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Terms of use

Effective 22 September 2026. These terms are the contract for the Padel Scope service. They are written for the law of the Republic of Cyprus, including the Certain Legal Aspects of Information Society Services Law of 2004 (Law 156(I)/2004). If you are a consumer habitually resident in the European Union, the mandatory consumer rules of your country of residence still apply, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

1. Who provides the service

Provider: the natural person established in the Republic of Cyprus who operates the service under the name Padel Scope.
Email: privacy@padelscope.app
Companies register: not a registered company, so there is no ΗΕ number.
VAT: not VAT-registered.
The service is not a regulated profession and does not require a prior authorisation to operate as an information-society service.

2. The service

Padel Scope is a place to keep an honest padel rating, find a game, and enter tournaments. It includes the website, the iOS, Android and browser apps, and the panels used by organisers and staff. A rating is an estimate of level inside this product. It is not a ranking of a national federation, a court booking, or a promise that a match will happen.

Clubs, organisers, coaches and other players use the service for their own activity. They are not our agents. A tournament, a court and a coaching session are their responsibility, including who is admitted, what it costs outside the app, and what happens on court.

3. Agreement and language

You accept these terms by creating an account or, if a club created a profile for you, by claiming it. If you do not accept them, do not use the service. These terms are published in English, Greek and Russian and are meant to say the same thing. If you are a consumer in Cyprus and you relied on the Greek text, that text applies to you. Otherwise the English text is the reference version.

We may change the terms. For a material change we will post the new version here and, where we have your email, tell you before it takes effect. If you keep using the service after that date, the new terms apply. If you are a consumer and the change is material and you do not accept it, you may close the account before the date. Mandatory rights are not reduced by a change.

4. Who may use it

You must give accurate account information and keep one account. You are responsible for activity under your login. Tell us if you believe someone else has it.

Under Cyprus contract law a minor has limited capacity. If you are under 18, use the service only with a parent or guardian who accepts these terms for you. The privacy notice explains the separate rule for children under 14. A parent or guardian who allows a child to use the service is responsible for that use.

A club or organiser may enter your email so that a roster or an invite exists before you sign up. The profile becomes yours when you register with that email. Until then you may write to us and ask for it to be removed.

5. How to behave

You will:

We may remove content, refuse an entry, correct or freeze a rating, or suspend an account when these rules are broken, when a result is not credible, or when we must do so to protect other players or the service. Where the law requires it, and where it is safe to do so, we will tell you why and let you respond. A suspension does not erase confirmed results that other players’ ratings depend on; those stay in the anonymised form described in the privacy notice.

6. Ratings, games and tournaments

The number you see is calculated from the questionnaire and from results the other side confirms. It moves when those inputs move. We may review or adjust it when a dispute, a duplicate or a breach of these terms makes the published number misleading. Organisers decide entries. The card may say that a player looks above a category; that statement is information for the organiser and the field, not a decision by us to exclude anyone.

A game or a tournament in the product is organised by the user who creates it. We do not book the court, employ the organiser, or supervise play. Injuries, no-shows, court fees and disagreements about what happened on court are between the people involved, except to the extent they were caused by our failure to use reasonable care in running the software.

A coach profile is what the coach submits, plus any verification status we actually display. A displayed status means only that a moderator looked at the material provided. It is not a guarantee of qualification, insurance or quality of coaching.

7. Your content

You keep your rights in text, photos, video and documents you submit. You give us a non-exclusive licence to host, reproduce and display that material as needed to run the service: to show your profile, a lineup, a result and a tournament, and to let moderators open a proof. The licence ends when you delete the material or the account, except for copies that have already been shared with other players as a result or a review, which then follow the retention rules in the privacy notice, and except for backups that age out. You confirm that you have the rights you need to give this licence, including for a photo of another person.

8. Our content

The software, the name Padel Scope, the visual design and the rating method as implemented in the product are ours or are licensed to us. You may not copy them to build a competing service, and you may not remove notices of ownership. You may share a link to a game, a profile or a public page.

9. Price

Creating an account and using the rating, games and tournaments is free unless a price is shown to you, in the product, before you commit to pay. If we introduce a paid feature, we will show the total price, the main characteristics, and the information required by the Consumer Rights Law of 2013 (Law 133(I)/2013) before you pay. A right of withdrawal that the law gives a consumer for a distance contract is not waived here. Nothing in these terms excludes a statutory consumer right.

10. Availability

We aim to keep the service available, but we do not promise uninterrupted operation. We may change, suspend or withdraw a feature. Where a withdrawal materially removes something you are already using, we will give reasonable notice if we can. We are not responsible for a failure caused by your device, your network, an app store, or a sign-in provider.

11. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that the law of Cyprus, or the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, does not allow us to exclude.

Subject to that, we are responsible for foreseeable loss caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill in providing the digital service. We are not responsible for loss caused by other users, by a club, organiser, coach or venue, or by a decision an organiser makes about an entry, except to the extent the loss was caused by that failure of ours. We are not responsible for loss of profit, or for a sporting outcome, a missed game or a rating that moved because a confirmed result was later disputed, where we were not careless in operating the service.

The service is not a consumer good that can be warranted fit for a particular competitive purpose beyond the description in section 2.

12. Ending the account

You may delete the account in the app at any time. We may close it if you materially break these terms and do not fix the breach within a reasonable time after we ask, or immediately if the breach is serious (including dishonest results, abuse of other players, or an attack on the service). Deletion and what we keep are described in the privacy notice. Sections that by their nature should survive (content already shared, liability, governing law) survive.

13. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Cyprus. That choice does not deprive a consumer of the protection of provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the country where the consumer habitually resides.

The courts of Cyprus have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in an EU member state, you may also sue in the courts of your place of residence, and we may sue you only in those courts, as provided by Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012. We are not obliged to use an alternative dispute-resolution body, and we do not commit to one, unless the law requires it. A list of such bodies is published by the European Commission at https://consumer-redress.ec.europa.eu/dispute-resolution-bodies.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: privacy@padelscope.app. Privacy: the notice at https://padelscope.app/privacy. Cookies: the notice at https://padelscope.app/cookies.