Terms of Use

1. About these terms

These terms apply to everyone who visits or uses Matchpoint at www.maldivespool.app and any other Matchpoint web address (“Matchpoint”, “the platform”). By using Matchpoint, or by creating an account, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the platform.

Matchpoint is run by Lifecode, a sole proprietorship registered in the Maldives (Registration No. SP02532023), owned by Ahmed Mohamed, trading as Matchpoint (“we”, “us”). You can contact us on WhatsApp at +960 964 3766 or by email at matchpointmaldives@gmail.com.

These terms work together with our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal information we keep and why. Where something here relates to personal information, the Privacy Policy gives the detail.

2. Independence and official results

Matchpoint is an independent, unofficial community platform. It is not run by, endorsed by or connected to the Maldives Pool and Billiard Association (MPBA) or any other federation, club or organiser, unless a tournament page says otherwise.

Tournament draws, schedules and results on Matchpoint are re-entered from information published by each organiser. The results announced by the organiser are always the official ones. If Matchpoint ever differs from an organiser’s official results, the organiser’s results apply. Please tell us so we can correct it.

3. Who can use Matchpoint

Anyone can browse Matchpoint without an account.

To create an account you must be able to agree to these terms. If you are under 18, you may only create an account with the permission of a parent or guardian, who is responsible for your use of Matchpoint.

To keep young players safe, players under 18 currently cannot send or receive challenges or join mini tournaments, and their profiles show limited details. We may add further protections for young players at any time.

4. Your account

You sign in with your mobile number and a one-time code sent by SMS. You can also set a password and a public @username if you wish.

• Use your own mobile number and keep your phone and any password secure. You are responsible for what happens through your account.
• One person, one account. Don’t create accounts for other people or pretend to be someone else.
• Choose a username that isn’t offensive, misleading or someone else’s name or brand. We may change or remove usernames that break these terms.
• Tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account.

5. Player profiles

Matchpoint shows player profiles so fans and players can follow tournaments. Some profiles are created by us from results published by tournament organisers, even if that player has never signed up.

• Claiming a profile: if a profile is you, you can ask to claim it with “This is me”. An admin checks each claim before linking it to your account. We may ask for information to confirm it’s really you.
• Creating a profile: new players can create their own profile when they sign up.
• Duplicates: if the same person appears twice (for example with a different spelling), admins may merge the profiles.
• Accuracy: keep your profile details true. Admins may correct details that are wrong or misleading.
• Corrections and removal: anyone can ask us to correct a profile, hide it, remove a photo or remove personal details, using the link on the profile or our WhatsApp. Results you played in stay part of the tournament record, but a hidden profile shows only your name.

6. What’s public and your privacy

So that tournaments can be followed, some information about players is public: names and nicknames, club, match results, titles and finishes, the community rating, and photos and share cards.

Some information is private and never shown publicly: your mobile number, date of birth and contact details.

You can hide some profile details, such as your photo, and you can ask us to hide your rating. To run Matchpoint we use service providers for hosting, data storage, SMS codes and bot protection. Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why, who helps us process it, how long we keep it and how to ask for a copy, correction or deletion.

7. Your content and photos

You can add content to Matchpoint, such as profile photos (up to 12 per player), a username and scores for friendly matches.

• You keep ownership of your content. By posting it, you give us a non-exclusive, free licence to store, display, resize and share it on Matchpoint (including share cards and previews) for as long as it stays on the platform.
• Only post what you have the right to post. Only upload photos you took yourself or have permission to use, and only photos of other people who have agreed to them being shared.
• Children: don’t upload photos of anyone under 18 without permission from their parent or guardian. Photos showing children can be reported, and we may remove them.
• When you choose a focus point for a photo, face detection runs on your own device; the photo isn’t sent anywhere for that.

We may remove any content that breaks these terms or that we reasonably believe is unsafe, without notice.

8. Community rules

Matchpoint is for everyone who loves the game. When using it, please don’t:

• harass, threaten, bully, shame or discriminate against anyone
• pretend to be another person, a club or an organiser, or claim a profile that isn’t yours
• enter false scores, set up fake matches or try to manipulate results or the rating
• post content that is offensive, sexual, violent, hateful, illegal, or that shares someone’s private information
• use Matchpoint for betting, gambling or wagering on matches
• send spam, advertise without our permission, or use challenges and invites to annoy people
• copy data from Matchpoint in bulk, scrape it, or use bots or scripts
• get around the bot check, sign-in limits, blocks or any security measure, or interfere with how Matchpoint works
• break the law or the rules of the venue where you play

Respect people’s results and losses. Celebrate good play, whoever wins.

