Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of these terms

By accessing or using Riddler's Project, creating an account, downloading files, joining community features, taking part in fantasy or reward activities, or making a support payment, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use the website or its services.

2. About Riddler's Project

Riddler's Project is an independent football and Football Manager fan project focused on databases, scouting-style content, streams, fantasy features, rewards, downloads, and related community tools. The project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected with Sports Interactive, SEGA, FIFA, UEFA, or other third parties unless clearly stated otherwise.

3. Accounts and eligibility

Some features require a WordPress account. You are responsible for keeping your login details secure, providing accurate account information, and notifying us if you believe your account has been misused.

• You may not create accounts using false, misleading, automated, or abusive methods.
• You may not share access in a way that bypasses project rules, supporter access, unlock rules, or security checks.
• We may limit, suspend, or close accounts that create security, fraud, abuse, or fairness concerns.

4. Fair use and prohibited conduct

Please use the project in good faith. You must not interfere with the website, other users, payment systems, download systems, ranking systems, reward mechanics, or administrative tools.

• Do not attempt to scrape, overload, reverse engineer, exploit, or bypass website protections.
• Do not submit spam, malware, fraudulent payment activity, abusive messages, or unlawful content.
• Do not manipulate points, fantasy entries, rewards, giveaways, downloads, votes, or confirmations.
• Do not resell, redistribute, repackage, or claim ownership of project files unless written permission is granted.

5. Downloads, points, rewards, and fantasy features

Downloads, points, rankings, fantasy leagues, draw entries, rewards, and similar features are project mechanics provided for community use. Availability, scoring, eligibility, deadlines, file access, and reward rules may change when needed to protect fairness, fix errors, prevent abuse, or improve the project.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, points and rewards have no cash value, are not financial instruments, and cannot be exchanged outside the project.

Riddler's Points may be awarded, earned, redeemed, or won through several project activities. These may include support payment thank-you bonuses, registration bonuses, promo codes, Riddler's Draw prizes, Fantasy League rewards, special campaigns, community activities, and other opportunities announced by Riddler's Project. Support payments are not the only way to receive Riddler's Points.

The availability, amount, eligibility requirements, and duration of any points opportunity may change. Not every method is guaranteed to be available at all times.

Supporter Files are unofficial community editor data files created and tested by Riddler's Project for personal, non-commercial use. They may include original research, custom competition structures, custom rules, extended testing, and other project work. Supporter Files are account benefits for project supporters and are not official Football Manager content.

Riddler's Project may remove, disable, rename, replace, or make Supporter Files freely available at any time if required by law, platform rules, rights-holder request, technical issues, or project policy changes.

6. Support Payments and Project Support

Support payments help maintain and develop Riddler's Project. They are voluntary project support payments and are not charitable donations or tax-deductible charitable contributions. As a thank-you bonus, support payments may award Riddler's Points. Riddler's Points may be used only inside Riddler's Project, have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for cash, and cannot be transferred.

Payment processing may be handled by third-party providers such as Stripe or PayPal. We do not ask you to send payment card details directly through regular support messages. Support-payment-related benefits, if offered, are subject to availability, technical limitations, fraud checks, chargeback handling, and any additional terms shown at the point of payment.

7. Intellectual property

Riddler's Project content, design, text, custom databases, project branding, graphics, layouts, and original materials are owned by the project owner or used with permission, unless another source is credited. Third-party names, logos, teams, competitions, and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

You may use project materials for personal, non-commercial football and Football Manager enjoyment unless a specific file, page, license, or written permission says otherwise.

8. User content and messages

If you send messages, support requests, profile information, fantasy entries, form submissions, or other content, you confirm that you have the right to submit it and that it does not violate the rights of others. We may review, moderate, remove, or restrict content when needed for security, support, legal compliance, or community safety.

9. Availability and changes

Riddler's Project is provided as an independent project and may change over time. Features, files, account tools, rankings, rewards, fantasy seasons, support payment options, and support systems may be updated, paused, removed, or replaced without a guarantee of continuous availability.

10. Disclaimers and liability

The website and its content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We aim to keep the project useful, fair, and secure, but we do not guarantee that every file, statistic, result, feature, or page will always be complete, accurate, uninterrupted, or error-free.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Riddler's Project is not responsible for indirect losses, lost data, lost profits, unavailable features, third-party service issues, or misuse of project content.

11. Privacy

Your use of the website is also covered by the Privacy Policy, which explains how project data, account data, security logs, support messages, support payments, analytics consent, and privacy requests are handled.

12. Updates to these terms

We may update these Terms of Use when the project, law, technology, payment tools, or community features change. The version and effective date above identify the current document. Continuing to use the website after an update means you accept the updated terms.