Webo Cards — Terms of Use

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These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Webo Cards. Please read them carefully — by using the platform, you agree to them.

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Webo Cards, [Inc./LLC] ("Webo Cards," "we," "us," or "our"), a for-profit company that operates the Webo Cards platform at [webocards.com] and any related sites, applications, and services (together, the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service — including by creating an account, liking a card, or contributing content — you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Who We Are and What the Service Does

Webo Cards is a community-built athletic history platform. Our mission is to preserve athletic history and to give every adult athlete a permanent, community-verified record of their career. Registered members create and contribute to year-based digital "cards" that document the careers of adult athletes across sports and levels of competition. Each card reflects cumulative career statistics through a specific year. Athletes may claim cards documenting their own careers after a card reaches the applicable engagement threshold and the athlete completes identity verification. Webo Cards is operated as a for-profit business. The Service is a free, non-commercial encyclopedia: it hosts no card sales, minting, or other commercial activity (Section 10).

3. Eligibility and Age Requirements

Webo Cards uses a tiered model: the requirements scale with what you are doing on the Service. Browsing is open; registration, contribution, and claiming each carry an age requirement.

• Contributing (13+). You must be at least 13 years old to register and to build or edit athlete cards. A valid email address is required to register (Section 4), but no other real-world identifying information is required to contribute: this layer is wiki-style and pseudonymous, and you are encouraged to contribute without disclosing identifying details such as your real name, address, or photographs of yourself. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian should review these Terms with you; some jurisdictions may require parental consent for account features such as public profiles or engagement counters, and it is your responsibility to comply with any such requirement.
• Claiming a card as an athlete (18+ with verification). An athlete asserting that a card depicts them must be at least 18 years old and must pass manual identity verification (Section 6). This is the only point at which identity verification is required.
• Athletes documented on the Service must be 18 or older. We do not permit cards for any person under 18, without exception. Career statistics and biographical text may reference pre-18 competition.
• Photographs. A photograph may depict a person who was under 18 when it was taken only if that person is currently 18 or older. No photograph may depict any person who is currently under 18.
• By using the Service, you represent that you meet the applicable requirements above and that your use complies with all laws in your jurisdiction.

4. Accounts and Registration

• Browsing. You may view publicly available cards without an account.
• Registration. You must create an account (a valid email address and username) to like a card, create a card, or edit or contribute to a card. You must be at least 13 to register (Section 3). Money-moving features and claiming carry the additional age and verification requirements in Section 3.
• Pseudonymity. Accounts are pseudonymous; we do not require real-world identifying information to contribute.
• You are responsible for the accuracy of your registration information, for keeping your credentials secure, and for all activity that occurs under your account.
• You may not share, sell, or transfer your account; create more than one account to evade enforcement or manipulate engagement; or register on behalf of another person.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts as described in these Terms.

5. User Contributions

"User Contributions" means any content you submit to the Service, including statistics, biographical text, photographs, logos, and other materials.

5.1 Content standards

You agree that all User Contributions will comply with the following and with our Community Guidelines:

• Statistics. Citing a publicly accessible source for a statistic is encouraged but not required; sources strengthen a card's credibility and are recorded in the publicly visible edit history when provided. You may not submit statistics you know to be false.
• Photographs. You may upload only photographs that you took yourself, that you own, or that you have sourced from an official public source. A photograph may depict a person who was under 18 when it was taken only if that person is currently 18 or older, and no photograph may depict a person who is currently under 18. Because we cannot independently verify when a photograph was taken or a depicted person's current age, you must affirm the photo-rights and age confirmation presented at upload, and any non-compliant photograph is removed promptly on report or discovery.
• Logos. Team logos may be submitted only for team identification and only for display in the designated logo field (see Section 9). Before submitting a logo, you must confirm that you have the right to use it, and you may not submit altered, stylized, or decorative versions of official logos.
• Prohibited material. No private personal information; no unlawful, defamatory, harassing, infringing, or knowingly misleading content; and no content concerning any person who is currently under 18.

