We are a Social network and an online platform for Football fans, professionals and groups. We aim to connect the world’s football fans, professionals and groups to enable them to be more acquainted, productive and successful. To help these persons meet, exchange ideas, information, learn, make deals or find opportunities in a network of trusted relationships and groups.

Our services and your access to and use of the FOOFAN Services are governed by these TERMS. These Terms of Service also govern our various Websites, Emails, Sms, Notifications, Applications, Ads, Commercial Services and any service and/or contents from and on the FOOFAN Site.

By accessing or using the Services, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of these Terms of Service. These Terms of Service affect your legal rights and obligations.

NOTE: If you do not agree to be bound by all of these Terms of service, do not access or use the services of FOOFAN.

FOOFAN SERVICES

FOOFAN provides users the access to collection of Football Clubs, Fans, Sites, Leagues, Forums, Advertisements etc. through its network of properties which may be accessed through various mediums. Any new feature(s) that augment or enhance the current FOOFAN Services, including the release of new FOOFAN properties, shall be subject to these Term of Service.

You must understand that FOOFAN Services is provided ”AS – IS” and that we will not assume any responsibility for services interrupted by deletion, mis-delivery or any form of service error(s). You are responsible for your use of the services, for any content you post to the services and consequences arising therefrom.

You are also responsible for obtaining access to the FOOFAN Services; which access may involve third-party fees. Contents you post, display or submit will be viewed by other users of the Service(s), through third-party services and websites.

Information provided by our users through FOOFAN Services may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by FOOFAN. We have no control whatsoever over and will not assume responsibility for the contents, privacy policy or practices of such third-party websites. We will not and cannot also censor or edit the content of third-party websites.

NOTE: You should provide only those contents you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms or control who sees your content on the Account Settings. By your using the Service, you expressly agree that FOOFAN shall not be responsible for any damage(s), claim(s) or any other liability arising from or related to your use of such third-party sites.

REGISTRATION

You may register and use the Services of FOOFAN only if you can form a binding contract with FOOFAN and you are not a person barred from receiving this Service under the Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and/or any other applicable jurisdiction. You are registered only in compliance with these Terms and all other Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, International Laws and their rules and regulations.

If you accept these Terms and use this Service on behalf of a Company, Organization, Group, Government or other Legal entity, you represent and formally approve that you are authorized to do so by such entity.

By using this Service, you also agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as required on FOOFAN Services Registration form and also to maintain and promptly update our Registration Data.

NOTE: You shall not use the Service(s) for any illegal or unauthorized purpose.

PRIVACY

All information you provide or enter on FOOFAN is subject to our Privacy Policy and this governs our collection and use of your information. Your using the Service(s) shows your Consent to our Privacy Policy relating to but not limited to the transfer of this information within Nigeria and/or other Countries for processing, storage and use by   FOOFAN.

NOTE: As part of our services, you may be provided with certain communications like administrative messages and services announcements (which are part of our services and your account on FOOFAN). YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OPT-OUT FROM RECEIVING THEM.

For more on PRIVACY, refer to our Privacy Policy.  

PASSWORD AND SECURITY

You are expected to enter a Password (secret to accessing your account) in completing the Registration Process on this Site. It is believed that this code or word is known to you alone and you are responsible for Safeguarding and Maintaining the Confidentiality of your Password which you use to access the services of FOOFAN and for any activity or action(s) under your Password and/or Account.

You also agree to immediately notify FOOFAN of any noticed unauthorized use and access to your account or any other breach of the security of your password and/or account. You also agree to always exit from your account at the end of each session. FOOFAN cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Provision.

CONTENTS ON THE SERVICE

All contents publicly posted or privately transmitted on our Site is the Sole Responsibility of the ORIGINATOR of such content. Any use or reliance on any content or material posted via our Services or obtained through the services available on this Site is at your RISK. FOOFAN may not monitor or control the contents posted via our services and cannot take responsibility for such content. We do not guarantee or support that any content or communication posted via the Services are true, accurate, complete and/or reliable neither do we particularly endorse any opinion(s) expressed via the Services.

By using the Services, you may be exposed to content(s) that are or may be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate and in some cases, posting that are mis-labeled or otherwise deceptive. FOOFAN will in no circumstance be liable for any such content(s).

We will in no circumstance be liable for any contents including but not limited to any errors or omissions in any content or for loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, transmitted, emailed or otherwise made available via our Services or broadcast elsewhere.

You acknowledge, consent and agree that FOOFAN may access, preserve and disclose your account information and content if required to do so by Law or FOOFAN in good faith believes such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary. We also reserve the right to remove any content that violates the Terms of Service or that is otherwise objectionable.

