Terms of Use

These terms are the agreement between you and Lambduh LLC, which operates Rank-Em, for using the app at app.rank-ems.com, the iOS and Android apps, and this website. Using any of them means you accept them. If you do not, do not use the service.

What Rank-Em is

A free-to-play sports prediction game. You pick winners, stake conviction, and climb a ladder. It is not gambling. There is no wager, no odds, no cash prize and no payout of any kind. Conviction and LP are scorekeeping devices with no monetary value, cannot be bought, cashed out, transferred or exchanged, and we may adjust or reset them. Every season starts everyone at zero by design.

Your account

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough where you live to agree to a contract without a parent. One account per person. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your sign-in secure. Tell us at once if you think someone else is using it.

Pick a handle you would not mind seeing on a public ladder, because handles, avatars and standings are public. Do not impersonate anyone, and do not choose a handle that is obscene, hateful, or designed to look like it belongs to us.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings in the app.

Fair play

The ladder is only worth something if it is honest. You agree not to:

• Run more than one account, or let anyone else use yours.
• Use bots, scripts, automated clients or any other tool to submit picks.
• Coordinate with others to manipulate standings, a private league, or a head-to-head result.
• Exploit a bug rather than report it, including anything that lets a pick be entered or changed after it should have locked.
• Scrape, reverse engineer, overload or interfere with the service or the systems behind it.
• Harass other players, or post anything unlawful, hateful or obscene where other players can see it.

We may void picks, reverse LP, remove someone from a ladder, or suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. Where the result is close we will err toward protecting the integrity of the season.

Purchases and subscriptions

Some features are paid. Prices are shown before you buy, in your local currency where the store supports it.

• Purchases made in the iOS or Android app are processed by Apple or Google and governed by that store's terms. Purchases made on the web are processed by our billing provider.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple or Google account settings, or in the app's billing settings for a web subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
• All purchases are final and non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise, or at the discretion of the store that processed the payment. Refund requests for App Store or Google Play purchases must go to Apple or Google, because we cannot issue those refunds.
• Anything you buy is a limited, personal, non-transferable licence to use a feature inside the game. It is not property, and it has no value outside the game.

If we discontinue a paid feature we will give reasonable notice and, for an active subscription, a pro-rata refund of the unused period.

Sports data

Schedules, scores and results come from third-party providers. We grade picks from what those providers report and correct results when they correct theirs, but we do not guarantee the data is accurate, complete or timely, and we are not responsible for a grading outcome that follows from an upstream error. Team names and logos belong to their owners; Rank-Em is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any league, team or broadcaster.

Our content and yours

The app, the site, the design and everything in them apart from your own content belong to us. We grant you a personal, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the service for its intended purpose, and nothing more.

What you contribute stays yours: your handle, avatar, league names, and anything else you enter. You grant us a licence to host, display and distribute it as needed to run the service, including showing it on public ladders and profiles. You are responsible for having the right to use whatever you upload.

Availability

We will try to keep the service up, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it, and we may close accounts that have been inactive for a long period. Where a change is material and we can reasonably give notice, we will.

Disclaimers and liability

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or twenty-five US dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply to you only as far as they are permitted.

Ending it

You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these terms, or if we are required to. The sections on purchases, our content, disclaimers, liability and governing law survive termination.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top changes when we do, and for a material change we will notify you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts located there have exclusive jurisdiction, except that you may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court, and nothing here removes a consumer protection you have under the mandatory law of the country you live in.

Apple

For the iOS app: this agreement is between you and us, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide support for it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app. You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo and are not on any US Government restricted-parties list.

Contact

support@rank-ems.com