Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

By creating an account or using HKPL Fantasy / 港超 Fantasy (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Fan-made product

The Service is an independent, fan-made fantasy football game. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) or the Hong Kong Premier League (HKPL). Club and player names are used for identification purposes only.

3. Eligibility and account

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. You must provide accurate registration details. You are responsible for all activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure. One account per person.

4. Team names and user content

Team names, league names, and any other content you create must be appropriate and lawful: nothing unlawful, hateful, harassing, obscene, or infringing others' rights. Content that breaches this policy will be replaced with a randomly assigned name, or the account may be removed without notice.

We reserve the right to review, modify, or remove any user-generated content at any time without notice.

By submitting content to the Service (such as team and league names), you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, and use that content as needed to operate the Service, including on public leaderboards and within leagues you join.

5. Acceptable use

Use the Service lawfully. Do not cheat, abuse, scrape, reverse-engineer, or disrupt the Service, and do not attempt to access other users' data. We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms or any applicable law.

Do not impersonate any person, misrepresent your affiliation, charge others to join a league, make league entry conditional on buying any goods or services, or otherwise use the Service or its data for commercial purposes. If we close your account for breaching these Terms, you may not register again under another identity.

6. No real-money gaming

The Service is a free-to-play game of skill for entertainment. There is no paid entry, no cash prize, and no betting or wagering element. It is not a gambling product.

7. Scoring and gameplay

Fantasy points are calculated from recorded match data and may be corrected by administrators. We may adjust rules, player prices, deadlines, and scores at any time. Our determination of scores and standings is final. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service.

8. Intellectual property

The Service's software, design, and original content are owned by Kinoko Studio or its licensors. You may not reproduce or redistribute them without permission. Sponsor content may appear and is clearly labelled. We are not responsible for third-party websites you choose to visit.

9. Disclaimers and liability

The Service is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind. To the extent permitted by Hong Kong law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us, which for free accounts is nil.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under Hong Kong law.

10. Privacy

We handle your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO).

11. Changes and termination

We may update these Terms at any time. Material changes will be posted here with an updated date. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms. We may suspend or end the Service, or your access to it, at any time.

12. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, that provision will be severed and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.

14. Supporter Pass

The Supporter Pass is optional and paid, and comes as two tickets: a Season Ticket, which is a single payment covering the current season, and a Month Ticket, which is a monthly subscription. The price of each is shown before you buy. Either adds recognition and some extra pages. The recognition is a badge beside your team name, a mark on your share card, and, by default, your name on the public supporters list — which you can remove at any time from your account page. The pages are a manager card you can share, season stats, price prediction, and Season Wrapped once the season has ended. Price prediction shows how close each player is to a price change; that is information about the transfer market, and it changes no rule. The pass changes nothing about how the game is played or scored: no extra transfers, no extra chips, no extra budget, no extra points, and no additional time after a deadline. Section 6 still applies in full: the Service remains free to play and is not a real-money game.

Payments are processed by Stripe, except for a Month Ticket bought in the iPhone app, which is billed by Apple as the next paragraph sets out. We never see or store your card details.

A Month Ticket bought in the iPhone app is billed by Apple, not by Stripe, to your Apple Account, and Apple's terms apply to that purchase, including Apple's standard licence agreement. It renews automatically each month until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings; to stop the next renewal, cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period you have paid for. We cannot cancel it or refund it for you: you cancel it with Apple, and a refund for it is requested from Apple. Deleting your account with us does not cancel a subscription billed by Apple, so cancel it with Apple first. The rest of this section applies to it as well, except where a sentence says it is about a ticket paid through Stripe.

The Season Ticket does not renew. It is one payment, it runs to the published end of the season it was bought for, and it then simply stops. There is nothing to cancel and nothing further will be charged. Buying one part-way through a season does not extend it, and its price is not pro-rated.

The Month Ticket renews automatically each month until you cancel. You may cancel a Month Ticket paid through Stripe at any time from your account page; one billed by Apple is cancelled with Apple, as set out above. Either way, cancellation takes effect at the end of the month you have already paid for, and your benefits continue until then. We may change the price of a Month Ticket paid through Stripe on at least 30 days' notice, taking effect from your next renewal. A price increase for one billed by Apple is notified to you by Apple under its own rules; Apple may ask you to agree to it, and if you do not agree when it asks, the ticket ends at the end of the period you have paid for instead of renewing.

If a payment fails, the benefits stop immediately — the badge, the share-card mark and any listing on the supporters page come off as soon as we are told the payment did not go through, rather than continuing while the card is retried. Updating your card in the billing portal restores them; for a ticket billed by Apple, updating your payment method with Apple does. We do not refund part periods. If we discontinue the Supporter Pass or the Service, then for tickets paid through Stripe, Month Tickets are cancelled and any unused time on either ticket is refunded pro-rata. A Month Ticket billed by Apple is one we cannot cancel or refund: we stop it from renewing, its benefits continue until the end of the period you have already paid for, and any refund is requested from Apple.

A refund ends the benefits. If Apple refunds or revokes a Month Ticket it billed, or a Season Ticket is refunded in full, the benefits stop as soon as we are told, not at the end of the period that had been paid for. A Month Ticket paid through Stripe runs until its subscription ends, whatever is refunded on it.

15. Contact

Questions or reports: connect@kinokostudio.com.hk