of the Parental Consent process. If you believe that a child under 13 (thirteen) has provided us with personal information (beyond the Required Information) without our obtaining Parental Consent, please contact us at: support@chessdrop.com.

25. Is this all?

A. Lakpa SLU and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Services, including all associated intellectual property rights. You acknowledge that the Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of Andorra, the United States and foreign countries. You agree not to remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Services.

B. These Terms constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between you and us regarding the Services, and these Terms supersede and replace all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between you and us regarding the Services.

C. Any notices or other communications provided by Lakpa SLU under these Terms will be given: (i) via email; or (ii) by posting to the Services; or (iii) by posting to social media or other community channels. For notices made by email, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.

D. If you have any questions about these Terms or the Services, please contact the Company at: support@chessdrop.com