Acceptable Use Policy

What you agree not to do on LeagueBucket. Part of the Terms of Service by reference.

Draft — not yet in effect. This document was written by an engineering agent, not a lawyer, and has not been reviewed by counsel. It exists to give a qualified lawyer a structurally complete starting point, not to be relied on as a real agreement. Every {{PLACEHOLDER}} marks a fact that has not been decided or does not exist yet. Do not treat this page as legally binding until it has been reviewed by an attorney and republished with a real effective date.

1. Purpose

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describes conduct that is prohibited when using LeagueBucket. It is part of the Terms of Service, and a violation of this AUP is a violation of those Terms.

2. Prohibited conduct

You must not use the Service to:

Break the law, or help anyone else do so.
Harass, threaten, defame, or discriminate against anyone.
Impersonate another person, league, or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation with one.
Enter, upload, or otherwise submit any information about a person under 18 -- name, birthdate, contact information, roster entry, or anything else -- while LeagueBucket remains an adult-only service. See the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for the one exception (the youth-league waitlist, which collects only an adult's own contact details).
Send unsolicited bulk messages, or send messages to anyone through the Service's messaging features who hasn't consented to receive them.
Upload content you don't have the rights to use -- including a sponsor's logo or branding without that sponsor's permission, or another person's photo without their consent.
Attempt to access another league's private data, bypass row-level security or authentication, probe or scan the Service for vulnerabilities without our prior written permission, or otherwise interfere with the Service's normal operation.
Attempt to circumvent plan limits or fees through technical means -- for example, scripting around a message-send quota, or structuring payments to avoid the platform fee that applies to registration fees and dues collected through the Service.
Scrape, reverse-engineer, or build a competing product from the Service beyond what applicable law allows despite this restriction.
Upload malware, or otherwise attempt to damage or disable the Service or another user's device.
Use the Service to process payments for anything other than legitimate league activity (registration fees, dues, and similar).

3. Sponsor-defined content

Sponsor-defined awards and sponsor content submitted through the Sponsor Kit must not contain anything that would violate section 2 above. LeagueBucket may remove sponsor content that violates this policy, and reserves the right to review sponsor content before it becomes public.

4. Reporting a violation

If you believe someone is violating this policy -- including a claim that content on the Service infringes your intellectual property -- contact us at support@leaguebucket.com with enough detail for us to investigate (what happened, where, and, if relevant, the material you believe infringes your rights and your basis for that belief).

{{PLACEHOLDER: if the Service hosts a meaningful amount of user-uploaded content (photos, sponsor logos, testimonials), registering a DMCA takedown agent with the U.S. Copyright Office materially strengthens the safe-harbor protection available to us under 17 U.S.C. §512. That's a business decision with a small recurring cost, not something this draft resolves -- flagged for counsel and for Mark.}}

5. Enforcement

Violating this policy can result in content removal, a warning, suspension, or termination of an account or league, depending on severity, at our discretion. See the Terms of Service, "Termination," for how that process generally works.