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Terms Of Use

These Terms govern your use of TransferPals. By creating or using an account, you agree to these Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Community Guidelines.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use TransferPals. You must provide accurate account information and keep your login details secure.

2. What TransferPals Is

TransferPals is a football networking and recruitment platform. It allows Players, Coaches and Clubs or Teams to create profiles, discover each other, publish football-related content, advertise opportunities and communicate within the platform.

3. TransferPals Is Not Your Agent Or Employer

TransferPals does not guarantee trials, contracts, employment, selection, payment, eligibility, registration or the accuracy of claims made by other users. Users and clubs are responsible for carrying out their own checks before entering any football, employment, coaching, financial or other arrangement.

4. Account Responsibilities

• Do not impersonate another person, player, coach or club.
• Do not create misleading recruitment opportunities.
• Do not share access to your account or misuse another person's account.
• Keep profile information reasonably accurate and current.

5. Content You Upload

You remain responsible for content you upload. You confirm that you have the rights needed to post it. You give TransferPals a limited licence to host, display, reproduce and technically process that content only as needed to operate and promote the service and its features.

6. Messaging And Meetings

Use messaging for legitimate football-related communication. Users are responsible for their own decisions about trials, meetings and recruitment. Use sensible precautions for in-person meetings and do not send money or sensitive identity documents to people you do not trust.

7. Prohibited Use

You may not use TransferPals for harassment, hate, discrimination, threats, sexual exploitation, scams, fraud, spam, malware, unlawful activity, impersonation, doxxing, unauthorised commercial scraping, or content that violates another person's rights.

8. Moderation

TransferPals may review reports and may remove content, restrict features, suspend or close accounts where reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect users, comply with law or maintain the service. Where appropriate, users may request a review through the Legal & Support form.

9. Availability

We aim to keep TransferPals available but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. Features may change, be suspended or be discontinued.

10. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. To the extent permitted by law, TransferPals is not responsible for decisions, agreements, conduct or losses arising from interactions between users, clubs, coaches or third parties outside our direct control.

11. Irish And EU Consumer Rights

These Terms do not remove mandatory consumer or data protection rights that apply to you. Irish law applies where legally permitted, subject to any mandatory rights you have under the law of your country of residence.

12. Account Deletion

You can permanently delete your account from your Profile. Deletion may not immediately remove information that must be retained for legal, security or dispute-handling purposes.

Community Guidelines

TransferPals exists to help the grassroots football community connect safely and professionally.

Be Respectful

• No harassment, bullying, intimidation or repeated unwanted contact.
• No hateful or discriminatory content based on protected or personal characteristics.
• No threats, encouragement of violence or glorification of serious harm.

Be Genuine

• Use a real football identity or an authorised club or team identity.
• Do not invent playing history, qualifications, achievements or recruitment opportunities.
• Do not impersonate a player, coach, club, league or organisation.

Keep Recruitment Safe

• No recruitment scams, advance-fee requests or deceptive financial offers.
• No requests for unnecessary passports, bank details or highly sensitive documents.
• Do not pressure users into unsafe private meetings.

Keep Content Appropriate

• No sexual exploitation, sexual solicitation or non-consensual intimate content.
• No child sexual abuse material or sexualisation of minors.
• No doxxing or publishing another person's private contact details or home address without permission.
• No illegal goods, dangerous scams, malware or instructions intended to facilitate serious wrongdoing.

No Spam Or Manipulation

• Do not spam messages, comments or recruitment listings.
• Do not artificially inflate Weekly Top 3 activity through fake accounts, coordinated manipulation or automated activity.

Consequences

Content may be removed and accounts may be warned, restricted, suspended or closed depending on severity, context and repeated behaviour.

Cookie Information

TransferPals is a Progressive Web App. The current version does not intentionally use advertising cookies or third-party behavioural advertising trackers.

Essential Storage

The app may use browser storage, authentication tokens, service-worker caches and similar technologies that are necessary to keep you signed in, remember essential session state, provide PWA functionality, improve reliability and secure the service.

Infrastructure

Hosting, security and infrastructure providers may process technical information such as IP address, browser information, request logs or security signals as part of delivering and protecting the service.

Future Analytics Or Non-Essential Cookies

If TransferPals later introduces non-essential analytics, advertising or similar tracking technologies that require consent, this notice and the consent controls should be updated before those technologies are activated.

Managing Storage

You can clear website data or PWA storage through your browser or device settings. Doing so may sign you out or remove locally cached app data.

Reporting & Moderation Policy

TransferPals provides reporting tools so users can flag accounts, behaviour or content that may break the law, these Terms or the Community Guidelines.

What To Report

• Harassment, threats, hate or discriminatory abuse.
• Fraud, scams, impersonation or fake recruitment.
• Sexual exploitation or abusive content.
• Privacy violations, doxxing or misuse of personal information.
• Illegal content or activity.
• Spam or manipulation of platform features.

How Reports Are Reviewed

Reports may be reviewed by the TransferPals owner or authorised moderators. We may consider the reported material, surrounding context, relevant account history, safety risk and applicable rules. A report does not automatically mean a violation occurred.

Possible Actions

Depending on the circumstances, TransferPals may take no action, issue a warning, remove content, limit features, restrict contact, suspend an account, close an account, preserve relevant records, or refer a matter to appropriate authorities where necessary.

Urgent Or Illegal Content

TransferPals is not an emergency service and does not continuously monitor all content or messages. If there is an immediate danger, contact emergency services. Content that you reasonably believe is illegal should be reported with enough information for it to be located and assessed.

Review Of A Moderation Decision

If you believe a moderation decision was wrong, use the Legal & Support form and select Moderation. Include the relevant account, content or report details and explain why you believe the decision should be reviewed.

Abuse Of Reporting

Knowingly false, malicious or repetitive abusive reports may themselves breach the Community Guidelines.

Safeguarding Policy

Under-18 Access

TransferPals does not currently permit under-18 accounts. If youth access is considered in the future, dedicated safeguarding, age-assurance, privacy and communication controls must be implemented first.

Safeguards Required Before Future Youth Access

• A documented child-safeguarding risk assessment addressing online and offline risks.
• A Child Safeguarding Statement where required by Irish law.
• A designated safeguarding contact or relevant person.
• Age-appropriate privacy settings and clear information for children and guardians.
• Appropriate age assurance and, where required, parent or guardian involvement.
• Stronger restrictions on adult-to-minor private messaging and contact.
• Controls to prevent public sharing of a child's precise home address, school or other unnecessary identifying information.
• Clear reporting and escalation procedures for grooming, exploitation, abuse or other child-safety concerns.
• Procedures for staff or moderators who handle child-safety reports.

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Child sexual abuse material, grooming, sexual exploitation of children and attempts to obtain sexual content from minors are strictly prohibited and may be reported to appropriate authorities.

Parents, Guardians And Clubs

If youth access is introduced in the future, parents, guardians, clubs and coaches will be expected to use safeguarding-conscious practices and comply with applicable Children First obligations and sporting-body safeguarding requirements.