5.2 Your responsibility and representations

You are solely responsible for your User Contributions. By submitting them, you represent and warrant that: you have all rights necessary to submit them, including the right to use any photograph or logo you upload; they are accurate to the best of your knowledge; they do not infringe or violate any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights; and they comply with these Terms.

5.3 License you grant to Webo Cards

You retain ownership of your User Contributions. By submitting them, you grant Webo Cards a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, reformat for display, publish, publicly display, and otherwise use your User Contributions in connection with operating, providing, improving, marketing, and promoting the Service. This license ends when the content is removed from the Service, except (a) to the extent the content has already been shared with others who have not removed it, and (b) for copies retained for legal compliance, records, or routine backups. Notwithstanding the above, Webo Cards does not use team logos in its marketing, advertising, or promotional materials; team logos are used only within the designated logo field on individual cards for team identification.

5.4 Edit history and public display

Most User Contributions are public, including in card content and in a publicly visible edit history that attributes contributions to accounts. Do not submit anything you wish to keep private.

5.5 No obligation; right to remove

We are not obligated to publish, retain, or maintain any User Contribution. We may remove, correct, or decline any content that we determine, in our reasonable judgment, violates these Terms, is demonstrably false, misleading, or defamatory, or is subject to a valid removal request. We may, but are not required to, review content before or after publication.

6. Card Claiming and Identity Verification

• An athlete may claim a card documenting their own career once that card meets the applicable engagement threshold — currently 1,000 likes per card, which we may adjust based on operational capacity. The athlete must be at least 18 (Section 3). Each year card is claimed separately and requires its own verification.
• Claiming requires manual identity verification, which may include a remote video interview with a Webo Cards representative, presentation of government-issued photo identification (a valid passport for international athletes), and review of social or career information confirming identity.
• We determine verification outcomes in our reasonable judgment. If verification is unsuccessful, the card remains unclaimed and the athlete may reapply after the stated waiting period. If two people claim the same athlete, both processes pause pending our review of the documentation.
• Claiming is provided at no cost.

7. Claimed Cards, Editorial Authority, and the Freeze

• After verification, the claiming athlete becomes the sole author of each claimed card going forward. Only that athlete may add, change, or update content on a claimed card.
• Claiming freezes the statistics, biographical information, and text of the card as the athlete's declared record for that year. The athlete may unfreeze, edit, and refreeze a claimed card at any time. The edit history remains public.
• Claiming does not grant the athlete ownership of photographs, logos, or other third-party intellectual property appearing on the card, and does not prevent valid rights-holder removal requests. When a valid request concerning media on a claimed card is received, the athlete is notified and given an opportunity to substitute compliant content before the request is processed.
• We retain the right to remove or correct content on any card, including claimed cards, that is demonstrably false, misleading, defamatory, or in violation of these Terms. This is negative editorial authority only — we do not add content to a claimed card.
• An athlete may remove their claimed card at any time. Removal also ends the verified-identity association for that card, handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

8. Moderation, Flagging, and Enforcement

• Cards publish immediately upon submission; we do not pre-screen all content.
• Any user may flag a card for review. After a card receives a defined number of contributions, it is automatically queued for moderation review.
• We may remove violating content, restore corrected cards, and suspend or ban accounts that violate these Terms or our Community Guidelines. Suspended or banned users may use the appeal process described in the Community Guidelines.
• We may take enforcement action with or without notice, and decisions are made in our reasonable discretion.

9. Intellectual Property

9.1 Webo Cards property

The Service — including its design, software, the text we author, the "Webo Cards" name, logo, and other Webo Cards marks, and the selection and arrangement of content — is owned by Webo Cards or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in these Terms, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works of the Service or our marks without our prior written consent.

9.2 Team logos and third-party marks

Team names, logos, and other marks are the property of their respective owners. On community-built cards, they are displayed in a fixed, subordinate field solely to identify an athlete's team affiliation for the year a card represents, and contributors must confirm they have the right to use any logo they submit (Section 5). For cards facilitated by Webo Cards (Section 10), Webo Cards secures the applicable rights before the card carries Webo branding. Display of a mark does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation by any organization unless expressly stated. Rights holders may submit a removal request at any time (see Section 12), and such requests take priority over the community flag process.

