Terms of Use — HockeyCut

Not legal advice. Version EN-TOU-1.0-draft · 15 November 2026. Square brackets [...] are placeholders to be filled in before publication. Turkish users: the Turkish documents apply to you (see Section 21). Related documents: EULA, Privacy Notice, Subscription and Refunds.

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

1.1. These Terms are between [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] ("we", "us"; registered in Türkiye; registry no. [ ]; address [ ]; email [coming soon]) and you ("you"), the person who uses HockeyCut, our video analysis app for ice hockey, and any related website or service (together, the "Service").

1.2. These Terms work together with the EULA (software licence), the Privacy Notice, and the Subscription and Refunds terms. They form one agreement. If two documents conflict, the more specific one applies to that subject.

1.3. In these Terms, "consumer" means a person who uses the Service for purposes outside their trade, business, craft or profession. "Business user" means everyone else, for example a club, federation, school, company, or a coach who uses the Service for work.

1.4. How you accept. When you first open the app you see one screen. Pressing the button on that screen means you accept these Terms and confirm that you have read the Privacy Notice. We keep a record of this (version, time, an anonymous user number, a device summary). If we make an important change, you will see the screen again (Section 17).

2. Who may use the Service

2.1. You must be 18 or older. The Service is for adults: club staff, coaches, analysts, parents, and similar users. It is not directed at children. If you are under 18, do not use the Service.

2.2. If you accept these Terms for a club or company, you confirm that you may do so on its behalf.

2.3. If we learn that a child under 13 (or under the age of digital consent in your country) uses the Service, we will close the account and delete the related data.

3. What the Service does, and who is responsible for what

3.1. The app analyses match videos on your computer. Your videos and projects stay on your computer. We cannot see them. We are only the software provider for this local use.

3.2. For this local use, you are responsible for the people shown in your videos (players, referees, spectators). You must tell them and, where the law requires, get their permission (for minors, the permission of a parent or legal guardian).

3.3. The Service also sends us Training Contribution material (Section 5). For that material, we are responsible as the controller of the personal data (see the Privacy Notice). You cannot move this responsibility to us or from us by contract.

3.4. We may add, change or remove features. We will not make changes that significantly reduce a paid plan during a paid period without giving you notice and a way to end the contract (Section 17).

4. Packages

4.1. Free package: [2] matches in total. Premium: USD [10] per month, [10] matches per 30 days. Details and billing: Subscription and Refunds.

4.2. To analyse another match you must have answered the Yes/No questions of the earlier match: all of them in the Free package, at least [20] in Premium. The app counts this on your computer.

4.3. Both packages include the Training Contribution (Section 5).

5. Training Contribution — what you give us in return for the Service

5.1. It is the price of the Free package and part of the Premium package. We can offer the Service for free or at a low price because the app sends us the material described below. This is part of the contract. It is the same in the Free and the Premium package. It cannot be switched off. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

5.2. What is sent ("Contribution Material"):

(a) the Yes/No answers you give in the app;

(b) short video clips of the moments you answered (a few seconds each, reduced quality, no sound). Players, referees, shirt names and numbers may be visible;

(c) numeric event data linked to those moments (event type, time, team code, position on the ice, confidence score, month).

5.3. What is not sent: the full match video, player names, lists of shirt numbers, free-text notes or labels you write, team or match names, file paths, the exact date (only the month).

5.4. Licence you give us. You give us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable licence to store, copy, edit (for example trim and convert), analyse and use the Contribution Material only to train, test, validate and improve our models and our Service. We may let our service providers do this work for us (for example hosting and computing providers), under written confidentiality and data-protection terms. You keep ownership of your videos. We own the models we build.

5.5. Our promises.

(a) We use the Contribution Material only for the purposes in 5.4.

(b) We do not sell it and do not publish it. We do not show it to third parties, except to service providers working for us (5.4), to a court or authority when the law requires it, or to professional advisers under confidentiality.

(c) It is sent encrypted and stored encrypted. Access is limited to authorised people, and access is logged.

(d) We keep it for at most [24 months], unless the law requires longer or you ask us to delete earlier.

(e) We process it on servers in [Türkiye]. For training we may use computing providers in other countries [providers and countries to be inserted]. If personal data leaves the EEA/UK, we use legal safeguards such as standard contractual clauses (see the Privacy Notice).

