JudgeApps Terms of Service

1) Introduction

Welcome to MagicJudges.org. This document is a contract between Judge Apps, a Minnesota non-profit company, and the MagicJudges.org Admins (collectively, “Us” or “We”), and you, a user of MagicJudges.org (“You”). We provide a variety of tools to members of the Judge Program and related communities, and we're glad you've chosen to use our sites. This contract applies to the following web sites (collectively, the “Services”):

This contract applies to your use of the sites listed above, even if you access them using a different domain name or using a proxy. This contract also applies to your interactions with these services through other media, including via email.

You are invited to use the Services in accordance with these Terms of Service only if you have read, understood, and agreed to this contract. Your activity on these web sites is subject to these Terms of Service, and your continued use of any part of these Services constitutes acceptance of these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all parts of these Terms of Service, then you may not access this website or use any of the Services.

If you do not understand, consent to, and agree to be legally bound by this contract, we are not able to provide you with the Services, and you must discontinue your use of the Services immediately. In this situation, if you require assistance with an existing account (such as disabling your account, hiding your personal information, or taking any other action), please contact us by email at judgeapps.legal@gmail.com.

This document affects your legal rights. Please read it carefully. In particular, this document includes a disclaimer of warranties in section 10, a copyright license assignment in section 7, which is retroactive, and an indemnification clause in section 7.

2) Scope

These Terms apply to content served from the domains listed above. The Services may link to content on other websites. These Terms do not apply to content hosted on any other domain, and we are not responsible for any content hosted on any other domain. We are also not responsible for the behavior of any proxies or applications that you use to access the Services, however, you are responsible for your browsing activity, even when that activity is performed using a proxy.

3) Privacy and Personal Information

Please review our Privacy Policy, which documents our collection, use, and sharing of the information you provide to the Services, our use of HTTP cookies, and other topics.

4) Copyright and Trademarks

a) Copyright Statement The Services are Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, Judge Apps, and others. All rights reserved.

b) Our Copyright All content included on the Services, including but not limited to text, logos, graphics, designs, downloads, or software, may be property of Judge Apps, individual developers, individuals or companies who contribute to this website, or other parties. This content may be protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.

c) Others’ Copyrights We do not represent or warrant that the content on the Services is owned by any particular individual, available for reuse in any particular situation, or licensed under any particular terms. Content on the Services may be owned by other entities and used with permission, under license, in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of US Copyright Law, or under other legal bases. Prior to any re-use of content, you should identify and gain permission from the original author.

d) Our Trademarks "JudgeApps", "magicjudges.org", the JudgeApps "checkmark" logo, and any graphics, logos, page headers or sidebars, scripts, and service names included in the Services are trademarks or trade dress of the Services in the U.S. and internationally, and are owned by Judge Apps.

e) Others’ Trademarks Any other trademarks that may appear in this Service are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with or connected to the Services or Judge Apps.

f) Other Considerations This section is not intended to be a complete list of intellectual property rights or considerations which may be taken into account when using or re-using content. To the extent permissible by law, we do not make any representation or warranty regarding content which was provided to the Services by third parties.

5) JudgeApps Accounts

This section applies only to users who use JudgeApps.

a) Authorized Users JudgeApps is available to members of organization(s) dedicated to providing training and certification for Magic: The Gathering tournament officials (Judges), Judge Candidates, Tournament Organizers, and related parties. Registration is required to access many features of the site. We reserve the right to deny any application for an account.

b) Main Profile Information Your access to JudgeApps requires you to provide accurate profile information. Such information shall include, at minimum, a name by which you are reasonably known (what someone might call you in person, or the name you would expect to find on a contract or paycheck, but not an online-only nickname or handle, and not anything intended to obfuscate or to confuse); an email address which belongs to you and at which you can be contacted; and a city, US state (if applicable), and country in which you are primarily active as a judge. If you do not provide complete and accurate information, we may correct the information, withhold access to the site, or decline your application for an account.

c) Additional Profile Information Any other profile information you provide must be appropriate for a working environment and must pertain to yourself. If you link to external sites, the content on those sites must comply with the JudgeApps Forum Protocol and relevant judge codes of conduct, just as your activity on JudgeApps itself. Profile photos must be of yourself, in appropriate judge attire.

6) Your Access to the Services

a) Revocation We reserve the right to revoke your access to any of the Services at any time. We are not required to notify you or provide a reason for any such action.

7) Your Content

a) Definitions Some of the Services allow users to submit their own content. This includes, but is not limited to, posting to the JudgeApps Forum, or creating a post or comment on a Judge Blog. Any type or format of material submitted to any part of any of the Services shall be considered "submitting material" for the purposes of these Terms.

b) Submitting Material You may submit material of your own to any of the Services so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights (including publicity rights), or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable, and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam" or unsolicited commercial electronic messages. You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin or ownership of any such material.

c) Our Liability We do not screen, edit, publish, or review submitted material prior to its appearance on the Services and submitted material does not necessarily reflect our views or opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we shall not be responsible or liable for the submitted material, or for any loss, cost, liability, damages, or expenses caused by and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or submitting of and/or appearance of the material on the Services.

d) Rights You Grant to Us If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display, and perform such content publicly, throughout the world, and in any media. You grant us the right to use the name and photograph that you have supplied in connection with such content, if we choose.

e) Content Previously Submitted If you have previously posted content or submitted material, and you continue to use the Services while this agreement is in force, you agree to grant us the same license as described under subsection d) to all material which you have previously provided to any of the Services.

f) Liability for Your Content You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post or submit; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify us and hold us harmless for all claims of loss, cost, liability, damages, or expenses resulting from any content you supply. We have the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

8) Copyright Complaints

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work has been used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please notify us at judgeapps.legal@gmail.com. Be sure to provide your own contact information and a description of the infringing work, including the URL on our site at which it can be found.

