Terms of Use

These are the ground rules for using HockeyPool.com. They’re short on purpose. By creating an account or using the site you agree to them; if you don’t agree, please don’t use the site.

1. 1.What HockeyPool.com is

   HockeyPool.com is a tool for running hockey pools among friends, families and co-workers: it keeps the rosters, scores the picks and shows the standings. The pool itself belongs to the people in it.

   We don’t hold, collect or pay out money between participants. Entry fees, prizes and side bets are arrangements between the members of a pool, and the members are responsible for making sure they’re lawful where they live. HockeyPool.com is not a gambling service, a sportsbook or a contest operator.

   HockeyPool.com is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the National Hockey League or any of its teams. NHL and team names, logos and marks belong to their owners.

2. 2.Your account

   • You must be at least 13 to have an account, and at least the age of majority where you live to pay for anything.
   • Give us accurate information and keep it current. One person, one account.
   • Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens under your account; tell us right away if you think someone else is using it.

3. 3.Pools and commissioners

   The commissioner who creates a pool runs it: its rules, point system, participants, picks and announcements. Commissioners may enter other people’s names and email addresses only with those people’s permission, and are responsible for the content of their pool.

   Disputes about a pick, a trade or a score are settled by the commissioner within the pool. We can help with what the site recorded, but the commissioner’s decision stands.

   We can remove or lock a pool that breaks these terms or the law.

4. 4.Community rules

   Trash talk is part of the fun. Keep it between the lines:

   • No harassment, threats, hate, or sexual content; no posting someone’s private information.
   • No impersonating another person, cheating, exploiting bugs, or interfering with another pool.
   • No spam, scams, malware, or using the site for anything illegal.
   • No scraping, bulk downloading, or reselling the site’s data or features.

   We may remove content and suspend accounts that cross these lines, with or without warning depending on how serious it is.

5. 5.Statistics and third-party data

   Scores, statistics, schedules, injuries and odds come from licensed data providers and public league sources. We work hard to keep them accurate and timely, but we can’t guarantee them: a late correction by the league or a data error can change a score after the fact. Standings are only as right as the data behind them.

6. 6.Fees and payments

   Running a pool for a season may cost a fee. The price is shown before you pay, in Canadian or US dollars as indicated, plus any applicable tax. Payments are processed by a third-party payment processor under its own terms.

   If a paid feature didn’t work the way we said it would, contact us within 30 days and we’ll fix it or refund you. Otherwise fees aren’t refundable once a pool’s season is under way.

7. 7.Your content and ours

   What you and your pool-mates post belongs to you. You give us permission to store it and show it within the pool, which is the whole point of posting it. The site itself — its design, code, text and features — belongs to HockeyPool.com. If you send us ideas or feedback we can use them without owing you anything.

   If you believe something on the site infringes your copyright, email us with the details (including the location of the material and your contact information) and we’ll look into it promptly.

8. 8.Availability and changes

   We’re a small team and we ship improvements often. Features may change, be added or be retired, and the site may be briefly unavailable for maintenance or for reasons outside our control. We’ll give notice of changes that affect a pool in progress when we reasonably can.

9. 9.Disclaimers and liability

   The site is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind beyond those the law doesn’t let us exclude.

   To the fullest extent the law allows, HockeyPool.com and the people behind it aren’t liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for anything arising from a pool’s prizes, fees or disputes between its members. Our total liability to you for anything connected with the site is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim — which, for a free pool, is nothing.

   Some jurisdictions, including Quebec and several US states, don’t allow some of these limits, so some may not apply to you. Nothing here takes away consumer rights that the law says can’t be waived.

10. 10.Ending things

    You can delete your account whenever you like. Pools you commissioned can be handed to another admin first; otherwise they’re archived, and their participants keep access to the history.

    We can suspend or close an account that violates these terms, that creates legal risk, or that has been inactive for a very long time. Where it’s fair to do so we’ll warn you first.

11. 11.Governing law and disputes

    These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. If something goes wrong, email us first — most problems can be sorted out in a conversation. Otherwise, disputes go to the courts of British Columbia, except that you may bring a claim in your home province or state where the law gives you that right.

12. 12.Changes to these terms

    We’ll post any new version here with a new date and, for changes that matter, tell you by email or a notice on the site. Using the site after a change means you accept the new terms.

13. 13.Contact

    support@hockeypool.com — a person reads every message.

See also the Privacy Policy.