(f) Deletion. You, or any person shown in a clip, may ask us to delete the clips concerned ([coming soon]). If a complaint reaches us, we delete the clips concerned. Deletion applies to future training. A model that has already been trained cannot always be changed to remove one piece of data, so we do not promise that. We do not claim a model is "unlearned".

(g) Ending the contract stops new sending. You can end the contract at any time (Section 18). After that, the app does not send more material.

5.6. If we change the purpose. We will not use Contribution Material already collected for a new, materially different purpose (for example, selling it, or training a product for third parties) without telling you clearly and, where the law requires, asking you again.

6. Your declarations and promises

6.1. When you load a video, and each time you use the Service, you declare and promise that:

(a) you own the video, or you have the owner's permission to use it with the Service, including sending Contribution Material to us under Section 5 (for example, permission from the club, federation, league or broadcaster that holds the rights);

(b) you have the permission of the people shown (players, referees and others) for this use, and, for every minor shown, the permission of a parent or legal guardian, including for the use of short clips for training models as in Section 5. You have told these people about the use as the law requires;

(c) you will show us documents that prove these permissions if we ask;

(d) the video is not unlawful, does not infringe another person's rights, and does not contain content that sexually exploits or harms children;

(e) you will not put sensitive information (such as health or injury details, religion, ethnic origin) in notes or labels.

6.2. If you cannot make these declarations, do not load the video. Because the Training Contribution cannot be switched off, the declarations are a condition of use.

6.3. These declarations are your responsibility. We may rely on them. We may still delete clips at any time if we receive a complaint or doubt the declarations.

7. Indemnification (what you cover if your declarations are wrong)

7.1. Business users: you will compensate us for claims, fines and costs (including reasonable legal fees) that a third party brings against us because your declarations in Section 6 were untrue or you broke Section 8, to the extent permitted by law. We will tell you promptly about the claim and give you reasonable help.

7.2. Consumers: you are responsible to us only to the extent the claim was caused by your fault, and only for direct, foreseeable losses. This Section never limits your mandatory consumer rights, and it does not apply where the law of your country forbids it.

7.3. This Section does not limit your rights under data-protection law, and it does not take away any person's rights against us.

8. Acceptable use

You may not: (a) use the Service in a way that breaks the law or another person's rights; (b) upload or send content you have no right to use, such as a broadcast recording without permission; (c) put names or sensitive data in free-text fields; (d) bypass, disable or tamper with the licence checks, the match counter, or other protections; (e) copy, extract or reconstruct our AI models or their parameters, or use the Service or its outputs to train a competing model; (f) reverse engineer the software, except where mandatory law allows it (see the EULA); (g) use the Service to harm, harass, or profile a person in a harmful way; (h) resell the Service or use it as a service bureau for third parties without our written permission; (i) share your licence key. If you break this Section, we may suspend or end your access (Section 18).

9. AI analysis and what we do not do

9.1. Results are a helping tool. The analysis finds and suggests events. It can be wrong: it can miss events, add events that did not happen, or mark the wrong time. Check results before you rely on them. They are not official statistics, referee decisions, medical advice, or a sole basis for selecting or disciplining players. The decisions are yours.

9.2. No facial recognition. We do not use facial recognition. We do not create or store face templates or voiceprints. We do not identify people by name or by any biometric means. The software may follow a player from frame to frame inside one video; it does not tell us who that person is. Voice commands (if you use them) are turned into text on your computer, and the audio is not stored.

9.3. We do not ask for sensitive data and do not use the Service to make automated decisions that have legal effects on a person.

10. Fees, taxes

Prices, billing, renewal and cancellation are in Subscription and Refunds. Prices are in US dollars. Taxes (such as VAT or sales tax) are added or included as shown at checkout, where the law requires.

11. Software licence and intellectual property

11.1. The software is licensed to you under the EULA, not sold.

11.2. We (or our licensors) own the Service, the software, our models, our brand, and the documentation. You get only the rights in these documents.

11.3. Open-source components keep their own licences (see the EULA).

11.4. If you send us feedback, we may use it to improve the Service without owing you anything.

11.5. Other companies' names (for example, the names of tools whose export files our app can import) belong to their owners. We are not connected with them.

