Terms & Conditions

Your use of this web site is on the following terms and conditions. To participate in the game of Gridiron, you must accept these terms and conditions.

Your privacy
Personal data submitted by you to this web site, including your e-mail address, will not be shared with anyone except the publishers and other people playing the game.
Data Protection Act (UK)
Your participation in the game assumes that you accept that information about you will be stored in a database in accordance with the terms of Data Protection Act 1998 (UK). The game relies on significant use of data stored in databases. If you cannot accept this condition you must not join the waiting list or participate in the game. If you are already a player and wish to withdraw consent to store your data in a database, you must communicate to the publisher a request for immediate withdrawal from the game.
E-mail
Use of e-mail is required to play this game. It is a condition of playing the game that you are able to receive e-mails in standard formats. We regret that we cannot make special arrangements for players to receive e-mails in particular formats. Neither can we support multiple e-mail addresses for one player. You must provide and maintain a single e-mail address by which you may be contacted by the publisher of the game and its participants (including other players). You are responsible for ensuring this e-mail address is current. A facility is provided for you to change our records of your e-mail address on the web site. Should we need to contact you to advise of important changes (e.g. changes to user account details, password reminders, access procedures, deadline changes) we will use the e-mail address you provide to do so. We will endeavour to protect the email address you provide from access by people other than the publisher of the game and its participants. You are strongly advised not to include your e-mail address in articles you publish through this website.
User Accounts
Each registered player of this game is supplied with a unique user ID and password combination as part of their "user account". By entering a user ID and password to access the site, you identify yourself to the game systems. You are supplied a user ID and password on condition that you will at no time make these available to anyone else.
Security
You will not knowingly attempt to access any area of this web site with a user ID or password other than your own. You will not attempt to acquire the user ID or password of another game participant. You will not attempt to circumvent or compromise the security features of the web site and game systems. You will not attempt to gain access to areas of the website, its resources or its data except with the express permission of the publishers. Links offered to you on the website represent the most common form of such express permission.
Deadlines
We will publish deadlines, which are dates on or after which the turn will finish and adjudications be run. We offer no guarantees on the precise time results will be published on or after that date. If a deadline time is published, you should not expect to be able to submit game orders from that time. If a deadline date is given but no deadline time, you should assume one second after midnight (server time, this page served at 12:57:45) on the deadline day as the last time by which orders can reliably be submitted. Later orders may or may not be accepted at the GMs' discretion.
Time
All times published for Gridiron assume current British time.
Logging off and time outs
You should use the "log off" facility to disconnect from the game system when you have finished a session. However, as a security feature, any user who has taken no action for an extended period will automatically be logged off. This is called a "time out". You must log on again to access the system after such a time out.
Cookies
Your effective use of this web site depends on the use of cookies, which are transmitted to your computer by this web site and used to identify you to this web site. Cookies published by this web site are used exclusively for the purposes of running the games on this web site, and controlling access to appropriate users. This web site does not share its cookies with other web sites, or use its cookies for purposes other than those stated.
Game rules
Whilst every effort will be taken to advise in advance, game rules may be changed without notice. The game rules and terms and conditions in force at any time are those to be found on the web site, and the publishers of this web site do not guarantee the ongoing validity of any you print or save for reference.
Copyright & intellectual property
All material created by the publishers for this site (including data and game rules) are copyright. You may not distribute them to other parties, or download them except for the purposes of playing the games.
It is assumed you own the copyright of any material you submit to this website. Your use of this website is on that basis.
Acceptable use
You are expected to conduct yourself in a manner appropriate to games of this nature. Offensive, hectoring, threatening or otherwise inappropriate conduct will be considered adequate reason for the withdrawal of access, without notice or compensation, at the discretion of the publishers. It is a condition of participation in this game that you accept the judgement of the publishers as final and binding in this respect.
All material submitted to this website by you for display on a discussion forum, bulletin board, chat room or similar must be legal. If you post a message, comment or question this must not be defamatory or contain material which might infringe the rights of third parties. By submitting material to this website you agree personally to indemnify the publishers of this website from and against all claims, costs, and expenses arising out of any breach of the site's terms and conditions.
Our objective of running Gridiron is to create an enjoyable gaming experience based on an accurate simulation of american football combined with the creation of a community ethos. For everyone to enjoy the game, we apply a set of principles essential to preserving this ethos:
- Anonymous participation is not acceptable
- You will use your real name and not a pseudonym
- You will not use different identities to control more than one team within the same league
- You will actively participate in the game
- You will seek to maximise the success of your team to the best of your abilities
Where we believe someone playing the game has acted contrary to these declared principles, especially where their actions compromise the integrity of the game and/or result in an unfair advantage for someone, we will impose penalties including but not limited to expulsion from the game. Where an advantage is gained by someone playing the game from the actions of another person acting contrary to these principles, such penalties may at our discretion be applied to either or both parties.
Where inactivity on the part of someone playing the game compromises the running or integrity of the game and we have received no communication from them or on behalf of them to account for the inactivity we reserve the right to impose penalties including but not limited to expulsion from the game. Note that any failure to submit valid orders by published deadlines compromises the running of the game. Some deadlines have particular sensitivity and those playing the game are responsibile for identifying them through our published communications.
Disclaimer
The publishers of this web site take no responsibility for the accuracy of any data supplied via this web site. The publishers make no guarantees as to the availability of the game service. Whilst reasonable precautions are taken to ensure the integrity of the game system, we do not accept any responsibility for computer failures experienced while using this web site. Your use of this web site and game systems is at your own risk.
External web sites
The publishers of this web site accept no responsibility for the content of web sites linked from this web site.
Minimum requirements
Your effective use of this web site depends on meeting its minimum requirements, below.
The Final Word
The publishers reserve the right to terminate or modify without notice in whole or part the access of any individual to this web site, parts of this web site, and/or the address, delivery systems or functionality of the services upon which this web site and its games depend.

Minimum requirements for use of this web site:

Web access
Internet Explorer version 8 on Windows is the target platform for Gridiron. We also test on Mozilla Firefox version 3 and Google Chrome but cannot gurantee a directly compatible experience
Cookies and images accepted and Javascript enabled
Macromedia Flash/Adobe Flash version 6 or higher