Terms of Service

The service

Soccerankia is a free browser game run by the developer named at the foot of this page. It is provided as it is, with no guarantee of availability, and it may change or stop at any time.

So that there is always a match to join, some of the players in the lobbies are controlled by the computer. Each of them is labelled "Bot" wherever their name appears — in the lobby list, on the team sheet, over the pitch and on the result sheet — and none of them is counted among the players online. They are not accounts: they earn nothing and appear on no weekly or monthly table.

If the game closes for good, we say so on the site beforehand where we can, and the accounts and everything in them are deleted.

Who can play

There is no minimum age. Play as a guest without an account at all, or open one and run a career, at seven or at seventy. There is nothing in this game a child should be kept out of: nothing to pay for, no advertising, no messaging between players, and nothing that would trouble a content rating.

One thing does depend on age, and it is what other players read. Your footballer's name and your lobby's name are what every other player reads, so until you have said you are 13 or over you pick them from names the server wrote — for your footballer and for your lobby — and once you have said so, whatever you type still goes through the same guardrail as any other public text. The words on a stadium you build — its name, its city and district, and what its boards say — and the sponsor you put across the chest of your shirt stay closed altogether until then. Those are the only free text on an account, which is why they are the only things here with an age on them.

If you are under 18, read these terms with a parent or guardian before you accept them. In most countries a minor cannot be held to an agreement they accepted alone.

Your account

You are responsible for keeping your password and your recovery code. Because we hold no email address, a lost recovery code cannot be reset and the account cannot be recovered.

One person, one account. Do not share an account, and do not create accounts to evade a restriction.

Because we hold nothing else about you, the username with the password or the recovery code is also the only way we can tell that a request about an account — to delete it, or to send a copy of it — really comes from its owner. A request that arrives without them is one we cannot act on.

Gold and what it buys

There is no real money to be won in Soccerankia. Matches, tournaments, prize matches, rankings and the weekly table pay only in-game rewards: never cash, gift cards, cryptocurrency or any other prize with value outside the game.

Gold, experience and everything bought with them — equipment, items, tickets, a stadium, the words on a shirt, a Career's home and car — exist only inside the game. They cannot be bought with money, cannot be sold or exchanged for money or for anything outside the game, cannot be moved to another account, and have no monetary value.

The game decides what gold is worth: prices, rewards, what the weekly table pays and the share of a match's gate a stadium's owner takes may change as the game is tuned, and an amount paid by mistake may be corrected. Gold is not a claim you hold against the developer, and when the game or an account closes, it goes with everything else.

Fair play

The match is simulated on the server, and the server is the only authority on what happened. Do not attempt to modify, automate or interfere with the client, the protocol or another player's session.

Deliberately ruining matches — leaving repeatedly, standing idle, or scoring in your own goal on purpose — may lead to restrictions.

Content and conduct

Treat other players decently. The game is fictional throughout: clubs, competitions and players are invented and are not connected to any real organisation.

The only things you write into the game are names and a few words: a footballer's name, a lobby's name, the sponsor you buy for the chest of your shirt in online matches and, if you build a stadium, its name, city and district and what its boards say. A name passes word lists and then a language model on our own server before anyone sees it. A shirt's and a stadium's words pass the word lists and are then read by the developer, who looks at the stadium itself after every build as well: nobody else sees any of it until the developer has approved it, and anything turned down comes back to you with the reason. By typing words you let us show them to other players for as long as they are in the game. Do not use them to say something you would not say to a stranger's face, and do not use a real person's name that is not yours. A shirt sponsor is one you invent: a real brand, business, website, telephone number or any contact detail is turned down, because nothing in this game is advertising and it stays that way. A picture you try on a stadium board stays in your browser and is never sent to us.

The game itself — its code, art, rules, and the invented clubs, competitions and players — belongs to the developer. You get a licence to play it in your browser, and nothing more: not to copy it, sell it, or pass it off as your own.

The voiced commentary, sound effects, music and every other recording in Soccerankia are offered to you only as part of the game. Extracting, copying, republishing or distributing them, using them in another product or service, or reproducing them for any commercial purpose is forbidden without the developer's express written permission.

Restrictions and closing an account

Two things happen on their own, both in an online match. Stand idle for a minute and the server removes you from it, so the other players are not left with a statue. And leaving an online match before the end — walking out, staying disconnected, or being removed like that — earns nothing for that match and, on a registered account, costs a flat 60 experience and 40 gold, never below zero; a guest, who keeps no balance, is only denied the reward.

A Career match you walk out of is played to the end without you, a man short, and that result stands. It goes on your record as a rating of 3.0, and your manager, the fans and your morale all take it badly. A connection that drops is not a walk-out: the match picks up again from where the server last had it.

For anything else in these terms, the developer may restrict or close an account — how long, and for what, depends on what was done — and will say why, to the address below, if you ask. There is nobody but the developer to appeal to, and you may.

You can close your own account at any time from the data rights page, without asking.

Changes to these terms

When these terms or the privacy notice change, the effective date at the top changes with them, and the version you accepted is recorded on your account. If the change matters, you are asked to accept the new version the next time you sign in, before you play; if you would rather not, you can delete your account instead.

Small corrections — a typo, a clearer sentence that says the same thing — are not re-asked.

Liability

The game is provided free and without warranty. To the extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any loss arising from its use, including lost progress.

Soccerankia is a game. We do all we can to keep cheating out of it, but we cannot promise a game free of it. In-game points, rankings, virtual money and items have no monetary value; losses in them caused by bugs, outages or other players' cheating are not compensated, to the extent permitted by law.

That does not reach as far as the law forbids: nothing here excludes liability for intent or gross negligence, and nothing here takes away a right a consumer has under the law of the country they live in.

Which law, and which language

These terms are governed by Turkish law. If something goes wrong, write to us first: most things can be put right directly. A dispute that cannot be settled goes, to the extent the law allows, to the courts of Istanbul. If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the protection your own country's consumer law gives you, and your right to go to a court where you live, remain yours.

The terms and the notices are written in English and in Turkish, and both say the same thing. If a difference is ever found between them, the Turkish text applies in Türkiye and the English text everywhere else. The site's other languages show the English text.