1. Agreement to these Terms
These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and Zeek Lyons, an individual residing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (“we”, “us”, “our”), who operates MH2H — the Madden Head to Head Tracker (the “Service”).
You must tick the box at signup to create an account. Ticking it means you have read these Terms and agree to them. You cannot create an account or use the Service without agreeing — there is no way to proceed past that box.
We may update these Terms. If we do, we will ask you to accept the new version the next time you sign in, and you will need to accept it to keep using the Service.
2. Who can use MH2H
You must be at least 13 years old to hold an account. If you are under 18, you may only use the Service with the consent of a parent or guardian, and only they may enter into a paid membership.
You must give accurate information when you sign up, including a gamertag that matches the one your console actually shows. The Service reads your gamertag off your screenshots to prove a game is yours; if it does not match, your games will be turned away.
One account per person. Accounts are personal and may not be shared, sold or transferred.
3. Your account
You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your sign-in details secure. Tell us straight away if you think somebody else has access to it.
Your gamertag is locked after signup. If it is genuinely wrong, an admin can correct it — that correction is recorded in an audit log that nobody, including us, can edit or delete.
4. Membership and billing
Some features require a paid membership. Prices, billing period and what is included are shown before you pay.
Memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current price, until you cancel. We will obtain your express consent to those renewal terms before charging you, and we keep a record of that consent.
You can cancel at any time, by the same means you signed up — from your account settings, without having to call or email anyone. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are already in.
We may change prices. If we do, we will tell you before the change takes effect and you can cancel before it applies to you.
Payments are handled by Stripe. We do not receive or store your card details.
5. Games, screenshots and your content
Recording a game requires a screenshot. That screenshot is evidence: we read it with an automated system to establish the score, the teams and the gamertags, we store it, and we show it to admins when a result is questioned.
You keep ownership of what you upload. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, process, analyse and display your uploads and your game results, for the purpose of operating the Service — including showing your results on the leaderboard, in head-to-head records and in other players’ game history.
That licence continues for your uploads after your account ends, because your games are part of other players’ records. Their ratings were calculated against yours, and removing your results would rewrite theirs.
⚠️ Screenshots are never deleted. They are the evidence behind every result on the board, and the Service deliberately has no code path that removes them.
Only upload screenshots of games you actually played. Do not upload anything containing another person’s private information.
6. Fair play
The board only means something if the results are real. You agree not to:
• upload a screenshot that is not the game you played, including an edited, staged or borrowed image;
• claim a win in a game you lost;
• dispute a result you know is correct, to avoid the loss;
• use another person’s account, or record games against an account you control;
• interfere with the Service, its verification systems, or other players’ use of it.
If an admin determines that you have done any of these, your record may be reset to 0-0. That means every game you won is voided and each of your opponents gets that loss back; the games you lost stay, because someone else earned those. You keep your account and start again from the starting rating, back in placement. We will tell you when this happens.
Serious or repeated breaches may also result in removal from the league. Removal blocks sign-in; your games and rating history remain, because other players’ records depend on them.
A paid membership does not entitle you to a particular record, rating or standing.
7. Admin decisions
Admins can void games, settle disputes, correct gamertags, apply the sanctions in section 6 and manage the championship. Every one of those actions is written to an audit log that cannot be edited or deleted, by anyone.
Admins are players too. That is why the audit log exists: it is what answers “he changed my record” with a record rather than a memory.
Admin decisions on results and sanctions are final as between the players. Nothing in this section limits any right you have under applicable law.
8. Intellectual property
8.1 Ownership. The Service — including its source code, object code, database schema and data models, user interface, visual design, layout, graphics, icons, typography and colour systems, text and copy, the Crown Rating system and its parameters, the championship belt ruleset, the screenshot verification and tamper-detection pipeline and the prompts, heuristics and thresholds within it, all documentation, and the MH2H name, logo and marks (together, the “Protected Materials”) — is owned by Zeek Lyons and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark and trade secret law. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
8.2 Your licence. Subject to these Terms, you are granted a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service for your own recreational participation in the league. That is the entire grant. No other right, title or interest passes to you.
8.3 Restrictions. You may not, and may not permit or assist anyone else to:
• (a) copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, publicly display or create derivative works from any Protected Materials;
• (b) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, parameters, prompts or thresholds of the Service, except to the limited extent that this restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;
• (c) access the Service by any automated means — scraper, crawler, bot or script — or extract, harvest or compile any portion of its data or content;
• (d) use any Protected Materials to design, develop, train, market or operate any product or service that competes with or is substantially similar to the Service;
• (e) remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice; or
• (f) use the MH2H name, logo or marks, or any confusingly similar mark.
8.4 Confidentiality. Certain elements of the Service are trade secrets, including the specific coefficients, factors and thresholds of the Crown Rating system, the screenshot-verification prompts and detection heuristics, and any non-public administrative or analytics interface you are given access to (the “Confidential Elements”). You will not disclose the Confidential Elements to any third party, or use them for any purpose other than your own use of the Service. This obligation survives the end of your account indefinitely.
8.5 Feedback. Any suggestion, idea or feedback you give us about the Service is provided freely, becomes ours, and may be used without restriction, attribution or compensation.
8.6 Enforcement. You acknowledge that a breach of this section would cause irreparable harm for which money damages are inadequate, and that we are entitled to injunctive relief and specific performance without posting bond, in addition to every other remedy available to us. We will pursue all available civil remedies, including statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work wilfully infringed together with our attorneys’ fees under 17 U.S.C. §§ 504 and 505; exemplary damages of up to twice actual damages together with attorneys’ fees for wilful and malicious trade secret misappropriation under 18 U.S.C. § 1836; and disgorgement of profits. Wilful copyright infringement and trade secret theft are also federal crimes under 17 U.S.C. § 506, 18 U.S.C. § 2319 and 18 U.S.C. § 1832, and we will refer conduct we believe to be criminal to law enforcement. You will indemnify us for all costs, losses and fees arising from your breach.
8.7 Survival. This section survives the end of your account and of these Terms, for any reason.
9. The Service may change
We are actively building MH2H. Features may be added, changed or removed, and the Service may be unavailable at times — for maintenance, or because something we depend on is down.
The Crown Rating system, the tier thresholds and the championship rules may change. Ratings and standings may be recalculated as a result.
10. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
Automated screenshot verification is not perfect and we do not claim otherwise. It can misread an image, and no software can prove an image is an unmodified console screenshot. We do not warrant that every result on the board is accurate.
MH2H is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc. or the National Football League. Madden NFL is a trademark of Electronic Arts Inc.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data or loss of goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Service — even if we were told such damages were possible.
Our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) fifty US dollars ($50).
Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
12. Ending your account
You can stop using the Service at any time, and cancel any membership from your account settings.
We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms, or if we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect the Service or other players.
Your game results and rating history remain after your account ends, for the reason given in section 5: other players’ records were calculated against yours.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may change these Terms. When we do, we will publish the new version with a new version date and ask you to accept it the next time you sign in. You will need to accept it to keep using the Service — it does not apply to you simply because you carried on using it.
We keep a record of which version you accepted and when.
14. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
You and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and each of us consents to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.
Nothing in this section prevents either of us from seeking injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms: contact the league admin through the Service.