By posting or transmitting contents on or through our Services, you grant FOOFAN a world-wide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, process, adapt, publish, transmit, display and distribute such content in any and all media or distribution methods now in use or later developed. From the foregoing, you also agree that FOOFAN reserves the right to provide, promote and improve the Services, to make the contents submitted to or through the services available to other Companies, Organizations, Groups or Individuals in partnership with FOOFAN for syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such content on other media and services, subject to FOOFAN’S Terms of Service and conditions for the use of such content.

NOTE:  The above use will be made with no compensation or commission paid to you with respect to your content posted, submitted, transmitted or otherwise made available through the services.

You warrant that you have the right to submit content(s) for the broadcast, distribution, syndication and publication by our partners. That you also have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any content that you post, submit or transmit.

NOTE: If you do not have the above right, it may subject you to liability.

• Interfere with or disrupt FOOFAN Services or servers and network connected to FOOFAN Services, including the use of any device, software or routine to bypass our robot exclusion headers.
• Violate any applicable local and international laws.
• Stalk or otherwise harass another

• Collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities so set forth.

RESTRICTION ON CONTENTS AND USE OF THE SERVICES

FOOFAN reserves the right at all times (but without an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any content on the Services, to suspend or terminate users and to reclaim usernames without liability to you. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve and disclose any information as we reasonably believe to be necessary for:

• The satisfaction of any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request

• Enforcement of the Terms including the investigation of potential violations concerning the Terms.

• Prevention, detection or otherwise addressing fraud, security or technical issues.

• Responding to user support requests or

• Protecting the rights, property or safety of FOOFAN, its users and the public.

You hereby agree not to do the following while accessing the Services of FOOFAN:

• Access, tamper with or use non-public areas of our Services or FOOFAN’s Providers’ technical delivery systems.
• Probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any system or the Network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures.
• Access, search or attempt to access or search the services by any automated means or otherwise, other than through our available published interfaces (currently in use at any point in time) that are provided by FOOFAN (pursuant to its terms and conditions) unless you are specifically allowed to do so owing to a separate agreement with FOOFAN.
• Interfere with or disrupt or attempt to interfere or disrupt the access of any user, host or network, including (without limitation), sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the services or by scripting the creation of content in such manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the services.
• Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion or use of, access to FOOFAN Services including Contents, Advertisements, Software and your
• Upload, post, transmit and otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, tortuous, harassing, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful or racially, ethically or otherwise objectionable.
• Impersonate any person or entity, including but not limited to FOOFAN officials, hosts nor falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
• Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through our services.
• Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships.
• Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any content that infringes any Patent, Trademark, Trade secret, Copyright or other proprietary rights.
• Upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials or any other form of solicitation, except in areas designated for such purpose.

YOUR RIGHTS

By complying with these Terms, FOOFAN grants you a limited right to use Our Site. This right is however on the condition that you comply with all the obligations under our Terms of Service, including but not limited to the Dos and Don’ts listed above. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable right to access our Services through generally available and accepted browser or device (but not through Scraping, Spidering,  Crawling and/or technologies or softwares other than that accepted) without the express written consent of FOOFAN entities.

NOTE: FOOFAN reserves all rights not expressly granted in this Terms including but not limited to rights of ownership, intellectual property rights and all other rights and interests in FOOFAN.

OUR RIGHTS

All rights and interests in and to the Services (not including content provided by users) are and remains the exclusive property of FOOFAN and its Licensors. Our services are protected by Copyright, Trademark and other Laws both of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other Countries.

NOTE: By these Terms of Service, you are not permitted to use the name FOOFAN or any of its trademarks, logos and other distinctive brand features.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

We respect the Intellectual Property Rights of others and expect users of our Service and others to do same.

Our Services include the Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights and except for the limited rights granted you, FOOFAN reserves the right to remove content(s) alleged to be infringing (without prior notice), without liability to you. We will also terminate a user’s account which is seen or believed to be an infringer.We will therefore respond to notices of alleged Copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and properly provided to us. 

If your content is believed to be copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, do not hesitate to provide us with the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of the Copyright owner or a person authorized to act on behalf of such owner.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or the subject of the infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
• Your complete contact information.
• Statement by you, that you believe in good faith that the use of the material in the manner complained of is unauthorized by the copyright owner, its agents or the law.
• Statement that the information in the notification is correct, accurate and under penalty of perjury and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

NOTIFICATIONS

You agree to notify us of acts contrary to these Terms. If you think you have to or are entitled to breach this Term under any mandatory law, you agree to provide us with detailed and substantiated explanation of your reasons in writing at least 30 days before such contrary act, to allow us access whether we may provide an alternative to the situation (though we are not obligated to do so).

DISCLAIMERS

This Section applies only to the extent permitted under applicable Law(s). Some Jurisdictions do not allow for Disclaimer of Implied Warranties or the limitation of liability in contracts and as a result, the contents of this Section may not apply to you.