9.3 Photographs

Photographs are owned by their respective copyright holders. We respond to valid copyright removal requests under our DMCA process (Section 12).

9.4 Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback about the Service, you grant us an unrestricted, royalty-free right to use it without any obligation to you.

10. No Commercial Activity

• The Service hosts no commercial activity. There are no card sales, no minting or tokenization, no platform fees, no royalties, no affiliate programs, and no storefront or product links anywhere on the Service. Prior provisions of these Terms addressing minting, branding, platform fees, and royalties are retired.
• No certification of content.Webo Cards does not certify, verify, endorse, or vouch for any content on any card — including any photograph, statistic, logo, or biographical information. Athlete verification (Section 6) confirms an athlete's identity only, never the accuracy of card content. The person who contributed content is solely responsible for it; Webo Cards acts only as a host of user-submitted content.
• Off-platform activity.Any commercial activity by an athlete occurs entirely outside the Service, without Webo Cards branding, tools, facilitation, marketing, or endorsement, on the athlete's own rights and compliance responsibility.

11. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

• Create a card for any athlete who is under 18, or upload any photograph depicting a person who is currently under 18;
• Submit a photograph or team logo you do not have the right to use;
• Use the Service for any commercial activity, including selling, promoting, or soliciting;
• Submit false, misleading, infringing, defamatory, harassing, or unlawful content;
• Manipulate likes or engagement — including through bots, multiple accounts, or coordinated activity — or otherwise interfere with the integrity of the engagement threshold;
• Impersonate any person or falsely claim an athlete's identity;
• Scrape, harvest, or collect data from the Service except as expressly permitted;
• Reverse engineer, disrupt, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its systems;
• Use the Service to violate any law or the rights of others.

We reserve the right to audit engagement and to remove fraudulent activity.

12. Removal Requests, Copyright, and DMCA Policy

• Any rights holder or affected person may submit a removal request for any content at any time, including content on claimed cards. We provide separate processes for copyright, trademark, and athlete-removal requests.
• We aim to acknowledge requests within 24 hours and to resolve valid requests within 48 hours, and we maintain an internal compliance log.
• Copyright / DMCA. We have registered a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office. To submit a notice of claimed copyright infringement, provide the information required under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): identification of the copyrighted work; identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; your contact information; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act on the owner's behalf; and your physical or electronic signature. We respond to valid notices and counter-notices in accordance with the DMCA and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
• Designated DMCA Agent: see our DMCA & Copyright Policy for the designated agent's contact details and the full takedown and counter-notice procedure.
• Athlete removal. Any individual who is the subject of a card may request removal of the card or specific content at any time.

13. Right of Publicity

All cards are strictly informational and contain no commercial features (Section 10). Any person who is the subject of a card may request its removal at any time. After claiming, the athlete controls the card's photo; any commercial activity by an athlete occurs entirely off-platform, as described in Section 10.

14. Third-Party Links and Services

The Service may reference or link to third parties. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services, content, or practices. Your dealings with any third party are solely between you and that third party.

15. Disclaimers

The Service and all content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that content on the Service — including community-contributed statistics or biographical information — is accurate, complete, or reliable, that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected. You use the Service and rely on its content at your own risk.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Webo Cards and its officers, directors, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

17. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Webo Cards and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your User Contributions, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

18. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [Michigan], without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. [Optional — confirm with counsel: a binding-arbitration provision and class-action waiver, including the arbitration forum, rules, and any small-claims and opt-out carve-outs.] For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and Webo Cards consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in [County, State].

19. Changes to the Service and These Terms

We may modify or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time; the "Last updated" date reflects the latest version. We will communicate material changes as required by law or through the Service. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

20. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without cause or notice, including for violation of these Terms. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including those on intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution — will survive.

21. Privacy

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, and share information, including the public nature of profiles, cards, and edit history.

22. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Community Guidelines, and any agreements you enter for claiming or branding constitute the entire agreement between you and Webo Cards regarding the Service.
• Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship.

23. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be directed to: Webo Cards, [Inc./LLC], [Mailing address], [Email], [webocards.com].

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