9. Challenges and mini tournaments

Signed-in adult players can challenge each other to friendly matches and host or join mini tournaments.

• Challenges use preset messages only. There is no open chat on Matchpoint.
• Mini tournaments are run by the player who hosts them. The host adds players, and players enter their own scores.
• Scores are entered by players and confirmed by their opponent or the host. If players disagree, the host decides; if that doesn’t settle it, an admin may decide or remove the result.

These are friendly, unofficial games. Matchpoint only helps you arrange and record them. We don’t organise, supervise or referee the games themselves, and we aren’t responsible for venues, bookings, costs, travel or anything that happens where you play.

Agree any table fees or costs between yourselves, play safely, and follow each venue’s rules.

10. The community rating

Matchpoint shows a community rating and tiers for players. It is a community measure only. It is not an official ranking of MPBA or any other federation, and it isn’t used for official seeding or selection.

The rating counts results from organised tournaments only. Challenges and mini tournaments don’t count towards it.

It is calculated by a method we may adjust over time to keep it fair, and ratings may change when results are corrected.

You can ask us to hide your rating. Your tournament results stay part of the tournament record.

11. Reporting, blocking and moderation

You can block players so they can’t challenge or invite you, and report photos, profiles or behaviour that break these terms.

Admins review reports and may remove content, correct information, cancel results, limit features, or suspend or close accounts that break these terms or put others at risk. Where it’s reasonable and safe, we’ll tell you why.

If you think we’ve made a mistake, contact us and we’ll look at it again.

We keep a record of admin and account actions so moderation decisions can be checked and reversed if needed.

12. Accuracy and availability

We work hard to keep results, schedules and live scores accurate and up to date, but they can contain mistakes or delays, especially live scores entered during play. Always check the organiser’s official announcements for anything important, such as match times.

Matchpoint is provided as it is and as available. We may change, pause or remove features, and the platform may sometimes be unavailable for maintenance or reasons outside our control.

13. Other services and links

Matchpoint links to and uses other services, for example YouTube for live streams and WhatsApp for contacting us. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, and we aren’t responsible for their content or how they work.

We also rely on service providers to run Matchpoint, such as hosting, data storage, SMS codes and bot protection. They are listed in our Privacy Policy.

14. Sponsors and partners

Matchpoint may show sponsor and partner names or logos, for example “presented by” lines on parts of the site. Sponsored content will always be clearly labelled. A sponsor appearing on Matchpoint doesn’t mean that it, Matchpoint, or any tournament organiser endorses the others. We don’t share your personal information with sponsors, and we don’t sell personal information.

15. Identity verification (planned)

In future we may offer optional identity verification, for example to confirm a profile claim or give a “verified” badge, using a specialist verification provider. This may involve checking an ID card and matching it with a photo of your face. If we introduce it, we will explain exactly what is collected, who processes it and how long it is kept before you choose to use it, ask for your consent, and update these terms and our Privacy Policy. Verification will not be required to browse Matchpoint.

16. Intellectual property

The Matchpoint name, logo, design, software and content we create belong to Lifecode and are protected by law. You may share links to Matchpoint and share the cards it creates for you, but you may not copy, reuse or sell the platform, its design or its data in bulk without our written permission.

Tournament names and organiser logos belong to their owners. Results are facts published by organisers and are shown with credit to them.

17. Our responsibility to you

Matchpoint is a free community service. To the extent allowed by the laws of the Maldives:

• we aren’t responsible for losses caused by mistakes or delays in results, schedules or ratings, by the platform being unavailable, or by content other users post
• we aren’t responsible for anything that happens at matches, venues or meetings arranged through Matchpoint
• our total responsibility to you for any claim about Matchpoint is limited to MVR 1,000

Nothing in these terms limits any responsibility that cannot be limited under the laws of the Maldives, or takes away rights you have as a consumer.

18. Closing your account

You can ask us to close your account at any time through WhatsApp or email. When we close it, we delete or anonymise your account details as described in our Privacy Policy. Results of matches you played in organised tournaments stay part of the tournament record, shown with your name only.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, or where we need to in order to protect other users, Matchpoint or the law.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as Matchpoint grows, for example when we add new features. We’ll change the “Last updated” date at the top, and for important changes we’ll give notice on the platform before they apply. If you keep using Matchpoint after changes take effect, the new terms apply.

20. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Maldives. If you have a problem, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it. If we can’t, disputes will be dealt with by the courts of the Maldives.

21. Contact us

For corrections, removal requests or reports, you can also use the links on each profile and photo.