12. Third-party rights and copyright complaints

12.1. We respect copyright and other rights. We act on notices as described here, and in the rest of Section 12.

12.2. How to report. Send a notice to [coming soon] (our designated agent for the United States: [name, postal address, email — to be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office]). Please include: (a) your name and contact details; (b) a description of the work and how you own or control the right; (c) enough information for us to find the material (for example, the video or match, date, who sent it, if you know); (d) a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised; (e) a statement that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner (for U.S. notices, this statement is made under penalty of perjury); (f) your physical or electronic signature.

12.3. What we do. We may remove or disable access to the material, delete the clips concerned, and tell the person who sent it.

12.4. Counter-notice. If we removed material that you sent, you can send a counter-notice with: your name and contact details; a description of the removed material; a statement, under penalty of perjury where U.S. law applies, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where your address is (or, if you are outside the United States, any district where we may be found); and your signature. If the person who made the notice does not tell us within [10–14] business days that they have started court proceedings, we may restore the material.

12.5. Repeat infringers. We close the accounts of users who are repeat infringers, in appropriate circumstances.

12.6. Other complaints. Privacy, personality-right or child-safety complaints go to [coming soon]. If we are told that content may involve child abuse, we freeze it, keep it as evidence, and report it to the competent authorities.

12.7. Knowingly false notices may make the sender liable for damages.

13. Disclaimers

13.1. Except as these Terms and your mandatory rights say, the Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE". We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that the analysis will be complete or correct, or that it fits your particular purpose, to the extent the law allows us to exclude this.

13.2. You must keep your own backup of your videos and project files.

13.3. Consumers: nothing in these Terms removes the rights that the law gives you and that cannot be excluded by contract, for example rights if digital content or a digital service does not conform to the contract.

14. Limit of our liability

14.1. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims arising from the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event, and (b) USD [50].

14.2. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost data, or lost opportunity, to the extent the law allows.

14.3. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for intent or gross negligence, for breach of data-security duties that the law does not allow us to limit, or for anything else that the law does not allow us to limit.

14.4. Consumers: this Section never takes away your mandatory consumer rights.

15. Data protection

Our processing of personal data is described in the Privacy Notice. For Training Contribution material, we are the controller. For your local use, you are the controller (Section 3).

16. Export controls and sanctions

You confirm that you and the person on whose behalf you use the Service are not on a United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom, United States or Turkish sanctions list, and are not located in a territory under comprehensive sanctions. You will not use or export the Service in breach of export-control or sanctions laws. We may refuse service, suspend an account or end the contract where the law requires, including on the result of our payment provider's checks.

17. Changes to these Terms

17.1. We may change these Terms for legal, security, technical or business reasons.

17.2. Important changes (for example, changes to what Contribution Material is sent, how it is used, or to fees) will be notified at least [30] days before they take effect by email and in the app. For important changes, the app will show the acceptance screen again. Without your acceptance of the new version, you can keep using the old terms until the date of change, or end the contract. Paid users receive a proportionate refund for the unused part of the period if we change the terms against them and they end the contract.

17.3. Changes that only help you, or only fix wording, apply immediately.

17.4. We do not apply changes to Contribution Material already received in a way that takes away protections we promised in Section 5 for that material.

18. Term and ending the contract

18.1. The contract lasts until one of us ends it.

18.2. You may end it at any time (see Subscription and Refunds for how, and for refunds). We may suspend or end it if you seriously or repeatedly break Sections 6, 8 or 16, if the law requires, or if a payment fails and is not fixed. Where possible we tell you first and give you time to fix the problem.

18.3. After the contract ends: the app stops sending new material. We delete or anonymise Contribution Material when it reaches the retention limit (5.5(d)), or earlier on your request or a valid deletion request. Sections that by their nature continue (for example 5.4–5.6 for material already received, 7, 13, 14, 19) continue.

19. Governing law and disputes

19.1. Business users. These Terms are governed by Turkish law. The courts and enforcement offices of [Istanbul (Çağlayan)] have exclusive jurisdiction. [Option, if counsel approves: arbitration at the Istanbul Arbitration Centre / ICC, seat Istanbul, language English.]