FOOFAN SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE “AS – IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” THEREFORE YOUR ACCXESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY CONTENT ARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE FOREGOING (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW), FOOFAN ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

FOOFAN AND ITS ENTITIES, MAKE NO WARRANTY AND DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR

(i) THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, SECURITY OR RELIABILITY OF THE SERVICES OR ANY CONTENT

(ii) THE DELETION OF OR THE FAILURE TO STORE OR TRANSMIT ANY CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS MAINTAINED BY THE SERVICES (iii) ANY HARM TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, LOSS OF DATA OR HARM THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY CONTENTS 

(iv) WHETHER THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENT OR BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE BASIS

(v) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIALS PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES OR SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS

(vi) ANY MATERIAL OBTAINED OR OTHERWISE DOWNLOADED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR SOFTWARE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR AND HEREBY WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION WITH RESPECT TO ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, INTERNET ACCESS, DOWNLOAD OR DISPLAY DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL

 (vii) NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM FOOFAN, THROUGH OR FROM OUR SERVICES OR SOFTWARE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN

NOTE: FOOFAN ENTITIES ARE ALSO NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR:

1. THE AVAILABILITY OR ACCURACY OF THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES OR RESOURCES
2. CONTENTS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ON OR AVAILABLE FROM SUCH WEBSITES OR RESOURCES

LINKS TO SUCH WEBSITES OR RESOURCES DO NOT IMPLY ANY ENDORSEMENT BY FOOFAN ENTITIES OF SUCH WEBSITES, RESOURCES, CONTENTS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM SUCH WEBSITES OR RESOURCES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR AND ASSUME ALL RISK ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF ANY SUCH WEBSITE OR RESOURCE.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

FOOFAN ENTITIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGE OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOOD-WILL OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES RESULTING FROM:

1. YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES.
2. ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD-PARTY ON THE SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES.
3. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSION OR CONTENT.
4. ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES.

The cumulative liability of FOOFAN entities shall not at any time exceed the greater amount of Twenty Thousand Nigerian Naira (N20, 000.00) or the amount you paid to FOOFAN (if any) in the past three (3) months for the services giving rise to the claim.

This limitation shall apply to any theory of liability, whether based on warranty, contract, statute, tort (including negligence) or otherwise and whether or not FOOFAN entities have been informed of the possibility of any such damage and even where a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

NOTE: This limitation of bargain is part of the basis of the bargain between the parties and without it, the terms and prices charged would be different.

RIGHTS OF TERMINATION

FOOFAN and you can end this Terms anytime we want. These Terms will however continue to apply until terminated by you or FOOFAN.

• You may end or terminate these Terms with FOOFAN at any time and for any reason by DEACTIVATING your account and discontinuing your use of the Services. You may not specifically inform FOOFAN before or when you stop using these services.
• We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the services at any time for any reason, including but not limited to (if we reasonably believe):
• You have violated the Terms of Service
• You create risk or possible legal exposure for FOOFAN
• Our provision of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable

NOTE: Nothing in this Section shall affect FOOFAN’s right to change, limit or stop the provision of the Services without prior notice as provided in these Terms.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

BENEFICIARIES

You acknowledge and agree that except as otherwise provided in the Terms of Service, there shall be no third-party beneficiaries.

ASSIGNMENT AND DELETION

You cannot assign or delegate any rights or obligations under this Term but FOOFAN can assign or delegate any rights or obligations. Any purported assignment or delegation by you shall be ineffective while we may freely assign or delegate all rights and obligations under the Terms, fully or partially without notice to you.                                                            

WAIVERS, AGREEMENTS AND REPRESENTATION

FOOFAN’s failure to act with respect to a breach of these Terms by you or any user does not waive our right to act with respect to that breach or subsequent, similar or other breaches.

Except as expressly and specifically contemplated by these Terms, no representation, statements, consents, waivers or other acts or omissions by FOOFAN entities or affiliates shall be deemed legally binding on FOOFAN, its entities or affiliates unless documented in a physical writing, signed by a duly appointed officer of FOOFAN.

TERMS OF SERVICE AND AMENDMENT

You agree that these Terms of Service constitutes the entire, complete and exclusive agreement between you and FOOFAN regarding our services and that it supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, written or oral, established by custom, practice, policy or precedent with respect to the subject matter of this agreement.

You agree to also be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use, transmit or purchase certain other FOOFAN Services, third-party content(s) or third-party software.

We reserve the right to amend, supplement or replace the provision of this terms of Service upon notifying you (we are not under obligation to notify you of such amendments).

NOTICES

Your agreement to this Terms of Service constitutes your agreement that you are deemed to have received any or all notices that would have been delivered where you accessed FOOFAN Services in an authorized manner.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

This agreement or any claim, cause of action or dispute arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be governed by the Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria regardless of your Country of origin or where you accessed FOOFAN and that claims arising therefrom must be resolved in a state or federal court located in the Federal  Republic of Nigeria.