Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what this is

PokeFeed ("PokeFeed", "we", "us", "our") is a community-driven, fan-made website for competitive Pokémon Champions teams, where users can publish, share, and vote on team compositions. PokeFeed is a personal, non-commercial project operated by Lorenzo Boffredo, based in Italy.

By accessing or using PokeFeed, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree, do not use the site.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use PokeFeed. By using the site, you confirm that you are 18 or older.

3. Your account

• You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity under your account.
• You must provide a valid email address and choose a username that does not impersonate others or violate these Terms.
• You may not create accounts through automated means, or maintain multiple accounts to abuse site features (such as voting). We use automated anti-bot measures (including a security check on the login, signup, password reset and confirmation-email pages, and when you publish a team without an account) to enforce this.

4. User content and your responsibility

PokeFeed lets you publish content, including team titles, descriptions, rental codes, a display name, and a bio ("user content").

You are solely and entirely responsible for the content you submit. By submitting user content, you confirm that:

• it is yours to submit and does not infringe anyone else's rights;
• it does not contain unlawful, harmful, hateful, harassing, violent, sexual, defamatory, misleading, or otherwise objectionable material;
• it does not contain personal data of other people, spam, advertising, malware, or links intended to harm or deceive;
• it complies with all applicable laws.

User content does not represent PokeFeed. Opinions and content posted by users are theirs alone. We do not endorse, verify, or take responsibility for user content, and we are not liable for it to the fullest extent permitted by law.

We check text you submit (team titles and descriptions, usernames, display names and bios) with OpenAI's automated moderation service before it is saved; flagged text is not published. We may also review and remove content manually at any time. Reports and decisions on content and accounts are handled by a person, the operator of PokeFeed. Neither check means we approve or guarantee any user content, and automated moderation can miss things or flag things incorrectly.

5. Reporting illegal or harmful content

To report content you believe is illegal, infringes your rights, or violates these Terms, email us at privacy@pokefeed.app and include: (a) the exact link to the content; (b) why you believe it is illegal or breaks these Terms; (c) your name and email address; and (d) a statement that you believe in good faith that your report is accurate and complete.

We confirm receipt, review reports without undue delay, and tell you our decision and how to contest it. A decision may be to remove the content, or to take no action if we find it does not break these Terms or the law. Reports are reviewed by a person, not by automated tools.

Copyright. If you believe content infringes your copyright, send a report as above and identify the work you own. We remove infringing content and close the accounts of users who repeatedly post it.

This email address also serves as our point of contact for users and for any communication regarding these Terms or content on the site. It is also our single point of contact for authorities of EU Member States, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services under the Digital Services Act. We can be contacted in English and Italian.

6. Our right to moderate and remove

We may, at our discretion:

• remove, hide, or refuse to publish any user content;
• suspend, restrict, or permanently delete any account;
• remove content that we believe violates these Terms or any law, or that we consider harmful or inappropriate.

When we remove or restrict your content or account, we tell you, where we have a way to reach you, what we did and why (the facts, and the rule or law it is based on), whether automated tools were involved, and how to contest it: reply to that message or write to privacy@pokefeed.app and a person will review the decision.

We are not obligated to host, keep, or restore any content.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the site for any unlawful purpose;
• post content prohibited under Section 4;
• attempt to disrupt, overload, hack, or gain unauthorized access to the site or its systems;
• abuse, manipulate, or game site features (such as votes, saves, or copy counts);
• harass, threaten, or harm other users.

8. No scraping or unauthorized data extraction

You may not, without our prior written permission:

• scrape, crawl, harvest, copy, or systematically extract data, content, or the team database from PokeFeed by automated or manual means;
• reproduce, redistribute, resell, or reuse PokeFeed's content or data for commercial purposes;
• use PokeFeed's content or data to build or train a competing product or dataset.

PokeFeed's design, layout, original text, and the organization and compilation of its data are the result of significant effort and are protected accordingly.

9. Intellectual property and Pokémon trademark notice

PokeFeed is an unofficial, fan-made project. Pokémon and all related names, characters, and assets are trademarks and copyright of Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc. PokeFeed is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or approved by any of these entities.

Pokémon data and game information shown on the site are derived from publicly available community sources, credited on our credits page. Pokémon sprites are provided by PokéAPI and item sprites by Bulbagarden Archives; both remain the property of their respective owners.

Official tournament results (standings, placings and team lists) are imported from public third-party sources, currently pokedata.ovh, and credited on our credits page. PokeFeed is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the organizers of those events.

You keep ownership of the user content you create. By publishing it on PokeFeed, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and distribute that content on the site for the purpose of operating the service.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

PokeFeed is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any content (including game data and tournament results, which come from third-party sources) is accurate, complete, or up to date.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, PokeFeed and its operator shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from:

• your use of, or inability to use, the site;
• any user content or conduct of any user;
• any reliance on game data, tournament results, or other information shown on the site.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability where it cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law (for example, liability for gross negligence or intent, or statutory consumer rights).

12. Changes to the service and these Terms

We may change, suspend, or discontinue the site (in whole or in part) at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time; when we make material changes, we will update the "last updated" date and announce the changes with a notice on the site before they take effect. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Termination

You may stop using PokeFeed at any time, and you can delete your account whenever you want from Edit profile > Delete account. We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these Terms or the law, or where it is needed to protect the site or other users. When we do, Section 6 applies: we tell you what we did and why, and how to contest it.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Italy, and the courts of Italy shall have jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence provide otherwise. Nothing in this section deprives you of the mandatory legal protections available to you under the law of your country of residence.

15. Contact

For any question about these Terms, contact us at privacy@pokefeed.app.