19.2. Consumers. Turkish law applies to these Terms, but this does not take away the protection of the mandatory rules of the law of the country where you live, and does not take away your right to bring a case in the courts of the country where you live, where the law gives you this right. In the EEA, a trader may bring a case against a consumer only in the consumer's home courts.

19.3. Informal first step. Before starting a case, please write to [coming soon] and give us 30 days to try to fix the problem. This does not apply where the law does not allow it, and it does not stop you from going to a court or authority.

19.4. Consumers in the EU may also use the online dispute resolution site or the consumer-protection authority of their country. [ODR platform notice — to be confirmed by counsel.]

20. General

20.1. Severability. If a part of these Terms is invalid or cannot be enforced, the rest stays in force, and the invalid part is replaced by the nearest valid rule.

20.2. No waiver. If we do not enforce a right at once, we do not lose it.

20.3. Assignment. We may transfer the contract to a company that takes over our business, and we will tell you. You may not transfer it without our consent.

20.4. Force majeure. Neither side is liable for failures caused by events outside its reasonable control.

20.5. Entire agreement. These documents are the entire agreement on the Service.

20.6. Notices. We send notices to the email address you gave us or in the app. You send notices to [coming soon].

20.7. Language. Translations are for convenience. For users outside Türkiye, the English text controls.

21. Regional terms (they add to the sections above)

A. EEA and UK users

• Consumer rights. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you keep all rights that cannot be excluded by contract. These include the rights if digital content or a digital service does not conform to the contract (repair, price reduction, ending the contract), and the rules on unfair terms. Sections 7, 13, 14 and 19 apply to you only to the extent allowed by these rules.
• Right of withdrawal. You have 14 days to withdraw from a paid purchase without giving a reason. Details, the checkout confirmations, and the "withdraw" function are in Subscription and Refunds.
• Free package. The free package is also a contract in which you give us data. The Training Contribution (Section 5) and your data-protection rights (Privacy Notice) apply. If you end the contract, we stop collecting. You can ask us to delete earlier material (Section 5.5(f)).
• Privacy. Our legal bases, your rights, and our EU/UK representative are in the Privacy Notice.
• Complaints. You may complain to your data-protection authority and to your consumer authority.

B. United States users

• Electronic agreement. You agree that we may give you notices electronically. Pressing the acceptance button is your electronic signature to these Terms.
• State privacy rights. Depending on your state, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete and opt out. We do not sell personal information and do not share it for advertising. See the Privacy Notice, Section on U.S. users.
• Biometrics. We do not collect or store facial-geometry scans, face templates, voiceprints or other biometric identifiers, and we do not use them to identify any person. See Section 9.2 and the Privacy Notice.
• Children. The Service is not directed to children under 13 and is for users 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (see COPPA in the Privacy Notice).
• Copyright (DMCA). See Section 12 and our designated agent.
• Automatic renewal. See Subscription and Refunds (we ask for separate consent to automatic renewal and explain how to cancel).
• Disputes. Section 19.2 applies. [OPTIONAL — include only if U.S. counsel approves: Arbitration and class waiver. Any dispute that we cannot settle informally within 30 days will be decided by binding individual arbitration administered by [provider] under its consumer rules; we pay the filing fees for claims under USD [10,000]. You may bring claims in small-claims court. You and we waive class and jury trial to the extent the law allows. You may opt out within 30 days of first acceptance by writing to [email].]
• State law. If your state's law gives you rights that cannot be waived, those rights remain.

C. Türkiye users

• If you are in Türkiye, the Turkish documents apply to you: Kullanım Koşulları, Aydınlatma Metni (KVKK), Son Kullanıcı Lisans Sözleşmesi, Abonelik ve İade Koşulları, and the distance-sales documents. The Turkish documents are the controlling text for Turkish users. Data-protection rights under Law No. 6698 (KVKK) are described in the Turkish notice.

D. Other countries

If you live in another country (for example Canada or Australia), the mandatory consumer and privacy laws of your country continue to protect you, and these Terms apply only to the extent allowed.

22. Contact

[COMPANY LEGAL NAME] · [address] · Support: [coming soon] · Privacy and deletion requests: [coming soon] · Copyright: [coming soon] · Security reports: [coming soon] · EU/UK representative: [name and address — to be appointed, see Privacy Notice].