Terms of
SERVICE

These terms are an agreement between you and Rink Rivals (“we”, “us”). They cover the Rink Rivals hockey game for Mac and Windows and any later versions (“the game”), your Rink Rivals game account, and rinkrivals.com and the league's other tools (together, “the services”).

You accept these terms when you sign in to the game or make an account (the sign-in screen links here), or when you use the services. If you do not agree, do not use them. For the game, these terms are its end-user licence.

The game is for players who live in Canada and the United States. Do not make a game account if you live anywhere else.

You must be at least 13 years old to make a game account.

If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must read and agree to these terms for you. They are responsible for how you use the services.

If we learn that an account belongs to someone under the minimum age, we will close it and delete its personal data.

• You sign in with Discord (or with an email address and password, where the game offers it). Give us true information.
• Keep your password and devices safe. You are responsible for what happens on your account.
• One person, one account. Do not share, sell, buy or lend accounts, and do not make extra accounts to dodge a ban or to play yourself in ranked.
• Your gamertag must not pretend to be someone else, and must follow the conduct rules below.
• Tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account.

You can delete your account at any time. See deleting your account in the privacy policy for what that removes and what stays.

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to download and play the game for your own non-commercial use, as long as you follow these terms. You can stream and post videos of your own play.

You must not:

• copy, sell, rent or redistribute the game or its files;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the game, except where the law allows it and cannot be overridden;
• use the game, its servers or its data to build another product, or scrape them with bots;
• try to get into servers, accounts or data that are not yours, or overload or disrupt them.

The game is in active development. Features, modes, ratings and balance will change. Online play needs the internet and our servers, and they may be down, slow, or switched off.

When you play, and anywhere you represent Rink Rivals, you agree not to:

• Cheat. No hacks, aimbots, trainers, memory editors, packet tampering, macros that play for you, or modified game files.
• Exploit. Do not use bugs or glitches to gain an edge. Report them to us instead.
• Fix or fake results. No throwing games, agreeing results in advance, quitting to protect a rating, or feeding wins to another account.
• Boost or share accounts. Do not play on someone else's account or let someone play on yours to raise a rating.
• Harass. No abuse, threats, hate speech, discrimination, sexual content, or targeting another player.
• Use offensive names. Gamertags, club names, abbreviations, mottos and crests must not be hateful, sexual, or pretend to be someone else.
• Break the law, or share anyone's private information.

League games also follow the league rules. If the two disagree, the stricter one applies.

If we believe you broke these terms, we may, depending on how serious it is:

• warn you;
• change a match result, or remove matches from your stats;
• reset your rating, XP or level, or remove you from leaderboards;
• rename your gamertag, club name or motto;
• suspend or permanently ban your account, and any other accounts you control.

We use our judgement and try to be fair and consistent. If you think we got it wrong, email info@rinkrivals.com and a person will look at it again.

The game has XP, levels, ranked ratings, leaderboard positions, club records and may later have club credits, cosmetics or other in-game items (together, “virtual items”).

• Virtual items have no cash value. They are not money, and you cannot exchange them for money or anything else of value.
• You do not own them. You have a limited right to use them in the game while your account is in good standing.
• You cannot sell, trade or transfer them outside the game.
• We may change, rebalance or reset them, for example at the start of a new season or to fix a bug or cheating.
• If your account is deleted or banned, its virtual items are gone.

The game does not sell anything today. If we ever add purchases, we will tell you the price and the terms before you pay, and these terms will be updated first.

Your gamertag, avatar look, player builds, club names, mottos and crests, and your match results and stats are shown to other players, on leaderboards, and may be shown on rinkrivals.com and the league's streams and social channels.

You keep any rights you have in things you create. You give us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, show, copy and share them as part of running and promoting Rink Rivals. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies already shared and for match history, which is kept under an anonymous name.

If you send us a clip or other material, you confirm you have the right to share it. You can ask us to take something down at any time.

rinkrivals.com, the league's Discord bots, the stats site, the clip archive and the league's social posting tools are provided to league members and fans as they are, and may change or be withdrawn at any time.

Rink Rivals' posting tools may connect to the league's own accounts on services such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, only with the permission of the account's owner, and only to publish or schedule the league's highlight videos and announcements. They do not read private messages and they do not post on behalf of members or fans.

Do not misuse the site, try to disrupt it, or access areas that are not meant for you.

Some parts of the services rely on other companies, such as Discord for sign-in and Photon (Exit Games) for online matches. When you use them, their own terms and privacy policies also apply. We are not responsible for their services.

The game, its code, art, animation, sound and the Rink Rivals name and logo belong to Rink Rivals or to the people who licensed them to us. These terms do not give you any rights in them other than the licence above.

Rink Rivals is an independent community league. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Electronic Arts, EA SPORTS, the National Hockey League or the NHL Players' Association. Their names and marks belong to them.

The services are provided “as is” and “as available”. As far as the law allows, we make no promises that they will be free of bugs, always available, secure, or that your progress or stats will never be lost.

Some places do not allow these exclusions. Where that is so, they apply only as far as the law allows.

Rink Rivals is run by a small community team. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data or progress, or lost profits, and our total liability to you for anything to do with the services is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the last 12 months or 50 Canadian dollars.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, or takes away your rights under consumer protection laws where you live.

You can stop using the services and delete your account at any time. We can suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if the law requires it, or if we stop running the game. If we shut the game down for everyone, we will try to give at least 30 days' notice in the game or on rinkrivals.com.

The sections on virtual items, your content licence, ownership, no guarantees, liability and which law applies keep working after the agreement ends.

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. For an important change, we will tell you in the game or on rinkrivals.com before it starts. If you keep playing after it starts, you accept the new terms. If you do not, you can delete your account.

These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Disputes will go to the courts of Alberta, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim at home. Please email us first; most problems can be solved that way.

Questions, appeals, or a report of a cheater or a bug: email info@rinkrivals.com, or reach the league committee in the Rink Rivals Discord.