Terms of Service

A-Squad is a free fantasy game: spin for a franchise and era, draft a squad, and a statistical model projects a season record. Projections are entertainment. They are not predictions, and the model is a set of assumptions about hockey that reasonable people can and do argue about.

Nothing is staked and nothing is paid out. There are no wagers, no prizes with cash value, no purchasable chips, tokens or credits, and no way to convert anything in the game into money. It’s a scoreboard and an argument, which is the entire point.

You must be 13 or older to create an account. If you’re between 13 and 17, section 7 of our Privacy Policy describes protections that apply to you automatically.

You’re responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your sign-in method to yourself. If you think someone else is using it, email us.

A-Squad is free and stays free because it carries advertising. Ads are part of the service, not an add-on you’re opting into, and there’s no paid tier that removes them.

We don’t choose the individual ads. They’re delivered programmatically by third-party advertising partners, and an ad appearing on A-Squad is not an endorsement, review or recommendation by us — of the product, the company, or anything they claim. If you buy something from an advertiser, that’s a deal between you and them, and we’re not a party to it. If an ad looks fraudulent or breaks the law, tell us and we’ll pass it to the partner that served it.

You’re free to use an ad blocker. We don’t detect them, we don’t gate the game behind turning one off, and no feature is withheld from you for running one. We’d rather ask: the ads are what keep this thing on the internet.

How ads are chosen, what data goes to advertising partners, and how to switch off personalized advertising are all in the Privacy Policy.

We count what happens in the game — spins taken, runs submitted, challenges created and opened — so we can tell which parts people actually use and which parts are broken. Outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, including in the United States, this runs by default when you play. In those three places it waits for your consent on the banner.

Three commitments come with that, and they are terms of this agreement, not just a policy we can quietly revise: this data is never sold, it is never shared with advertising partnersor used to target an ad at you, and it is tied to a random ID rather than your email address or your name. It exists to tell us whether the game is any good.

You can switch it off whenever you like from “Your Privacy Choices” in the footer. Nothing about the game changes if you do. The Privacy Policy has the detail: what is collected, who processes it, how long it is kept, and how to get a copy or have it deleted.

One official try per player per challenge. Automating play, scripting the client, exploiting bugs, running multiple accounts to farm a leaderboard, or otherwise manipulating rankings can void results, remove entries, or close the account. We’d rather fix the bug than ban you, so if you find one, tell us — we’ve never been annoyed by that email.

You keep whatever rights you have in the display name you sign onto a scoreboard. By signing one, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, reproduce and distribute it in connection with A-Squad — on scoreboards, in share previews, and in the images generated when someone shares a result. That licence exists so the scoreboard can, in fact, show your name, and it lasts as long as the entry does.

Don’t sign a name that’s abusive, hateful, impersonates a real person, or that you don’t have the right to use. Names like that can be removed without notice, and repeat offenders can be banned. If we remove a name, the underlying result normally stays, nameless.

A-Squad is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Hockey League, its member clubs, or the NHLPA/NHLAA. Player names and historical statistics are used as facts of sports history. No league or team logos, marks, or photographs are used.

The A-Squad name, the design, the projection model, the code, and the curated data behind the game are ours or licensed to us. You’re welcome to play the game, screenshot it, and share the results anywhere you like — that’s what it’s for. You’re not welcome to copy the code or the curated dataset, scrape the service in bulk, resell access, or build a competing product out of our data.

If you believe something on A-Squad infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to our designated agent at the address in section 21. Include: your signature (electronic is fine), identification of the work, the URL of the material you’re complaining about, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorised, and a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and you’re authorised to act for the owner. We remove infringing material and terminate repeat infringers. If your material was removed and you think that was wrong, you can send a counter-notice with the same formality.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that’s being used to harm other players, or that we’re required to act on by law. Where it’s reasonable, we’ll tell you why and give you a chance to respond first — a bad display name is a conversation, not a capital case. You can close your own account at any time from the Account screen, and you don’t have to give a reason.

If your account closes, results already on other players’ scoreboards stay there without your name on them, so that other people’s boards don’t develop holes.

A-Squad is provided “as is” and “as available”, free of charge. We work to keep it up and your data safe, but we can’t promise uninterrupted or error-free service, and we may change, add, or discontinue features. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Some places don’t allow those disclaimers, and where that’s true, this section applies as far as it can and no further.

To the fullest extent the law allows, A-Squad isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost profits, or lost opportunity. Our total liability for any claim relating to the game is limited to the greater of the amount you’ve paid us — which is zero — or twenty-five US dollars.

Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that can’t be limited by law. If you’re a consumer in the EEA, the UK, or a Canadian province with mandatory consumer protection, those rights are yours regardless of what this section says.

If someone brings a claim against us because of what you did — content you posted, rules you broke, laws you didn’t follow — you’ll cover our reasonable costs and damages from it. This doesn’t apply to anything we did wrong, and it doesn’t apply if the law where you live doesn’t allow it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that isn’t resolved under section 16 goes to the state or federal courts located in Missouri, and both of us consent to jurisdiction there.

If you’re a consumer resident in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, this doesn’t take away the protection of mandatory laws of your country of residence or your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before either of us files anything, whoever has the complaint sends the other a written description of it and what would resolve it — email is fine for you, our address in section 21 is fine for us. Give it 30 days. Most things end there, and courts are a bad way to settle an argument about a hockey game.

Either of us can still take a qualifying claim to small-claims court at any time, and either of us can seek an injunction to stop misuse of intellectual property without waiting.

These terms apply between you and A-Squad, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its contents. The licence you get is a non-transferable licence to use the app on any Apple-branded product you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions — including through Family Sharing.

Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you can notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, which is zero; beyond that, Apple has no warranty obligation whatsoever, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform are ours to handle. We’re responsible for any claim that the app or your use of it infringes a third party’s intellectual property, and for any product-liability or consumer-protection claim, and for handling any of your questions or complaints about the app.

By using the app you represent that you’re not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you’re not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and have the right to enforce them against you.

Your use is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service. Google is not a party to these terms and is not responsible for the app.

We’ll post updated terms here with a new effective date. Continuing to play after they take effect means you accept them. For changes that materially affect your rights, we’ll give notice in the app before they take effect, not after.

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, that part is trimmed to the minimum that makes it enforceable and the rest stands. Not enforcing something doesn’t waive it. You can’t transfer these terms to anyone else; we can transfer them if A-Squad is sold or reorganised, and we’ll say so here if that happens. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about A-Squad, and they replace anything said earlier. Except for Apple under section 17, there are no third-party beneficiaries.

support@asquadgame.com. Questions about privacy go in the same mailbox — put “privacy” in the subject line. By post, including DMCA notices and counter-notices to our designated agent:

A-Squad Gaming LLC 117 S Lexington St, Suite 100 Harrisonville, MO 64701 United States