Terms of service

These terms of service govern your use of the website located at https://www.tcgcollector.com/ and any related services provided by TCG Collector.

By accessing https://www.tcgcollector.com/, you agree to abide by these terms of service and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with these terms of service, you are prohibited from using or accessing this website or using any other services provided by TCG Collector.

We, TCG Collector, reserve the right to review and amend any of these terms of service at our sole discretion. Upon doing so, we will update this page. Any changes to these terms of service will take effect immediately from the date of publication.

These terms of service were last updated on August 13, 2024.

Limitations of use

By using this website, you warrant on behalf of yourself, your users, and other parties you represent that you will not:

1. Modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on this website;
2. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from any materials and software on this website;
3. Transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server, unless permitted by the applicable intellectual property terms (whether set by TCG Collector or another rights holder), or unless specified otherwise in a written agreement;
4. Knowingly or negligently use this website or any of its associated services in a way that abuses or disrupts our networks or any other service TCG Collector provides;
5. Use this website or its associated services to transmit or publish any harassing, indecent, obscene, fraudulent, or unlawful material;
6. Use this website or its associated services in violation of any applicable laws or regulations;
7. Use this website in conjunction with sending (unauthorized) advertising, unless specified otherwise in a written agreement;
8. Use this website in conjunction with sending spam;
9. Harvest, collect, or gather user data without the user's consent; or
10. Use this website or its associated services in such a way that may infringe the privacy, intellectual property rights, or other rights of third parties.

Acceptable use

Please refer to our acceptable use policy for more information.

Intellectual property

The information presented on this website about the Pokémon Trading Card Game, including images and text, is intellectual property of The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures and/or Wizards of the Coast. TCG Collector is not produced by, endorsed by, supported by, or affiliated with any of these companies. Use of this intellectual property must comply with the terms established by the respective companies.

The intellectual property in other materials contained on this website (which are not part of the Pokémon Trading Card Game itself), are owned by or licensed to TCG Collector and are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law. We grant permission to use and share our intellectual property for the purpose of promoting or referring to the TCG Collector brand, under the following conditions:

1. Attribution: Any use of our intellectual property must include clear and prominent acknowledgment of TCG Collector as the source.
2. Purpose: The use must be for promotional or referential purposes only and not for commercial exploitation.
3. No alteration: The intellectual property must not be modified or altered in any way.
4. Compliance: The use must comply with all applicable laws and regulations and should not misrepresent TCG Collector or its services.

For all other uses of our intellectual property, we grant our users permission to download one copy of the materials for personal, non-commercial transitory use.

This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions or the terms of service, and may be terminated by TCG Collector at any time.

User-generated content

You retain your intellectual property ownership rights over content you submit to us for publication on our website. We will never claim ownership of your content, but we do require a license from you in order to use it.

When you use our website or its associated services to post, upload, share, or otherwise transmit content covered by intellectual property rights, you grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly display, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of your content in a manner that is consistent with your privacy preferences and our Privacy Policy.

The license you grant us can be terminated at any time by deleting your content or account. However, to the extent that we (or our partners) have used your content in connection with commercial or sponsored content, the license will continue until the relevant commercial or post has been discontinued by us.

You give us permission to use your username and other identifying information associated with your account in a manner that is consistent with your privacy preferences, and our Privacy Policy.

Liability

Our website and the materials on our website are provided on an 'as is' basis. To the extent permitted by law, TCG Collector makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property, or other violation of rights.

In no event shall TCG Collector or its suppliers be liable for any consequential loss suffered or incurred by you or any third party arising from the use or inability to use this website or the materials on this website, even if TCG Collector or an authorized representative has been notified, orally or in writing, of the possibility of such damage.

In the context of this agreement, "consequential loss" includes any consequential loss, indirect loss, real or anticipated loss of profit, loss of benefit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, loss of opportunity, loss of savings, loss of reputation, loss of use and/or loss or corruption of data, whether under statute, contract, equity, tort (including negligence), indemnity, or otherwise.

Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

Accuracy of materials

The materials appearing on our website are not comprehensive and are for general information purposes only. TCG Collector does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on this website, or otherwise relating to such materials or on any resources linked to this website.

Links

TCG Collector has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement, approval, or control by TCG Collector of the site. Use of any such linked site is at your own risk and we strongly advise you make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those sites.

Premium subscriptions

Please refer to our premium subscription terms for more information.

Using our API

Access to our API is restricted. We generally only grant access to business partners and contributors. You can request access by providing us details of your use case. If approved, we may grant you either full or partial access. Fees may apply depending on your use case.

You will be given a unique and confidential API key for authentication. Sharing this key with third parties is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to revoke your API key at any time.

There are no hard usage or rate limits on our API. However, we may assess what constitutes normal usage based on your specific use case. If your usage negatively impacts our operations, we reserve the right to revoke your API access.

Right to terminate

We may suspend or terminate your right to use our website and terminate these terms of service immediately upon written notice to you for any breach of these terms of service.

Severance

Any term of these terms of service which is wholly or partially void or unenforceable is severed to the extent that it is void or unenforceable. The validity of the remainder of these terms of service is not affected.

Governing law

These terms of service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Belgium. You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in that State or location.