9) Abuse

a) Prohibited Activities You agree not to abuse or misuse the Services, to use the Services to abuse any other party, or to use the Services in furtherance of any illegal activity. Abuse includes any attempt to violate any user's privacy; corrupt, damage, or destroy any data held on the Services (with the exception of editing or deleting content such as forum posts or event listings which you are authorized to edit or delete); deny or intercept any other user's access to the Services; post or send any content which you know to be false or deceiving; post or send any content of a harassing or threatening nature; post or send spam or repetitive messages; use any bot, web crawler, or other automated tool to access the Services without express written permission from us; or manually access data at large scale in a way similar to a bot or web crawler.

b) Commercial Uses The Services must not be used for any commercial purpose, with the exception of soliciting staff members for an event which includes a Magic: the Gathering tournament.

c) Behavioral Conduct All users are expected to conduct themselves in a positive, constructive, and professional manner, as would be expected in any other working environment. Behavior which is incivil, combative, demeaning, exclusionary, or divisive is unwelcome throughout the services. Disagreements between peers should be resolved through respectful discussion, and personal attacks are not welcome.

d) Consequences for Violations In the event that any user violates any provision of this Agreement, the code of conduct or ethics for a judge certifying body to which you belong, or the norms and customs of the Judge Community, we reserve the right to take any action against that user's account that we deem appropriate, including, but not limited to, issuing warnings, deleting offending content, referring issues to relevant supervisory bodies or ethics boards, suspending a user's access to the Services, or removing a user's access to the Services.

e) Authorized API Use Nothing in these Terms shall restrict or prohibit the use of automated tools, including bots, scripts, or RSS readers, to access endpoints which are specifically intended to be accessed using such automated tools, as long as such use is considerate to other users and does not produce excessive server load or cause system outages. This includes any documented APIs as well as any RSS feeds or iCal endpoints. Operators of such tools shall be limited to a maximum of one concurrent HTTP request at any given time. Any operator who requires a higher rate limit, or who wishes to automatically access URLs which are not specifically intended to be accessed using automated tools, shall first request and obtain authorization from us.

10) DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE SERVICES AND ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE), AND OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES, OUR SERVERS, OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SENT FROM THE SERVICES ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES, OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE), OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR UNDER ANY OTHER THEORY OF LIABILITY, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

11) Complete Agreement

These terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, written or oral, concerning the Services, except as provided in sections 3 and 4 of this agreement.

12) Survival

Each of these terms will survive any termination or expiration of these terms to the extent permitted by law.

13) Severability

These terms will be enforced to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law. If any provision is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, the provision will be modified by the court and interpreted so as best to accomplish the objectives of the original provision to the fullest extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions of the terms will remain in effect.

14) Disputes

a) Waiver of Right to Jury Trial Each party hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any right to jury trial in connection with any action or litigation in any way arising out of or related to these terms.

b) Jurisdiction and Venue To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Minnesota in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site.

c) Suspension During Dispute Resolution In the event of any legal dispute involving the Services, parties acknowledge that it is our policy to suspend access to the site for any involved party until such time as such dispute is fully resolved. The purpose of this policy is to limit ongoing damages, prevent a dispute from escalating further, and ensure that all communication goes through official channels. Parties agree that such suspension in response to a legal dispute will not be considered retaliatory, and that access may be resumed, subject to the remaining terms of this agreement, after the dispute has been fully and permanently resolved.

15) Electronic Signature Consent

This section applies only if you are viewing this document on JudgeApps, where we collect affirmative agreements from each user when they first register or log in. This is in addition to the consent process described in Section 1. If you do not use JudgeApps, this section does not apply to you.

For your convenience, these documents are available electronically, and your signature is recorded electronically. By pressing “Accept Terms” below, or the equivalent forms on other documents you have been or will be presented, you consent to the terms and conditions in the displayed document, and agree to be legally bound by them. You agree that your signature on this document is as valid as if you had signed this document in writing. You confirm that you are the legitimate owner of this JudgeApps account. You agree that no further verification is required to validate your signature, and that the lack of verification will not affect the enforceability of this agreement.

You understand that your use of the Services is conditional on your acceptance of these documents, and you agree that your continued use of the Services after having been notified of these terms will constitute acceptance of these terms.

16) Updates

We may modify these Terms to reflect changes to the law or changes to our policies. We'll post notice of modifications to these terms on this page. Changes will not apply retroactively. If you do not agree to the modified terms, you should discontinue your use of the site.

JudgeApps users will be prompted to sign a new version of this document if it receives significant changes. Users of other Services, especially Services which do not require login, cannot be tracked in this way and will not receive any such prompt.

We will make every effort to include a changelog or other summary of the changes, however, you agree that any such changelog will be for informational purposes only, that you will review the new version of the document before agreeing to it, and that once the new document is published, it will be effective in full.